Portal Lock: Dimension Control
Lock Nether and End portals behind items. Players must have specific items to enter dimensions. Fully configurable and server-friendly.
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“In modern Minecraft, players can reach the Nether instantly even on first login with just a water bucket and lava pool. Have you ever questioned this?”
Portal Lock is a lightweight and highly configurable Paper plugin that allows you to restrict access to the Nether and End using required items.
Perfect for servers and modpacks that want progression-based gameplay.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Features ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✔ Require items to enter Nether and End ✔ Supports walking, boats, and minecarts ✔ Items are only consumed when entering (not when returning) ✔ Fully configurable (items, amounts, sounds, messages) ✔ Supports minecraft: style IDs ✔ Chat or Actionbar display modes ✔ Per-player language support (auto-detect client language) ✔ 10 built-in languages included ✔ Reload command support ✔ Permission-based bypass system
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 Language Support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Portal Lock automatically detects each player's Minecraft language and displays messages accordingly.
Supported languages:
- English (en_us)
- Japanese (ja_jp)
- German (de_de)
- French (fr_fr)
- Spanish (es_es)
- Portuguese (pt_br)
- Italian (it_it)
- Korean (ko_kr)
- Chinese (zh_cn)
- Russian (ru_ru)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ Configuration ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Everything is configurable:
- Required items (Nether / End)
- Required item amount
- Sounds (success / fail)
- Pitch & volume
- Message display mode (chat / actionbar)
- Language mode (auto / fixed)
Supports multiple ID formats:
- GLOWSTONE
- glowstone
- minecraft:glowstone
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portallock.reload portallock.bypass portallock.bypass.nether portallock.bypass.end
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ Commands ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
/portallock reload
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 Use Cases ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Survival progression servers
- RPG servers
- Hardcore challenges
- Modpack-style progression
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠 Requirements ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Paper 1.21.x
- Java 21
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.2
- 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.
- Ships as portal-lock-1.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 13 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.