Have a single portal, central in your base/village that leads to a portal room further away from base. In that portal room you have portals to everywhere lining the walls, and you cram it full of comfort items and keep a box of decent food. Portal in, get rested buff while you eat your food, then head off on your adventure.
this is what we do on my friends' server. we have a portal near spawn and we all have portals to our houses since we live far away. we also have have a temp portal that currently has 6 other temp# portals that can connect to it for things like mountains and swamps for mining.
This is what I do too, I built mine under the Elder boss platform so it's raid proof and sealed off. Little main comfort area, repair stations, portals and some temporary storage for when I'm lazy, along with foods and meads. :)
I thought about that. If I were doing this in a large co-op I would name my portals V1, V2, V3 and so on. V would be for Valguy. Something simple like that.
@@valguy4u I got that - but when you are living with multiple people you kinda end up needing more by nessecity. But this method still does keep it cleaner - we were able to keep it to 4 portals in our "hub" between 3 of us (which still sucked cause we ended up needing to dedicate a room to it...) But it was better than the 15 odd locations we had portals to haha
Great video! I switched from many portals to 2-3 portals as well. Some things I do, I have a portal board with all my portal names written out so I don't forget what I called them. I also create an alt who stays in my base full time. That way if I accidentally go through a portal that hasn't "switched over" yet, I can log over and rename it easily.
I have one portal that's unnamed, so I can drop a portal if things get out of hand, and it will automatically connect to the Home portal, even if I'm kiting mobs in a circle. Once it connects, I can just jump through it.
If your not a big builder, I see this working well. However I enjoy building so having a portal room all decorated up is more fun for my style. Thanks for the ideas and explanation though!
That's awesome that you're a really good builder. I'm a builder of necessity and SUCK with imagination. The stuff you guys can make blows me away. Thanks for the comment.
Simply put you only need 2 in your base. One set to a static tag that never changes. One that you edit the tag to where you wanna go. And just drop a pin on the map with the tag ID. Need set a new portal tag here's how: Goto location and build portal shack, Then set to Static Home tag Change variable portal tag as desired. Return to sight and set tag and pin the map. Loli type all that just before your own explanation.
And now that its on Xbox too, suddenly this comment is irrelevant for half the player base. Maybe someday console kids will see the light and come over to the PC side....
Even quicker: when needing to set a portal to "Home" , let it light up, then change it back to "8" or whatever you intended then go through immediately, bringing you home, but changing the portal back in one go. Saves two of your steps. Edit: this way your "home" portal is already unlinked when you get back, and you never accidentally keep your "home" portal linked to anything.
This how I do it too. Works well. Instead of "home" I just leave a portal unconnected. That way if you have to make a portal quickly it automatically connects to my base.
Not bad. I eventally settled on a system of sequential portals, traversing my bases in order - meadows connects to forest, which also connect to swamp, et cetera, with branches off for other things located in the closest base. Dealing with the hassle of portals is why I eventually installed a mod that allows you to go from any portal to any other portal, so I only need one portal in each location.
I like the idea of expanding, growing your settlement as you explore the world, have one main portal you can always return to and then a building for your portals
A refinement to this would be to have two portals at each location. One 'outgoing' and one 'incoming'. The incoming portal is named and never changes. You leave the outgoing portal name blank. To use it you change the name of the outgoing portal to the place you want to go and let it connect like in the video. Then - and this is key - clear the name immediately before you step through. As shown, the actual connection won't change immediately but rather will disconnect shortly after you arrive, so it'll effectively send you on a one way trip. You want this because you don't want to leave anything connected to the incoming portal at your destination as that would prevent incoming connections from other locations. To return, repeat the process. Rename your outgoing portal to the incoming portal at your home location, wait for a connection, clear it and step through. There are several advantages: First you can travel from any location to any other location as you like. No need to return home or to a hub of some kind. Second it is less error prone. Since the outgoing portal is normally blank you probably can't accidently step through 'early' and end up somewhere you didn't mean to go. The only part you can mess up is forgetting to clear the outgoing name as you leave, and if you do that then you're left with an open portal back to your origin that you can use to try again. Lastly it's better for multiplayer since every time you use any portal the whole system reverts to its base state of one named and one unnamed portal at each location. If you're resource starved you could theoretically do this with a single portal at each location and just change its name back to the incoming name instead of blank before stepping through, but you have to be careful not to introduce any typos, as that might prevent you from reconnecting to that location.
About to make my first portal. This information was golden. Thank you, you saved me from doing what you said you had did. this system makes perfect sense.
The big advantage of your system is that you need half the grinding for finewood (I usually have plenty of cores and greydwarf eyes), saving on space is a close second. I've gone a while with just one portal at the home base, but your second pre-named spare nicely eliminates the risk of getting stuck (if you go in too quickly after a name change - and end up at a dead portal). The only disadvantage is you need to take some effort to rename the far end after each emergency to keep a "Home" free for the next emergency, and you need to remember what you named your portals, but those seem small compared to needing only half the materials and using only, maybe, 1/10th the space compared with if all the portals were in dedicated pairs. In practice, now, I keep ~3 dedicated pairs (I use so much that it would be too much trouble to constantly rename them), and then I use one to connect to any of the 12 others as you show here.
A lot of people keep the "home" portal I use as an emergency portal, but they don't name it. And yeah the reduction of resources is awesome Thanks for the comment
This is great for solo/single player worlds, it gets a little hectic with Multiplayer though as you either have people trying to connect to a portal network and not being able to or people needing to wait to use their portals. I like what some others have said, and what I've done once or twice, in making a hub for your portals away from or buried in your base. It's clean and still lets multiple people use multiple portals without congestion.
Whoever makes the portal names the portal with the 1st letter of their name. So my portals (Valguy) would be V1, V2, V3 and so on. Yours would be A1, A2, A3. Use the cartography table every couple of days and boom, problem solved. Thanks for the comment.
I used this method early on in my Valheim gaming, but now I use a portal hub. I just like it more. I usually build a two level, remote portal hub under the Elders platform as it comes with a free roof and built in fire. :)
Another tip might be, if you have the long boat, just leave the mats to make at least one portal in it's storage. I don't know how many times I've decided to go exploring, get way far away from base, then figure out I forgot the portal mats. So frustrating. In fact, this is a strat I just thought up, so I'm going to do this next time I log in. XD
Another thing is to not forget at least 10 wood for the workbench. I once thought I was well set with 20 fine wood, 10 greydwarf eyes, and 2 surtling cores. But if you go to a new biome and you forgot the 10 wood, you need to cut some local trees, agro mobs that can kill you, then die in a very unfortunate place. While 10 wood would have saved you so much BS.
@@justinmcleod141 I got lucky I think and have a serpent pretty close to my main base with easy meadows biome to drag to. Every night I'm not busy I head out and get some serpent stew :D Don't even bother with the scales any more, though the heads come in handy for bait. But this does remind me I have enough chitin for another harpoon, so a dedicated boat harpoon is a great idea. I've been experimenting with jumping on the serpent at the final blow to see if I can catch the goodies before they drown, but haven't been successful so far.
@@briondalion At least everything floats. I got attacked by a 2nd serpent when I had another on the harpoon, got greedy and wouldn't let go, and found out that long boats CAN be sunk. Who would have figured? :D Was a pain, but I was glad to see my stuff (and dead me) still floating in the same spot the next day. Can we all just be thankful they haven't implemented sharks?
I do a kind of hybrid of this. I like building "portal hubs" near spawn which will have like 15-20 portals, these cover locations near all bosses, a portal link to each of our bases (there are 3 or 4 of us who play together on the server) and then some other random locations. The hub usually also gets repair benches, comfort items, and dump chests so people can clear their inventories quickly and head back out. But then also if I want multiple portals on the same continent I will set them to all have varied numbers and a single portal at the hub can be used to connect to all of them (with signs of their names above it). Then to finish off I also always keep an "emergency" portal in my base for the times where I'm out raiding or whatever and decide I'd like to have a temporary portal (Infested Mine runs for example) or another portal doesn't change it's connection quick enough and I would otherwise get stuck.
After playing this game hundreds of hours I finally came to this realization and do a system exactly like yours. One thing I do as well is set up my comfort area right around this singular portal and a set of "drop boxes". This allows me to come through my portal and quickly clear my inventory while gaining a comfort buff at the same time. I set up a permanent/sorted storage close enough to go to while encumbered for when I finally feel like cleaning up the drop boxes. It's also nice to have repair station relatively close. I also keep a box of boat materials and a box of portal materials right near this singular portal for when I need to quickly make or store a boat and expand to a new portal #. My "home" portal is usually located in some out of the way location since it is only used in a rare emergency.
It took me some time to figure out this system too. Then to use it correctly (not getting stranded lol). But once I did it is one of my favorite .... not sure if its a hack, but why not, hacks I do. Thanks for the comment.
lol thanks James. If I don't edit videos I feel like they're not as good of quality. However we miss out on my natural bad luck lol. Plus editing takes forever lol Thanks for the comment.
In case you get really stuck somewhere, you can always log in to your world with another character, and rename your portal at home :) In case you do this alot, just make an extra portal at home called "sos" or something that is always kept unconnected in case of emmergency. Personally i do portals more or less like you with only 2 portals. One for fixed locations and one mobile.
