harvelsx / betterportals

My plugin version of the popular BetterPortals mod which has many limitations, but requires no client side code

BetterPortals

BetterPortals is a minecraft spigot plugin which allows you to see through nether portals to look at the blocks on the other side.

It aims to provide a similar experience to the BetterPortals mod, but as a plugin, so it requires no client side mods.

This works pretty well for players with low ping (under 50 ms), and portal animations are pretty smooth.

For more info, see the plugin's Spigot Page

Features

• Viewing blocks through nether portals.
• Viewing entities through portals.
• Creating your own custom portals (in a way like MultiversePortals).
• Horizontal custom portals.
• Creating portals between multiple servers. (AKA cross-server portals)

Limitations

Of course, being a plugin, there are several limitations.

• Portal animations can lag players if not using optifine.
• Players with high ping see artifacts of the portal projection.
• Much longer render distances lag both players and the server.

Future Plans

• Improve performance to allow for much longer render distances.

Compilation

Requirements to build:

• Gradle 7 or higher installed and on PATH.
• Java 8 or higher on PATH and JAVA_HOME also set to point to the folder containing the bin folder.

1. Clone this repository (either via the Code dropdown on github and then downloading ZIP, or through git clone https://github.com/Lauriethefish/BetterPortals.git).
2. If you want to add the commit hash to the version number (i.e. have the JAR be considered a "dev build"), then set the BP_DEVELOPER_BUILD environment variable to 1.
3. Run gradle build in the project root.
4. The shaded JAR is found in ./final/build/libs/. Make sure to pick the JAR with -all at the end, otherwise you will not get all of the necessary dependencies. Example