im stuck in a cave in the nether with my portal in a little cave system. how the heck do i get back above ground in the nether? i mean, not under the nether but in the nether-or, ummm...get to the surface of the nether! *yeah! thats it!*
Had this problem once; then the cave felt the mighty wrath of beds!
The flimsy netherrack walls could not stand up to the... explosive power of the soft and cozy wool. Two invintory loads of netherrack later: I found the exit!
In my current world: the portal spawned on a 1-thick netherrack platform, roughly a 3x4.
Two Ghasts were in the air the moment we went through the portal...
Lost many good men that day...
I accidently had them turned off for a wile. When I figured that out and turned them back on I went into the Nether. I'm like "Hay what the hell is that noise?" Then everthing turned into fire and started exploding. Their were like 3 of them hell bent on killing me.
Mate, I don't know what a stalactite is, but if you're stuck then you need picks, lots of either dirt, cobble or wooden planks and a good place to get out. My opinion is, unless you have a diamond pick and loads of diamonds, or you have TooManyItems 1.0, then you're only choice is to die and re-spawn in the over world. Don't die if you have diamond! Now who would do that? (me)
Make your portal above y=70 in the above world. Chances are it will look for the nearest available spot in the Great Open of the nether, instead of forcing you into a cavern.
Another trick is to make your portal above y=102, like up on top of a mountain. It will usually spawn you on the ground level of the Nether, which is about y=36 to y=44. Sometimes rarely you will be inside a netherrack cavern above the nether ceiling (y=90 to y=102) and then it's a matter of digging indirectly downwards until you see open air below you.
Be careful either way, because digging up = lava or digging down = a really long fall +/- lava.
Dying in the nether to return to the overworld is only for last resort.
Digging up if you're under y=24 is going to be bad for your health no matter what. The alternative is to ...dig sideways. Sadly, netherrack caverns are far less common than overworld caverns. And, you may meet some lava anyway. The hope is that you dig sideways, find a netherrack cavern, and follow it to the surface, or to a fort. I would personally dig 20 x 20 x however high you can go before you hit lava.
If you don't find anything by then, keep trying sideways in one direction, preferably towards 0,0. If your inv fills up with netherrack, or you run out of picks, consider digging with your bare hands. The netherrack breaks slower but you won't get a drop. You can also dump some into lava if needed, but save some just to plug that hole you made in the ceiling that now has a big orange eye staring back at you. If you're at y=30 and still digging up without lava, you may try sideways again and have better luck.
I actually prefer to build my first entry portal at y ~ 70, find the Great Open, map out the nearest nether fort, then break down the exit at ground and reassemble it at y=13 or so under the nether fort. You can use one of the massive pillars to build a spiral stair down to bedrock if need be without ever hitting lava. It's like a protected lifeline between you and your netherwort farm. When you reassemble the exit portal, go through it and it will most likely spawn you inside a cavern underground in the real world. It may, however, return you to your aboveground portal that already exists.
If this is not acceptable (returning to the Nether through this portal may force, again, another lava or cavern landing), write down the nether coords of your nether fort underground exit. You can force a unique exit by building the corresponding exit at the exact same coords in the overworld, multiply the nether x, z coords by 8 to get your bearing. Keep the y-coord as close as possible to 13 or whatever you chose. This may be in a cavern, or you may need to dig below some caverns or glass over some lava to do it. But it's well worth it to have a safe, secure entry and exit to the nether that's convenient to what you need.
use the same world seed make a nether portal in the exact same position and use TNT to blow holes in walls and mark down the coordinate where it opens to the Nether world. Then go back into Survival and go into the nether and dig/mine to the written point. that's how i did it.
Yes, just dig a passage up. Odds are there will be lava above you that will kill you while digging... so be careful
The flimsy netherrack walls could not stand up to the... explosive power of the soft and cozy wool. Two invintory loads of netherrack later: I found the exit!
how the heck will i get down?
Netherwart... Sugar... and Blaze Powder mostly.
Oh, and Redstone Dust. Lots of that.
I did that once. Did a double back flip. Good stuff.
Could be worse. I spawned in over a magma lake, on a 2 block wide netherrack shelf. I didn't know it was two wide when I stepped down.
whaaaaaaa... Hay it's only two blocks wide. O god it burns it burns!
In my current world: the portal spawned on a 1-thick netherrack platform, roughly a 3x4.
Two Ghasts were in the air the moment we went through the portal...
Lost many good men that day...
I accidently had them turned off for a wile. When I figured that out and turned them back on I went into the Nether. I'm like "Hay what the hell is that noise?" Then everthing turned into fire and started exploding. Their were like 3 of them hell bent on killing me.
"RUN!"
if high up, dig down, and once you hit the roof below, find a wall.
if very low, watch out for lava, and dig staircases.
Another trick is to make your portal above y=102, like up on top of a mountain. It will usually spawn you on the ground level of the Nether, which is about y=36 to y=44. Sometimes rarely you will be inside a netherrack cavern above the nether ceiling (y=90 to y=102) and then it's a matter of digging indirectly downwards until you see open air below you.
Be careful either way, because digging up = lava or digging down = a really long fall +/- lava.
Dying in the nether to return to the overworld is only for last resort.
Digging up if you're under y=24 is going to be bad for your health no matter what. The alternative is to ...dig sideways. Sadly, netherrack caverns are far less common than overworld caverns. And, you may meet some lava anyway. The hope is that you dig sideways, find a netherrack cavern, and follow it to the surface, or to a fort. I would personally dig 20 x 20 x however high you can go before you hit lava.
If you don't find anything by then, keep trying sideways in one direction, preferably towards 0,0. If your inv fills up with netherrack, or you run out of picks, consider digging with your bare hands. The netherrack breaks slower but you won't get a drop. You can also dump some into lava if needed, but save some just to plug that hole you made in the ceiling that now has a big orange eye staring back at you. If you're at y=30 and still digging up without lava, you may try sideways again and have better luck.
I actually prefer to build my first entry portal at y ~ 70, find the Great Open, map out the nearest nether fort, then break down the exit at ground and reassemble it at y=13 or so under the nether fort. You can use one of the massive pillars to build a spiral stair down to bedrock if need be without ever hitting lava. It's like a protected lifeline between you and your netherwort farm. When you reassemble the exit portal, go through it and it will most likely spawn you inside a cavern underground in the real world. It may, however, return you to your aboveground portal that already exists.
If this is not acceptable (returning to the Nether through this portal may force, again, another lava or cavern landing), write down the nether coords of your nether fort underground exit. You can force a unique exit by building the corresponding exit at the exact same coords in the overworld, multiply the nether x, z coords by 8 to get your bearing. Keep the y-coord as close as possible to 13 or whatever you chose. This may be in a cavern, or you may need to dig below some caverns or glass over some lava to do it. But it's well worth it to have a safe, secure entry and exit to the nether that's convenient to what you need.
Sand and Gravel. Hope that helped.
Remember kids, when the mod crashes delete system32!
Beds explode if you try to sleep in them in the nether :tongue.gif:
>Stuck in a cave.
>Doesn't know what to do.
Seriously?