Resting in Where Winds Meet isn’t a “sit down and camp” feature as you’d expect from other open-world RPGs. There’s no sleep button, bedroll, or innkeeper offering you a comfy room. Instead, resting is a part of world structures that automatically refill your health and reset your healing items. The game expects you to learn this early, but it never explains the way to rest in Where Winds Meet—so here’s how.
Where Winds Meet: How to Rest
Stand Near a Boundary Stone
Boundary Stones are tall stone obelisks you use as fast travel points, but when you stand near a Boundary Stone, it also recovers your maximum health instantly and is treated as rest in WWM. You don’t need to interact with anything; simply get closer to the stone and your character:
- Regains full HP immediately
- Refills any equipped healing potions, as long as they are in your inventory
- Clears specific minor debuffs
This makes Boundary Stones the best way to reset before a tough boss fight, recover after a bad fight, or restock your healing without having to burn more consumables. If a Boundary Stone hasn’t been activated yet, you won’t receive its resting effect, so be sure to trigger every Waypoint you see. Since you’ll use them to fast travel across regions, resting is something you naturally do throughout the game.
Rest at Campfires
Campfires are a bit different. These appear as Wayfarers on the map and are the spots that clear fog from unexplored areas, but they can still heal you. When you stand next to a campfire, you recover HP gradually over a few seconds. However, you must have cooked food in your inventory. Without food, the campfire won’t replenish health at all. Camps are slower than Boundary Stones and don’t refill potions, but they are useful if you’re far from fast travel points or need to remove fog in a new region.
You should rest because it saves you healing potions to restore your stamina in no time, and your Wound Balms/healing flasks only recharge at a Boundary Stone. If your HP bar is empty, resting is the only way to get it back unless you die, which isn’t an option on Hardcore. Further, minor environmental debuffs and status effects also get wiped when you take a breath. Not everything is cleared, but most mild conditions reset.
