Sentek Runic Teleporters

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What is Sentek Runic Teleporters:

Sentek is a mod that adds easy to master but challenging to implement teleporters to Minecraft. With easily available parts, you can make Core and Node blocks. Connect them with different types of stone to define targets for your teleporters.

I've always been a fan of mods that allow players to build quick-transit systems to connect outlying builds and settlements. That said, I've found that simple command-block teleporters are no fun to implement. A system that players can use on their own, made from common materials, with a bit of challenge in the building process, is far more fun, especially on servers.

How It Works:

To make your first teleporter, you will need a Core block. You can make regular Cores out of any kind of saplings and cobblestone, or Redstone Cores out of redstone dust and cobblestone (for when you're deep underground with no saplings in sight, or when you just want a cool red core).

When you right-click a Core in the world, with no other blocks touching it, it will teleport you on top of itself. This is the most basic teleporter possible.

To aim your teleporter somewhere else, you need to place stone-type blocks touching it, running in lines away from it. To see how this works, place a single cobblestone block next to your Core and activate the Core. You will be teleported onto the cobblestone block! This is because each cobblestone block changes the destination by one block-length, in the direction it is placed. Some other types of stone-like block add other distances:

Cobblestone - 1
Stone (all types) - 5
Stone brick (all types) - 20
Sandstone (all types) - 20
Obsidian - 100

To fine-tune your teleporter, you might want to make a Tuning Chisel out of a stick and an iron ingot, or a more advanced Diamond Tuning Chisel out of a stick and a diamond:

Right-clicking a Core with a Tuning Chisel will give you information about where the current destination is, which is very helpful for avoiding teleporter mishaps like teleporting into the infinite uncaring void! The Diamond Tuning Chisel even warns you explicitly about a variety of potentially dangerous teleports. It also gives you information about energy requirements.

To activate properly, a teleporter needs power. The power requirement is equal to the total direct distance traveled, in block-lengths. All Cores start with 10 power by default, but to teleport yourself more than 10 blocks, you'll need to add some extra components. When the Core traces out in each direction, if it encounters these components, it will add extra power to the teleporter.

Miner's Core - 10

Redstone Block - 100

Diamond Block - 1000

When the Core searches for adjacent stone, it will search a maximum of 10 blocks in each direction, stopping when it hits a non-teleporter-component block. How, then, do you make really long-range teleporters, or more complex patterns? The answer is with Nodes. You can craft a Node with stone and cobblestone.

When an activated Core traces over a Node, it triggers the Node to search as if it were a Core, and report it's own subtotal vector back to add to the main vector. Importantly, each block will only ever be searched once, so you can't use Nodes to create an infinite loop by accident (or on purpose!). All Cores also serve as Nodes, so passing over a Core or Miner's Core will have the same result as passing over a Node.

Now, what if you're nervous about accidentally teleporting somewhere you don't want to go? Into a cloud, perhaps, or deep underground? Or, worse, into the void! Well, if you use a Diamond Tuning Chisel, that'll help of course, but those are expensive! For the cautious teleporter on a budget, you can make Cautious Cores with torches and cobblestone.

This core will only work when it's set up to teleport you directly onto another core! You'd have to be pretty cunning to get yourself respawned with this one.

Lastly, there's our newest and snazziest core: the Adjustable Core. If you use an Adjustable Core, it'll work even if you provide it less power than it needs. That said, it'll only send you a distance proportional to the power you actually provide! So be careful with it. Using a diamond tuning chisel is highly recommended for this one! Adjustable Cores are made with cobblestone and iron.

An Example

As an example, let's figure out where the teleporter in the header image would take you!

Let's assume that the positive X direction is to the right, and negative X to the left. We will keep a running total of the end result in relative coordinate format, like so: (0, 0, 0). Starting to the left of the Core, we hit a stone block (-5, 0, 0), and then a Node. Left from the Node is stone brick block (-25, 0, 0) and above it is a stone block and a stone brick block (-25, 25, 0) followed by another Node. Left of that Node is a stone brick block (-45, 25, 0). There are no other stone-like blocks connected to this side of the teleporter, so now let's look at the right-hand side.

To the right of the Core is a stone block (-40, 25, 0). After that is a Node. Right of the Node is stone brick (-20, 25, 0), and above it is stone and stone brick (-20, 50, 0). Above that is one last Node, and to the right of that is a final stone brick block (0, 50, 0).

This means our teleporter would teleport you 50 block-lengths straight up into the air if right-clicked! Unfortunately, it won't actually teleport you anywhere because it won't have enough power. It only has the 10 power from the initial Core, which is less than the required 50. That screenshot was, in fact, taken before the power system was implemented.

Redstone Core (MC1.12 and below)

The new Redstone Core is redstone-activateable! It has on and off states like any redstone block, and when it goes from off to on, it searches for the nearest player to teleport automatically. It has a search range that starts at 5, and increases by 5 for each Wood Node in your teleporter. Wood Nodes are crafted like normal Nodes, but with planks instead of stone. They also act like normal Nodes in every way.

Config (MC1.12 and below)

Sentek has an extensive config file. I am a great believer in the idea of letting players choose how a mod functions, instead of telling them how I think it should. Unfortunately, this feature is not yet available in versions 2.0.x for MC1.13+.

The mod produces a config file in the config folder, which can be edited with any normal text editor. It currently includes options to:

• Change what blocks are counted when calculating destinations, and how far each is worth
• Change what block is used for Redstone Core range limits, and how much each one counts for
• Create air pockets if the player would arrive underground and otherwise suffocate
  • Do not create air-pockets if it means removing bedrock
• Create glass platforms to stand on if the player would arrive in mid-air
  • Only create platforms if there is a certain block (Glass Node) in the teleporter
  • Change what that block is
  • Only create platforms if there is a glass block in the player's inventory; one block is removed from the inventory to form the platform
  • Change the platform block from glass to whatever you want
• Stop the player from teleporting through the bottom of the world

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