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The Greatest Portal

Early alpha. Choose where each portal goes.

  • Press Use on a portal to name it and pick its destination from a list of every portal in the world, or click Pick on map and choose it on the map. No tag pairing, no portal hubs.
  • Mark one portal as your default and every portal you build afterwards leads there.
  • Leave a portal open (no destination) and stepping into it shows the map: click any portal, on the map or in the list on the left, and you are there.
  • Mark favorites: they sit at the top of every list and carry a star on the map.
  • Lists can be searched and grouped by biome.

Install on the server and on every client. All players must run the same version; a player without the mod, or with an older version than the server, is refused at connect.

How it works in play

Setting up a portal. Press Use (E) on it. The panel (drag its title to move it, its bottom-right corner to resize it) shows:

Field What it does
Name Up to 32 characters (configurable). Names do not have to be unique.
Destination list Every other portal in the world, favorites first, each with where it leads and its distance. The first entry, Open portal, means no fixed destination. Up/Down move the selection, Enter confirms; a double-click on a row does both. Right-click a row for Rename, Favorite / Un-favorite and Show on map; renaming works on any portal, wherever it is.
Search Type part of a name (or a biome) to filter the list.
Group by biome Sections per biome, with a Favorites section first; a favorite is listed only there. Click a header to fold or open that group; Expand all / Collapse all do the lot. All of it is remembered between sessions.
Default new portals to point here New portals you build lead here automatically.
Point all portals to here Points every portal in the world at this one. Shown only when this portal is your default and some portal does not lead here yet. Click twice to confirm. Admins only unless the server allows everyone.
Pick on map Saves the name and toggles, then opens the map: click a portal there or in the list.
Show on map Opens the map centered on the chosen destination, with every portal drawn.

Destinations are one-way: Home -> Swamp does not make the swamp portal lead home. Set the swamp portal's destination too, or leave it open. A portal with a destination behaves exactly like a paired vanilla portal, including the usual item restrictions.

Travelling through an open portal. Step in and the map opens on your position with every portal drawn as a portal pin. The list on the left shows favorites first, then the rest alphabetically, each with its distance; it has the same search box and biome grouping as the panel. Click a pin or a row to travel there. Right-click marks a favorite. Esc, or stepping out of the doorway, closes the map and you stay. The usual rules apply: no travelling with ore, or during a boss fight if the world forbids it.

On the map at other times. Press P while the large map is open to show every portal with the list, click a portal to center the map on it, press P again to hide them. Right-click a portal to mark a favorite.

Keys (configurable)

Key Action
E on a portal Configure it
Up / Down, Enter, Esc in the panel Move the selection, confirm, cancel
Mouse wheel over a list Scroll by a few rows per notch (configurable)
P on the large map Show or hide every portal and the portal list

Configuration

BepInEx/config/DeathMonger.TheGreatestPortal.cfg. Rules are server-synced; the rest is yours.

Section Setting Default Meaning
Rules Max Name Length 32 Longest portal name (server-synced)
Rules Open Portals Show The Map true An open portal shows the map when you step in. When false it goes nowhere, like an unpaired vanilla portal (server-synced)
Rules Adopt Existing Connections true Portals this mod has not configured keep their vanilla tag pair (server-synced)
Rules Anyone Can Redirect All Portals false Let any player use "Point all portals to here"; otherwise admins only (server-synced)
Rules Anyone Can Rename Remote Portals true Let any player rename portals from the list without standing at them; otherwise admins only (server-synced)
Keys Toggle Portal Pins P On the large map: show or hide every portal
Display Always Show Portal Pins false Draw every portal on the large map all the time
Display Hide Other Pins While Choosing true Only portals, death markers, players and pings while choosing a destination
Display Show Distances true Distances in the lists
Display Group By Biome false Group the lists by biome; the switches on the panel and the map change it too
Display Panel Size 680,600 The portal panel's size, saved when you drag its corner
Display Panel Position 0,0 The panel's offset from the screen center, saved when you drag its title
Display List Scroll Rows 4 Rows a list moves per mouse-wheel notch
Display Show Portal List On Map true The list on the left of the map
Display Auto Close Grace Seconds 0.5 Leave the doorway for this long and the destination map closes
Display Show Messages true Small top-left messages

Favorites and the default portal are yours alone and are kept per world in BepInEx/config/TheGreatestPortal/<world>-<seed>.txt.

Adding the mod to an existing world

Nothing is lost. Each portal keeps its name (the vanilla tag). A portal that was paired by tag keeps that portal as its destination, in both directions; an unpaired portal becomes an open portal. From then on names no longer pair anything: change destinations in the panel. (XPortal's stored destinations cannot be carried over: it remembers them by an id the game renumbers on every world load.)

Removing the mod later leaves the names in place and vanilla pairs by tag again.

Console commands

Command What it does
tgp_status Portal count, picker state, favorites
tgp_list Every portal with its destination
tgp_default <name> / tgp_default clear Set or clear the default portal
tgp_refresh Ask the server for the portal list again

Compatibility

Replaces XPortal, TargetPortal, AnyPortal and PortalRules; do not run it alongside them. Works with mods that add new portal pieces as long as they register them as portals with the game (most do). Custom portals' item rules are respected.

Known limitations of this alpha

  • Gamepad: the panel and the map list are mouse and keyboard only for now.
  • Portal pins on the map use vanilla's portal icon; no icon of their own yet.
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