Unfamiliar Items: What They Are and How to Use Them
A guide to the real-world purpose and proper placement of commonly misunderstood items in Where Winds Meet, from steamers and stone mills to bamboo, duckweed, and courtyard landscapes.
Disclaimer: This guide explains the real-world usage of these unfamiliar items. Where Winds Meet is a video game, so you are entirely free to use them however you see fit. Just remember that realism creates immersion, and immersion creates appreciation and value.
1. Wooden bucket-style steamer:
Bottom piece is a metal base. Top piece is a very heavy lid to seal in whatever is cooking such as rice
Proper usage:
Not exactly on top of a wok like this, but it must be placed over an open flame.
2. Anatomical Manikin Display Cabinet:
Proper usage: Back of the booth are cheat sheets. Look closely at the bottom of this display cabinet. There are two foot prints. The manikin is not available right now as a component to complete this setup.
3. Stone mill:
Proper usage:
4. Fountain decorations:
Proper usage:
For the complete setup. Check out the fountain right next to the guild pool party area
5. Willow bush:
Proper usage:
Put near water. Can be partially submerged
6. True bamboo:
Proper usage: Unlike lucky bamboo (mini indoor bamboo). True bamboo cannot survive being submerged in water. Keep these out of lakes and ponds, even though they look nice growing in there.
7. Duckweed:
Proper usage:
Unlike the lotus next to it. Duckweed leaves must touch the surface of the water, not floating high above it.
8. Furnace:
Proper usage: This is a high-heat furnace, not a stove or an oven for baking or cooking food. Used for pottery or smithing.
9. Courtyard landscape:
Proper usage: The “sandy” surface of this component is often misunderstood. It is actually composed of tiny pebbles rather than sand, featuring an aesthetic wavy pattern created with a rake. It is designed purely for visual appeal—not as a pathway. If you use it to simulate a sandy beach, the surrounding elements should be hidden, leaving only the “sand” and water behind. Same as simulating a pathway.
10. Landscaping stones:
Proper usage:
