Ever played on a multiplayer server, built near other players and when returning from the Nether, surprisingly found yourself in another player's base? It's because of the 8:1 block ratio between the Nether and the Overworld. It's really weird though that you enter a portal in the overworld, and then when going back through where you came. come out of a different portal in the overworld. This mod fixes that issue.
It keeps track of what portals a player went through in order to ensure correct destinations when the player is going back through the same portals. This is honestly kind of hard to explain in text, even though it's a super simple concept. Here's a comparison image instead:
This mod only needs to be installed on the server (but it works in singleplayer as well).
If you are using SpongeForge, make sure to use the latest version of both this mod and Sponge! It should be compatible now.
Everytime I try to go from the overworld to the nether it says that my return portal has been destroyed and makes a new one.
are older versions still being supported for bugs? I had a weird bug happen on 1 . 7 . 10 and am wondering if it's worth reporting or not
My friend made a Nether portal and came through my portal in the Nether. 😕
In reply to Dimentive:
That's not what this mod "fixes"
In reply to Insane96:
Yes, I’ve since realized that. Our portals were too close together. 🤷♂️
Is there a way of making this work in 1.13 with Rift?
An explanation on why this happens: Nether portals have a search radius of, if I remember correctly, 128 blocks. Maybe that's diameter. But that's for *both sides*. Because of the 8:1 ratio of overworld-to-nether coordinates, while it searches the same number of blocks on both sides for a destination, it ought to have 8x as much search space in the overworld or 1/8th as much search space in the nether, but it doesn't compensate. Because of this, an Overworld-side portal can find a Nether-side portal, but the Nether-side portal can't find that same overworld-side portal to return and thus either creates a new portal or finds an existing one that wasn't the original you entered from. This mod overrides the search so you can make the return journey properly, but that's more of a workaround as if you used a different portal pair to GET to the nether it won't put you in the right spot.
Is it possible to override the search radius going only one way with Forge? If so, could someone do this? I'm shocked it hasn't happened yet.
In reply to Sunset_Moth:
In reply to Dimentive:
Yes! Looking back at this post, I explained this badly.
Short explanation: A solution for one problem that always works. NPF is a solution for two that often fails.
Long explanation:
NPF tackles issues with 2 scenarios. In both scenarios, the destinations are as follows:
A->B, B->C, C->B
and therefore you cannot ever return to A.
Problem 1 is one in which C is closer to B than A, even though A is within the range of B. Thus, you are taken to C instead.
Here's Problem 2. Portal C does not yet exist; you travel from portal A to portal B, but portal A is not within range of portal B despite the inverse being true. Therefore, because portal B does NOT have a portal in range, it creates portal C. Usually underground, and at least 128 blocks away.
My problem is that the fix only occurs when NPF knows that you wish to return to portal A, so sometimes you are taken to C (if, for instance, you travel to the nether with a different set of portals out of range of A, B and C.)
Making the nether-to-overworld search radius 8x as large as the overworld-to-nether one will always fix Problem 2, no matter what order you take portals in. You can break portal B and re-build it in the same place, and it'll work. This is my proposed solution.
Making players returning through their last portal always return to their origin sometimes fixes Problem 1 AND Problem 2, but not if they did not originally use that portal network to get to the nether, or if one of the portals was broken and re-built. This is what NPF does.
In reply to Sunset_Moth:
Oh, I understand.
If that’s possible, that would be a great improvement, indeed.
In reply to Dimentive:
In reply to Sunset_Moth:
If you have the time and dedication, you really should! I’ve been wanting to get into modding Minecraft too, but having to learn an entire programming language—not to mention the making of textures, animations, and so on—is pretty overwhelming for just a hobby. I have plenty of ideas for mods that I’d love to make, but the motivation just isn’t there for me. I tried to learn Java once, but I gave up pretty quickly. 🤷🏽♂️
In reply to Sunset_Moth:
Wouldn't it be simpler to just link a nether portal to a NEther-located Nether Portal with each player?
So say Player makes Portal A in the overworld, and creates Portal B by traversing to the Nether. Then Player B creates Portal C in the overworld, and that portal links to Portal B. For Player A, Portal B is linked to Portal A and for Player B, C.
In reply to Jokah_Mashups:
That's what this mod already does, isn't it?
As for how difficult my proposed solution is: If you were modifying the minecraft source (which AFAIK isn't possible unless you're Mojang) then it'd probably be one ternary IF somewhere; you wouldn't even have to write a new line of code, just modify an existing one! If you're not modifying the source, it depends on how much control forge has over portal searches. If it takes a radius when it does one, you could override the existing fixed radius searches with one with the ternary "if" I mentioned. If it doesn't, you'd have to rewrite some or all of the portal code for the override.
At best, it'd take more effort to get to the place in the source you need to put it than to actually write the code. At worst, it might take several hours to rewrite basically all code relating to portals to change one tiny thing about how they function. I don't really know how forge works, so I can't say which would be the case.
Awesome mod that fixes an annoying problem in minecraft. not much else to say. good job on seeing a way to make the game better!
Thanx!!!
Obsidian dupe exploit???? (Maybe, im not sure. I didn't test it out)
In reply to Raze_soldier12:
In reply to CynthianConspiracy:
Do you think you could add compatibility for the Twilight Forest mod? It is the primary reason I sought after this mod - though the Nether portal feature is still very much welcome - as that mod has the tendency to relocate the entry portal somewhere much further away from where it normally would appear, in order to avoid spawning the player in the middle of a biome not meant to be accessed until much later in the mod.
Unfortunately, while that feature is very welcome, it has the side effect of causing the portal on the Twilight Forest to lose its link with its Overworld equivalent, which leads to it creating another portal in the Overworld that matches the coordinates of the relocated portal - which is usually very far away from the original portal. (Mine was over 150-200 meters away as told by my minimap's waypoints feature, if I recall correctly.) I downloaded this mod hoping that it would fix this problem by properly linking the Twilight Forest portals just like it links the Nether portals, but alas, that is not the case.
If you do not wish to add support for that mod - which is a course of action I understand, as this is a vanilla-centric mod - could you at least instruct me how to make this mod's linking ability compatible with TF's portals?