How to Find a Nether Fortress in 100 Seconds

A tutorial on how to find a Nether Fortress in all versions 1.9 to 1.21+ and version 26.1+ using the in-game pie chart, and find a blaze spawner by navigating through the fortress corridors. Used in Minecraft speedrunning.

This does not work on servers. You only have to rejoin the world after breaking the treasure spawner if you have previously unloaded it, as it will not disappear from the pie chart. In 1.20.2+, press F3 + 1 to open the pie chart. In 1.17-1.21.8, go to tick.level.blockEntities instead. In 1.21.9+, go to tick.blockEntities instead. In 1.18+, the render distance is a circle, which makes this trick less intuitive. In 1.17-1.20.3, reopening the pie chart does not remove unloaded blockentities, so you must relog or switch dimensions via a portal.

Music: Rubedo (Minecraft Nether Wastes soundtrack)

0:00 Setup
0:06 Opening the pie chart
0:14 Knowing if a fortress is loaded
0:19 Finding the distance of the fortress
0:32 Finding the direction of the fortress
1:07 Treasure bastion instead of fortress
1:14 Navigating the fortress and finding the blaze spawner
1:28 Optimising your blaze spawner
1:35 Balcony spawner