Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

No portals is not hard really, it's just time consuming.

It is way great for immersion. There is no sailing somewhere with the bare minimum, set a portal and go sleep in your bed. You do have to make camps, find food, etc. Weapon durability becomes very important too since they are not trivial to repair.

I did a few no portals playthroughs but mistland kind of killed it for me. This biome is so tedious and unenjoyable I have no desire to really "survive" in it in a no portal run.

? You can just bring the mats for everything in a longboat that you might need (EA forge) and still be able to repair? I dont think that will change with hardcore?

If I'm going on a long journey (looking for the next biome, etc), I do pack the mats for the benches, cauldron, and upgrades, but it takes a significant portion of even the longboat storage, and that's not even including the mistlands tables, which I haven't tried to travel with yet.

If/when you need to fix some weapons/armor, and/or make some more food, you plan at least a day, likely multiple to put it all together and tear it all down again.

Sometimes you need/want to make a temporary farm as well, which, of course, is several days.