Freaky nether portals

quantumleaf7895 · Aug 4th 2012

So, I've been having some weird issues with nether portals. In my main world, I built a nether portal, travel through, collect some glowstone, travel back. . . and wind up nowhere near my base. Like, a new portal was created, several hundred blocks away from the original one, solely so I could spawn there. I didn't have a map with me; if there wasn't a big landmark near the portal I would've been screwed.

And tonight, I was exploring a swamp in my test world when I found a naturally generated nether portal. Stuck in the leaves of a tree was a nether portal, fully operational, everything. It didn't go anywhere intersting, but. . . wow.

GregoriusT · Aug 4th 2012

Herobrine is in your World! Thats because a Noob was attempting to load Chunk Norris.

I don't now · Aug 4th 2012

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Herobrine is in your World! Thats because a Noob was attempting to load Chunk Norris.

Who is Chunk Norris?
@OP: Something simliar happened to me in my very first world (Beta 1.2).
I made a Nether portal on top of a hill, went through it and when I came back, I was on the shore about 100-200 blocks away!

Alblaka · Aug 4th 2012

Nether portals bugging out and having different entry/exit spots is a vanilly bug (or feature?).
Nether portals spawning on new worlds via world generation is... uhm... a new issue, though.

RichardG · Aug 4th 2012

And new in 1.3:

- Pigzombies can spawn around portals (grinding is useless, around 3 hours for 9 gold)
- They can drop you in the void upon exiting due to a FIX YO GAME JEB moment - reloading the map when you're falling makes you partially safe.

GregoriusT · Aug 4th 2012

Quote from RichardG

Pigzombies can spawn around portals (grinding is useless, around 3 hours for 9 gold)

Maybe more than one Portal helps?

quantumleaf7895 · Aug 4th 2012

Quote from RichardG

And new in 1.3:

- Pigzombies can spawn around portals (grinding is useless, around 3 hours for 9 gold)

"grinding is useless?" Right now I'm imagining 5+ nether portals connected to a mob trap. Add a chunk loader and BAM free gold forever.

And I can't help but wonder if the natural-portal isn't a function of the computer. . . I use OSX, a recent update for java on that system is a bit wonky, JavaScript is super-unreliable( I can't view that nifty reactor-planner, and some things refuse to load.)

RichardG · Aug 4th 2012

The number I gave applies to a ludicrous amount of portals, and mob spawning doesn't work with chunkloading - it needs any player to be within 144 blocks or 15 chunks.

EDIT: The pigzombie spawning algorithm (thanks redstonehelper): Every minute, 6 checks (1 per portal block) are done. On every check, if a random number between 0 and 2000 is less than the game difficulty (1=easy,2=normal,3=hard), a pigzombie is spawned.

XFmax-o-l · Aug 5th 2012

With all these checks for every single thing in the game you would think there were more efficient ways to do it.

GregoriusT · Aug 5th 2012

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With all these checks for every single thing in the game you would think there were more efficient ways to do it.

The Portalblocks are TileEntities. I guess the check is inside the Portalblock itself. But does that mean, that the more Portals i build, the more Gold i get?

quantumleaf7895 · Aug 8th 2012

So, a (difficulty) in 2001 chance of spawning a pigman per portal block per minute? If my math is correct, on the hardest difficulty using (say) 50 portals should produce 1 gold ingot and 4 nuggets in 1 hour.

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So yeah, this isn't the best strategy for grinding gold. . .
( RichardG: "reloading the map while falling makes you partially safe" -- what does 'partially safe' mean? )

RawCode · Aug 9th 2012

you still have nice ability to land into lava!

on rejoin-relogin-restart-whatever 60 no damage ticks are granted, you may abuse it to survive burning, ever can swim in lava naked if rejoin exactly every 59 ticks.

FnordMan2 · Aug 9th 2012

Just saw this post from Jeb. Would be nice if they'd stop doing this crap. (like the rapid fire 1.2.x series) I'm sure the forge team isn't going to be pleased at this one...

CrafterOfMines57 · Aug 9th 2012

Quote from Ook

Just saw this post from Jeb. Would be nice if they'd stop doing this crap. (like the rapid fire 1.2.x series) I'm sure the forge team isn't going to be pleased at this one...

I think I'm more worried by his most recent tweets on "the snapshot" being released

RichardG · Aug 9th 2012

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( RichardG: "reloading the map while falling makes you partially safe" -- what does 'partially safe' mean? )

You might die of fall damage or end up inside a cave below the portal.

EvilSeph is still trying to find the cause for the bug.

FenixR · Aug 9th 2012

Quote from Ook

Just saw this post from Jeb. Would be nice if they'd stop doing this crap. (like the rapid fire 1.2.x series) I'm sure the forge team isn't going to be pleased at this one...

Quote from Jeb

The snapshot will be on the "1.4 track", and not the "1.3.2 bug patch track", in case that makes any sense

Ergo 1.3.2 its only a bugfix for that nether portal problem

P.S:Lawl, aparently zombies and skeletons will be well equipped in 1.4, and villagers zombie too (Its on the right)

GregoriusT · Aug 9th 2012

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Lawl, aparently zombies and skeletons will be well equipped in 1.4, and villagers zombie too (Its on the right)

Goldarmor? It's a Zombie and not a ~~Manbearpig~~ Zombiepigman.

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