LITTERALLY WITHOUT ANY IRONY

For the 100th time:

youtube.com/watch?v=PyhGwI76I40

Also the game was designed with word of mouth and internet age in mind.

FLINT AND STEEL

With FLINT and STEEL.

you should just know

goal of the game is to build things

find new block

build literally any form of structure with it that has a hole

create portal

The answer is you discovered it by doing the exact one purpose of the game.

find block unique for its hardness

use it to build a structure that is completely worthless as a wall

GENIUS

HOW WERE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO BUILD THIS

This is what separates the creative minded from the addle minded.

You didn't play the game. It has to be a 3x2 upright hole specifically and you then have to set it on fire in the opening. No other configuration will make a portal.

the portals that generate now are so incomplete and constantly are half built with some fake obsidian block that does nothing and will only confuse people who try to complete the rectangle.

You can make a bigger nether portal ackshually, nazi incel chud

Wrong. 3x3 and others work. Plus the achievements give you hints on how to get there. See

lol he got you, that is something they added much later. You walked into his trap

FLEENT AND STEEL

The current version of the game now has naturally spawning unfinished portals.

The wiki

They’re doing the full-man sandwich.

Are we talking about the original alpha game only or something

It was in the movie

For this short period of time how was I supposed to know that I needed to do an exact 3x2??????

Amazing topic of discussion bro.

They added large nether portals way later, and on a different patch that achievements were on. It really was a word of mouth thing, and still basically is.

there are ruined portal everywhere in the world doublenigger, can't put two and two together?

yes, people who played minecraft when it was new are the only ones that matter

So the issue was addressed and fixed. You can even find half destroyed portals in the world gen now.

What is the point of these threads? That Notch didn't address completely blind players when the update hit? Wow, such a hot diss to the game.

lmao :Dddd

short period of time

anything but the original shape is a newer addition of gay numinecraft and this thread is about the old versions where there werent any hints of the portal.

and how are you supposed to figure it out without internet? go on i'll wait.

I FEEL A-LI-IVE!

um how were you supposed to know about minecraft in 2010 without the internet??? checkmate athiest

gee i dont know

that's not an answer to my question. i accept your concession.

I went back to minecraft for the first time in ages recently and was shocked to see this ugly shit just ruining a normal scenic vista. modern minecraft seems to have just added a ton of shit that just looks bad and ruins the game's already rough aesthetics

It's just another daily bait thread following a template. The point isn't so much about the stupid question OP is asking, it's about the outrage generated from what the question implies.

You reasonably couldn't without resorting to Youtube videos or wikis. That is why they introduced the random broken portals around

After you see three you should be able to piece it together, you act like each one has 3 pieces of obsidian.

what a retarded nitpick

How are playing without internet in the first place?

a few blocks spawning ruins the whole game

just remove it from your "normal scenic vista" you would be complaining about the lack of things to find in the world if random structures didn't exist

Was Minecraft ever sold physically? Some kid with no internet access might have been gifted it.

I'm sure one of the console releases was physical. Probably

I saw physical copies a few times but I'm almost certain it was just a code to put in the website to get a minecraft account, not a disc with the game on it. That's for PC at least, not sure about console version

Modern minecraft is made for zoomers who go insane if they can't find one of the twenty prebuilt structures or a village every 3 chunks. If you don't spawn within eyesight of a village it's a worthless seed to them

okay where do you get the idea to light it with flint and steel?

The PS3 and Xbox 360 version had a physical release.

You leave it out for a rainy day so it can get hit by lightning
If you build it in a snow biome you can get fucked

There is a high chance to get a fire charge or flint and steel in the ruined portal chest. Plus the fact that there is lave surrounding the portal it's not a huge leap of logic to think you might need to activate it with fire.

you find a partially built one in the wild dude

That's the whole point. If you didn't figure out how to build this, you weren't part of the cool gang.

Just make the first movie a survival movie in the same vain as something like Hatchet and then implement the nether in the second movie.

Who the fuck played Minecraft blind? There's tutorials and shit now I'm pretty sure, I haven't played it in over a decade, but OG Minecraft didn't explain shit. Like, not a single mechanic whatsoever. Even learning how to make a crafting table.

Play pre 1.12 Java Edition with recipe book

punch a bunch of woods

Get a crafting table and a bunch of sticks

Stuck

HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO CRAFT A PICKAXE?

with

without

everything important in minecraft was already there 10 years ago

Gamefaqs

nigga you wouldn't even be able to build a pickaxe if you weren't spoiled

minecraft has always been a wiki game, deal with it. the game just is, it never teaches you anything. how the hell were you supposed to learn to make a crafting bench? how were you supposed to learn anything? it is literally all wiki shit.

Spoiled.

Notch literally designed the game around people looking shit up online and sharing info. I remember when he used to post here (remember when "woo, Anon Babble" was on the splash screen?), and he was anti putting tutorials in the game because he figured people would just consult the wiki anyway.

A giant ass of time passed, figuring the missing block was easy about the flint and steel no idea.

also

without the internet

Nigga, we've been in the "just look it up online" era for the last 20+ years now, you're not supposed to learn everything within a game standalone anymore, and before that it was the "buy a guide, read the instruction manual, or talk to friends at school" era. If you can't figure shit out, you might be stupid.
Also Mojang eventually caved a bit and half-assed a "fix" by throwing ruined portals everywhere.
As for 202X kids, they mostly learn via their favorite SMP players on Youtube.
Plus, considering probably 80% of the population under 40 has played Minecraft already, there's a high chance you could just ask a sibling or a niece or something and they'd tell you.

You needed internet access to buy the game when the update came out.

you didn't watch your favorite minecrap youtuber make a portal in episode 72 of their hundreds of minecraft playthroughs?

that's a problem with lots of indie devs. They think their game is the centre of attention and people will talk about it everywhere but if someone later on wants to play it he's pretty fubar unless some poor slave made a wiki and then the player has to spoil himself on everything
see noita

does anyone know where to watch the unfinished version? i missed it and archive.org was purged

DELETE THIS

CHICKEN JOBBY