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The Mirror of Returning is a magical item, which, when activated, will teleport you to a certain spot which it has previously remembered.

A new mirror will always be black and has no knowledge of any destination. You can not teleport by using it yet.

Rightclick with it while pointing to something to set the mirror's destination. The mirror will magically remember your position and it becomes gray.
To teleport to the previously set position, leftclick with the mirror once. This will make a loud sound at both source and destination and creates a lot of visible particles, so you will probably catch the attention of others.
You can set a new mirror's destination with a rightclick, but the mirror will then forget the previous destination. A mirror does not have that much memory, after all.

Screenshot shortly taken after teleporting:


If you have the Mana mod installed, using the mirror comes at a mana price:

• Setting the destination: 20
• Teleporting: 200

The values work best with the default values of the Mana mod, but the values can also be configured freely with in server settings, see the README.md file. This is useful for server operators and subgame makers. And cheaters. ;-)

The itemstring of a new mirror of returning is “returnmirror:returnmirror”. Use /giveme or creative mode to obtain it.

License of everything: WTFPL
Git project page (with readme file): http://repo.or.cz/minetest_returnmirror.git
Mandatory dependencies: None.
Optional dependencies:

• Mana [mana], major version 1 (if this mod is not present, you can use the mirror of returning as often as you like)
• intllib
• doc, doc_items

Maybe if pointed thing is nothing, then, player pos +1 in that axis, else, pointed thing pos +1 in Z

Looks really awesome!
The particles will really add a lot to the "feel" of it.

If it teleported player to its spawn point it would almost be like terraria's magic mirror

@guideahon: Sorry, this does not work. Rightclick is not recognized when nothing is pointed. I use the on_place callback for that, and the weird on_rightclick only works for nodes which are rightclicked on, so it is not usable for tools.
@davidthecreator: Players do not intrinsically have a spawn point in Minetest; it only is articifially added by mods. The way Minetest spawns players when static_spawn_point is not set is pretty weird and not well exposed to the Lua API. If there was a sane way to set a “player's” spawn point which does not carry along unwanted mod stuff with it, I would use it. But so far, all “spawn setter” mods I know so far all carry along their own stuff.

But spawnpoint can be set with bed if its mod is installed plus the mirror could take the player to the place he spawned or respawned the last time

Version 1.0.0 released!

Changes:
- Setting teleport position with rightclick will work without (almost) any exceptions
- Pointing range of mirror reduced to 0 because it is pointless
- Added intllib support (viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4929)
- Added German translation
- Added in-game item documentation via doc_items (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15300)
- Added metadata files
- Added sound for failed teleportations
- Change mirror texture, now it looks more like hand mirror

Also, I have added a Git project page on the first post.

Version 1.0.1 released! This is a bugfix and maintenance release.

Changes:
- Fix mod not working when both intllib and mod security are enabled
- Compability with Documentation System 0.7.0
- Get rid of global variables (fixes potentional issues with mod interopability)

Probably to do a real mirror in MineTest?Or no?

Version 1.0.2 released! This is a compability release to provide compability with the Help modpack, version 1.0.0.

Updating this mod is required if you use the new version of the Help modpack, otherwise, it will stop working.

I think there's an issue with your alias. When it gets loaded, a warning shows up in the log saying that the alias isn't created, because the item already exists. I think the issue is that your arguments are backwards. You have this:



But it should be this, I believe:

Also, I get this warning:

I just want to repost this:

echosa wrote:The Mirror of Returning mod is one of my favorites. Tonight, I'm very thankful for it. :-D

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/132148683

:-) Also, the mirror comes is really handy when digging deep. Set one to the surface, and keep another one that you can set to where you are before you travel back home. Instant way to get back to where you left off.

One feature request, though maybe this is something more global than just this one mod: is there a way I could give different mirrors a name? That way, when I have multiple mirrors, I don't accidentally confuse them. :-)

Also, a recipe would be nice, but I added my own, so that's not really much of an issue. :-)