Tutorials/Hardcore Nether Only Survival

Nether Only Survival, is a simple but yet interesting challenge, that makes you do obscure work arounds and learn intriguing details about the nether. The rules are simple, you must start yourself in the nether, you should be in hardcore, and you can never go back to the overworld.
==Setting up==
*Start by creating the world in Hardcore mode
*Open the world to LAN and enable cheats (allowing you to go in creative)
*Set yourself to creative and create the portal to the nether
*Go through the portal, destroy it, and delete all the items in your inventory
*Set yourself back to survival (Leave and rejoin the game to disable LAN)
==Tips==
*In the beginning, do not run or do anything that will take much hunger, at first it'll be a struggle to find a sustainable food source
*Stay away from Soul Sand Valley biomes, they spawn skeletons which are very dangerous to fight out in the open while slowed
*Pick up everything that seems to be useful, including mushrooms which can be turned into mushroom stew
*Don't fight Ghast until you've acquired a bow other then that they're an unnecessary risk to fight.
*Remake your world until you spawn in (or near) either a Warped Forest or Crimson Forest
*Get Gold Armour as quickly as possible
*Don't mine any gold while near Piglins (Even if you are wearing gold armour) they will aggro
*Have a lot of blocks due to the nature of the nether, you'll have to use them to avoid enemies or maneuver around the nether terrain
*Safely obtain pearls from enderman, you'll be able to use them in risky situations
==Getting Started==
===Finding a nether forest and obtaining wood===
A easy enough task in the latest versions. There are two biomes you can get wood from, either the Warped Forest or the Crimson Forest. These biomes have some specific spawns and materials that we'll need. Depending on which biome you find first, you'll need to take necessary precautions, if you find a crimson forest then you'll need to pick up and stay around warped fungi these can be used to discourage the Hoglins from attacking you when they are near you. Another precaution to take while in the crimson forest are the Piglins make sure to avoid or hide away from them until you get gold armour. If you find a Warped Forest make sure you are looking towards the ground to not mistakenly look at an enderman. After taking these precautions, go ahead and grab some of the logs from the trees, and make some wooden tools (pickaxe and axe).
====Necessary materials to collect in the nether forest====
*Grab a handful of warped fungi
*Safely kill enderman for their pearls, these can be used in emergency situations
*Safely kill hoglins for their pork chops and leather (To safely kill them DON'T BUILD UP, they can sometimes hit you even if you are 3 blocks high, dig down and trap them in a hole then hit their feet)
===Obtaining Armour and Cobblestone substitute===
====Getting Cobble====
After going through the nether forest, you should have enough wood to go off and explore. Keep your eyes out for blackstone, this acts exactly like cobblestone, it spawns in basalt deltas biomes and bastion remnants. Once you get blackstone upgrade your tools to stone and make a furnace allowing to cook food like porkchops. You can also get blackstone from piglin bartering.
====Getting Armour====
Look out for nether gold while you walk around the nether. This ore will drop gold nuggets when mined with a wooden pickaxe or higher. You can make gold nuggets into gold ingots allowing you to craft your very first piece of armour. Try not to mine nether gold while around piglins as this will aggro them even while wearing gold armour.
== Survival Tricks ==
These are different from your average tips and will explain creative methods that'll make your life easier
=== Early gold/food farm ===
* Farming gold and rotten flesh from Zombified Piglins. The method to kill hordes of Zombie piglins is pretty simple. 
* Obtain gravel by finding it naturally throughout the nether, once you have at least 2 pieces of gravel
* Dig a 2 block deep hole. 
* You then hit a Zombie piglin agro`ing all zombie piglins around you
* Run towards the hole you made and block up 3 times next to it. 
* Crouch over the edge allowing the Zombie piglins to fall into the hole
* Drop the gravel into the hole suffocating all the piglins
* Tips: Make more than one hole, sometimes when suffocating the zombie piglins they'll jump out of the cramped space. Also sometimes it takes a while for all the zombie piglins to get to your hole
=== Faster Exploration ===
* Craft a rod
** Get string by bartering with piglins
** Get sticks from planks
* Obtain a warped fungi
* Craft a warped fungus on a stick
* Use that ride on striders, now you can move quickly on top of lava without needing to waste hunger
=== Villager Trading ===
One of, if not the most important task in the entire progression. But of course, its luck base. It opens basically to almost all vanilla items and allows you to progress much easier.
* Open up a village finder site, make a duplicate of your world by using its seed, and in that world go to the village and find a proper spot to put a nether portal. (Try to find a spot where villagers walk by like in front of houses) (Remember to make sure the nether portal can actually spawn at that place)
* Once you find that spot, take the coordinates and divide the Z and X by 8.
* Go back to your original world and go to the divided coordinates (in the nether of course)
* At those coordinates you will place a nether portal. (Tip: Experiment in your copy world first to figure which orientation to place the portal and also to run trials to see if the place is a good spot)
* Once you do that, you'll throw items inside the portal which will load the chunks in the overworld (Throw an item in every 20 sec - 1 min)
* The hope is that a villager will wander through the portal in that loaded chunk.
* Once you get two villagers try to get the sticks trade for emeralds, and then the other villager you want to get a trade that gives carrots, potatoes, or bread. Once you get those trades you'll start breeding the villagers with the carrots, potatoes and bread.