If you’ve spent any time walking the corrupted forests and sprawling meadows of Midrath, you’ve almost certainly asked the question: Can you fast travel in Soulframe? For most of the game’s early preludes, the answer was a frustrating “no.” Digital Extremes designed Soulframe as a deliberately slow, contemplative open-world experience, one where every step through the world was meant to matter.
That changed with the Preludes 12: Wylds update released in late 2025, which quietly reshaped how players move across the map. Today, fast travel exists in Soulframe, but it operates under tight restrictions that reward preparation over impulse. This guide explains exactly how the system works, how to unlock it, and how to use it efficiently so you spend less time retracing your steps and more time doing what matters.
The Short Answer: Yes, You Can Fast Travel in Soulframe
Fast travel was officially added to Soulframe in the Preludes 12 update. The system uses a consumable resource called Wevetseeds and limits your destinations to specific, pre-cleansed points on the map known as World Trees and Enclaves. You cannot teleport to dungeons, revive shrines, or arbitrary locations of your choosing.
This design sits somewhere between The Witcher 3’s signpost system and a resource-gated survival mechanic. You can initiate fast travel from almost anywhere on Alca’s surface by opening your World Map, but you’ll pay for every jump with a seed that can only be harvested in limited quantities each day.
If you’re coming from Warframe, Digital Extremes’ other flagship title, this will feel unusually restrictive. That’s intentional. The developers have been clear in community updates that they want travel to remain a meaningful part of the gameplay loop, not something players skip with a menu click.
How to Unlock Fast Travel in Soulframe
Unlocking fast travel is not something you’ll stumble into during your first few hours. It sits behind a chain of prerequisites that require meaningful story progress. Here’s the path from new Envoy to fast-travelling veteran.
Step 1: Recruit Verminia to Your Nightfold
Before anything else, you need Ancestor Verminia (sometimes called the Rat Witch) living in your Nightfold camp. Verminia is found in the central part of the map, tucked into a cave beneath a hollowed tree. To recruit her, you must first complete the Brewer of Hues questline, which introduces you to her and resolves her personal storyline.
Without Verminia at your camp, the quest chain that leads to fast travel simply cannot begin. If you’re mid-campaign and unsure whether you’ve completed this step, check your Nightfold. If you see Verminia tending her cauldron, you’re ready to move on.
Step 2: Complete The Waste Bear Fable
With Verminia installed in your Nightfold, speak with her, and she will offer you The Waste Bear fable. This is the key questline that unlocks fast travel, and it’s a substantial undertaking involving multiple objectives:
The quest begins with a search for Wevetwood Sap, found in a circular quest zone near the northwestern edge of the map. After returning the sap to Verminia’s cauldron, she transforms your Sparrow companion into a Floppet for the duration of the quest and sends you to the Wevetwood tree at the center of a new quest area.
From there, you’ll track down three additional Wevetwood Trees scattered across the map. Each interaction yields a seed and a fragment of a song. Return to the barrier with all three fragments, play the completed song to dispel it, and defeat the enemies inside, including a miniboss encounter.
The quest concludes with a climactic battle against The Waste Bear itself, after which you’ll be transported to a new area featuring a massive tree shedding Wevetseeds. Plant two of the fallen seeds on glowing green patches (your Floppet will help you find them), speak to the Arbearer, and the quest completes.
Step 3: Claim Your Living Plant
After finishing The Waste Bear, Bromius gifts you a living sapling that’s planted permanently in your Nightfold, adjacent to Verminia’s workstation. This sapling, sometimes called the Wise Elm, is your personal, renewable source of Wevetseeds. If you don’t see it on first return, leave the Nightfold and come back; it should appear.
From this point forward, fast travel is fully unlocked. Now it’s a matter of understanding how to use it well.
How Fast Travel Works in Practice
Once you’ve completed The Waste Bear, the mechanics of fast travel are straightforward, but the restrictions matter.
World Trees and Enclaves as Anchors
Fast travel destinations in Soulframe are marked with a golden acorn symbol on your World Map. These correspond to two types of locations: World Trees (large, corrupted trees scattered across Midrath that you cleanse during normal play) and Enclaves such as the Kiths of Kings Enclave. You cannot fast travel to locations, dungeons, or revive shrines, only to golden-acorn markers.
World Trees serve a dual purpose. When you approach and interact with one, you cleanse it of corruption, which reveals the surrounding region on your map and simultaneously registers it as a valid fast travel destination. This means exploration and fast travel access are directly linked: the more of the map you walk, the more flexibility you earn.
You don’t need to be standing at a World Tree to initiate fast travel. As long as you’re somewhere on Alca’s surface, opening the World Map and selecting a cleansed destination will work, provided you have a Wevetseed in your inventory.
Wevetseeds: The Fast Travel Currency
Each fast travel jump consumes exactly one Wevetseed. These seeds grow on the sapling in your Nightfold, and the harvest rate is intentionally conservative. According to current community documentation, the Wise Elm produces one to three Wevetseeds per 12-hour period, with some sources reporting a daily cap in the range of six to seven seeds if you harvest consistently.
