How to escape Nether roof in Minecraft

Nether is a hellish realm in Minecraft, filled with mysterious creatures and lava. However, some of the areas are quite harmonious and brilliant at creating farms and Nether portals. One of them is on top of the entire Nether dimension, called the Nether roof. You first need to break one layer of bedrock to get on top of the roof, which is completely flat and easy to build on.

However, on rare occasions, some players might get stuck on it and not have the necessary items to create a portal to get back to the Overworld. Here are a few solutions as to how they can get off the roof.

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Ways to get off the Nether roof in Minecraft

Placing netherrack and bartering with piglins for items

Place netherrack for piglins to spawn, then barter with them for gravel, obsidian, etc., in Minecraft (Image via Sportskeeda)

If you are playing in survival mode, there are strong chances that you have several items already in your inventory. There would be a few mined netherrack and other items that could be used in the Nether specifically.

If by any chance you have netherrack and gold ingots, you can create a platform of netherrack where several mobs can spawn, including piglins.

When they spawn on the Nether roof, you can barter with piglins by offering them gold ingots. They have a high chance of dropping obsidian, fire charge, or even gravel, which can be used to create a Nether portal and escape the roof.

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Die on the block where you reached the roof and use minecarts to get items

Die on the same block where you reached the roof, then place a minecart hopper to collect items from the roof in Minecraft (Image via Sportskeeda)

Another possible method to escape is creating a tower and jumping on the same block from where you entered the Nether roof, which will only be one block of bedrock. Once dead, you will return to the Overworld. Take a minecart with a hopper, a rail, and a few blocks with you to reach the place from where you entered the roof.

Place a block beneath the bedrock block, leaving one block of space. This is where you will place the rail and the minecart with the hopper block. Since the minecart with hoppers can collect all the items through a block, it will collect all the items dropped by you when you died on the Nether roof.

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Briefly use creative mode by activating cheats

Activate cheats temporarily in a survival Minecraft world (Image via Mojang)

If there is no other way to escape the Nether roof, you might have to resort to using cheats in the survival world for a while. This can be done by going to the pause menu, entering the "Open to LAN" option, and activating cheats from there.

Once this is done, the world will temporarily allow cheats to work. You can then change the game mode to creative or spectator mode to escape the Nether roof.