The portal boys be portalling!

view of tower
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2792797937

view of top and bottom infinite fall portal
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2792797950

coming out at top
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2792797964

mid fall
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2792797981


about to hit top of bottom portal
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2792797995

long story short, built big tower to fall into a hole of water. worked :steamthumbsup:

then built portal top and bottom to see if could fall into it. worked. :steamthumbsup:

then built portal so that it would create an infinite portal loop without touching keyboard. worked. :steamthumbsup:

From this experiment we found out that portals can be basically entered by falling on top of them from any height and not die, via portalling. we also tested to see if velocity carries over ie would you instantly die on the other side of a high velocity portal jump if you hit the ground on the other side, the answer is no, velocity does not carry over through portalling.
2:13 pm, April 11, 2022
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Fzanco replied to The portal boys be portalling! May 5, 2022 @ 8:13:37 pm PDT

Originally posted by Samoth:
it is great. I see the tilt(lean) of the rock tower kinda facilitates the whole thing?
And so, it is simply that, fall onto it, even the wooden rigid ring part, and as long as it spins up before you technically hit it, you get away safely. But if someone happens to pass ahead of you, and it's not quite prepared for you you could just go splat... hmm k.. i can live with that, Kudos!
Well we originally were setting up the bottom portal further away from the tower and running into it (which worked) cause we thought you needed to go through the portal. But then trying just a straight drop cause sometimes it looked like we hit the top and it worked. So after setting up a straight drop aka no keyboard required, we basically hit the top of the portal and it still counted as going through portal. It seems the hitbox for the portal goes up a bit further than one would think.

Not sure about if there's a second player going by at the same time would stuff things up, I don't think that would matter as one can usually head through portals simaltaneously as another player, I would have loved to show the video but seemed like too much effort to post lol
8:13 am, May 6, 2022
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Samoth replied to The portal boys be portalling! May 5, 2022 @ 3:48:55 pm PDT

it is great. I see the tilt(lean) of the rock tower kinda facilitates the whole thing?
And so, it is simply that, fall onto it, even the wooden rigid ring part, and as long as it spins up before you technically hit it, you get away safely. But if someone happens to pass ahead of you, and it's not quite prepared for you you could just go splat... hmm k.. i can live with that, Kudos!
11:13 pm, May 5, 2022
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Polonius Ulf replied to The portal boys be portalling! May 5, 2022 @ 2:21:22 am PDT

Cool. That's all. Just cool.
11:13 am, May 5, 2022
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Samoth replied to The portal boys be portalling! May 4, 2022 @ 8:12:09 pm PDT

This is vanilla? How are they positioned as to allow vertical movement perpendicularly?
Is it the mod for pivoting the objects that allows this?
5:13 am, May 5, 2022
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us271934-Слава Україн replied to The portal boys be portalling! May 4, 2022 @ 8:38:38 pm PDT

Originally posted by Samoth:
This is vanilla? How are they positioned as to allow vertical movement perpendicularly?
Is it the mod for pivoting the objects that allows this?

Fzanco said they were able to transit the bottom portal by landing directly on top of it. I'd expect there were a few casualties during the alignment process :steamhappy:
5:13 am, May 5, 2022
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Fzanco replied to The portal boys be portalling! May 4, 2022 @ 10:10:40 pm PDT

Yes this is vanilla, this test proved you can fall into/onto a portal from any hieght and not take damage as you technically pass through portal before damage is applied. Do with this info what you want
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AugustusKron replied to The portal boys be portalling! April 11, 2022 @ 10:20:19 am PDT

need a blue telephone booth around the one at the bottom
8:13 pm, April 11, 2022
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Tyrael replied to The portal boys be portalling! April 11, 2022 @ 6:01:29 am PDT

now try to build a string of portals from your base through different biomes! so you see the world in just a few seconds
2:13 pm, April 11, 2022
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Fzanco replied to The portal boys be portalling! April 11, 2022 @ 6:20:50 am PDT

Originally posted by Tyrael:
now try to build a string of portals from your base through different biomes! so you see the world in just a few seconds
Most definitely possible, prob take a minute or two cause of the portal load times.
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