World Portals (deprecated)
World Portals
ATTENTION: i strongly recommend switch to "World Portals NextGen", is more friendly, light and fast: https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/world-portals-ng
Just like the boring part of mmorpg's is having to spend most time killing mobs, the boring part of minecraft is having to spend most time travelling large distances, this plugin comes to help with that in order to get time to do all the really fun things you could do
Certainly the game offers other ways to do it like horses, boats, nether portals, etc. I acknowledge i am purist, at start i didn't want to do it but later i said "what the heck, this is a game, and it has to be fun"
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Features
- familiar way of portal creation, activation, teleporting and destruction (are like "small" nether portals)
- intended to be as much intuitive and "vanilla" as possible
- visual labels with portal name and destination
- graphic portal selection, aiming with your crosshair
- a simple way to configure selected portal through a short command
- short and colored status messages
- paged, ordered and aligned portal list with search filters
- simple and colored in game help pages
- server configurable
- localization support
Usage example
Think in World Portals as small Nether Portals that can set names and destinations to your wish, in order to use basically you could make this:
- build a vertical 3x4 "0" shaped obsidian frame
- activate it by setting portal base on fire with flint-and-steel
- when portal activates aim its "energy beam" with your crosshair (actually is illuminated water)
- once targeted, set its name by typing the command /p firstPortal
- create, activate and target a new portal in another place repeating steps 1-3
- with the new portal selected, set its name and destination to the first portal with the command /p newPortal firstPortal
- enter the new portal to get teleported to first portal, for a small "spacetime travel burn" (health cost)
- destroy a portal to deactivate, just like nether portals
- you can recreate and (re)name a destroyed portal in the same place to restore the incoming links (also useful to rotate the portal)
- you can link a portal exit to any other named portal, if don't remember the portal names use /listportals command
Commands
/portal: sets portal name and/or destination, type it while targeting a portal (alias /p):
- /portal: with no paramaters will display a brief help
- /portal name: sets the portal name, with already named portals it sets the destination specified by name
- /portal name destination: sets the target portal's name and destination at once
/listportals: list current portals, paged and/or filtered (alias /lp):
- /listportals: with no parameters will show default list: all portals, page 1
- /listportals pattern: lists portals which name or destination contains the pattern, if pattern looks like a number will display specified page
- /listportals pattern page: lists portals which name or destination contains the pattern, within specified page
- /listportals ?: with a question mark it will display a brief help
Installation and configuration
As usual, copy jar file into plugins folder and reload/restart server, config and reoad again, to config read comments on config.yml. if you wish to migrate from MyPortals please read this page
Server side configurable features are: health cost, worlds allowed to place portals, whether if portals can link to another world, destination overwriting, and all the localized messages
To Do
I like when you activate a portal, a prompt automatically appears asking the portal name like javascript prompt() popups... would be a little more friendly because would kill the need of have to write a command to name a portal, and would avoid forgotten named portals... but sadly i dont know how to achieve it, if you know how to do it please contact me
Contributions
Send me your comments, bug reports and translations, your opinions are very important to me and the plugin development, you can send me through this page, the source code of this plugin can be found on GitHub... special thanks to Ernie, sleite and all people involved in MyPortals
i am developing a new portals plugin
i realised that as each portal can have many origins but just one destination, you have to overpopulate your main town with origin portals to everywhere
this new plugin will detect the closest portal for each cardinal point (up to 4), make it them part of a "grid", and removing the need to specify destinations
in addition i think to change the activation/naming and destiny-selection way for a graphical form, removing entirely the need of commands and simplifying the gameplay a lot
can you do a bigger portals?
@djwubamonkey
... so the problem seems to be not the plugin itself but your server lag..
anyway, if you sometime got stucked jumping may help.. also note there is a little gap of air you can breathe inside portals
my players are drowning or laging out hardcore in it
@kylebellamy
you are building it on the nether? .. by default that feature is disabled since you already can build nether and ender portals
check the shape, orientation and materials of the portal.. think it like a small 2x3 nether portal ... read the description carefully, it should work
Using Spigot 1.8 and I seem to be able to create and target one portal but building the second one never activates. It lights on fire but does not convert to the water target needed to connect them.
Is this an error because of Spigot? Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
@Latamier
there is no permissions .. everyone can use world portals just like nether ones .. i made it as much vanilla as possible
I am redoing my permissions from the ground up. Is there any perms I have to set with this ? I don't see any listed..
Thanks
@monkeycluffy1
just an "error"?? .. is there any other message or clue in console?.. a stack trace or something? .. with this kind of message is not much what i can do
what version of worldportals and bukkit/spigot are using? .. what other plugins had you installed? ... pr maybe is a config problem .. watch messages in console, try to backup+delete/move/rename config files, test with no other plugins, try to isolate the problem, get more info and send me here to check your particular case .. subscribe this page to get notified
hey just gott this error on bukkit ERROR Error occurred while enabling WorldPortals v4 (Is it up to date?)
@ZionZangar
at the moment there is no event that catch entities movement, so these plugins will work only with alone players.. sorry, this is the way minecraft works
i don't know about you, but i find more practical to travel 1000 Km with this plugin than with a horse.... anyway horses don't fit in a portal as the are bigger and you could get suffocated .. anyway you can have a "stable" near each portal
this is not MyPortals ... but these logic applies to this plugin too
thanks fot your comments
Hello I used Myportals and after passage through portals with the horse I was always stuck in the ground and the horse could not see. Only redress was one that I checked out and rejoined the game. This was largely impractical. Chtekl would ask tentop new plugin allows travel between portals with horses? Sorry for my bad English :-)
@ChillerKraft
you're welcome.. i want to keep it simple .. but you can watch source code to get ideas
@AT_HE
ah true, not what i'm lookin for
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@ChillerKraft
i think i catch your idea.. maybe you want portals for that servers having a "lobby" with portals to its "minigame worlds"
... not exactly what your want but in this plugin you can select what worlds are allowed to have portals, and if is allowed to link portal between different worlds (i updated the desciption to claify) ... world portals are intended to be as much "vanilla" as possible.. in vanilla minecraft, nether/end portals can be built/used even in creative mode or by ops, however i had to put a couple commands, i tried to keep the simpliest ...
i was many time planning and writing this plugin, i want to keep simpe and need some rest... but i just uploaded source code if you want to get some ideas
thanks for sharing your toughts
i wanted a plugin like this (see here for my post a while ago for what i was thinking https://bukkit.org/threads/custom-buildable-portals.333206/ )
with world portals, i think id be able to make a runasop alias that would only allow players to create portals with specifc destinations.. like.. i could replace nether portals with this or any create portals to get to other worlds or destinations, just by making the destination portals (Nether; TNTWars; End Portal Room; i could do a lot of interesting things with this plugin similar to what i was talking about in my thread in that link
@sejpoo
done... i did improve the desctiption a little, hope did become clearer
You need to explain this better, the plugin works, but i have no idea how to make the teleportaiton work...