Update to Mystcraft - Intraworld Linking?

[lauch]

Perhaps I'm incorrect, but I seem to remember being able to travel intra-world by using linking books. Was this changed or perhaps you never could?

Thanks in advance and apologies if this has been asked already.

 

[Bahnmor]

In the current version this is achieved by crafting a linkbook modifier and adding the intraworld linking option to an inserted linkbook.

 

[PhilHibbs]

And Link Modifiers are a snip at only 72 diamonds and 9 gold.

 

[Icarus White]

It's been heavily implied by the author that the recipe is really a 'dummy' - It will probably get a more sensible (if not cheaper) recipe once the research mechanics and whatnot are laid out. For now, it's something more like a 'debug' tool.

It's not as though intraworld linking is hard to 'fake' though... just set up a 'library', or a 'nexus' in another dimension. That is, set up a stable age (or even the nether!), and put linking books to interesting places in the overworld in a central location. Then, link to the nexus whenever you want, and then go back to the overworld with whichever book you please.

Really, I can think of only one situation where this process doesn't work very well, and that involves crystal portals.

 

[MilConDoin]

There's one other problem with a nexus vs direct intra-linking: Longer loading time. Having to load another age and then the original again. Intra-linking is simply faster.

 

[WTFFFS]

Faster and less likely for me to cause my poor old puter to have a hissy fit with too many loaded dimensions and also somewhat less likely for the "already tesselating" bug to hit me.

 

[Guswut]

(or even the nether!)

You are far better off making a void age instead of using the nether, as the load difference between the two is fairly vast indeed, speaking from experience as such.

 

[PhilHibbs]

How do you make a void age? Is "void" one of the attributes that you can discover randomly?

 

[Bahnmor]

Correct. You just have to keep creating blank descriptive books until you get it (or spawn in a notebook in creative mode).