Only interacted portals in the list. about xportal HOT 3 CLOSED

This is not a small addition - it will require rewriting much of how the mod currently does its job. I will spend some time thinking on it.

Some things to consider:

• This needs to be configurable, because not everyone will want this
• If you install XPortal for the first time on a world you already have portals on, should they be visible or not?
• If a portal you have already discovered gets destroyed (by enemies or players), you'd have to build a new one, which then isn't "discovered" anymore. Is that what you want?
• How many visitors per portal should XPortal remember? Infinite? This is a potential memory hog for servers.
• Perhaps there is another approach that achieves your goal, maybe something like an access setting (could be similar to Wards?)

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I don't know how your mod is written, but the vanilla portals are looked through every view seconds? if there are many portals on vanilla servers there already is a problem with connection delay.

The Idea of the access setting like with Wards sounds very interesting. But i can see the problems you mentioned, especially with installing the mod after some portals are already placed.
Maybe you can find some solution, its just an idea :)

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the vanilla portals are looked through every view seconds?

Yes, in the unmodded vanilla game, a coroutine that runs roughly every five seconds checks to see if it should connect any portals. XPortal disables that coroutine.

if there are many portals on vanilla servers there already is a problem with connection delay

No, having many portals does not cause a noticeable delay in this behaviour. A moderate server can probably execute this function a few hundred times per second without anyone noticing anything.

Also, my comment was not about that. My comment was about memory: If you must keep a list of all users that have ever interacted with a portal, this could potentially become infinitely large on a dedicated server. It's a potential risk that has to be considered, is all I meant.

Anyway, I don't feel like this modification fits within the scope of XPortal as a mod. Maybe another mod could provide this functionality. If such a mod exists I'd happily work on any compatibility issues that may arise.

I am closing this issue as I will not work on this request. Thank you for supporting XPortal!

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