Nether Portal (block)

Nether Portal

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64) ‌[BE only]
Tool	None
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	-1
Luminant	Yes (11)
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	Yes
Catches fire from lava	No

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

Obtaining

In Java Edition, it cannot be obtained as an item, but in Bedrock Edition, it may be obtained via inventory editing, or by using bugs.

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

Usage

See also: Nether portal

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 is destroyed.

Nether portal blocks can be used to teleport entities between the Nether and the Overworld. 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. While in the nether portal block, the player can neither open their inventory, nor interact with blocks with GUI. 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, and emit the same purple particles produced by endermen, endermites and ender chests. Portal blocks emit a light level of 11, dimmer than a torch and insufficient to prevent hostile mob spawning above the top obsidian (the light level would be 7).

Falling block entities can be teleported through a portal, but a piston cannot push a block through.

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 sources in the same block (can also be done by dispensers). 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.

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 in Java Edition, and to the Overworld in Bedrock Edition.

Piston interactivity

Nether portal blocks cannot be pushed by pistons. They also cannot be pushed nor pulled by sticky pistons.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.glass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.glass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.glass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.glass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.glass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.glass	?	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.glass	?	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.glass	?	0.8

Unique

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Portal whooshes	Blocks	Random	block.portal.ambient	subtitles.block.portal.ambient	?	?	10
	None	Ambient/Environment	After being teleported through	block.portal.travel	None	?	?	16
	Portal noise intensifies	Ambient/Environment	Standing in the portal	block.portal.trigger	subtitles.block.portal.trigger	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Block tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Nether Portal	nether_portal	hoglin_repellents portals	Block	block.minecraft.nether_portal

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Nether Portal	portal	90	Block	tile.portal.name

Metadata

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, the nether portal uses the following data values:

	DV	Description
	0	(unused)
	1	The portal's long edge runs east–west.
	2	The portal's long edge runs north-south.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
axis	x	x	The portal's long edge runs east–west.
		z	The portal's long edge runs north–south.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
axis	x	unknown	[check the code]
		x	The portal's long edge runs east–west.
		z	The portal's long edge runs north–south.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		preview			32px Added the nether portal block.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		Test Build 3			Nether portal blocks no longer have a top face.
Java Edition
1.0.0		?			It is now possible to smash nether portals by simply punching them.
		?			It is no longer possible to break portal blocks with water or lava. Both stop before hitting the portal and act as if the portal were a solid block; placing water instead of fire in the portal automatically deactivates the portal anyway.
1.2.1		12w08a			The player can now (again) break a block portal in creative by punching it. It makes the same sound as glass being destroyed.
1.3.1		12w22a			Zombie pigmen now rarely spawn from portal blocks in the Overworld.
1.5		13w02a			Nether portal blocks now use the texture in resource packs: textures/blocks/portal.png.
1.7.2		13w37a			Nether portal blocks now use block data values (later changed to block state) to determine their orientation. Due to these changes, nether portals created in 1.6.4 and earlier have a tendency to close when upgrading.
					Metadata value 1 corresponds to a portal that reaches the west and east sides of the block, and 2 corresponds to one that touches the north and south sides. 0, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 also appear as north/south and 5, 9 and 13 as east/west, however they appear to be unused.
		13w37b			Nether portal blocks with damage value 3, 7, 11 and 15 now have a vertical post appearance rather than the pane or sheet appearance of other states.
		13w41a			Nether portals, water and ice are now visible through each other.
					This also makes the rear planes visible from the front planes.
		13w42a			Nether portals no longer show their back face.
1.8		14w03a			Nether portal blocks with data values 3, 7, 11 and 15 now appear as north-south connected again.
		14w18a			Nether portals no longer have side faces.
		14w25a			The item form of the nether portal block has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 90.
		pre5			The block ID of nether portals has been changed to nether_portal.
1.16		20w14a			Hoglins are now scared of nether portal blocks.
		Pre-release 3			Nether portal blocks now have a loot table.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1		build 1			[verify] Added nether portal blocks.
?					The sounds of nether portals have been updated to match Java.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	[verify] Added nether portal blocks.

Nether portal "item"

Main article: Direct item forms of blocks

Java Edition Alpha
v1.2.0		preview			Nether portals have an unobtainable item form corresponding to its block ID, which has interesting model behavior. It can be obtained via inventory editors with numeric item ID 90.
					Initially the nether portal item would appear as a full cube like many other blocks, but targeting an existing portal block would cause the item to morph into its shape:
Java Edition Beta
?					The item is called Portal.
1.6		Test Build 3			Nether portal items can be obtained from the newly added debug chests, mainly from the 5th slot of the 4th chest from the left, and the 16th slot of the 7th chest from the left.
		release			Debug chests no longer spawn, preventing nether portal items from being obtained this way.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w16a			Nether portal items can now be obtained in singleplayer worlds via the /give command using the respective numeric ID.
1.7.2		13w37b			With the addition of post-shaped nether portals, the item can take on this shape as well.
		13w42a			Nether portal items are now translucent.
1.8		14w18a			The nether portal item form is now 2D.
		14w25a			The direct item form of nether portals has been removed from the game. It can no longer exist as an item in any way, only as a placed block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
?					Nether portals exist as an item.
Unknown
?					The item is called Portal.
?					The nether portal item looks like this, and does not shapeshift in response to existing blocks.

Issues

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