When you open up the main menu in Where Winds Meet, there are a large number of options you can choose from. However, many of these choices are unclear about their purpose, so it can be hard to tell exactly where you want to look. This guide will go over what each menu shows you and its general purpose, as well as how you can get some rewards from them.
1. How to Open the Main Menu
Opening the main menu is simple — press the Escape key if using a mouse and keyboard, or the start button if you’re on a controller. A box will then appear on the right side of the screen, allowing you to pick which menu you want to go to next.
2. What Are All of the Options in the Main Menu?
There are many menus you can navigate through, each having a different purpose. This ranges from seeing your items, increasing your power, and taking on missions.
2.1 Bag
The first and probably most straightforward option. Your Bag shows all of the items and currency that you currently hold.
- Your items are separated into gear, common items, quest items, and currency
- If you select an item, you can see a list of all the ways you can obtain more of it
Common items can be crafted straight from this menu
2.2 Develop
Develop is the main place you want to go to make your character stronger. There are 3 ways you can do that in here:
- Abilities – Will let you increase your proficiency with specific weapons and learn new moves
- Three Arts – Choose between Martial, Internal, or Mystic Arts to improve on
- Gear – Level up your equipment to increase its stats
- Other Gear Options – Equip gear, enhance gear slots, and choose an Arsenal Buff
- Talents – Give your character passive bonuses
- Improvement Guide – Gives you information on how to further improve
2.3 Appearance
This is where you can customize your character, gear, and much more. Changes in here are purely cosmetic, so they will have no effect on your gameplay. You can also choose your mount from this menu.
You can preview how the attack effects will look
2.4 Career
The Career menu lets you manage the two professions available in Where Winds Meet. Both careers give you unique interactions with NPCs and unlock various benefits for exploration and crime-related encounters. If you haven’t unlocked a career yet, this menu also guides you toward its requirements.
- Healer – Heals diseases from NPCs, and creates potions for yourself
- Scholar – Talk down unstable NPCs or convince someone to let you go if you get caught committing a crime
- Unlock Guidance – Gives you hints on starting either career if you haven’t obtained them yet
2.5 Journal
The Journal helps you track your completion progress across story chapters, regions, bosses, outposts, and world exploration. If you’re aiming for 100%, this is the menu that keeps everything organized and easy to track.
- Progress Categories – Campaign, Outposts, World Bosses, Regions, and more.
- Regional Tracking – You can track you completion and objectives for each region in their own pages.
- Volume Completion – A check mark indicates a fully completed Volume
A check mark means that you have completed that Volume
2.6 Quest
The Quest menu shows all of the quests you’ve accepted, their categories, and the exact steps you need to progress them. It also displays the ones you haven’t picked up yet, so you always know what is still available.
- Quest Categories – View all quests by type and see how many you have in each.
- Unaccepted Quests – Listed separately below your active quests.
- Objective Details – Shows you the next step in your quest and the final rewards.
- Track Quest – Highlights the next objective directly on your map.
Quests you haven’t started yet will show up under the ones you have in progress
2.7 Compendium
The Compendium displays everything you’ve discovered and collected throughout the world: food, weapons, merchants, materials, and collectibles. It’s your main reference for checking what you’ve found and what is still missing.
- Categories – Includes food, weapons, merchants, items, and collectibles.
- Unlock Overview – Shows discovered items and what’s still missing.
- Progress Rewards – Filling progress bars in each category grants various rewards.
When looking at a specific section, you can see what items you’re missing
2.8 Wandering Paths
Wandering Paths gives you several options to test your battle skills and purchase items from the rewards. There are both multiplayer and group queues you can tackle.
- Fellowship – Take on various challenges to tackle powerful monsters or areas for rewards.
- Shop – Use Four Seas Letters that you’ve earned to buy cosmetic and housing items.
2.9 Sects
If you have joined a Sect, you can keep track of your standing with them here. If you haven’t joined one yet, this will be to place you can choose your Sect.
