Minecraft Distance Calculator

Take the Overworld coordinates of the place you want to reach, divide X and Z by 8, and build a portal at those coordinates in the Nether. Leave Y alone. The calculator above does the division and hands you a /tp command so you can fly straight to the spot in creative mode.

Links go wrong when a portal already exists near the destination, because the game reuses a nearby portal instead of making a new one. If a link keeps snapping to the wrong place, break the offending portal, or move your new one further away and try again.

Only the two horizontal axes are compressed. The Nether is one eighth the width and one eighth the depth of the Overworld, but it is the same height, so your Y stays exactly as it is when you step through. The calculator passes Y through untouched for that reason.

The practical catch is the Nether roof at Y 128. An Overworld position at Y 200 has no Nether twin below the bedrock ceiling, so the number the tool shows is honest rather than useful. Pick a Y you can actually build at, usually somewhere between 32 and 120.

Yes. The coordinate ratio is 8 to 1 on both Java and Bedrock, and Y is unscaled on both, so every number this tool produces is correct on either edition. Nothing in the conversion itself differs between them.

What does differ is how far the game looks for an existing portal once it has converted your position, which is why the same pair of portals can link differently on the two editions. If a link behaves oddly on one and not the other, that search behavior is the reason rather than the ratio.

A chunk is 16 blocks by 16 blocks, and a region is 32 chunks by 32 chunks, which works out to 512 blocks square. Region size is the one that matters when you are pruning a world, because each region is a single .mca file on disk.

Both appear in the table above, so you can enter a distance in blocks and read off how many chunks and regions it spans. Render distance is measured in chunks too, so a render distance of 12 is 192 blocks of loaded world in every direction.

Yes, that is the scale Mojang has always used, and it is what the game's own distance statistics assume. Treating a block as a meter is what lets the table above give you kilometers and miles, so a thousand block walk is one kilometer, or about 0.62 miles.

It is a convention rather than a physical law, and player height does not quite agree with it, but every distance figure in the game and its statistics screen is built on it. For timing a trip rather than measuring it, the Minecraft Time Calculator converts ticks and day cycles, and the Time Converter handles game ticks alongside ordinary units.