Board Thread:Tutorials/@comment-110.159.244.130-20130621065014

Someone probably has this idea before, but here it is.

With Linking books, you can create waypoints all over your world, even across dimensions, for all your traveling needs!

Required mod: Mystcraft. Optional mod*: Dimensional Doors.

1. Create a dimensional door out of two iron doors and an ender pearl.

2. You need 2 books and two bookstands for each "waypoint". You can save two books by placing the dimensional door at one of your waypoints. You also need lots of signs.

3. Now place the dimensional door, and go in. Do not be alarmed by the black void - you're standing on solid, but invisible ground called the "Fabric of Reality". You are actually in a cubic room - walk enough in one direction and you'd come up to a wall. Optionally, you can bring some building blocks to replace the ground and walls with. Just place them on the fabric - it'd replace the fabric. This pocket dimension is an ideal place to build your Linking Library. You can get out by the door behind you.

4. You'd also probably want to use building blocks to create plinths for your bookstands - that gives you a place to attach a sign. Place one stand for every waypoint other than the one you placed your door in. Attach signs with labels for your waypoints - also you may want another sign to remind you where you placed your door.

5. Now comes the hard part - repeat the following steps for each waypoint:

a) Create a linking book within the Linking Library.

b) Walk out of the door, and travel the hard way to your waypoint.

c) Place a bookstand, then place your book. Do *not* activate the book yet!

d) Create another Linking Book, then activate the book that's on the stand to go back to your library.

e) Place your linking book on the appropriate stand.

6. And your library is complete! Now you can travel from any waypoint to any other waypoint with two simple right clicks. Also, creating new waypoints is easy - just repeat the steps in 5.


 * Without Dimensional Doors you'd probably have to create your Linking Library in the Nether. Of course, this is more dangerous and inconvenient, and won't allow travel to waypoints in the Nether. For that you'd have to create another Linking Library in the overworld.

P.S. If you visit the nether often, consider making a linking book while you're standing in a pool in the overworld - this can save you if you catch on fire. You can also create a linking book to the library to carry on your person - helpful if you ever get lost.

PPS Try not to die in your Linking Library, or you'd be sent to Limbo! The library is a very safe place, but it is possible to die there by digging through the layers of fabric, or teleporting there while you're under a bad status effect. 