Travel and the world

Waystones

• Walk into a waystone to attune to it. After that, walking into any attuned waystone opens a menu to travel to any other attuned one for free.
• Every hero starts attuned to Havenbrook.
• The seven waystones are Havenbrook, Whisperwood Glade, Ironhold Camp, Mirewatch, Frosthold, Shadowgate and Emberwatch.
• The spell Recall can also take you to an attuned waystone, or to a marked rune. You can't mark a rune underground.
• Travel into a land your game doesn't unlock is refused, and the unlock screen opens.

Roads

• Roads are always walkable, and no trees or rocks grow on them.
• Random encounters are less likely on a road: 0.5% per step there, against 1.2% off the road.

Zones

The continent is the same in every world. Each zone has a level range. Creatures get stronger the further you go from the zone's entry chunk toward its far edge: spawn points use creatures up to the local level + 1, and the local level climbs from the zone's minimum to its maximum.

Safe radius: only Havenbrook Meadows has one: 11 tiles around the town gate. Inside it:

• spawn points only make harmless animals (rabbits and deer)
• no random encounters happen within 15 tiles (radius + 4)
• no guardians wake within 15 tiles
• rich nodes aren't guarded within 13 tiles (radius + 2)

Entering a zone whose minimum level is more than 6 above yours shows a "Dangerous!" warning.

Random encounters

• Each step on the surface can trigger an encounter. Ghosts don't trigger them.
• At least 75 seconds must pass between encounters.
• Each zone has its own weighted table of encounter types:

Shadowmarch and the Emberlands have no wandering traders.

The world map

• The map shows only land you've explored, with zone names and level ranges. It also marks:
  • town
  • waystones (bright if attuned, faint if not)
  • shrines
  • dungeons with their levels
  • legend lairs
  • your marked wrecks
  • where you last died