Complete guide to Where Winds Meet’s Beneath the Eaves quest with expert strategies and time-saving tips
Quest Overview and Preparation
Upon reaching Kaifeng in Where Winds Meet, players encounter numerous side quest opportunities, with Beneath the Eaves standing out as an emotionally resonant narrative experience. While substantially shorter than extensive quests like Shadows in Bloom, this mission delivers profound character development within its concise timeframe. Essential building mechanics proficiency serves as the foundation for success, though the exact unlocking requirements for construction systems remain ambiguous in current documentation.
Strategic preparation involves understanding the game’s temporal mechanics, as specific time windows govern quest availability. The emotional weight of this narrative contrasts with typical fetch-quest structures, offering players meaningful character interactions and lore development.
Initial Steps: Meeting Key NPCs
Quest initiation requires precise timing alignment—specifically the hour of Chen (7-9 AM in-game time). Navigate to the designated quest location and access the temporal interface. Advance time systematically until Chen activates, then engage with the marked NPC to inquire about their intentions.
Dialogue with Shi Jihuai reveals his admiration for your capabilities, specifically mentioning the need for skilled laborers in demolition and reconstruction projects. Your martial arts expertise positions you as an ideal candidate for physically demanding construction work. Accepting his proposal advances the Beneath the Eaves narrative progression.
Locate Li Shun via quest markers and accompany him to the worksite. His initial skepticism about your carpentry knowledge introduces the building tutorial component, where he provides instructional manuals for Four-rafter house construction. Critical initial tasks include:
Access Building Mode and examine the structure’s left flank. Three pillars dominate the scene, with one conspicuously lacking proper foundation alignment. The visual indicators provide clear guidance—dismantle the highlighted pillar and reposition it according to the directional markers. This foundational step establishes core building mechanics proficiency.
Investigation and Stealth Sequence
Following consultation with Li Shun, attention shifts to the meticulously copied manual, representing significant temporal investment. Before substantive progress occurs, an unidentified individual intercepts the document, systematically destroying pages during escape. This suspicious figure becomes your immediate investigative priority.
Shi Jihuai maintains surveillance near the suspect’s residence—the sole remaining structure in the vicinity. The occupant demonstrates unwavering resistance to relocation efforts, having successfully repelled previous evacuation attempts by multiple parties.
Gather contextual intelligence by eavesdropping on the artisans’ conversations through designated quest markers, utilizing the dedicated Eavesdrop interaction. Return to Li Shan to discover the original manual’s theft, necessitating covert infiltration of the courtyard residence.
Execute stealth maneuvers by circumnavigating the structure, employing crouch mechanics, and vaulting through the window to retrieve the Timberwork Manual Manuscript. Unfortunately, only fragmentary remnants survive the destruction. Egress through the same window and return the damaged item to Li Shun to advance the quest narrative.
Advanced Building Completion
Despite the manual’s compromised state, construction continues. The current objective requires completing the Four-rafter House in Build Mode through strategic placement of White Wall, Window, and Lattice Door components. This process remains remarkably straightforward, though activating Free Camera functionality significantly enhances placement precision and efficiency.
Implementation involves installing four window units per opening, four door components in the entryway, and comprehensive wall completion. This phase typically concludes within 60-120 seconds with proper camera management. Optimal strategy involves systematic component placement from top to bottom to minimize adjustment requirements.
Upon structural completion, locate Shi Jihuai via quest markers at the Artifacts Bureau. Bureaucratic discussions yield a uniquely inscribed blade, simultaneously finalizing the Four-Rafter House project. This artifact becomes crucial for subsequent narrative developments.
Final Resolution and Rewards
The narrative progression indicates Wait until Tomorrow (the next day in real time), though temporal acceleration combined with complementary activities like fishing or combat expedites advancement. Subsequently, proceed to Ding Pu’s residence and return Ding Mu’er’s dagger to complete this narrative thread.
Ding Pu initially demonstrates defiance regarding relocation, though presenting the dagger triggers significant attitude transformation. This interaction unveils crucial character backstory within Where Winds Meet’s lore—an emotionally resonant sequence worth experiencing firsthand.
The concluding ritual involves unearthing a wine jar Ding Pu buried near the tree, followed by shared consumption. This symbolic act precedes a cinematic sequence where Ding Pu demolishes his dwelling to rejoin the conflict against the Khitan.
Quest completion unlocks the exclusive Coin Earrings cosmetics alongside standard progression rewards. This accessory provides both aesthetic enhancement and tangible gameplay benefits through completion tracking.
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