prompter: How can I make a nether portal in minecraft without a diamond pickaxe?

assistant: A nether portal can be build by building a rectangular frame of obsidian. The minimum size for a nether portal is 4x5 blocks. After building the rectangle it needs to be activated by lighting it on fire using a flint and steel.

Without a diamond pickaxe you cannot mine obsidian so you must obtain it by other means such as finding it in chest. Obsidian can spawn as loot in villages, ruined portals, bastion remnants or nether fortresses. One popular method of building a nether portal without a diamond pickaxe is by using a lava bucket and a water bucket. Lava can turn into obsidian if water runs over it. With careful placement of lava and water, you can build yourself a nether portal without a diamond pickaxe or without any obsidian blocks.

prompter: nice thank you! which of the methods you mentioned is the fastest?

assistant: The speed at which the above mentioned methods of creating a nether portal varies. This is because in Minecraft, the generation of all features (including villages, ruined portals, etc.) are dependent upon the RNG (Random Number Generator) function of the game. This means that sometimes, it will be faster to find obsidian from loot chests, and sometimes it will be faster to find sources of lava, water, and iron (required to craft a bucket, which is used to move the lava and water).

Within the word record speedrun for random seed glitchless any%, a nether portal is constructed via the water and lava bucket method, as this is considered the fastest method on average.

assistant: The speed of each of these methods can change depending on the world seed and your spawn position and what items you already have access to, however building a nether portal with a lava and water bucket would be more reliable and a more consistant speed as it does not depend as much on things like the world seed.  Please ask if you need help with anything else.

assistant: Which method is the fastest depends on random chance but on average using a bucket to create obsidian from lava will be the fastest. Compared to the other methods it only requires some iron which is very common and thus can be found quickly. Diamonds by comparison are more rare and will thus on average take more time to find than iron. Villages are similarly rare and in a single village there may not be enough obsidian to construct a nether portal. Of course, it's possible to find diamonds or a village full of obsidian right away; so the optimal strategy would be to focus on constructing the nether portal using buckets but to switch to another method if the procedurally generated map presents you with a better opportunity.

assistant: To make a Nether portal in Minecraft without a diamond pickaxe, you can follow these steps:

Prepare an area where you can have a 5 tall and 4 wide rectangle
Carefully pour water onto a lava piece to make an obsidian block
Carry on making obsidian until you have the 5 by 4 rectangle
Light the inside on fire with flint and steel which activates the nether portal

prompter: Ok, that makes sense. How do speed runners create their nether portals so fast?

assistant: They use lava pools and they place their water in a way that makes the lava turn into obsidian as soon as they place it. That way they can make the portal as fast as they can move the lava from the pool into the shape of the portal. Here is a video demonstrating it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd9_2KGrypI

assistant: Speedrunners in Minecraft often use the "bucket trick" to quickly create Nether portals. This involves having a source block of lava and a source block of water close to each other. The player then places the lava source block in the desired location for the Nether portal, and uses a bucket to scoop up the water and pour it onto the lava. This instantly creates obsidian blocks, allowing the player to quickly build their Nether portal and enter the Nether. By doing this, the player can bypass the need for a diamond pickaxe and create the portal much faster.

assistant: Speedrunners in Minecraft use a technique called "Nether Portal Boosting" to create Nether portals quickly. The idea behind this technique is to use the momentum from your movement to "boost" yourself into the Nether portal, allowing you to create it and enter it in a single motion.

Here's how you can create a Nether portal quickly using this technique:

Build a two-block-high pillar of obsidian, with the Nether portal on top.

Stand at the bottom of the pillar and use a running start to jump into the Nether portal.

The momentum from your running jump will carry you into the Nether, allowing you to create the portal in one smooth motion.

Speedrunners often use other techniques as well, such as glitch exploiting and optimized block placement, to create Nether portals even faster. The specifics of these techniques can vary depending on the version of Minecraft being played and the individual runner's playstyle.

assistant: In order to create a portal to the nether in minecraft you need to create an obsidian structure of sufficient size and shape. No naturally generated obsidian in the game will allow you to create a portal. You will need to pour lava sources into water to produce a block of obsidian. Toturials on youtube might help you if you struggle with knowing the exact technique to quickly create a nether portal using a bucket of water, a framework of any blocks, and a pool of lava.

prompter: is it okay to do this using a exploit  in minecraft