Missing portals?! [SOLVED]

[physixtential]

SOLUTION:
Sorry. I should have edited the post once this was solved. The solution is simple. Look at the specific info for the world you are stuck on. There is a number for the portals on that world and how many you have unlocked. This number does not correspond well to the map path indicators. some portals go TO the world you are on, and that path if I recall correctly becomes more transparent in the direction toward where it goes. No portal exists the other direction and you need to get to it by another path.

The solution was in the very first reply. Read replies before posting. Most people don't edit their posts with the solution.

Credit to masterwaffel
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Ok so to preface... I am a very determined adult, fanatically playing this game right now. I am to the point of using a staff to dig systematically through the world trying to find missing portals. Can anyone confirm that there are just totally missing portals based on what the map indicates? One of the ones I am most confident doesnt exist is the one that goes from Mirror Forest to the north. The islands are all fairly small, so there arent many places for a portal to hide. I have dug through 90% of all of them, and Purple pillars has 2 yet unfound portals as well. I have completed all of the bosses, but I need more resources and would rather not start a new world to get them. Does anyone have confirmation that some portals don't spawn properly, or can someone tell me what I am missing?

[MasterWaffle]

I had this same problem and did the same thing with mirror forest. Turns out their is only 1 portal there. go to a map and click on a world and it will tell you how many portals are on that world. You have to unlock the area you are trying to get to by using a portal on another world. I have unlocked ever portal they are all there. Only one I had trouble finding was the one on Io's core.

Also the last boss drops titanium bars sometimes and is easier and faster to farm it then to dig for titanium.

[physixtential]

Originally posted by masterwaffel:

I had this same problem and did the same thing. Turns out their is only 1 portal there. go to a map and click on a world and it will tell you how many portals are on that world. You have to unlock the area you are trying to get to by using a portal on another world.

Oh. Wow that's misleading. Thanks

[Skabs]

Originally posted by masterwaffel:

I had this same problem and did the same thing with mirror forest. Turns out their is only 1 portal there. go to a map and click on a world and it will tell you how many portals are on that world. You have to unlock the area you are trying to get to by using a portal on another world. I have unlocked ever portal they are all there. Only one I had trouble finding was the one on Io's core.

Also the last boss drops titanium bars sometimes and is easier and faster to farm it then to dig for titanium.

I have no more "worlds that tell you how many portals are on that world...
neither have I completed the Great Explorer achievement

Im still looking though as island #'s go.. I have yet to find the 9 or 29.. everything else seems be in order just no hints or pathways left at all

[EsQueue]

Originally posted by Skabs:

Originally posted by masterwaffel:

I had this same problem and did the same thing with mirror forest. Turns out their is only 1 portal there. go to a map and click on a world and it will tell you how many portals are on that world. You have to unlock the area you are trying to get to by using a portal on another world. I have unlocked ever portal they are all there. Only one I had trouble finding was the one on Io's core.

Also the last boss drops titanium bars sometimes and is easier and faster to farm it then to dig for titanium.

I have no more "worlds that tell you how many portals are on that world...
neither have I completed the Great Explorer achievement

Im still looking though as island #'s go.. I have yet to find the 9 or 29.. everything else seems be in order just no hints or pathways left at all

I can confirm that there is no level 9 stage. I wasn't paying attention by the time lvl 29 would be available.

The portals are typically in the surface, on the surface but hidden in a trench or at the bottom of a dungeon. On the lunar stages they can be buried in a hidden cave though. I fortunately heard it and started digging the walls.

[404_Not_Found]

I just spent 2 hours combing one of the mushroom levels that supposedly has 3 portals linking from it but could only find the one, came here to ask about the same thing. So even though it says these portals branch from one level, I have to actually find them in a different one? That's confusing.

This is where I'm stuck
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=644965919

I looked everywhere and even started blowing holes in the dungeon just to find some secret passage, I found nothing.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=644966023
It says there should be portals here but there aren't.

[Run dem Weh]

There's a total of 44 islands as your world overview shows, and clicking each island shows the amount of portals it is. If your question was wether or not it is bugged and you can't get all 44 islands, then that is incorrect, you can and a lot of people already got the achievement long ago.

(see my profile for instance, the achievement for all islands is unlocked, same goes for a lot of other people.)

As you may or may not have noticed, you can actually hear the portals, the louder it gets, the closer you are to one. They randomly spawn so it's not uncommon that one's underground, even literally at the edge of a world.

[vladstad]

ya having this issue in tetro toxi, i think that is the name, ive been all over that place and cant find the one portal.

[Gubstep]

I found all the portals, when having serious trouble, turn off the music and run around listening for the portal.

[physixtential]

Originally posted by Bazgrim:

I found all the portals, when having serious trouble, turn off the music and run around listening for the portal.

Originally posted by vladstad:

ya having this issue in tetro toxi, i think that is the name, ive been all over that place and cant find the one portal.

No. This issue has been resolved. Do not use the map paths to determine if there is another portal. Look at the specific worlds info. At the top is says how many portals there are an how many you have unlocked. It is misleading, but some paths don't equate to out portals.

[pigglepix]

My issue is that there are worlds on the map, but no portals lead to them...

[ritt5220]

the posts above are very old. I think your issue is you are seeing the the vacant island you can buy the deeds for. If you are seeing 5 Question mark (?) islands just below Dusty Junction they are the vacant islands. They do not have portals, you buy the deeds using gold coins you earn in the game to open them. Tori Island Merchant will sell them to you and is found on the 3d island called Fort Finch. There will be 10 more vacant islands you can buy as you go further into the game.

Vacant islands are flat, easy to build on, do not have enemies to bother you, and are safe if you ever regenerate your universe. Things you build on a vacant islands will not be reset if you regenerate your universe, even if they are not set as Home island.