Note that mobs have a much longer "cooldown" time than the player, so they can't go back for 30 seconds or so, by which time they will have wandered or been led away from the portal. Thus, interdimensional railways are limited to cargo. Storage Minecarts and Powered Minecarts can pass through, but minecarts or boats with passengers (mob or player) cannot. Another way to deactivate a portal is to mine or destroy any non-portal block of the frame in this case, the portal cannot be re-lit until the block is replaced.Įntities can travel through portals, including mobs, thrown items, and even empty boats and minecarts. However, a fire lit next to a portal cannot deactivate it. It is possible to "re-ignite" portals by setting the space inside the frame on fire again, or with another explosion. Like Bedrock, portal blocks cannot be broken by tools however, they are destroyed by weak explosions, TNT, a Ghast's fireball explosion, an exploding Bed or an exploding Creeper can all disable a portal, but cannot destroy the surrounding Obsidian. However, multiple portals can be exploited to farm obsidian. The usual case for this is a when the player's Nether-side portal is deactivated by a Ghast, and they then die in the Nether and re-enter. If a portal is deactivated, and a matching in the other dimension is used before it is re-activated, a new portal may be created (not if there is another, active, portal within range). Otherwise, a portal will be created at or near the corresponding coordinates. If there is already an active portal within range (about 128 blocks) in the other world, the player will appear in that portal. However, in creative mode, there is no wait time - the player will immediately transfer between dimensions. The player can step out of a portal before it completes its animation to abort the teleport. When a player in the Overworld or the Nether player stands in a Nether portal block for 4 seconds, the player is taken to the other dimension. Portal blocks emit light of level 11, rather dimmer than a torch. The ambient portal music can still be heard from these blocks, even without an obsidian frame. When a non-portal, non-obsidian block is set down next to it, such an isolated portal block will remove itself. Portal blocks normally occur in a group of six filling the frame, but if a single portal block is hacked in and placed on the ground, it can still be used to travel to the Nether. Nether portal blocks make distinctive sounds, and emit purple particles resembling snowflakes (the same purple particles are produced by Endermen and Ender Chests). While a Nether portal frame can be built in the End, it cannot be lit/activated. This creates 6 portal blocks inside the frame, resembling a vortex. Once the frame is constructed, then the player can directly set the frame on fire by means of flint and steel or a fire charge, or they can indirectly ignite the frame by using lava.