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I started a survival multiplayer server for Minecraft, but it's behaving weird when dealing with the nether.

Portals don't seem to work, so I switch to and from the nether by toggling the server property hell. I first tried making a world outside of the nether, but when I switched to the nether it was devoid of blocks except an adminium floor. I made another world starting in the nether but when I switched to the real world I spawned deep underground with no path to the surface.

Is there any way to get portals and the nether to work in multiplayer like they do in single player?

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To answerer's: notch.tumblr.com/post/5136312534/fixing-bugs-enabling-nether. This question is probably invalid now. – Sadly Not May 4 '11 at 19:13
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not invalid, per se, but the answer will change with 1.6. Right now, the answer has become "We'll know more when 1.6 hits". – Raven Dreamer♦ May 4 '11 at 21:43
Portals now work and this question no longer is relevant to Minecraft. – badp♦ Jun 6 '11 at 23:16
Did that deserve a -1? :( agree on the close though. – Sadly Not Jun 8 '11 at 0:10

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Unfortunately, the Nether just doesn't really work in SMP. You only get one world in your save file. Theoretically, turning this setting on with an already-existing map should cause any newly generated chunks to be Nether-themed, however, the whole thing is extremely buggy, and switching back and forth on the same save will likely just make a mess of the world, as you have seen.

You may have some luck starting with a Nether world and sticking with it, but you'll then only have access to Nether resources.

My advice is to just be patient and wait for Notch to release the real Nether-in-SMP functionality. It's futile tying to force it to work when the code isn't there.

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I was super-pumped that some form of SMP was working and desperately wanted a hell world too. But advice taken, even though I can transition between worlds (after some tinkering) I'll stop playing with it in case I scramble things. Thanks. – Sadly Not Nov 19 '10 at 17:25
Noch has said (this is all from the machininama live stream) that the neather requires another instance of SMP to be running. One thing he would like to do is use portals to let players hop from server to server. – Scott Chamberlain May 3 '11 at 15:57
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Start your world in Singleplayer, make a portal (and use it), then move that world file to where it can be used by your server. This way, you will be able to have both dimensions in the same world, although you will not be able to travel between them in SMP.

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That's a great idea! Thanks for your input, at least when the nether works I shouldn't need to make a new map for the server. – Sadly Not Feb 10 '11 at 19:15
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There is a way but you need to use an alternative server. A custom server called Bukkit is very powerful and you can easy add plugins onto it. Follow the tutorial in the following link to quickly set up a bukkit server. http://wiki.bukkit.org/Setting_up_a_server

Simply download the server and run a .bat file to start it up and from there it'll act like a normal server. What you do next is install some plugins to enable the nether. I'm having trouble remembering the name of the plugin I use to use for nether, here is a complete list of bukkit plugins however. http://plugins.bukkit.org/#ti=&ta=all&au=

I'd recommend Bukkit Essentials, it's a group of plug ins that covers everything you'd need (besides the nether) in a normal server.

Sorry I can't type a better response with the time I have now.

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FYI there are nether plugins for bukkit, e.g. Nethrar – Zommuter May 19 '11 at 6:39

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