Short Distance Travel (SDT)

[solemn dome]

This is a blueprint for making high performance SDT teleport wands.

Teleport speed

1. Wand length matters - the bigger your wand's casting offset, the faster you move (wand's sprite is not representative of casting offset, see below)

• Reduce teleport lifetime - the more often you teleport, the more your wand's length gets added to your total distance traveled. Teleporting 2 times instead of 1 time in the same time span means the wand's length gets added 2 times -> you travel faster. So having or ⏰ (Reduce Lifetime, the better option) on your teleport is crucial (regular teleport bolt needs 2 ⏰ since just 1 will have a chance to make a wisp)
• Do not put tp into a trigger - making a trigger release your teleport further delays it, meaning wand length can't be used as often

Digging

1. Sub-chunk update delay is an issue - because of how sub-chunks get updated only ~4 frames after materials get removed, teleports can't succeed immediately. The solution to that is to dig the ground further in advance by using things like or Omega Blackhole which dig more than does

• Hook bolt - adding Hook Bolt to the build can push you further into the ground (only teleports fail) but the air movement becomes janky

Healing

• Only works with - both and Deadly Heal are unable to hit you in the first 2 frames of lifetime ( makes them last that much). Which makes the ultimate form of healing for SDT.
• Triggers separate shot states - you can use triggers to make / Deadly Heal unaffected by .

Build examples:

(you may substitute/remove missing components like healing)

Notes:

• while and may seem attractive early on, they significantly slow down your teleports after you're able to rapid-fire them and are thus not recommended (timers like will also often fail to tp you if you have a low lifetime )
• adjust CD / RT reduction to the wand stats as needed. can be used to completely negate RT on almost any wand, while helps completely negating CD. With some tweaking it is possible to use for CD reduction
• Invis Glimmer helps with lag
• ⏰ on is always better than since the former is 1f while the latter is 3f of lifetime.
  • since is 3f, making the wand shoot it every 2f is worse than every 3f or 1f
• is still almost necessary for and to not lag the game while shooting rapidly
• White Hole instead of works and helps with repelling enemy projectiles (although it makes healing with / Deadly Heal harder)
• + Explosion of Brimstone pair really well due to the EoBrimstone radius being almost the same as
• Touch Ofs can be used for digging / removal of dangerous liquids, however they will also kill you without many +
• Return is strictly worse than normal teleports due to it not moving by default

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**FAQ: wandsize (Creator: newalexgamer)**

For short distance travel, "longer"-looking wands make you go faster.
Why "longer": when it comes to teleporting, the efficiency of the build comes from a property called offset.x that wands have, the higher the better. This value determines how many pixels away from you the projectiles get shot, or in broader terms, determines where the tip of the wand is. Highest possible offset is 25.
Some examples are: Wand of Swiftness and Wand of Multitudes both have an offset of 15.

You can read more here.
The image below displays the wands with the highest offset.

FAQ: polyprot (Creator: scryingcircle)

[solemn dome]

Super late game build by @proud niche using Lightning to deliver Omega BH/WH to dig earlier (both variants are used to cancel gravity)

[tidal wagon]

I’d discard Tau via the trigger, and then copy it twice with Alpha, once for the holes and once again for the cov 🤔

[soft crescent]

isnt this quite a bit laggier than inner spell whitehole. and takes some time to startup, not to mention needing more capacity and more niche spells?

[tidal wagon]

Yep, it’s the older tech. Does have some advantages though, like it doesn’t destroy terrain, and you can put damage on the vac fields which very effectively kills anything nearby. Also since the vac fields delete the liquid, it renders an area safer to be in afterward, and you can stop firing it temporarily while remaining protected.

It is also surprisingly not so bad in terms of lag, mostly vac fields lag when they are created, and when they return the liquid. By using true orbit to stack them you can get away with making only a few each frame (instead of making a lot of them each frame using nolla).

[soft crescent]

Really should get the faq updated at some point ngl, but true enough