Here’s how to fast travel in Nightingale and construct portals
Want to know how to fast travel in Nightingale?Much ofNightingalecentres around the free exploration within the different Fae Realms. With so many combinations of Realm Cards available, it’s easy to get lost and separated from your home realm, or ‘Respite Realm’ as it’s otherwise called.
Below, we’ll take you through how to fast travel inNightingaleas well as provide information on how to uncover Realm maps, place custom waypoints and craft your own Portals. See below for full details.
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How fast travel in Nightingale
One of the most important tools for fast travel in Nightingale is theEstate Cairn. An Estate Cairn is a craftable structure that can be built at any of your settlements with20 Rocks and 5 Stone Blocks. Once built, interact with your Estate Cairn to set it as a ‘Respite’ - this will lock the Cairn in as yourrespawn pointupon death and the location of your main settlement. You can only haveone Respite per gameacross all the realms you visit, and this can be fast-travelled to from the main map.
Although you can build bases in whichever realm you like, theAbeyance Realmis the best option for beginners as it provides a somewhat safer starting zone and also contains Sites of Power structures, needed for plot progression.
If you decide to set a different Estate Cairn as your Respite, ensure you have a Portal with access to your old one so you don’t loose access to that realm. More on contrusting Portals below.
Within each realm there will be aFae towerthat you’ll need to climb to the top of and defeat waves of enemies to unlock. Once completed, it will highlight all the points of interest on your map to explore. As such it’s usually a good rule of thumb to complete these first, to enable easier exploration across the different realms.
Another important way of getting around in Nightingale are theWorld Beacons. These are essentiallycustom waypointsthat you can put on your map by right-clicking and selecting from a drop-down menu. These will make it a little easier to navigate the various Fae Realms if you haven’t unlocked the Fae Tower and revealed the other points of interest on the map first. You can also useStampswithin the same dropdown menu to mark resources on your map that you wish to come back to.
To make running about in Nightingale a bit easier, another key method of traversal is theUmbrella. This can be crafted or looted and assigned to one of your hotkeys via the inventory menu. As well as providingshelter against heatin the Desert, thetoughest starting biome in Nightingale, these Mary Poppins-inspired tools can be used to gentlyglidefrom heights. Just make sure you keep an eye on yourstamina meter, as you will plummet quickly if it runs out before you’ve safely landed on the ground (though if you are running out of stamina, you can always put it away and open it up again just before hitting the ground to ensure a smooth and safe landing).
You can also use the right-click feature tododge, which uses up a small portion of your stamina. This swift movement is useful if you find yourself swarmed by enemies and need to get some distance from them quickly.
The main ingredient for making a Portal in Nightingale is theSynchronous Lotus. You can find these in Chests at the top level ofFae Towers. As such, it’s a good idea to prioritise these to craft more Portals in your Respite Realm.
To craft an initial Crude Portal, you’ll also need the following ingredients:
Be sure to also focus on completingSites of Powerin the Abeyance Realm. These contain waves of enemies and Fae puzzles that, once completed, will unlock newMajor Realm cards. Each Major card will set the destination of the Realm. You can then set the theme by inputting one of three Biome cards: Forest, Swamp or Desert. You can also add a Minor Card, which will apply certain environmental changes to the biome you picked.
Once you unlock new Realm Cards at Sites of Power, you can then create them at anEnchanter’s Focus. Once created, put them into a Realm Card Machine next to a Portal.
Don’t forget you can alsorename Portalsby pressing the’E' keywhen interacting with them. It’s a good idea to name your Portals so you can easily remember which Portal goes to which Realm and save yourself some time checking the machine interface each time.
That rounds off our guide to everything you need to know about fast travel and other traversal methods in Nightingale. For more Nightingale coverage, check out our guide onhow to play multiplayer in Nightingaleor see ourmagic woodadventures where the RPS team had a chance to sample Nightingale during a pre-launch playtest. Expect hijinks and chaos ahead.
