[Suggestion] Instead of creating fresh dimensions for each pocket, instead use single dimension to house every pocket dimension about dimdoors HOT 7 OPEN

The problem here is that it doesn't matter if the Spectre Rooms or the Compact Machines rooms are visible to other rooms. It does matter if you can see one DimDoors 'room' from another.

DimDoors rooms are meant to be fragmented, broken chunks of a world. They're supposed to be separated by literal nonexistence, in lore terms, which means that if you can dig your way into the next one you've just taken one of the key parts of the mod's lore and torn it to shreds.

Then again, it would be a massive performance boost. So what I'd recommend is creating a block that looks, acts, and is (for all intents and purposes) part of the void. Something that blocks all view, can't be passed through, and sends you straight to Limbo when you hit it. This would keep the performance boost of having everything in one dimension without having to break the lore.

(And yes, I care a lot about the lore, minimal as it is. This mod is cool.)

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@Derpford I completely agree with what you just said : D

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I thought those rooms were completely surrounded in unbreakable blocks? Even if they aren't, why can't they be unbreakable? I know Minimaps would show each room (they do for Compact Machines), but then couldn't you fill the negative space with a "void block" similar to the one you described, where you can't break it in survival and if you somehow find yourself within it, you get sent to limbo?

You also don't necessarily need to generate each room within a few chunks of each other. You can spread them out far enough away where their chunks aren't even loaded when someone is in another room elsewhere (due to maximum render distance being inconsistent across clients, this setting could even be configurable, but default to something like 16 chunks between each pocket dimension).

I do agree though, the difference with Dimensional Doors' Pocket Dimensions and, say, Compact Machines or the Spectre Rooms is that these are supposed to be tiny pockets within the fabric of reality, surrounded by literally nothingness. I'd want the mechanics to stay true to the lore of the mod, but I'm also looking out for server performance. We don't need to make new dimensions for each pocket since each pocket is finite in size, whereas Mystcraft and RFTools dimensions are infinite in size.

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Fabric of Reality blocks are, in fact, breakable, unlike the blocks used in
CompactMachines/EU rooms. They can also be replaced with other blocks.
Padding the rooms out could work, though.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 11:12 AM Undead Zeratul [email protected]
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I thought those rooms were completely surrounded in unbreakable blocks?
Even if they aren't, why can't they be unbreakable? I know Minimaps would
show each room (they do for Compact Machines), but then couldn't you fill
the negative space with a "void block" similar to the one you described,
where you can't break it in survival and if you somehow find yourself
within it, you get sent to limbo?

You also don't necessarily need to generate each room within a few chunks
of each other. You can spread them out far enough away where their chunks
aren't even loaded when someone is in another room elsewhere (due to
maximum render distance being inconsistent across clients, this setting
could even be configurable, but default to something like 16 chunks between
each pocket dimension).

I do agree though, the difference with Dimensional Doors' Pocket
Dimensions and, say, Compact Machines or the Spectre Rooms is that these
are supposed to be tiny pockets within the fabric of reality, surrounded by
literally nothingness. I'd want the mechanics to stay true to the lore of
the mod, but I'm also looking out for server performance. We don't need to
make new dimensions for each pocket since each pocket is finite in size,
whereas Mystcraft and RFTools dimensions are infinite in size.

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Ah, hmm... that's silly then; they need a border of unbreakable blocks on the outside.

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On second glance, it looks like there IS a block that's practically unbreakable, which suggests that there is a border around the rooms (though not in the floor).

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I would like to also support this suggestion, I just reached over 32 dimensions within about an hour, seems a bit much. Didn't realize it was making a new one each time.

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