Originally posted by BrotherO4:

I would remove portals if 1. We get faster boats, backpacks, boats that we can builds homes on for example. The are many things that we can gain that TP will render pointless.

Or redo TP. What if TP randomly spawns on islands and we got to find it, fix it, and get it running. Thus another reasons for players to go exploring into the worlds

I would 100% support portals being structures placed in random locations on each island that we have to repair to get running. That combined with faster boats, larger inventory, more carry weight, the ability to teleport ores, and the ability to make a boat our spawn point / home / bed.