Seafarer: The Ship Sim Walkthrough — How to Fast Travel

A Seafarer: The Ship Sim walkthrough is less about a fixed level order than about the shape of the campaign: a tutorial that introduces two factions, a story campaign you can replay, and eight extra missions that arrived with the full release. This page lays out that order, lists the missions, and explains how to fast travel when a long transit stops being interesting.

How the Career and Campaign Fit Together

The career starts as an aspiring captain and grows through missions, reputation and fleet progression, while the story thread follows Teddy, an experienced captain with a troubled past, through a mystery the official site frames around guilt, trust and redemption. In practice the campaign missions are interleaved with ordinary contract work rather than being a separate mode you select from the menu.

Two modes are offered. Story mode carries the narrative across several factions, while Quickplay drops you straight into seafaring action. At full release, all campaign missions plus three special missions became replayable in Quickplay once completed in single-player.

The Opening: Tutorial, Crescent Port Logistics and Tide Patrol

The Gaming Nexus preview describes the tutorial as letting you try out ships and missions for Crescent Port Logistics, which operates traditional cargo lines, and Tide Patrol, which handles maritime policing. Its first concrete job was pushing a large freighter into dock with a tugboat, and the preview notes that the game makes you move around the vessel and interact with doors, electronics and objects rather than driving through a simplified control strip.

For a visual reference of the whole run, the ChapterCheats entry embeds a full-game walkthrough video hosted on YouTube by the channel DualShot66, although that video predates the full release and therefore shows an Early Access build.

Missions Added at Full Release

Mission	Type	Where it is available
Flying Dutchman	Main	Crescentport, at the highest harbour reputation
A Light on the Horizon	Main	Stettach
Forbidden Freight	Main	Stettach, at the highest harbour reputation
Eddy's Delivery Service	Main	Mettington, Crescentport, Stettach and Drachdelen
Seal Appeal	Side	Discovered while travelling the open sea
Discord	Side	Discovered while travelling the open sea
A Sound Anomaly	Side	Discovered while travelling the open sea
Secrets of the Deep	Side	Discovered while travelling the open sea

The full release notes are explicit that not every new assignment starts at a harbour, so the four side missions are meant to be stumbled into while sailing rather than picked from a job board.

How to Fast Travel Between Jobs

• Fast travel is unlocked from Level 1 after the full release rebalance, so you do not have to grind a career before using it.
• Trigger it from the harbour Fast Travel buttons that the Patch 1.0.1 public beta added.
• Alternatively open the Job Menu and use the Travel To entry to move to a mission or destination.
• It will not work while you are inside a harbour area, because the 1.0.1 notes disabled it there.
• Treat it carefully in co-op: the 1.0.1 known-issues list says using Travel To in multiplayer can crash clients, more often over longer distances.

Some Steam reviewers dislike that fast travel exists at all, arguing that skipping the voyage undercuts a sim about shipping. The counter-argument in the same threads is that ships travel far slower than aircraft, and a long transit at realistic speed is dead time for many players. Either way, the feature is optional.

After the Campaign: Quickplay and Free Play

Once a campaign mission has been completed in single-player, Quickplay makes it available again, so you can revisit a favourite assignment without restarting a career. There is no documented custom-voyage editor, and a Steam review from November 2025 complained specifically that there were no options to make your own voyages — treat free-form sandboxing as something the game does not currently advertise.

If the story missions run dry, the harbour reputation track and the daily challenge and dynamic event systems are the intended sources of further work, and the full release also increased rewards for special and campaign missions so that continuing to play them stays worthwhile.