Xiaoxiang Sects and Beast Tides

Xiaoxiang Sects Expanded – 1.0.67 → 1.0.72

☯ Dao Awakening (new)

• When you first begin cultivating (Qi Refining), the heavens choose your Dao. A golden wheel of the four Paths (Sword, Pill, Body and Demonic) spins under drifting qi and settles on one at random.
• A reveal card then shows your Path, its five ranks, its gifts and how it grows.
• The odds are Sword 30%, Pill 25%, Body 30% and Demonic 15%. The result is decided by the server, so closing the screen won't reroll it.
• The wheel never interrupts you. It waits until the breakthrough minigame or any open menu is closed, and the chat announcement comes only once the wheel stops.
• There's a new ☯ Dao Path button in the cultivation menu (G). Use it to awaken your Dao, or to view your Path, rank, gifts and foundation.

⚒ Profession grades matter (new)

• Your grade in a profession now makes its hands-on minigame easier and its result better:
  • Pill refining: alchemy rank.
  • Forging and artifact repair: refining rank.
  • Herb uprooting: alchemy rank or realm, whichever is higher.
  • Arrays and rune locks: realm.
• An Apprentice plays the hardest version, and an Immortal-rank master plays one easier than the old easiest.
• Your grade also adds up to +12 to your score, so masters reach Perfect and Masterwork results more often.
• Your Dao Path gives a small bonus:
  • Path of the Pill: alchemy and herbs.
  • Sword: forging.
  • Body: breakthroughs.
• Each minigame shows a badge with your advantage, e.g. "◆ Earth alchemist · easier by 60% · +7 quality".

🏯 Foundation Quality (new)

• Every cultivator now has a Foundation Quality (0–100), graded Cracked, Common, Solid, Superior, Flawless or Heavenly.
• It is built from two things:
  • how cleanly you consolidated each past breakthrough;
  • the grade of the Foundation and Golden Core Dao you formed (Human, then Blood, then Earth, then Heaven).
• A sound foundation makes later breakthroughs easier:
  • tribulation lightning is up to 40% softer;
  • in inner-world breakthrough trials you take up to 25% less damage and deal up to 25% more;
  • the consolidation minigame is easier and gives up to double the cultivation;
  • qi deviation penalties are shorter.
• Your grade and what it gives you are shown after each consolidation and with your Dao Path info.

🌀 Secret Realms are harder

• Dying inside a secret realm costs one major realm (never below Qi Refining), followed by 10 minutes of weakness and slowness.
• Cultivators above a realm's range must pass the new Tearing Open Space minigame to force their way in:
  • Strike the nodes of the ring as the qi line sweeps over them, before the rift stabilises.
  • Failing hurts you with backlash, and you must wait 30 seconds before trying again.
• Inside a realm, you're suppressed by one major realm. Techniques above what your suppressed realm allows are sealed and can't be cast.
• Admins can restore a player's realm with /sectrealm <player> <realm> [stage].

🎨 New look for every screen

• All of the addon's screens were redesigned in the Dao Awakening style:
  • indigo panels with drifting golden qi;
  • double gold frames with ornate corners and gold-ruled headers;
  • new gold buttons that glow when you hover over them.
• This covers village and city conversations, sect management, tournaments and betting, cards, arm wrestling, Tearing Open Space, bounties, workers, vassals, companions, scriptures, the storehouse, mastery, the beast almanac and all the crafting minigames.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Gates and secret realms:
  • Each gate now shows which realms it's meant for and how much stronger cultivators will be suppressed.
  • Your full cultivation is restored when you leave, even if you didn't finish the realm.
  • Leaving no longer sends you under the bedrock.

Built as an addon for Xiaoxiang Cultivation World. Thanks also to Threateningly Mobs. I don't own those mods; anything will be removed on request.