Everybody run, the OSHA inspectors are here!!

I do love the implication of a traveller that has all these nations asking them to save the world tm and their first reaction is "...with THOSE roads?"

The roads in teyvat are literally the paths in my grandparent's stories of how they got to school

There's no definite path to the Narukami Shrine and somehow people reach their, like the way to go is the vines stuck to the mountain side. They never game any reason for people go there. It's kinda funny to think that the shrine maidens mountain climb there everyday

I live in Irelnd and let me tell you. When you get into the rural parts of the country this is really just how it is. Every day im scared that all of a sudden i will just have to deal with treasure horders on my way to my granny’s house

I can't believe how entertaining it is to just watch a video about the roads in genshin

As someone who plays "Walking Impact", as in... I just walk and don't teleport at all during quests :3 (during 4.4 Lantern rite, I literally walked from Liyue harbor to Qiaoying village, and took the boat/raft ride with Gaming to Yilong Wharf) This video DEFINITELY pointed out a lot of my mind-boggling concerns about the paths on the map when I did my "walk"through xD

Okay but I've legit wondered about this. Like, there's so many places that make no sense for the average non Vision holding person to get there. There's so many paths infested with enemies or places where you have to scale a literal mountain to get there (looking at you Narukami Shrine)

the continent in lore is like 50 times bigger than the one in game so maybe it makes more sense to think of it in that way

The true safety hazard is trying to visit Grand Narukami Shrine on foot.

I noticed that too, when you travel from Mond to Liyue for the first time you have a clear way with barely any enemies, but there is nothing like that ever since. All the ways to get to Sumeru and Fontaine are so convoluted they even had to unlock teleports. The world is still great but things like this kinda ruin the immersion a bit...

i think a lot about how the fontaine research institute just exploded and all the hydrobus highways are wrecked and no one cares to fix it. also, the highways only fit one hydrobus. they'd have to go one way and back alll the way. can you imagine the waiting line for this?

i feel like this is a sister video to Any Austin's unemployment analysis of Mondstadt. idk what to call this genre of video but i love it. bureaucracy core.

Now someone needs to talk about how there is no physical way to walk into Chenyu vale.

OH MY GOSH. Someone who actually talks about the road issue.... I think about this often. Like weirdly often. When 4.5 rolled around and they showed Kirara going from nation to nation and her Sumeru to Fontaine route was the weird one WE took to get through the Pari land, I was like... how is that the normal trade route? Much less the one Kirara takes to get places quickly and efficiently. I once took a "walk" from Fontaine to Sumeru city using the... I don't recall what the harbor's name is but the one you first encounter using the teleport they give you. I just recall being so lost because HOW would any normal person take this route? Why aren't we hypothetically taking the boat across the part of the map we just got (could have done it like in Alcor part of Liyue quest until they were ready to give us the map). Then when I made it into Sumeru it was just... so many dead end roads that had me like "how would a normal person get back to the city???" Even when using the map I got lost because half the time the paths don't even match up with the map... Don't even get me started on the new harbor. They didn't add Layla's village which, based on the route we walk during her hangout, SHOULD have been north of the mushroom area, and would have needed farm space for sumpter beasts. Yet they not only didn't bother adding a new city / town to Sumeru, but made that whole new section bland af and lack any semblance of sensible road for travel. Like you I couldn't figure out any way a normal person would traverse it. I get that this wasn't a Sumeru patch but damn I would have preferred another small hole left in the map before I would have accepted the barren wasteland they gave us.

Last night I was thinking about new regions, and that led me to mapping out trade roads between all the regions that are available for now. And let me tell you, many of them don't make any sense. I think I spent about 20 minutes trying to understand how the people of Qingce village get goods from Chengyu valley. Because there is a guy that tells you that they do deliver stuff to Qingce, but after getting them to the other side of the river there is NO road AND some treasure hoarders nearby. They could simply add a bridge that leads to one of the rocks that already have bridges connected to them. And that road near Vanarana that you've mentioned in video makes even less sense to me.

I love the newer regions, but one thing I have always liked about monsdat and liyue is that most of their roads makes sense and it makes the world feel more lived in to me. I feel like they stopped with making actual roads past liyue and monsdat.