I have several “backup” portals. Ask me why… I now use a hub system. My main base usually has one portal per island. (Main hub) On each island there is a smaller hub base connecting further outposts. Additionally, in my home base I have a portal named “” (default teleport back to home portal), one tmp, one Hub. At spawn and at my first stamp base I have each another backup portal… Currently, that’s enough for me.
If you are going to do that you might as well as go into console and fly home. Going to other worlds and second characters is no difference from -console.
Very good explanation, I do this as well. I also clear the active portal with a name that doesn't exist, wait for the portal to shutdown, then type in destination- no risk of transporter "uhoh". It's still good to have a "home" portal when explorations start from another portal or you want to half travel time when moving/unloading ore. In mistlands a decent spot to place portals is in the skulls that you find soft tissue in- seem to be unbreakable by anything except the dark metal pick (Gjall spit, seeker attacks don't cause damage to the skull) and it's pretty easy to set up an entry that breaks line of sight.
This is amazing!! I currently have 5 portals in my main base and was thinking I'll have to build an extension on the side to house any new portals I want.. this will be a massive time saver, thanks man.
Another option, starting with maybe core wood. Though stone looks better. Meadows biome: Leave space for portals until you need them, then place them when you need them. Compass Portal hub: Four portals in the center: Home, Hub 1, Hub 2, Hub 3. (Hub 1-3 are backup portals incase one you forget to unclog one.) First row: Five portals north, stairs, five portals east, stairs, five portals south, stairs, five portals west, stairs. Stairs lead up to a second row. Second row: Six portals north, stairs, six portals east, stairs, six portals south, stairs, six portals west, stairs. Stairs lead up to a third row. However, you can either swap one portal or one set of stairs as a downward stairs. This frees up more room to build portals for rarely visited places by building underneath the second and third rows. Third row: seven portals north, stairs, seven portals east, stairs, seven portals south, stairs, seven portals west, stairs. Build a dirt wall for defense. Maybe add a moat on the outside of the moat to be extra-safe. (Especially on sides near a hill going up, but ideally the spot would be fairly level; though I know that isn't always an option) If at any point you need to have more than 55 portals (Plus the less-used under-portals and emergency 1-3 Hub portals), build a fourth row using the stairs by building up from the existing dirt wall. Then build a new dirt wall for defense. (Or build the dirt wall first after measuring how much room the fourth row will require. If you're paranoid, like me.) You would theoretically be expanding the portal hub once at most. Don't forget to decorate your portal hub so it looks nice. :)
I do something like this, but I use them slightly differently. If I'm at portal 8, I'll change it to "home" and step back to let it connect. I then change it back to "8" and step right through. It won't have reconnected yet, so I'll end up at "home". However the portal I stepped through will now be called 8 again, ready I be used as before. Stops you from having to jump back and forth a few times, but you've got to have faith. If you get stuck, you can also log in with a different character, change the name and switch back.
I've got it down to 4 portals at my main base. 2 for normal trips to established areas and 2 for exploring called 'home' and 'home2'. I just rename the normal portals for places I want to go back to and it saves me the hassle of making space for 2 dozen or more portals. *basically I give an island a name and my portals are named accordingly with numbers to differentiate.
Personally I use a portalroom at home for locations I frequently visit, then I have one 'mining' portal which functions basically like your home portal. Only I use it for slapping down a connection when mining a skull in the mistlands, or before that to have a quick way back to the mining area from a port (from the silvervain to the nearest port, so i have an instant way back to the vein for moving the metal 'quickly'). So yeah, having one extraportal usable with retagging is very nice. But for places I frequently use, I really prefer a permanent portal and I try not to build too many actual bases. Built one temporary small shack near the spawn, built a temporary base at a black forest coast (really should have picked the meadows instead with distance to the black forest, so much more calm) and lastly one permanent base in the plains. I have 10 permanent portals and the mining portal, but I think I could cut down a bit on the portals near bosslocations as I do not visit them regularly enough.
I have a portal next to each boss named with the bosses name, if i ever want to fight the boss again i just name a blank portal and use that until im done
I do the same thing. I have a sign at the master portal you change names for, so others can see, and I label my map as well and share it. The "home" portal you have for me is just un-named. That way you can drop it and it connects instantly. Helpful when you're dying. I also tend to keep permanent portals for things I use often like portal to the farm etc
I use two way portals for each special location or base and always have some spare portals for travelling. So in my main base I usually have travel1, travel2, travel3 etc. and I try to store materials for portals in every ship I have. But recently I started a new world and totally gave up on creating bases everywhere. I just use one big central-hub with a portal building for "travel portals" and for some basic location for eg. trader. In my other world I have too many bases: a huge "town" (the main base) in the black forest with big harbor, a smaller harbor with a forge near the spawn point, an enormous castle in the mountain side a lox farm base, two smaller swamp bases (one have a quite nice harbor) and an another big castle on a hillier part of the meadows.
I still remember the double world portal hack. Made transferring ore less of a time consuming event. Just start a new world with some basic set up (house, chest, bed) and any time your portal won't let you travel due to items, you just load up your character inventory with what you want and log out. Load in your other world, dump all the items into a chest and then log out again and go back to your main world. You then travel home or wherever the portal you want to use and once there, log out again and go grab your items form the other world you couldn't portal with. It's a hassle but definitely faster than sailing in most cases.
I use a three tier system. One portal room for the main locations (farm, haldor, spawn, bioms) and if I need more than that, I build another base with a new portal room in one of the locations (second tier). For example, I've got all of my "farm portals" in my main farm. That includes Greydwarf, Draugr, Lox and Wolf farms etc. It takes more time because you need to portal twice, but usually you'd only go to these locations once in a while. The third tier is what you do: Just two portals. One home portal and one rotating portal for all the locations I'm currently exploring.
Build one portal that leads to a separate portal structure containing all portals to a direction. Have 4 stone houses set apart surrounded outside by hoe walls. Then just put 4 cardinal portals in you main base. I then put a pin with the portal name on my map incase I forget were they go. It works. I also have an untagged portal, and one named home for the situation you talked about. However, if you only plan on going to one area at a time its easy to have one home portal. You pin and name your satellite portals in the field, and just rename the single portal at home before you leave. You then leave an untagged portal at home and use it to return, rename home, go back and retrieve your untagged portal.
Hahaha I have literally dozens of portals. 5 large main bases, loads of outposts and random portals everywhere when I go looking for resources. I finally demolished my original base and built a huge portal warehouse and have portals at each main base leading the other main bases. All are I dividually named.hahaha Ooh this video makes me feel like a nutter. I think I'm in too deep to change now though! 😂 Well done. Well done. Good video.
lol, I try to use that phrase when explaining things to people. Especially young people. It seems to be relatable for most people, and hopefully they can learn from my mistakes. . . oh so many of my mistakes lol. Thanks for the comment.
@@valguy4u dying several continents apart for our beds with no portals or boats is one of those types of pain we all have to go through lol Great content, great channel. Thank you for your work and for being relatable
The developers really should add a dialing device, and the Futhark runes could be used as glyphs for an addressing system; but this is a good (albeit somewhat risky) workaround strategy. If I was going to do this, I'd probably still have several dedicated home/destination portals, probably at a rate of one per continent. That way, if I made a mistake and I got trapped as you describe here, I could at least type in an address for the portal on the same continent. That might still mean a long run back, but it wouldn't be as catastrophic as requiring sailing, especially if I got trapped in a Plains or somewhere I couldn't farm the necessary mats to actually build a boat.
To get back home you could have renamed your portal 8 back to 8 and go through the portal while its changing connection, so you would not have to go back to rename it. My current system is having an unnamed to drop while exploring, then 2-3 to reconnect as needed. And my naming is something like "HI1" where HI stands for "Harbour Isle" and a number for the isle number. Or "B1" for Base 1. In older Saves i had always an isle prefix like "I1" and a suffix to remember like "I1-B1" (Isle 1 Base 1) or "I1-S" (Isle 1 Swamp) With only numbers like yours i would always have to remember or lookup where it was, especially if i take a break and come back after weeks :D If i would be forced to use numbers i would have created a number coding for portals like [01-99] for isle number [01-99] for type (01=Home,... 10=Copper deposit,... for example) and [01-99] for portal/type count. So i would get: 010101 = First portal on the main isle home base 011005 = 5. portal on the main isle that leads to a copper deposit. Good that we are not forced to use numbers :D
Holy cow about that last number system lol. I personally like to keep it simple. I mark everything on the map to know where i'm going. But it's true that sometimes I can't find the portal I'm looking for. It seems like your system would help stop that. Thanks for the comment.
Had this idea, too. Didn´t do it, because in the long run, Valheim is mostly about building. Only change a portal address when I need to to. In the long run most people like to build big in Valheim or just quit.
I use a very similar system. I put the primary portal in the middle of my storage area so when I come back encumbered I can just dump everything where it needs to go. The second portal I leave unnamed. That way it will instantly match with any pocket portal I place down. Or I can just clear the portal name instead of renaming it. I often have a third portal in a building nearby called "backup" which is the emergency portal if I have screwed up a couple of different things in a row. Portal names I do the same as you and write them on the map. But I use names rather than numbers because it is easier for me to remember. All lower case no spaces so they are easy to type. 'farwest' 'swamp' 'cosynook' 'farm' etc.
