Nether Portal (block)

The nether portal block is the translucent part of the nether portal that teleports the player to and from the Nether.

Obtaining
$$, it cannot be obtained as an item, but $$, it may be obtained via inventory editing, or by using bugs.

The nether portal block can be placed using the command and is generated when lighting a nether portal.

Usage
$$, nether portal blocks can stably exist only within a nether portal structure, unlike end portal blocks. When the block is updated and detects it is not part of such a structure, it disappears.

Nether portal blocks can be used to teleport into and out of the Nether. When a player in the Overworld or the Nether stands in a nether portal block for 4 seconds, the player is taken to the other dimension. The player can step out of a portal before it completes its animation to abort the teleport. However, in Creative mode there is no wait time—the player immediately transfers between dimensions. If there is already an active portal within range (125 blocks) in the other world, the player appears in that portal. Otherwise, a portal is created at or near the corresponding coordinates. If a single portal block is placed using commands, it can still be used to travel to the Nether.

Nether portal blocks make distinctive sounds of whimpering and cries, and emit purple particles resembling dust particles (the same purple particles are produced by endermen, endermites, ender pearls, and the ender chest). Portal blocks emit light of level 11, rather dimmer than a torch and not quite sufficient to prevent mob spawning on top of a freestanding portal.

Much like water or lava, portal blocks cannot be broken by tools except in Creative. However, portal blocks can be destroyed by explosions (even weak ones) and can be replaced by placing water or lava. If any portal block is destroyed, the whole portal is deactivated as adjacent portal blocks are updated and detect that the portal structure is no longer complete.

Portal blocks cannot be moved by pistons, nor can a piston push a block into a portal.

While nether portals themselves cannot be lit in the end, a portal block set in The End and in custom dimensions behaves exactly like in the Overworld, calculating coordinates in the Nether with the same 1:8 ratio. They teleport players to the Nether $$, and to the Overworld $$.

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Block data
$$, the nether portal uses the following data values:

Trivia

 * In Java Edition, the thinner sides of the Nether Portal block are transparent.
 * In Legacy Console Edition, the Nether Portal block is non-interactive, making explosions and breaking the supporting block the only methods of breaking it.