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How to build the Nether Portal in Minecraft

the palette · 27 steps · 6 techniques

The palette

Dark deepslate and grey-green tuff mixed together, cracked bricks for age, netherrack and magma on the ground, and the purple of the portal. The whole temple is dark and dull so that the glowing portal and lights are the only bright things.

Techniques

  • Two stones mixed
  • Frame the centre
  • Colonnades
  • Set-back storey
  • Scorched ground
  • Glowing details

The steps

  1. Flat ground
  2. Scorched ground
  3. Magma path
  4. Base: lower step
  5. Base: temple floor
  6. Front steps
  7. Portal piers
  8. Portal frame
  9. Light the portal
  10. Lintel and glowing slit
  11. Wing back walls
  12. Wing side walls
  13. Column bases
  14. Columns
  15. Arches
  16. Entablature
  17. Cornice
  18. Vines and sculk in the arcades
  19. Arcade lights
  20. Upper storey
  21. Upper cornice
  22. Towers
  23. Tower crowns
  24. Central crown
  25. Lantern posts
  26. Bone posts
  27. Netherrack and magma heaps

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