You can enable noportals and nomap already through console commands, the update will only make that avilable in the UI.


I've recently completed a full noportal run, its neat at first but wears on you toward the end.
Its actually not that big of a deal, you dont build big bases and thats it.
Farming is probably the biggest issue. Because playing normally you often come back to base and do farms on the side. Now you can be away for a week, and literally just wait for stuff to grow with nothing else to do.

Also while you have a base you still take some resources with you on journeys so you can repair stuff etc. As for dangerous fights, instead of a portal you place a bed. Worst is when you return and forget to reset spawn. Noportals definitely is interesting by creating new issues.

Once i died stupidly and respawned in random empty plains village (with no gear, food, anything). Took a while to find black forest (through plains and swamps) to get a dear and make a raft, then climb mountain with campfires to get my body haha.

But overall frankly if you run light (no overgathering, no overbuilding), its barely slower than with portals. They are luxury that makes us lazy.


Nomap sounds fun, and tree based navigation should be cool, but alt tabing to drawing tablet to make own maps and/or make screenshots seems a bit immersion braking . Just fipping a switch to block map is the lest significant part of making nomap into actual sensible gamemode.