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Other Portal (block)

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This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.
 
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
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An other portal is a joke block only present in snapshot 23w13a_or_b. It was added as a reference to the Aether, a popular mod for Minecraft which added a fourth dimension to the game. This became a joke when players would attempt to build portals to the Aether in vanilla Minecraft and fail.

Obtaining

The shape of the other portal is similar to a Nether portal, except that it uses glowstone instead.

It also uses a water bucket instead of a flint and steel to light the portal.

The Other Portal must be enabled by having the minecraft:other_portal vote activated.

Usage

When entering the Other Portal, the player is teleported 500 blocks upward, and the message "Error 404 Terrain Not Found" is displayed.

If the portal is created above Y=150, it teleports players to Y=650 instead, so they are not teleported to the Moon.

Sounds

Generic

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.
 
Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.
BlockSprite glass.png: Sprite image for glass in Minecraft glass sound type
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Block brokenBlocksOnce the block has brokenblock.glass.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break​1.00.816
​Block placedBlocksWhen the block is placedblock.glass.placesubtitles.block.generic.place​1.00.816
​Block breakingBlocksWhile the block is in the process of being brokenblock.glass.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit​0.250.516
​Something falls on a blockEntity-DependentFalling on the block with fall damageblock.glass.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall​0.50.7516
​FootstepsEntity-DependentWalking on the blockblock.glass.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps​0.151.016

Unique

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Portal whooshesBlocksRandomlyblock.portal.ambientsubtitles.block.portal.ambient​0.50.8–1.210
​Portal noise intensifiesAmbient/EnvironmentWhen a player attempts to travel through an other portalblock.portal.triggersubtitles.block.portal.trigger​0.250.8–1.216

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierFormBlock tags Translation key
BlockSprite other-portal.png: Sprite image for other-portal in Minecraft Other Portalother_portalBlock & Item block.minecraft.other_portal

Block states

Name Default value Allowed values Description
axisx xThe portal's long edge runs east–west.
zThe portal's long edge runs north–south.

Issues

Issues relating to "Other Portal (block)" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

Sources