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Overview

"A camp is built with wood and stone; a home is built with trophies and rugs." Decorations covers the full range of non-structural items you can place to personalize a settlement in Windrose. The game ships with more than 200 individual decoration pieces spread across 24 sub-categories in the Building Panel, from ground-planted flagpoles to ceiling-hung chandeliers, and the whole system ties back into the Comfort Level mechanic that extends your Rested buff.

Unlike structural Building Pieces, decorations do not carry load, do not gate weather effects, and almost never take damage. Their job is aesthetics and comfort. A well-decorated base regenerates stamina faster out in the world and scores higher in the Building Contest.

Decoration Sub-Categories

Every decoration in the Building Panel falls into one of these 24 in-game sub-categories. Counts reflect the Early Access launch state (April 2026); expect additions in later patches.

Comfort Level System

The core reason decorations matter mechanically is Comfort Level, the rating shown at your Bonfire. Every additional Comfort point extends the Rested buff by one full minute. Rested itself gives roughly 2.5x stamina regeneration while active, which translates directly into longer sprints, more dodges, and faster climbs out in the field.

Comfort is awarded by category, not by quantity. Placing seventeen chairs earns the same single point as placing one chair. The only way to gain Comfort is to fill a new category slot. There are 12 decoration categories that each grant +1, plus a +1 from the Bonfire itself, capping the base stack at 13. Trophies then break the cap.

The base Rested buff lasts 7 minutes; each Comfort point adds a minute on top. A fully decorated base with the complete trophy set can push the Rested duration to roughly 27 minutes or more. When you leave base and board your ship, the ship inherits the Comfort Level of the highest-rated Bonfire you own, so the buff follows you across the open sea.

Trophy Stacking: The Only Exception

Every decoration category other than trophies is single-slot. The Trophies category breaks this rule: each distinct mounted head or blade adds its own +1 Comfort, regardless of how many other trophies are already on the wall. That is why hunters chase the full animal set even after reaching Comfort 12 on regular decor.

Cheaper trophies (Dodo, Boar, Crab) use Wood plus the matching animal head. Tougher trophies (Wolf, Crocodile, Great Goat) also demand Hardwood and Nails. The full set stacks to a large double-digit Comfort bonus over and above the 12 from regular decoration categories.

Placement Rules

Decorations snap to building surfaces the same way structural pieces do. The Building Panel (B key by default) shows a silhouette preview until you commit materials, and decorations can be demolished for a 100% refund like any other piece, so it is safe to prototype in cheap Wood and Plant Fiber while you lock the layout, then upgrade later.

Each category has a dominant placement surface:

• Ground: Flagpoles, Pier Decorations, Garden Decorations, Statues, standing Candlesticks, freestanding Supplies, and freestanding Ship Models.

• Floor (interior): Carpets and Rugs snap to any floor tile and tile together for full-room coverage.

• Wall: Paintings, Trophies, Wall Lamps, Wall Torches, Banners, Curtains, and most Shelves. Wall-mounted decor does not collide with Windows or Doors, so you can hang trophies directly above the main entrance.

• Ceiling: Chandeliers and Shell Decorations. A beam lock must be dropped at the apex of a roof section before any ceiling-mounted decoration will snap; without it, chandelier previews will stay red.

• Surface (on top of other furniture): Dishes, Books, Food Display Decorations, small Ship Models, small lamps, and small Supplies all place on top of a Table, Shelf, or similar flat top.

Most decorations can be placed indoors or outdoors, and most do not need to be inside Bonfire range. The exceptions are comfort-granting categories (including Shell Decorations), which only count toward Comfort Level while inside the Bonfire radius that anchors your base.

Decorations can overlap with each other within reason: a Book Set or a small lamp happily sits on top of a flat Table, and a Carpet slides under a set of Chairs without conflict. Larger ornamental pieces (Fireplaces, Wardrobes, Banquet Tables) have hard collision and will block on each other.

