Graveyard Keeper 2 Fast Travel Guide — How to Unlock All Waypoints
How fast travel works in Graveyard Keeper 2: unlocking the milestone pillars with faith, every confirmed waypoint location, activation costs, and carrying tips.
FAQ
Can you fast travel from anywhere in Graveyard Keeper 2?
Do milestones cost faith every time you use them?
How do you get faith in Graveyard Keeper 2?
What happened to the teleport stone from the first game?
How many fast travel milestones are in the game?
How does fast travel work in Graveyard Keeper 2?
Fast travel runs on stone pillars called Milestones, marked with Roman numerals and scattered across the world — one sits right at your base from the start. Interact with a milestone, pay faith to activate it, and it becomes a permanent travel point: open the map from any activated pillar and click another one to teleport. No item, no cooldown, no fee.
The catch — and the reason launch-week players flooded Steam with the thread “Why doesn’t the game TELL YOU fast travel exists?” — is that the game never explains any of this. There is no tutorial message and no quest that walks you to your first pillar. Most players discover it by interacting with the little stone post near their graveyard and watching the map pop open.
| Mechanic | How it works |
|---|---|
| Travel points | Stone pillars called Milestones, each marked with a Roman numeral |
| Activation | Costs faith, paid once per pillar; numerals turn yellow when active |
| Using them | Interact with a pillar → the map opens → click any activated milestone |
| Cost after activation | Free, unlimited uses, no cooldown |
| Carrying | You teleport while holding logs, blocks, corpses — even zombies |
How do you unlock fast travel in Graveyard Keeper 2?
You unlock it in two steps: get faith, then spend it at a pillar. Faith comes from story progression — follow the starting quest line until the nun arrives, unlock the church, and start preaching sermons, which keep producing faith every week. With faith in hand, walk to any milestone with a Roman numeral, interact, and pay its activation cost.
- Progress the opening quest line. Two early NPCs start the chain that eventually brings the nun to town; she is the gate to the church.
- Unlock the church and give your first sermon. This is where faith starts coming in — and it keeps coming with weekly sermons.
- Find your first milestone. Start with the one at your base. They look like short stone posts with Roman numerals and are marked on the map.
- Interact and pay the activation cost. Cheap ones cost 1 faith; pricier ones cost more (see the table below).
- Travel. From any activated pillar, open the map and click another highlighted milestone to teleport instantly.
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How much faith do milestones cost?
Activation costs vary pillar by pillar: the verified range so far is 1 faith for the cheapest, demonstrated on camera, and 6 faith for a distant one per the most-upvoted community guide. Whatever the price, you only pay once — activated milestones are free to use forever, which is what makes even the expensive ones worth it eventually.
| Milestone tier | Reported activation cost | Where this is reported |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest pillars | 1 faith | Demonstrated in a launch-week video; matches the community starter guide |
| Distant pillars | 6 faith | r/GraveyardKeeper non-AI starter guide (117 upvotes) |
| Most expensive reported | 8 faith | Single player report — treat as unconfirmed |
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Where are all the fast travel points located?
A complete, verified map of every milestone does not exist yet — the game launched in late September 2026, and the community is still cataloguing them. What players have confirmed: one pillar at your base, one at the inquisitor’s base, and several more with Roman numerals along the roads between regions. We list a location only once it is verified.
| Confirmed location | What we know | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Your base (graveyard) | Available from the start; interacting with it opens the travel map | Launch-week video + Steam thread |
| The inquisitor’s base | Its numerals turn yellow once activated, like any activated pillar | Steam discussion thread |
| Elsewhere in the world | Several more pillars with Roman numerals out on the roads | r/GraveyardKeeper PSA thread |
A nice touch the community appreciates: the pillars are modeled on real Roman milestones, which were distance markers on actual roads. One Steam commenter put it: “It’s a distance counter, and this is really nice decision to make them for fast travel.” The in-world flavor doubles as a findability hint — anywhere a road looks long enough to need a milestone marker, one probably is.
Can you fast travel while carrying items or zombies?
Yes — teleporting works with your hands full. Players on the subreddit confirmed you can fast travel while holding logs, blocks, and corpses, and while leading zombies; hauling a squad to the barracks before a battle is exactly what the feature is for. The Carrier I inspiration perk (hammer branch) even lets you carry four zombies at once, so one teleport moves most of a squad.
Milestone pillars vs the first game's teleport stone
- The first game used an item. Graveyard Keeper 1 added a teleport stone shortly after its 2018 launch; you carried it and used it on the spot, with cooldowns between jumps.
- The sequel uses the world itself. There is no stone item in Graveyard Keeper 2 — the milestones are fixed pillars you activate with faith, and players report no cooldown at all.
- The carrying trick survived the transition. Teleporting while holding a log, a block, or a corpse was possible in the first game too, and the community was delighted to find it still works here — one player’s PSA about teleporting with logs trended on the subreddit in the game’s first weeks.
Is fast travel worth the faith in Graveyard Keeper 2?
Yes — buy the cheap pillars early. Faith competes with inspiration unlocks and quest advances, but it is not tightly limited: weekly sermons keep the income coming, so a 1-faith pillar on your daily route pays for itself within days. The expensive ones can wait until the mid-game, when walking across the whole map costs you real crafting time.
- Unlock what you walk past daily first — the base pillar, then whichever ones sit on your graveyard–town loop.
- Leave the 6-faith pillars until sermon income is steady. Players who hoarded report no regrets; players who dumped faith early report a week of walking.
- Remember the carrying rule. Fast travel is not just for you: teleporting while loaded turns every trip into a supply run, so what you haul matters as much as how far — our items overview covers which stockpiles are worth shuttling.
Once your pillars are lit and your routes are short, the walking complaints disappear — and the time you save is exactly what the rest of the game asks for. Track what you have unlocked against the achievements overview, then browse the rest of our guides for the systems that unlock alongside the map — including the faith economy itself, which our beginner guide covers in depth.
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