That's an interesting idea considering the fact I like to build small. To help prevent messing yourself up when changing the name, would it help to de-construct the portal at home you want to change to a different location THEN change the name, so you make sure there's a delinking and a relinking to the other? I know that sounds a little tedious, but changing the number portal to the right number then running back to the home portal to change the number to it sounds a little tedious too, but I do agree, always keep the home portal.
Yep, good system. I use essentially the same base system except that I name my portals real names like "TRADER" and "ELDER" which I mark on the map. At my home base I have a permanently named portal like your "home" portal that's also always unlinked. I use the blank name portal as my "pocket portal", bit faster cause it links up right when you build it. It's unnecessary, but I always have a third portal off in a dusty corner named "1", which I rename to, usually, "STONES" for switching boss powers, or visiting the trader and what not. I always rename/unlink it back to "1" just as a precaution. Also worth noting that when I play with a friend of mine this system is a bit less functional if they log off some place and leave the blank portal linked. So I add a couple more portals with my name and their name which functions in place of the blank portal. I've also found it useful recently to drop a portal at my longship when exploring new places and naming it "LS", and then exploring with another portal. This way if I die with the portal on me I always have one back at my ship. On land I'll carry a cart from place to place, filling up with the non-transportables, then portal back to the LS and sail back the the cart. Random bonus tip: Build your swamp base within spawn range of a surtling pire that you've hoe'd down to water. It kills them when they spawn, but when you sleep the trap goes off 10 or so times so there's a huge pile of coal and cores waiting for me in the morning. I always smelt at the crypts too, so very productive sleep. Random bonus bonus tip: Keep a stoncutter and forge in your longship when exploring the mistlands. The stonecutter lets you demo that marble structures and the forge lets you tear down the iron bar reenforcements for the bridges. Lots of marble, lots of iron.
We used to be able to rename and run through quickly as you show here - I found that to be a FEATURE not a bug! This allows you to do a one-time dial.. You can dial a gate and rename it only to slip through before it takes effect. This has since been patched away. Im working on figuring out how to mod the portal mechanics to revert it back. If i am renaming an active portal, I through in a FALSE name first to trigger a disconnect, then I input the destination dial, then upon connection I rename it back to the map-listed name and hop through before the connection drops once again. This is hard to explain in words, but it results in even *less* portal usage than cited here. Basically the TL;DR is that you can "close the door behind you" and not have to keep portals active all the time. This allows far less portal usage since you can use ANY portal to reach ANY portal. This is the behavior that has been patched out... and that which I am going to mod back in ;)
Our group likes to do home for home, land type for that base, we got a boss portal for current boss we're doing and travel for our exploring group if they get full or need repairs, etc.
I use a EXP/RSC system. Two portals at home, and two portals while out adventuring in case you die before you can put your portal up. Also comes in handy to have a third portal that goes straight to spawn in case you reset your spawn point
Whenever I change that portal name, I always unname it and wait for it to be unconnected before I rename it to the proper name to avoid that delayed portal connection issue.
Ik this vid was made awhile ago but bro the best thing to do is make a portal in your main base that leads to you the elder. Mine underneath his entire base under the map (or anywhere impossible to get raided that’s big elder spawned worked best for me) and it can fit so many and best part is you can make it a comfort room so you will always have rested buff everywhere you wanna go
I built a portal room together with our storage room. There's room for 16 portals and one is always kept as an adventure portal for when we're looking for new places. Just throw down a portal, name it adventure and then we're back home and can make a new portal for the place in case we want to keep a portal in that area. Else we'll just offload everything to the storage while also getting a rested buff. then back in we go to continue the adventure exactly where we left off.
Thanks. A lot of comments have said they just leave the "home" portal blank. No name so in extreme emergencies they can throw it down and save the time of naming it. Thanks for the comment.
To fix the problem of entering a portal too early, all I did was to roll an alt character. It has access to everything my main does, and can be used to set up an emergency portal at home at any time, not to mention changing back the portal’s name.
When I'm switching a portal to a different name, I first type in some unused name, like "x". This way I can see it disconnect before I connect it to the final destination. It's an extra step, but you'll never get stranded if you do this.
I limit up to 10 portals for my Mistlands gameplay Base to Spawn/Forsaken Monolith Base to Shop (Haldor) Base to Elder Base to Bonemass Base to Moder Base to Yagluth Base to Queen Base to Yggdrasil saps Base to 2x Portable portal (emergency portal inside inventory) The portable portals is usually for emergency or suddenly need to head back home to get item/food/repair or for before entering dungeon/mines/camps/mining/tissues etc.
@@valguy4u I try to be efficient on my gameplay last month December and I try to spend less time base building and more exploring during my gameplay in Mistlands Hence limiting to 10 is really good for my playstyle. I have the normal 8 permanent portals to go to bosses shop and spawn points and 2 for my exploration portals. I end up with 300hours gameplay and finished Queen + End Game Base Expansion on my plains biome.
I do a hybrid approach where I have several portals in the home base but switch them around with a larger set of "away" portals depending on what I'm doing at the time. Or just use a mod that let's you pick the destination from a list. :)
This is why people made mods for this game. One key mod I use is the portals, you have 1 at your home and you can change it's direction in a combobox when you press E on it.
I always start with one portal and then end up with like 5 or 6, simply because I can't seem to stop going through portals too quickly after I change their name. I now also keep a spare "Saveme" character at home base to change portal names back for all those times I jump through too quickly after changing the name and I end up stranded on the other end of a broken portal on a far away island. I keep a portal for every essential area and then change names for the temp ones.
LOL! This is one I've been using since I got the game in early beta. Different rules, I use names, name the base "Forward Observation Post" or whatever ON THE MAP so I can look it up next month, then I name the portal "forward o" or however many characters it accepts. My rules are no caps, and just type the name until it stops accepting characters. The portals "Forward O" and "forward o" are not going to link, btw. My reserve portal is always "911". Type 911, hit enter, when it fires up, change the name back to what it "should be" then jump through before it disconnects.
lol, I like 911. One of the problems when i use "home" is sometimes i cant remember if its "home" "Home" or "HOME". 911 would eliminate that problem. Thanks for the comment.
On one map I've had a massive portal hub with dozens of portals. Now I just use a three portal system. A spare/emergency home one, and two that get dialed in like your example. I like having two so if I want I can move quickly between two other destinations. E.g. A lox farm and a barley farm if I'm cooking.
In my current playthrough I have 4 portals in my main base. 1 is for my home which I always use as main portal when I visit a new island, 1 for my farm, and 2 portals for exploration. In my map I always use house marker to indicate that there a portal there and use the same tag as the portal.
I leave a portal in my base unnamed and another portal named ship. Other places that I put permanent portals just has their own name, (trader, bosses, etc.) But only a second portal for decoration) I just temporarily rename the null portal in most cases. The null portal also is my inland travelling portal while the ship portal is permanently with the ship and the harbor at base leaving me with always a way to get back home or to my ship. You can safely travel the world this way with only three portals.
The idea is great, thank you. It is actually so good and simple that the 10 minutes video is a bit too long for it :) What currently blocks this idea for me is that Valheim has too few map icon types and the portal icon is already used as a POI icon, e.g. a crypt, a dungeon, etc. While dots are used for crops like berries and mushrooms, T-icon - for ores, house - for structures. I am not ready yet to use the dot icon for ores, or a T icon for crypts ... Will see. The portal number issue is already becoming an issue in my world, true. :D
Always use that "home" portal. A lot of comments have said they don't name it "home" they just leave it unnamed, which is a really good idea Thanks for the comment.
@@valguy4u Yeah, also recently discovered that can use an unnamed portal instead of "Expl" exploration one. :) Much faster. Also: the numbered portals are ideal for the outdated locations, e.g. the first Swamp explored, the first Plains etc. They keep accumulating, but are not visited often any more. So yeah, the idea is versatile.
@@valguy4u Remade all the outdated portals into this system - so neat now. Also added the portal number to the lower level portals, e.g. if my old swamp FOB now has portal "2", then the short portal from FOB 2 to a nearby crypt is now called "2-Crypt". To ensure no conflicts in future for such lower tier portals.
I do the same :) I only have a couple of permanent portals at base, and the rest is just changing tags, so not every portal is always connected. I also have a Home portal to be able to always come back home.
This would get really confusing with the amount of portals I have. I don’t set a portal up for each biome, I set them up to where I’m currently exploring. It doesn’t take that long to exhaust a biome and need another devour.
As long as you named them appropriately I think it would work really well, especially if you have a bunch of portals down. For example BF1, BF2, BF3 and so on. As long as you label them on the map, it should work really well for you. No pressure on trying it, if what you're doing works for you, keep doing it. Thanks for the comment.
This seems fine for the solo player, but add groups of friends and it's just going to be this constant ongoing hassle as various players go through portals and rename everything constantly. Personally I feel a dedicated portal room is required, just somewhere distant from your base. Ours was on a tiny rock in the middle of the ocean, just a sealed room containing portals leading all over the show.
I do a 3 portal system and works excellent for me on single player. However when you play with friends who are too lazy to rename the portal, yet sidetrack to gathering more portal mats to add another portal and waste an hour not doing your original objective.. it doesn’t work too well haha
I know it's a bit tedious, but just spawn proof a small island & make it a decked out portal room. I refuse to believe that renaming portals every single time is more convenient than a spawnproof portal room.
I use this same system. However I don't label my home portal. I leave it unnamed, this way if I'm in a hurry I can drop the portal and go through quickly
i just ran into the problem a few months ago where i got annoyed with always looking over my map and zooming in to find what i named/numbered the portal i want to go to, then the typo's have left a few portals way out in nowhere. so i broke down and made a portal house with signs and labels so i dont have to type ha.
