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Biome A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you | The Nether |
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Consists of | See Structure |
First appearances | See history |
Nether fortresses are structures that are naturally generated Every specific group of blocks purposefully formed in Minecraft based on coding is part of a natural structure. Contents 1 The Overworld 1.1 Terrain 1.1.1 Mountain 1.1.2 Floating "island" 1.1.3 Hollows 1.1.4 Hill 1.1.5 Beach in the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures .
Trivia
- The easiest way to find Nether Fortresses is to proceed either north or south of your original position.
- Nether Fortresses are useful for more than just defensive positions. The Blaze Spawners, which are unique to Nether Fortresses, can provide Blaze Rods for fuel or brewing potions. Wither Skeletons can provide their heads and Coal, the Soul Sand can be used to cultivate the already present Nether Wart, and there`s the odd chance that a Skeleton could spawn instead of a Wither Skeleton. Also, the nearby area could be used for harvesting Zombie Pigmen for their gold nuggets and Rotten Flesh.
Trivia
- Often, nether fortresses generate with no nether wart gardens in them at all. In some rare cases, a garden will have generated, but the nether wart will be partially or totally destroyed by falling lava.
- In extremely rare cases, a nether fortress will not generate any indoor rooms except one single lava room.
- Sometimes, two or more nether fortresses can generate very close or even within each other, ultimately creating an even larger cumulative nether fortress.
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Generation
Nether fortresses tend to cluster together in strips that run along the Z-axis (north and south). Players who travel along the X-axis (east or west) will have the best chances of finding one; those who travel north or south may travel for hundreds or thousands of blocks before discovering a fortress.
Nether fortresses may be generated in inconvenient places, where half of or even the majority of the fortress is buried in netherrack Netherrack Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2 Tool Renewable No Yes Pocket edition only] Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No (burns indefinitely when manually ignited, top side only) Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data value dec: 87 . The interior will not be filled, however; all hallways and passages will be clear except for open walkways and bridges. It is rare, but possible for glowstone Glowstone Transparency Yes Luminance 15 Blast resistance 1.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Glowstone Dust (2–4) Data value dec: 89 hex: 59 bin: 1011001 Name glowstone See the block. to generate inside of the fortress pathways.
Mobs
Nether fortresses use a list of possible mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of to spawn that is separate from the rest of the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures . Nether fortresses spawn magma cubes Magma Cube Health points Big: 16 () Small: 4 () Tiny: 1 () Armor points Big: 12 () Small: 6 () Tiny: 3 () Attack strength Big: 6 () Small: 4 () Tiny: 3 () Size Big: Height: at a much higher rate, and also spawn two exclusive mobs which cannot be found anywhere else: blazes Blaze Health points 20 () Attack strength Fireball: 5 () Contact: Easy: 4 () Normal: 6 () Hard: 9 () Size Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn Nether Fortresses, light level of 11 or and wither skeletons Wither Skeleton Health points 20 () Attack strength Easy: 4 () Normal: 7 () Hard: 10 () Size Height: 2.4 Blocks Width: 0.7 Blocks Spawn Nether fortresses at light level 7 or less First appearances . Normal skeletons Skeleton Health points 20 () Attack strength Bow: Easy: 1 () - 4 () Normal: 1 () - 4 () Hard: 1 () - 5 () Sword: Easy: 2 () Normal: 2 () Hard: 3 and zombie pigman Zombie Pigman Health points 20 () Armor points 2 () Attack strength Easy: 5 () Normal: 9 () Hard: 13 () Size Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn Any 2 block high space in any can also appear. Neither ghasts Ghast Health points 10 () Attack strength Impact: 6 () Explosion: varies by proximity, maximum: Easy: 9 () Normal: 17 () Hard: 25 ( × 12.5) Size Height: 4.0 Blocks Width: 4.0 Blocks Spawn The nor endermen Enderman Health points 40 ( × 20) Attack strength Easy: 4 () Normal: 7 () Hard: 10 () Size Height: 2.9 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn In the Overworld, the Nether or the End in do spawn in fortresses.
