The Telelocator Staff is a magical item created from the Magic tab. It is used to teleport the player or a mob to a random location on the map, or a Telelocator Focus if one has been built. It requires 2 Living Logs, 4 Nightmare Fuel, and 2 Purple Gems to craft and a Shadow Manipulator to prototype.

The Telelocator Staff can be used on a mob to teleport it to a random location on the map. Lightning will strike the location at which the mob was before being teleported, and it will begin to rain. It can also be used to teleport the player to a random location on the map by using the right mouse button; doing this will also cause the rain and lightning effects. The Telelocator has 5 uses, each costing the player 50 Sanity.
Using a Telelocator Staff in a cave will not teleport either the player or a mob, even if there is a Telelocator Focus built underground. Instead, several Earthquake items like Rocks and Gems will fall in the location of the spell, hurting the player or mob if they do not move away from them.

The Telelocator can either provide a quick escape for the player, or teleport enemies away, including bosses. When self-teleporting, this may leave the player lost as it has a random destination. Thus, it can be risky, as it is unknown where the player will land. Warning: If you teleport into a dense forest, you may immediately start a fire as lightning will strike where you land.


If playing as WX-78, the lightning strike triggers WX-78's OVERLOAD perk. However the two lightning strikes hitting WX-78 plus the Telelocator's -50 Sanity will reduce the player's sanity significantly. This can be used as an advantage during the night, but should not be used when being chased by Shadow Creatures when the player's sanity is below 30. Wearing a Tam o' Shanter, Top Hat or Dapper Vest is advised.

If the player built a Telelocator Focus in the world and stocked it with three Purple Gems, the Telelocator Staff will teleport its target to the point at which the focus is placed instead of to a random location. This consumes the gems.

The player can use the Telelocator Focus to teleport to a base after a long trip or quickly travel from one end of the world to another. The focus can also be used to trap any mob, by teleporting it into a pen made of Walls.

Note that since it is currently not possible to teleport to or within a cave, building one of these in a cave is just a waste of resources.