How to Build a Nether Hub: Travel Faster in Your Minecraft World

The Nether is not only a dimension full of creepy surprises but also serves a wonderful purpose that players have been taking advantage of since the Alpha version. By using the Nether, you can travel to places in the Overworld faster! This not only saves you a lot of time but also allows you to realize your creative ideas in the hellish dimension. There are many exciting structures you can build for a Nether Hub. We’ve already talked about survival in the Nether in a previous article , but what if you want to set up a permanent base in the Nether? Today, we’ll take a closer look at how you can actively use a Nether Hub and travel long distances quickly.

Overworld and Nether: How Does the Travel Work?

You can reach the Nether through a portal made of obsidian. It is a kind of hell, with red blocks and a creepy atmosphere. But it is also super practical for traveling because one block in the Nether equals eight blocks in the Overworld. So if you walk 100 blocks in one direction in the Nether and build a new portal there, you will come out approximately 800 blocks from your starting point in the Overworld. However, this distance only applies to the X-coordinate and the Z-coordinate. The height (Y-coordinate) remains unchanged.

This mechanic is one of the coolest in the entire game and allows you to cover long distances in a short time. This is useful, for example, if you have builds in different biomes or just like to travel through the world and want to get back home quickly.

Normally, a new portal is always generated when you switch between dimensions and no nearby portal exists. Due to the terrain’s nature, these coordinates are not always entirely accurate. The radius in the Overworld for automatically generated portals is approximately 300 blocks.

Tips for Connecting Portals

Maybe you’ve already built one or more portals but want to network them more efficiently. We’ve put together some tips for you.

• Don’t build portals too close together if you want to avoid errors.
• Always try to find the exact coordinates so they connect correctly.
• You should dismantle automatically generated portals and set them at the correct coordinates to avoid errors.
• The closer you are to the correct coordinates, the more likely you are to appear at the right portal.

The fastest travel options

Now that you understand the general possibilities for the Nether and hopefully know why a Nether Hub is so important, let’s look at ways to further shorten travel time in the Nether itself. There are various options to increase your movement speed. We’ll introduce you to some of the best methods you can implement in your system.

Simple Paths

Your quickest and easiest option is to build simple paths and tunnels in the Nether to your desired portals. And for all the upcoming methods, you’ll need to do this anyway, so get your pickaxe ready and start digging! It’s worth building in the four cardinal directions first and then digging smaller side branches from there. With a pickaxe and efficiency, you can mine Netherrack in seconds, so the tunnels shouldn’t be a problem.

You can either walk through the tunnels or ride your horse if they are high enough. If the shafts are also wide enough, you can use your Elytra, which you can obtain after a battle with the Ender Dragon in the End.

Minecart System

You can also resort to a simple system with old-fashioned minecarts, but this will cost you quite a bit of iron in the long run. Still, for those who prefer simplicity, using rails and some redstone is a viable option. Use booster rails intermittently to maintain your speed.

Ice and Boats

The most efficient and simultaneously strangest method for transportation in the Nether is an ice road with a boat. Yes, it sounds crazy, but it works! Lay down the ice alternately and use slabs in between and buttons on the ice to prevent monsters from spawning. At the same time, the pattern looks very good.

Important: You can only use packed ice or blue ice in the Nether because regular ice melts from the heat. And water evaporates anyway, so you must mine the ice in the Overworld with Silk Touch. Blue ice is the fastest option but also the hardest to find and craft.

Ideas for Your Nether Hub

When building your base in the Nether, all possibilities are open to you! Let your creativity run wild and choose a system that suits you best. A good idea is to work only with blocks from the Nether to create a spooky atmosphere.

Warped and crimson stems and the wood derived from them look particularly good in the Nether! You can also work with basalt and quartz to create a good contrast.

Main Hall

The most important thing for a Nether Hub is that your base, like in the Overworld, is protected. Therefore, you should avoid building your hub in the open. Consider a great design that you can build symmetrically based on your travel tunnels. The internet has many great inspirations for really cool Nether Hubs! You can also set up a small storage area for all the Nether blocks you collect on the way.

Different Paths

As mentioned above, the paths and tunnels are the main focus of your Nether Hub. These are often referred to as “Nether highways.” Expand these to specific points; the best starting point is large tunnels in all four cardinal directions. But it also depends on where exactly your portals are and where you want to travel through the Nether.

Conclusion

A Nether Hub is not only a cool base in the hellish dimension but also a wonderful way to make long journeys in your Minecraft world easier. Use various blocks like ice to move faster and quickly get from A to B. Make travel easier for you and your friends in your Minecraft world. Rent your own server and build a Nether Hub for maximum efficiency!