cerveza_fiesta, on 29 June 2011 - 12:55 PM, said:
Also, was able to make a stable nether portal connecting to the fort in the cliffside (the one with lava pouring out the front). If you go from that fort up the stairs and down the looooong 3 block wide corridor and hang your first right, you'll see a bridge heading out over the abyss. At the end is a portal that connects reliably to Castle CF.
After reading on minepedia, I finally understand how they work (and how the divide by 8 thing works too). Portals track to the closest possible one when traveling in either direction.
- Just look up the overworld coords of your portal by using F3.
- Divide x and z by 8.
- Portal to the nether either through your own or somebody else's portal.
- Tunnel or walk to your the divided-by-8 x and z coords (y doesn't matter too much).
- Build a portal at that location in the nether.
Now if I can just figure out a way to keep pigmen from spawning I'll complete the high speed nether link for instant travel to Kanubis'.
It really is fast travel. What was easily 5 min of travel via skybridge (even with booster rails) becomes a 1min jaunt in the nether through a couple of tunnels. Neato. If everybody made a reliable 2 way portal we could start making our travel hub in the nether.
Hm. Tried this last night. Went through, came out of random portal in nether, then set out to find co-ordinates. I kind of ignored 'y', as you said it didn't matter.
Well, I built a new portal, went through - and came out of the portal under Morgoths church. Went back through, and came out of the same one in the nether!
Managed to get back into nether to give this another go, and ended up coming out of the one on the beach.
On the plus side, I seem to be crossing the map very quickly, and checking out everyone elses home portals. The down side is that not one of my trips actually got me back home.
It's like goddamn Quantum Leap.
This post has been edited by Traveller: 30 June 2011 - 10:10 AM