Other Portal (block)

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.

An other portal is a joke block exclusive to joke 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.

glass sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.glass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.glass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.glass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.glass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.glass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Unique

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Other Portal	other_portal	Block & Item		block.minecraft.other_portal

Block states

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".