Other Portal

This article is about the joke manufactured structure. For the block, see Other Portal (block). For the block in Java Edition 20w14∞, see Funky Portal.
This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
 
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Other Portal
Other Portal.png: Infobox image for Other Portal the structure in Minecraft
Generates in
existing chunks

No

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An other portal is a manufactured structure that teleports the player 500 blocks up in the Overworld.

Creation

Build schematics
Full version Minimal version

An other portal is built as a vertical, rectangular frame of glowstone (4×5 minimum, 23×23 maximum), similar to a 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 End portal.

Once a frame is constructed, it is activated by 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 water bucket, dispensed by dispenser or natural spread of water. Other portals can be activated only in the Overworld; they cannot be activated in the End and 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

Main article: Other Portal (block)

When a player in the Overworld or 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 Creative, the wait time is one game tick (1⁄20 second) for the player to transfer between "dimensions."

Most entities can travel through portals, including mobs (except the wither and ender dragon), thrown items, and transportation without passengers (neither mobs nor player)[1], including boats, minecarts and 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

Generic

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BlockSprite glass.png: Sprite image for glass in Minecraft glass sound type
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.glass.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.glass.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.glass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.glass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.glass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016

Unique

Sounds
SoundSubtitlesSourceDescriptionResource locationTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Portal whooshesBlocksRandomlyblock.portal.ambientsubtitles.block.portal.ambient​0.50.8-1.210
​Portal noise intensifiesAmbient/EnvironmentWhen a player attempts to travel through an other portalblock.portal.triggersubtitles.block.portal.trigger​0.250.8-1.216

Issues

Issues relating to "Other Portal" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

Trivia

  • The other portal is a reference to The Aether mod, a dimension mod wherein players were able to build a portal out of glowstone and activated with water that would transport the players to a Heaven-like dimension, serving as a counterpart to the Nether's hellish environment accessed through an obsidian and fire portal. In its heyday, the mod was easily one of the most popular and iconic Minecraft mods, leading some players to believe it was actually in vanilla Minecraft.[2]
    • A sky dimension similar to the Aether had been planned at some point in Minecraft development, but was ultimately abandoned in favor of The End dimension.[3][4][5] It was commonly referred to as "Skylands" dimension by the developers and community.[6][7]
    • While the developer of the Aether mod, Brandon Pearce (also known as kingbdogz), has actually been hired by Mojang Studios, there are currently no plans to add any new dimension to Minecraft, sky dimension or otherwise,[8] as adding a new dimension would divert attention away from fleshing out the existing ones.

References

  1. ↑ MC-67
  2. ↑ "Minecraft Redditor draws the Aether portal betrayal" by Akshat Kabra – Sportskeeda, 2022-06-03.
  3. ↑ "And because PC Gamer made such a big deal of the sky dimension, I guess I'll have to finish it. Consider it confirmed." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), May 19, 2011
  4. ↑ "It has been rebranded to be The End realm" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), October 12, 2011
  5. ↑ "Probably, yes. :D I love the idea. The Ether mod does it great, try it." – @notch (Markus Persson) on X (formerly Twitter), November 10, 2011
  6. ↑ "Notch Answers Minecraft 1.8 Questions - Community Questions for Markus (Notch) Persson" – OmniTechNews on YouTube, September 1, 2011
  7. ↑ "We have no plans to revisit the skylands" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), July 3, 2012
  8. ↑ "No we don't plan to return the Sky Dimension" – @jeb_ (Jens Bergensten) on X (formerly Twitter), July 2, 2012

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