Are ruined portals useful?

Ruined Portals are a new structure added in 1.16 and can spawn in both the overworld and the nether, although the overworld ones are most useful. There are 13 different ruined portal variants, with different chest locations so learning them can be useful.
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Do ruined portals work?

The major factor regarding Ruined Portals is that some parts of the Portal's frame is made of Crying Obsidian. This purple-veined variant does not count towards a functioning Portal Frame, however they can be used with Glowstone to craft Respawn Anchors, which are artificially-made respawn points when in the Nether.
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How rare is a complete ruined portal?

Much like each village has a rare chance of being a zombie village instead, maybe for ruined portals, there is a rare chance for a ruined portal to be a full portal. Full ruined portals could account for 1% of all ruined portal spawns, making full portals quite rare.
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Do ruined portals have hidden chests?

All ruined portals generate with a chest on Bedrock Edition, but on Java Edition the chest may be replaced if terrain overrides it. Each chest contains various golden items and items used to build portals such as obsidian and flint and steel.
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Can a ruined portal spawn complete?

Ruined Portals can be found in any biome in the Overworld and the Nether, both underground and on the surface. If found underground, they will be surrounded by air blocks to be more easily accessible. Ruined Portals will often contain enough Obsidian to make a complete portal. However, this is not guaranteed.
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Can you rebuild a ruined portal?

In the Nether, a Ruined Portal chest will contain items that you can use to rebuild the portal such as obsidian, flint and steel, and fire charges.
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Can Crying Obsidian make a portal?

These droplets are purely decorative. Unlike obsidian, crying obsidian cannot be used as a nether portal frame.
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What is Crying Obsidian used for?

Crying obsidian is a new decorative block in Minecraft 1.16. It is used to craft a respawn anchor, with 6 crying obsidian and 3 glowstone blocks. It cannot be used to make a nether portal unfortunately. The respawn anchor allows respawning in the nether should you die.
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Can ruined portals have soul sand?

Ruined Portals should spawn some soulsand along with the netherrack, so they create natural bubble elevators when spawning underwater.
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How rare is a 1 eye portal?

Each individual end portal frame block has a 10% chance of containing an eye of ender, as determined by the world seed. This means there is a one in 1 trillion chance for all 12 end portal frames to contain an eye of ender, activating the portal upon initial generation.
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What happens if your nether portal is destroyed?

If that happens, you can build another portal if you have enough obsidian and a flint and steel. If you don't have any obsidian or flint and steel you may look in the chest of the nether fortress to find them. You can remove the corners of the Portal so that the portal can be made with all blocks you have.
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Why do random nether portals spawn?

The game will determine the 'closest' viable spawn location that correlates with the coordinates the portal is placed in the overworld. This is why you see portals spawn low if they're build near bedrock and spawn near the nether ceiling when they're build up in the sky.
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Where can I find Netherite?

To get Netherite you'll need to mine Ancient Debris first, which can only be found in the Nether. When you enter the Nether you'll need to mine until you reach Y level 8-15. Most Ancient Debris will spawn at Y level 15. Once you get at the Y level, begin mining as you would normally.
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Can ruined portals spawn in a flat world?

Update: Ruined portals still spawn in superflat worlds with the unmodified Overworld preset (added two screenshots showing this). They do not spawn in the Classic Flat preset, even when modified to have 120 layers of stone (ruling out MC-241438 being the problem here).
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How do you light a ruined portal?

  1. Find a ruined portal in the nether.
  2. Fix the ruined portal by fixing the portal frame and removing the crying obsidian and replacing the gaps with obsidian. ...
  3. Get a fire charge or a flint and steel (found in the ruined portal chest) and light the portal.
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Does soul sand burn infinitely?

Fire. Fire lit on soul sand becomes soul fire, which burns indefinitely.
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What happens if you smelt soul sand?

When a player breaks a block of soul sand and places it into a furnace, the block will smelt into Soul Vitric (soul, obviously coming from soul sand, and vitric, which means relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass).
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How many ruined portals are there in a Minecraft world?

Ruined Portals are a new structure added in 1.16 and can spawn in both the overworld and the nether, although the overworld ones are most useful. There are 13 different ruined portal variants, with different chest locations so learning them can be useful.
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Can you make an Ender chest with crying obsidian?

A Crying Ender Chest would be crafted with eight Crying Obsidian in a ring with a Eye of Ender in the middle.
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What is stronger obsidian or crying obsidian?

Crying obsidian is exactly as hard as normal obsidian. Both for mining and for explosions. But unlike obsidian, crying obsidian: can't be used to make a Nether portal.
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What happens if you make a nether portal with crying obsidian?

Nether portals built with or containing crying obsidian do work, but only half way. They don't generate an exit portal, and don't link up to any pre-existing portals. They just plop you at the corresponding coordinates (or the nearest solid block) in the other dimension with no regard for your way back.
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Can you break crying obsidian with your hand?

To collect obsidian, a diamond pickaxe or better must be used. It takes 250 seconds to break an obsidian block by hand, and 21.85-125 seconds to break it with a pickaxe weaker than diamond or netherite, although neither will yield any obsidian.
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Why doesn't crying obsidian work?

Though related, the Crying Obsidian block is not like the standard Obsidian block in Minecraft, as it can not be used to build Nether Portals. Instead, Crying Obsidian represents regular Obsidian which has been used for Nether transport too much, resulting in its crying appearance.
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