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Portal Activation

Customize how Nether portals are activated by configuring the required activation item.
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Portal Activation

Portal Activation gives you full control over how Nether Portals are activated. Require a specific item, consume it on use, unlock activation permanently, or disable portal activation entirely. Designed for vanilla+, modpacks, adventure maps, and custom progression.

Features

  • Require any item or item tag to activate a Nether Portal.
  • Optionally consume the required item.
  • Unlock portal activation permanently after the first successful use.
  • Disable Nether Portal activation completely.
  • Block activation from Flint & Steel, Fire Charges, lightning, or any other fire source.
  • Configurable failure messages.
  • External language files located in the config folder.
  • No external dependencies.

Example configuration

# Completely disable Nether Portal activation
disable_portal_activation=false

# Item required to activate a portal
required_item="minecraft:nether_star"

# Consume the item after successful activation
consume_item=true

# Only require the item once per player
unlock_forever=false

# Show a message when activation fails
show_message=true

# Prevent activation from lightning
prevent_lightning=true

# Prevent activation using Flint & Steel
prevent_flint_and_steel=true

License & Permissions

This mod is licensed under All Rights Reserved.

You may:

  • Include this mod in public and private modpacks.
  • Use this mod on public and private servers.
  • Create addons or datapacks that depend on this mod.
  • Showcase this mod in videos and livestreams.

You may not:

  • Redistribute this mod as a standalone download.
  • Reupload this mod to other websites.
  • Modify and redistribute this mod or its assets without permission.

All other rights are reserved.

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