Elytra are a rare item and demand for them is high and this will probably always be true barring a later update adding other methods of acquisition. If you already have a rail to your outpost this in no way will increase the risk and if you do this instead of a railĪny increase would be slight due the one disadvantage of these towers: their reliance on the Elytra. This does have the potential to slightly increase griefing but not to the extent you would think. This could have other implications in terms of outpost travel you can set 1 up central tower in your main outpost and have additional towers 6k blocks away in different directions allowing players to easily spread out further to locate rare resources or create builds that can't be done in town.Īlso their are trade and social implications with it being easier to set up routs between different groups outposts. Speed of travel might be around that of a nether rail but building these would a lot less dangerous then building in the nether and would also be faster to finish. Do you have any questions? Are you worried about griefing? Are you excited for this? Do you think you'll set up one in your own town? Any thoughts on where exactly we should place the towers? I've just wanted to open a dialogue with you guys.

The designs are based around this launcher.

This means that anyone with elytra will find it much more hassle-free to travel around the Wild anywhere there's any towers.

The design is fairly resource-friendly, you should be able to fit absolutely everything needed in a single DC.

There are two designs, one is more inconspicuous (there's a small part on the ground and a small part near y=256, that you can't really see from the ground) while the other is a giant tower but is more convenient and resource-friendly.

Each tower allows around 6000 blocks of travel (to y=60).I've decided it would be a good idea to connect with the people who will be affected by this. I've been working on an elytra launcher design (click my signature for more info) that allows for very cheap and very fast travel across the Empire.

* There should be one sticky piston in TD2.

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