- Jianghu Errend – Pick up and track errends for your Sect.
- Join Sect – If you haven’t joined one, this is where you can choose one.
- Shop – Buy cosmetic and housing items with your Reputation.
If you’re not a Sect, the option in the middle will let you join one
2.10 Social
The Social menu allows you to keep track of friends that you make both in and out of the game. You can also create groups with your friends to tackle content together.
- You can check your bonds with characters that you’ve met in the game
- This is where you can add other players as your friends
- For friends that you’ve made, you can check your Intimacy level with them
- The Sworn option allows you to make a Cohort with up to 10 players
- You can also invite friends into a group
The shop that’s in the Wandering Paths menu can be found here as well
2.11 Guild
This menu allows you to create or join a Guild if you are not currently in one. Once you’ve joined one, this page will show you all of the information you need to know about your Guild.
2.12 Letter
Letter is where you can find all of your mail sent to you from both in-game characters and other players. You also have the option to send mail to others.
2.13 Time
A straightforward menu, where you are able to see the current time. If you need to skip to a specific time, you can do so here.
You can skip forward up to 24 hours
2.14 Photo
This allows you to open up the game’s Photo Mode, for when there’s a moment you want to capture.
2.15 Emotes
Another simple option, picking Emotes will bring up a new UI in the game, allowing you to make various poses for communication and pictures.
Your assigned emotes will show up on a new bar
2.16 Settings
A standard menu in every game, the Settings option will allow you to make various adjustments to the game itself.
2.17 Feedback
Allows you to give the development team any feedback about the game, including bugs and suggestions to improve the game.
2.18 Mode Switch
This option could be a little harder to find than the others, as it is at the top of the screen next to the menu box. This menu lets you switch between the three different modes in the game:
- Solo – Allows you to play by yourself and not interact with other players
- Co-op – You and up to 3 friends will be able to explore the world together in this mode
- Online – Gives you an MMO experience, letting you see other players exploring the world at the same time as you
2.19 Warrior’s Journey
Another menu that’s harder to find, this sits next to Mode Switch. The Warrior’s Journey helps give you some direction when starting your journey.
- There are 7 levels of various objectives, each one tasking you to take part in different aspects of the game
- Completing these quests will give you several rewards
You can get a preview of all of your possible rewards in this menu
2.20 Profile
By clicking on your portrait, you can see your Profile. This menu lets you view and customize various aspects of your character. You can also take a look at your current loadout and achievements.
- Profile – Customize your picture, name, and signature, as well as see your Sect and Guild.
- Battle Plan – An overview of your current weapons and abilities, and a Development Guide to improve them further.
- Achievements – See which achievements you’ve unlocked so far, and which ones you’re still missing.
2.21 Search Bar
If there’s a specific thing you’re looking for and are having trouble finding it, you can use the Search Bar to find it quickly.
2.22 Map
If you click on the mini map in the top left corner, you will open up the full map. While being able to get a full sense of where you are, there are also a few other options within this window:
- Species Distribution – Allows you to mark various species on your map.
- Sect List – Shows you all of the different Sects in the world.
- Energy Challenge – Gives you a list of challenges you can tackle to spend your energy.
Clicking on this text will show you your completion for the area
2.23 Exit
Once you’re done playing the game, you can press the icon on the bottom right of the screen. You choose to either return to the game’s title screen or close it entirely.
3. What Are the Icons on the Menus?
Besides the pictures representing each menu, there are a few icons that you can see in the menus. These will usually pop up as you accomplish tasks or gain new materials.
- White Bar – These will show under icons on the main menu, indicating that there’s something you can collect or upgrade within it.
- Red Dot – These will show within menus and indicate that you can collect rewards.
- Green Arrow – Will appear over things that can be upgraded.
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- If you see this icon, go to the menu it’s under to collect rewards or upgrade something
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- There is a Mystic Arts that’s ready to be enhanced
Take advantage of all of these various menus to keep track of your progress within the game, and how to best continue your journey.