Recipes and Acquisition

Most decoration recipes are handed out through early progression: basic Wood and Stone tier decor unlocks alongside the Workbench and scales as you upgrade it with Workbench Upgrades. Themed and high-tier pieces are gated behind exploration, not crafting tech.

Specific lines follow different paths:

• Pier Decorations: Recipe paper loots from large pirate camps. The drop is randomized inside procedurally placed Points of Interest, so location varies between playthroughs.

• Shell Decorations: Recipe unlocks once you have gathered enough Triton's Horn shells from coastal beaches. Crafting costs 10 Triton's Horn per piece.

• Trophies: Unlocked by completing Adventure Challenges (kill N of a creature). Some trophies require slaying a named leader or alpha variant for the head drop.

• Ship Models: Blueprints appear as loot from mid- to late-game chests. Crafting typically requires Hardwood, Nails, Linen, and in some cases a small amount of Tumbaga for bottled models.

• Banner Variants: Faction-themed Banner Pikes drop from, or are unlocked by defeating, the respective factions. See Banner Pikes for the full contribution list.

• Paintings and Supplies: Drop from ordinary exploration loot. Painting variants also appear in merchant rotations at coastal trading camps.

Decoration Versus Furniture

The Building Panel itself does not draw a hard line between "decoration" and "furniture." In practice the distinction is useful for navigation, and this wiki organizes the two sides separately so you can find items faster.

Functional Furniture covers pieces you actively interact with: Tables you eat at, Seating you sit on, Wardrobes that hold equipment, and Shelves you can drop items onto. Pure decoration covers pieces you look at but never click: Paintings, Carpets and Rugs, Chandeliers, Trophies, and Banners and Flagpoles. Both sides contribute to Comfort Level, and both count toward Building Contest scoring.

Themed Build Ideas

Tavern or Public House. Anchor with a stone Fireplace along one wall, a long Banquet Table in the center flanked by Benches, and a mixed set of Dishes and Food Display Decorations on top. Hang two Chandeliers from the roof beam and mount three or four Trophies on the back wall. Banners in a consistent color down the front wall signal the establishment.

Pirate Den. Elegant Carpets under everything, a pair of Ship Models on Shelves flanking a Painting, a grandfather clock in a corner, and a display of Military Decorations near the door. A pier outside with Pier Decorations (winch, crane, rope coils) and a matching Banner on a Flagpole finishes the dockyard.

Hunter's Lodge (the Comfort-Max Build). Stack the full Trophies set (Boar, Crab, Dodo, Crocodile, Great Goat, Wolf, Senkamati Blade) along two wall runs for the stacking bonus, add a Hunting Table variant from Wardrobes for the rack, and anchor the room with a fireplace and hunting-themed Paintings.

Tips

• Decoration material costs are low compared to structural pieces. You can fully decorate a starter cabin with under 50 Wood and 30 Plant Fiber, which makes prototyping layouts cheap.

• Most decorations have no Max Health value because they cannot be attacked by AI. Only pieces placed on exterior walls or visible through windows can be targeted by raiders.

• Demolishing a decoration returns 100% of the materials, even at higher tiers. Redecorate freely.

• The Building Contest rewards creative mixed-category layouts. A full dining set (Table plus Seating plus Food Display plus Dishes plus Chandelier above) scores higher than a single-category room.

• Wall-mounted decor snaps to any Wall piece and will not collide with Windows or Doors, so you can hang Trophies above the main entrance without blocking passage.

• On a ship, the Rested buff you inherit at sea matches the Comfort Level of your highest-rated Bonfire. A well-decorated home base quietly boosts every voyage.

• If a Chandelier or Shell Decoration refuses to snap, check that the roof section has a beam lock dropped at its apex. That single piece unlocks every ceiling mount under it.

See Also

• Base Building

• Settlement Building

• Building Pieces

• Building Contest

• Furniture

• Lighting

• Storage Containers

• Trophies

• Shell Decorations

• Workbench

• Points of Interest

Variants

A complete list of Decorations variants in Windrose is shown below, with thumbnail, build cost, and comfort bonus for each entry. Click any name to open its dedicated page.