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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Can random nether portals spawn?

Portals try to avoid spawning over lava, in midair, or inside rock, but they do so by spawning nearby. Thus, a new portal from the Overworld has a disproportionate chance of being next to an abyss, lava lake, or netherrack wall.
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Why did I spawn in a random place in the nether?

It's a known bug. If you eat at the correct time when going through a portal, it will spawn you somewhere completely random.
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Is it possible for a nether portal to spawn Naturally?

A ruined portal is a naturally generated damaged nether portal, which spawns in both the Nether and the Overworld. It contains some decoration and a loot chest around it.
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Why is there another nether portal?

The usual cause for this is when the player's Nether-side portal is deactivated by a ghast, and then the player dies in the Nether, spawns, and then re-enters the Nether through the Overworld-side portal. However, multiple portals can be exploited to farm obsidian.
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What does crying obsidian do?

It is used to make the respawn anchor, a block that has the function of letting players respawn in the Nether. When placed, crying obsidian occasionally produces purple dripping particles, as if it is "crying". These droplets are purely decorative.
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Can crying obsidian make a portal?

Crying obsidian has different uses than the normal obsidian, and making portals is something you can't do with it. No , you can make only with obsidian.
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How rare is a big ruined portal in Minecraft?

When a ruined portal generates, it has a 5% chance to be a giant ruined portal, for about a 1.67% chance per giant portal design. This gives normal ruined portals a 95% chance, for a 9.5% chance per normal ruined portal design.
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Does every fortress have nether wart?

Nether wart can also generate in the courtyards of housing unit bastion remnants. Due to only spawning in these specific structures, it's entirely possible for a nether fortress or bastion remnant to generate without nether wart (though they may still appear in the chests that generate in the fortress).
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What is the rarest thing in the Nether?

The Rarest Resource In The Nether

First, one must find Ancient Debris, which is only found at a specific elevation in the Nether and is quite dangerous to mine given the pockets of lava and uneven structure of the Nether dimension.
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Can you stop things from spawning in the Nether?

One of the most basic ways to prevent mob spawning is by placing torches. These increase the light level around them, stopping hostiles from spawning. Other blocks such as glowstone or shroomlight emit higher light levels, but are harder to come by.
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Can I have two nether portals?

Yes, you can have multiple active nether portals, but if they're close enough together (since the nether is 8x smaller than the overworld), I have found that they sometimes may link up to the same portal in the overworld.
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Do end portals spawn randomly?

End gateways are intradimensional portals generated in the End: some are spawned around the central island after each death of the ender dragon; others are randomly generated throughout the outer islands.
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What are the random portals in Minecraft?

Minecraft's Ruined Portals are a unique generated structures, and can appear in literally any Biome in either the Overworld or the Nether. They are incomplete Nether Portals that can have either large or small sizes, and under various states of decay.
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How do you make a heaven portal in Minecraft?

If you already have the Aether mod, you can construct a portal by placing glowstone blocks in a vertical, hollow 4x6 rectangle (corner blocks aren't necessary) and placing a water block on one of the top blocks of the portal (on the inside of the frame). If you have the Aether mod installed, it should work.
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How do you calculate where a nether portal will be?

When you build a Nether portal in the Overworld, its coordinates are divided by eight to determine the portal's location in the Nether. For example, if you build a portal at (80, 64, 80) in the Overworld, it will appear at (10, 64, 10) in the Nether.
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Can you make a nether portal with crying?

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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How rare is a 1 eye portal?

Due to the fact that there is a 10% chance of each individual end portal frame having an eye in it, there is a one out of one trillion chance of every frame having an eye in it thereby activating the portal even if the player doesn't have any eyes of ender.
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How rare is an end portal with all eyes?

Speaking of chance, when each portal frame block is generated, there's a 10% chance that it'll already contain an eye of ender, so that'll save you some time. With 12 blocks, though, the chances of them all containing an eye of ender are very low. Like... one in a trillion low.
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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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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's the fastest way to get crying obsidian?

As well as acquiring crying obsidian from portals, you can also barter with piglins and find it in chests in bastion remnants.
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