#acephantom

The nether is dangerous, but lots of people overestimate its danger. I've been to the nether in almost full iron (and gold boots) with no problems and I'm medium skilled on a laggy laptop.

Fight hoglins from a distance

If a ghast blows up your portal and you don't have flint and steel, you can still get out by making fire charges. The recipe is: 1 blaze powder, 1 gunpowder (dropped by ghasts), and 1 coal (dropped by wither skeletons)

Bring food! Zombie flesh isn't good to eat (and zombified piglins are hard to fight due to group aggro), mushroom stew doesn't stack (and you need bowls), and hoglins are hard to kill

If you're fighting blazes without fire res, bring a shield

If you don't use a shield against blazes, bring snowballs

If you have neither shields, snowballs, nor fire res against blazes, you're either brave, extremely skilled, or you have a death wish

If you build 2 block high spaces to retreat to and use a bow or trident, wither skeletons are laughably easy

Wither skeletons can be a good source of coal

Bonemeal doesn't work on nether wart

You can craft nether logs into sticks to use as furnace fuel

If you can't kill wither skeletons for coal due to not being able to find a fortress, or you can't find blackstone to make a furnace, but you have raw meat you want to cook, you can still make a campfire out of nether logs, sticks, and soul sand/soil

Soul fire does twice as much damage as regular fire

Use torches to light a path. Not only will mobs not spawn there, but you'll find your portal easier

Ancient debris never spawns out in the open

Netherite is awesome but diamond works just as well

Shulker boxes with netherite in them will burn up in fire or lava, along with the netherite

Build your portal inside so if it's night when you return to the overworld mobs don't spawn

Zombified piglins are terrible. If you accidentally shoot one they'll all come after you. God forbid you die or press Q and they pick up your OP netherite sword (speaking from firsthand experience)

Sleep outside your portal before going in

Leave valuables (diamonds, wither skulls, netherite scraps, etc) behind

outer layer off vs outer layer on

Me: Why?

The center head is nonbinary and the other two are male and female. The center head is in charge.

The Wither uses they/it pronouns.

The Wither is actually the god of death, but they became power-hungry, and sought to kill everything.

The Wither exists in all undead mobs, but more so in wither skeletons than anything else.

It is the one who raised them from the dead.

The wither skeleton skulls and soul sand structure is actually a mortal vessel the Wither can temporarily project themself into. The bond is broken if the vessel is killed. The Wither itself, however, can't die.

Wither skeletons are created either when a player, zombie, husk, drowned zombie, skeleton, or stray die of the wither effect, or when a skeleton is affected by the magical properties of the Nether Fortress.

The wither effect causes the skin to shrivel up and disintigrate. The victim's blood turns black. As their skin disintigrates, their blood bleeds onto their bones, permanently staining them black. If it is a skeleton who dies of the effect, an excess amount of black blood is produced, which bleeds onto their bones, permanently darkening them.

The souls of the damned are trapped for eternity in the sands of hell.

Heaven is a barren wasteland, taken over by a dragon.

Hell most likely wasn't always so hellish. Basalt is formed by rapidly cooling lava. The basalt deltas are said to be volcanic remains. Something happened to make the nether so hellish.

When the sands of hell combine with black skulls of death, a bloodthirsty beast emerges. This beast will try to destroy anything that is living, from cute sheep to hostile blazes.

Ruined portals. The stone of hell surrounds them even in the overworld. Something was probably trying to escape, most likely during the event that superheated the nether.

What unspeakable acts did the illagers commit to cause them to be shunned by the villagers?