Portal Cornerlink (Orientation Fix)
Portal Cornerlink (Orientation Fix) is a Fabric fork that restores the exit direction of Nether portals, so players leave facing the way they entered.
What it does
This downstream fork of Portal Cornerlink changes how entities leave a Nether portal. Some earlier forks used a custom portal handler that restored older logic, which made players emerge looking at the frame rather than the way they had been heading, and it also wiped and turned an entity's velocity. The fork returns to vanilla-compatible teleport handling for these cases, while keeping the corner-based matching logic of the original mod unchanged.
Minecart-based portal systems depend on this behavior, and they failed entirely under the altered handling. With the fork installed, rail-to-portal and portal-to-rail setups work again, including Nether portal chunk loader designs that rely on minecarts keeping their momentum. The mod changes no chunk loading mechanics and only corrects the behavior of traversal. Builds are published for Fabric on 1.21.10 and 1.21.11, and it runs on the server side only.
Key features
Correct portal exit orientation
Travelers come out of a portal looking the same way they went in, in line with how vanilla handles it.
Velocity preservation
An entity keeps its speed and heading as it crosses a portal, because the velocity is no longer cleared or turned during the transit.
Minecart rail compatibility
Minecart rails that feed into a portal and rails that lead out of one function properly again, chunk loaders built from minecarts included.
Corner matching kept intact
Glazed terracotta corner blocks still link portals, and mirrored portals still match as before.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Minecart portal networks
Builds that move minecarts through Nether portals rely on preserved velocity and direction to keep the rails connected.
Chunk loader designs
Minecart-based Nether portal chunk loaders depend on correct traversal to function as their builders intended.
Who it’s for: Server owners and builders who run minecart-based portal systems or Nether portal chunk loaders on a Fabric server for 1.21.10 or 1.21.11.
Questions
Does Portal Cornerlink (Orientation Fix) need to be installed on clients?
Which Minecraft versions does the fork support?
Does the fork change how portals are matched?
What the author says
Portal Cornerlink – Orientation Fix is a fix-only downstream fork of Corner Portal Linking, focused on restoring correct Nether portal exit behavior while preserving the original corner-based portal matching mechanics. Players exit portals facing the portal frame instead of their original direction
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/portal-cornerlink-orientation-fix
- Owner
- dekaNotAvailaable
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-07
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15