NoRefundsForPortals
No more pocket portals: portals do not refund materials when dismantled or destroyed.
About this mod Author’s original text
No Refunds for Portals
A simple mod designed to discourage “pocket portals.”
What It Does
Deconstructing or destroying a portal will not return its ingredients
(e.g. surtling cores, fine wood).
Portals become permanent infrastructure rather than disposable travel tools.
Why Use This?
Adventures become more meaningful when:
- You build field camps for rest.
- You cook in the wild.
- You journey back to established outposts before using portals.
Disposable portals are still possible, but rarely worth the loss of materials.
Features
- No material refund when dismantling portals
- No material refund when destroying portals
- No configuration required
Mod Compatibility
- This mod blocks material refunds for any object that behaves like a portal
(i.e., any object with a TeleportWorld component attached).
It should therefore be compatible with mods that add portals, such as Advanced Portals.
Multiplayer
For consistent behavior, this mod should be installed on the server. However, this has never been tested in multiplayer.
Changelog
v1.0.0 — 2026-02-26
- Initial public release
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: