There should be a second kind of nether portal block available with the /give command.
This block would look exactly like the normal nether portal texture, but it wouldn't require obsidian to exist. You could place them anywhere and they would last forever.
So if you want a portal frame that's a different shape or size that the regular nether portal, or made out of a different material than obsidian, these blocks would allow you to do that.
The blocks would also be invulnerable, except to attacks from people in creative mode, so players or random explosions would be unable to disable your portals.
In survival mode these special portal blocks would not be accessible. This is mainly for map creators and server owners to create their dream portal frame designs.
Map makers can get the portal block by simply writing /give <playername> 90
Yes, but normal portal blocks stop existing if there's a block update and they're not in the proper obsidian frame. Also they're destroyed by explosions.
This would be a second portal block, identical in appearance, that can be placed anywhere and isn't broken by most things. So if you want a 10x10 portal in a round quartz block frame, or any other shape or material, this would allow you to do that.
What i meant was that map makers can build the shape of the portal and then type /give and fill in the gap with portalblocks.
They can't. Try it. You can place down one portal block, but any other one placed next to it causes a block update and makes the original portal block vanish.
No. I don't really know much about how the pocket edition handles the nether.
This is just a normal flat swirly purple portal block, just like the portal blocks already in the PC version. The only difference is these don't vanish when there's a block update, and they're immune to normal damage like explosions.
Simply something that looks visually like this, but teleports you to the Nether when you touch it.
No, this would just look like the portal already in the game. Unless you put it in a different frame, or a player tries to destroy it, they would never even know it's a different block than the normal portal.
This could easily be added in, but I don’t see why. It just seems pretty useless, sans the two examples you gave which still don’t seem like that common of a problem.
This could easily be added in, but I don’t see why. It just seems pretty useless, sans the two examples you gave which still don’t seem like that common of a problem.
Many people have talked about how they'd like to create portals in whatever shape and size they want. This would allow it.
Want a 100 meter tall portal embedded in a wall of lava? This would allow it.
And one pet peeve some people have is that the portal is always 4 blocks wide, meaning that you can't put it in a room that's an odd number of blocks wide and have it be symmetrical. This would solve that problem too.
This block would look exactly like the normal nether portal texture, but it wouldn't require obsidian to exist. You could place them anywhere and they would last forever.
So if you want a portal frame that's a different shape or size that the regular nether portal, or made out of a different material than obsidian, these blocks would allow you to do that.
The blocks would also be invulnerable, except to attacks from people in creative mode, so players or random explosions would be unable to disable your portals.
In survival mode these special portal blocks would not be accessible. This is mainly for map creators and server owners to create their dream portal frame designs.
You clearly didn't read the OP...
Yes, but normal portal blocks stop existing if there's a block update and they're not in the proper obsidian frame. Also they're destroyed by explosions.
This would be a second portal block, identical in appearance, that can be placed anywhere and isn't broken by most things. So if you want a 10x10 portal in a round quartz block frame, or any other shape or material, this would allow you to do that.
They can't. Try it. You can place down one portal block, but any other one placed next to it causes a block update and makes the original portal block vanish.
No worries! Portal mechanics are complicated.
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Nether_Reactor_Core
No. I don't really know much about how the pocket edition handles the nether.
This is just a normal flat swirly purple portal block, just like the portal blocks already in the PC version. The only difference is these don't vanish when there's a block update, and they're immune to normal damage like explosions.
Simply something that looks visually like this, but teleports you to the Nether when you touch it.
Fantastic! I would really enjoy having this.
It could just be an extra data value added to nether portal blocks.
/give player 90 1 1
No, this would just look like the portal already in the game. Unless you put it in a different frame, or a player tries to destroy it, they would never even know it's a different block than the normal portal.
^It’s not accessible in survival. Read the OP.
This could easily be added in, but I don’t see why. It just seems pretty useless, sans the two examples you gave which still don’t seem like that common of a problem.
Many people have talked about how they'd like to create portals in whatever shape and size they want. This would allow it.
Want a 100 meter tall portal embedded in a wall of lava? This would allow it.
And one pet peeve some people have is that the portal is always 4 blocks wide, meaning that you can't put it in a room that's an odd number of blocks wide and have it be symmetrical. This would solve that problem too.
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That's what I was hoping. Anything that conserves block ids is good.