Animal welfare is a game that communicates almost entirely through puzzles, even when it comes to core gameplay mechanics. Take fast travel for example. As you begin your trip, you may be wondering whether fast travel is even possible. You don’t even get one Map until you have explored the first sections of the game. So who can say if Billy Basso designed the game with fast travel in mind? Are you destined to back down everywhere?
Fortunately, Animal fountain actually has a fast travel system. To unlock fast travel, you must first find eight eggs. Eggs are hidden in treasure chests all over the map. So if you have a keen sense of exploration, you should achieve this goal soon. To illustrate, there are 64 eggs in the entire game. Once you reach this eight-egg threshold, return to the room to the left of the central hub where the large peacock is
When you have eight (or more) eggs in hand, the bottom door on the left will open. Go through here and through the hallway. You enter a room with a treasure chest on a small platform. Jump there and open the chest to get this Animal flute. Immediately use this item to wake up the sleeping chinchillas around you, then jump with them to the entrance at the top right of the map.
In this room you will see a crow’s head and a small shrine that looks like a flute. Jump in front of the shrine and play the animal flute again. This will open the crow’s mouth. Jump in (don’t worry, it won’t bite) and you’ll find yourself in a new room in the bottom left corner of the map. This is your fast travel hub!
Throughout the fountain you will see animal heads that correspond to different sections of the map. Once you pass these heads on your journey, they will immediately open up to you. Otherwise, you’ll have to explore even more to unlock every single fast travel location. Every corresponding animal head you find in the world will have the same flute shrine in the same room. So just play the animal flute in these places if their mouths are not already open for you.
How to instantly warp with the Fast Travel song
So that’s a nice abbreviation and all, but can you really say that? Animal welfare does fast travel have when you need to get back to those heads? Fortunately, the game offers a solution for this too.
In the fast travel center with the six animal heads, you will see a ladder at the bottom of the room. Climb down there and you’ll enter another room with a fish sticking its head out of the water. Jump onto the small spit of land by the water and you will see the fish pop its head out repeatedly, but this time in a different direction each time.
If you consider that each direction the fish faces has a different sound effect, you might realize this This is actually a song that you can play with your animal flute.
If you just want to know the song exactly, play the following notes on the animal flute: Right, right, left, left, down, down, up, up.
If played correctly, your character will immediately return to the fast travel center. This works anywhere on the map, so you can reduce your backtracking time tremendously. Make sure to add stamps to your map to help you remember where each animal head will take you, and explore the fountain to your heart’s content!
How to play the other Secret Warp song
The truth is Animal welfare Fashion, even fast travel, holds many secrets to be discovered. Admittedly, it’s not a game-changing secret like the first Fast Travel song, but it’s certainly useful if you’re determined to uncover every secret in the game.
You can discover this song after watching the game’s end credits for the first time, and until then it won’t be of much use to you. Needless to say, there are mild spoilers.
To find the other Warp song for yourself, you’ll need to purchase it UV light. This is one of four secret items you will discover as you progress Animal welfareis the “second shift” where all 64 hidden eggs are collected. Once you find this item, return to the house you found after watching the credits. Head right until you reach the screen where the menacing looking donut is floating around and use the UV light. On the wall to the left you will see a series of arrows followed by a swirl symbol.
If you’re just here to reference the song, play the following notes: Bottom right, Top left, Bottom right, Top left, Bottom right, Top left, Bottom right, Top left.
Playing this will take you to the top of the “well” that you find after you beat the game for the first time. This song comes in very handy if you want to access those endgame areas again, but won’t do you much good beforehand. However, remember to remember this one as soon as you are ready to use it. After all, it’s just two notes that are repeated over and over again.
