Minecraft plugin AdvancedPortals

🔌 About Advanced Portals

Advanced Portals is a Minecraft plugin for Bukkit-compatible servers that provides a flexible portal and destination system. It lets administrators define portals and named destinations using a tag-based configuration model, control how portals trigger, and attach commands or teleportation targets to portal use. The plugin is usable on servers and can be integrated with proxy setups.

🎯 Purpose

Advanced Portals solves the need for customizable teleportation points and cross-world portals without editing world files directly. It is intended for server administrators who need portals for navigation, game mechanics, or cross-server routing and who want fine-grained control over portal behaviour via tags and destinations.

⚙️ Features

• Create portals with tag-driven behaviour (name is required for portal creation).
• Create named destinations (stores player location and facing) and teleport to them.
• Multiple portal block helpers (portal block, end portal block, end gateway block) available via commands.
• Visualisation tools: show nearby portals or destinations with particle effects.
• Import tool for migrating older portal data formats (v2.0.0+ re-code includes import helpers).
• Language file updating utility to add new translation keys without overwriting custom strings.
• Proxy support: compatible with proxy setups (noting forks of Bungee and Velocity are supported according to the project documentation).

🧩 Who It Is For

• Survival and SMP servers needing teleport hubs or custom portals.
• Servers or networks that require cross-world or cross-server portal routing.
• Administrators who prefer command-driven portal creation and tag-based configuration.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Define a portal named shop that teleports players to a shop world destination.
• Create a destination at a spawn platform and allow players with permission to use /desti tp spawn.
• Use portal tags to run commands or restrict use to certain player groups.

⌨️ Commands

Destination commands:

🔐 Permissions

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official Advanced Portals plugin jar for your server platform.
• Place the jar into your server plugins/ directory.
• Restart or start the server and check the server console to confirm the plugin loaded.

📦 Dependencies

• No required third-party dependencies are documented on the official project pages. Proxy integration is supported via compatible proxy forks and may require matching versions on proxy/back-end installs.

🧾 Configuration

• The plugin stores portal and destination data and provides language files; a re-code introduced in v2.0.0+ includes an import routine to migrate older data but may require redoing some configuration. The plugin provides a langupdate command to add new translation keys without overwriting custom strings.

🧠 Technical Notes

• Primary server compatibility is with Bukkit-compatible server software; project documentation also documents proxy support for forks of Bungee and Velocity and offers downloads for common plugin platforms.
• The plugin includes commands and permissions for fine-grained control and provides visualisation tools for portals and destinations.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need tag-configurable portals, named destinations, and optional proxy-aware routing for a Bukkit-style server or network, Advanced Portals provides command-driven creation, visualisation, and import tools that make portal management manageable without editing world data directly.