Nicer Portals

This mod introduces numerous useful improvements to portal functionality. It includes several features that work both on the client and server sides. Below is the complete list of capabilities!

Client Features

The following features work only when the mod is installed on the client.

Single Portal Break Sound

When a portal is destroyed, the entire structure produces only one break sound instead of separate sounds for each block. No more annoying repetitive sounds!

Server Features and Single Player

These features work when installed on the server (or on the client for single player).

Prevent Zombified Piglin Spawns

Protect your megabase from zombie piglin invasions! This function simply prevents them from spawning from portals in the overworld.

Use Crying Obsidian in Portals

Allows using crying obsidian interchangeably with regular obsidian when building portals!

Custom Portal Shapes

Allows creating portals of any enclosed shape! For performance optimization, portal size is limited by the number of portal blocks - check the configuration file to set the limit!

Configuration

You can configure the mod's behavior through the nicerportals.toml files. One is located in the normal configuration folder, and another is in a new configuration folder inside your world's save folder. If you have ModMenu installed, you can also access the settings through the interface in ModMenu's mod list!

dedupeBreakSound: true|false - Determines whether portals produce only one sound when destroyed. Client only.

preventPortalSpawns: true|false - Determines whether to prevent Zombified Piglins from spawning from portals in the overworld. Server and single player only.

cryingObsidian: true|false - Determines whether to allow using crying obsidian for portals. Server and single player only.

anyShape: true|false - Determines whether to allow portals of any shape and size. Server and single player only.

maxSize: Integer - Maximum allowed portal size. Be careful: setting values that are too large may cause lag or even crash the game. The default value of 2304 causes only minor delays in some cases. This setting only takes effect if anyShape is set to true. Server and single player only.

enforceMinimum: true|false - Require that portals are at least 1x2 in size (so they can be walked through). Set to false to allow 1x1 portals. This setting only takes effect if anyShape is set to true. Server and single player only.