City & travel

Fast travel locked: first visits, district access and curfew

Released-game guides · sources checked October 10, 2026

The short answer

Read the selected destination’s actual lock or access message before changing anything else. The guides distinguish first discovery, achievement-point requirements, quest access and curfew. Those are different reasons that a map destination can be unavailable.

If the area has not been visited, use an available taxi, train or boat route first. If curfew is active, use a nearby shelter rather than treating the blocked fast travel as proof that the district is permanently locked.

Nivalis Nights / City access

Read which travel requirement is missing.

Discovery?
Use an available normal connection.
Points or quest access?
Follow the map or journal message.
Curfew?
Choose a local sleep route if travel is restricted.

Wiki explainer · not an in-game screenshot. Published threshold tables conflict; read the actual game requirement. Sources and version ↓

On this page

Identify which requirement is missing

Four access problems with different next steps
What the map or situation shows	Check	Next action
An area not yet discovered	Whether a normal route can reach it	Travel there through an available connection, then inspect the map again.
A displayed achievement-point requirement	Current points versus that destination’s message	Complete accessible tasks/milestones, then recheck the specific lock.
Quest or permit/access wording	The named active journal stage	Follow that quest; a restaurant level is not a travel permission.
Curfew restrictions	Clock and current Curfew objective	Find a usable local sleep route.

Different published guides give conflicting numeric district thresholds. This page uses the current game’s message rather than combining those lists into a purported exact all-district table. Likewise, a reachable district can contain a tier-locked vendor; that is a separate restriction.

Use normal transport for the discovery step

Open the city map; M is the commonly documented PC map control, subject to your bindings.
Select the actual district and inspect its current access text.
If the missing condition is discovery, identify a taxi, train or water connection you can already use.
Read the transport destination rather than assuming every taxi has an identical route list.
Reach the district normally and inspect the map’s destination options again.
If a different requirement remains, follow that new message rather than repeating the same trip.

The developer FAQ distinguishes steerable boats from taxis you ride. You do not need to find a taxi-driving control to discover a district. The available connection and destination are the relevant checks.

Keep quest access separate from business expansion

The fast-travel guide discusses the Tourist Visa/Kai Galosh exploration thread as a quest-access example. Follow the named journal instructions if that is the restriction in your save; this page does not substitute an invented dialogue sequence for the complete quest.

For a second restaurant, separate getting to the area from acquiring the venue. A Business Permit can be required for acquisition after arrival, while the map has its own discovery/access conditions. Use the venue acquisition guide for that later layer.

If you can walk around the district but cannot shop with one NPC, inspect Trading. If you can shop but cannot rent a venue, inspect its permit and acquisition screen. These symptoms should not all be described as fast-travel bugs.

Choose the apartment, not just the Lowtown street

Map destinations can include choices within a district. For the starter home, select Lowtown and inspect its apartment destination rather than choosing only the generic district arrival.

Destination choice and final approach
Selection	Expected task after arrival
Lowtown apartment destination	Confirm the 404-B home and use its bed.
Lowtown street/taxi arrival	Walk the right-hand alley and stairs to the apartment.
Another district’s general arrival	Continue to the named venue/vendor/objective on foot.
A destination unavailable during curfew	Choose an accessible local shelter rather than promising transport home.

The apartment route provides the specific address and fallback approach. Selecting the right district is not always the final navigation step.

Verify the restriction was resolved

Success is the destination becoming selectable and the trip arriving where intended. If it stays locked, keep the exact message, current points, discovery state, active quest and clock together. A screenshot of the city name without the requirement cannot identify the missing layer.

Do not restart a save or buy unrelated permits to test a generic travel theory. Use the narrow missing requirement first; if the shown condition is met but the action still fails, document that specific current-build mismatch.

Sources & version

Versioned developer notes and attributed guide/player observations, checked October 10, 2026. We have not claimed our own gameplay test. An article’s checked date does not make its older source a new-build playthrough; Update 4 changes and current author corrections are identified separately.