Critically, seeds do not stockpile indefinitely across long absences in the same way other resources might. New seeds replace older ones after the refresh cycle, so logging in regularly is essential if you want to maintain a healthy reserve. Miss a day, and you miss that day’s growth.
Wevetseeds cannot be purchased, traded, or farmed from enemies. There is no known exploit or alternative source as of the current patch; the sapling in your Nightfold is the only tap, and daily logins are the only way to keep it flowing.
Strategic Tips for Using Fast Travel Wisely
Because Wevetseeds are scarce, treating fast travel as a strategic tool rather than a convenience is the difference between frustration and efficiency.
Prioritise Cleansing World Trees Early
The more World Trees you’ve cleansed, the more options you have when a jump matters. If you’re heading into a new region, make detours to activate nearby Trees even when they’re not on your critical path. Future-you will benefit every time you return to that area.
Save Seeds for Cross-Map Journeys
A fast travel jump that saves you five minutes of walking rarely justifies the cost. Save seeds for genuinely long crossings, bringing a Tale’s final objective to the opposite end of Midrath, reaching a boss arena tucked behind hostile territory, or rejoining a friend’s session in a region you haven’t yet reached on foot.
Use Co-op “Taxis” to Extend Your Range
Soulframe’s co-op system allows you to teleport to a friend’s location when you join their group. This “taxi” system, as the community calls it, effectively gives you a free jump to any location a friend has already reached, no Wevetseed required. Asking in the in-game chat for a lift is a common and accepted practice, and once you’ve arrived, you can safely leave the group without being returned.
Consider the Orengall Pact for Short Hops
If you’re running the Orengall Pact, your temporary wolf-form arcanic lets you sprint significantly faster than on two legs. Performing an attack before the effect expires teleports your human body to your wolf’s current location—effectively a short-range mini-teleport. It’s not a replacement for fast travel, but it’s a seed-free way to cover medium distances.
Why Soulframe’s Fast Travel Is So Restrictive
It’s worth understanding the design philosophy behind these limitations, because they’re likely to persist even as the game evolves.
Digital Extremes has been vocal about its reluctance to build Soulframe’s gameplay loop around menu clicks that skip exploration. Midrath is designed to feel vast, dangerous, and worth traversing, unlike Warframe’s tileset-based missions. Soulframe places deliberate emphasis on the journey itself. Encounters, ambushes, hidden caches, and atmospheric moments all happen between objectives, not just at them.
The Wevetseed system is a compromise: acknowledging that players deserve relief from repetitive cross-map runs while preserving the slower, more contemplative pacing that defines the game’s identity. Mounts have been teased as a future addition, which will likely further ease traversal without invalidating the fast travel economy.
Given that Soulframe remains in pre-Alpha at the time of writing, the system is still evolving. Community proposals like Leyline-based pathways have been discussed on the official forums, and the developers have shown willingness to iterate based on player feedback. The restrictions you encounter today may loosen or tighten in future Preludes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you fast travel in Soulframe without completing The Waste Bear quest?
No. The Waste Bear fable is the only way to obtain Wevetseeds, and Wevetseeds are the only currency that enables fast travel. There is currently no workaround or alternative unlock path.
How many Wevetseeds can I collect per day in Soulframe?
Reports vary by source, but the Wise Elm in your Nightfold typically produces one to three Wevetseeds per 12-hour refresh cycle, with a practical daily ceiling around six to seven seeds if you harvest consistently. Seeds don’t stack indefinitely; new growth replaces the previous cycle’s output.
Can I fast travel to dungeons or boss arenas?
No. Fast travel destinations are limited to map markers with the golden acorn symbol, World Trees, and Enclaves. Dungeons, revive shrines, and specific points of interest must be reached on foot from the nearest valid destination.
Does Soulframe have mounts yet?
Mounts have been confirmed as a planned feature, but are not yet implemented in the current patch. Until they arrive, the fastest ways to move on foot are the Oren-Gall Pact’s wolf form and, over long distances, the Wevetseed system.
Can friends fast-travel me to their location?
Yes, indirectly. Joining a friend’s co-op group teleports you to their location at no Wevetseed cost. This is widely used by the community as a free alternative to traditional fast travel, especially for reaching regions you haven’t yet cleansed yourself.
Will fast travel be expanded in future Soulframe updates?
Digital Extremes has indicated that travel mechanics will continue to evolve, and mounts are confirmed for a future patch. However, the studio has also stated that they do not intend to introduce unrestricted fast travel, so the core design philosophy is expected to remain intact.
Is the Crypt of the Circade a form of fast travel?
Not officially, but players use it as one. Because all exits from the Crypt of the Circade deposit you near its central entrance regardless of which entry point you used, it can function as a one-way teleport to the middle of the map.
Final Thoughts
Fast travel in Soulframe is real, but it’s meant to be earned and used thoughtfully. Completing The Waste Bear, cleansing World Trees as you explore, consistently harvesting seeds, and leaning on co-op taxis when the opportunity arises will give you the most mobility the current system allows.
Treat it less like a convenience feature and more like a strategic resource, and you’ll find the rhythm of Midrath becomes far more manageable, without losing the atmospheric weight that makes the journey worth taking in the first place.