CULTIVATION

Draw the spirit energy out of the world, climb seven realms toward immortality, and survive the lightning the heavens send to answer every breakthrough. A full Xianxia progression system for Hytale.

7 Realms · 28 Stages 9 Skill Branches 156 API Events Version 0.10.1
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cultivator online
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15
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9
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Counted by hstats, which every release of Cultivation reports to. Refreshed hourly; this reading is from 2026-09-10 00:00 UTC. Server owners can see exactly what is sent, and switch it off.

The Path at a Glance

Every cultivator walks the same opening road — gather Qi, climb the realms, endure the tribulation — and then chooses how to spend the power that road grants them.

The opening road, where it forks, and where it now ends

Systems

Cultivation is built as a stack of independent systems. You can run only the realm ladder, or turn on every one of these.

Realms & Stages

Seven realms, four sub-stages each. Advancement is routine; breakthrough is a ritual you can fail.

Qi Gathering

Meditate to drain a chunk's Spirit Vein, or hunt creatures for Spirit, Profound and Divine Cores.

Tribulations

Lightning falls on every breakthrough. Lean too far into Yin or Yang and you face the Heart-Devil Trial instead.

The Dao

Ten elemental daos on a Wu Xing counter-ring, a drifting Yin-Yang balance, and a Devil/Righteous path split.

Techniques

Active arts learned from lootable manuals — fly on your sword, cross a valley in one step, call down a thunder palm.

Sects & War

Found a sect, claim a hall on a dragon vein, raise formations, and take a rival's mountain by siege.

Alchemy

Brew pills that steady a ritual, ward off the inner demon, or push a stubborn breakthrough over the line.

Spirit Beasts

Tame or hatch companions that cultivate their own realm beside you as Guardian, Gatherer or Warden.

Profiles

Keep up to three separate cultivators on one account — start again from Body Refinement without losing the soul you spent a month on.

Auras

Realm-colored Qi pours off every cultivator — read a stranger's realm and stage from across a field, before a word is spoken.

Titles

Earned, purely cosmetic titles worn above your head, in chat, on the rankings and on your sect's roster.

Ascension

The capstone past Void Refinement Peak: fifteen minutes under escalating crimson lightning, and the choice to stay at the summit or climb again.

Secret Realms

Sites that open on their own and seal themselves — richer Qi, rarer beasts, and an extra roll for a manual on every kill inside.

Celestial Events

Spirit Tide, Meteor Shower and Blood Moon — server-wide phenomena that change the sky and the rules for everybody at once.

Master & Disciple

Take on a disciple: shared meditation lifts both of you, you may teach an art directly, and their breakthrough pays you.

Public API

173 events across fifteen subsystems, open registries, and a provider hook that lets a mod replace the ladder entirely.

The Seven Realms

Every player starts at Body Refinement, Early-Stage. Each realm grants additive max health and a percentage damage bonus, so the gap between a mortal and a Void Refiner is enormous.

Body Refinement
Where every mortal begins — tempering flesh before energy.
REALM I
Qi Condensation
Ambient spirit energy first gathers and holds inside the body.
REALM II
Foundation Establishment
The base is laid; progress stops being reversible by accident.
REALM III
Golden Core Formation
A core forms. Your race may be chosen here, once.
REALM IV
Nascent Soul
The soul takes an infant form and can act apart from the body.
REALM V
Soul Formation
Soul and body fuse into something no longer quite human.
REALM VI
Void Refinement
The last realm before the mortal world stops being enough — and the ground Ascension is fought on.
REALM VII

Full realm mechanics

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Quick Reference
CommandDoes
/cultivationOpen your cultivation stats page
/cultivation meditateSit and draw Qi from the chunk's Spirit Vein
/cultivation hudToggle the persistent corner HUD
/cultivation raceOpen the race menu (Golden Core Formation and up)
/cultivation adminLive in-game config editor admin

Aliases: /cult and /qi both work anywhere /cultivation does.