Yeah I normal build a portal hub for all my bases. BUT i do keep a small portal room at my main bases and I do like you and keep a few not active. I also have my adventure portals for when I need to drop a random portal in the forest so I can get back. Still I think having a nice Portal hub is a good idea. I normally try to have room for 20 to 25 portals at my hub and clearly mark them.
I came to eventually go with a version of the two portal system. Most of my portals are connected to one portal where I change portal names in each base. But, I always have a number of dedicated and shared ports elsewhere because I have multiple bases and farms which I constantly use and drop masts off at my central storehouse/crafting/cooking area.
I kind of came to the same conclusion, creating an unconnected escape portal at base, naming it "g" portal. The reason for naming it that was that I'm playing on Steam Deck and the virtual keyboard cursor always starts at "g". That gives as quick escape back to base as possible.
i mainly do this exact thing, yet i name all my landmasses and then do NSEW so if i go to 'Reynir-Land' then at that base there is 4 portals to NSEW on that landmass. so main castle has portals to all the other landmasses and then i can travel throughout that land and also back home. to avoid getting lost and waiting for portal to reset i just name it something i know doesnt exist and wait for it to unconnect first then i rename it again
I have a small portal room which I lined with signs that have the names of portals in the wild. So only the ones I currently am using regularly are active
I have portals like you say. But I always make a portal hub. I understand where your komming from. But I must say I like it as I have it. 1 portal to each place, swamp, mountain and so. And that the portal in that place it protected.
Nothing wrong with that. To each there own. I know when I first started it drove me crazy have a bunch of different portals. I knew there had to be a better way for me. Thanks for the comment!
@ValGuy the thing is that portals are just cheap and easy to make late game. I actually used your strategy at the start simply because I lacked surtling cores. I would actually change tags all the time, and break up portals to make them elsewhere. No I don't bother with that. I have too much greydwarf eyes already, surtling cores can be farmed and finewood isn't a challenge to get either. So I might as well make a large portal hub, mostly with 2 variable portals and the rest fixed.
I change the name and change it back then run in the portal before it closes that way there all free all the time potentially getting down to 1 portal, but I always keep a backup!
I do the same thing except I have 3 at my base. That way I don't have to switch as often since I have an extra. Instead of numbers, I have a text document that I call my "phone book" with all my portal names. Less trial and error trying to remember the numbers. Also, I have a fourth portal to the boss power stones that never changes.
I’ve always had one home base portal and just changed the name to the corresponding portal I want to go to. I’ve always wondered why ppl have so many portals in their base lol
I understand why people put a lot of portals down. It is technically easier to travel. Also I don't think a lot of players, especially newer players, even consider changing the portal names as an option. Especially when the norm is to set it and forget it. Thanks for the comment.
I've been doing it this way for ages. Though I have three, One is my home portal, one is my travel portal for whatever and the third is to the stones, where all of my friends also have portals to their places.
That's the exact system i use and it is great. The only time it doesn't work as well is when playing with other people and they arent disciplined to resetting the names if they ever have to use "home"
Cool vid :) I'm thinking of doing the same but instead of having a portal named home though, I would just leave it unnamed. We are just making a new base at the moment, I was thinking of making bedrooms for each of us with our own portal in for when solo exploring or for emergencies.
There have been quite a few comments where people leave the "home" portal blank for emergency's. I think that is a really good idea. Thanks for the comment!
@@valguy4u I use it for general exploring as well, just pop it down somewhere safe and go on an adventure :) If i decide it's actually a good spot for a portal i will do the name juggle and jump through. Usually i would make another portal at base, but i think im going to try your way now. Just got to get dumb friends to understand it :)
I prefer a portal hub, and themed portals. My farm hub, for example, has a portal to a little flax farm and a much larger barley farm in a different plains biome. My boss hub has all the bosses we've killed accessible. Then the community hub has portals to all the players' bases. I prefer doing it this way because if I tried to do it your way, I'm almost positive that eventually I would run into a situation where another player is trying to get to the portal I'm trying to go to and one of us would have to change a portal name. If I ever played a solo map maybe I would do this though. Would save some time going into crypts or killing surtlings.
Simpler solution if you play solo and are always on the move.. 5 bosses total 10 portals plus the bossStones = 12.. have one at main base called Temp and a pocket temp.. Use temp always. keep all portals in a chest until needed dropping one at each location after you have found them. total in game portals = 14 only 12 active all times once end game is reached. Use the temp for all resources except for the obvious ore which you make a 4x4 cabin that can contain all you need up to a 20 min buff. when done break it all down put loot on a boat or in a cart depending on distance and on your way. another solution is seed hopping no portals
Okay kind of a hybrid model. Thats cool. According to the comments quite a few people do it this way. I'm happy with anyway works for you. Just letting you know there are options. thanks for the comment.
@@valguy4u np, figured i would mention that alternative.. like you said, everyone has a way that works for them. the more suggestions the more options... Great vid as it helps newcomers in a big way..
I keep portals from one land at that land on land-main-base. So you can travel through main-main-base portal to the land-main-base and then to other regions of that land. Also I keep names intead of numbers. But after watching your system I realize how to rename portals if I disliked their previous name. I'll just use 2 portals with old and new name on the any main-base and rename sub-portal.
@@valguy4u Not sure it has that name to anyone but me, but that's how I think of it especially considering the portals are surrounded by runes lol! I typically play portal-less but over the holiday break I was seeing what portal life was like and learned the hard way about not keeping an open channel to dial home with! On the flip side, the phenomenon of portals not changing their endpoint instantly means you can rename portals easily! Simply dial the old name, then change to the new name and step through. If you make it through you just set the other end to the new name and hop back. Naturally keep that open line home because I've accidentally renamed the portal to "w" as I was stepping through without realizing it! I also had a 3rd portal set up if there is somewhere I frequent like the trader.
What we do is only have 2 portals in home base we have a portal named for the base always for emergency purposes incases like getting stranded on an island or somebody dies and cant portal back and the other portal is the one that we always change to wherever we need to portal. That way we dont have to dedicate an insanely large amount of space for portals
@@valguy4u definitely got a sub from me, plan to watch some more videos of yours after work tonight and hopefully learn some more fun trucks of the trade! Keep up the great work!
could also just name the far away portal home, wait for it to connect, quickly change it back to 8 (or whatever number) and go through it. then youll be back at home, and the faraway portal will be back to the number you want and your home one will be available for use again
my portals turn off right away when i try to change their names. it sucks cus always need a portal named and idk what its ganna be yet, guess ill have to do numbers
Have a single portal, central in your base/village that leads to a portal room further away from base.
In that portal room you have portals to everywhere lining the walls, and you cram it full of comfort items and keep a box of decent food.
Portal in, get rested buff while you eat your food, then head off on your adventure.
Smart.
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yES , I call it the Warp Zone wich looks amazing made of marble , lights and some extra decoration
@@bluestarseed6705 sounds pretty cool
this is what we do on my friends' server. we have a portal near spawn and we all have portals to our houses since we live far away. we also have have a temp portal that currently has 6 other temp# portals that can connect to it for things like mountains and swamps for mining.
This is what I do too, I built mine under the Elder boss platform so it's raid proof and sealed off. Little main comfort area, repair stations, portals and some temporary storage for when I'm lazy, along with foods and meads. :)
Great for singleplayer, unfortunately if you're playing on a server with a bunch of people it starts to fall apart
I thought about that. If I were doing this in a large co-op I would name my portals V1, V2, V3 and so on. V would be for Valguy. Something simple like that.
This is the reason I started carrying around a pocket portal.
@@valguy4u that works well, unless you coop with them and the portals are shared and you get rekt
@@ThetaWindfall my suggestion is to put a letter in front of the number. The letter would be based on your name.
Thanks for the comment
@@valguy4u I got that - but when you are living with multiple people you kinda end up needing more by nessecity. But this method still does keep it cleaner - we were able to keep it to 4 portals in our "hub" between 3 of us (which still sucked cause we ended up needing to dedicate a room to it...) But it was better than the 15 odd locations we had portals to haha
Great video! I switched from many portals to 2-3 portals as well. Some things I do, I have a portal board with all my portal names written out so I don't forget what I called them. I also create an alt who stays in my base full time. That way if I accidentally go through a portal that hasn't "switched over" yet, I can log over and rename it easily.
Very smart
Thanks for the comment
The alt in base is a good idea
My alt has a little room under the stairs with a chair.
He lives there and isn't allowed to come out
I have one portal that's unnamed, so I can drop a portal if things get out of hand, and it will automatically connect to the Home portal, even if I'm kiting mobs in a circle. Once it connects, I can just jump through it.
Very smart!
Thanks for sharing, maybe it will help someone out there
That's great - I didn't realize unnamed portals will connect!
Thats what i usually do too, its so fast to place the unnamed portal before you die.
yea I love unnamed emergency portals, they've saved my ass more than anything lol
Or...you just have a portal hub somewhere on top of a mountain and you only link to that hub from your home.
If your not a big builder, I see this working well. However I enjoy building so having a portal room all decorated up is more fun for my style. Thanks for the ideas and explanation though!
That's awesome that you're a really good builder. I'm a builder of necessity and SUCK with imagination. The stuff you guys can make blows me away.
