Finding Nether Fortresses

Well I'm in my single player world needing ender tanks, and I realised I didn't have any blaze rods. So I went to the nether (which for some reason was really laggy) and I couldn't find one. Anyone know an easy way of finding them/a different way to get blaze rods? Btw I'm on 152ngt

 

Get some sort of movement boosting ability, a jetpack and some fire resist potions and go hunting.

Alternatively, a mystcraft world with a nether fortresses page, but I think that one is fairly obvious.

 

pick one direction, any direction, dig or fly straight at level 70.

You'll find one with a statistical chance of over 70% in the next 600 meters.
(warning the numbers may or may not be made up)

 

well, you could also go the cheaty way, since you don't have GregTech.
go to a dessert, and collect some cinderpearl flowers, as they drop blaze powder.
then get a minimum stone, and put the stone and 2 blaze powder in a crafting grid to get a blaze rod, you can then macerate/pulverize/grind it to get about 4-5 blaze powder from that 1 blaze rod, then repeat the minium stone part and keep repeating this all till you've the amount of blaze rods you wanted. it's a bit cheaty, but minecraft sure can get annoying from time to time if you're trying to find a certain resource

 

My personal way of choice right now is build some MPS armor, put gliders, as well as the jump upgrade on it, and keep things reasonably light. Depending on which sets of crafting recipes you have enabled for MPS (Vanilla seems easiest, some of the parts can be a bit expensive with IC2 recipes), this can get a bit expensive iron-wise since a servo takes 10 refined iron by my count. But being able to glide effortlessly between islands and stuff is just so fun, and it makes covering distance a lot easier.

You may want to get some cinderpearls anyways, since heat doesn't dissipate naturally in the nether, and a cooling system needs 4 eyes of ender.

 

I found 4 nether fortresses without looking for them, i manully saw 1, and then mapwriter showed me the other 3 i was near. It is a really awesome mod. I think it is a lot cooler than reis, but not quite perfect yet. Its really handy at finding fortresses

 

Actually, no. EE3 has this recipe disabled by default in newer versions, such as those used in the 152 packs.

Granted, if you can set up the dev environment, you can reenable them easily enough.

 

pahimar changed that? well, I didn't know because I am still in my 1.4.7 world, but in my world the recipe doesn't work either because I thought Gregtech disabled it.

 

G doesn't really touch mods he considers too OP to be used with Gtech to begin with.

 

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the old vanilla trick yet!
From the Minecraft Wiki:
Nether Fortresses tend to spawn in "strips" aligning along the Z axis (north/south) in the nether, making them easier to find after one has already been found by simply moving north or south, keeping the X coordinate steady. This is a good method to use if you are having trouble finding Nether Fortresses Basically, if you have found one already, go along the Z axis and you will find more.
If you havn't found one, going along the Z axis will never show you one; so if you want to find one move along your X axis.

 

One of the best tips I can give you is "be lucky."

I'm not even kidding.