Blazes are desired because of their main loot ⃢₀ₓ blaze rods Blaze Rod Type Items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See history Data value dec: 369 hex: 171 bin: 101110001 Name blaze_rod Blaze rods are items that are dropped by blazes. Contents 1 Obtaining 1.1 , as well as the high amount of experience Experience First appearances See History Internal ID PC: 2 PE: 69 Network ID PC: none Entity ID xp_orb XP bar visible above hotbar. Experience (EXP or XP for short) can be obtained by gathering experience they drop. Wither skeletons are mostly desired for their wither skeleton skulls Mob head Type Wearable items; Solid Block Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 5 Hardness 1 Tool Any tool Renewable Wither skeleton, skeleton, zombie, creeper Yes Player, Dragon No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable , which are necessary to create the wither Wither Health points 300 ( × 150) 600 ( × 300) Pocket edition only] Armor points 4 () Attack strength Easy: 5 () Normal: 8 () Hard: 12 () Size Height: 3.5 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Spawn .
The spawning algorithm has two checks:
- It checks if the spawn coordinates are within the "bounding box" of a single piece (e.g. corridor or walkway) of the fortress.
- It checks if the spawn coordinates are within the "bounding box" of the entire fortress and whether the ground consists of nether brick.
If either check passes, it uses the special mob list for nether fortresses rather than the general list for the Nether when choosing the mob to spawn. The actual mob spawning proceeds as normal for the mob chosen from this list.
Structure
Nether fortresses are very large bridge-like complexes, composed mainly of nether bricks Nether Brick Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values Nether Brick dec: 112 hex: 70 bin: 1110000 Red Nether Brick dec: 215 hex: D7 bin: 11010111 Name Nether Brick , that are supported by massive pillars that tower high above the lava oceans. A nether fortress has two areas, an exterior area of open bridges and an interior area of enclosed corridors. Both the bridges and corridors can end in a "broken" structure or may simply end without elaboration. Nether fortresses can tunnel through netherrack Netherrack Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2 Tool Renewable No Yes Pocket edition only] Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No (burns indefinitely when manually ignited, top side only) Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data value dec: 87 , giving the "exterior" areas an appearance of tunnels with nether brick floor and netherrack walls and ceilings. At broken sections the terrain is not cleared, which may create a tunnel that leads straight into a wall of netherrack.
The exterior consists of:
- Straight bridges.
- Up to 5 plain four-way crossings.
- Up to 4 four-way crossings with arches made of nether brick and nether brick fence.
- Up to 4 small rooms with a single entrance, and full-block "stairs" leading to the roof which may have a single path leading out.
- Up to 2 blaze spawner platforms: structures consisting of three full-block "stairs" leading to a small platform fenced with nether brick fence, with a blaze spawner Monster Spawner Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Partial (doesn t block light) Luminance No (Small amount of light for Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 25 Hardness 5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable in the center.
The interior of the structures have 1ℂₗ2 windows with nether brick fences Fence Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 15 (Wood) 30 (Nether Brick) Tools Renewable Wood: Yes Nether Brick: No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Wood: Yes Nether Brick: No Drops Itself Data values See Data values as the windowpanes. The fences also form gate-like structures at the entrances of some rooms and corridors. Rooms include:
- The lava well room, which is the connection between the interior and exterior areas.
- Straight corridors.
- Up to 5 four-way crossings.
- Up to 20 corridor turns (10 right-turns and 10 left-turns), each with a 1⃢₁₄3 chance of having a loot chest in the corner.
- Up to 3 stairways (made from actual stair blocks) leading downwards.
- Up to 2 three-way intersections with a small exterior balcony.
- Up to 2 stairways leading up to an open landing, which have patches of soul sand Soul Sand Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 88 hex: 58 bin: 1011000 Name soul_sand “ Only in the fiery caverns of the Nether, and nether wart at the base of the stairs, a corridor leading away from the upper landing, and a corridor behind the stairs. If the room is generated embedded in netherrack, only one block above the landing is cleared.
