You may have noticed with your recent attempts to make a river in the Nether out of water that it automatically evaporates due to the heat. Well, if you really want this and you have lots of ice at your disposal, then this might be new information.
When underground, you cannot use a bucket of water. Well, to get a river or lake flowing (this is easier in creative mode since survival mode poses more of a challenge) then dig out a ditch and fill it with ice. On the surface, ice just melts due to the properties in the game, but in the Nether it takes significantly longer. So, the solution - surround the ice with torches, and then you have your water.
As far as I can tell, the water has the same properties in this realm as in the upper world, and once the ice has melted you no longer need the torches to maintain their liquified state. You can even put the ice on the Netherrack (all the maroon matter that makes up the Nether) and it will not evaporate once you have melted it.
If you have surrounded a single cube above ground with 4 or 8 torches, once it melts, it will not flow over the torches, so you have to check up on it every once in a while to make sure that it is ready so you can remove it. The point is, if a torch is blocking the flow of water in any direction, you have to manually remove the torch before the water can flow downwards in the direction you want it to go.
(NOTE: If you want to set up a brewery in the Nether, you can still use a bucket of water to fill the cauldrons, and you can still brew normally.)
Another interesting thing to know - if you wish to simulate the upper world in the Nether (like me) then you should know that crops and plants of every shape and size need to be grown with additional materials. Bone meal (which can be used for pumpkins, melons, and wheat) will get the crops to the last or second-to-last stage of growth, creating nice fields for food while underground. When growing trees, I found the best method to be to make the trees manually, meaning taking wood and leaves and putting them up manually. I set a sapling near one of my lakes, and it still has not produced any promising results.
(REMEMBER: if you are in survival mode, you need to be very cautious of your use of these materials, and you will need at least seeds, a hoe, and sheers for this to work.)
If you are working in a big cavern, be sure to have enough coal to fill every corner with light. I am currently having trouble with Magma Cubes and Pig Zombies spawning everywhere illuminated. In survival mode, you will definitely need to have the necessary precautions to deal with unwanted enemies. I sealed up every entrance to the cave system I have going, and am still having to destroy mobs of pig zombies.
In creative mode, you can spawn villagers, sheep, chickens, cows, chicks (throwing eggs at ground), and wolves, plus whatever other monster you may or may not want to spawn in there. Livestock is obviously not an option in survival mode unless you have a mod or magic trick to dezombify the zombie pigs (though I am not sure one exists).
Keeping track of your portal is also essential if you don't want to build a new one that spawns you in the middle of desert that stretches for miles (as was my case).
Beds are just for show in the Nether. If you have made it to the End, you will notice that beds catch on fire if you attempt to get some sleep in the realm you are in. In the Nether, if you try and fall asleep, the bed and surrounding area will explode and catch fire with the same blast radius as TNT, which may or may not cause a forest fire depending on your predicament.
Any more questions? I read all the comments posted (obviously) so just leave a question and I shall leave an "Re: (insert question here)" sometime soon.
When underground, you cannot use a bucket of water. Well, to get a river or lake flowing (this is easier in creative mode since survival mode poses more of a challenge) then dig out a ditch and fill it with ice. On the surface, ice just melts due to the properties in the game, but in the Nether it takes significantly longer. So, the solution - surround the ice with torches, and then you have your water.
As far as I can tell, the water has the same properties in this realm as in the upper world, and once the ice has melted you no longer need the torches to maintain their liquified state. You can even put the ice on the Netherrack (all the maroon matter that makes up the Nether) and it will not evaporate once you have melted it.
If you have surrounded a single cube above ground with 4 or 8 torches, once it melts, it will not flow over the torches, so you have to check up on it every once in a while to make sure that it is ready so you can remove it. The point is, if a torch is blocking the flow of water in any direction, you have to manually remove the torch before the water can flow downwards in the direction you want it to go.
(NOTE: If you want to set up a brewery in the Nether, you can still use a bucket of water to fill the cauldrons, and you can still brew normally.)
Another interesting thing to know - if you wish to simulate the upper world in the Nether (like me) then you should know that crops and plants of every shape and size need to be grown with additional materials. Bone meal (which can be used for pumpkins, melons, and wheat) will get the crops to the last or second-to-last stage of growth, creating nice fields for food while underground. When growing trees, I found the best method to be to make the trees manually, meaning taking wood and leaves and putting them up manually. I set a sapling near one of my lakes, and it still has not produced any promising results.
(REMEMBER: if you are in survival mode, you need to be very cautious of your use of these materials, and you will need at least seeds, a hoe, and sheers for this to work.)
If you are working in a big cavern, be sure to have enough coal to fill every corner with light. I am currently having trouble with Magma Cubes and Pig Zombies spawning everywhere illuminated. In survival mode, you will definitely need to have the necessary precautions to deal with unwanted enemies. I sealed up every entrance to the cave system I have going, and am still having to destroy mobs of pig zombies.
In creative mode, you can spawn villagers, sheep, chickens, cows, chicks (throwing eggs at ground), and wolves, plus whatever other monster you may or may not want to spawn in there. Livestock is obviously not an option in survival mode unless you have a mod or magic trick to dezombify the zombie pigs (though I am not sure one exists).
Keeping track of your portal is also essential if you don't want to build a new one that spawns you in the middle of desert that stretches for miles (as was my case).
Beds are just for show in the Nether. If you have made it to the End, you will notice that beds catch on fire if you attempt to get some sleep in the realm you are in. In the Nether, if you try and fall asleep, the bed and surrounding area will explode and catch fire with the same blast radius as TNT, which may or may not cause a forest fire depending on your predicament.
Any more questions? I read all the comments posted (obviously) so just leave a question and I shall leave an "Re: (insert question here)" sometime soon.
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