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Overview

Every island fortress starts the same way: one floor square, one wall, and one roof cap on top.

Building Pieces is the collective term for every snap-together structural component in Windrose. Over 335 individual pieces are organized across eleven main categories that together cover everything from a starter leaf shack to a fully walled stone estate.

Main Structural Categories

The Building Panel (B key) organizes pieces into the following structural categories. Each category has its own dedicated wiki page covering all available variants, material tiers, and placement tips.

Category	Count	Description
Walls	46	Wall panels, large walls, and special shapes (arch walls, corners, inclined walls).
Roofs	58	Roof flats, caps, corners, frontons, and triangular pieces across multiple pitches.
Floors	13	Square floor tiles, large floors, triangular floors, and rounded floor pieces.
Pillars and Beams	47 / 16	Vertical pillars, horizontal beams, and corner pieces including mahogany columns.
Doors and Doorways	30	Doors, double doors, arched doors, and gate panels across all material tiers.
Windows	34	Window frames ranging from small openings to large stained-glass fixtures.
Stairs	21	Straight stairs, corner stairs, spiral stairs, plank stairs, and pier stairs.
Fences	10	Fences, gates, palisades, and rope fences.
Arches	10	Free-standing arches, arch beams, and framed arches.
Canopies	6	Roof-free awnings in leaf, straw, arched, and gabled styles.
Basements and Foundations	7	Foundation blocks, basements, and stone block platforms.
Cornices	1	Decorative ceramic cornice trim for plastered wall tops.
Fireplaces	8	Fireplace assemblies: hearths, chimneys, firewood racks, and flue pieces.
Piers	5	Shoreline pier platforms and pier piles that enable waterside construction.
Stockades	3	Heavy barricade walls with 10,000 HP for outpost defense.

Material Tiers

Every structural piece is offered in multiple material tiers. Higher tiers cost more processed materials but have higher Max Health and cleaner visual styling. You unlock higher tiers by finding new materials on later islands and by looting recipe plan drops at Points of Interest.

Icon	Tier	Notes
	Tier 1 Leaf	Earliest shelter material; uses Plant Fiber and Wood. Low HP (~750 per wall piece).
	Tier 2 Stick	Simple early-game structures made from gathered Wood and Sticks.
	Tier 3 Bark / Weathered	Mid-early construction using processed bark or weathered timber. HP around 750-1,000.
	Tier 4 Plank / Log	Refined wood construction. Requires lumber processing at the Workbench.
	Tier 5 Stone / Clay / Limestone	Durable masonry construction using quarried Stone, Clay, and Limestone. HP climbs to 1,500-2,500.
	Tier 6 Stone and Timber / Mahogany / Plaster / Marble	Combined late-game estate tier unlocked through exploration and Points of Interest recipe drops.

Decoration, Furniture, and Utilities

Beyond structural pieces, the Building Panel also holds decoration, furniture, storage, farming, and craft stations.

Icon	Category	Description
	Decorations	Wall art, chandeliers, carpets, curtains, paintings, dishes, books, trophies, and more.
	Furniture	Tables, seating, wardrobes, shelves, and beds.
	Storage Containers	Wooden chests, barrels, baskets, and sacks with labels for inventory sorting.
	Lighting	Wall torches, candlesticks, lamps, and chandeliers.
	Craft Stations	Alchemy, cooking, blacksmithing, jewelery, and workbench stations.
	Farming	Seedbeds, saplings, and ground-planted crops.
	Prebuilt Structures	One-click blueprint shells: Hut, Hut Frame, and Large Pier.

Build Controls

Icon	Key	Function
	B	Open or close the Building Panel
	Q	Adjust rotation angle of the selected piece
	L	Change rotation increment (15 to 90 degrees)
	V	Adjust camera angle during placement
	P	Toggle snap-to-grid versus free placement
	Right-click	Open building options menu
	Middle-click	Toggle Destroy mode (demolish for 100% refund)

A colored hologram indicates material status: green means you have everything, yellow means partial stock, and red means a key material is missing. Demolishing any placed structure returns 100% of the construction materials into your inventory, so experimentation is risk-free as long as you have inventory space to catch the refund.

Tips

Place pieces in logical order: foundation or floor first, then walls and pillars, then roofs. Doors and windows snap into wall slots last.
Every structural piece has a Required Plan field. Early tiers unlock automatically, but mid- and late-tier plans drop as rare loot from Points of Interest or can be bought from NPC merchants after clearing regional threats.
Demolishing returns full materials, so prototype a layout in cheap Plant Fiber or Wood and upgrade to Stone or Mahogany once the shape is locked in.
Most stations must be placed inside Bonfire range to function. Centre the bonfire before you stamp down expensive building pieces.
Structures within a Tent respawn radius also create a safe camp zone; pair the bonfire, a tent, and a Workbench as the first three buildings on any new island.

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