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Simply put you only need 2 in your base.
One set to a static tag that never changes.
One that you edit the tag to where you wanna go.
And just drop a pin on the map with the tag ID.
Need set a new portal tag here's how:
Goto location and build portal shack,
Then set to Static Home tag
Change variable portal tag as desired.
Return to sight and set tag and pin the map.
Loli type all that just before your own explanation.
Save yourself some time and headache with the AnyPortal mod. Build one portal in each location, and freely choose where it goes at any time.
A few people have commented on using mods. This is more for people who want to play vanilla.
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And now that its on Xbox too, suddenly this comment is irrelevant for half the player base. Maybe someday console kids will see the light and come over to the PC side....
Unmoddable on xbox. I like when they offer answers that work for vanilla because we aren’t all on steam.
Even quicker: when needing to set a portal to "Home" , let it light up, then change it back to "8" or whatever you intended then go through immediately, bringing you home, but changing the portal back in one go. Saves two of your steps. Edit: this way your "home" portal is already unlinked when you get back, and you never accidentally keep your "home" portal linked to anything.
Good thinking. Thanks for the tip!
This how I do it too. Works well. Instead of "home" I just leave a portal unconnected. That way if you have to make a portal quickly it automatically connects to my base.
doesn't work on xbox.
Not bad. I eventally settled on a system of sequential portals, traversing my bases in order - meadows connects to forest, which also connect to swamp, et cetera, with branches off for other things located in the closest base. Dealing with the hassle of portals is why I eventually installed a mod that allows you to go from any portal to any other portal, so I only need one portal in each location.
Very cool. Glad you found a system that works for you.
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I like the idea of expanding, growing your settlement as you explore the world, have one main portal you can always return to and then a building for your portals
A refinement to this would be to have two portals at each location. One 'outgoing' and one 'incoming'. The incoming portal is named and never changes. You leave the outgoing portal name blank.
To use it you change the name of the outgoing portal to the place you want to go and let it connect like in the video. Then - and this is key - clear the name immediately before you step through. As shown, the actual connection won't change immediately but rather will disconnect shortly after you arrive, so it'll effectively send you on a one way trip. You want this because you don't want to leave anything connected to the incoming portal at your destination as that would prevent incoming connections from other locations. To return, repeat the process. Rename your outgoing portal to the incoming portal at your home location, wait for a connection, clear it and step through.
There are several advantages: First you can travel from any location to any other location as you like. No need to return home or to a hub of some kind. Second it is less error prone. Since the outgoing portal is normally blank you probably can't accidently step through 'early' and end up somewhere you didn't mean to go. The only part you can mess up is forgetting to clear the outgoing name as you leave, and if you do that then you're left with an open portal back to your origin that you can use to try again. Lastly it's better for multiplayer since every time you use any portal the whole system reverts to its base state of one named and one unnamed portal at each location.
If you're resource starved you could theoretically do this with a single portal at each location and just change its name back to the incoming name instead of blank before stepping through, but you have to be careful not to introduce any typos, as that might prevent you from reconnecting to that location.
About to make my first portal. This information was golden. Thank you, you saved me from doing what you said you had did. this system makes perfect sense.
Thank you! Comments like this are why I started this channel. Check out my other videos for other tips to make your Valheim experience easier
The big advantage of your system is that you need half the grinding for finewood (I usually have plenty of cores and greydwarf eyes), saving on space is a close second.
I've gone a while with just one portal at the home base, but your second pre-named spare nicely eliminates the risk of getting stuck (if you go in too quickly after a name change - and end up at a dead portal).
The only disadvantage is you need to take some effort to rename the far end after each emergency to keep a "Home" free for the next emergency, and you need to remember what you named your portals, but those seem small compared to needing only half the materials and using only, maybe, 1/10th the space compared with if all the portals were in dedicated pairs.
In practice, now, I keep ~3 dedicated pairs (I use so much that it would be too much trouble to constantly rename them), and then I use one to connect to any of the 12 others as you show here.
A lot of people keep the "home" portal I use as an emergency portal, but they don't name it.
And yeah the reduction of resources is awesome
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grinding for finewood xD
This is great for solo/single player worlds, it gets a little hectic with Multiplayer though as you either have people trying to connect to a portal network and not being able to or people needing to wait to use their portals. I like what some others have said, and what I've done once or twice, in making a hub for your portals away from or buried in your base. It's clean and still lets multiple people use multiple portals without congestion.
Whoever makes the portal names the portal with the 1st letter of their name. So my portals (Valguy) would be V1, V2, V3 and so on. Yours would be A1, A2, A3. Use the cartography table every couple of days and boom, problem solved.
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I used this method early on in my Valheim gaming, but now I use a portal hub. I just like it more. I usually build a two level, remote portal hub under the Elders platform as it comes with a free roof and built in fire. :)
Another tip might be, if you have the long boat, just leave the mats to make at least one portal in it's storage. I don't know how many times I've decided to go exploring, get way far away from base, then figure out I forgot the portal mats. So frustrating. In fact, this is a strat I just thought up, so I'm going to do this next time I log in. XD
This is a good strategy. It's funny how we can think of things on the fly like that.
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Another thing is to not forget at least 10 wood for the workbench. I once thought I was well set with 20 fine wood, 10 greydwarf eyes, and 2 surtling cores. But if you go to a new biome and you forgot the 10 wood, you need to cut some local trees, agro mobs that can kill you, then die in a very unfortunate place.
While 10 wood would have saved you so much BS.
Always keep high stamina food and a harpoon in the boat too. Ready to drag that serpent to land for his scales!
@@justinmcleod141 I got lucky I think and have a serpent pretty close to my main base with easy meadows biome to drag to. Every night I'm not busy I head out and get some serpent stew :D Don't even bother with the scales any more, though the heads come in handy for bait. But this does remind me I have enough chitin for another harpoon, so a dedicated boat harpoon is a great idea. I've been experimenting with jumping on the serpent at the final blow to see if I can catch the goodies before they drown, but haven't been successful so far.
@@briondalion At least everything floats. I got attacked by a 2nd serpent when I had another on the harpoon, got greedy and wouldn't let go, and found out that long boats CAN be sunk. Who would have figured? :D Was a pain, but I was glad to see my stuff (and dead me) still floating in the same spot the next day. Can we all just be thankful they haven't implemented sharks?
I do a kind of hybrid of this. I like building "portal hubs" near spawn which will have like 15-20 portals, these cover locations near all bosses, a portal link to each of our bases (there are 3 or 4 of us who play together on the server) and then some other random locations. The hub usually also gets repair benches, comfort items, and dump chests so people can clear their inventories quickly and head back out.
But then also if I want multiple portals on the same continent I will set them to all have varied numbers and a single portal at the hub can be used to connect to all of them (with signs of their names above it). Then to finish off I also always keep an "emergency" portal in my base for the times where I'm out raiding or whatever and decide I'd like to have a temporary portal (Infested Mine runs for example) or another portal doesn't change it's connection quick enough and I would otherwise get stuck.
I'm surprised how many people use something similar to this. Pretty cool strategy. I'm glad it works well for you.
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After playing this game hundreds of hours I finally came to this realization and do a system exactly like yours. One thing I do as well is set up my comfort area right around this singular portal and a set of "drop boxes". This allows me to come through my portal and quickly clear my inventory while gaining a comfort buff at the same time. I set up a permanent/sorted storage close enough to go to while encumbered for when I finally feel like cleaning up the drop boxes. It's also nice to have repair station relatively close. I also keep a box of boat materials and a box of portal materials right near this singular portal for when I need to quickly make or store a boat and expand to a new portal #. My "home" portal is usually located in some out of the way location since it is only used in a rare emergency.
It took me some time to figure out this system too. Then to use it correctly (not getting stranded lol). But once I did it is one of my favorite .... not sure if its a hack, but why not, hacks I do.
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I really like this idea and am going to implement this into my playthrough. Glad it wasn't edited because the wolf was funny!
lol thanks James. If I don't edit videos I feel like they're not as good of quality. However we miss out on my natural bad luck lol. Plus editing takes forever lol
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Yoo this was really helpful to see! Thanks for making this!
In case you get really stuck somewhere, you can always log in to your world with another character, and rename your portal at home :) In case you do this alot, just make an extra portal at home called "sos" or something that is always kept unconnected in case of emmergency. Personally i do portals more or less like you with only 2 portals. One for fixed locations and one mobile.
I have several “backup” portals. Ask me why…
I now use a hub system. My main base usually has one portal per island. (Main hub) On each island there is a smaller hub base connecting further outposts.
Additionally, in my home base I have a portal named “” (default teleport back to home portal), one tmp, one Hub. At spawn and at my first stamp base I have each another backup portal… Currently, that’s enough for me.
That is a great idea.... if your base is close to the spawn.
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@ValGuy or if you have a portal between your base and the spawn, wich is pretty sensible if you want to change powers now and then.
If you are going to do that you might as well as go into console and fly home. Going to other worlds and second characters is no difference from -console.
Thank you very much that is very good advice
Very good explanation, I do this as well. I also clear the active portal with a name that doesn't exist, wait for the portal to shutdown, then type in destination- no risk of transporter "uhoh". It's still good to have a "home" portal when explorations start from another portal or you want to half travel time when moving/unloading ore. In mistlands a decent spot to place portals is in the skulls that you find soft tissue in- seem to be unbreakable by anything except the dark metal pick (Gjall spit, seeker attacks don't cause damage to the skull) and it's pretty easy to set up an entry that breaks line of sight.
