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Use Name Tags to manually link multiple Nether Portals together

There has been many suggestions on people wanting to manually link Nether Portals but their ideas tends to need new blocks or is complicated. My idea is to use the Name Tag item instead to give the portals a ID that will make it easy to know what portal links to what or force two or more portals to connect.

 

The way it would work is when holding a Name Tag that has been given a name in your hand, click the use button while facing a Nether Portal's purple portal to apply it. the portal will now show its name at the top of it when facing the portal.

Now any portal with that same name will be linked together. If you go through a portal and the other dimension has multiple portals with the same name, you will have an equal chance of randomly spawning at any of those portals with same name. If a named portal has no portal in the other dimension with the same name or the player enters an unnamed portal, then the portal will use the normal portal mechanics that we currently have now.

 

The big benefits to using Name Tags on portals is it will make connecting portals more intuitive, gives another helpful use to Name tags that players may be stockpiling, and can make it much much easier to make mini-games or maps with stages/levels without the use of Command Blocks as portals can be used to teleport players to specific rooms. 

 

I hope this idea gets considered as it would be a major quality-of-life improvement to Minecraft's current Nether Portal system.

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    Amazing idea, especially when you have overworld dungeons or fortresses that are thousands of blocks away, it's better to portal near them through the nether.

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    I hope this gets added someday

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    This is really good

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    This would work only if the target portal is within specific range.

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    I agree with this idea, however I think it should only work for portals that are within a certain radius of eachother.  If they can be connected from any distance, it would limit the need for current travel options like elytra, horses, and ice highways, and take away from some features the game already has.

    However, this still is a much needed feature, because currently if more than one person builds a base near each other that have two different portals, the portals are forced to connect to each other, which is not only inconvenient, it seriously limits the creative ability one can use when making things with portals.

    Want to make a cool hidden base under spawn that you can only get to via a portal?  You can't.

    Want to make a system of portals that results in a maze connecting both the overworld and nether?  You can't unless you make it extremely spread out, or only use a single portal. 

    Want to simply build a nice nether portal near your base that happens to lead to a different room in your nether base?  You can't.

    This would be an extremely nice feature to have and would greatly increase the creative expression one has when building things in the nether.

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    This would definitely be very useful when you need to travel somewhere far away and be able to get back.

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    This is very good for fast traveling