Nether Fortresses Are Extremely Rare
In the 1.16 nether update release (and previously, its beta versions), nether fortresses are extremely rare. On average, /locate outputs a fortress that is 600-800 blocks away, often even farther. This is opposed to the fortress generation in 1.14 and every other version for that matter, where about 90% of the tests I have done resulted in a fortress within a few hundred blocks or less. Fortresses have been made extremely rare now, even rarer than bastions, which is absurd considering their not great loot and the fact that they are necessary for beating the game.
Linked Issues
is duplicated by6
MCPE-88593Nether Fortresses are too rareDuplicateMCPE-116400Horrible Spawn RatesDuplicateMCPE-120889Fix nether update when i go into the netheer i can never find nether FortressesDuplicateMCPE-138543nether structure does not appearDuplicateMCPE-153895Fortresses and bastions tend to be much farther apart/much farther from spawn than in Java EditionDuplicateMCPE-177665Nether Fortress Spawns Too Rare and Far AwayDuplicate
Created Issue:
Nether Fortresses Are Extremely Rare
In the 1.16 beta versions, nether fortresses are extremely rare. On average, /locate outputs a fortress that is 600-800 blocks away, often even farther. This is opposed to the fortress generation in 1.14 and every other version for that matter, where about 90% of the tests I have done resulted in a fortress within a few hundred blocks or less. Fortresses have been made extremely rare now, even rarer than bastions, which is absurd considering their not great loot and the fact that they are necessary for beating the game.
- Unresolved
- Open
- Unconfirmed
- Windows
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
- 1.16.0.68 Beta 1.16.0.67 Beta
In the 1.16 nether update release (and previously, its beta versions), nether fortresses are extremely rare. On average, /locate outputs a fortress that is 600-800 blocks away, often even farther. This is opposed to the fortress generation in 1.14 and every other version for that matter, where about 90% of the tests I have done resulted in a fortress within a few hundred blocks or less. Fortresses have been made extremely rare now, even rarer than bastions, which is absurd considering their not great loot and the fact that they are necessary for beating the game.
![[Mod] GoldenHelmet](../../../data/avatars/users/18951.svg){kind=small}
is duplicated by
![[Bot] Arisa](../../../data/avatars/users/43007.png){kind=small}
![[Mod] OcelotOnesie](../../../data/avatars/users/43220.png){kind=small}
is duplicated by
![[MCQA] Kinga Izdebska](../../../data/avatars/users/18949.svg){kind=small}
is duplicated by
is duplicated by
is duplicated by
relates to
relates to
is duplicated by
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in MCPE-84455, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
If you haven't already, you might like to make use of the search feature to see if the issue has already been mentioned.
Quick Links:
📓 Bug Tracker Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Mojang Support
📓 Project Summary – ✍️ Feedback and Suggestions – 📖 Game Wiki
– I am a bot. This action was performed automatically! Please report any issues in Discord or Reddit
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in MCPE-65762 and MCPE-84455, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main tickets it would be appreciated.
If you haven't already, you might like to make use of the search feature to see if the issue has already been mentioned.
Quick Links:
📓 Bug Tracker Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Mojang Support
📓 Project Summary – ✍️ Feedback and Suggestions – 📖 Game Wiki
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in MCPE-84455, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
If you haven't already, you might like to make use of the search feature to see if the issue has already been mentioned.
Quick Links:
📓 Bug Tracker Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Mojang Support
📓 Project Summary – ✍️ Feedback and Suggestions – 📖 Game Wiki
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in MCPE-84455, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
If you haven't already, you might like to make use of the search feature to see if the issue has already been mentioned.
Quick Links:
📓 Bug Tracker Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Mojang Support
📓 Project Summary – ✍️ Feedback and Suggestions – 📖 Game Wiki
![[MCQA] v-magwar](../../../data/avatars/users/18935.svg){kind=small}
The fortress issue is already logged as MCPE-84455.
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in MCPE-84455, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
If you haven't already, you might like to make use of the search feature to see if the issue has already been mentioned.
Quick Links:
📓 Bug Tracker Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Mojang Support
📓 Project Summary – ✍️ Feedback and Suggestions – 📖 Game Wiki
– I am a bot. This action was performed automatically! The ticket was resolved by one of our moderators, and I left this message to give more information to you.
This may have the same underlying cause as MCPE-84455, or a similar cause.
Steps to reproduce
- In both Bedrock and Java, create a world with 1.21 experiments enable, and use the seed from Bedrock's "Bamboo Forest" template. (Seed: 835314931)
- /locate structure trial_chambers
Expected result
Trial Chamber found about the same distance from the player.
Observed result
Nearest Trial Chamber to spawn is almost 3x farther away in Bedrock (1051 blocks vs. 369 blocks).
I was trying to locate a trial chamber but it didn't find any nearby
dupe of MCPE-84455
Thank you for your report!
We're tracking this issue in MCPE-84455, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
If you would like to add a vote and any extra information to the main ticket it would be appreciated.
If you haven't already, you might like to make use of the search feature to see if the issue has already been mentioned.
Quick Links:
📓 Bug Tracker Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Mojang Support (Technical Issues) – 📧 Microsoft Support (Account Issues)
📓 Project Summary – ✍️ Feedback and Suggestions – 📖 Game Wiki
– I am a bot. This action was performed automatically! The ticket was resolved by one of our moderators, and I left this message to give more information to you.
This is driving me crazy, I hope they fix this. I spent two hours searching for a fortress in 1.16 with my friend in survival. It never used to take this long.
1.16.2 it's still the case.
This completely ruins the fun of building bridges linking fortresses together. I spawned a world with one fantastic fortress, then spent 2 hours looking for another in any direction, flying in creative, tunneling through netherack & bassalt, & never found one. Found lots of bastions though.
A second world yielded 2 fortresses & 7 bastions in the same allotment of time.
Updated to include 1.16.40 hotfix
Are you sure this is a bug? It may be set to be rare.
Still an issue in 1.19.63. Fortresses an bastions are both uncommon and crucial to gameplay. Bastions are going to be more important due to Netherite Upgrade Templated being added. Nether quadrant sizes and structure spawning probabilities needs to be brought to parity before the release of 1.20.
Quadrants for fortress and bastion spawning are much larger in Bedrock than in Java, being 480×480 blocks and 432×432 blocks, respectively.
Fortress spawning chance is also lower, from 40% in Java to 33.33...% in Bedrock.
This leads to fortresses and bastions being VERY far away from spawn. A rough average distance to the nearest fortress would be 600 blocks from spawn on bedrock, in my experience, and about 300 in Java. I plan to do precise statistical calculations soon.
This makes obtaining blaze rods and reaching The End much harder. The early game in the nether is much more difficult as a direct result of this. I have stopped playing many survival worlds due to lack of access to a fortress. This harms player retention, so it needs to be brought to parity soon.