As the live service games go, Where the winds meet is quite generous overall. There's a battle pass and there are cosmetic gacha systems, some of which can only be drawn with real money, but other than that it doesn't really interfere with any aspect of the game.
Including, fascinatingly, the construction system. You can start building things whenever your heart desires, from simple decorations to beautifying the environment to entire buildings for you to live in. How extensive is this system? More than you might think.
What is construction?
The build is exactly what it sounds like. You make lots of parts and then place them. It has an entire button dedicated to it, so you can call it up whenever you want. And there are quite a lot of pieces to choose from, while the game clearly divides them into categories.
The design is a purely cosmetic systemso none of the items you place will strictly have a purpose, but sometimes aesthetics are enough, right?
At least at the moment. Judging by the current Chinese version of the game, Construction will be massively expanded in the future to allow you to build on larger spaces, garden, and even hire NPCs to tend your land.
Placing items is a completely free action, allows you to place any item you have without restriction. Even after you place an item, you can recycle it and return it to your inventory without losing anything. So don't be afraid to play around with your creations, you literally have nothing to lose.
This means that creating items costs two different things – Stamina and resources. There are two primary resources, raw ore and wood, with larger structures requiring more. Stamina is used exclusively in crafting, both for food and construction, but it replenishes automatically daily.
This means that most building items only need one stamina point, so you can make up to 500 pieces per day before you run out of stamina.
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Basic functions
The construction is quite simple. Just open build mode, select the item you want to place, either from the bag or the quick bar, and place it. You can also rotate itand switch its various forms such as the angle of the ladder.
However, they do exist a few extra useful features also here, such as:
- Recycling – This allows you to remove any item you have placed and return it to your inventory without losing anything or costing it.
- Extraction – This allows you to highlight any placed item and immediately place another, provided you have one in your inventory or materials to craft another.
- False – This allows you to place entire designs on the world before you put any material into it, giving you an idea of how something should look and helping you easily build more advanced structures.
- Quick bar – This is a hot panel of all your favorite items that you use most often in construction mode. This is pre-populated by default, although you can choose exactly what you want in it by selecting new items from the bag.
Building yourself
DIY construction is simple. Just select an item and place it. If you already have the item in your inventory, you will place it. If not, it will be automatically created when you place it.
When choosing an item to craft, an asterisk will appear next to it, which means you don't currently have itwith the number showing how many materials you have to craft.
Most objects move freely, but some objects when placed near others do try to snap into place. For example, objects like walls, windows, doors, and roofs snap together at an angle to help you connect these pieces more easily.
Building From Plans
If you don't have the brains or the time, you can also build from diagrams. This will place the outline of the building in the world for you, giving you a sense of the scale of the building.
However, plans are not fully created automatically. Rather, you have to access and build each individual component. You can also click on the diagram as a whole and it will auto-complete, although you should make sure you have enough materials to do this if you don't want a rather flimsy house that's missing walls and a floor.
You can also check each individual piece that is part of the plan by location as well as the total number.
Can you build anywhere?
That's the best part – yes. With a few exceptions, such as interiors like caves and dungeons, and large cities like Kaifeng and Blissful Retreat, you can build almost anywhere.
You need space and you can't let the items you build get in the way of other existing items in the world, plus the land must be sufficiently level for items to be placed, although it is quite generous in that regard. But yes, you can build anywhere. It's hilariously freeform.
Willingly, you can also place ladders anywheremaking it much easier to scale oddly shaped and especially tall buildings.
Are your structures permanent?
That's the other fun part. Yes, everything you build is permanent. It doesn't show up online, so you usually don't see other players' builds either. It's not Death Stranding.
But even if you travel far, quit the game and come back, or whatever, your buildings will remain. You will always have your home to return to.
Where to get building materials
Now all this building can be great fun, but it's not free. You need building materialswhich are essentially exclusive Wood and raw ore. Most items don't even need that much, but when you're building large structures, the amount you'll need quickly skyrockets.
Both items can be purchased from merchantsalthough they can also be found in the world. You can even use Material tracking feature to highlight them on the map, making them easier to track. This way you get less and it takes a lot more time, but you save money and can get more than a day's supply of what the merchant is offering.
For wood, you can find it in the world according to felling certain types of trees. For Raw Ore, you can find it from various ore deposits and stones all over the world such as dark and green colored stones.
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