No that its the Travelers business but I thought we would get quests to fix some broken roads/bridges like the one on Wangshu Inn.

broooo I legit always wondering about this. Also their waterways too, they have big ships from sumeu city yet the river from the city to anywhere is can get shallow and no way ship can get through there. The only way from sumeru city to port ormos is through Vimara village and the water there is to shallow and the river is too narrow. Also their fontaine. The lore said people rarely get to fontaine through the desert and there's no reason they build a waterbus that goes from romaritime instead of lumidoce which is seems like their main port to anywhere outside fontaine. Romaritime only connects fontaine with baida harbour maybe since yilong warf is on a more elevated water level. And one more thing. I can not figure out anyway that people in the court of fontaine can get in and out of the city other than through aquabus. How tf did they get anywhere??? there seems like no other reasonably easy way to get anywhere even poison. these tiny details bugs me sometimes hahah

This is why i hate sumeru map... They focus on adding more obstacle to make exploration more challenging but forgot the logic and accessibility

This is something that actually kinda struck me as weird when I started the game. I came from Zelda BOTW, and one of my favourite things to do was gallop a horse along the many paths there. Not as possible in genshin, feels like a lot of paths just end randomly or some such, and I feel interconnect far less, though probably due to way map is made. Either way, hope for snezhnaya to scratch this itch of mine (since I love snow biomes) but that’s in far future

Great video lol, ive also found teyvats roads to be extremely poorly made. About the aranara civilisation (New Vanarana) being not found though, they arent exactly hiding that much. The aranara are actually able to be seen by children, but they cant be seen by adults. You probably already know this, but what that means is that when someone walks into Vanarana, it just looks like a normal section of forest. In fact, the Vanarana where the aranara live is inaccessible without knowing the way to get into a dream, because the aranara exist in dreams. Its why you are able to play the vintage lyre in front of that rock and then all the aranara npcs disappear. Also, on another note, Narukami island has a great road, considering that there is a main thoroughfare that runs from the main port in Ritou all the way to the capital. Though there are hilichurls at the beach between Ritou and Konda Village, the Archon Quest implies that canonically, they are not actually there. The large amount of Nobushi and Kairagi on the side of the road are probably also not entirely normal, as the implication is that they are disaffected samurai that only started showing up in large numbers due to the civil war.

This reminds me how in the Teyvat, Inazuman people get to the Narukami Shrine? I have spent multiple hours trying to figure out paths to there from Inazuma city or even just Kamisato residence! Even if we agree that paths to shrine are meant to hard so they will give feeling of accomplishment to even make it to the shrine. How did sick people get there? How did that one person who had lost his mind in Inazuma Archon quest go up there from the City? Same with Adepti places in Liyue, I think one of the reasons Liyue people stopped believing in Adepti is cause, they make it super hard to even contact themself.

I was literally discussing this yesterday. Fontaine itself has so many infrastructure and transport problems that kts even comedic

This is such a 'Any Austin' core. I am glad Genshin is getting audited like this because i am always baffled by their waterfall origin and how the roads don't make sense.

I think all roads have at least one of the following purposes: -NPC pathfinfing -highlighting the way during a quest -making places look less empty -making the worldmap look better

roads irl also stop randomly you know, especially ones far away from civilization

FINALLY , SOMEONE MAKING A VIDEO ABOUT THESE ROADS, I KEPT SAYING TO MY FRIENDS THAT SOME OF THESE ROADS ARE DUMB AND DONT MAKE ANY SENSE, FINALLY, FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE ALSO THINKING THE SAME THING !!!!

As for Liyue and Sumeru trade I think they actually do it mostly by the sea. Port Ormos is Sumeru's trade centre, and there are even some NPC's from Liyue. Liyue is also a coast city, so the chance that they would mostly ships instead of roads to get to Ormos or Sumeru is quite possible. Especially that traveling there, to Sumeru, via land, would mean going between monster-and-ancient-evil-filled Chasm and ruins of old plagued by more monsters.

Don't even get me started on Teyvat's hydrology.

I have sent a complaint about it in the past.

