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Seafarer: The Ship Sim Wiki — How to Fast Travel

Seafarer: The Ship Sim wiki guide: there is no official wiki for the game yet, so here are the sources worth trusting plus a fast travel fact check.

By the Game Atlas team · Updated 2026-10-05

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There is no official Seafarer: The Ship Sim wiki. Astragon has not opened one, and no dedicated community wiki has formed around the game the way it has around older ship sims, so anyone searching for a Seafarer wiki is really looking for the handful of primary sources that do exist. This page lists them, and then fact-checks one system — fast travel — the way a good wiki entry would.

Is There an Official Seafarer: The Ship Sim Wiki?

No. Neither the official site nor the Steam store page links to a wiki, and the game does not ship with a codex or in-game encyclopedia. What the ecosystem does have is a Steam community hub with guides, artwork and discussions, an FAQ maintained on the official site, and developer patch notes posted to Steam news.

Be careful with the Fandom result that ranks for these searches. The Ship Simulator Wiki on Fandom has around 111 articles and has existed since June 2009, but its contents are the older Ship Simulator series — Ship Simulator 2006, Ship Simulator 2008, Ship Simulator Extremes, New Horizons and The Shipyard — along with the Vstep studio. Seafarer: The Ship Sim shares a genre and a naming pattern with those games, not a continuity, so its ship lists and unlock tables do not apply here.

Where Reliable Seafarer Information Lives

  • The official site's FAQ answers platform, system requirement, language, keybinding, gamepad and game-mode questions, and names the developer and publisher.
  • The Steam store page carries the official description, feature list, tags and the current price and discount.
  • Steam news posts carry the full release notes and the Patch 1.0.1 public beta notes, which are the only reliable record of system changes.
  • Developer replies in Steam discussions answer specific design questions, such as which ship types are planned and the studio's current position on modding.
  • The in-game report tool is the documented channel for bug reports, as noted in the game's first hotfix announcement.

A vessel at a Northern European harbour, the kind of scene fan wikis usually illustrate
With no official wiki, patch notes and the developer's own posts are the record

A word on third-party wikis and guide sites generally: several pages that rank for Seafarer terms mix this game up with earlier ship simulators or with unrelated mobile titles. If a page cannot date its information to a specific patch, treat what it says about unlocks and prices as unverified.

Fast Travel: A Wiki-Style Fact Check

Fast travel is a good test case, because it changed twice in the game's first weeks and older write-ups are already out of date.

QuestionSourced answer
When does fast travel unlock?Level 1, per the full release notes, which moved it forward
How do you trigger it?Harbour Fast Travel buttons added in the Patch 1.0.1 public beta, or Travel To in the Job Menu
Are there restrictions?Fast travel is disabled while you are inside a harbour area
Is it safe in co-op?Not yet: the 1.0.1 known-issues list reports client crashes from Job Menu Travel To

The pattern behind those facts is worth generalising: the game is being patched aggressively, the public beta branch runs ahead of the live build, and version numbers can lag behind the branch — the 1.0.1 beta still displayed version 1.0.0 at the time of writing. Before trusting any Seafarer wiki-style page, check which patch it describes.

FAQ

1.Is there an official Seafarer: The Ship Sim wiki?

No. There is no official wiki run by astragon, and the game has no dedicated community wiki comparable to those of larger sims. The Steam community hub hosts guides and discussions, and the official site hosts an FAQ, but neither is a wiki.

2.Does the Ship Simulator Wiki cover Seafarer?

No. The Fandom Ship Simulator Wiki, founded in June 2009 and holding around 111 articles, documents the older Ship Simulator series such as Ship Simulator 2006, Ship Simulator 2008 and Ship Simulator Extremes, developed by Vstep. Seafarer: The Ship Sim is a different franchise.

3.Where should I check Seafarer facts instead?

The official site FAQ, Steam news posts including the full release notes and the Patch 1.0.1 public beta notes, the Steam store page, and the developer's replies in Steam discussions. Patch notes are the only reliable record of system changes like fast travel unlocks.

4.What does the wiki-style record say about fast travel?

Fast Travel unlocks at Level 1 according to the full release notes. The Patch 1.0.1 public beta added harbour Fast Travel buttons, disabled fast travel inside harbour areas, and listed Travel To in the multiplayer Job Menu as a known crash cause.

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References

Facts on this page are compiled from the references above. Items marked "to confirm" are single-source and not yet verified.