> Now I'm truly confused.... I was jumped by a wither skeleton in the nether near our > base camp... that's two mobs which are reported to exist only within nether > castles... but I've dug high and low around our base camp area... no castle anywhere. > > Either way, I've begun an expedition in the nether for another castle closer to > home... no luck so far. How DC found that first one amazes me given how far away it > is.
Hmm... Perhaps... yeah... remember the biome switching we got between versions back when the world was young? Maybe the nether got some of that, too.
"Nether Fortress" is a sub-biome, hidden from the normal detection methods. It is any chunk which would, when freshly generated, contain a section of a fortress. The world gen rules may have altered after our first visits, putting such an area in a place that doesn't have the structure.
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