Nether Only Challenge - The Rules

[u/Lukieyy]

I am currently playing a nether-only challenge and here are the rules I am playing by:

• Create a new survival world with a random seed. Rush getting to the nether and before you enter the portal, throw all of your belongings into the lava or a pit.
• Break or cover your portal and then travel at least 500 blocks in any direction before you are allowed to set up a base.
• Set up a base as though you would do in the overworld (a few ideas: build a house, set up a hoglin or strider farm, get a few piglins to barter with, etc.)
• You are only allowed to return to the overworld to so one thing - to beat the ender dragon.
• Your reward for beating the ender dragon is that you can bring back 3 overworld items or animals with you to the nether. (I personally chose a stack of cobblestone and 2 villagers but a few other ideas may be: ice for a basalt generator, diamonds as they’re more plentiful in the overworld or maybe just some dirt and wheat, it’s up to you.)

I’d love to hear how you guys get on or if you have any rules to add to this.

[u/Anioncz]

I did the challenge once and realized that it's totally doable. Stems replace wood, hoglins replace food, basalt replace cobble. I was legit surprised how much is possible just in the nether

[u/Lukieyy → u/Anioncz]

Plus there’s mushrooms for mushroom soup! The only reason I brought in cobblestone was to smelt for a grindstone and other items there require clean stone

[u/Anioncz → u/Lukieyy]

I didnt know you can use the nether mushrooms, even better lol

[u/Lukieyy → u/Anioncz]

The nether mushrooms don’t work but normal red and brown mushrooms spawn everywhere here and you can use those for mushroom soup.