Ruined Portals Only

⭐ — (24 endorsements) 📥 14,932 downloads 📌 v1.21.11-1.0.1 📅 1/13/2025
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By its_Paz · adventure

⬇ Download Mod Source: Modrinth ↗ 📅 Updated: 1/28/2026 📅 Created: 1/13/2025
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📋 About This Mod

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## Description Ruined Portals Only, by default, prevents the lighting of a portal unless the portal is within a ruined portal structure's bounding box. The goal is to promote exploration, give ruined portals more of a purpose, and make setting up Nether fast travel networks more challenging. This mod does not affect any already lit portals upon being installed.

Return portals generated upon travelling through a portal may generate in a restricted area, but will remain lit until being destroyed, at which point they cannot be re-lit.

### Features: - 3 In-Overworld portal creation options: Allow creation everywhere, allow creation only at ruined portals, and allow creation only at custom locations defined in `ruinedportalsonly.json` (preset to ruined portals, desert pyramid, jungle pyramid, ocean monument, ancient city, stronghold) - 3 In-Nether portal creation options: Allow creation everywhere, allow creation only at ruined portals, and allow creation only at custom locations defined in `ruinedportalsonly.json` (preset to ruined portals, nether wastes, crimson forest, bastion remnant) - Helpful message to player if attempting to light a portal in a restricted area - In-game documentation is available via (https://modrinth.com/mod/treatise) if installed - In-game configuration is available via (https://modrinth.com/mod/modmenu) if installed

### Config: Overworld portals options: "EVERYWHERE", "RUINED_PORTALS_ONLY", "CUSTOM"

When "CUSTOM" is selected, values will be read from `customOverworldBiomesOption` and `customOverworldStructuresOption`. This allows adding modded structures or biomes.

Nether portals options: "EVERYWHERE", "RUINED_PORTALS_ONLY", "CUSTOM"

When "CUSTOM" is selected, values will be read from `customNetherBiomesOption` and `customNetherStructuresOption`. This allows adding modded structures or biomes.

Default `.minecraft/config/ruinedportalsonly.json`:

``` { "overworldPortalsOption": "RUINED_PORTALS_ONLY", "netherPortalsOption": "RUINED_PORTALS_ONLY", "customOverworldBiomesOption": [], "customOverworldStructuresOption": [ "minecraft:ruined_portal", "minecraft:ruined_portal_desert", "minecraft:ruined_portal_jungle", "minecraft:ruined_portal_mountain", "minecraft:ruined_portal_ocean", "minecraft:ruined_portal_swamp", "minecraft:desert_pyramid", "minecraft:jungle_pyramid", "minecraft:ancient_city", "minecraft:ocean_monument", "minecraft:stronghold" ], "customNetherBiomesOption": [ "minecraft:nether_wastes", "minecraft:crimson_forest" ], "customNetherStructuresOption": [ "minecraft:ruined_portal_nether", "minecraft:bastion_remnant" ] } ```

### Lore: Portals can only be lit in certain locations due to the presence of powerful energy there.

Return portals can be generated anywhere, but are unstable and cannot be rebuilt.

### Regarding the preset "CUSTOM" settings: Why allow creating portals in areas where piglins spawn? In Minecraft: Legends, the piglins invade the Overworld. We imagine that the nether wastes, crimson forests, and bastion remnants contain high amounts of energy (the nether wastes being barren due to being irradiated by this energy), and that the piglins could still create portals and invade, but are too scattered and directionless to stage an invasion. Also, piglins know that they will now zombify if entering the Overworld and never convert back.

Why allow creating portals in certain Overworld structures? We imagine that these structures were built at locations infused with energy, and still have enough of that energy present to support portal creation.

## Support If you have a bug report, feature request, or any other type of issue, please post on our GitHub (https://github.com/DentedLeft/Dented-Modding/issues). This is an issues page for all of our mods, so be sure to include the mod's name and version in your post. We appreciate all feedback!

If you'd like to support development, you can leave a tip at our (https://buymeacoffee.com/dentedleft). Only if it's within your means- otherwise, using, sharing, and enjoying the mod is support enough. Thank you!

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📊 Mod Details

Game
Minecraft Mods
Author
its_Paz
Version
1.21.11-1.0.1
Downloads
14,932
Endorsements
24
Category
adventure
Created
1/13/2025
Updated
1/28/2026
Game Versions
1.21.11
Tags
adventure, cursed, game-mechanics

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Which Minecraft Mods versions does Ruined Portals Only support?

The author lists 1.21.11. Other versions may work but are untested by the author.

What is the latest version of Ruined Portals Only?

Version 1.21.11-1.0.1, published 2026-01-28 with 14,932 downloads recorded at the source.

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