@BluePlauge All i can suggest is linking your portals, not sure if it will stop anyone from finding you though

I don't want to use a Portal there, I just want to prevent someone accidentally ending up in my base through their own Portal. Since it's a bubble inside of a large lava lake it could be the nearest eligible place for a Portal to spawn if someone happens to place a nether Portal in the right spot in the over world.

@CraftyMyner I feel like this is a cool idea, but it also would require a ton of work and command blocks to make it happen, how would we track tpa kills, and even harder, griefing?

My vision is that a person who accepts a tpa request gets an option to rate the transaction similar to how eBay handles it. Maybe they could even rate the entire experience 1 to 10 to help show how helpful the rated person was overall.
The person who initiated the tpa should get the option to rate the experience if they end up dead.
This system might be best at identifying people who might or might not not tpa kill. It would take more thought to find a way to identify follow on griefing. In fact that part may be untraceable.

@NerdieBirdieYT Hm, that's actually really interesting... Although I feel like some members would mess with the ratings and mess up results.

There will always be those. I think some people who work up a high trust rating might be tempted to preserve it. And for the ones that do suddenly turn rogue, it just makes for a more interesting story to tell the grandkids.

I had an idea for consideration. You know how eBay started the rating system with reviews and stars that enabled their users to gauge the trust of people they would interact with?
I wonder if craftymyner could devise a similar system to track how people respond to tpa requests.
It would have to compare how often a person who invited a tpa ended up dead or griefed. And it would have to allow for getting killed by an alt.
I'm not sure how delayed griefing might be handled if at all.
It could change the way people play if they had some way to recognize cooperative players who really are willing to help.

I'm curious about Nether Portal mechanics and wonder if one of you smart people already figured it out.
I built a structure in the middle of a lava lake and I'm wondering what I can do to reduce or eliminate the likelihood of someone accidentally creating an end Portal at precisely the right location in the over world to cause them to pop up right in my space.
What is the minimum height required for a Portal to spawn?
Will portals spawn on user placed blocks?
Are there blocks that portals will not spawn on?
Other considerations?

flying - there was someone else with him, but i didn't get screenshot of the 2nd player.

@TheForgotten20 1 DB 1 diamond 1 dirt block and 1 diorite block

+ 1 Dandelion

I have no need either, but I like to collect stuff. I'll match HaloNests price for one.

I enjoyed your video NerdieBirdieYT. Hope you don't mind if I piggyback on your thread. I made a video to review spawn. It's intended to introduce new players, but I would welcome comments and especially answers to my questions. Thanks to Tim2motZ for all his help!
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I already think i need to make a shorter version that jump cuts right to the points of interest.

JS92 got his Slime Balls / Blocks.
Here's a pic of the factory: