Explore / Nether Portal
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
- Flat ground
- Scorched ground
- Magma path
- Base: lower step
- Base: temple floor
- Front steps
- Portal piers
- Portal frame
- Light the portal
- Lintel and glowing slit
- Wing back walls
- Wing side walls
- Column bases
- Columns
- Arches
- Entablature
- Cornice
- Vines and sculk in the arcades
- Arcade lights
- Upper storey
- Upper cornice
- Towers
- Tower crowns
- Central crown
- Lantern posts
- Bone posts
- Netherrack and magma heaps
How each technique is done and every step explained, in 3D: Learn (members).