Thanks for the praise. And for explaining what you do. Good tips.
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I hide the portal room under the vault of the Yggdrasil root and cover the entrance with earth
This is amazing!! I currently have 5 portals in my main base and was thinking I'll have to build an extension on the side to house any new portals I want.. this will be a massive time saver, thanks man.
Another option, starting with maybe core wood. Though stone looks better.
Meadows biome: Leave space for portals until you need them, then place them when you need them.
Compass Portal hub: Four portals in the center: Home, Hub 1, Hub 2, Hub 3. (Hub 1-3 are backup portals incase one you forget to unclog one.)
First row: Five portals north, stairs, five portals east, stairs, five portals south, stairs, five portals west, stairs.
Stairs lead up to a second row.
Second row: Six portals north, stairs, six portals east, stairs, six portals south, stairs, six portals west, stairs.
Stairs lead up to a third row. However, you can either swap one portal or one set of stairs as a downward stairs. This frees up more room to build portals for rarely visited places by building underneath the second and third rows.
Third row: seven portals north, stairs, seven portals east, stairs, seven portals south, stairs, seven portals west, stairs.
Build a dirt wall for defense. Maybe add a moat on the outside of the moat to be extra-safe. (Especially on sides near a hill going up, but ideally the spot would be fairly level; though I know that isn't always an option)
If at any point you need to have more than 55 portals (Plus the less-used under-portals and emergency 1-3 Hub portals), build a fourth row using the stairs by building up from the existing dirt wall. Then build a new dirt wall for defense. (Or build the dirt wall first after measuring how much room the fourth row will require. If you're paranoid, like me.)
You would theoretically be expanding the portal hub once at most.
Don't forget to decorate your portal hub so it looks nice. :)
I do something like this, but I use them slightly differently.
If I'm at portal 8, I'll change it to "home" and step back to let it connect. I then change it back to "8" and step right through. It won't have reconnected yet, so I'll end up at "home". However the portal I stepped through will now be called 8 again, ready I be used as before. Stops you from having to jump back and forth a few times, but you've got to have faith.
If you get stuck, you can also log in with a different character, change the name and switch back.
Really good advice
Thanks for sharing.
Nice vid. I was thinking of doing something similar on a server where each base has two portals like this. Glad to see it's a viable strategy.
I've got it down to 4 portals at my main base. 2 for normal trips to established areas and 2 for exploring called 'home' and 'home2'. I just rename the normal portals for places I want to go back to and it saves me the hassle of making space for 2 dozen or more portals. *basically I give an island a name and my portals are named accordingly with numbers to differentiate.
That's great. Hopefully this video helped you out.
Personally I use a portalroom at home for locations I frequently visit, then I have one 'mining' portal which functions basically like your home portal. Only I use it for slapping down a connection when mining a skull in the mistlands, or before that to have a quick way back to the mining area from a port (from the silvervain to the nearest port, so i have an instant way back to the vein for moving the metal 'quickly').
So yeah, having one extraportal usable with retagging is very nice. But for places I frequently use, I really prefer a permanent portal and I try not to build too many actual bases. Built one temporary small shack near the spawn, built a temporary base at a black forest coast (really should have picked the meadows instead with distance to the black forest, so much more calm) and lastly one permanent base in the plains. I have 10 permanent portals and the mining portal, but I think I could cut down a bit on the portals near bosslocations as I do not visit them regularly enough.
Sounds like a hybrid model. You've defiantly got what works best for you figured out. Thanks for sharing!
I have a portal next to each boss named with the bosses name, if i ever want to fight the boss again i just name a blank portal and use that until im done
I do the same thing. I have a sign at the master portal you change names for, so others can see, and I label my map as well and share it. The "home" portal you have for me is just un-named. That way you can drop it and it connects instantly. Helpful when you're dying. I also tend to keep permanent portals for things I use often like portal to the farm etc
I use two way portals for each special location or base and always have some spare portals for travelling. So in my main base I usually have travel1, travel2, travel3 etc. and I try to store materials for portals in every ship I have. But recently I started a new world and totally gave up on creating bases everywhere. I just use one big central-hub with a portal building for "travel portals" and for some basic location for eg. trader. In my other world I have too many bases: a huge "town" (the main base) in the black forest with big harbor, a smaller harbor with a forge near the spawn point, an enormous castle in the mountain side a lox farm base, two smaller swamp bases (one have a quite nice harbor) and an another big castle on a hillier part of the meadows.
Your base sounds really cool. Thanks for sharing!
I still remember the double world portal hack. Made transferring ore less of a time consuming event.
Just start a new world with some basic set up (house, chest, bed) and any time your portal won't let you travel due to items, you just load up your character inventory with what you want and log out. Load in your other world, dump all the items into a chest and then log out again and go back to your main world. You then travel home or wherever the portal you want to use and once there, log out again and go grab your items form the other world you couldn't portal with. It's a hassle but definitely faster than sailing in most cases.
I use a three tier system. One portal room for the main locations (farm, haldor, spawn, bioms) and if I need more than that, I build another base with a new portal room in one of the locations (second tier). For example, I've got all of my "farm portals" in my main farm. That includes Greydwarf, Draugr, Lox and Wolf farms etc. It takes more time because you need to portal twice, but usually you'd only go to these locations once in a while. The third tier is what you do: Just two portals. One home portal and one rotating portal for all the locations I'm currently exploring.
Build one portal that leads to a separate portal structure containing all portals to a direction. Have 4 stone houses set apart surrounded outside by hoe walls. Then just put 4 cardinal portals in you main base. I then put a pin with the portal name on my map incase I forget were they go. It works. I also have an untagged portal, and one named home for the situation you talked about.
However, if you only plan on going to one area at a time its easy to have one home portal. You pin and name your satellite portals in the field, and just rename the single portal at home before you leave. You then leave an untagged portal at home and use it to return, rename home, go back and retrieve your untagged portal.
Hahaha I have literally dozens of portals. 5 large main bases, loads of outposts and random portals everywhere when I go looking for resources.
I finally demolished my original base and built a huge portal warehouse and have portals at each main base leading the other main bases.
All are I dividually named.hahaha
Ooh this video makes me feel like a nutter. I think I'm in too deep to change now though! 😂
Well done. Well done. Good video.
Lol glad I could help
Portals, portals everywhere
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"Ask me how I know."
I really felt that
lol, I try to use that phrase when explaining things to people. Especially young people. It seems to be relatable for most people, and hopefully they can learn from my mistakes. . . oh so many of my mistakes lol.
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@@valguy4u dying several continents apart for our beds with no portals or boats is one of those types of pain we all have to go through lol
Great content, great channel. Thank you for your work and for being relatable
The developers really should add a dialing device, and the Futhark runes could be used as glyphs for an addressing system; but this is a good (albeit somewhat risky) workaround strategy.
If I was going to do this, I'd probably still have several dedicated home/destination portals, probably at a rate of one per continent. That way, if I made a mistake and I got trapped as you describe here, I could at least type in an address for the portal on the same continent. That might still mean a long run back, but it wouldn't be as catastrophic as requiring sailing, especially if I got trapped in a Plains or somewhere I couldn't farm the necessary mats to actually build a boat.
To get back home you could have renamed your portal 8 back to 8 and go through the portal while its changing connection, so you would not have to go back to rename it.
My current system is having an unnamed to drop while exploring, then 2-3 to reconnect as needed. And my naming is something like "HI1" where HI stands for "Harbour Isle" and a number for the isle number. Or "B1" for Base 1. In older Saves i had always an isle prefix like "I1" and a suffix to remember like "I1-B1" (Isle 1 Base 1) or "I1-S" (Isle 1 Swamp)
With only numbers like yours i would always have to remember or lookup where it was, especially if i take a break and come back after weeks :D
If i would be forced to use numbers i would have created a number coding for portals like [01-99] for isle number [01-99] for type (01=Home,... 10=Copper deposit,... for example) and [01-99] for portal/type count. So i would get:
010101 = First portal on the main isle home base
011005 = 5. portal on the main isle that leads to a copper deposit.
Good that we are not forced to use numbers :D
Holy cow about that last number system lol.
I personally like to keep it simple. I mark everything on the map to know where i'm going. But it's true that sometimes I can't find the portal I'm looking for. It seems like your system would help stop that.
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Had this idea, too. Didn´t do it, because in the long run, Valheim is mostly about building. Only change a portal address when I need to to. In the long run most people like to build big in Valheim or just quit.
I use a very similar system.
I put the primary portal in the middle of my storage area so when I come back encumbered I can just dump everything where it needs to go.
The second portal I leave unnamed. That way it will instantly match with any pocket portal I place down. Or I can just clear the portal name instead of renaming it.
I often have a third portal in a building nearby called "backup" which is the emergency portal if I have screwed up a couple of different things in a row.
Portal names I do the same as you and write them on the map. But I use names rather than numbers because it is easier for me to remember. All lower case no spaces so they are easy to type. 'farwest' 'swamp' 'cosynook' 'farm' etc.
Seems like a pretty good system.
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That's an interesting idea considering the fact I like to build small. To help prevent messing yourself up when changing the name, would it help to de-construct the portal at home you want to change to a different location THEN change the name, so you make sure there's a delinking and a relinking to the other? I know that sounds a little tedious, but changing the number portal to the right number then running back to the home portal to change the number to it sounds a little tedious too, but I do agree, always keep the home portal.
