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Cultivate your Ki, comprehend ancient techniques, break through mortal limits and ascend toward the Martial God Realm.
Eternal Cultivation: Path of Ki is part of the Dimensional Cultivation Modpack.
Eternal Cultivation introduces a complete cultivation-inspired progression system to Minecraft. Every player begins as a Martial Apprentice and must meditate, strengthen their meridians, learn cultivation techniques and overcome increasingly difficult breakthroughs on the journey toward divinity.
Progress is stored separately for every player and persists across deaths, restarts and multiplayer sessions.
Advance through eleven major cultivation realms:
0. Martial Apprentice
Martial Warrior
Martial Master
Great Martial Master
Martial Lord
Martial King
Martial Grandmaster
Martial Emperor
Martial Supreme
Martial Sovereign
Martial God
Every realm contains nine internal stages. Meditation gradually gathers cultivation progress and restores Ki, while higher realms improve core attributes such as maximum Ki, Ki regeneration, health, attack power and damage reduction.
Reaching the peak of a realm is not enough. A matching breakthrough pill must be consumed before the cultivator can enter the next realm.
Ki is the central resource used by cultivation techniques.
Open the Cultivation Menu to view:
Current realm and stage
Cultivation progress
Current and maximum Ki
Ki regeneration
Learned cultivation techniques
Equipped martial techniques
Passive bonuses and defensive abilities
Meditation allows players to gather cultivation progress and refine Ki. More powerful cultivation scriptures increase meditation speed or allow Ki to regenerate even outside meditation.
Discover and learn permanent cultivation techniques from manuals and ancient scriptures.
Technique categories include:
Cultivation methods
Body-tempering arts
Mind scriptures
Soul techniques
Movement arts
Formations
Fist techniques
Palm techniques
Sword arts
Saber arts
Spear arts
Manuals range from simple mortal-grade breathing methods to divine techniques capable of devastating entire battlefields.
Examples include:
Basic Qi Circulation
Spirit Gathering Mantra
Nine Revolutions Heavenly Scripture
Void Steps
Indestructible Golden Body
Everflowing Qi Scripture
Seven Stars Sword Canon
Azure Dragon Spear Art
Ten Directions Divine Fist
Heavenly Judgment Palm
Learned techniques are permanently recorded in the player's Technique Library. Active martial arts can be equipped and cast through dedicated keybinds.
Some defensive techniques automatically create a protective Ki barrier when the cultivator is struck. These techniques use independent cooldowns and include effects such as the Hexagonal Qi Bulwark and Mirror-Rebound Aegis.
Eternal Cultivation includes a collection of spiritual herbs, roots, flowers and alchemical treasures, including:
Spirit Ginseng Root
Jadeleaf Herb
Ironbone Root
Thunderheart Ginseng
Phoenixvine Bloom
Void Orchid
Dragonblood Fungus
Thousand-Year Spirit Root
Heavenly Meridian Lotus
Nine Suns Ginseng King
Elixirs can permanently improve attributes such as maximum Ki and Ki regeneration. Each permanent elixir can affect an individual player only once, preventing unlimited stacking of the same elixir.
Breakthrough pills are provided for every major cultivation realm and can be integrated into custom recipes, quests, structures and progression systems.
The mod includes cultivation-related armour enchantments:
Max Ki — increases the wearer's maximum Ki.
Ki Regeneration — restores additional Ki every second.
These bonuses work alongside realm progression, learned techniques and permanent elixir improvements.
When Vampirism is installed, specialized cultivation scriptures can provide benefits such as:
Reduced vampire blood consumption
Immunity to sunlight damage
Complete fire protection
Cultivation-based survival abilities
Vampirism is optional and is not required to use the main cultivation system.
The Stellar Void Breathing Scripture provides compatibility with Stellaris oxygen mechanics, allowing sufficiently advanced cultivators to survive in environments where ordinary players require oxygen equipment.
Stellaris is optional.
Eternal Cultivation includes an optional scripting bridge for modpack developers. KubeJS scripts can adjust important cultivation values, including:
Cultivation speed
Ki costs
Technique cooldowns
Technique damage
Technique range
Passive stat bonuses
Realm and stage scaling
This allows modpack creators to build custom progression without modifying Eternal Cultivation itself.
Eternal Cultivation is designed to work as both a cultivation system and a framework for larger modpacks.
The mod provides the realms, Ki system, techniques, manuals, herbs, elixirs and breakthrough items. Modpack authors can decide how these rewards are obtained through recipes, quests, dungeon loot, bosses, dimensions or custom machinery.
For expanded technological cultivation progression, it can be paired with the separate Ki Cultivation Machinery mod.
Minecraft 1.21.1
NeoForge
Player Animator
Vampirism
Stellaris
KubeJS
Ki Cultivation Machinery
Cultivation progress is stored independently for every player and is compatible with dedicated servers. Every player maintains their own realm, stage, Ki, learned techniques, equipped martial arts and consumed elixirs.
Always use the same version of Eternal Cultivation on both the client and server.
Eternal Cultivation is still under active development. More techniques, cultivation resources, compatibility features and progression mechanics may be added in future releases.
Please report reproducible issues with the Minecraft version, NeoForge version, mod version and relevant crash report or log.
