Qi Gathering

Qi is the currency of the whole mod — it buys every advancement and every breakthrough. There are two ways to earn it, and they are deliberately better together than apart.

flowchart TD
    subgraph W["The World"]
      V["Chunk Spirit Vein<br/>a finite, regenerating pool"]
      C["Creature drops<br/>Spirit · Profound · Divine Cores"]
      WX["Active weather<br/>resonance multiplier"]
    end
    V -->|"meditate"| Q(["Your banked Qi"])
    C -->|"right-click to absorb"| Q
    WX -.->|"×1.15 – ×1.5"| Q
    T["Qi Gathering Talisman<br/>held in the hotbar"] -.->|"boosts vein rate"| Q
    Q --> A["Advancement<br/>or Breakthrough"]

Meditation & Spirit Veins

/cultivation meditate sits your character cross-legged and slowly draws ambient energy from the Spirit Vein of the chunk you are standing in. A Spirit Vein is a real per-chunk energy pool: it has a capacity, it depletes as you draw from it, and it regenerates over time. Camp on one chunk long enough and it will run dry, and your Qi-per-second falls with it until it recovers.

Vein Tiers

Not every chunk is equal. Most are ordinary, but some roll richer, and a rare few sit on a dragon vein — the chunks worth fighting a sect war over.

The Qi Gathering Talisman

Hold a Qi Gathering Talisman anywhere in your hotbar while meditating and your Spirit Vein absorption rate goes up. It does not need to be in your hand — carrying it is enough. Rate and behaviour are set in SpiritVeinConfig.json.

Cultivation Cores

Killing creatures has a chance to drop a cultivation core. Right-click one to absorb it for an instant chunk of Qi — no meditation required, which makes cores the answer when you want to progress while doing something else.

Drop chances and Qi values for all three cores live in SpiritCoreConfig.json.

Weather Resonance

The sky matters. Meditating during active weather grants a Qi multiplier, and the multiplier is larger when the weather matches the element of the Dao you walk.

Which weather maps to which element is itself configurable, by keyword, in DaoConfig.json — so a server using custom weather assets can wire them in without any code.

Putting It Together

An efficient early loop looks like this:

1. Hunt until you have a handful of cores and a Qi Gathering Talisman.
2. Find a rich chunk with /cultivation debug vein and sit down.
3. Meditate through the weather if there is any — rain pays better than clear sky.
4. Absorb your saved cores during the session for the stacking bonus.
5. When the vein thins out, move a few chunks over and repeat.