Minecraft wiki entry for Building_a_metropolis, associated text: Nether City: Build your city in the Nether. Use materials found in Nether, such as nether bricks, red nether bricks and warped and crimson planks. You can also build the city around a nether fortress or bastion remnant, using the structures as the basis of your city. You can have piglins living in this city. Farm hoglins for food and use striders for mounts. Use lava, glowstone and other materials naturally found in Nether for illumination.