[Suggestion] A way to link Teletransport stations

[LavenderLillie]

What if there was a way to link two Teletransport stations together, so that standing on one would always warp to the other? This would only be able to link two stations, but would allow for easier travel around the map without giving Winona complete freedom to warp to any station. Maybe this could be accomplished by linking the stations with the moon orbs filled with the different gems, since they never see too much use, and the Teletransport stations are unlocked via the Lunar "affinity"? Or maybe just with plain old gems.

[Golden Daemon]

Utilizing colored gems to link teletransports sharing the same colored gems have been suggested before and honsetly seems like a good idea, even if the gems are consumed upon teleportation.

[Pruinae]

You can already achieve this by making a network of telepads with a precise distance from one another, you just have to walk to the edge of the telepad towards the telepad you want to go. Still, hard to do without mods or building them in straight lines.



Information and Image credit to @Maxil20 and friends.

I think instead of being able to just link them, Klei should add an item that helps building such networks, something that tells your exact distance to the nearest teleport? Idk

[loopuleasa]

You can link this with extra work

In theory you can make one telehub with 8! portals, the trick here is to distance 8 other portals at FIXED distances in 8 cardinal directions PRECISELY

I love the way this is just because it makes for a cool engineering challenge

 

[gamehun20]

1 hour ago, loopuleasa said:

engineering challenge

A measuring tape would be nice

[Cassielu]

It already does, it just takes a little thought.

With standing at the edge of the teletransport stations or overload the enlightened gem generator. A hexagonal teletransport stations network allowed you to teleport anywhere from anywhere.

[loopuleasa]

14 minutes ago, Cassielu said:

With standing at the edge of the teletransport stations A hexagonal teletransport stations network allowed you to teleport anywhere from anywhere.

That's cool, I didn't know it worked on YOUR position, I thought it was position of station.

That is even TIGHTER engineering to be done

[kroban]

 

6 hours ago, LavenderLillie said:

What if there was a way to link two Teletransport stations together, so that standing on one would always warp to the other?

Yeah at first I thought that it was going to work that way, the current tp station is a bit lackluster. I would have preferred a "linked stations" method but with an expensive cost to balance it, like wasting an entire gem or even 2 per use.

Like, the current station is "fine" for saving some time, but from what I have been testing, its either a one-way tp that won't let you tp back unless you turn off one of the receiving ends (which means you would have to walk back to that place to manually activate it again), or it requires a lot of calculation to know the exact distance of each tp... which can be fun for some but for others it will be useless because of how frustating it will be to set up

[flamboyant wolf]

24 minutes ago, kroban said:

 

Yeah at first I thought that it was going to work that way, the current tp station is a bit lackluster. I would have preferred a "linked stations" method but with an expensive cost to balance it, like wasting an entire gem or even 2 per use.

Like, the current station is "fine" for saving some time, but from what I have been testing, its either a one-way tp that won't let you tp back unless you turn off one of the receiving ends (which means you would have to walk back to that place to manually activate it again), or it requires a lot of calculation to know the exact distance of each tp... which can be fun for some but for others it will be useless because of how frustating it will be to set up

I wouldn't call it lackluster at all! Even if you simply make a "pair" of platforms in each shard, it can allow you to get to these two points from anywhere on that shard, in other words, you can:

Instantly go back to base at almost no cost, Instantly go to the place you put a 2nd platform at from base(for example, lunar. it transporting items will also help if you wanna make a bunch of cutters and axes, and it will let you get the lunar altar pieces to the place the moment you find em), have a teleplatform pair to ruins and back, to use which you would only need to go to caves. Don't ignore the early game potential as well, by putting your teleplatform next to the shadow pieces, you will only need to do as much as stand near a suspicious marble and use your trusty portasol! Plus, you can easily transport several giant tree nuts at a time, which is gonna be really good for growing big trees.

So, my point is, while setting up a complex teleplatform network can be quite complicated and tedious(which perhaps could be simplified a bit, at least by having a way to tell the distance to the other teleplatforms easier), it's not necessary at all for teleplatform to be of huge help!

[Frosty_Mentos]

It still feels sad that telelocator focus won't get any buffs after all these character updates and changes. Though I guess after all characters will get update maybe it'll be time when base game content gets new features and things to supplement and not fall off.