Worst part, theres no road between most places especially between nations. The only notable one being between mondstadt and liyue. There not one between liyue and sumeru or fontain. There's a water one but the only way on foot is through the wilderness, for sumeru you have to go through a cave in the recently opened chasm. For fontain you either need to go through juyun karst which is very taboo thanks to the adepti, or you have to get you a boat to drop you off in the wilderness or the harbor on the far side which is right next to fontain anyway. The roads make no sense because there aren't as many as there should be

Right?! I’m really surprised that more people aren’t talking about Genshin’s roads. They drive me crazy, and I don’t even have any kind of background in road design/maintenance or any other kind of infrastructure. So many roads are totally impractical, way too steep or littered with giant rocks to drive a cart over them. Or they disappear into the grass suddenly as if they haven’t been used in years. Or they just straight up don’t even exist. Seriously, how is anyone supposed to get to the Narukami Shrine? Or Watatsumi Shrine? Or literally anywhere in Inazuma that isn’t the capital city or Konda Village? How does Bayda Harbor deliver goods to the rest of Sumeru when it’s perched at the top of a freaking waterfall with no paths around it? And Fontaine, oh god…Where’s the road into the Court of Fontaine? Not even one single route for land access? What happens if the other water bus canals are taken down? Are people just stuck inside/outside the capital? How did they get in or out before the waterways were constructed a couple decades ago? I get that it fits with the theme I’d being the nation of water, but it’s a major liability. The Court is extremely vulnerable to acts of terrorism because of this wrongheaded theme park design. Teyvat’s roads are more maddening than wishing at full pity and getting your 10th Qiqi.

That time I got reincarnated as Teyvat road inspector

Npc probably dont go to the statue, they just wanted the berrys XD

This is helpful for game design because if your roads don’t make sense from a critical perspective then you see the plot holes and lack of practicality with them

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I’ve always found navigation difficult in Genshin, both when I’m simply just wandering around and when I do end up using a teleport waypoint. It’s genuinely embarrassing the amount of times I’ve teleported to the wrong area because it looks so similar to another area 😭

I find it funny how obsessed you are with roads in this game. I also find it scary how obsessed you are with roads in this game.

No because this has genuinely started to bother me, it feels like roads and pathways have been getting less and less coherent since Liyue to the point that now Hoyo is having to add automatic waypoints to new regions because they just... don't want to add in proper roads or routes for some reason? The 4.x updates as a whole have had this problem REALLY bad, there's only one cohesive way to get into the Court of Fontaine and it's through a port that I specifically remember being the "smaller" of the ones we know about. There's a second path in from the left side of the city but that one makes even less sense, somehow(it takes you to the top of the wall around the city and then doesn't give you a complete path down unless you swim in the aquabus water. There's also a third entrance below the Clementine Line that isn't accessible at all to the player iirc). Chenyu Vale has basically zero walking accessibility for the player; NPCs have Lumidouce Harbor and Yilong Wharf but a waverider was never added there, AND no bridge or waverider was added on the Liyue - Chenyu Vale side so again, no easy crossing for the player(at least without characters like Kaeya or Wanderer). NPCs still have boats they're implied to use(some docks by the auto waypoint) but even then there's no path from the Liyue side? and you'd think there'd at least be a small port there since it seems to be the only way in. And on that note, I still remember one NPC in the middle of a route starting from Fontaine and heading to Liyue Harbor. He's in Jueyun Karst, and I remember him because when Chenyu Vale came out I intended to go through Jueyun Karst to get there only to find, guess what? There's literally no path through, and once I did get there, the quest that starts automatically teleported me onto the ""correct"" path to Qiaoying Village anyway! It really feels like the new regions have started to become "contained" if that makes sense, with one entry point being deemed as the "correct" one for the player and everything else getting ignored even if it would just be a nice addition to have in terms of worldbuilding(like a logical path between Chenyu Vale and Jueyun Karst or Liyue and Sumeru, or a more expansive Bayda Harbor with an actual road connecting it to Sumeru City). Anyways, I'll shut up now, but thanks for giving me the perfect excuse to ramble about this haha

The Bayda harbor expansion bugs me so much, both the harbor and roads. Great editing and funny visual gags as always !

I remembered sometime during the 2.x versions that I really enjoyed travelling on the road without teleporting from the beach that we started the game from, all the way up to Liyue harbour then up the ship to Ritou on Inazuma, then all the way up to the castle. It was great and very atmospheric, and at the end of it all, I started imagining how much more fun it would be to do the same thing when more nations come up. Tried it with Sumeru, was a bit disappointed but at least there's the lumberpick valley path (which was the path I took when I first visited Sumeru) But then more and more broken and illogical paths showed up, and it took me out of it.