Blocks
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Nether Brick |
Nether Brick Fence |
Nether Brick Stairs |
Soul Sand |
Nether Wart |
Chest |
Blaze Spawner |
Lava |
Loot
Nether fortresses generate nether fortress loot with chests in the indoor sections placed at some corridor turns.
Each Nether fortress chest contains 2–4 item stacks, with the following distribution:
Stack Size | Weight | # Items | Chance | # Chests | |
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Gold Ingot | 1–3 | 15⁄73 | 1.233 | 49.8% | 2.0 |
Saddle | 1 | 10⁄73 | 0.411 | 35.7% | 2.8 |
Gold Horse Armor | 1 | 8⁄73 | 0.329 | 29.4% | 3.4 |
Nether Wart | 3–7 | 5⁄73 | 1.027 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Iron Ingot | 1–5 | 5⁄73 | 0.616 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Diamond | 1–3 | 5⁄73 | 0.411 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Flint and Steel | 1 | 5⁄73 | 0.205 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Iron Horse Armor | 1 | 5⁄73 | 0.205 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Golden Sword | 1 | 5⁄73 | 0.205 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Golden Chestplate | 1 | 5⁄73 | 0.205 | 19.2% | 5.2 |
Diamond Horse Armor | 1 | 3⁄73 | 0.123 | 11.8% | 8.5 |
Obsidian | 2–4 | 2⁄73 | 0.247 | 8.0% | 12.5 |
Advancements
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Internal ID |
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A Terrible Fortress | Break your way into a Nether Fortress | Nether | Enter a Nether fortress. | minecraft:nether/find_fortress |
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History
Official release | |||||
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1.0.0 | Sep. 16, 2011 | Jens Bergensten tweets a teaser screenshot of changes to the Nether terrain generation, including nether fortresses. | |||
Sep. 19, 2011 | Jens releases a second teaser screenshot, showcasing the structure of the upcoming nether fortresses. | ||||
Sep. 21, 2011 | Jens mentions that he is finished with most of the new Nether features, including two new mobs, one of which is a "retexturing attempt". | ||||
Beta 1.9-pre1 | Added nether fortresses. | ||||
1.4.2 | 12w36a | Wither skeletons and skeletons Skeleton Health points 20 () Attack strength Bow: Easy: 1 () - 4 () Normal: 1 () - 4 () Hard: 1 () - 5 () Sword: Easy: 2 () Normal: 2 () Hard: 3 will now naturally spawn in nether fortresses. | |||
1.6.1 | 13w18a | Chests will now generate. | |||
1.8 | 14w27a | Nether fortresses are now affected by the "Generated structures" option. | |||
14w30a | Added possibility of obsidian in chests. | ||||
1.9 | 15w43a | Reduced loot in chests from 2⃢₀ₓ5 stacks to 2⃢₀ₓ4. | |||
Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
0.12.1 | build 1 | Added nether fortresses. | |||
Console Edition | |||||
TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added nether fortresses. | |
TU9 | Changed nether fortresses to make nether wart rooms more likely. | ||||
TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | Chests will now generate. |
Issues
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Overview
Nether fortresses were first introduced in the 1.9 Pre-Release and 0.12.0 for the Pocket Edition. They include bridge structures constructed of Nether Brick, Nether Brick Fences, and Nether Brick Stairs. They are the only place that Nether Wart can be naturally found. They also often contain many Blaze Spawners. They₠are also the only place where₠Wither Skeletons spawn naturally.They are very big, and will make a good base in the Nether because of Nether brick`s blast damage resistance.
Structures
Nether Fortresses often contain:
- Lava well rooms which separate inside and outside areas.
- Rooms with Nether Brick Stairs in the center and Soul Sand at sides of the stairways with Nether Wart growing on it.
- Rooms with Blaze spawners. Nether Brick Stairs can lead up to them. The rooms have Nether Brick Fences.
- Rooms with four exits. Some of them could lead only to Netherrack.
- Rooms with a "stairway" of Nether Brick placed against a wall, leading up to the floor above.
- Windows with fences to look like bars.
- Rooms under Nether Brick Stairs with Nether Wart growing on the sides.
- Random chest sitting in certain corners containing loot.
- Small balconies in the side of the structure.