I know in PvP, this would a terrible idea, but should be fine for PvE. I think it could also benefit PvE, be encouraging much more location diversity for base building. As it is now, when I think of where to put my main base in a replay of the game, it generally comes down to just a couple of locations, for quick access to profitable dungeons.
Other location requirements for a main base would be resources and thralling, but those are things that you mostly need early game as you build up. Later game location considerations on PvE is more about dungeon runs, in my opinion.
So what if we make a slight change to dungeons. Create some sort of achievement for successfully clearing a dungeon, such as a special “Portal Guardian” boss, or maybe clear it 10 times, or possibly finding a number of hidden pieces of lore? Whatever goal, once completed, you can then craft a dungeon teleporter map (much like the maproom, but hopefully smaller. Each dungeon telelport unlock would unlock more portal posts on the map.
After teleporting to a dungeon, when you decide to exit, there should be a “teleport home” device, close to the normal exit, which would take you back to your teleport map of origin.
There are so many beautiful places to build bases, which aren’t next to any end game content. I build bases in those locations, then abandon them, in favor of the some old prime locations for dungeon running, which aren’t nearly as appealing, but great time savers.
Yes, the maproom portal system helps and the Sorc portal does too. But having those in place just shows that portals are an established game mechanic. In serer settings, it could be a simple toggle to enable or disable.
With private servers, you can already create portal spots (with Pippi), so it really isn’t an issue for me personally, but I thought it would be a good QoL feature for official servers, as well as a much more interesting way to portal to them on dedicated servers. With all the emphasis on dungeon development revently, it seems a good time to create some QoL for accessing them.