I’m so glad I’m not the only person who thinks about this. For immersion during archon or story quests, when we’re canonically traveling with other people and only traveler knows how to use waypoints, I’m always trying to take the roads and paths that I feel are plausible for the character we’re traveling with. So I have definitely noticed this. And honestly, the Court of Fontaine is a whole frustration. But my biggest annoyance? How does anyone get to the shrine in Inazuma?

For game with such big and interesting world 4.6 part of Sumeru is criminally low-grade

Can’t wait to see if there’s a video on caravan ribat; it’s supposed to be a hub for getting into the desert and beyond, the utter state of the desert paths is something to behold. Big boat clearly has a chokehold over Teyvat international trade

With Genshin's incredible attention to detail and lore building they still forget to make their roads logical. Heck, even eggs defy physics! I can't imagine how NPCs would cook them considering that even plunging on an egg would not break it!

I have the same feeling for the longest time that the roads and the parts in the map which indicate roads are just weird sometimes 😆

i think this is also why im so disconnected from sumeru. the roads just make 0 sense. i looove walking down the roads and make my exploring seem ''natural'' but theres no true connection through the whole nation and now fontaine too. how even did npcs use the old passage in the sumeru desert to fontaine its a tunnel that leads to a huge cliff..

Yup I've been confused about this since the day the game told me to enter Sumeru via this really rundown and dangarous tunnel in Chasm and the Chasm itself is a pretty dangerous place for you average Teyvat NPC so there's no way trade and normal traversing happens via Chasm. Would definitely love to see a second part on the topic of roads in Genshin

the dendro energy from three statue of the seven instantly regrows the grass so there is no road /j

no because i love to walk places when i'm doing archon and story quests and i always try to follow roads because i assume that's how we would walk somewhere ?? but they like never make sense anymore

not a road, but the way up from narukami shrine, shorten my lifespan

for an open world game, genshin world infrastructure is disappointing.

Genshin is full of things that make zero sense. Like Fontaine waterbus ways with just 1 traffic line. Giant cups and beds. Alot of cringe in story too. Etc. At this point, i seriously think that Mihoyo hates common sense.

I vaguely remember on the day 3.0 released I went to explore the region without doing the quests first and ended up going above/north of the Gandarha ville and having to pretty much climb to the city because I didnt really see any good path from there

nah you are by FAR not the first person to notice these absurd roads- people were reacting to them as they came out. by all accounts, it makes no sense! like, mondstadt is the ONLY nation with decent main roads! though with Fontaine you could theoretically give the excuse that most of the roads and stuff are now underwater because of the flooding, and then the aquabus routes are great, and most people just use boats in general

I can't wait for you to review Natlans roads

It's hilarious to think you've made a video about something i've been thinking recently in genshin. Also, it's crazy that hostile mobs are literally outside or nearby villages/towns and NPCs don't care at all. Another one I was thinking was the bridge near Wangshuu Inn never been repaired. Anyway, great video!

A reward on the ro- Is this, a gift from this world?

Teyvat has it's own laws, even logic.

Finally someone made a video about this headscratching yet niche topic. You're right, this has not been covered about enough. There's so many egregious cases of this in each nation (such as the one going to Narukami Shrine the others mentioned) that you can make a series out of this. This issue and the general unrealistically small scale of most places in the overworld is such a worldbuilding flaw that bugs my immersion

Starting Genshin after playing hundreds of hours in BotW, the roads in Genshin confused me too, since there are no horses to have road pathfinding, and as stated, beyond Liyue and Mondstadt, the roads cease to work as means of marking transportation routes. To me the roads scream of BotW inspiration holdovers that they gradually lost grip of why they were there to begin with. It's small things, but them being misused leaves to a hollow experience as a lover of small details.

