Portal Lock: Dimension Control
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.21. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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 10 Nov 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.