Dream Drifter (Random Teleport)

Dream Drifter

Small dream boats with a sleeping bag drift down the rivers of your world. Lie down in one, the screen fades to black, and you wake up in a boat on a river far away, in an area nobody has explored yet. When you want to go home, lie down in any dream boat and you wake up in the boat where your journey began.

No new blocks and no new dimension. Just one craftable item, and a way to see new places.

How it works

• Dream boats drift in rivers. They appear rarely, 60 to 100 blocks away, in the middle of a river that flows towards you, so they float past. They sink away when no player is nearby.
• Right-click a boat to lie down in it. Other players see you lying on your back in the sleeping bag. The screen fades to the same dark blue as sleeping in a bed.
• You wake up far away, 1500 to 5000 blocks from where you lay down, in a river that has never been visited (chunks that were never generated). If the area around you is already explored, it searches further out.
• Your first boat stays. The boat where your journey began stays exactly where it is: indestructible, saved in the world, even after a server restart or when the area is not loaded. It waits until you come back.
• Coming home: lie down in any dream boat (the one you woke up in, or another one floating by) and you wake up in your original boat.
• Every journey leads somewhere new.
• Safe: press Esc or get hit while falling asleep and you simply wake up where you were. You never wake up under ice or under a roof.

What it does NOT do

• It never changes your respawn point.
• It never skips the night or changes the weather. It is not a real sleep.
• It works day and night.
• If you die on a journey, that journey ends and you respawn as normal.

Crafting

Use the Dream Boat item on water to place one. A placed boat stays exactly where you put it (it never drifts or sinks away), and works as a start or end point. Hit a boat that nobody is using to destroy it (no item drops).

Commands (operators)

/dreamboat spawn, dream, status, home (emergency exit), forget, probe

Configuration

config/dreamdrifter.properties is created on first start, with an explanation for every setting: how often boats appear, how far the journey goes, drift speed, which dimensions it works in, and more.

Compatibility

• Only tester with, and works with Xaero’s Minimap and World Map, and with shaders.
• Uses the standard river biome tag, so rivers added by other biome mods  should work too.

Good to know

• A Fabric build exists but has not been tested in game yet.
• Boats only spawn in river biomes, so a world without rivers has no boats.

Feedback and ideas are welcome.