[Exploit] It is possible to bypass the eldritch door by using ender pearls.
Vapaman opened this issue ยท 5 comments
Ender pealrs are notorius for their ability to glitch the player through 1 block thick walls. This was nerfed in 1.9 where they made a cool down for the pearls, making it harder to go through 1 block thick walls. Clipping through blocks is still possible with panes and bars, and in this case, with eldritch doors that are basically as thin as a pane of glass. With this players can just go straight to the boss, without needing to go through the dungeon.
To replicate:
Push yourself sideways against the bottom middle of the eldtrich door. Spam ender pearls at the bottom of the door. You will eventually clip through the door.
Potential ways to fix: Either do it like in TC3 where warded blocks/eldritch doors destroy ender pearls or make the doors somehow thicker. I would like the warded block to break or interfere with ender pearl somehow, because that would fix a lot of easy skips with the eldritch spire. You can go through the bars in the prison section and you can use the minecart trick to get through to the boss room.
Edit: I think that some sort of teleportation preventation in the spire would be nice to prevent any cheating. But it could be too hard to implement or too intensive on the performance or just too intrusive of a game mechanic.
There is a oversight with chorus fruits, you can get into the room with them. You should look into that, perhaps use the same technique as vanilla with its bedrock cealing.
Also note that you don't need the minecart to get through the floor, just a form of flight (ex. Thaumostatic Harness) and just throw a few pearls to the cealing
So I ended up blocking ender pearls specifically from working in the spires. I don't want to blanket ban teleportation because that might block things like server plugins unintentionally. With these changes, the most I've been able to do is get stuck inside a block, but at that point the pearls get blocked so I think it's not an issue.