Progression Compass
With this many systems, the honest problem was never depth — it was discovery. The Progression Compass always shows your top 3 "you haven't tried this yet" or "you have something pending" suggestions, drawn from across the whole mod: sects, beasts, Body Tempering, Talismans, Alchemy, Personal Daos, Oaths, Master-Disciple bonds, Closed-Door Retreat, the Sea of Consciousness, Forging, Weapon Spirits, spirit arrays, and Legacy heirs.
Reaching it
Open the Compass from the Misc page. It reads your live account state the moment you open it — nothing is precomputed or cached from an earlier session.
What a suggestion looks like
Every suggestion carries a real action:
- Open the right menu page directly.
- Jump straight to the relevant Codex article.
An untreated Meridian Injury shows up too, with nothing to click but a reminder that it heals with time — not every suggestion is actionable this second, and the Compass says so rather than inventing a button.
Dismissing a suggestion
Dismiss any suggestion individually and it never resurfaces on that account again — permanent, per-suggestion, and entirely optional. Dismissing one suggestion never dismisses the system it points to; it only stops that specific nudge, and a genuinely new gap in the same system can still surface later as its own suggestion.
Who sees what
The Compass reads your actual progress, not a fixed checklist:
- A fresh cultivator sees beginner-tier suggestions immediately — the systems most worth an early look.
- A veteran who has genuinely closed every gap sees the rarer, late-game suggestions instead — or an empty page once there is truly nothing left to nudge.
The Compass never says a suggestion is required, and finishing all three never grants anything by itself. It only points at what you have not tried, so nothing worth knowing about sits permanently out of view because nobody thought to mention it.
Newly Opened
v0.10.3 Menus That Grow With You. A new cultivator no longer faces every system in the mod on day one. Menus and Codex articles for a system stay hidden until either your highest-ever realm makes that system relevant, or you've already used it - whichever comes first.
When a system opens up for you, you get a short notice, and the Progression Compass itself gains a Newly Opened section listing it. That section is separate from the ordinary top-3 suggestions above - it exists specifically to surface what just unlocked, so a newly-relevant system never sits silently in a menu you have no reason to open yet.
Your highest-ever realm is a permanent mark that only earned progress raises. A profile switch, a test-profile sandbox session, or an admin directly setting your realm never unlocks or re-locks anything for you - only actually climbing does.
Turn on Show every system in menus in your Settings to skip progressive reveal entirely on your own account - every hidden system and Codex entry shows immediately, whether or not you've earned it yet.
Tuning
Compass-Enabled is a master switch for server owners who would rather not have it at all.
v0.10.3 Progressive reveal itself is a separate system, tuned in RevealConfig:
| Variable Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
Reveal-Enabled | true | Master switch for progressive reveal - keeps player-facing systems out of the menus and Codex until a cultivator's highest-ever realm makes them relevant. Off still tracks each account's high-water mark silently; it only stops hiding rows. |
Reveal-Announce-Enabled | true | Whether a newly-opened system gets a toast/chat/sound push notice. The Compass's own Newly Opened section and the actual menu/Codex reveals are unaffected - this only silences the nudge. |
Reveal-Admins-See-All | true | Shows every system to a player holding cultivation.admin, regardless of their own realm, so staff testing or moderating are never staring at a menu row they cannot find. Ships on by default - turn it off, or test from a non-admin account, to see exactly what a new player sees. |
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/cultivation misc | Opens the Misc page, which links to the Compass |