Personally I found both this and your first video very interesting because I do find that when things like roads get proper treatment as to how theoretically an in universe person would use them, they can make the world feel more immersive... And while stuff like the lack of proper connection between Bayda harbour and Sumeru city isn't game breaking, it still feels like a very small negative in my opinion. Anyways small genshin road rant over. Great video once again!

everyone i would like to nominate youtuber beerevity to be the new eighth archon of the long-masterless 'tevyat public safety and civil infrastructure maintenance' element

You are truly the Lord of All Roads

There are A LOT of things that don't make sense in Teyvat. Not just roads, but also houses, facilities, man-made buildings waterfall, etc... Sure, you can say "Teyvat has its own laws" but at the end of the day, too many things that don't make sense add up and break the immersion of an open world with actual people living in it.

Yeah it was pretty obvious to me Genshin was all kinds of messed up both in its world and game design few months after its initial launch so after complaining and suggesting improvements about 20 times on surveys they frequently asked you to fill back then I stopped caring about it and begun glitching the game whenever I felt like it. Maybe there's a given reason why the roads are the way they are somewhere in the main story I wouldn't know as I stayed at AR 25 and never made it past Liyue's quests, but I just assumed everyone uses the teleporters to get to places. After all you gain the blueprint for crafting one from Monstadt so even that backwaters "country" (lmao) knows how create a working teleport waypoint.

No because you’re so real for this😭roads not showing up on the map has always pissed me off, I like to walk around when doing archon and story quests, which has been Quite the pain in Fontaine

I've ALWAYS been wondering this, as someone who is into world building in games like Fallout where it's so important to have a good and believable world. How do nations conduct trade with one another? Where is the police force for these roads? Maintaining them? Like, Keqing's literal job is dealing with land...GIRL, THERE ARE SO MANY ROADS AND BRIDGES IN DISREPAIR!

Yayyy!! A new video! Even if it's a short one, the fact that you uploaded a video today made my day better. 😊

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="655">10:55</a> You forgot to mention how Traveler here is walking through Nara (at least I think that's how it's called, Its been a while since I've been in Sumeru like that). No one can walk through Nara without a vision or a concentration of Elemental energy flowing through them. And even then you can't stay in there for long, let alone all those fungi who reside in there. Sure, the Forest Rangers (specifically Tignari) appearantly clean them up sometimes, but I doubt they'd be able to leave their forest unattended for long enough to deal with all the nara outbreaks. And idk if Sumeru City can spare enough vision wielders to consistently clean the main roads, seeing how rare vision wielders appearantly are and how most probably don't know or care enough to do so or are too busy (think Cyno, Alhaithem, Kaveh, etc.)

I love your videos! This is the kind of channel the community needed. I've been streaming your videos to my boyfriend, he likes watching me play Genshin and he likes informative videos. I'm very much looking forward to more videos analysising things about Genshin's world. Covering Fontaine's land and roads would be interesting too considering it's been flooding over the years and that's why there are caves and buildings and stuff under water, so thinking about how all those would've connecting and reached one another in the past would require some thinking.

I'm actually so glad someone else has noticed this, I've always wondered how the hell Teyvat functions with those roads. I've unironically tried following those roads before only to be brutally attacked by enemies, so it always bothers me seeing people of Teyvat act like they are completely safe to travel in cutscenes. Not to mention that road connecting Mondstadt to Liyue, you would think if the knights are so concerned about clearing monsters, they would focus on the MAIN TRADE ROAD and not the random forest camps.

Ah finally, a fellow road enthusiast! Nice to stumble on the video. Love the editing.

Y'know it never really hit me until this video that yeah, these roads must be so confusing for the NPCs.

i would love an hours-long in-depth analysis on every single road in genshin XD your style of narrating is so fun, and i love seeing lumine judge everyone! :D

Bee: "Main road problems!" Venti: "Wouldn't flying be faster?"

Not me frantically pulling up the map of my fantasy world to make sure the roads make sense

now THIS is the kind of video content I need, as someone obsessed with the roads/rivers and general modes of navigation in these games. actually, I am really looking forward to Dornman port to be released, just so we can finally figure out WHERE it is, as well as how people actually sail out of Mondstadt lol

Yk that one question ppl ask if you’d rather have a vision but live in the real world, or live in teyvat without a vision?? Most ppl go for the 2nd option but I’d go for the 1st purely for this reason 😭😭 like living in teyvat without a vision id have to stay cooped up in one small city bc there’s monsters EVERYWHERE and id definitely die

the lack of path between sumeru and liyue actually started bothered me right away

