[MCPE-27109] Nether Portals not functioning properly Bedrock 1.2.1.1 [RESOLVED:Bad luck in portal location]

Nether portals link back to the original overworld nether portal. I have traveled beyond 128 blocks, 500 blocks, and 750 blocks away from original portal to create an additional portal attempting to find a nether fortress. Regardless of distance traveled portal always links to the original portal created in the nether.

I searched bugs and couldn't find this pertaining to Xbox One Minecraft:Bedrock "Better Together Update".

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Caleb Martin 2017-10-08T22:15:44Z

This is not a bug; 1 block in the Nether is 8 blocks in the Overworld, which means if you want to create a portal in the Overworld that links to a new portal in the Nether you have to travel far enough in the Overworld to get 128+ blocks away in the Nether. 128 blocks in the Nether is 128*8 = 1024 blocks in the Overworld.

Your 128, 500, and 750 block tests only got you 16, ~62, and ~93 blocks away.

Louis 2017-10-10T21:12:47Z

I found a monument far enough away in the overworld; more than 1024 blocks; so I will try it out. Hopefully, I just miscalculated since it has been awhile since I created a nether hub. I also found a fortress that more than meets the requirements that you stated for the nether to create a new overworld portal. I have been known to be brain dead from time to time; so thanks.

Clinton Green 2017-10-11T16:17:38Z

Luis is correct. Since the 1.2.0 update, portals have not followed the rules. before the update, if you go 1000 blocks or more away from original a new portal is generated. after the merge. I have created a portal over 2000 blocks away, one facing North/south the other facing East/West. They still sync to the same nether portal. this world was created using the 1.2.0 update. My old world from version 14. still works correctly. which is a little strange.

Louis 2017-10-12T19:22:55Z

I just tested yesterday with a newly created portal and had issues. The world was created with the latest Bedrock update and linking definitely has issues. In this newly created world the overworld portal was created about 75 blocks from spawn at one block above sea level. When entering the portal from the nether counter part created a new overworld portal approximately 100 blocks away from the original portal built by myself; approximately 175 blocks from world spawn in total. I wondered whether or not this was just a glitch so I destroyed the portal that was created from entering from the nether and ran back to my originally built portal and retried. Upon exiting from the nether yet another portal was created mere blocks from the portal I destroyed (approximately 4-5 blocks).

There is really an issue with portal mechanics that needs to be identified.

Louis 2017-10-15T16:25:01Z

Another update after further testing......

I created yet another world in version 1.2.3.3 with cheats enabled. I created a portal in creative at or just outside spawn and it functioned correctly. I, therefore, using coordinates traveled 148 blocks away from the portal in the nether and created another portal. The portal created the correlating overworld portal as expected which functioned correctly as well.

There is something amiss that I can not place my finger on. The two previous worlds had issues to say the least. The first was created at launch so the version 1.2.0.0 in survival, no cheats. Therein may be the issue with nether portal linking in this case I am willing to concede. The second was created in 1.2.3.3 in survival, no cheats, and was very erratic and nonfunctional portal mechanics to say the least with the only changes being seed, cheats (for coordinates), and the portal being created in survival verses creative on the latest trial.

When I get some more time I can try and create the latest world with no cheats and recreate the portals strictly in survival to see what occurs. If it functions properly I'll recreate the worlds under the same prerequisites to see if it is world related and possibly a generation issue. My wife created a world on her Xbox and the same error that I described occurred for her as well utilizing the survival, no cheats world creation settings in version 1.2.3.3. I hope this isn't a hit and miss issue but something that can be recreated with consistency. I will try and identify if it is seed or settings related.

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Louis 2017-10-15T20:30:39Z

I just recreated the world that initially lead me to make this report. Upon recreation under the same settings the nether portal mechanics behave as expected. I guess I can rule this as a potential version error since the issue isn't in the world created in 1.2.3.3.

