From playing the Resident Evil 8 Village demo and playing through the beginning of the game, you might have stumbled upon all the wells within the village already. You've been wondering how to get the item to use the wells and what could be inside them. Well, wonder no longer.
The wells inside the main village have loot and treasure inside them that will help you get more money and stock up on materials. Opening each well isn't necessary, but if you want to make sure you're as stocked up as possible, then it doesn't hurt to get every single one.
Finding The Well Wheel
The only way to get the wheel that cranks up each well is to first complete Dimitrescu Castle. You have to have escaped the castle with your newfound keys and items. There is a section within the village that can only be unlocked with the Iron Insignia Key. The well wheel is behind this door. The Iron Insignia Key can only be found from your time inside Dimitrescu Castle. The key is found within a piano puzzle in the Opera Hall which can be reached from the Courtyard.
When you unlock the Iron Insignia door, the well wheel will be directly inside the house. Your current objective after defeating the Dimitrescu's should be to find the house with the red chimney. This is also the way toward the red chimney. There is a ladder on the side of this house that you need to climb to get there.
West Workshop Well
Once you get the well wheel you can turn around and go back to where you found the M1911. This location on the map is between the areas West Old Town and Workshop. This well contains one lockpick. With this, you'll be able to completely loot any leftover houses that are still in the red due to a lack of lockpicks.
Maiden Of War Well
This is the first well you've seen, at the center of the village nearest the Maiden Of War statue on the map. After completing Dimitrescu Castle, the house here beside this well will also be unlocked.
Inside the well contains one wooden animal head, the head of a wooden goat. If you're not the type of person who immediately sells any treasure they find, you'll be able to combine this item with another to create an even more valuable item that will sell for more. You'll have to also have the wooden animal body and combine them both in your treasure inventory. This wooden animal body is found within the current house beside the well.
The Church Well
The next well location can be found behind the church. The church is where your village save location is, it's entrance adjacent to the Dimitrescu Castle entrance. Inside this well is a Necklace With Two Holes. As you can guess, this too can be completed with another item. Combining this necklace with two blood ruby gems will turn it into a more valuable item to sell.
Elena's Lonely Well
The last village well is one you've passed many times before if you've played the demo as well. There's a well behind Elena's house, where you first find her and her father. This house is beyond the wheat field where there were first Lycans. Now, after completing the Dimitrescu Castle, there will be Samcas here instead. Samcas are the flying gargoyle-like creatures. Inside this well contains three pipe bombs.
Beneviento's Well
Now that you've opened every well in the main village, you're on the track to chasing down Donna Beneviento and her talking doll, Angie. After completing this section and boss in the game, an iron gate near the gardens will be opened. Here is where you'll find the well and Luthier's Key. Luthier's Key opened a locked house with a guitar on the door, back at the village. This well contains a doll's head, Madalina. This is another item where if you find the body of it and combine the two, you'll have a more valuable item to sell.
Moreau's Well
On your way to finding the next boss, Moreau, you'll find the swamp Labyrinth, a crank, and a well way before finding him. Passed the initial windmill, there will be an area with multiple houses and zombies. A large, quadrupedal werewolf will spawn here and you will find a Magnum Revolver in one of the houses. At the lower back-end of this area will be a well. This well has one single flashbang inside of it.
Mountain Stream Well Puzzle
After defeating Moreau and returning to the Altar and to Duke, you'll have a crank in your inventory. This crank can be used to lower a river bridge. From the altar, backtrack through the doors you very first entered. There is a river and a drawbridge with a canoe on the other side. The crank will allow you to lower the bridge so you can use the canoe. Swim to the far north end of the river. There will be another bridge to lower and then a house. You might have entered this house before after escaping Castle Dimitrescu. Inside the house is a window you can jump through and on the other side is a well.
Opening the well with the well wheel is the least of your problems. The well raises a ladder for you. Inside this well contains a lot of resources locked behind a gate. You must parkour up the spike traps and complete a puzzle to access this small room. The small room contains flashbangs, a Magnum bullet, and a large pigeon blood ruby.