Your Nether, on one map.

Every gate you have, read from your own screenshots. Top band: the Overworld. Bottom band: the Nether. Each line is one gate dropping through, 8 blocks out here for every 1 in there.

Overworld gateNether portalHome under the bell (plan)You, and your way back

Positions to scale on X; Z is stretched so the labels fit. Pairs marked "likely" are not yet confirmed by a walk.

I'm lost. Get me home.

Read your Position (it's on your screen) and type your Nether X and Z.

My X My Z

Walk to

Enter your current position. Saved on this device only.

You're home.

Build your portal here, then test it before your next trip.

First, make a sheltered spot with cobblestone before you check your route. Then read, then walk. Watch for lava and drops: these directions do not account for terrain.

You are more ready than you feel.

Most players walk into the Nether with far less. Your storage wall already holds:

Diamond armor, Protection IV; sword, Sharpness V

Fire resistance potions and golden apples

175 ender pearls

393 gold blocks

The one piece missing is gold. Piglins attack anyone who walks in without at least one piece of gold armor. Break one gold block into 9 ingots, then craft gold boots from 4 of them. Wear them in the Nether instead of your diamond boots.

Six things, then go

Gold boots onPiglins leave you alone.
Fire resistance and golden apples in your hotbarYour lava insurance.
A stack of cobblestoneFor bridges, steps and walls. Ghasts can't break it.
Flint and steelRelights a portal if a ghast blows it out.
A stack of torchesYour breadcrumbs home.
Screenshot your Position before you leaveThe number that gets you home.

0 of 6

Never sleep in a bed there. Beds explode in the Nether.

Where your portals really go

The Nether is the Overworld folded small. Divide your Overworld X and Z by 8 and you have your Nether spot. Height (Y) is not scaled 8 to 1, but you can still arrive higher or lower, wherever the game finds room for the portal.

Gate	Overworld X, Z	Nether X, Z	Status
Home under the bell (your hub, not built yet)	259, 2466	32, 308	Plan
Gold-crowned gate 132	14107, 1922	1692, 165	Lit. You walked it.
Gold-crowned gate 120	13547, 1322	1692, 165	Unlit. Shares 132's portal.
Blossomgate	-6251, 923	-782, 115	Lit. Not visited.
Cave portal, Oct 3	-7627, 243	-957, 28	Lit. Pair likely.
Netherrack portal, Sept 1	9937, 1580	1251, 213	Lit. Pair likely.

Overworld to Nether

Nether spot:

Starts at your bell. Type any spot from your Position.

Nether to Overworld

Overworld spot:

Starts at the portal you used on September 5.

The surprise that is not your fault

On September 5 you went through your lit gold-crowned gate 132, gathered crimson stems, and came back out near gate 120, 563 blocks from where you started. You did nothing wrong. When you step through, the game looks for any portal already within about 128 blocks of the matching Nether spot and sends you there. Both of your gates land on the same Nether portal: on the map, their two lines meet at one point.

A plain compass spins in the Nether, so your real compass there is your Position readout. You already read it on every trip. That habit is what gets you home.

When you feel lost: stop, read, walk

Stop and wall in. Place cobblestone around you, two high, to make a sheltered spot. Breathe.
Read your Position. Type it into "I'm lost" at the top of this card.
Walk the difference. The card tells you which way and how far, not a safe path: watch for lava and drops. Small numbers in the Nether are short walks.
Follow your torches. Torches on your right going out are on your left coming home.

Three big moments, three calm answers

A ghast

Loud, but slow. Raise your shield, or step behind a cobblestone block. Ghasts drift over open lava seas and are rare in the crimson forest you know. If one breaks your portal, flint and steel lights it again.

Lava

Drink fire resistance before you get close. Then lay cobblestone one block at a time and walk slowly. Your potion lasts minutes; your bridge lasts forever.

Piglins and hoglins

With gold boots on, piglins are calm. Don't open chests or break gold near them. Hoglins, the big pink boars of the crimson forest, ignore gold: give them room, or stand two blocks up and let them wander off.

The road home is a shortcut you already planned

88 minbell to the four edges, on foot

11 minthe same trip through the Nether

From your bell to the four edges of Gordtopia is 29,686 blocks on foot. Through the Nether it is 3,711. Your Nether Spine plan says light one block every twelve. Start small: build the home portal under the bell at Nether 32, 308. Every trip after that begins and ends at home.