LEGO Minecraft 21143 The Nether Portal

LEGO Minecraft set 21143, The Nether Portal, depicts a scene built around a Nether portal from the Minecraft universe. Released in 2018, it belongs to the Minecraft theme and includes 470 pieces for a recognizable play setting.

The Nether Portal turns one of Minecraft’s distinctive travel points into a LEGO Minecraft build. Within the theme, it represents exploration, movement between environments and encounters with hostile creatures, while keeping the block-based visual language associated with the game.

The build focuses on a compact setting with recognizable Minecraft styling rather than realistic landscape detail.

It suits play scenes set in the Nether, a Minecraft display, or a collection organized around locations and creatures from the game. Among Minecraft sets, it functions as a transition scene, linking a familiar world with a more dangerous dimension.

Inventory of set 21143

The inventory of set 21143 lists 470 pieces, spare parts excluded: 147 different lots (one shape in one color) for 91 part shapes. The box also contains 24 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 21143

Main color: light bluish gray, making up 17% of the parts, followed by white (15%) and dark red (13%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 21143

79 of the 91 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 21143

2 part shapes in set 21143 appear in no other set in the catalog, most often printed elements, stickers or molds specific to the model. If one gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 3 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

Rebuilding set 21143 from another set

Share of the parts of set 21143 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 36%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 21143 within its line

With 470 pieces, set 21143 ranks #53 out of 155 Minecraft sets in our database, which have an average of 393 parts. Among the 457 sets released in 2018, it ranks #98.