Enhanced Portals Mod Wiki

The Enhanced Portals mod provides a highly customizable and feature-rich portal system, moving beyond the basic functionality of vanilla obsidian portals. It enables the creation of wormholes that can transport players, mobs, animals, items, fluids, and even energy to any location, whether it's thousands of blocks away, in the Nether, the Twilight Forest, or any other dimension.

These portals can be linked together on a network or configured to dial specific destinations. Unlike standard portals, Enhanced Portals do not require a rectangular shape; they can be designed in any closed, flat area.

At its core, the mod involves manipulating subatomic particles to create stable harnesses for micro wormholes. This advanced technology requires a significant amount of power to both create and maintain the wormholes, with consequences if power is not supplied.

The mod is also known as Enhanced Portals 2 or Enhanced Portals 3 and was developed by Alz454.

Portal Construction

To build an Enhanced Portal, players construct a frame using Portal Frames. This frame can be any closed, flat shape, offering significant design flexibility. Essential components like the Portal Controller and Dialing Device must be integrated into the frame.

Dimensional Bridge Stabilizer

Activating and maintaining portals, especially for interdimensional travel, requires a Dimensional Bridge Stabilizer. This is a multi-block structure that needs to be powered. A minimum size for the stabilizer consists of two levels, each made of six blocks. Once built, it must be initialized by right-clicking it with a wrench.

Portal Activation and Configuration

After constructing the portal frame and the Dimensional Bridge Stabilizer, a Location Card from the Stabilizer is used to right-click the Portal Controller, which activates the portal.

Each portal can be assigned a unique identifier or address using a wrench on the Portal Controller. There are nine choices for these identifiers, and they can be set as either public or private. Dialing Devices are used to connect to public networks, allowing players to specify a target portal.

Power Requirements

Enhanced Portals require energy to function. By default, the mod integrates with other mods that output Redstone Flux (RF). However, energy requirements can be disabled entirely through the mod's configuration file (EnhancedPortals3.cfg) by setting the I:PowerMultiplier value to 0.

Portal Frame

The fundamental building block for constructing the portal structure. These frames define the shape and size of the portal.

Portal Controller

A crucial component that must be part of the portal frame. It manages the portal's state and configuration, including its unique identifier.

Network Interface

Used in conjunction with a Portal Controller to establish connections between portals. Can be upgraded to a Dialing Device.

Dimensional Bridge Stabilizer

A multi-block structure essential for powering and stabilizing portals, particularly for cross-dimensional travel.

Modules

Various modules can be integrated into the portal frame to add specific functionalities:

• Item Module: Allows the portal to transport items to a linked portal. The receiving portal must also have an Item Module.
• Fluid Module: Enables the portal to transport fluids. The receiving portal must also have a Fluid Module.
• Energy Module: Facilitates the transport of energy. The receiving portal must also have an Energy Module.
• Redstone Module: Allows the portal to be activated or deactivated using a Redstone signal.

Location Card

An item obtained from a Dimensional Bridge Stabilizer, used to activate a Portal Controller.

Dialing Device

An upgraded version of the Network Interface, allowing players to select and connect to specific public portals.

The following are basic crafting recipes for core components:

Portal Frame

• Note: A Block of Quartz can be crafted from four Nether Quartz.

• Requires two Portal Frames to be converted into controllers for a basic setup.

• Requires two Portal Frames to be converted into network interfaces for a basic setup.

• Note: A minimum of two Dimensional Bridge Stabilizer blocks are needed to form the multi-block structure.

Enhanced Portals offers extensive visual customization options for portals and their frames:

Facades

Players can change the texture of a portal or portal frame to mimic any block or fluid in the game. This is achieved by placing the desired block or a fluid container into a dedicated Facade slot.

Custom Icons

Beyond facades, players can apply custom textures to their portals and portal frames using Custom Icons. If both a Facade and a Custom Icon are set, the Custom Icon will take precedence. Icons can be selected by double-clicking and deselected by double-clicking again or right-clicking anywhere in the icon selection area.

Upgrades

Special frame blocks can be added to a portal without the need to break and replace existing frame blocks. There is a specific upgrade available for each special frame block, excluding the Portal Controller, simplifying the modification process.

The mod's behavior can be adjusted via its configuration file, EnhancedPortals3.cfg. A notable setting is:

• I:PowerMultiplier: Setting this value to 0 will disable all energy requirements for the mod, allowing portals to function without external power input.