



About The Between
The Between is a mod that introduces customizable portal-based fast travel, allowing players to create and link their own teleportation networks.
Ruined Portals and Keystone
Ruined Between portals can be found scattered across all 3 dimensions, being rarest in the Overworld and most common in the End. These structures contain valuable loot, including the key material used to build your own portals, Keystone.
Keystone is a durable block that can only be broken using diamond-tier tools, it can however be engraved using any tool and its main use is being the primary material for constructing Between Portals.
Building Between Portals
Between Portals are similar to Nether portals, but with with some key differences:
- Minimum size: 2×2 (instead of 3×2)
- Can be built vertically or sideways
- Need to have their 4 corners engraved
Some possible portal configurations.
Linking Between Portals
Portal linking is based on engravings, two portals automatically connect when their corner carvings match. Portals can only link within the same dimension.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 the_between-1.0-alpha.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.5 MB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.