Fast Travel

Overview

Starsand Island has four distinct fast travel systems that unlock at different stages of the game. The bus stop network connects 10 locations across the overworld. Craftable teleporters offer free, unlimited warps in the endgame. Camp portals provide fast travel within the Moonlit Forest. Vehicles and mounts give faster movement speed without instant teleportation. Combining all four methods is the key to efficient daily travel.

Bus Stop Network

The bus system is the primary overworld fast travel method. Ten bus stop stations are scattered across the island, each marked with a train icon on the map. You can travel between any two repaired stations by standing at one and selecting your destination. Travel costs a 15 Coins per trip (flat rate regardless of distance).

Unlocking the Bus System

Bus travel becomes available after completing the "Building Starsand Station" quest, which unlocks at the Island Pro rank in the Island Life progression. The quest involves the following steps.

1. Solara asks you to meet her near the beach to find Railway Worker Yang.

2. Cook 4 Soup Dumplings at a Campfire (each needs Meat Bites + Flour from a Separator) and deliver them to Yang.

3. Deliver construction materials to Yang: Stone Brick, Glass Pane, Softwood Plank, and Iron Sheet.

4. Starsand Station is built. All 10 bus stop locations appear on the map.

5. Visit each remaining bus stop individually and donate repair materials to activate it.

You need at least two repaired stations before bus travel becomes functional. Stations become usable the next in-game day after donating the repair materials.

All Bus Stop Locations

Repair Materials

Nine of the ten bus stops require the same standard set of materials. Cloudrest Lake is the exception, requiring Bamboo Board instead of Softwood Plank.

Total for all 10 stops: 100 Stone Brick, 50 Glass Pane, 90 Softwood Plank, 10 Bamboo Board, 50 Iron Sheet. The raw resource breakdown is roughly 400 Stone, 200 Quartz, 360 Softwood, 40 Bamboo, 200 Iron, and 150 Charcoal. Iron Sheet requires Cutter II, which unlocks at the Junior Crafter tier.

Travel Cost

Each bus ride costs gold. The exact cost varies by distance, with most trips falling in the range of 5 to 30 coins. Short hops between neighboring stops cost less, while cross-island trips cost more.

Teleporters

Teleporters are player-crafted fast travel points that can be placed almost anywhere on the island. Unlike bus stops, teleporters are completely free to use with no per-trip cost. They are an endgame system due to the advanced materials required.

How to Unlock

The Teleporter blueprint becomes available after reaching Expert Crafter, the fifth and final tier of the Crafter profession. The Spirit Cube III blueprint, a key component, also unlocks at this tier.

Crafting Recipe

Spirit Cube Progression

Spirit Cubes are built in tiers. Each tier uses two of the previous tier as ingredients.

Spirit Cube Fragments come from mining Uncommon Ore Chunks and Rare Ore Chunks in the mid and deep sections of the Moonlit Forest, then analyzing them at an Ore Analyzer. Common Ore Chunks from the early forest areas do not produce fragments. Setting up Ore Analyzers early and keeping them running continuously helps accumulate fragments over time.

Suggested Placements

• Next to your home at Hopeland

• Near Zerine's General Store in Starsand Town

• At the AquaBlue Outpost docks

• Near the Moonlit Forest entrance for quick dungeon access

• At mining locations you visit frequently

Moonlit Forest Camp Portals

The Moonlit Forest has its own separate fast travel network using camp portals. Each camp in the forest contains a Damaged Moonweaver that can be repaired with 5 Fluorite per camp. Once repaired, the camp becomes a portal hub that connects to all other repaired camps and to a portal near your home on the surface. Fluorite is abundant throughout the forest, found in mineral nodes along cliff edges and rocky areas.

Major camp locations include Gate of Life, Dreamfall Garden, Crystalith Hideout, Azure Bay, Mural Valley, Harvest Yard, Grain Haven, Darkwater Shore, Serenity's Rest, and Moonlight Meadow. Repairing camps as soon as you discover them is strongly recommended, as the portal network eliminates lengthy backtracking through hostile territory.

Vehicles and Mounts

Vehicles do not provide instant teleportation, but they dramatically increase movement speed for manual travel. Press R to open the garage and summon any owned vehicle from anywhere on the island.

Neona runs G-Power Bikes, the vehicle shop located east of your starting house. She sells both finished vehicles and blueprints. Crafting from blueprints is significantly cheaper than buying finished vehicles. Animal mounts (horses, deer, alpacas, ostriches) unlock at the Senior Rancher tier through Pastelle at Green Pasture Ranch.

Renting a speedboat once at the pier adds it to the Travel app on your phone, letting you summon it again without returning to the rental station.

Tips for Efficient Travel

• Get the Skateboard from the Apprentice Crafter quest as early as possible. It costs no gold to use and is a significant speed upgrade over walking.

• Repair bus stops strategically rather than all at once. Start with the two or three stations closest to your daily route, then expand as materials allow.

• Repair Moonlit Forest camps immediately when you find them. Fluorite is common and the portal network saves enormous amounts of backtracking.

• Save teleporters for your most-visited locations. The crafting cost is high, so place them where bus stops do not already provide convenient access.

• Use the Travel app on your phone to summon vehicles anywhere. There is no need to remember where you parked.

• Craft vehicles from blueprints at Neona's shop instead of buying finished products. The savings are substantial, especially for high-end vehicles.