I've been playing Minecraft for a year now, but up until this point it has all been played in the Overworld. Last night I decide it was time to explore the Nether. I did a bit of reading about the Nether and understand the lack of orientation while in the Nether. But I was surprised that my portal was not oriented with my portal in the Overworld.
I created a portal in the overworld oriented E-W. I entered the portal facing due east. When I emerged into the nether I exited the portal and proceeded to build a tunnel in the same direction I had been facing. I continued that tunnel for 150 blocks, then build another portal. When I entered the second portal I was very surprised to return to the overworld 1200 blocks north of my starting location rather than 1200 blocks to the east.
Is this typical? Is there anyway to assure that when I enter I travel East when I want to travel East?
I'm not too sure what you're typing, but the direction the portal is created has no effect on the resulting location. If you want a portal to the east, you need to head east, either by using F3's direction statistic or by using an Empty Map in the Nether and orienting yourself upwards.
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If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
E-W versus N-S is not a problen, Unless you create the portal yourself, this has no meaning as the program will try to make a portal near to the equivalent position in the nethe and, depending on local terrain, it may be either orientation.
After my first entry to the nether where I can't control it, I make a potal in the overworld first, but do not enter it , and then go to the nether in the equivalent location, after entering from another portal, and make a portal, and go through it to connect them. This way, you can control their orientation, I prefer E-W for mine.
E-W versus N-S is not a problen, Unless you create the portal yourself, this has no meaning as the program will try to make a portal near to the equivalent position in the nethe and, depending on local terrain, it may be either orientation.
After my first entry to the nether where I can't control it, I make a potal in the overworld first, but do not enter it , and then go to the nether in the equivalent location, after entering from another portal, and make a portal, and go through it to connect them. This way, you can control their orientation, I prefer E-W for mine.
Thank you, that's the answer I was looking for. I did a bit of further testing and it confirmed that once an orientation is established
in the Nether, you can then reliably figure out 'N' or 'E'. It is only that initial orientation that seems to be scrambled, (in my case,
I entered facing 'E' but arrived in the Nether facing 'N'.
I've been playing Minecraft for a year now, but up until this point it has all been played in the Overworld. Last night I decide it was time to explore the Nether. I did a bit of reading about the Nether and understand the lack of orientation while in the Nether. But I was surprised that my portal was not oriented with my portal in the Overworld.
I created a portal in the overworld oriented E-W. I entered the portal facing due east. When I emerged into the nether I exited the portal and proceeded to build a tunnel in the same direction I had been facing. I continued that tunnel for 150 blocks, then build another portal. When I entered the second portal I was very surprised to return to the overworld 1200 blocks north of my starting location rather than 1200 blocks to the east.
Is this typical? Is there anyway to assure that when I enter I travel East when I want to travel East?
I'm not too sure what you're typing, but the direction the portal is created has no effect on the resulting location. If you want a portal to the east, you need to head east, either by using F3's direction statistic or by using an Empty Map in the Nether and orienting yourself upwards.
Watch out for the crabocalypse. Some say the day will never come. But it will.
Feel free to drop by for a chat whenever.
If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
E-W versus N-S is not a problen, Unless you create the portal yourself, this has no meaning as the program will try to make a portal near to the equivalent position in the nethe and, depending on local terrain, it may be either orientation.
After my first entry to the nether where I can't control it, I make a potal in the overworld first, but do not enter it , and then go to the nether in the equivalent location, after entering from another portal, and make a portal, and go through it to connect them. This way, you can control their orientation, I prefer E-W for mine.
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Thank you, that's the answer I was looking for. I did a bit of further testing and it confirmed that once an orientation is established
in the Nether, you can then reliably figure out 'N' or 'E'. It is only that initial orientation that seems to be scrambled, (in my case,
I entered facing 'E' but arrived in the Nether facing 'N'.
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Please edit your post to remove the link.
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