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Survival Starter Compound
A lit 21 by 21 walled base with a house, a 9 by 9 crop field and a storage shed.
- Size
- 21×21×10
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Style
- Rustic
- Blocks
- 991 blocks
Survival baseMedievalSmall
Nether Portal Base
An 11 by 9 stone brick room around a minimum 10-obsidian Nether portal with storage and stations.
Protects your Overworld portal and keeps supplies next to it. The portal frame is the smallest valid size, 4 wide and 5 tall without corners, so it needs only 10 obsidian.
- Size (W × L × H)
- 11 × 9 × 7
- Blocks to place
- 393
- Layers
- 7
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Best biomes
- Any
- Works in
- Java and Bedrock 1.16+
The .schem file is a Sponge schematic for WorldEdit and similar tools on Java 1.21 or newer. Preview it first in the Schematic Viewer. Bedrock players can follow the layer plan below.
How to build the Nether Portal Base
- 1
Room
Lay an 11 by 9 polished andesite floor, build stone brick walls 5 tall and cover the top with stone bricks.
- 2
Portal frame
Near the back wall, place two obsidian on the floor, a column of three obsidian on each side and two obsidian across the top. Corners are optional.
- 3
Light the portal
Use flint and steel or a fire charge on the inside of the frame.
- 4
Door and windows
Add a spruce door in the middle of the front wall and a 2-tall window on each side of it.
- 5
Supplies
Place two chests on the left wall, a crafting table and furnace on the right and hang two lanterns from the ceiling.
Builder tips
- Use the Nether Portal Calculator to line up your Nether-side portal.
- Keep a spare flint and steel in the chest in case a ghast puts the portal out.
- Obsidian needs a diamond or netherite pickaxe to mine.
Materials
Exact counts for every block in the build. Stacks are 64.
| Block | Count | Stacks |
|---|---|---|
| Stone Bricks | 248 | 3 × 64 + 56 |
| Polished Andesite | 99 | 1 × 64 + 35 |
| Mossy Stone Bricks | 25 | 25 |
| Obsidian | 10 | 10 |
| Glass | 4 | 4 |
| Chest | 2 | 2 |
| Lantern | 2 | 2 |
| Crafting Table | 1 | 1 |
| Furnace | 1 | 1 |
| Spruce Door | 1 | 1 |
Gathering estimate
Planks, stairs, slabs, bricks and glass converted back to what you collect, using standard recipes. Rounded up.
- Cobblestone281
- Polished Andesite99
- Obsidian10
- Oak Log5
- Sand4
- Lantern2
- Spruce Log1
Layer-by-layer plan
Build from the bottom up. Each layer shows exactly which block goes where, with the layer below shown faintly for alignment.
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