Portals is there to make it not go easy mode in game, well its easy anyways. But with my playstyle its like, I build I base where I land, farm the land around me on Iron, wood stuff like that.. makes that base so it can smelt and craft stuff. then when I am bored, I relocate.... building a new base. Got my first base I havent visit in 900 days o so... need to check it out :)