Tips and FAQ

Yes, with cheats on: /swift enter takes you there and /swift leave brings you back. Without cheats, light a Deep Dark portal or step through a rift.

Walk back into the arrival gate you came through. It always leads to the portal you used. If you came by rift, use the return rift within 30 seconds, before it closes. Or use a Soul Block: it opens a rift home. Getting home has every way back.

The Swift hums too brightly to sleep. Beds don’t work there, respawn anchors explode as they do in the Overworld, and if you die you respawn in the Overworld.

The notes must be five different pitches, played within 12 seconds, on note blocks within about 12 blocks of the frame and 24 blocks of each other. The frame must be upright and made of reinforced deepslate.

Ancient city chests, the chests of humbler husks and the Sculker Nest, sometimes the sculkers (hunters, scavengers, trappers and stalkers) and lootkins, and Monarchs and Twisted Wardens.

See Soul Blocks: excavations, Lullaby Circles, the Sculker Nest, the Echo Den, humbler husks, bosses, echo golems, or craft them.

It opened a rift and drained. Place it in the Swift during the Thrive tide (the day) to recharge it.

They’re soul corrupted. During Endure, half the monsters that spawn are tougher and burning, freezing or swift. The corruption fades when the tide turns.

Only tamed blubs follow you. Keep feeding it Chimebells; each one has a 1 in 3 chance.

A Singer’s song calms wardens for 30 seconds. Otherwise, sneak, avoid sculk shriekers, and have the melody ready before you start.

Soulsick wears off a few seconds after you get out, and water doesn’t help. A slabber’s lick removes it, and Fire Resistance keeps it off.

Note blocks and Singers can’t light a portal in the Swift, but its echo golems can: wake four of them by the gate during Thrive and they relight it. See getting home.