Fast travel

The game involves quite a lot of running around. However, there are several shortcuts to reduce the amount of traveling, some are more controllable than others, some are more expensive than others.
== Transitions ==
Throughout the game, you will unlock plenty of transitions between locations, many will shorten your routes significantly.
== Manual teleport ==
You will find handheld teleports to certain locations in various quests:
* Bonus stash: Yantar
* Strelok's stashes
* Sniper storyline
* Islands storyline
* NPC chain quests
These handheld teleporters consume a Teleport artifact on each activation. The artifact can be bought from Doctor or Owl (30000RU for each, 10 and 5 in stock per day correspondingly), or transmuted manually if you have the recipe, although it's particularly hard to cook.
At the certain point in the plot (Kostya's stash, X-10), you will obtain a handheld teleporting device, which combines all personal teleports you found into one convenient interface and a single item, instead of having them scattered all over your inventory.
Since the usage of the manual teleporter is pretty expensive, it's usually easier to use it to teleport across the zone into late game locations. There are cheaper options if you want to teleport in the opposite directions, from advanced locations into basic ones such as Yantar or Cordon.
Here are all locations for manual teleport endpoints:
Target location	Where to obtain 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Yantar 	Bonus stash: Yantar	Army Warehouses	Strelok's PDA (pick it up near the Wish Granter)	Swamps	Behind enemy lines (final quest of the Gagarin suit storyline)	Warlab	Stash at the Military Laboratory (Volazar's first quest)	Catacombs	Strange digits, after completing Anomaly scanners (final quest of the Hostel quest line)	Zaton	Fenrir's PDA (available immediately after Fenrir spawns in Zaton)	Limansk	Fenrir's lair in Limansk	Chernobyl-1	Mission: Possible (last mission of the Interpol in the Zone storyline)	Cordon	Strelok's bonus stash after Red Forest	Sarcophagus	Strelok's bonus stash after Red Forest	Radar	Strelok's stash (Radar)	Labyrinth	Mystery of the islands/Zaton	Agroprom Underground	Mystery of the islands/Eastern Pripyat	Cave	Mystery of the islands/Jupiter	X-18	Mystery of the islands/Swamps	X-10	Huckster's loot (part of the Mystery of the Islands storyline)	X-8	Mystery of the islands/Yantar	Pripyat-1 Underpass	Mystery of the islands/Red Forest	X-16	Liberation of the Slavik the Bullfinch's squad (part of the Mystery of the Islands storyline)	Wild Territory	Mystery of the islands (final bonus stash in the Hospital)	Eastern Pripyat	Lootoholic's chain quest	Central Pripyat	Sidorovich's chain quest	Monolith Control Bunker	Arnie's chain quest	CNPP-1	Winsor's chain quest	Dark Valley	Hog's chain quest	ATP	Vityok the Raven's chain quest	Jupiter	Dimak's chain quest	CNPP-2	Doctor's chain quest	Agroprom	Deacon's chain quest	Construction Site	Skinflint's chain quest	Ironworks	Devotee's chain quest	Undiscovered Land	Graybeard's chain quest	Darkscape	Alexandrych's chain quest	Old Village	Vitamin's chain quest	Forgotten Forest	Chemist's chain quest	Dump	Fistful's chain quest	Red Forest	Freebie's chain quest	Hospital	Sepator's chain quest	Bar	Barkeep's chain quest	Dead City	Informant's chain quest
Finding all manual teleports available in the game is one of the requirements for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R achievement.
== Single use teleports ==
There are single use devices that consume a Moonlight artifact from your inventory and teleport you to a different location.
At Kostya's stash, X-10 you will find 4 several untargeted single use teleports that transport you to a random location. The exit point is randomly selected from the list below; you're more likely to teleport to the locations that have more exit points.
* Cordon (15 exit points)
* Yantar (12 exit points)
* Dump (12 exit points)
* Wild Territory (11 exit points)
* Bar (7 exit points)
* Army Warehouses (4 exit points)
* Radar (4 exit points)
* Agroprom (3 exit points)
* Central Pripyat (2 exit points)
* Dark Valley (2 exit points)
* Agroprom Underground (1 exit point)
* X-18 (1 exit point)
After Vasiliev's PDA, Sakharov will be able to make targeted single use teleports for a Battery artifact and 20000RU. They are also obtainable for cyclic quests from several NPCs. Targeted versions come in three varieties:
* Teleport to the Cordon - teleports you to the [ military checkpoint], inside a KUNG.
* Teleport to the Bar - teleports you to the [ dead end] behind the bar entrance.
* Teleport to Yantar - teleports you to the Sakharov's bunker roof.
== Monolith teleportation device ==
This is a single-use teleport that looks like a skull in the inventory. It will transport you to the CNPP-2 roof when used.
You can obtain those for:
* Controller's brains, 5 items
* Skinflint's cyclic for 5 Bezoars, available after the quest above
* Each 50th skeleton you kill drop it, but only after completing the Controller's brains quest above.
== NPC-based travel ==
Certain NPCs provide fast travel services after completing a simple quest for them. You have to pay a basic artifact and some money. You have two options:
* Cheaper option will teleport you to a random unsafe place close to the central NPC of the location
* The more expensive option teleports you directly to the central NPC.
The artifacts they need are Soul, Mica, Crystal, and Moonlight. You can optimize your gameplay to cook them in bulk and reduce the amount of running required.
From 	To 	Cost 	NPC 	Prerequisite 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cordon	Army Warehouses	2500RU + Soul9000RU + Soul	Devotee	Seismic maps of the Military Warehouses	Cordon	Bar	9000RU	Sidorovich (see the bug below)	Strelok's stash (last extra stash grabbed)	Central Pripyat	Cordon	10000RU + Crystal20000RU + Crystal	Doctor	Ruby Spring (quest)	Central Pripyat	Yantar	5000RU + Mica15000RU + Mica	Doctor	Ruby Battery (quest)	Central Pripyat	Army Warehouses	10000RU + Soul20000RU + Soul	Doctor	Ruby Pellicle (quest)	Central Pripyat	Bar	5000RU	Doctor (see the bug below)	Strelok's stash (last extra stash grabbed)	Army Warehouses	Cordon	2500RU + Crystal9000RU + Crystal	Skinflint	The magic number	Army Warehouses	Yantar	2500RU + Mica9000RU + Mica	Max	File of "Playboy"	Army Warehouses	Central Pripyat	5000RU + Moonlight15000RU + Moonlight	Chef	Appetizer from rodents	Bar	Central Pripyat	9000RU	Barkeep (see the bug below)	Strelok's stash (last extra stash grabbed)	Yantar	Army Warehouses	2500RU + Soul10000RU + Soul	Sakharov	Device Installation: Military Warehouses	Yantar	Cordon	5000RU + Crystal15000RU + Crystal	Sakharov	Device Installation: Cordon	Yantar	Central Pripyat	2500RU + Moonlight9000RU + Moonlight	Sakharov	Device Installation: Central Pripyat
Bug warning: when using Doctor's/Barkeep's/Sidorovich's paid transitions obtained in Strelok's stash, make sure you finished the dialogue properly, without quitting on X/Esc. Otherwise they will take your money but the transition will not open, and will remain broken forever (unless you load the previous save).
== Soviet monument teleports ==
In the last Old-timer stash, you'll get a multiple use handheld teleport that can transport you to a randomly selected Soviet monument in the Zone (Lenin statues, pioneers statue in Army Warehouses etc). It consumes a Teleport artifact on each use.
Category:Core mechanics