TheGreatestPortal

The Greatest Portal

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.
• Take a detour: hold a key as you step in to go somewhere else just this once, leaving the

portal's own destination alone.

• Lists can be searched and grouped by biome.

Install on the server and on every client: a player without it is refused at connect, and so is a

server without it. Versions do not have to match. Each side declares the oldest version it can

still talk to, which has been 0.1.0 for every release so far; a release that changes what the two

sides say to each other raises that floor and says so in the changelog.

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. |

| Star beside the name | Marks the portal you are standing at as a favorite; click again to take it off. Takes effect at once. |

| Destination list | Every other portal in the world, favorites first, each with where it leads and its distance. Above it sit Recents (the portals you most recently traveled to or from), Others' Recents (where everyone else has been lately) and Recently Created (the newest portals), 5 each by default. A star at the end of every row marks a favorite and flips it: filled for a favorite, hollow for not. 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 Travel here now, 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 the default setting, then opens the map: click a portal there or in the list. |

| Travel here now | In a row's right-click menu: travel to that portal right now. The portal you are standing at keeps its own destination. |

| 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.

Traveling through an open portal. Step in and the map opens on your position. It is the map you

already know, with everything you normally see on it, and every portal drawn on top as a pin. The

portal under the pointer grows and lights up with a halo in its own color and shows its name, so you

can see what a click will do; hovering a row in the list lights up that portal's pin too. With

TheGreatestMap installed the pins wear the color it gives portals, pulse and all; without it they

are white, as vanilla pins are. The list on the left starts with your recent portals, then favorites, then the rest

alphabetically, each