Yep, good system. I use essentially the same base system except that I name my portals real names like "TRADER" and "ELDER" which I mark on the map. At my home base I have a permanently named portal like your "home" portal that's also always unlinked. I use the blank name portal as my "pocket portal", bit faster cause it links up right when you build it. It's unnecessary, but I always have a third portal off in a dusty corner named "1", which I rename to, usually, "STONES" for switching boss powers, or visiting the trader and what not. I always rename/unlink it back to "1" just as a precaution.
Also worth noting that when I play with a friend of mine this system is a bit less functional if they log off some place and leave the blank portal linked. So I add a couple more portals with my name and their name which functions in place of the blank portal.
I've also found it useful recently to drop a portal at my longship when exploring new places and naming it "LS", and then exploring with another portal. This way if I die with the portal on me I always have one back at my ship. On land I'll carry a cart from place to place, filling up with the non-transportables, then portal back to the LS and sail back the the cart.
Random bonus tip: Build your swamp base within spawn range of a surtling pire that you've hoe'd down to water. It kills them when they spawn, but when you sleep the trap goes off 10 or so times so there's a huge pile of coal and cores waiting for me in the morning. I always smelt at the crypts too, so very productive sleep.
Random bonus bonus tip: Keep a stoncutter and forge in your longship when exploring the mistlands. The stonecutter lets you demo that marble structures and the forge lets you tear down the iron bar reenforcements for the bridges. Lots of marble, lots of iron.
We used to be able to rename and run through quickly as you show here - I found that to be a FEATURE not a bug! This allows you to do a one-time dial.. You can dial a gate and rename it only to slip through before it takes effect. This has since been patched away. Im working on figuring out how to mod the portal mechanics to revert it back.
If i am renaming an active portal, I through in a FALSE name first to trigger a disconnect, then I input the destination dial, then upon connection I rename it back to the map-listed name and hop through before the connection drops once again.
This is hard to explain in words, but it results in even *less* portal usage than cited here.
Basically the TL;DR is that you can "close the door behind you" and not have to keep portals active all the time. This allows far less portal usage since you can use ANY portal to reach ANY portal. This is the behavior that has been patched out... and that which I am going to mod back in ;)
Our group likes to do home for home, land type for that base, we got a boss portal for current boss we're doing and travel for our exploring group if they get full or need repairs, etc.
I use a EXP/RSC system. Two portals at home, and two portals while out adventuring in case you die before you can put your portal up. Also comes in handy to have a third portal that goes straight to spawn in case you reset your spawn point
Whenever I change that portal name, I always unname it and wait for it to be unconnected before I rename it to the proper name to avoid that delayed portal connection issue.
I have learned to do that as well. Hard lesson to learn the 1st time 😂.
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Ik this vid was made awhile ago but bro the best thing to do is make a portal in your main base that leads to you the elder. Mine underneath his entire base under the map (or anywhere impossible to get raided that’s big elder spawned worked best for me) and it can fit so many and best part is you can make it a comfort room so you will always have rested buff everywhere you wanna go
We have one building for main portals and also have atleast 2 portals like "home2" and "home3" that is always ready to get back to.
Sounds like a hybrid system.
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Genius. So obvious it hurts not having thought of it independently.
Thanks man. Hopefully it helps you in the world of Valheim
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This is the way you do it for single player. In multi-player it's better to have a hub, esp. if you don't always travel around together.
It will work if people name they're portals something unique. Like everyone get they're own starting letter for example.
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I built a portal room together with our storage room.
There's room for 16 portals and one is always kept as an adventure portal for when we're looking for new places.
Just throw down a portal, name it adventure and then we're back home and can make a new portal for the place in case we want to keep a portal in that area.
Else we'll just offload everything to the storage while also getting a rested buff. then back in we go to continue the adventure exactly where we left off.
Very nice back up plan. I need to remember that and just name the emergency portal 'home'.
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A lot of comments have said they just leave the "home" portal blank. No name so in extreme emergencies they can throw it down and save the time of naming it.
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To fix the problem of entering a portal too early, all I did was to roll an alt character. It has access to everything my main does, and can be used to set up an emergency portal at home at any time, not to mention changing back the portal’s name.
When I'm switching a portal to a different name, I first type in some unused name, like "x". This way I can see it disconnect before I connect it to the final destination. It's an extra step, but you'll never get stranded if you do this.
That's a pretty smart way to do it. Especially when you get the hang of it
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I limit up to 10 portals for my Mistlands gameplay
Base to Spawn/Forsaken Monolith
Base to Shop (Haldor)
Base to Elder
Base to Bonemass
Base to Moder
Base to Yagluth
Base to Queen
Base to Yggdrasil saps
Base to 2x Portable portal (emergency portal inside inventory)
The portable portals is usually for emergency or suddenly need to head back home to get item/food/repair or for before entering dungeon/mines/camps/mining/tissues etc.
Seems like a pretty good system. I'm curious why you limit yourself to just 10 though.
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@@valguy4u I try to be efficient on my gameplay last month December and I try to spend less time base building and more exploring during my gameplay in Mistlands
Hence limiting to 10 is really good for my playstyle. I have the normal 8 permanent portals to go to bosses shop and spawn points and 2 for my exploration portals. I end up with 300hours gameplay and finished Queen + End Game Base Expansion on my plains biome.
I do a hybrid approach where I have several portals in the home base but switch them around with a larger set of "away" portals depending on what I'm doing at the time. Or just use a mod that let's you pick the destination from a list. :)
This is why people made mods for this game. One key mod I use is the portals, you have 1 at your home and you can change it's direction in a combobox when you press E on it.
I do my portals like this too but I always set my portals to 0 to disconnect my portal before renaming it to an active portal so I don't get lost
Very smart. good tip too.
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I always start with one portal and then end up with like 5 or 6, simply because I can't seem to stop going through portals too quickly after I change their name. I now also keep a spare "Saveme" character at home base to change portal names back for all those times I jump through too quickly after changing the name and I end up stranded on the other end of a broken portal on a far away island. I keep a portal for every essential area and then change names for the temp ones.
LOL! This is one I've been using since I got the game in early beta. Different rules, I use names, name the base "Forward Observation Post" or whatever ON THE MAP so I can look it up next month, then I name the portal "forward o" or however many characters it accepts. My rules are no caps, and just type the name until it stops accepting characters. The portals "Forward O" and "forward o" are not going to link, btw. My reserve portal is always "911". Type 911, hit enter, when it fires up, change the name back to what it "should be" then jump through before it disconnects.
lol, I like 911. One of the problems when i use "home" is sometimes i cant remember if its "home" "Home" or "HOME". 911 would eliminate that problem.
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I have a similar process, where there is an emergency (home) portal and two dynamic portals (one closer to my storage)
I feel like once you get used to this system you can't go back lol
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On one map I've had a massive portal hub with dozens of portals. Now I just use a three portal system. A spare/emergency home one, and two that get dialed in like your example. I like having two so if I want I can move quickly between two other destinations. E.g. A lox farm and a barley farm if I'm cooking.
Yeah it's a better system in my opinion
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In my current playthrough I have 4 portals in my main base. 1 is for my home which I always use as main portal when I visit a new island, 1 for my farm, and 2 portals for exploration. In my map I always use house marker to indicate that there a portal there and use the same tag as the portal.
It makes life so much simpler in my opinion.
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wow. ive been building two portals for every location an it was gettin out of hand, which is what brought me to this video. learned a lot, thanks
I leave a portal in my base unnamed and another portal named ship. Other places that I put permanent portals just has their own name, (trader, bosses, etc.) But only a second portal for decoration) I just temporarily rename the null portal in most cases. The null portal also is my inland travelling portal while the ship portal is permanently with the ship and the harbor at base leaving me with always a way to get back home or to my ship. You can safely travel the world this way with only three portals.
Seems like a simple and easy way to explore the world. Thanks for sharing!
But, what will I put in my giant tower i spent thousands of stone and iron building???
lol, ummmm..... how about a bunch of ballista and you could call it the suicide room? j/k
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The idea is great, thank you. It is actually so good and simple that the 10 minutes video is a bit too long for it :)
What currently blocks this idea for me is that Valheim has too few map icon types and the portal icon is already used as a POI icon, e.g. a crypt, a dungeon, etc.
While dots are used for crops like berries and mushrooms, T-icon - for ores, house - for structures.
I am not ready yet to use the dot icon for ores, or a T icon for crypts ... Will see. The portal number issue is already becoming an issue in my world, true. :D
Always use that "home" portal. A lot of comments have said they don't name it "home" they just leave it unnamed, which is a really good idea
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@@valguy4u Yeah, also recently discovered that can use an unnamed portal instead of "Expl" exploration one. :) Much faster.
Also: the numbered portals are ideal for the outdated locations, e.g. the first Swamp explored, the first Plains etc. They keep accumulating, but are not visited often any more. So yeah, the idea is versatile.
@@valguy4u Remade all the outdated portals into this system - so neat now. Also added the portal number to the lower level portals, e.g. if my old swamp FOB now has portal "2", then the short portal from FOB 2 to a nearby crypt is now called "2-Crypt". To ensure no conflicts in future for such lower tier portals.