The final world in question seems to be seed related and the particular location chosen for the initial portal. The mechanics just do not like that location and consistently relocate the portal upon return to the overworld. Later on when I have more time I will make a copy of that world and switch the copy to cheats enabled and supply seed, built portal location, nether generated portal location, and return portal coordinates for where the game wants to link the portals.

This now appears to have two different causes for the experienced issues; with one being rectified by newer released version.

Louis 2017-10-17T04:35:04Z

As promised here is the information needed to recreate the issue on the second world.

Seed: -376092179
initial world spawn: 0, 67, 3
built portal for nether access (minimum required size):
starting coords: -114, 64, -63 to -114, 64, -60 for the 4 block base
the game created nether counter part base coords:
-28, 71, 8 to -28, 71, 11
the portal created upon return to overworld coords:
-215, 67, 85 to -212, 67, 185
I destroyed that portal and returned through the originally built portal to attempt to properly link to proper portal but upon return from the nether a new portal was once again created at:
-224, 66, 78 to -221, 66, 78

This had me wonder if this was the only portal issue in this world so I created another portal in the nether at coords:
-165, 59, 22 to -165, 59, 19
this created an overworld portal in a mesa at coords:
-1304, 89, 168 to -1304, 89, 165

This appears to be correct for the second portal so I guess it was just the initially built portal that ignores portal linking for some reason and creates additional portals over 100 blocks away. As one can see; there are some issues with portal mechanics. Luckily; it appears my initial issue was rectified by a later version. It seems to be seed related issues for portal issues;some have them and some do not.

Auldrick 2017-11-03T23:42:55Z

I tried your seed in 1.2.3 on Windows 10. My world spawn came out 1 block away from yours, which is pretty lucky since I think it's randomized. When I built a nether portal at the coordinates you gave, the Nether counterpart came out 8 blocks away, still not too far off. But when I returned to the Overworld, I came right back to the original portal I'd built. So I was unable to reproduce your problem.

~~It could be that the problem is specific to the Xbox One. I will ask another helper or mod to see if they can reproduce this issue on an Xbox.~~

I must have been too tired when I was testing. When I went back into my test world I realized that I did not return to the same Overworld portal like I thought I had. I was able to reproduce your results in Windows 10 on 1.2.3. See further comments below.

Auldrick 2017-11-04T00:01:02Z

~~I have now requested help. Could you please verify that the procedure in your last comment still causes the problem in 1.2.3?~~

Auldrick 2017-11-04T15:59:17Z

This works as intended.

The problem in this case was that the original Overworld portal location corresponded to a Nether location that was buried within a netherrack mountain. Usually in such cases the game looks for a place to generate the Nether portal as close as possible horizontally by searching vertically for a suitable location. However, this mountain ran all the way from the lava ocean to the Nether ceiling, so the game was forced to search horizontally. The closest place it could find was 21 blocks (Euclidian) away. 21 blocks in the Nether is equivalent to 168 blocks in the Overworld, which is outside the 128 block range for finding the Overworld portal when you returned. In short, your original Overworld portal was simply in an unfortunate location that can't be reached from anywhere in the Nether, because the entire part of the Nether that would link to it was either in lava, in netherrack, or in mid-air. However, you could have dug a 4x3x4 hole in the mountain near the destination coordinates and built a portal there, and it would have linked up the way you wanted.

Louis 2017-11-24T17:38:56Z

Thank you for the explanation; at least now I understand why this is occurring. I guess I just have extremely poor luck when choosing portal locations.

It also makes it far more difficult to resolve issues when they have made coordinates a cheat. Maybe they will see the error in this thinking. I could understand if this was limited to hardcore mode or allowing coordinates to locator maps.

Louis 2017-12-28T17:14:03Z

The explanation given was more than sufficient as to my bad luck in portal locations chosen. I fully expected this issue to be closed; I would have done this myself but couldn't figure out how.

Christopher Buckenham 2018-03-11T22:47:50Z

How was this a problem?