How to teach players a traveling mechanic?

Hi. I have been working on a game and there is a mechanic for having players get around the world. The game world is divided into grid tiles, where for a player to get to a new tile, they need to walk forward and touch an invisible wall to teleport to the next tile.

So for example, the player touches the black part of the border, where it is invisible. Then, they teleport to the next tile north.

However, it seems that some players will go near the border, but they do not touch the border. They end up leaving before they make it to the new tile.

The way I have been trying to teach players is through a quest where they tell the player to “Walk to the edge of the world to teleport.” I included an optional NPC that comments on the lack of area around and ask for you to demonstrate how to get to the new tile, and a sign that tells players that it goes to the place they need to go for the quest.

Is there any way I can make this simpler for players to know this mechanic?

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The way I would do it is when the player gets close to the border they get a pop up (maybe near the bottom of the screen) that says “Walk to the edge to teleport”. If it’s hard to access the player will have a harder time figuring it out.

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Thanks for the tip. I will see how adding a hint popup will go for new players.