I’ve just started playing, but is there any way to cross large bodies of water faster than just swimming?
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Not sure if you know this but you can also “run” while swimming to swim faster.
Other way is to get a solidifier to jump and solidify the water before you land.
And the expensive way is to find gleam pops they let you walk over water for a while but they are expensive
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Creep and block placement depending on your skills can be quick. There’s also solidifiers you can buy/forge. High end grapples help when getting close to the shore. And the one gleambow item that turns water to ice when walking on it. In short the faster ways/helpful things cost a few thousand coin.
For bodies of water you need to cross all the time, building a bridge or setting up a portal on the other side can save some time.
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If you’re brand new, you probably dont have many points in to things that make you run faster or place blocks faster, both of which for me made a vast difference when running across large bodies of water.
When I first started I resigned myself to either avoiding them or knowing it would take a while. As you get higher, you’ll get easier access to the markets and can buy a grapple, ‘enchanted’/forged, to let you travel far distances and reel it in very quickly. You’ll use those to cross large bodies of water or use your attributes in block placement to make a fast bridge across.
But as far as just starting out, I’d 100% avoid large bodies of water, but that was just my way of handling the very slow movement.
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Also, if you have any small bits sticking out of water (foliage, rock), grapple and reel in.
Would world regen not destroy this unless i put it in a plot? Same with the portal? Seems like a tedious way and waste of resources
Most people just use a grapple and add some skill points to agility/speed. Swim when you absolutely have to, but grapple to the first tree/foliage/rock/etc that you can reach.
You can also use grapple & run guild buffs for more speed.
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I just swim or go around.
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If you have to cross it often, you put some plots and build a bridge.
If you make the same trip a lot and you want it to be quick you make a portal. Or save a location and warp to it.
Building a bridge to cross an inconvenient waterway is pretty much why we have bridges. It may be tedious and inconvenient but that’s how you make the decision, Build a bridge once, and run across forever, or swim every time.
Simply pick the less tedious 
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Yes you’d need the plots. If you’re just starting out tho it’s going to be tough to get around anyway, but if you can get a few Umbris plot boxes then a bridge might be worth it if you cross the same lake all the time is allz I’m sayin’.
Edit: yep, what @Nightstar said
Might be an unpopular opinion but I drink speed brews (plus having an agile character).
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Seems a very common choice to me 
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Boundmore… drinkmore
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There are ways to go faster.
But in general even max level players avoid water when possible.
Swimming in BL is too slow and requires holding down too many buttons. It definitely detracts significantly from the game IMO.
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A lot of times I’ll actually run on the bottom with my sinking feeling totem 
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I mainly use a Grapple for this. Like @majorvex said.
As you start out you conserve kill points spent so the best way to circumvent using skill points is going for long range, high tier and forged (longer distances) grapples. (Keep in mind they have a high energy drain).
To make coin gather mats from plants like orb, leaf, bean and lamella and sell these. (Simply use the exact word in your knowledge search bar and you can see which plants drops which resource).
In most cases you can then just grapple to the other side. If you still fall short maybe invest some points in interaction/placement distance (believe its control skill).
Have to add, in the beginning its a learning curve with a fast grapple.
There were enough times for me that I smashed my character against a wall and killed my self. Still do some times. 
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There are no boats in the game but there are other methods mentioned above, If its a body of water you need to cross regularly then I suggest you save the location once on the other side and then you can simply warp across whenever needed
Save the position you are in, jump to the Sanctuary, locate the mark you have left on the planet, point to the other side of the body of water you want to pass, mark that place and perform a jump through the portal. This method costs 100 coins.
Water is your worst enemy as a new player. I remember when i first started i setlled very far from the main city that had the only portals off world. It was literally a 5 min swim across water to get there. If it’s a location you frequent, it’s best to just save the location and warp there for 100c. Using either warp conduits or returning to sanctum and using the portal on the right side.
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