Q: What server configurations will be available for Boundless?

[Vastar]

This information might be outdated but Portals will supposedly work like that:

@ben

Portals are a permanent rift between two locations and can only be connected to other Portals. You make one then you make the other (or a friend does) and you connect them. You always know where they’re going to go. They are opened for a cost of Oort Shards for 60 seconds, and then they close again but they can be opened again and again (for the cost of Oort Shards).

And in order to get to a new world you would use ‘Warps’:

@ben

Warps are a temporary rift, open for 60 second only, between where you are and either…

…a completely random world (within the same band of worlds, eg: tier 1)…a specified location (using a location token)…a specified online player (using a player token)You can only travel to the maximum world tier you’ve unlocked (see about tiers here if you don’t know about them) or the rift will tear you apart as you’re not strong enough.

So…

If you were on Lleb, you’d be mining for Lleb Oort Shards. You can only open a Portal or a Warp on Lleb using Lleb Oort Shards. So when you get there, you can’t get back home or anywhere else until you’ve found some shards.

Here’s a flow for if you had a base on one world and wanted to create a new one on a new, random world:

-Build a Portal frame using Portal Blocks crafted using Oort Shards. Take out the Portal Token.
-Open a Warp using Oort Shards to a random world.
-Step through the Warp to a random new world. The Warp closes behind you after 60 seconds. Now you’re stuck here!
-Mine for Oort Shards, place a Beacon.
-Mine for Oort Shards, craft some Portal Blocks and make a Portal frame.
-Place the Portal Token (from step 1) into the new Portal frame. It will go back to your original home now when opened.
-Open your new permanent Portal using Oort Shards (for 60 seconds) back to your original home.
-It’s done, you’ve created a new Portal link to a new world, completely in the game world!

So it seems like the plan is (was) that you warp to a completely random world without any influence or interface.