Overworld to nether coords translate update#

Hit F3 while in the game and collect your X, Y, and Z coordinates.Go to the place you want your return portal to appear.Collect 20 obsidian blocks and create a flint and steel using the recipe.(Hooray, arithmetic and basic algebra really is useful after all. It seemed like a quick calculator to translate coordinates based on which side of the gate I was plugging in might be helpful andĬould help provide a mathematical proof while performing the calculations mentally takes hold.Īs a web developer, I thought building the calculator using JavaScript and HTML might be a fun little project! I know I know, this isn't new knowledge it's just that I had not seen the math clearly articulated on pages found by searching at the time.Ĭalculator to translate between the overworld and the nether I could then activate it with my flint and steel and with any luck it would attach to the gate I came in from. If I had carried at least ten obsidian and flint and steel with me, on the nether-side of the gate, I could explore to X/8, Y, Z/8 and then buildĪ return portal at that location. This was fine, but when I walked back through it, my X and Z were nowhere near the gate I entered from-instead I came back to their homesteadĪnd then had to scramble across the landscape at night, a long, long way trying to avoid mobs and hazards it was a frightening journey.Īs it happens, what I needed to do was determine my X,Y,Z coordinates before stepping through the original portal. I built a portal from my home at X,Y,Z and stepped through only to land in a portal room built by someone else in the nether. It's not uncommon to materialize in an unexpected location when stepping through a nether portal. Nether portals make traveling across the overworld much faster, but if you are playing in a world with other players who build gates You can use this quick calculator to find where to build your return gate for it to be connected as a pair between the nether and the overworld.

The game minecraft is seriously fun! When you have played long enough to be at a stage where you are building nether portals It includes an experimental parser for extracting XYZ from a string like the one produced by F3+I.

Overworld to nether coords translate update#

Click here to try out an update to the portal calculator.