When creating a second Nether portal in the Overworld the game does not create a new portal on the Nether side, in stead it sends you back to the first portal you made.
New portals created in the Nether DO create an Overworld-portal. However, any new portals created in the Overworld, no matter how far away, will allways send you to the closest Nether-side portal in existance.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start a new world (Creative is easier, but the bug is present in Survival as well)
2. Build a nether portal (site 'A')
3. Travel to nether to create a Nether-side portal, make sure you remember the location (place some blocks), then go back to the Overworld.
4. Travel a significant distance in the Overworld, to site 'B'
5. Create a new portal at B, travel to Nether. And BWAM! You are send to the very first Nether-site portal you created (the one linked to A)
Creating new portals in the Nether DO create a correct Overworld-portal
Any portal created in the Overworld will link to the closest Nether-side portal, and not create a new portal in the Nether.
I regard this a near-game-breaking, It removes our ability to easily set up a fast-travel network in the Nether.
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Duplicate of MC-530, please use the search function to see if your bug has already been submitted. Currently over 49% of tickets are being closed as duplicate.
This is certainly NOT working as intended!
Currently, even if I travel thousands⚠️ of blocks in the Overworld, I get thrown back to the SAME portal in the Nether, it does NOT create a new portal in the Nether, never!
The search radius for 'active portals' is 257x257 blocks (look it up in that wiki article, I did read it before posting this issue) even when I am far FAR away it still throws me back to the same portal in the nether.
The Nether->Overworld linking is working correctly, but the Overworld->Nether 'active portal'-search is definitely broken.
Please reopen the issue, this is still valid.
I think moderators might open the issue if you provide a world seed, location to put the first portal, (then going through, get back), and a suitable far away location for second portal, (then go through). If moderators can then repeat the problem, they'll certainly reopen.
(The trick is to make it easy to reproduce. Granted, this one should be easy to test and confirm/drop even without specifics...)
This is working as intended, there are certain rules a game follows for the Nether Portals, if you are interested, you can read on about them on: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Nether_Portal#Linkage_between_Overworld_and_Nether.