Easier transportation?

[Rosten]

Is there any easier or quicker ways to get to the other islands? Going across the map and through the ruins everytime I want to head to the other town is a huge pain.

[me real life]

- The bird whistle can quickly take you to whatever island the roc's cave is connected to, which is nice with the right worldgen.
- A lazy explorer can be used to cross small gaps between islands if they generate close enough together.
- A telelocator focus is considered "inactive" if you're standing on top of it, allowing you to have two that work like your own personal wormhole that's fueled by purple gems.

If your problem is having to head back and forth between cities, though, get the Key to the City! It's one of the items in the Queen's royal gallery, which can be earned by returning lost royal objects to the Queen, such as her crown or scepter. The Key to the City allows you to build your own city structures like town houses, guard towers, and shops! You can use it to expand whichever city you prefer, or you can build your own city anywhere you want.

[metallichydra]

wagstaff also have his own teleportation device

[Alexias]

Purple gems are easy to farm due the end well, build two telelocator focus and stand on top of the one of it and you can teleport to the other

Just put another purple gems before you go back to the original island.

[Machine Reaper]

Telelocator is the confirmed method.

set one beside the Aporkalypse Calender Ruins,

one near each of the two cities

and one near the Fountain of youth if required by you.

It's probably the reason why there are no wormholes and instead a dark well that poops Purple gems like no tomorrow which you can mostly use on the telelocator focus.

You can also find a Lazy Explorer Staff in the hidden rooms inside any ruins, but it only works if two islands are close enough for you to teleport to.

[Hyxaru]

You can only 'link' telelocators if you have only two in total in the world afaik, else you just get teleported to the closest one.