How to Link Nether Portals in Minecraft

By PickaxeKit Editorial Team · Updated 2026-11-08

Divide your Overworld portal's X and Z by 8 and build the Nether portal at exactly that spot. A portal at Overworld 1000, -480 links to Nether 125, -60.

The 8-to-1 rule

Each block you walk in the Nether equals 8 blocks in the Overworld, on the X and Z axes. Height (Y) is not scaled. That is why the Nether works as a fast-travel network: 100 blocks in the Nether moves you 800 blocks in the Overworld.

Steps to link two portals

1. Stand in your Overworld portal and note X and Z (F3 on Java, Show Coordinates on Bedrock).
2. Convert them with the Nether Portal Calculator.
3. Go through the portal, then walk or tunnel to the converted X and Z in the Nether.
4. Build and light a new portal right there. Going back and forth should now use these two portals.

• Another portal is closer to the matching spot than yours, so the game picks it.
• The game created a new portal for you on the first trip, somewhere near the matching spot. Break it once your own portal is built.
• You built the second portal from memory instead of the exact converted coordinates.