Minecraft: Portal Dash

Board Setup

1. Pick 2 gameboard tiles at random (see difficulty options at right). Lay them face down and adjacent.
2. Place the start strip at one end of the gameboard.
3. Place the portal strip face down at the opposite end.
4. Turn the first board tile face up (the one next to the start strip).

Resource Cube Setup

1. Place the block base near the board.
2. Build the support structure and fill it with resource cubes.
3. Set the support structure aside to use as the discard pile.
4. Place the piglin board next to the blocks.
   • Easier: Use the 3-4 side.
   • Harder: Use the 1-2 side.

Player Setup

For each player:

1. Choose a standee base and matching inventory board.
2. Take five item tiles matching the inventory board color. Place them in the top (active) row.
3. Note: leggings can be used for movement or armor, but not both.
4. Place six heart tokens on the life tracker.
5. Place one heart token on the leather chestplate.
6. Place player standee on the start strip.

Item Setup

1. Lay out the 8 Netherite items face up.
2. Shuffle remaining items face down, leaving space for a discard pile.
3. Put chest tokens in a pile next to the items.
4. Place 1 chest token on the face-up gameboard tile.

Begin Game

Objectives

WIN: Complete all of the following:

• Complete all piglin tasks to open the portal (fill the piglin board with resources; each column must contain only one color).
• Defeat the end boss to reach the portal.

LOSE: Any of the following:

• Fail to complete piglin tasks in time:
  • Task A before the top layer of the resource cube is depleted.
  • Task B before the second layer is depleted.
  • Task C before the third layer is depleted.
• The entire resource cube is depleted.
• All hearts are removed from the health tracker.

Difficulty Options

Board tiles:

• Standard: 2 tiles
• Harder: 3 tiles
• Extreme: 4+ tiles

Mob Setup

• Easier: Magma cubes, ghasts, and Endermen.
• Harder: Also add hoglins, blazes, and/or wither skeletons.

Place one magma cube, ghast, and Enderman on spawn points. Fill remaining spawn points with any mob. Line up remaining mobs in a queue and place the mob spawner marker at the head of the queue.

Boss Setup

Choose an end boss. In order from easiest to hardest:

1. Wildfire (Easy)
2. Ancient Hoglin (Easy)
3. Wildfire (Hard)
4. Ancient Hoglin (Hard)
5. Wildfire (Easy) + Ancient Hoglin (Easy)
6. Wildfire (Hard) + Ancient Hoglin (Easy)
7. Wildfire (Easy) + Ancient Hoglin (Hard)
8. Wildfire (Hard) + Ancient Hoglin (Hard)

Place boss board(s) near the game board on the chosen difficulty side. Place mob standee(s) on their board(s) and set the heart token on the boss's max health.