Portal Anchor
Portal Anchor fixes a niche but painful vanilla server issue: mobs can disappear after going through a Nether portal if they arrive in a dimension where players exist, but are very far away.
That can break portal-based farms, especially setups that move mobs between the Overworld and the Nether.
This mod gives mobs a short grace window after dimension travel so they do not instantly despawn just because the nearest player is far away.
Good to know
- Works server-side.
- Players do not need to install it on their client.
- Also works in singleplayer.
- Intended for portal farms and technical survival servers.
- Does not add blocks, items, mobs, or worldgen.
Commands
Operators can check and tune the mod in-game:
/portalanchor status
/portalanchor enabled <true|false>
/portalanchor grace <seconds>
/portalanchor save
/portalanchor reload
/portalanchor reset-stats
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.1.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as portalanchor-1.0.1-26.1.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 46 KB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.