Talk:Beacon/@comment-174.55.168.107-20111104011455/@comment-4583259-20111113133002

NOTE TO LATER READERS: This discussion was about Pylon before that page was briefly renamed to "Beacon".

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If I had to guess, I'd say it's like the pylon in "Land Of The Lost", which was a sort of teleport device. That would be like the portals to the Nether in Minecraft (see www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/The_Nether )

Either that, or perhaps it's something that will give you a spawn location. Goodness knows we need that!

The simplest implementation would be a placed mob-like object (similar to a turret) that you can step into. Once you go inside, the game teleports you to the location of another pylon that you have placed elsewhere. (Perhaps chosen at random, or perhaps in whatever order you placed them in).