Done TIL: teleporting to moon doesn't work sometimes; use enhanced portals to connect overworld and moon

I have two homes - one on the overworld and one on the moon. I used to be able to tp back and forth just fine, but now I get "Error: Invalid world" when trying to do /home moon. Is the moon working for everyone else?

 

If the chunks are not loaded, it won't recognize the place you're trying to tp...you may want to try some form of chunk loading to keep it loaded if you plan to tp back and forth

 

Okay, do you have any suggestions for how to do that in a way that won't unnecessarily load the server?

 

You can try mfr chunk loader but it does take a good bit of energy

 

The minefactory chunkloader is a disabled item on b-team. Needing the chunks to be loaded is not a particularly good behavior for a multiplayer server that has regular restarts because it means every person who wants to be able to have a home on the moon will have to keep their chunks perpetually loaded - I think you can see how that would get out of hand in terms of memory. There are vanilla chunk loading apparatus, but they mostly rely on "extending" the spawn chunks in a network of hoppers. Right now I'm working on getting some enhanced portals going, but at this point it's sounding like I'll have to build another rocket to get to the moon to put the portal down there because the tp system didn't take multiple worlds into account.

By the way, how come /rt can take me to chunks that are presumably unloaded (since there's nobody there)?

 

Rt is a different plugin..

I speculate that it sends the cords to the server where its putting you so the server knows where to load.

 

The issue with the "Error: Invalid World" lies in that the dimension is not loaded.
Most modded teleporters have a custom way of loading the dimension, often by spawning a "ghost" entity, or rather, an entity that cannot be seen, interacted with etc. It just has a location.

Now, /rt, is often used to rt in the same dimension. This means that the dimension is already loaded. Thus it just sets your coords to a set location from a big list.

Lets simplify it.
You want to go to another city (dimension).
You say "Moon", but because that isnt loaded, your GPS can't find it. It's outside the zone of where it can look.
However, if you rt, you just go to another street. That is nearby, so the GPS can find it.


Galacticraft is know to have this issue with it's dimensions, sadly

 

Cool. It would be really useful for this knowledge to be more common, as I bought upgraded tier just so I could set a /home on the moon. Now, do any of you know conclusively whether enhanced portals will work between the Moon and the overworld?

 

Yes, I've used them between all my space bases

 

had the same prob, if mystcraft is on try that, also chunkloaders do not work as you have to load them first whenever you log in

 

i did not know that, i thought you had to load it before it started working, the more you know i suppose, also rftools works as well, mystcraft doesnt look as cool, of if thaumic tinkerer is on, possibly make those ichorium teleporters (i made a few on dw20 single, their amazing) their expensive but worth it, like a long range travel anchor

 

Enhanced portal worked and wasn't too expensive. Moonbase is a go. Next: Marsbase.