Fast Traveling! How To Link Nether Portals In Minecraft Java and Bedrock! Portal Linking Tutorial!

Hey everyone, it’s UnderMyCap. Today I’m going to show you a very efficient way to travel through your Minecraft world quickly: Nether portal linking.

With portal linking, you can connect one Nether portal to another so you can cover huge distances much faster than traveling entirely in the Overworld.

How Nether Travel Works

Here’s the key idea: 8 blocks in the Overworld equals 1 block in the Nether.

So, if you need to travel 800 blocks in the Overworld, you would only need to travel 100 blocks in the Nether to cover the same overall distance. That’s why Nether travel is so powerful for fast transportation.

What You Need Before You Start

You’ll need to place a Nether portal at:

1) Your starting location (where you’ll enter the Nether)

2) Your destination location (where you want to come out in the Overworld)

It also helps if the portals are roughly aligned along the same axis (X or Z). They don’t have to be perfect, but try to keep them relatively in line so the linking works smoothly.

Step 1: Place and Light Your Destination Portal

For this example, I’m placing the second portal in a spruce forest. Once the frame is built, light it as usual.

Step 2: Record the Coordinates of Both Locations

Next, you need the coordinates for both of your portal locations. In Java Edition, open the debug screen with F3.

When you look at your coordinates, the main numbers you need are:

X and Z (Y isn’t important for this calculation).

At the spruce forest portal, I write down:

X = 390, Z = -83

Then I travel back to the original portal and write down its coordinates:

X = 161, Z = 68

In my case, most of the difference is in the X coordinate, so I’ll calculate using X. If your portals differ more in Z, you can do the same process using Z instead.

Step 3: Calculate the Overworld Distance

Take the larger coordinate and subtract the smaller one. For my X values:

390 − 161 = 229

That means the portals are about 229 blocks apart in the Overworld (in the X direction).

Step 4: Convert That Distance to the Nether

Now divide by 8, because the Nether scales distance down by a factor of 8:

229 ÷ 8 = 28.625

Round it to a practical number. In this case, I round up to 29 blocks.

Step 5: Travel Through the Nether and Build the Linked Portal

Go to your original portal and enter the Nether. Once you come out on the Nether side, travel in the direction you need to go, counting out about 29 blocks (based on the calculation).

When you reach that spot, build a new Nether portal frame there.

Important Note: Don’t Use the New Portal Yet

After building the second portal in the Nether, don’t immediately jump through it. Sometimes going through too early can cause linking issues where multiple portals connect incorrectly and you may teleport to the wrong one.

Instead, make sure you light the portal so it’s active, and then proceed carefully.

Step 6: Test the Link

Once the second Nether portal is lit, walk through it. If everything is set up correctly, you should arrive at your destination portal back in the Overworld.

In this example, by walking only about 29 blocks in the Nether, I traveled roughly a couple hundred blocks in the Overworld—really fast compared to walking the whole way.

Wrapping Up

This type of video is a bit different from what I usually do (I normally make command tutorials), but I’ve used Nether travel like this in my own survival world and it’s extremely useful. A lot of people know what Nether portal linking is, but aren’t sure how to actually set it up, so I wanted to show the process.

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