I have a question about linked Nether portals. I was venturing around in the Nether yesterday and FINALLY found a Nether fortress. To make things easier, I wanted to make another portal back to the surface, and use it whenever my friends on my server and I want to go straight back down to it. Only problem is, once I did that, the new portal on the "surface" spawned in a cave deep under ground and under the ocean. I finally dug a tunnel all the way to an island I saw at the actual surface and made ANOTHER portal on there that also goes back down to the portal in the Nether where the fortress is located. However, when I re-enter the portal from the Nether, it still comes out at that cave.
My question is...since the portal near the Nether fortress is sort of linked to both the cave and island portals, if I were to DESTROY the one in the cave, then if I re-enter the portal near the fortress, will it start coming out at the island now instead, make a new one all together or just replace the one I destroyed?
Made a little diagram just in case I have anyone confused. I'm hoping to destroy Portal B and make Portals A and C a two way street between each other if possible. Like I said I'm not sure if that will work or if it will still plop a portal back in where portal B is anyways or what.
Well, the island is a good bit away. But I don't think its 300 blocks away. It's just the closest piece of land to where Portal B spawned in the cave under the ocean. I might just have to go ahead and try it. Worst possible scenario is it'll respawn where it already was and I'll have to venture out of the cave again. At least I hope that's the worst case scenario lol...
Portals send you to the closest one it finds within a certain range, otherwise it creates a new one. So regardless of what you do, that 1 nether portal will only ever send you back to one of the overworld ones, whichever one is closest to it's adjusted destination coordinates (due to the 1:8 ratio thing). It appears the original portal was out of range and so MC created a new one. Here's a good thread about them.
The only thing you could maybe do is create two nether portals some distance apart. One would send you to the cave and the other to the surface one. It would require some careful calculations and placement but it could probably be done.
In that thread, they say that to match up portals properly, you need to build them manually in specific locations as opposed to allowing minecraft to generate them. Other than the first nether portal of course which you would end up destroying once you have a new one built in it's "proper" location.
My question is...since the portal near the Nether fortress is sort of linked to both the cave and island portals, if I were to DESTROY the one in the cave, then if I re-enter the portal near the fortress, will it start coming out at the island now instead, make a new one all together or just replace the one I destroyed?
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/345806-nether-portal-science/
The only thing you could maybe do is create two nether portals some distance apart. One would send you to the cave and the other to the surface one. It would require some careful calculations and placement but it could probably be done.
In that thread, they say that to match up portals properly, you need to build them manually in specific locations as opposed to allowing minecraft to generate them. Other than the first nether portal of course which you would end up destroying once you have a new one built in it's "proper" location.
Now comes the task of venturing out to eventually make a minecart track all the way out to the island! lol