Lifespan

Lifespan (寿元) gives every cultivator a budget of online play hours. The higher the realm you have ever reached, the bigger the budget, so climbing the ladder is the surest way to buy more time. Spend it all and you begin Withering: Qi gathers far slower, and when a short grace period ends, your years come to their end.

The Budget

Your budget is set by the highest realm you have ever reached on this profile, not the realm you hold now. A demotion never shrinks it.

Reaching a new realm replaces the budget with the new realm's, rather than adding to it. The hours you have already spent stay spent, so a breakthrough adds exactly the difference between the two budgets to what you have left.

What you have left is:

remaining = budget for your highest realm + bonus hours - hours spent

The first time your clock ticks it is anchored to the realm you hold at that moment, so a cultivator who was already high-realm when the feature was switched on gets that realm's budget, not Body Refinement's.

What counts as spending it

Time online, once the clock is checked (every 5 seconds by default). Sitting still, meditating, a Closed-Door Retreat and standing AFK all count. Time offline does not.

The clock does not run, and nothing is spent, while you are:

• in Creative mode or spectating;
• using the admin bypass;
• on a test profile;
• a fleeing soul during Nascent Soul Escape - the escape charges Lifespan hours up front instead (Soul-Escape-Lifespan-Hours, 6 by default, only while Lifespan is on).

Lifespan is also fully off for any server running an add-on progression system that replaces the realm ladder (EndlessLeveling, SoulRings): the budget is keyed to this mod's own realms, so there is nothing to measure.

The first time your clock ever ticks you are told: the years have begun to turn.

Warnings

You are warned three times as the hours run down.

The first two follow your server's notice setting; the third always shows. The flat one-hour floor keeps a huge budget from giving its last warning with a day still left, and a tiny one from giving it with seconds to spare.

From the second warning on, the HUD carries a Lifespan tile, and your stats page has a Lifespan block showing hours left of your budget. There is a Lifespan line toggle in your HUD settings.

Extending your years (below) re-arms the warnings, so you are warned again as you approach the new, larger ceiling.

Withering

When nothing is left, the title Withering fills your screen and a chat block lists every way out. From that moment:

• your Qi gain is multiplied by Lifespan-Withering-Qi-Multiplier - one quarter by default;
• a grace clock starts, counting online minutes only (60 by default), and ash-like motes drift off you;
• you are shown a HUD tile with the grace minutes left.

When grace runs out, Lifespan-Expiry-Action decides what happens:

Ways out before grace ends

• Climb. Reaching a higher realm grows your budget; if that leaves hours remaining, Withering clears.
• A Longevity Pill, if it has headroom - see below.
• A true Reincarnation or Ascension. Either is a new life and always resets the clock, whatever the expiry action. The Withering chat block tells you whether you currently meet the requirement for each.
• An admin setting your spent hours back under the budget, or granting bonus hours.
• The owner raising the Lifespan-Hours-* budgets: Withering clears on the next tick.

The Longevity Pill

The Longevity Pill (延寿丹) banks bonus hours against your budget. It is refined like any other pill at a Pill Cauldron:

/cultivation alchemy refine longevity

Millennium Ginseng (千年参), a rare Wood herb that grows only wild, is the herb that favors it; see Herb Varieties and The Pills. The Heavenly Realm's treasure loot can also hold a Longevity Pill, along with Millennium Ginseng.

• Each pill banks Lifespan-Pill-Hours (20) times the pill's grade potency: 20, 26, 34 or 44 hours for a Low, Mid, High or Perfect pill.
• Your total banked bonus can never exceed Lifespan-Pill-Bonus-Cap-Fraction (half) of your current budget - 20 hours at Body Refinement up to 1200 at Void Refinement. Below the cap, a pill whose full amount would overshoot grants whatever headroom remains; at the cap, it is refused and you keep it.
• Pills do not add to your Pill Toxicity by default.
• /cultivation lifespan tells you how much headroom is left.

A pill can delay Withering. It cannot replace climbing.

For Server Owners

Every value on this page lives in mods/Siren_Cultivation/Cultivation/LifespanConfig.json; see also the Lifespan Config section of the Cultivation config page. The in-game admin editor has a Lifespan (寿元) section for the on/off switch, grace, Withering multiplier, realms dropped and the two pill values.

Lifespan is stored per profile. Lowering a Lifespan-Hours-* value makes a player's remaining time shrink with it; raising one clears Withering for anyone it lifts back above zero.

Related: Realms & Stages, Alchemy, Reading Your HUD, Commands, Permissions.