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Minecraft · Nether, End portal and Ender Dragon

The smallest Nether portal has a 4×5 frame and a 2×3 opening. Omit the corners to use ten obsidian blocks. Light the inside of the frame. Crying obsidian from ruins

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Vanilla Survival in English and German. Covers the first day through elytra, with builds, farms, trading, redstone, brewing and gear. Build ideas can be combined. World coordinates depend on the seed. Reviewed 13 November 2026.

Nether · Portal, fortress and bastion

The smallest Nether portal has a 4×5 frame and a 2×3 opening. Omit the corners to use ten obsidian blocks. Light the inside of the frame. Crying obsidian from ruins does not count toward a working frame.

  1. Take a stack of fireproof building blocks, food, shield, bow and flint and steel. Wear one piece of gold armor around ordinary piglins and note the portal coordinates. Piglin brutes stay hostile.
  2. Build a small enclosure around the exit portal and mark junctions. Add railings over lava or tunnel through solid terrain. Bucket water evaporates here and beds explode when used.
  3. Look for a Nether-brick fortress for blaze rods. Block projectiles, use cover and gather nether wart for potions. One rod makes two blaze powder for Eyes of Ender. Keep extra rods for a brewing stand and fuel.
  4. Raid a bastion remnant once you have better equipment. Look for a netherite upgrade template. Gold armor does not reliably protect you when opening containers or mining gold near piglins.
  5. For a Nether hub, one horizontal Nether block corresponds to eight in the Overworld. Divide your Overworld destination’s X and Z by eight. Test actual portal linking in both directions before finishing the tunnel.

Find the stronghold and End portal

An Eye of Ender takes one ender pearl and one blaze powder. Obtain pearls from Endermen, experienced clerics or piglin bartering. The portal has twelve slots, some of which may already be filled.

  1. Prepare around 14–16 Eyes of Ender if possible. Throw an eye in the Overworld, travel in its direction and collect it again if it does not break. Cover some ground before throwing again.
  2. When the direction reverses or the eye points downward, descend by stairs to look for the stronghold. Mark your path, find the portal room and secure the lava and silverfish spawner.
  3. Put an eye in every empty frame. Before jumping in, set your spawn at an Overworld bed and leave a spare-kit chest. Bring a bow, arrows, water, food, solid blocks and armor into the End.

Ender Dragon · Crystals, perching and the way back

Destroy the healing crystals first. Use a bow for open pillars. Take cover at caged pillars and account for the blast before breaking a nearby crystal.

  1. Secure a path from the arrival platform to the main island. Avoid eye contact with Endermen and use water if one pursues you. Slow Falling helps with falls and dragon knockback.
  2. Shoot exposed crystals with arrows. Build up to cages or find a safe shooting angle, then descend carefully.
  3. Shoot the dragon in flight. When it perches at the exit fountain, approach from the side and strike its head in melee. Avoid the purple breath clouds. Use an empty bottle to collect dragon’s breath there.
  4. The exit portal activates after the fight. Use a small End gateway to reach the outer islands. Throw an ender pearl through it from a secure platform.

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