Wildmender – Wellstone Guide

Wellstones Overview

Wellstones are the major sources of clean water for both Players and Plants. Wellstones can be upgraded by investing in Spiritual Memories. All of them can be upgraded into Waking, Pure, and Blessed grades, but the Oasis Wellstone has its own upgrades.

Each of these increases in grade or rank increases their produced water per hour, adds wellstone connection slots, expansion slots, and deepens their ability to store Essence. Each Expansion upgrade adds 35 units of water per hour in production for each wellstone. Wellstone output can be adjusted in case of excesses of water. Each Wellstone has 3 adjustment settings: High (100%), Medium (%), and Low(%).

Mystic Wellstones

Each random map is procedurally generated and can have anywhere between MapWellstoneMin and MapWellstoneMax wellstones beyond the Oasis spawned throughout the map. These dormant, static sources of water are called Mystic Wellstones. Each biome has their own grade of corruption affecting them. Some are dry and closed. Others are leaking dirty or outright poisoned water.

Crafted Wellstones

Wellstones may be created and placed to create water, but they must be connected to a Mystic Wellstone’s network to produce water. The Mystic Wellstone must have an open connection slot in order for a crafted and placed wellstone to connect. When placing a wellstone, there’s a contextual ring that shows connection distance visually as well as a contextual dialog box like when placing plants. These may also be upgraded to increase output, but they do not add or gain wellstone slots for the network.

If two networks connect, there can be connection issues. The peripheral wellstones have some difficulty deciding which network to be a part of.

Oasis Wellstone

Each world begins with the Player spawning at a barren Oasis and Tree. This spring will typically serve as the main hub of a players’ journey and their main garden. This wellstone is unique in that it has more upgrade capacity than any other wellstone. It is also the only wellstone that is Story-related and tied to a tree.

After each of the Gods have been helped, the tree may be healed as an upgrade instead of being built up like other wellstones. This acts like the Waking/Pure/Blessed upgrades for normal wellstones except that there are more of them. The Tree of Life Seed is the final upgrade for this wellstone.

Note: At normal Difficulty speeds, an hour in game is roughly 48 real-world seconds.