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Portal demo provided by the developers in the days leading up to 1.3's release.
The Portal Gun is an item dropped by the Moon Lord. It launches projectiles capable of creating up to two portals (one via LMB, the other via RMB). These two portals are linked; any player that touches one will be instantly transported to the other one, without losing momentum.
While selected, the Portal Gun will alter the player's physics: maximum fall speed * 3.5 (from 51MPH to 179MPH) and horizontal momentum/inertia is kept while in the air. This effect is also applied if the last entity that affected the player's fall was a portal.
Notes
- Portals can only be used to transport players and NPCs. Enemies and projectiles do not interact with portals in any way.
- The Portal Gun has a range of 1400-1500 blocks.
- If the player attempts to use the Portal Gun with an object, such as a chest, they will fire a second portal slightly before opening the chest, thus rendering them unable to move any items and ruining their portal placement at the same time.
- Despite being a tool, the Portal Gun cannot be placed on a weapon rack.
- In multiplayer, all players will have different portal colors.
- The Portal Gun alone does not block fall damage, but traveling through a portal will reset fall damage taken.
- Teleporting quickly shifts the viewpoint instead of instantly setting it to the destination point if the two portals are within viewable distance of each other.
- Portals close if the player gets around 1600 feet away from them, dies, or leaves the world.
- A mounted player cannot travel through a portal.
- The increased fall speed does not work while riding a mount.
- The effects of touching a block will occur before the player enters a portal. A portal placed on damaging blocks will harm the player, and one placed on Pink Slime Blocks will cause a player to bounce, slowing their fall speed.
- If a player were to use the portal gun at the top of their world they can use the incredible falling speed combined with decent wings to remain at a stable altitude while keeping a horizontal speed of 179 mph. This can then be used to cross the map very quickly for example.
Trivia
- The Portal Gun is based on the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, the main means of solving puzzles in Valve's Portal game series.
History
- 1.3.0.5: Portal Gun bolt speed quadrupled to prevent the player traveling faster than the bolt.
- 1.3.0.4:
- Fixed portal gun right-click working in camera mode.
- Teleportation should no longer black out the screen if the end point is located on the same screen area.
- In accordance with the numerous fixes to teleportation and velocity, Portal Gun maximum falling speed has been tripled!
- 1.3.0.1: Introduced.
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