Cultivation: Xianxia Leveling & Realm Progression

Walk the path of a Xianxia cultivator. Meditate for Spirit Qi, hunt cores from creatures, break through 7 realms, choose your race, and bind weapons and armor to your soul. A full realm-and-Qi progression system for singleplayer and multiplayer.

Ever wanted to walk the path of a Xianxia cultivator? Now you can with Cultivation, this mod adds a full realm-and-Qi progression system to your server -- meditate to draw Spirit Qi from the world, hunt creatures for cultivation cores, break through seven realms of power, choose a race once you're strong enough, and bind weapons and armor to your own soul.

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Features:

Climb 7 realms -- Body Refinement, Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Soul Formation, and Void Refinement -- each with 4 sub-stages (Early, Middle, Late, Peak). Both sub-stage advancements and realm breakthroughs are real, timed meditation rituals with a real risk of failure -- breakthroughs are the bigger, higher-stakes ritual of the two.

  • Meditate to pull ambient Qi from your chunk's Spirit Vein, a real per-chunk energy pool that depletes and regenerates over time.
  • Hunt creatures for a chance at Spirit, Profound, or Divine Cores -- absorb them instantly, or absorb one mid-meditation for a bonus.
  • Realm breakthroughs are a timed, high-stakes ritual -- cancel one early and you're demoted a stage.
  • Choose a race -- Human, Demon, or Deity -- once you reach Golden Core Formation, each with its own server-tunable bonuses to health, damage, Qi gain, and breakthrough speed.
  • Bind any weapon or armor piece into a Life-Bound Treasure that levels up from combat -- its level shows right in the item's name, and its tooltip tells you exactly how much benefit it's granting.
  • Persistent, toggleable HUD showing your realm, stage, Qi, and breakthrough progress at a glance.
  • Live in-game admin config editor -- retune the entire mod without ever opening a JSON file.
  • Every number in the mod lives in a themed config file -- nothing is hardcoded.
  • Fully localized: English, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, and Simplified Chinese, with proper Xianxia terminology.
  • Works in Singleplayer and Multiplayer.
  • and More!

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Roadmap:

  • More realms beyond Void Refinement for long-term progression.
  • Unique techniques/skills per race.
  • Custom particles and sound cues for breakthroughs.
  • Sect/clan support for group cultivation.
  • More Life-Bound Treasure benefit types beyond flat damage/reduction.
  • Additional language support.

Beta disclaimer: This mod is still in beta. Future updates may require resetting player progress/data as core systems get reworked. I'll do my best to support upgrading from older versions so your data isn't lost, but at this stage it isn't guaranteed -- back up your world before updating.

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Commands, Config, and Permissions:

Commands Extra Info:

  • /cultivation (aliases: /cult, /qi)
    • Opens your cultivation stats page. Requires permission: cultivation
  • /cultivation info (i)
    • Prints your realm, stage, and Qi progress to chat.
  • /cultivation meditate (med)
    • Toggles meditation, drawing Spirit Qi from the Spirit Vein of the chunk you're standing in.
  • /cultivation bind
    • Personalizes the item in your hand into a Life-Bound Treasure. Run again on your own item to reset it to level 1.
  • /cultivation race
    • Opens the race menu to view racial benefits and choose your race (once eligible).
  • /cultivation hud
    • Toggles the persistent Cultivation HUD on or off.
  • /cultivation settings (options)
    • Opens the player settings menu.
  • /cultivation admin
    • Requires permission: cultivation.admin
    • /cultivation admin (no args)
      • Opens the live config editor UI.
    • /cultivation admin setrealm {player} {realm}
      • Sets a player's realm directly. Omit {player} to target yourself.
    • /cultivation admin setstage {player} {stage}
      • Sets a player's sub-stage directly (Early, Middle, Late, or Peak).
    • /cultivation admin setrace {player} {race}
      • Sets a player's race directly (Human, Demon, or Deity), bypassing the Golden Core requirement (configurable).
    • /cultivation admin grantracechoice {player} [amount]
      • Grants a player additional race-selection choices.
    • /cultivation admin setlifebound {player} {level} [xp]
      • Force-sets the level (and optionally the XP) of the Life-Bound Treasure a player is currently holding.
    • /cultivation admin reset {player}
      • Resets a player's cultivation progress back to Body Refinement, Early-Stage.
  • /cultivation debug (d)
    • Requires permission: cultivation.debug
    • /cultivation debug vein
      • Prints the current/max Qi of the Spirit Vein in the chunk you're standing in.
      • Requires permission: cultivation.debug.vein

Permissions Extra Info:

  • cultivation
    • The base /cultivation command and all player-facing subcommands (info, meditate, bind, race, hud, settings).
  • cultivation.admin
    • Access to /cultivation admin and all of its subcommands.
  • cultivation.debug
    • Access to the /cultivation debug command group.
  • cultivation.debug.vein
    • Access to /cultivation debug vein.

Config Extra Info:

Every number in Cultivation lives in one of these themed config files -- edit the JSON directly, or use /cultivation admin for the live in-game editor:

  • "Config.json"
    • The core Qi curve (how much Qi each sub-stage/realm requires) and the max health / damage bonus granted per level.
  • "SpiritCoreConfig.json"
    • Drop chances and Qi values for Spirit, Profound, and Divine Cores, plus the meditation-absorb bonus multiplier.
  • "SpiritVeinConfig.json"
    • Spirit Vein min/max Qi, regen/drain rates, meditation timing, and the Qi Gathering Talisman's multiplier.
  • "BreakthroughConfig.json"
    • The minimum chunk Qi and ritual duration required to complete a realm breakthrough.
  • "LifeBoundConfig.json"
    • Life-Bound Treasure XP curve, max level, and the damage bonus / damage reduction granted per level.
  • "RaceSystemConfig.json"
    • Cross-race server behavior, such as whether admin race overrides bypass the Golden Core requirement.
  • "Race/Human.json", "Race/Demon.json", "Race/Deity.json"
    • Each race's own health/damage/Qi-gain/breakthrough-speed bonuses and menu flavor text, fully independent of each other.

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HOW TO INSTALL:

Client:

Upload the Cultivation.jar file into your %appdata%\Hytale\UserData\Mods\ Folder

Server:

Upload the Cultivation.jar file into your servers mods\ folder

Make sure you delete any previous version of Cultivation otherwise your world may not start.

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VERSION COMPATIBILITY:

v0.1.0-latest : Built against Hytale Server 0.5.6 - Active support for continued versions until specified.

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Known Limitations:

  • Early release (v0.1.0) -- progression numbers, race balance, and Life-Bound bonuses are still being tuned based on feedback.
  • Found a bug or have a balance suggestion? Please report it so it can get fixed.

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Support the Creator:

You can support me by using my creator code SIREN at checkout.

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