Portal guns = buggy

[WaterTipper]

I got a blue porkchop portal gun from a dungeon a while back, and I've been noticing that they're extremely buggy.

First of all, it changes colors.
Every so often, the portal gun will change its color from blue to orange, orange to blue, and sometimes it won't even have the porkchop on it.
Is this intended?

Second, it clears the portals randomly once in a while.
When I quit and reload the world, go through a Twilight Portal, stuff like that, I'll sometimes find my portals have disappeared, making me travel some thousand blocks to set it up again.
Again, is this intended?

I've also noticed that the portals don't spawn you in the right place sometimes.
It has teleported me into floors, ceilings, walls, even into middle of a cave that was some ten blocks away.

And finally, the Portal Gun Pedestal.
Twice I've found the pedestal just vanished in my world (with the portal gun still in it), and I've had to spawn it back in with NEI both times to get it back.

Has anyone experienced this also?

 

[NTaylor]

Not seen many of the bugs you have described though I must admit that I have never used the pedestal so I can't really say on that.

However the gun changing colours is perfectly normal, the gun changes colour based on the last portal that you fired. So you shoot an orange portal the gun goes orange fire a blue one it goes blue.

Closest I can say to it not spawning you in the right place is that sometimes it spawns you slightly below the portal but never 10 blocks away.

Only real suggestion I can make is if you are playing on SSP instead of SMP look for an updated version of the mod.

 

[WaterTipper]

I'll try installing an updated version of Portal Gun mod; maybe I messed something up while editing some configs.
Thanks for the reply!

 

[egor66]

These are all old issues that are random & some what rare, the fix for spawning in floors is to have both portals one block over the ground level, I have never used the stand so no idea there, ps you did not state what pack & version your on, the 147 is old now, & the author has plans to change stuff up again, mostly because of some mods that make finding portal guns way to easy "cough cough DC, MC cough" so expect big changes.

 

[natnif36]

Top tip.

DON'T EVER place portals on the ground.

Especially not in the nether several hundred blocks away from spawn.
You're jump in one, and then come out the other and fall right back through it, eventually you lose momentum and end up stuck between the two and then spontaneously suffocate in a wall.
And lose all your stuff.
Including the portal gun.