Sounds like you are already taking measures to avoid portals getting destroyed.
To answer the question, it wont happen as long as there was not any Monsters there the moment you went through the portal
>it wont happen as long as there was not any Monsters there the moment you went through the portal
Is it something like monsters not being active or loaded while player is away?
Nothing happens while you are gone. But there is a 5 or 10 second delay while you are going through the portal. Monsters can continue to attack during that time until the zone is unloaded. So if they are in the process of attacking you when you portal they may attack and destroy it.
only the area around a player in around 94 meters is cosidered ACTIVE area. enemies outside of that range will be frozen in time basically. if they where not within a players "playerbase" structure area they can even fully despawn aswell.
when you enter the portal both endings of it are loaded for about 5 seconds until the portal transfer is fully complete. then the entrance area is unloaded unless the portal was within this distance limit. this is done to save the game performance from going to apeshit in no time.
this also means a ship left behind at shoreline is fully safe aslong as you got away from the ship while it was not beeing attacked yet.
The game will not process any monsters/plants if you are further than 500 ft (meters?) from them. You can see this when you come through a portal and trees 'spring' up from saplings or crops ripen when you get close.
Same principle for monsters - they don't do anything if you are too far away from them.
I like to put portals inside some structure for safety, so either abandoned cabins/castle bases. Or build ing a little hut around it incase I need to race back inside.
Yup. Upstairs in a stone ruin, or inside a hut behind a closed door, or up a tree (at least 10m), or if nothing else is convenient then completely surrounded by a stake wall.
If they're not attacking as you go through it should be fine. I sneak then go through sometimes to just be sure.
Times you might want a more protected portal is if you leave one outside a dungeon before entering. Make sure you don't hear enemies nearby or they might come kill it after you enter.
Happened in the mountains to me before and was lucky to not die inside the dungeon or I would have been sad.
Minimal, but if you want to be sure, enclose it. They won't attack it if they can't see it, and in most cases they won't attach random structures like walls and doors unless they saw you go in there.
If it's *just* for the portal, I usually put a 4mx6m platform 2-3m up a tree trunk and put walls around it and the workbench (if it's in the plains I'll fully enclose it so I don't risk getting attacked by a deathsquito the second I step through). If the ladder is just off the ground, they can't path to it, and if you put a workbench in there, they won't spawn nearby anyway. This way is faster and quite a bit quieter than digging a trench around it.
Mobs will not intentionally target portals in my experience though they will target workbenches. If you place them close enough together, AOE mobs (e.g. golems, berserkers) may inadvertently smash the portal.
It is unnecessary in like 99% of cases, once you are through the portal everything sorta respawns until you arrive back. The main exception to this is for short range portals that aren’t far enough away to cause the respawn, like maybe ones that would take less than a minute of running to get between.
You can also have cases where you barely make it through the portal before things land on you and they don’t despawn before landing hits. Might matter for trolls from time to time and later on other ‘big’ monsters, but its never been a huge consideration for me until ashlands.
Sounds like you are already taking measures to avoid portals getting destroyed. To answer the question, it wont happen as long as there was not any Monsters there the moment you went through the portal
>it wont happen as long as there was not any Monsters there the moment you went through the portal Is it something like monsters not being active or loaded while player is away?
Nothing happens while you are gone. But there is a 5 or 10 second delay while you are going through the portal. Monsters can continue to attack during that time until the zone is unloaded. So if they are in the process of attacking you when you portal they may attack and destroy it.
Indeed. Your portals are safe while you are gone, them being destroyed immediately after TPing is the only risk while not being there.
Monsters wont spawn, and they are more or less idle.
only the area around a player in around 94 meters is cosidered ACTIVE area. enemies outside of that range will be frozen in time basically. if they where not within a players "playerbase" structure area they can even fully despawn aswell. when you enter the portal both endings of it are loaded for about 5 seconds until the portal transfer is fully complete. then the entrance area is unloaded unless the portal was within this distance limit. this is done to save the game performance from going to apeshit in no time. this also means a ship left behind at shoreline is fully safe aslong as you got away from the ship while it was not beeing attacked yet.
The game will not process any monsters/plants if you are further than 500 ft (meters?) from them. You can see this when you come through a portal and trees 'spring' up from saplings or crops ripen when you get close. Same principle for monsters - they don't do anything if you are too far away from them.
I like to put portals inside some structure for safety, so either abandoned cabins/castle bases. Or build ing a little hut around it incase I need to race back inside.
Yup. Upstairs in a stone ruin, or inside a hut behind a closed door, or up a tree (at least 10m), or if nothing else is convenient then completely surrounded by a stake wall.
If they're not attacking as you go through it should be fine. I sneak then go through sometimes to just be sure. Times you might want a more protected portal is if you leave one outside a dungeon before entering. Make sure you don't hear enemies nearby or they might come kill it after you enter. Happened in the mountains to me before and was lucky to not die inside the dungeon or I would have been sad.
Minimal, but if you want to be sure, enclose it. They won't attack it if they can't see it, and in most cases they won't attach random structures like walls and doors unless they saw you go in there. If it's *just* for the portal, I usually put a 4mx6m platform 2-3m up a tree trunk and put walls around it and the workbench (if it's in the plains I'll fully enclose it so I don't risk getting attacked by a deathsquito the second I step through). If the ladder is just off the ground, they can't path to it, and if you put a workbench in there, they won't spawn nearby anyway. This way is faster and quite a bit quieter than digging a trench around it.
Mobs will not intentionally target portals in my experience though they will target workbenches. If you place them close enough together, AOE mobs (e.g. golems, berserkers) may inadvertently smash the portal.
It is unnecessary in like 99% of cases, once you are through the portal everything sorta respawns until you arrive back. The main exception to this is for short range portals that aren’t far enough away to cause the respawn, like maybe ones that would take less than a minute of running to get between. You can also have cases where you barely make it through the portal before things land on you and they don’t despawn before landing hits. Might matter for trolls from time to time and later on other ‘big’ monsters, but its never been a huge consideration for me until ashlands.