Craftivation

From mortal dust to the Star Sea.

Awaken your spiritual roots. Temper your body. Ride a flying sword above jade mountains, challenge spirit beasts, and build a vessel that can carry you beyond the sky.

Craftivation brings a xianxia cultivation adventure to Minecraft Java Edition. Progress from an ordinary mortal through powerful cultivation realms, learn elemental techniques, explore Chinese-inspired landscapes and settlements, and travel between worlds in the Star Sea.

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge · Java 17 · GeckoLib required

Walk your own path to immortality

Begin by choosing a lineage, then grow through combat, meditation, exploration, and breakthroughs. Find an Awakening Hall and touch its crystal to reveal your spiritual roots. Gather Qi, strengthen your attributes, learn techniques, and prepare for the trials of the next realm.

Your journey moves through Body Refinement, Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and higher realms. Foundation requires stability, Golden Core demands sustained condensation, and later breakthroughs bring heavenly tribulations. Progression continues beyond the named realms through the Eternal Heavens.

Combat also develops your character. Challenging opponents, varied attacks, successful defenses, and surviving difficult exchanges earn effort toward training points. Train under heavier gravity to develop your body and adapt to hostile worlds.

Choose your lineage

Play as one of 12 lineages: Human, Spirit Monkey, Fox Spirit, Dragonkin, Demon, Spiritborn, Celestial, Beastkin, Yin Spirit, Ancient Giant, Giant Panda, or Red Panda.

Lineages bring different growth tendencies, spiritual affinities, appearances, and physical sizes. Explore bloodline arts and transformations as your character develops.

Master weapons and spiritual arts

Fight with weapon families that have their own reach, rhythm, combos, and charged attacks. Wield swords, spears, staves, guandao, hammers, daggers, and more. Guard, parry, dodge, roll, and use the over-the-shoulder camera to stay close to the action.

Learn spiritual techniques from masters or manuals. Project swords, unleash lightning, create barriers, summon frost, heal wounds, and command a flying sword array. Further arts explore blood, souls, gravity, and time. Elemental weapons add their own effects to your attacks.

Release your aura to display your cultivation power. Weaker creatures may flee before you even strike.

Explore a world shaped for cultivation

The Overworld gains dramatic mountain ranges, towering stone pillars, karst formations, waterfalls, floating islands, and crystal grottoes. Procedural pines, willows, ginkgo, plum blossom trees, cypress, ancient trees, and spirit trees give the landscape its own character.

Discover Awakening Halls, martial schools, alchemy pavilions, pagodas, lineage settlements, and great walled cities. Find masters, follow your story journal, and use the guide to locate objectives.

Spirit beasts and powerful sovereigns inhabit the world. Meet creatures such as the Cloud Kirin, Jade Deer, Frost Fox, and Shadow Panther, or challenge opponents including the White Tiger King, Nine-Tailed Fox, and Azure Dragon Wyrm. World events bring beast tides, meteor falls, Qi surges, bandit raids, and blood moons.

Start a new world for the intended terrain experience. Terrain changes apply to newly generated chunks; existing worlds can have visible borders between old and new terrain.

Leave the mortal world behind

Ride a flying sword across the landscape or unfold a spirit ship and take the helm. Craftivation includes vessels ranging from the Cloud Skiff to larger celestial ships.

With the right protection or cultivation, ascend beyond the sky into the Star Sea. Travel toward the planets you see in space and descend into their worlds. Explore places such as the Frost Moon, Crimson Waste, Verdant Sea, Ember Star, and Celestial Crystal, each with its own conditions and gravity.

A separate Spirit Realm offers floating islands, rich ambient Qi, distinct biomes, and a supernatural night sky. Reach it using a Spirit Realm Talisman once you meet its cultivation requirement.

Build a life between breakthroughs

• Alchemy and farming: grow spiritual herbs, improve their conditions, and refine pills to support cultivation.
• Equipment and production: craft weapons and armor, use full-set powers, refine advanced materials, and automate parts of production with hoppers and arrays.
• Trials: take on escalating waves through Trial Gates and pursue higher floors in the Tower of Trials mode.
• Family and inheritance: form a household, raise heirs, and switch between family characters with their own progression and inventories.
• Soul fusion: combine the power of adult family characters through temporary or permanent fusion.
• The Underworld: when enabled, death sends your soul to the Yellow Springs, where the Ferryman offers a route back or a path onward through an heir. Dying there again is final.
• An inner universe: from Golden Core onward, nurture an inner world through astronomical stages, from small celestial bodies toward stars, galaxies, and larger cosmic structures.

A complete cultivation atmosphere

Craftivation includes a jade-and-gold interface, themed menus, animated character and creature models, spiritual particle effects, auras, impact feedback, and custom celestial rendering. The cosmic main menu introduces the same world you can eventually explore.

Installation

1. Create a Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1 profile using Forge. The current build was developed and captured with Forge 47.4.10.
2. Use Java 17 for the profile.
3. Install GeckoLib for Forge 1.20.1. The version used for this build is GeckoLib 4.4.9.
4. Put the Craftivation JAR in the profile's mods folder. If installing manually, put the GeckoLib JAR there too.
5. Launch the game and create a new world.

This download is for Forge 1.20.1. Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge, and other Minecraft versions are not supported by this file. A separate shader pack or resource pack is not required for Craftivation's own visuals.

Your first steps

1. Choose a lineage when you join your world.
2. Follow the tutorial and open the story journal with J.
3. Train your body through combat, then find an Awakening Hall and interact with its crystal.
4. Stand still on solid ground and press R to meditate.
5. Press K to inspect your cultivation, attributes, techniques, and aura.
6. Learn techniques from masters or manuals and assign them in the cultivation menu.
7. Prepare for each major advancement and press B to attempt a breakthrough when ready.

Essential controls

Controls can be rebound in Minecraft's settings. In combat stance, attacks and guards take priority so you can fight beside blocks. Switch it off when you want to mine and build normally.

Early alpha

Craftivation 0.1.0 is an early development build. Systems, balance, performance, and world generation may change. Keep backups before updating an existing world. The packaged release has passed a singleplayer startup, world-generation, and interface smoke test; dedicated-server and broad modpack compatibility are not yet verified for this release.

Some systems remain under development, including sect and guild management, beast taming, and town trading. These are not included features of this release. The Tower of Trials currently uses a gate-driven encounter mode rather than a generated tower building.

If you encounter an issue, include the Craftivation version, Minecraft and Forge versions, GeckoLib version, reproduction steps, and relevant logs or a crash report. Review logs for personal information before sharing them.

Choose a lineage. Forge your path. See what waits beyond the heavens.