Sound Jade in Where Winds Meet sits at an awkward intersection of progression, cosmetics, and gacha design. The game barely explains what it is, how it connects to Harmonic Cores, or why you suddenly need it for things like mystic skills and even hair dye. That confusion is made worse by a currency exchange screen that looks reversible and a premium banner with very low odds.
What Sound Jade is in Where Winds Meet
Sound Jade is a special currency used under the Echo/Draw systems. It is not a general crafting material you farm from normal gameplay and it is not used for gear crafting.
In the current global release, Sound Jade is used inside the Echo tab of the Draw Shop to purchase a small set of high-end items, including at least two mystic skill effects and items related to character appearance, such as hair dye. That makes it effectively a premium-adjacent currency: rare, slow to obtain, and tightly coupled to the gacha system.
How Sound Jade and Harmonic Cores are linked
Sound Jade is directly tied to Harmonic Cores. The game lets you convert between the two inside the Echo/Draw shop:
- You can spend Harmonic Cores to receive Sound Jade.
- You can also convert Sound Jade back into Harmonic Cores.
This two-way exchange exists largely to let you undo a decision. If you regret converting Cores into Sound Jade (or the other way around), you can reverse it instead of being permanently locked in.
The confusing part is the direction of the trade. Players often assume “1 Harmonic Core → 5 Sound Jade,” but the exchange UI also offers the inverse, and many first-time players misread which side they’re paying with. The key point is that the two currencies are interchangeable through this shop, but only if you already have one of them; there is no free, natural drop of Sound Jade itself.
How to actually get Sound Jade
Sound Jade does not currently drop from quests, open-world enemies, or standard exploration content. To get Sound Jade, you first need Harmonic Cores, then you use the Echo shop exchange.
Method 1: Pull Harmonic Cores from Celestial Echo Draw
The primary way to bring Sound Jade into your account right now is:
- Obtain Harmonic Cores from the Celestial Echo Draw (the premium gacha banner).
- Convert those Harmonic Cores into Sound Jade in the Echo/Draw shop.
Harmonic Cores are an extremely low-rate pull. The listed rate is about 0.7% per Celestial Echo Draw. That means you are relying on a premium banner with less than a 1 percent chance per pull to even see a Core, and only then can you turn that Core into Sound Jade.
Step 1: Open the Draw/Echo menu and navigate to the Celestial Echo Draw banner. This is the premium banner that lists Harmonic Core among its possible rewards with an approximate 0.7% appearance rate.
Step 2: Spend the required premium currency to perform one or more draws. Each draw is an independent roll at that 0.7% chance; many pulls can pass without a Core appearing.
Step 3: When you receive a Harmonic Core from the banner, go to the Echo tab’s shop section where currencies are exchanged.
Step 4: Use the exchange option to turn Harmonic Cores into Sound Jade. Check the direction of the trade carefully so you are not accidentally spending Sound Jade to buy a Core when you meant to do the opposite.
There is no other confirmed, repeatable path to farm Harmonic Cores at this time outside the Celestial Echo Draw. That makes Sound Jade effectively gated behind a low-odds gacha pull.
Method 2: Convert Sound Jade back into Harmonic Cores (optional)
The same exchange interface also allows the opposite trade: spending Sound Jade to get Harmonic Cores. Functionally, this is a way to pivot between chasing Echo-shop items (using Sound Jade directly) and chasing core-based upgrades (using Harmonic Cores).
Step 1: Open the Echo/Draw shop where both Harmonic Cores and Sound Jade appear in the currency exchange panel.
Step 2: Select the option that spends Sound Jade and yields Harmonic Cores. Confirm the exchange rate before you accept.
Step 3: Finalize the transaction only if you are certain you will not need that Sound Jade for mystic skills, appearance items, or other Echo-shop purchases in the near term.
What Sound Jade is used for right now
Sound Jade’s current usage is narrower than its name suggests:
- Echo tab Draw Shop: Sound Jade is a dedicated currency here for buying specific mystic skill effects and related high-value items.
- Cosmetics like hair dye: Some appearance items are locked behind Sound Jade in the same Echo-related shop flows, which is why many players first encounter the currency while trying to recolor their character’s hair.
- Indirect link to Harmonic Cores: Because of the reversible exchange, Sound Jade also acts as a buffer currency for Harmonic Cores in the Echo economy.
Why getting Sound Jade feels so limited
The friction around Sound Jade comes from a few overlapping design choices:
- Gacha-only entry point: You cannot grind Sound Jade directly. You must win Harmonic Cores from a banner with low odds, then convert.
- Two-way exchange confusion: The shop lets you trade in both directions, which looks flexible but often leads to players misreading which currency they’re spending.
- High perceived cost for cosmetics: Items like hair dye live behind this same system, so a cosmetic choice gets tied to expensive, luck-based pulls.
The result is a currency that feels scarce and high-stakes. You are effectively routing premium or hard-earned pulls through a 0.7% choke point if you want to buy anything that needs Sound Jade.
How Echo Jade fits into the picture
Echo Jade is separate from Sound Jade but lives in the same general economy. Echo Jade is a broader currency used to draw appearances in the Solemn Echo feature and to buy goods from specific Weiyang merchants such as Tang Bao and Tang Lun. It can come from open-world exploration, Arena, activity tier rewards, and certain build bonuses.
That makes Echo Jade more of a hybrid: it feeds cosmetic gacha and vendor purchases but is earnable through normal content. Sound Jade, by contrast, is tightly bound to Harmonic Cores and the Celestial Echo Draw, making it much harder to stockpile.
Practical advice before you spend Sound Jade
Given how constrained Sound Jade acquisition is and how strongly it depends on low-odds pulls, treating it as a long-term, premium-tier resource is safer than treating it like a normal drop.
- Always double-check the direction of currency exchanges in the Echo shop so you do not burn Sound Jade by mistake.
- Decide whether you value mystic skill effects or cosmetics more, and prioritize one path. You will not have enough Sound Jade early on to buy everything.
- Expect slow progress if you are relying on free or low-spend draws—the 0.7% Harmonic Core rate means long gaps between each Sound Jade conversion.
Sound Jade is a small icon in the interface, but it sits at the center of one of the game’s most restrictive economies. Understanding that it comes almost entirely from Harmonic Cores, which themselves sit behind the Celestial Echo Draw, helps set realistic expectations before you start chasing rare skills or cosmetic changes.