I like this video. It is a good video. I appreciate exploration and the attention to detail that you have. So seeing various roads that are incomplete is conflicting. 10/10

oh i am SO GLAD someone has made a video about this, I THINK ABOUT IT SO MUCH LMAO. Environmental storytelling is one of my fave lil bits about open world games, and in some places genshin does it really well! And in others, it just makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE??? Like, where is Dornman Port supposed to go? Some people theorize past storm terrors lair, but that means people are passing through one of the most dangerous regions of mondstat for trade every day. Others say it should be past the stormbearer mountains, but theres no road through there at all??? its a whole city!!! Its GOT to go somewhere!!! and the nonexistant route into chenyu vale is also a perfect example, like, what road are people taking to get there? The one that makes the most sense is through Qingce village, but that road ends in a fairly large body of water and no docks/boats on the Qingce side of it. there IS a dock on the other side, but it doesn't make any sense that only one side would have that? We skipped right past that during the lantern rite travels with Gaming, which tells me the devs probably also don't know how we're getting there! We just APPEAR on the chenyu vale side, don't worry about how it happened i guess lol

Absolutely love the editing, must've taken ages. Peak humor.

newest isekai Transported to Another World But I’m a Road Inspector just dropped

Wow, this is such a great and entertaining video!! Literally on roads!! 😂 Thank you for the novel and original content, I love thinking about Teyvat in these connotations. You'll be huge in the community soon!! ❤️❤️🙌🏻

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="527">8:47</a> Arakanta in the perpetual state of running around in the same spot until the end of times because of the roads

I'm so happy this video exists, the paths have bugged me ever since SUmeru came out, I've tried to map out where trade routes could be and sumeru just fits into the map awfully.

As walking genshin simulator enjoyer, i like to follow the roads. I roleplay as Yae try to get back to her shrine which the road involve some rock climbing lol. I wonder how normal people get to the top, the road began from ayaka house. Folloing the road kinda make it more immersive experience as you learn how people in that world go to places. And as satisfactory player, i wish we could done terrain modification such as making roads, building bridge, or zigzaging scaffolding to climb mountain, etc. Also it would be cool if we could become logistic tycoon and recruiting people to push our carts and assign our comapnion as bodyguards. Sounds like wetdream game to me.

You are genuinely hilarious. Great video!

Letsgooo beerevity posted today will be a good day :3

This was such a good watch, I cant wait for the fontaine one!

Lovely video. I love that you used music from the Sly 2 OST. I have no other comments I just think thats neat

Resinless behaviour, i aprisiate it

finally, the content I need

Thank you very much for this video) great pleasure I like walking around Teyvat, slowly, admiring the scenery and ambient, and I noticed that roads outside the first areas make no sence. All my praise for the game at the early stages, for all that attention, now backfires and somehow makes the game feel worse than is they just didnot care in the first place... anyway, on my last journey I abandoned roads and just tried to go from A to B with no jumps or climbing. And it was pretty hard to find a path... so your video kind of resonated with my frustration, an it is executed nicely)

this is the kind of content I'm on youtube for

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If I remember correctly either when they expanded The Chasm or when Sumeru first game out, they explained that the Sumeru/Liyue trade route goes throught The Chasm into Gandharva Village, but that way still has pretty bad logistics, especially the cave into Sumeru where we first came into Sumeru at 4.0. There is also a cool map about Tevyat Trading Routes in the Genshin Reddit, but that is mostly speculation, it does explain some sea routes at least.

thank u for pointing all these out! i was thinking the same for the longest time bc like, it makes sense for roads to be less maintained in rural areas but the roads in genshin are actually ridiculous sometimes for content trade!

I'm so happy someone else noticed this! The roads are HORRIBLE and NONSENSICAL As someone that's like to worldbuild and draw maps for fun, you would hoyo would have thought these out but no. When we only had liyue and mondstadt everything was some what reasonable. However once the chasm came out it was down hill from there. The fact that you have to go through an active mine to get to sumeru is crazy, not to mention it was closed so you had to use boats to transport your goods, which could lead to you being extorted, you also have to deal with the fact that SEA MONSTERS exist in teyvat so all goods can be lost! This is just one example, there's a lot more and with two nations left more to come Thank you for reading, here is a cake 🍰