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Fast travel in Windrose uses a placeable Fast Travel Bell system. Once unlocked, players can craft bells, place them at strategic locations, and instantly teleport between them or return home from their ship. The system pairs with the K-key ship summon to dramatically reduce time spent traversing the archipelago.

Unlocking Fast Travel

The Fast Travel Bell recipe unlocks after smelting your first Copper Ore at the Smelting Furnace. This means you need to find Copper Ore in island caves, build a Charcoal Kiln (25 Wood + 20 Clay) and a Smelting Furnace (15 Clay + 30 Stone), then smelt at least one Copper Ingot. Once you reach Copper Ingots, the bell recipe becomes available at the Workbench.

Crafting and Placement

Item or Action	Details
Fast Travel Bell	Crafted at the Workbench: 10 Copper Ingots + 3 Rope
Fast Travel Point	Placed via Build menu: 1 Bell + 20 Wood, shoreline area
Minimum active points	2 required for the network to function
Maximum active points	10 simultaneously
Restriction	Bells cannot be placed near trading posts

How It Works

Bell-to-Bell: Place bells at different locations and teleport between any two placed bells instantly
Ship-to-Home: Open the map interface while on your ship and teleport directly back to your base bell
Map Interface: World map (M key) shows all placed bells and their names

Placement Strategy

Placing bells at the right locations dramatically reduces time spent sailing between islands. Recommended placement spots include:

Your main base (essential; this is where you teleport back to from the ship)
Near dungeon entrances for quick loot runs
Near rich resource deposits for farming routes
On remote islands you visit frequently
Near quest objectives during active questlines
At Copper Cave entrances on the starting island
At pirate camps you farm daily for Gunpowder

Quest-Connected Bells

Some Fast Travel Bells can be found pre-placed inside smuggler dens and other points of interest, discoverable without consuming your crafting limit. Two confirmed locations on the starting island both reward bells:

Location	Notes
Smuggler's Cache	First Fast Travel Bell; entrance concealed by foliage; guarded by a Drowner
Abandoned Buccaneer Camp	Second Fast Travel Bell; two chests requiring platforming or hidden-button interaction; guarded by aggressive boars

Ship Summoning Complement

Fast travel and ship summoning (press K) complement each other. Ship summoning brings your vessel to any coastline instantly, while fast travel teleports your character. A typical exploration loop involves: sailing to a distant island, placing a bell, exploring and looting, teleporting home to deposit resources, then using the bell to return and continue exploring. The Wharf at your home base also lets you rebuild a destroyed ship for 20 Wood, so losing a ship at sea is not a disaster when combined with fast travel.

Homeward Journey (Alchemy Alternative)

The Alchemy Table produces a consumable called Homeward Journey that functions as a utility travel potion. It can serve as an emergency fast-travel option when no placed bell is nearby. Homeward Journey is especially useful during long exploration trips to new biomes before you have had a chance to place bells at outposts.

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