Minecraft:Other Portal

Template:Infobox structure An other portal is a manufactured structure that teleports the player 500 blocks up in the Minecraft:Overworld. The portal can only be ignited in 23w13a_or_b.

Creation

Build schematics

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An other portal is built as a vertical, rectangular frame of Minecraft:glowstone (4×5 minimum, 23×23 maximum), similar to a Minecraft:Nether portal. The four corners of the frame are not required. Adjacent portals can share glowstone blocks. An other portal cannot be built horizontally like an Minecraft:End portal.

Once a frame is constructed, it is activated by Minecraft:water placed inside the frame. This creates portal blocks inside the frame, resembling a vortex. The water can be placed in any manner, including use of Minecraft:water bucket, dispensed by dispenser or natural spread of water. Other portals can be activated only in the Overworld; they cannot be activated in Minecraft:the End and Minecraft:custom dimensions.

The water must be the last placed block in the structure—a water in an incomplete frame does not result in the portal activating upon the placement of the last glowstone block.

Behavior

When a player in the Minecraft:Overworld or Minecraft:the Nether stands in an other portal block for 4 seconds, the player is teleported 500 blocks in the air and Error 404 Terrain Not Found appears in the chat. The player can step out of a portal before it completes its animation to abort the teleport. However, in Minecraft:Creative, the wait time is one game tick (Template:Frac second) for the player to transfer between "dimensions."

Most entities can travel through portals, including mobs (except the Minecraft:wither and Minecraft:ender dragon), thrown items, and transportation without passengers (neither mobs nor player)<ref>Template:Bug</ref>, including Minecraft:boats, Minecraft:minecarts and Minecraft:horses. Unlike players, other entities travel through portals instantly, and once they reach the other side, there is a cool-down time for 300 game ticks (15 seconds), in which they cannot go through any other portals. Therefore, an entity can only travel though other portals again, once it is not touching any other portal for 15 seconds.

Sounds

Trivia

• The other portal is identical in its composition (glowstone and water) to the portal from The Aether mod, where it would transport the players to a Heaven-like dimension, serving as a counterpart to Minecraft:the Nether's hellish environment accessed through an obsidian and fire portal. In its heyday, the mod was one of the most popular and iconic Minecraft Minecraft:mods, leading some players to believe it was actually in vanilla Minecraft.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><section begin="sky-dimension-trivia"/>
  • A Minecraft:sky dimension similar to the Aether had been planned at some point in Minecraft development, but was ultimately abandoned in favor of Minecraft:The End dimension.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref> It was commonly referred to as "Skylands" dimension by the developers and community.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref><ref name="DinnerboneUnplannedJuly2012">Template:Tweet</ref>
  • While the developer of the Aether mod, Minecraft:Brandon Pearce (also known as kingbdogz), has actually been hired by Minecraft:Mojang Studios, there are currently no plans to add a new sky dimension to Minecraft.<ref name="JebUnplannedJuly2012">Template:Tweet</ref><section end="sky-dimension-trivia"/>