Waystones Guide
Waystones are Soulrend’s fast-travel network. Every waystone a player activates becomes a destination they can teleport to from any other waystone, or from anywhere with a warp item. This guide covers finding waystones in the world, crafting your own, and getting around with them. The items themselves are listed on Travel Items.
Before you start#
- Teleporting costs experience. Every trip costs exactly 1 XP level, however far it goes and whether or not it changes dimension.
- There is no inventory warp button in Soulrend. To teleport you need to stand at a waystone or carry a Warp Stone or a Warp Scroll.
- The Waystones & Warp Items Prologue quests ask for a Waystone, a Warp Stone and a Warp Scroll.
Finding waystones#
Waystones generate on their own in the Overworld, the Nether and the End:
- In the wild, roughly one every 25 chunks (about 400 blocks) in any direction.
- In villages. Waystones adds one to village generation, though some villages still spawn without one, and it isn’t always in the village center. The Explorer's Compass can point to the nearest village.
- Their look follows the biome: mossy, sandy, deepslate, blackstone and end stone versions all generate where they fit.
A found waystone already has a name. Right-click it once to activate it: it is added to your list of destinations for good. Generated waystones can be broken like any other block.
Crafting waystones#
Every waystone is built around a Warp Stone, so craft that first:
Then the waystone of your choice. The plain one uses Stone Bricks; the sandy, deepslate, blackstone and end stone versions use their own stone in the same pattern:
A Mossy Waystone is a plain Waystone with three Vines:
Place it, then right-click it to name and activate it. A waystone at your base is the first one worth building: every Warp Stone and Warp Scroll can then bring you home.
Tip
Activate or build a waystone in every dimension you return to (each Cataclysm dimension, the Otherside, the Past). Any warp item can then take you there for 1 level.
Traveling#
| Method | How | Cost and limits |
|---|---|---|
| Waystone | Right-click a waystone and pick a destination. | XP only. |
| Warp Stone | Hold right-click for about 1.6 s, then pick a destination. | XP, then a 5-minute cooldown. The cooldown belongs to the player, so a second Warp Stone doesn’t help. 100 uses. |
| Warp Scroll | Hold right-click for about 1.6 s, then pick a destination. | XP. The scroll is used up. |
| Warp Plate | Stand on the plate for 1 s. | Goes to the plate linked by its Attuned Shard. |
Sharestones only link to Sharestones of the same color, and a Portstone can send you to waystones but can’t be a destination. See Travel Items for the Bound and Return Scrolls.
Details#
- Animals come along. Mobs on a lead travel with you at no extra cost, even between dimensions (except Withers). Your tamed pets within 30 blocks follow too, without a lead, unless they were told to sit.
- Dimensions. Teleporting between any two dimensions is allowed, which includes leaving the Past, where the Emblem of the Past can’t take you back.
- Waystones are personal. Activating a waystone only adds it to your own list; each player activates their own.