Travel

Travel here is a toolkit of things you build and step on, not a list of typed commands. A handful of in-world systems cover everything from a 30-block hop to a map-spanning Nether haul.

The in-world systems

Beds still do their vanilla job: sleep once and your respawn point moves with you.

When to use which

• Short hops — ender pearl
• A menu of named stops you return to — waystones
• Committed point-to-point routes, private teleport pads — Astral runes
• Multi-floor base — elevator
• Fast runs across a base, wall climbs, cliff drops — rails and ladders
• Map-spanning — Nether hub

What this section covers

• Waystones — the flagship fast-travel network
• Astral runes — crafted teleport pads
• Ender pearls — best practices, where to farm
• Elevators — redstone-block vertical hops
• Rails & ladders — zip rails, vertical rails, rope ladders
• Nether portals — long-distance via 1:8 compression
• Freeform portals — portals in any shape you like

Why this is the toolkit

Distance matters here. The world rewards going far — for that to mean anything, getting there has to mean something. Even the instant systems earn their speed: you only add a waystone to your menu by walking to it once. Ender pearls for hops, waystones and Astral runes for committed routes, Nether hubs for map-spanning, elevators and rails for vertical and in-world work. Setup costs that keep the wilderness wild and reward players who put real infrastructure into the world.

See also

• Recovery chests — what happens to your stuff on death
• Building & claiming — the conventions this travel system supports
• Astral runes — the headline travel system, in detail