Minecraft Nether features that deserve rework and improvements

While Minecraft's Overworld shares many similarities with our real world, such as animals and biomes, there are two other dimensions with elements related to a fantasy setting. When entering the game, players first spawn in the Overworld, a peaceful dimension with many friendly creatures and peaceful biomes.

After progressing a little, they can head to the second dimension known as the Nether, which resembles the concept of hell as imagined by many. Navigating through the lava-filled terrain of the Nether is already challenging enough, but players must also fight off terrifying and strong mobs, making their journey even more dangerous. There is no point in avoiding the Nether as it's a necessary part of the game.

Every player must visit the Nether dimension at least once to find useful resources for reaching the End dimension. Other than that, the Nether dimension does not have a significant role in beating the game. With some rework, Mojang can improve the Nether dimension further and make it more fun for players.

Note: This article is subjective and reflects the views of the writer.

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4 Minecraft Nether features that can use an update

The Nether dimension (Image via Mojang)

Many Minecraft fans enjoy exploring the challenging Nether dimension for its rare and exclusive resources such as breeze rods, wither skeleton skulls, and beautiful Nether trees. However, the lack of new content has shifted the average player's focus from exploring for enjoyment to simply farming resources required to get to the End dimension. To reach the End realm and beat the game, players only need to get breeze rod from the Nether and rest of the items are available in the Overworld.

Despite the 1.16 Nether update introducing numerous features, they have grown stale and repetitive after being explored for the past four years. Many fans recognize this issue and have expressed their concerns through Reddit posts about the need for a Nether dimension overhaul update.

Here are a few features of the Nether that desere a rework in a future update:

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1) Nether Wastes

Nether wastes (Image via Mojang)

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2) Nether Fortress

A nether fortress (Image via Mojang)

Although it is the original and first Nether structure, and arguably the most important one, the nether fortress has not been updated since the 1.4.2 Pretty Scary update in 2015. Apart from adding loot chests and allowing fortresses to spawn in any biome, there have been no major changes.

The nether fortress is crucial for most players as it is the only place where blaze mobs can spawn, which drop blaze rods, a main ingredient for reaching the End dimension. Given its importance, updating this structure could really enhance the Minecraft experience.

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3) Mobs

Zombified piglins and a ghast in the nether (Image via Mojang)

The Nether mobs have remained unchanged for years, and if a future update created to expand the dimension were to release, introducing new mobs with it is necessary.

While the sought-after release of a Nether boss mob remains uncertain, adding one like the Warden to the hellish dimension could introduce new dynamics to playthroughs and encourage more players to explore.

The current state of the Nether sees most of its existing mobs not worth farming, as the risks often outweigh the rewards. Introducing a couple of new exclusive and unique mobs with valuable drops would undoubtedly draw more players to this fiery dimension.

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4) Ancient debris generation

Ancient debris in Minecraft (Image via Mojang)

For being one of the strongest and necessary items for crafting Netherite armor, equipment and items, the ancient debris is just not rare enough.

Players can get a bunch of ancient debris by simply placing TNT blocks in a few gaps through a tunnel and exploding them to create a line of explosions that will blow up useless blocks and reveal ancient debris. This mining method works perfectly as ancient debris are explosion-resistant blocks.

To make ancient debris harder to get without changing effective mining techniques, a solution could be to reduce how often it generates in the game.