The Wanderlands

Calm

Golden meadows where the houses walk on tall bird legs, graze in herds, and sometimes need mending.

At a glance

Kind of world	Calm
Serum in the arrival Box	2 ampoules
Native Serum stand-in	Dream Ash
Quests	Yes: see your Traveler's Guide

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Golden meadows at morning, a herd of cottages on tall bird legs grazing over a hillside, chimneys smoking

What happens when you arrive

You step out onto rolling golden meadows, and the first thing you see is a herd of cottages on tall bird legs grazing in plain sight. Then they notice you and run off over the hill. Houses here are animals, not buildings.

At the bottom of the hill below your Box sits a small, broken house with a cracked leg, pretending very hard to be a ruin. That one stayed behind. Beside it, Granny Thimble sits by her campfire under the old lighthouse. She has mended a hundred houses, and she will teach you to mend this one. When you do, it becomes yours, and it follows you home.

The rule: the houses are alive

The Wanderlands is a Calm world. Nothing here will hurt you, no monsters spawn, and days and nights pass as at home. What is different is the houses:

• Wild houses graze in herds near wherever you are. They can't be hurt, mined or tamed.
• They run if you sprint at them. Walk, and they let you come close.
• Each kind likes one kind of gift. Give it enough and it becomes your friend.

Wild house	Walks on	Likes	Gifts to befriend	Gives a cutting of
Wild Cottage	Two tall bird legs	Flowers	3	Porch
Treehouse	Two legs; roosts	String or saplings	3	Window Boxes
Garden Shed	Two short skinny legs that scamper	Carrots or apples	3	Workshop
Windmill	One leg, hopping after the wind	Feathers	3	Bell Tower
Wild Barn	Four heavy legs	Wheat or hay bales	3	Cellar (only for a house with an Attic)
The Lonely Mansion	Four legs; stands alone in the far field	Candles or cake	5	Attic
The Beacon	The lighthouse, Granny's old garden shed	Glowstone dust or torches	3	Bay Window

A wild house only gives a cutting to someone who has a house of their own, so mend your runt first.

Your quest: The Runt

Every player gets their own runt at the bottom of the hill, and only its owner can see it. The quest tracker walks you through it.

Step	What to do
1	Find Granny Thimble by her campfire near the Box.
2	Leave flowers or a log at the little house, then step well back (about 8 blocks) and wait.
3	When a shutter cracks open and it peeks at you, creep up slowly, crouching, and stay close a moment. Running scares it.
4	When its shutters open, knock on its door with an empty hand.
5	Go back to Granny for her Tool Belt: one tool for each job.
6 to 13	Do the eight repairs, in Granny's order (below).

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The runt at the bottom of the hill, crouched and lopsided, one shutter cracked open, Granny's campfire beside it

The eight repairs

Each job is done by hand on one part of the house, with one tool from the belt. Granny tells you each job as it comes.

Job	Tool	How
1. The leg	Mallet	It crouches so you can reach. Strike the cracked knee in time with its heartbeat (about one tap a second, when it gives its little note). Rush it and it flinches.
2. The chimney	SSSweep's Brush	Climb up by the roof and scrub down the chimney: six good scrubs. Then stand back, because it sneezes.
3. The hearth	Kindling Bundle	Right-click its front door three times (tinder, kindling, a log). Then hold right-click for 1 to 2 seconds and let go: that is your breath on the fire. Too short and it dies, too long and it smothers.
4. The roof	BOBundle of Shingles	Snap a shingle into each of the five holes.
5. The walls	Trowel	Point the cracks on every side: front, back and both sides. Walk round it.
6. The windows	GSGlazier's Kit	Fit and putty the panes into its two front windows, its eyes.
7. The door	Oil Can	Knock first so it holds its door open, then oil the hinges while it's open.
8. The name	Engraving Tool	Engrave a name on the brass plate by the door. It will answer to it for good.

With each repair it changes: it stops limping, smokes, glows, stops leaking, stops shivering, sees you properly and speaks warmly. Lost a tool? Granny keeps spares in her apron.

When it is whole (spoilers)

Named and mended, it stands up on its tall legs, shakes off the dust, and is yours. It becomes your Home companion: one per player, ever. The runt you mend is the only one you will have.

