Miner’s Malady in Where Winds Meet: Full Wandering Tale Walkthrough

Miner’s Malady is a Wandering Tale in the Mirkvale area of Hidden Mountain, added alongside the Heaven’s Threshold region. A strange cough is spreading through the local miners, and the fix comes down to three treatments and one piece of cloth hidden behind some crates.

Quick answer: Talk to Shi Erniang and Cai Xin in Mirkvale, treat Shi Langlang and Wang Qian for Cough, treat Mo Chanchan for Hemoptysis, pick up the Worn Veil from the crates near him, then return the veil to Shi Erniang.

Where Miner’s Malady starts and what you need first

The tale lives in Mirkvale, inside the Hidden Mountain — Heaven’s Threshold region. Mirkvale itself only opens up once Heaven’s Threshold has been unlocked on your server through the Cloudtop Ascent construction event, so if the area is still locked, that comes first.

The starting point is a raised wooden scaffold overlooking the valley, where Shi Erniang stands with Cai Xin. Speaking to them logs the first clue and adds Miner’s Malady to your Wandering Tales list under Hidden Mountain.

Wandering Tales Details panel open on the Miner's Malady entry with its recorded clues — The Wandering Tales Details screen tracks each clue you record for Miner’s Malady. Image: Everstone Games

You also need a healing option available in the interaction menu. Every miner here is treated the same way — you diagnose the illness, then channel inner energy through the Physiotherapy Prescription to clear it. No combat is involved at any point.

The three patients and their correct diagnoses

Picking the wrong condition from the list wastes time, so it helps to know the answers before you kneel down. Two of the miners share the same ailment, and only the third one differs.

Miner	Diagnosis	Where they are
Shi Langlang	Cough	Sitting on a wooden deck in the village below
Wang Qian	Cough	Slumped against a building nearby
Mo Chanchan	Hemoptysis	Up the wooden stairs, inside a dust-filled workshop

Note: Shi Langlang and Wang Qian sit close together, so the order you treat them in does not matter. Mo Chanchan is the one who unlocks the rest of the tale.

Miner’s Malady walkthrough

Speak to Shi Erniang and Cai Xin on the scaffolding platform in Mirkvale. The conversation records your first clue and points you toward the village where the sick miners are.

Open the world map and fast travel to the Hangrock Hamlet landmark. This drops you right beside the two coughing miners and saves a long descent from the overlook.

Approach Shi Langlang on the wooden deck, choose Cough from the illness list, and channel inner energy to treat him. He stops coughing once the treatment finishes.

Walk over to Wang Qian, who is sitting a short distance away, and select Cough again. Treating him updates the Wandering Tales entry and opens a short follow-up conversation.

Player character walking up to the ailing miner Wang Qian in the village — Wang Qian is the second Cough patient, resting a few steps from Shi Langlang. Image: Everstone Games

Climb the wooden stairs toward the market area to reach the third marker. Mo Chanchan is collapsed inside a workshop thick with ore dust.

Hidden Mountain map open on Heaven's Threshold with the next quest marker — The Hidden Mountain — Heaven’s Threshold map marks Mo Chanchan’s position further up the village. Image: Everstone Games

Examine Mo Chanchan and select Hemoptysis rather than Cough, then apply the treatment. His condition is more severe than the other two, which is the clue that the dust here is the real culprit.

Your own character starts coughing in the dusty room. Speak to Mo Chanchan, then search the wooden crates behind him and pick up the Worn Veil from the glowing spot on the floor.

Player approaching Mo Chanchan inside the wooden market workshop before searching the crates — Mo Chanchan’s workshop is where the Worn Veil is stashed among the crates. Image: Everstone Games

Fast travel to the Rollstone Hollow teleport point and make your way back to Shi Erniang and Cai Xin. Gliding down from the teleport is the quickest route to the platform.

Hand the Worn Veil to Shi Erniang and finish the closing dialogue. The veil explains how miners shield themselves from the ore dust, and the tale wraps up there.

Quest objective prompting the player to wait for developments beside Cai Xin and Shi Erniang — The final objective plays out beside Cai Xin and Shi Erniang after the veil is submitted. Image: Everstone Games

How to confirm the tale is complete

Completion is obvious on screen. The dialogue with Shi Erniang ends with the tale unlocking in your journal, and the reward panel appears immediately afterward for you to claim.

Rewards cover Echo Jade, Hidden Mountain exploration points, Coins, and Stored EXP. Once claimed, Miner’s Malady shows as finished under Wandering Tales in the Hidden Mountain section of the Journal.

Common reasons the tale stalls

Three things tend to hold people up here, and all of them are quick to correct.

The Worn Veil marker never appears. It only becomes available after Mo Chanchan has been treated, so finish his Hemoptysis treatment before searching the crates.
The wrong condition is selected. Mo Chanchan needs Hemoptysis, not Cough. Reopen the interaction and pick the correct entry from the list.
Shi Erniang has no new dialogue. All three miners must be treated and the veil must be in your inventory before she will accept the turn-in.

Miner’s Malady is one of the shorter tales in Mirkvale — under five minutes if you use the Hangrock Hamlet and Rollstone Hollow teleports rather than running the slopes on foot. It also doubles as a decent excuse to poke around the workshop district before tackling the heavier Mirkvale campaign content that runs through the same area.