How to Build and Link Custom Portals

Creating a fast-travel network between your bases only requires matching building blocks and a color-coded activator item. Unlike vanilla Nether portals, you are not restricted to obsidian or rectangular doorways.

Crafting the Portal Catalyst

Before building, head to a Crafting Table to make a Portal Catalyst. This item requires:

• 4 Ender Pearls
• 4 Eyes of Ender
• Any Dye

The dye you choose determines the color of the portal. Because portals only connect when their materials, shape, and activator color match, you can build a huge number of independent networks by mixing different block types and dye colors.

Building and Activating the Network

1. Choose any block type and build a closed portal frame at your starting location. Every block in the frame must be made from the exact same block type, though the shape and size can be arbitrary—you can even build the frame lying flat on the ground.

2. Hold your Portal Catalyst and right-click inside the frame to activate the portal.

3. Travel to your destination and construct a second portal frame using the exact same block material and matching shape.

4. Right-click inside the second frame with a Portal Catalyst made with the matching dye color.

Once two compatible portals are within range of each other, they automatically link and display animated portal textures along with particle effects. Step directly into the portal to teleport between your linked locations.