Well, it would be based on the seed and where you build your Overworld portal.
Of course, unless you, or somebody else, has been to the Nether in that seed before (or used Amidst or something) then you have no way of knowing where you should build it.
Some seeds are better than others, it is also possible to have a bad overworld spawn when creating a world, although it rarely happens. But in one world I tested when searching through randomly generated seeds put me and a friend right inside of a ravine.
Most biomes I can work with, be it snowy tundra (a biome I built a log cabin in recently in my current world), jungle or swamp. But deserts are horrible to start out in unless there is a village or forest biome nearby. You can get sticks from bushes, but unless you have a wooden plank, iron ingot or cobblestone and a crafting table you're not making any tools.
When the next step from the portal is only one block away from a pitfall, you're stranded and there isn't anything you can do, it happens, and you have no idea where you'd end up in the first time you enter the nether, it's called luck, or probability, in mathematical terms.
Remake world in creative and build the portal at your planned spot to see if it's safe. If the world cheats on you, cheat on it back.
Remake world in creative and build the portal at your planned spot to see if it's safe. If the world cheats on you, cheat on it back.
Agreed but this is more discussion than suggestion by now.
I play legit survival, so cheats are a no go except for separate worlds where I test out redstone and what not.
But if I get bad nether spawns I do change the world seed, I eventually settled on one about 7 days ago.
The nether fortress was still a long distance away from the portal, but whatever, at least we didn't have Ghasts ruining the portal.
And in the event in the hypothetical scenario if the ghast did ruin mine and my friends nether portal, we kept our valuables like our diamond pickaxe in chests so dying wouldn't have mattered that much, just lost XP and a few stone pickaxes, he brought a Flint and Steel though if I remember correctly.
I play legit survival, so cheats are a no go except for separate worlds where I test out redstone and what not.
But if I get bad nether spawns I do change the world seed, I eventually settled on one about 7 days ago.
The nether fortress was still a long distance away from the portal, but whatever, at least we didn't have Ghasts ruining the portal.
And in the event in the hypothetical scenario if the ghast did ruin mine and my friends nether portal, we kept our valuables like our diamond pickaxe in chests so dying wouldn't have mattered that much, just lost XP and a few stone pickaxes, he brought a Flint and Steel though if I remember correctly.
Personally I consider cheating a better choice than abandoning a world just for the portal position, but you do you. It takes me a long time to get to the Nether in singleplayer, less so in multiplayer, but it's still a loss of everyone's builds..
Some seeds are better than others, it is also possible to have a bad overworld spawn when creating a world, although it rarely happens. But in one world I tested when searching through randomly generated seeds put me and a friend right inside of a ravine.
Most biomes I can work with, be it snowy tundra (a biome I built a log cabin in recently in my current world), jungle or swamp. But deserts are horrible to start out in unless there is a village or forest biome nearby. You can get sticks from bushes, but unless you have a wooden plank, iron ingot or cobblestone and a crafting table you're not making any tools.
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Remake world in creative and build the portal at your planned spot to see if it's safe. If the world cheats on you, cheat on it back.
Agreed but this is more discussion than suggestion by now.
I play legit survival, so cheats are a no go except for separate worlds where I test out redstone and what not.
But if I get bad nether spawns I do change the world seed, I eventually settled on one about 7 days ago.
The nether fortress was still a long distance away from the portal, but whatever, at least we didn't have Ghasts ruining the portal.
And in the event in the hypothetical scenario if the ghast did ruin mine and my friends nether portal, we kept our valuables like our diamond pickaxe in chests so dying wouldn't have mattered that much, just lost XP and a few stone pickaxes, he brought a Flint and Steel though if I remember correctly.
Personally I consider cheating a better choice than abandoning a world just for the portal position, but you do you. It takes me a long time to get to the Nether in singleplayer, less so in multiplayer, but it's still a loss of everyone's builds..