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  • How to complete Altar Teleportation and solve Romestead puzzles

    How to complete Altar Teleportation and solve Romestead puzzles

    Fast travel in Romestead isn’t available right from the start—you’ll have to earn it. The game revolves around using altar teleportation, a skill that lets you teleport between locations once you’ve set it up properly.

    The good news is that setting it up is simpler than it might seem at first. With some knowledge, you can create a basic outpost that has only a single upgraded altar, staffed by just one person, dedicated to fast travel. This guide will explain how to unlock the Altar Teleport skill and how to build the upgraded Altar needed to use it.

    Romestead is currently in Early Access, so details may change as development continues.

    How to Unlock Altar Teleportation

    Altar Teleport is a Rank 2 skill located in the Mercury skill tree. It costs two Worship points to unlock. But before you can see it as an option, you must first complete the Giant Owl quest. Finishing this quest unlocks both the Carpenter building type and the ability to upgrade your Altar to Level 2—both necessary for fast travel.

    After completing the Giant Owl quest and earning two Worship points, go to the Mercury skill tree and select Altar Teleport. To unlock this, you’ll need to make enough offerings to Hermes.

    Once you upgrade your Altar, you’ll be able to access the Teleport button, which allows you to instantly travel to any other upgraded Altar you’ve placed.

    How to Build a Level 2 Altar

    A Level 2 Altar is the minimum required to use the Altar Teleport skill. You don’t need a full settlement to get one—just a small, basic outpost with these four structures:

    1. A Workbench—needed to establish a settlement flag and start a new town.
    2. A Material Storage.
    3. A Carpenter’s Workshop.
    4. An Altar.

    With these structures in place, you only need to gather some accessible trees and rocks nearby, which is enough to set up a reliable fast travel point.

    Importantly, you don’t need to assign someone to work at the Carpenter’s Workshop. Having it built is enough to upgrade the Altar. This means you can set up a dedicated fast-travel outpost almost anywhere on the map without it affecting your main settlement’s workforce.

  • How to Complete the Forgotten Altar Puzzle in Crimson Desert

    How to Complete the Forgotten Altar Puzzle in Crimson Desert

    In Crimson Desert, the game offers so many distractions from the main story. With numerous side quests, boss fights, hidden gear, and puzzles, you’ll easily find yourself exploring this large world without realizing it.

    One of the puzzles you’ll encounter while exploring the sky islands of the Abyss is called the Forgotten Altar. You can access it after solving the Origin of Thoughts puzzle. This puzzle is quite straightforward but depends on whether you’ve unlocked a specific ability. Here’s how to complete the Forgotten Altar puzzle and what you’ll receive for your efforts.

    Forgotten Altar Puzzle Solution

    To get to the Forgotten Altar, first solve the Origin of Thoughts puzzle. Then, continue through the traversal section by following the blue light and using the fans to glide between the smaller islands. After passing through the teleporter, carefully hop across the floating platforms and activate the Abyss Gate.

    Once at the Forgotten Altar, head left and look for a spherical Abyss Core lying on the ground. Use your Axiom Force to pick it up and place it on the podium above (as shown in the image). Be cautious of the thorn bushes around, as hitting them will cause damage.

    Tip: You can burn away the thorns by using your Blinding Flash ability. Hold the Left Bumper and Right Bumper to activate it, then hold the Left Bumper and aim your crosshair at a thorn bush. After holding for a few seconds, the thorns will ignite and burn away.

    After placing the Abyss Core into its slot, move to the right and locate a large fan hovering just off the main island. Flap up and land on top of this machine, which creates a large dust tornado. Be very careful when landing—falling into the machine could be fatal.

    When on top of the machine:
    Perform the Nature’s Sense skill. Note that this ability isn’t available at the start; you need to unlock it through an Abyss Artifact in the Spirit skill tree. You must fully level up Keen Senses first, which requires four Abyss Artifacts and raising your Focus skill to level 2. Once unlocked, stand on the machine and press both thumbsticks in to enter Focus mode. Keep rotating the right stick clockwise until the tornado slows down or stops. This will dissipate the tornado and give you access to a cage in the center of the island.

    To continue, land on the cage, crouch, and do a Focus Palm Strike while facing downward. This causes the floor to rotate, dropping you into the cage. Inside, perform another Focus Palm on the floor switch to complete the puzzle and spawn the Abyss Artifact. Climb the walls and do one more Focus Palm to escape the cage.

    Finally, approach the podium to claim your new Abyss Artifact. You can also explore more of the islands by passing through the triangular gate that appears behind where the artifact was obtained and using Axiom Force on the switch rising from the ground.