I do the same :) I only have a couple of permanent portals at base, and the rest is just changing tags, so not every portal is always connected. I also have a Home portal to be able to always come back home.
This would get really confusing with the amount of portals I have. I don’t set a portal up for each biome, I set them up to where I’m currently exploring. It doesn’t take that long to exhaust a biome and need another devour.
As long as you named them appropriately I think it would work really well, especially if you have a bunch of portals down. For example BF1, BF2, BF3 and so on. As long as you label them on the map, it should work really well for you.
No pressure on trying it, if what you're doing works for you, keep doing it.
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This seems fine for the solo player, but add groups of friends and it's just going to be this constant ongoing hassle as various players go through portals and rename everything constantly. Personally I feel a dedicated portal room is required, just somewhere distant from your base. Ours was on a tiny rock in the middle of the ocean, just a sealed room containing portals leading all over the show.
I do a 3 portal system and works excellent for me on single player. However when you play with friends who are too lazy to rename the portal, yet sidetrack to gathering more portal mats to add another portal and waste an hour not doing your original objective.. it doesn’t work too well haha
I know it's a bit tedious, but just spawn proof a small island & make it a decked out portal room. I refuse to believe that renaming portals every single time is more convenient than a spawnproof portal room.
I use this same system. However I don't label my home portal. I leave it unnamed, this way if I'm in a hurry I can drop the portal and go through quickly
i just ran into the problem a few months ago where i got annoyed with always looking over my map and zooming in to find what i named/numbered the portal i want to go to, then the typo's have left a few portals way out in nowhere. so i broke down and made a portal house with signs and labels so i dont have to type ha.
Yeah I normal build a portal hub for all my bases. BUT i do keep a small portal room at my main bases and I do like you and keep a few not active. I also have my adventure portals for when I need to drop a random portal in the forest so I can get back. Still I think having a nice Portal hub is a good idea. I normally try to have room for 20 to 25 portals at my hub and clearly mark them.
a LOT of people do some type of hybrid system like this. The best of both worlds.
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I came to eventually go with a version of the two portal system. Most of my portals are connected to one portal where I change portal names in each base. But, I always have a number of dedicated and shared ports elsewhere because I have multiple bases and farms which I constantly use and drop masts off at my central storehouse/crafting/cooking area.
Sounds pretty solid
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Sounds like a great idea to me since I play solo. I was looking for portal room builds and found this instead, thanks.
I kind of came to the same conclusion, creating an unconnected escape portal at base, naming it "g" portal. The reason for naming it that was that I'm playing on Steam Deck and the virtual keyboard cursor always starts at "g". That gives as quick escape back to base as possible.
i mainly do this exact thing, yet i name all my landmasses and then do NSEW so if i go to 'Reynir-Land' then at that base there is 4 portals to NSEW on that landmass. so main castle has portals to all the other landmasses and then i can travel throughout that land and also back home. to avoid getting lost and waiting for portal to reset i just name it something i know doesnt exist and wait for it to unconnect first then i rename it again
I have a small portal room which I lined with signs that have the names of portals in the wild. So only the ones I currently am using regularly are active
I have portals like you say. But I always make a portal hub.
I understand where your komming from. But I must say I like it as I have it. 1 portal to each place, swamp, mountain and so. And that the portal in that place it protected.
Nothing wrong with that. To each there own. I know when I first started it drove me crazy have a bunch of different portals. I knew there had to be a better way for me.
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@ValGuy the thing is that portals are just cheap and easy to make late game. I actually used your strategy at the start simply because I lacked surtling cores.
I would actually change tags all the time, and break up portals to make them elsewhere. No I don't bother with that. I have too much greydwarf eyes already, surtling cores can be farmed and finewood isn't a challenge to get either. So I might as well make a large portal hub, mostly with 2 variable portals and the rest fixed.
I change the name and change it back then run in the portal before it closes that way there all free all the time potentially getting down to 1 portal, but I always keep a backup!
I'm glad that works for you, but I KNOW I would screw that up lol.
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Great idea, well explained! 👍Deserves more likes and subscribes. Got mine for this!
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Very interesting. It's a good idea to know in case we want to try it. Thanks for the video!
I do the same thing except I have 3 at my base. That way I don't have to switch as often since I have an extra.
Instead of numbers, I have a text document that I call my "phone book" with all my portal names. Less trial and error trying to remember the numbers. Also, I have a fourth portal to the boss power stones that never changes.
I’ve always had one home base portal and just changed the name to the corresponding portal I want to go to. I’ve always wondered why ppl have so many portals in their base lol
I understand why people put a lot of portals down. It is technically easier to travel. Also I don't think a lot of players, especially newer players, even consider changing the portal names as an option. Especially when the norm is to set it and forget it.
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I've been doing it this way for ages. Though I have three, One is my home portal, one is my travel portal for whatever and the third is to the stones, where all of my friends also have portals to their places.
We enjoyed the process of having to expand the base. I have 2 portals called emergency 1 and 2. The rest are dedicated
That's the exact system i use and it is great. The only time it doesn't work as well is when playing with other people and they arent disciplined to resetting the names if they ever have to use "home"
Cool vid :) I'm thinking of doing the same but instead of having a portal named home though, I would just leave it unnamed.
We are just making a new base at the moment, I was thinking of making bedrooms for each of us with our own portal in for when solo exploring or for emergencies.
There have been quite a few comments where people leave the "home" portal blank for emergency's. I think that is a really good idea.
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@@valguy4u I use it for general exploring as well, just pop it down somewhere safe and go on an adventure :) If i decide it's actually a good spot for a portal i will do the name juggle and jump through. Usually i would make another portal at base, but i think im going to try your way now. Just got to get dumb friends to understand it :)
did that for some portals i dont use very often, i also have a backup portal, but for the portals used often, i just have them all standing around
A mix of both. Not a bad idea
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I prefer a portal hub, and themed portals. My farm hub, for example, has a portal to a little flax farm and a much larger barley farm in a different plains biome. My boss hub has all the bosses we've killed accessible. Then the community hub has portals to all the players' bases. I prefer doing it this way because if I tried to do it your way, I'm almost positive that eventually I would run into a situation where another player is trying to get to the portal I'm trying to go to and one of us would have to change a portal name.
If I ever played a solo map maybe I would do this though. Would save some time going into crypts or killing surtlings.
Simpler solution if you play solo and are always on the move.. 5 bosses total 10 portals plus the bossStones = 12.. have one at main base called Temp and a pocket temp.. Use temp always. keep all portals in a chest until needed dropping one at each location after you have found them. total in game portals = 14 only 12 active all times once end game is reached. Use the temp for all resources except for the obvious ore which you make a 4x4 cabin that can contain all you need up to a 20 min buff. when done break it all down put loot on a boat or in a cart depending on distance and on your way. another solution is seed hopping no portals
Okay kind of a hybrid model. Thats cool. According to the comments quite a few people do it this way. I'm happy with anyway works for you. Just letting you know there are options.
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@@valguy4u np, figured i would mention that alternative.. like you said, everyone has a way that works for them. the more suggestions the more options... Great vid as it helps newcomers in a big way..
I keep portals from one land at that land on land-main-base. So you can travel through main-main-base portal to the land-main-base and then to other regions of that land. Also I keep names intead of numbers. But after watching your system I realize how to rename portals if I disliked their previous name. I'll just use 2 portals with old and new name on the any main-base and rename sub-portal.
Seems like a pretty solid system. Hopefully renaming portals can make it even better for you.
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Yup. The Stargate method: just dial up the end portal as you need it.
You got it. Also I didn't know that it has a name lol. I do remember the old Stargate movie from the 90s though.
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@@valguy4u Not sure it has that name to anyone but me, but that's how I think of it especially considering the portals are surrounded by runes lol! I typically play portal-less but over the holiday break I was seeing what portal life was like and learned the hard way about not keeping an open channel to dial home with! On the flip side, the phenomenon of portals not changing their endpoint instantly means you can rename portals easily! Simply dial the old name, then change to the new name and step through. If you make it through you just set the other end to the new name and hop back. Naturally keep that open line home because I've accidentally renamed the portal to "w" as I was stepping through without realizing it! I also had a 3rd portal set up if there is somewhere I frequent like the trader.
made it simple and just started using a portal mod, select the portal of intent on entrance.
What we do is only have 2 portals in home base we have a portal named for the base always for emergency purposes incases like getting stranded on an island or somebody dies and cant portal back and the other portal is the one that we always change to wherever we need to portal. That way we dont have to dedicate an insanely large amount of space for portals
We use #portals. 1-30+ placed in the world and 1 in the main base. And you just connect the main base to whichever # you want to goto
Sounds like you've got it figured out.
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Was doing it the hard way. Appreciate it
Glad I could help. I tried it the many portal way at first and HATED it lol
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Absolutely brilliant!! This will make things so much nicer and cleaner on my own server with my roommate! Thanks for the great info!!!
Thanks Capn. Glad we can help you, thats what this channel is all about!
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@@valguy4u definitely got a sub from me, plan to watch some more videos of yours after work tonight and hopefully learn some more fun trucks of the trade! Keep up the great work!
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could also just name the far away portal home, wait for it to connect, quickly change it back to 8 (or whatever number) and go through it. then youll be back at home, and the faraway portal will be back to the number you want and your home one will be available for use again
my portals turn off right away when i try to change their names. it sucks cus always need a portal named and idk what its ganna be yet, guess ill have to do numbers