Nether Portal Location Calculator

How Portal Locations are Calculated

When you make a Nether portal and activate it, there is a formula that is then applied to the world. This formula is what determines where your portal on the other end will appear. That means if you were to build a Nether portal in the same exact location in two separate seeds, your Nether portal location in the Nether would be exactly the same in both worlds and seeds.

NOTE: When a portal is generated in either realm, there is a chance that the portal is not exactly where it should be. This is because the game will try to avoid placing a portal in a location that is impossible to thrive in such as buried in lava, floating in air, beside an abyss, etc. In these cases, the portal is placed in a safe location very close to its original location.

Understanding Your Results

There are two ways to use this tool. You can find the location of the portal when you create it when in the overworld, or you can find out where the location of the portal will be in the overworld, if you are creating a new portal in the Nether.

The results are displayed simply as coordinates, these are what you use to navigate around your worlds already so you should be very familiar with them and understand them quickly.

How to Use the Nether Portal Location Calculator

Our Nether portal location tool is very simple and easy to use. The steps required are:

1. Choose your current dimension, or the one you are going to be building the portal in.


2. Enter the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the portal. Since the portal is a large structure, try to get the coordinates from the center of the activated portal zone.


3. Hit calculate and see your resulting portal's estimated coordinates!

Calculation Example

You just got enough obsidian to make a Nether portal, this is an exciting step in the game. After building it you figure out its coordinates are X: 20, Y: 15, Z: 500. After plugging these values into this tool, you find out your portal in the Nether will be at X: 3, Y: 15, Z:63!

Now the worst case scenario has played out, you were already in the portal and your friends decided to play a prank on you. They broke your Nether portal that you made in the Overworld and at the same time a Ghast has destroyed your portal in the Nether. You begin to make a new portal in the Nether but have no idea where it will spit you out in the Overworld. Your Nether coordinates are X: 50, Y: 78, Z: 24. Using this tool you find out you will be spit out to X: 400, Y: 78, Z: 192 in the Overworld!