Simple portal/teleport mod

[SeanWcom]

Hi all, I hope this hasn't been asked or discussed. I tried searching for portal info, but most of the results are related to MystCraft.

What I'm looking for is a simple portal/teleport mod that will work with TekkitLite (or even Tekkit Classic). I run a CraftBukkit server for a small group of friends and we love the Stargate plugin. It's very simple and I don't have to teach people any custom commands. They just build up the right shape, add a sign to name it and put it on their "network", and done. I've tried to get Stargate working using BukkitForge and the instructions here, but have not had any luck.

Can anyone suggest something simple I can use to replace that (or has anyone gotten that one working?). Everyone wants to get into all the awesome mods included with Tekkit/TekkitLite, but no one wants to lose their portal networks.

Thanks!

[theprolo]

You probably got Mystcraft because it's a great alternative. You can plug in a linking book you made where you want to go to, and it'll take you there. Problem solved! It's not all books you know, Mystcraft comes with Crystal Portals.

While I admit it can take some effort to get Crystals, perhaps you could give them away(they are otherwise useless after all - perhaps a Trade-o-mat could sell the Crystal). They could set up Buildcraft or Redpower systems to select which destination they want to go to by pumping in the book of their destination, which is a whole lot more stargate(Linking book 7... Locked!).

If you still don't want that, IC2 comes with Teleporters. However, these are not free to use, and costly to set up.

[SeanWcom]

I did tinker around with MystCraft in creative mode just to figure it out (while watching a handful of YouTube vids). VERY cool mod for sure.

What I wasn't able to figure out is whether or not you could link to areas in the same "age" (or the same world). Sitting here at work I thought of something that might work, maybe you can tell me: Say I've got two points I want to link together, points A and B. If I create a linking book at each point, but put the books at the opposite point (on a stand), would they link together? If so, that would certainly be an alternative - and technically, a much cooler alternative. Just not quite as simple.

As for the crystal portals, I did watch a video about it, but didn't have time to test it out. Again, are those able to be linked within the same age? I did find some information about "Intra-Age" linking in a MystCraft wiki (http://binarymage.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ages:linking) that states:

"

Neither Linking Books nor Descriptive Books allow players to link to a location in the same age they currently occupy, without a

Link Modifier

. If you wish to use a non-Intra Age linkbook to travel to a place within the same Age, you must first link to another Age, then back to the first.

"

Obviously, I hope that we all end up with the resources to have a link modifier, but we won't have it from the start (unless I prebuild some for everyone... that's a possibility). Sorry, I'm starting to ramble now. I'll wrap it up.

Oh, and I also saw in that howto thread that MultiVerse Portals were working, but another note that said most MultiVerse stuff wasn't working - so I didn't even try that one.

[theprolo]

Perhaps you could have a link modifier at the spawn for people to use. Either that or players can create either a sort of nexus with all their linking books, or just a dimension which spawns you above a horizontal portal leading to your destination, teleporting you into that dimension and immediately out again to where you want to go. There are plenty of workarounds if you put your mind to it, but of course link modifiers would be easier. They can have some pretty useful benefits, too.

[SeanWcom]

Cool, thanks - it's definitely something that requires a bit more imagination than I'm used to. Haha! The key will definitely be getting more familiar with the mod (and all the others as well). I wish I could just convince my friends to start from scratch in a brand new TekkitLite world instead of porting over our CraftBukkit world. Oh well.