Nether fortress


Info

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

A nether fortress generated in the ground.

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 minecraft . 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. minecraft to generate inside of the fortress pathways.

Mobs

A blaze spawner generated into the side of some netherrack.

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 minecraft 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 minecraft . 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: minecraft 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 minecraft 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 minecraft . 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 minecraft 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 minecraft 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 minecraft 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 minecraft 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 minecraft , 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 minecraft 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 minecraft , 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 minecraft .

The spawning algorithm has two checks:

  1. It checks if the spawn coordinates are within the "bounding box" of a single piece (e.g. corridor or walkway) of the fortress.
  2. 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

The general pattern of the walkways.
A lava well found inside nether fortress.

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 minecraft , 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 minecraft , 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:

Stairs in a nether fortress, with nether warts growing next to them.

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 minecraft as the windowpanes. The fences also form gate-like structures at the entrances of some rooms and corridors. Rooms include:

Blocks

Block

Nether Brick

Nether Brick Fence

Nether Brick Stairs

Soul Sand

Nether Wart

Chest

Blaze Spawner

Lava

Loot

See also: Chest loot This table summarizes the average quantity of each item that can be found in a naturally-generated chest, depending on its location. show all columns View at: Chest loot/All edit] Values represent the number of items
A chest that generated in a nether fortress

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

Gold Ingot
1–3 1573 1.233 49.8% 2.0

Saddle
1 1073 0.411 35.7% 2.8

Gold Horse Armor
1 873 0.329 29.4% 3.4

Nether Wart
3–7 573 1.027 19.2% 5.2

Iron Ingot
1–5 573 0.616 19.2% 5.2

Diamond
1–3 573 0.411 19.2% 5.2

Flint and Steel
1 573 0.205 19.2% 5.2

Iron Horse Armor
1 573 0.205 19.2% 5.2

Golden Sword
1 573 0.205 19.2% 5.2

Golden Chestplate
1 573 0.205 19.2% 5.2

Diamond Horse Armor
1 373 0.123 11.8% 8.5

Obsidian
2–4 273 0.247 8.0% 12.5

Advancements

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Internal ID
Advancement-plain-raw.png
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
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 minecraft 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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Environment

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.