Tools and weapons from other dimensions are much less effective in the Betweenlands, prompting the player to use the Betweenlands tools. Similarly, Potions from other dimensions will become Tainted Potions. Due to the warm and wet environment of The Betweenlands, food from other dimensions rots when traveling through the portal, becoming Rotten Food.Torches from other dimensions become Damp Torches, so alternative light sources, like Sulfur Torches, must be used instead.Clocks and Compasses spin wildly, unable to function in any useful way whereas Beds, Bone Meal, and Flint and Steel do not function at all.Additionally, several blocks and items from the Overworld are nullified:

The dimension has no daylight cycle of its own, although it experiences some effects from the Overworld's daylight cycle through the periodic Rift event. The Betweenlands is so foul that Players will decay simply by living in it. After much time, a traveler (the player) found their way to the dimension. He caused the Betweenlands to become a swampy, deathly land, as it is now. The Druid himself became the Prime Wight, and he now wielded power over this dimension. However, when they opened the portal in this dimension, evil surged out into it. He and his followers worked to twist the Nether's evil into a weapon of peace. A race of NPCs inhabited it, including a powerful Druid.

But out of nowhere, a giant inter-dimensional rift appeared and energy seeped into it, giving it potential for life to populate and grow in this dimension.

During the time when the light in The Overworld had just begun to shine and the flames of The Nether had just begun to burn, there existed a dimension which is little other than a void of nothingness.

The inbetween land