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**Echo Gates** is a mod that brings a fast travel waypoint system to Minecraft using materials found in the Deep Dark. Find portal frames in Ancient Cities, then activate them with a new item: the _Sculk Heart_.<\/p>\n

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\n### Features<\/p>\n

\nActivating Echo Gates<\/summary>\n

**Crafting Sculk Hearts**<\/p>\n

Craft a Sculk Heart by combining an Echo Shard, an Ender Pearl, and any Raw Meat (or Rotten Flesh).<\/p>\n

![A crafting grid showing the sculk heart crafting recipe](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/9df9c99d76d7ebc595a4c054ab4f391c32e8da76.jpeg)<\/p>\n

**Activating Echo Gates**<\/p>\n

Use a Sculk Heart on a dormant Ancient City Portal to activate it and create an Echo Gate.<\/p>\n

![A side by side comparison of a dormant and activated echo gate](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/a0c8633c1fbe33c8c334785267667f025865a74a.jpeg)<\/p>\n

**Custom Portal Frames**<\/p>\n

Echo Gates can be created from any rectangular Reinforced Deepslate frame (similar to Nether portals). Since Reinforced Deepslate isn’t obtainable in vanilla survival, this method of portal creation is intended for modpacks that provide ways to acquire or craft it.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

\nUsing Echo Gates<\/summary>\n

By default, stepping through an Echo Gate teleports you to a random active Echo Gate in the world.<\/p>\n

**Linking Gates with Echo Shards**<\/p>\n

You can create connections from one Echo Gate to another using Echo Shards:<\/p>\n

![The item tooltip of an echo shard with an echo gate stored within it](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/7da8daa07cdfe501504aac33d40c81cf1621ba7c.jpeg)<\/p>\n

1) Right-click an Echo Gate with an Echo Shard to store its location<\/p>\n

2) Right-click a different Echo Gate with the stored shard to link them together<\/p>\n

3) The linked gate will now always teleport to the stored destination instead of a random gate<\/p>\n

**Unlinking Gates**<\/p>\n

Right-click a linked Echo Gate with a Fermented Spider Eye to remove its connection and return it to random teleportation.
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