Awaken Wine Worms are used to upgrade your Gourd in Black Myth: Wukong. They increase the percentage of health restored with each use of the Gourd, allowing you to heal more.
Awaken Wine Worms look like golden glowing kegs or vases. Destroy them to collect the Worm. To upgrade the gourd, give them to the Shen Monkey NPC in the Chapter 1 area “Bamboo Forest > Marsh of White Mist”.
You can fast travel between chapters at any time from Keeper’s Shrines. There’s still free-roam after the story. After the endboss you are put back in the Title Screen, here choose to Continue, it will spawn you before the final boss. You can still revisit all places from this point. Just don’t “Enter a New Cycle” in the Title Screen as this starts New Game+ and overwrites your save with no way back.
Also see Luojia Fragrant Vines to improve the number of times you can use the Gourd to heal.
Other Gourd Items:
- Luojia Fragrant Vines (Gourd Healing Upgrades)
- Gourds
- Drinks
- Soaks
Video Guide
Chapter 1: Black Wind Mountain
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Black Wind Cave > Cave Interior: In the arena where you fight the “Black Wind King” main boss, it’s on the left in a golden glowing vase (after the boss fight).
Chapter 2: Yellow Wind Ridge
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Sandgate Village > Valley of Despair: From this shrine take the path to the right to enter a cave. After two enemies, in the next cave section you will see the glowing jar behind a wall. You must drop down to the path straight ahead, then turn right to reach the jar.
Chapter 3: The New West
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Bought from Shen Monkey at Bamboo Grove > Marsh of White Mist (Chapter 1 area, fast travel back there to check his store items). This becomes available at the start of Chapter 3.
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Pagoda Realm > Outside the Wheel: When standing in front of the shrine, turn around 180°, then turn right and go to the end of the cliffs where a wooden chest is. At the end of the cliffs you can drop down one floor on the left. Now walk to the end of that floor (don’t drop down another floor) and you’ll find this golden-glowing keg that contains an Awaken Wine Worm.
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Valley of Ecstasy > Longevity Road: From this shrine go through the gate straight ahead, then take the left path and go downhill on the left. There you will encounter a big enemy with a cat mask. Next to this enemy is a golden glowing keg, destroy this for the worm.
Chapter 4: The Webbed Hollow
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Bought from Shen Monkey at Bamboo Grove > Marsh of White Mist (Chapter 1 area, fast travel back there to check his store items). This becomes available at the start of Chapter 4.
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Village of Lanxi > Estate of the Zhu: Directly in front of the shrine go up the small set of stairs and enter the next courtyard. Enter the first building on the right side, it has a golden-glowing keg in it. Has some spider webs at the entrance. The first time you enter this area you will trigger “The Second Sister” boss fight, after defeating her you can collect it (same arena where you fight the boss, first house on right).
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Temple of the Yellow Flower > Temple Entrance: From this shrine go straight ahead up the stairs, then go through the gate on the right to enter a courtyard. Go through the courtyard and up the stairs to find the Old Man NPC. Next to him is this Worm in a golden vase.
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Secret: Purple Cloud Mountain > Petalfall Hamlet: First, see How to Reach Chapter 4 Secret Area (Purple Cloud Mountain). From this shrine go up the stairs. Then you will see a stone arch gate in front of you. Go through this gate, immediately turn left to go up the stairs leading to the top behind the stone arch gate. The glowing keg is on the backside of the stone arch gate.
Chapter 5: Flaming Mountains
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Bought from Shen Monkey at Bamboo Grove > Marsh of White Mist (Chapter 1 area, fast travel back there to check his store items). This becomes available at the start of Chapter 5.
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Furnace Valley > Rakshasa Palace: From this shrine go straight ahead up the stairs, then over a bridge until you reach two giant enemies with big shields. Take the path left to reach the Old Man NPC. Next to him is a glowing keg with this worm.
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Bishui Cave > Corridor of Fire and Ice: First, see How to Reach Chapter 5 Secret Area. After beating the boss “Bishui Golden-Eyed Beast“, you will be teleported out of the secret area. Come back to this shrine, the wall behind the boss will now be broken. Go through and you’ll see this on the left in a glowing keg.
Chapter 6: Mount Huaguo
No known Awaken Wine Worms in this chapter.
For more guides check out the Black Myth Wukong Wiki.
Kenji says
In chapter 4, from the first shrine Village of Lanxi > Estate of Zhu, walk up the stairs and take a left into where you fought the spider boss, just to the right inside that room should be a worm in a gold urn