I've created a nether portal very, very, very far away from all other portals. It transports to the nether just fine, cool, and going back...it can't stick the landing. It keeps creating a new portal somewhere totally different in the overworld. I can't figure out why.
Starting overworld coordinates:
7034.10, 71.06, -6008.15
Nether portal coordinates:
850.50, 34.51, -673.50
Current landing point back in overworld:
6811.37, 94.55, -5380.92
Any ideas? Is this just a lovely glitch that I've discovered?
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Is it creating a new portal each time you go back from the nether to the overworld, or only the first time?
It's creating a new portal every time I go back from the nether to the overworld. I wasn't sure the first time, so I've been writing down coordinates, and it's consistent: every jump back creates a new portal, typically in the depths of some unexplored mine.
Unless I am missing something, this probably has to do with the search range during portal creation.
Your overworld coordinates 7034.11 / 71.06 / -6008.15 convert to 879.26 / 71.06 / -751.01, but apparently the game could not create a portal there. Instead, it created a portal at a suitable place within the search range.
The coordinates of this nether portal at 850.50 / 34.51 / 673.50 convert to 6804 / 34.51 / 5388 in the overworld. Since your original overworld portal is too far from that location to be detected, the game created a new portal.
This is easily fixed by moving the portal in the nether to the appropriate coordinates.
Feel free to check the wiki at https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Nether_portal#Portal_search_and_creation for more detailed info.
Does MC-149705 describe your issue?
Might be related to MC-149705 or even a duplicate of it.