How do I get to The Nether in Minecraft?

Solution 1:

You will need to create an upright portal, consisting of an obsidian frame, leaving an 2x3 area free on the inside and use flint & steel to set the inside on fire.

After you have set the inside on fire, the inside will change in a purple swirly portal.

just for reference, Obsidian can be made from flooding water on top of lava and mining it with a diamond pickaxe. (or if you're truly hardcode, make the obsidian in place using lava and water buckets)

Before setting fire to it

(note that the complete bottom of the portal is also obsidian.)

After setting fire to it

Solution 2:

You need to make a portal.The easiest way to make a portal is to follow these steps:

1. Try to find a cave.

2. If you find a cave,start digging and digging (down) in that cave.(RULE NUMBER 1 IN MINECRAFT: NEVER EVER DIG STRAIGHT DOWN!!

3. Try to find materials like redstone,gold,iron,coal and more.

4. IF you get lucky,you could find some diamonds...

5. Another way to find diamonds,if you find lava lakes and water lakes there is a VERY BIG chance of finding diamonds somewhere near.Everytime i find a lava/water-cave i find diamonds somewhere near.

6. Just keep searching for the diamonds.If you find 3 or more (you really need 3 or more if you want this to work), try to find the way back to your house/spawn point or something. WARNING!! Try not to fall into the lava!! ;)

7. Once you get back to your home/spawn point the make a workbench and get your diamonds and some sticks.

8. When you get to your workbench, follow these instructions: D=Diamonds S=Sticks

      D D D
        S
        S
   

9. Now you should have a diamond pickaxe. Next step is to find some obsidian.

10. You will need 12 obsidian blocks. When you find obsidian take the 12 blocks with your diamond pickaxe. WARNING: You can only mine obsidian with a diamond pick.I ts just takes a few seconds! :D

11. When you got the obsidian,you also need flint and steel, if you already have flint and steel,skip to step 14.

12. To make flint and steel you have to get flint and iron. All minecraft players know that you can get iron in caves and stuff like that. To get flint you need to find some gravel. You don't always get flint when you mine gravel, in fact you almost never get it! But just keep on mineing that gravel and you will get flint in the end.You only need 1 flint and 1 iron.

13. When you got the flint and iron, you have to melt the iron in a furnace. If you don't know how to make a furnace just go to the Minecraft wiki where you can alsol find many other information about minecraft that you need. Then you make the flint and steel like this with the following instructions: (I=iron, F=flint)

          I
           F
    

14. When you got flint and steel, go and find a place you want your portal to be on.

15. When you found a place for your portal place obsidian on the ground like this: (O=Obsidian)

         O O O O
         O     O
         O     O
         O     O
         O O O O
    

16. When you got that all set up,g et your flint and steel and light the middle up by right clicking with your mouse on the middle og the portal and light it on fire. When thats done you should have a portal.

17. Enjoy :D

P.s.I know this may be a little hard, but it's worth it :) When you get to the nether you can collect netherrack and glowstone and see lots of cool stuff!!

But remember...the nether is very dangerous...even on peaceful! It contains ghasts and zombie-pigmen if your playing easy, normal or even hard mode!!