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Wanting to add a bit of dramatic flair to their gateway to the game’s dark dimension, one creativeMinecraftplayer has put together an impressive redstone-powered portal to The Nether, sharing a video of the infernal creation online. The fiery realm is just one of many areas that Mojang could potentially focus on as part of thehugeMinecraftupdaterumored to be coming to the popular sandbox title in the coming months.
First appearing inMinecraftas part of the Halloween Update in October 2010, The Nether is a twisted version of the game’s traditional Overworld. Filled with a wide variety of flame-resistant mobs that call its fiery depths home, The Nether takes its design cues from classical depictions of the underworld. In order to access the dark realm players must build a nether portal using obsidian before lighting a fire inside the frame. Originally consisting of only a single biome, theNether Update forMinecraftin 2020 brought additional biomes to the Nether along with new mobs, a new structure, and more.
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In a prime example of just how creative some players can get when constructing their personal portal toMinecraft’s underworld, one talented gamer shared a video of their impressive, redstone-activated nether portal. Although players have put together plenty ofredstone-powered creations inMinecraftover the years, Reddit user jay19167’s use of the versatile blocks to create something that looks like a scene from a horror film is undeniably impressive. Activated by stepping on a switch, the portal pulls open a wall in front of the player to reveal a squared nether portal ringed by glowing lava blocks.
Responses to the impressive post on the Minecraft subreddit were overwhelmingly positive, with several Reddit users complimenting an ingenious design feature that moves a lava block out of the way to clear a path to the portal. In reply to a post inquiring how they keep from being trapped behind the retractable wall after venturing into its gloomy depths, jay19167 said that the wall concealing the portal will remain open until they exit The Nether and step on the activation plate again. AnotherMinecraftfan chimed in to state that they loved the impressively over-engineered nether portal simply for the fact that it was so unnecessary.
Even if this gateway to the underworld might not be quite as large as the massive recreation ofWorld of Warcraft’s Dark Portal built inMinecraftby another talented player recently, it’s still remarkably impressive in its own right. And with the elaborate device looking like something ripped straight from a horror game, it should get players in a suitably spooky mindset for their next trip to The Nether.
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