The Path/Tribulation Karaoke·道

Cultivation: Tribulation Karaoke

Heaven's Questioning (天问). The lightning no longer merely strikes a cultivator — starting from the second bolt of a ritual, the Heavens question them. A line appears above your head and in chat, a pointed question about your resolve, and you must type the response back before the title fades.

Tribulation Karaoke is a paid add-on for Cultivation, available with a Cultivation subscription or bought outright; Cultivation itself is free and always will be.

How a verse works

Starting from the second strike of a tribulation ritual, every Nth strike calls a verse — every second one by default. Not every strike does: the add-on does not bury the ritual in prompts.

The Heavens ask. The question shows as a title above your head and in chat, along with the line to speak back and the seconds you have.
You type the response in chat. Exactly, or close enough — case, spacing and punctuation are ignored, and a near-miss typo is forgiven within reason. You get three tries per verse.
Answer in time and you are told your streak. Fail to, and the Heavens rebuke you.

Anything you type that is nowhere near an answer — brb, a smiley — is left alone. It does not count as a try, and it is not swallowed. A line starting with / is always a command and always goes through, so you can reach any command mid-tribulation. While a verse is open, your attempts are kept out of public chat, so six copies of the same couplet do not fill it and nobody can answer another cultivator's question for them.

What a miss costs

The lightning itself is untouched: a bolt deals exactly what Cultivation says it deals, whether you answer or not. A miss adds a rebuke on top of it, and rolls for an injury.

The rebuke is half the strike's own damage by default.
The chance of a Meridian Injury starts at 20% and is multiplied by the number of misses so far this ritual, so a second miss is twice as likely to injure as the first.
On a server where Tribulation-Lethal is off, the rebuke can never be the hit that kills you — the same promise the bolt keeps.

What a perfect ritual earns

Answer every verse the Heavens called during one ritual, and when the ritual genuinely concludes you gain 1.0 point of Heavenly Dao. A ritual you cancel yourself does not pay it out, and neither does one you merely abandon.

Who is watching

Players within 32 blocks see who is being questioned, who answered, and who fumbled, so a tribulation stays the public spectacle it already was.

The verses

Twenty-six are built in. Which one is drawn depends on the lightning's tier (white, blue or gold) and on your chosen Dao, with a bias toward verses written for your Dao and your tier. A verse is never repeated until four others have been shown, unless the pool is that small.

Kind	Count
Universal, any strike	8
Written for one tier (2 each for white, blue and gold)	6
Written for one Dao element (one per element)	10
Written for the Devil or Righteous path	2

Every verse is written in all five of Cultivation's languages, and the answer you must type is in your own.

Your record, titles and the Codex

Your tally — verses called, answered, missed, best streak and perfect rituals — is saved with you across sessions. It unlocks two cosmetic titles:

Title	How to earn it
Voice That Answers Heaven · 答天者	Carry three tribulation rituals through without missing a single verse.
Ten Thousand Verses · 萬言	Answer 100 verses across every tribulation you survive.

The Codex gets an article, Heaven's Questioning, that states your server's actual numbers, read live from the config rather than written down.

Commands

Tribulation Karaoke adds no commands. It listens to Cultivation's tribulation strikes and to chat.

For server owners

Seventeen settings, in mods/Siren_CultivationTribulationKaraoke/Config.json. All of them are in the in-game admin config editor — a general section (also on Cultivation's settings menu) and a judgment section (admin page only) — and apply live. The file carries its own Description-Karaoke documentation.

Key	Default	What it does
`Karaoke-Enabled`	`true`	Master switch for the whole call-and-response.
`Karaoke-On-Breakthrough-Tribulation`	`true`	Whether breakthrough tribulations call verses.
`Karaoke-On-Lesser-Tribulation`	`false`	Whether advancement tribulations (the lesser kind, where Cultivation's own config runs them) call verses too.
`Karaoke-Response-Window-Seconds`	`6.0`	How long you have to answer. Held between 1.5 and 30.
`Karaoke-Verse-Every-N-Strikes`	`2`	A verse is called on every Nth strike, starting from the second. Minimum 1.
`Karaoke-Max-Verses-Per-Ritual`	`0`	Cap on verses in one ritual. `0` is unlimited.
`Karaoke-Attempts-Per-Verse`	`3`	Tries per verse. Minimum 1.
`Karaoke-Typo-Tolerance`	`0.15`	Fraction of the expected length that may be mistyped. 0 to 1. Answers under 8 characters must be exact.
`Karaoke-Consume-Chat-During-Window`	`true`	Keep answer attempts out of public chat. Off, a correct answer still resolves the verse, but no try is ever burned and no line is hidden.
`Karaoke-Challenge-Harmless-Strikes`	`false`	Also call verses on strikes that would deal no damage.
`Karaoke-Miss-Damage-Multiplier`	`0.5`	The rebuke, as a multiple of that strike's damage.
`Karaoke-Miss-Injury-Base-Chance`	`0.20`	Base chance of a Meridian Injury on a miss, multiplied by misses so far this ritual. 0 to 1.
`Karaoke-Perfect-Ritual-Heavenly-Dao-Bonus`	`1.0`	Heavenly Dao earned for a perfect ritual.
`Karaoke-Dao-Verse-Weight`	`3.0`	How strongly a verse written for your Dao is favored in the draw.
`Karaoke-Tier-Verse-Weight`	`2.0`	How strongly a verse written for the lightning's tier is favored.
`Karaoke-Announce-To-Nearby`	`true`	Broadcast each call and answer to nearby players.
`Karaoke-Nearby-Radius`	`32`	How far that broadcast reaches, in blocks. Held between 0 and 256.

Getting it

Tribulation Karaoke is available in the Pavilion — included with a Cultivation subscription, or bought once. It is server-side only: drop the jar beside Cultivation and restart, and your players install nothing.

The current build is v0.2.0. It requires Cultivation 0.11.0 or newer and a Hytale Update 7 server (Server API 0.7.0-pre.5.1), and will not load on an Update 6 server; the previous version is the one to keep there. Release 0.2.0 moved the answered, missed and perfect-ritual screen titles to Update 7's supported title calls; they look the same. If a pairing with Cultivation is later published as incompatible, the add-on stops hijacking strikes — and only that — without taking the server down.