Your Wanderhome

Your house is a companion that follows you into every world. What it does:

• Ride it. It carries you on its porch.
• Feed its hearth. Fuel goes into its hearth; while it burns, its oven cooks for you. Its page shows how many minutes of fire it has left.
• Settle it. Choose Settle on the companion wheel or its page, on flat dry ground away from the Box, and it sits down into a real house of blocks: bed, hearth, furnace, cupboard chest, crafting table and lantern. Pack up and everything inside comes along.
• Paint it. Its page lets you choose wall and trim colours (Cream, Sage, Butter, Duck Egg, Brick, Plum, Charcoal) and a roof of thatch, clay tile, slate or copper. Copper weathers green over real days.
• Open it to visitors, or keep it owner-only.

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A player riding on the porch of their own painted Wanderhome as it strides across the meadow

It has a mood you can read from its chimney smoke, its shutters and its walk (content, happy, excited, hungry, upset, startled, sulky, asleep), and over time it grows a temperament from how you treat it:

Treat it like this	It grows
Fed and patted	Cozy
Taken places and ridden	Playful
Painted and given rooms	Proud
Left to itself	Shy

Neglect never hurts it; it only sulks, and won't do what you ask. A warm fire and a pat mend that. Now and then a storm loosens a shingle or cracks a pane, or moss creeps up its walls: bring the shingles, the glazier's kit or the sweep's brush.

Side quest: Rooms to Grow

Ask Granny how a house grows, then befriend wild houses for cuttings. Use a cutting on your own house to graft the room on, and keep the hearth lit while it grows in. One room grows at a time.

Room	From	Grows in (hearth lit)	What it adds
Porch Cutting	Wild Cottage	5 minutes	A porch; it walks a little faster.
Window Boxes Cutting	Treehouse	5 minutes	Window boxes that grow crops while it walks by day (up to 64, left in its cupboard when it settles).
Workshop Cutting	Garden Shed	5 minutes	A workshop lean-to.
Bell Tower Cutting	Windmill	5 minutes	A bell tower with a real bell.
Bay Window Cutting	The Beacon	5 minutes	A bay window with a window seat.
Attic Cutting	The Lonely Mansion	7.5 minutes	An attic; you ride higher.
Cellar Cutting	Wild Barn (needs the Attic first)	20 minutes	The Cellar.

The Cellar: bigger on the inside

The Cellar's trapdoor opens on a stair that goes down much further than the house is tall, into a warren of its own dug out of solid stone. It starts as a landing and a long hall with a table and a round window on the meadow; as your friendship with the house grows, it digs a library nook and a pantry, then two empty rooms waiting to be filled. Everything you put down there stays exactly where you left it, wherever the house walks. Beds work down there.

What to bring home

Besides the house itself, the Wanderlands' blocks build a cottage of your own: Cottage Plaster, Painted Trim, Timber Frame, floorboards, thatch, clay tiles, slate and copper shingles, shutters, round windows, window boxes and chimney pots.

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Cottage Plaster (Crafting Table)

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Cottage Hearth (Crafting Table)

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Brass House Plate (Shapeless: any arrangement)

Built anywhere other than in your Wanderhome, a Cottage Hearth is a little stone fireplace any fuel lights.

Serum and getting home

• The arrival Box's cache holds 2 Serum Ampoules.
• Native stand-in: Dream Ash. It takes the place of Somnium Powder in the Synthesizer. Sleep a night in your settled house's bed with the hearth lit, and a pinch waits in the grate in the morning.

Tips

• Pick your flowers before you go: a flower is all the runt's first step needs, and Wild Cottages want them too.
• Never sprint near the herds. Walk up, and they let you hand over your gift.
• Keep plenty of fuel in the hearth before you graft: a room only grows while the fire burns.
• The Mansion takes five gifts, not three. Bring a stack of candles or a cake.
• Settle your house on flat ground. It refuses water, slopes, cramped spots and the area near the Box.

Birds

Birds you can photograph for your bird log here. Open one to turn it round, watch it move and hear its call.

• Hearth Swift: common
• Shepherd Stork: rare