Horizon Zero Dawn/CFT

General

A Camp Fire Teleport (CFT) is a glitch in HZD where Aloy's respawn point is set to an incorrect position for Quick Saves and Manual Saves. The glitch requires using either Early Embrace Escape or Varl Skip in order to exit the Embrace early and trigger a broken map state. When this map state is achieved, the player can save at a campfire, then restart from save (RFS) to get teleported to a separate, consistent location. It is uncertain who discovered CFT's, but some of the first to bring them up to the community were Charlatan_11235 and Marenelinea.

How To Activate

As previously mentioned, the player will need to exit the Embrace earlier than intended using either Embrace Escape or Varl Skip. This will cause a broken map state where campfires don't appear on your map. The player then needs to walk up to the desired campfire, and RFS at it to get teleported.

Mechanics

Upon triggering a broken map state, the player can save and RFS at a campfire in order to get teleported. The position the player gets teleported to will always be consistent. Some campfires will teleport you to different locations depending on if a bandit camp nearby has been completed, or if a settlement has been discovered. While it is not certain why this happens, it is theorised to have to do with the campfire within the Sawtooth arena in the "The Point Of The Spear" main quest. This is because this campfire will teleport you to the center of the Sawtooth arena upon restarting from save at it, and the campfire itself won't show up on your map. The developers may have either intentionally or accidentally added a similar mechanic to all the other campfires.

Uses

CFT's are currently only used in Category Extensions, as no usage has yet been found in main game categories. Abs%, All Cauldrons and Dummy% all use CFT's in their routes.