And that's about all the time it takes, if there are no problems with worldgen or portal creation. I've been on the stiff side of luck more times than not. Out of my last 10 worlds, I've tried to find end portals in 7 or 8 of them, and only managed in 3. The portals did not even exist.
Finding an End Portal
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And that's about all the time it takes, if there are no problems with worldgen or portal creation. I've been on the stiff side of luck more times than not. Out of my last 10 worlds, I've tried to find end portals in 7 or 8 of them, and only managed in 3. The portals did not even exist.
They are nearly always within 1000m from original spawn, players have trouble finding them who move the spawn point a silly longs ways off the original one.
Even if you replace the mechanic for creating an End portal you couldn't make it too complicated or people would just give up and find the original ones with eyes.
Even if you replace the mechanic for creating an End portal you couldn't make it too complicated or people would just give up and find the original ones with eyes.
I've never had problems finding them. But I don't just consider what I would find useful, I happen to know that an item like this would be useful for some people.
I know how to find them, mechanically, but thanks for the summation.
In every case, I have used ender eyes to locate the position where the portal should be and have proceeded to try to find them. In two worlds, the eyes took me to a location with no stronghold, no portal, no nothing, and no matter where I went in the world (I circled spawn at 1400-ish blocks), that same point was the only destination eyes would go to.
In many cases, I will find a stronghold, but the portal is not present. I spent a week tearing one fortress apart block by block before convincing the admin to actually bring up the world in worldedit and check. In other cases, the eye takes me somewhere but there is no stronghold, or the stronghold is, like, 2 random blocks of cracked stone sticking out of the middle of a wall, bisected by a mineshaft and a dozen ravines.
I, personally, would welcome a legitimate way to create an end portal using mods.
If one adds GT to unleashed or magic bees to Unhinged as well as using biomes o plenty for world generation, one can breed draconic bees without visiting the end and then use the GT teleporter to teleport directly to the end dimension (a dragon egg has to sit next to the teleporter for dimensional travel). Alternatively, one could use Xenos Reliquary to make a dragon egg. But I've not been able to get that teleporter working in a server environment. Works great in single player though.
I've also seen strongholds spawn with only a room or two and no portal, but there should be two others. The annoying bit is getting far enough away from the first one that the eye will float toward another one.
Ah. I'm unlikely to add GT to a modpack (I don't even use IC2 at this point), but that's good to know, thanks.
Yeah. Last vanilla server I played on, 2 out of 3 of the strongholds were broken, and I do not know how the third one wasn't. The portal was floating over the middle of a ravine with a mineshaft just -barely- missing it. If you look up 'unlucky' in the dictionary, I'm there.
Understandable, just pointing out the one method I am aware of for getting into the end via a mod. It would be interesting to see more alternate options for directed cross dimensional travel.
And when active, it should spawn a zombie invasion.. a beacon calling the ender dragon's minions to defend it.
Those eyes are really annoying to use, they can be quite buggy when it comes to decide what direction the closest fortress is. I can even stand in the same spot watching my pearls go in one of two possible directions.
I'm surprised Mystcraft doesn't provide a solution. Eight ender eyes around an unlinked Mystcraft book for example. No more complicated or expensive than vanilla mechanics, but not an easier.