SFS beacon questions?

[ion]

i have a full SFS beacon in overworld and i'm linked to it so when i die i spawn there. sometimes i just respawn somewhere else.
do i need to relink my soul after every death to the beacon or is something else?

[Rob]

I know a SFS beacon in the nether only works if you die in the nether. So, I assume, in your situation, deaths in the nether or end will still cause hardcore respawns. I'm not sure what your situation is when you claim you still hardcore respawn. But, that is what I've noticed in Icyopolis with their nether SFS beacon.

[ion]

nope a full SFS beacon makes you respawn at it and works without world or distance restrictions. just that sometimes Hc Respawn takes place instead. and this i don't know why!

[magikeh]

On the Edolas server we have a few sfs beacons and I know that for a while we were having troubles with one intermittently working. Make sure that you have room around the beacon to spawn, good rule of thumb is to leave a 1 wide gap around the entire beacon, then leave a ceiling only as low as two blocks above the beacon itself.

[ion]

it's in a desert biome. no need to have space around. i'm more interested in why your beacon didn't work and not in how to build it!

[Mud]

Are SFS beacons effected by range like other types of beacons?

:edit: I somehow managed to miss the answer to my own question on the wiki...

[magikeh]

it's in a desert biome. no need to have space around. i'm more interested in why your beacon didn't work and not in how to build it!

The reason it wasn't working was because we didn't have enough space around it. We had sunk it into the floor of the nether hub and covered it with glass so it was easily accessible but not in the way.

Are SFS beacons effected by range like other types of beacons?

Yes, all but the full SFS beacon are affected by range.

[SerraNova]

nope a full SFS beacon makes you respawn at it and works without world or distance restrictions. just that sometimes Hc Respawn takes place instead. and this i don't know why!

Full SFS beacon works without range restrictions, but still only within the same dimension. At least that's what the one on PK's server does- if you die in the nether it says the beacon is too far away or something. And then, if you want to be gamey about it, you can just die again in the overworld.

However, we've also had the problem of occasionally becoming completely unbound to it for no apparent reason. There's plenty of space around that one, too. Gives a bit of an extra fun challenge.

[EtherealWrath]

My only experience with SF beacons has been on Pk's server.

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I've suffered multiple deaths when bound to that beacon- while only about 2 of them landed me back at the beacon.
Given the beacon is at spawn, and my base is on a different continent- I generally head home via the nether.
Could be related to dimension hopping during the HCS cooldown?

--Edit-- Ignore the above- Serra just cleared a lot up in a later post. I fell into the same trap.

[ion]

nope a full SFS beacon makes you respawn at it and works without world or distance restrictions. just that sometimes Hc Respawn takes place instead. and this i don't know why!

Full SFS beacon works without range restrictions, but still only within the same dimension. At least that's what the one on PK's server does- if you die in the nether it says the beacon is too far away or something. And then, if you want to be gamey about it, you can just die again in the overworld.

However, we've also had the problem of occasionally becoming completely unbound to it for no apparent reason. There's plenty of space around that one, too. Gives a bit of an extra fun challenge.

if you aren't unsure and you haven't tested it stop spreading lies. a full SFS beacon works between worlds and works no matter the distance. the lower ones are distance limited.
i've made this thread to know why i've become unbound from my beacon and it seems that the overall knowledge of the SFS beacon workings is lower that espected.
@EtherealWrath from my testing of SFS beacons there is no cooldown. i have a "MY" head farm near it and works wonders.
i become unlinked from mine when i had some deaths in the end, worked fine with deaths in the nether. then i just got a trip to the beacon and deaths in the end after were linked to it. my last death in the overworld got me a HC spawn.

[SerraNova]

if you aren't unsure and you haven't tested it stop spreading lies.

Ion.... I apologize. I went back and checked and the beacon on PK's is not full tier, so I was wrong.

[ion]

more testing this week i've got that after every death, clicking on the beacon would make you respawn at it no matter where you die. this prevents the HCspawn to take precedence.
testing was done with a full SFS beacon