Skip the month of writing cultivation rules. Drop one node in your scene and your cultivator gathers qi, climbs layers, risks breakthroughs, survives heavenly tribulations and saves their progress.
No AI-generated images: every screenshot is the included demo running in Godot. Code written with AI assistance, tested by hand and by 45 automated checks that ship with the kit.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- PDCultivator node: qi, realm, layer, injury, pill toxicity, techniques, spirit root and 14 signals for your UI and effects
- 2 ready cultivation paths you edit in the Inspector (.tres):
Classic - Qi Refining (9 layers) > Foundation Establishment > Core Formation > Nascent Soul > Spirit Severing > Void Refinement > Body Integration > Mahayana > Tribulation Transcendence
Generic fantasy - Mortal > Awakened > Adept > Ascendant > Exalted > Mythic > Divine
- Breakthroughs that can fail: lose qi, take injuries that slow you down until they heal
- Heavenly tribulations: survive every lightning strike or fall back badly hurt (balanced: about 70% survive at the peak layer without pills)
- 6 pills and talismans (qi, breakthrough chance, healing, lightning ward) with toxicity, 7 techniques with elements, random spirit roots (Heavenly / True / Mixed)
- Save / load to JSON in one line (the random stream is saved too, so reloading cannot re-roll a breakthrough)
- PDCultivationFX: plays an effect for every event with simple built-in effects
- Playable demo scene, README, AGENTS.md for AI coding assistants
IDLE & INCREMENTAL READY
Most cultivation games on itch are idle games, so v1.1 has the idle parts built in:
- Offline progress: loading a save adds the qi gathered while the game was closed (capped at 8 hours by default, at any rate you choose). It steps up layers but never breaks into the next realm, so players come back to a full bar and a breakthrough to try
- Auto breakthrough: tries by itself when the bar is full and the chance is high enough. With auto tribulation the whole climb runs on its own
- Big number formatting: 1.2k, 3.4M, 5.6B
Every number (qi, chances, damage, pill toxicity) lives in resources you can tick, multiply or save. The demo has a "Simulate 2 h offline" button.
WORKS EVEN BETTER WITH
Pixel Dreamer Xianxia VFX (sold separately): copy both addons into one project and the kit uses its effects automatically - Qi Absorption while meditating, Breakthrough Pillar, Golden Core Formation, Heavenly Tribulation on every strike. The breakthrough, tribulation and meditation screenshots show those effects. Without it you get the built-in rings, light pillar and lightning (last screenshot).
Godot 4.3+ (Forward+, Mobile and Compatibility). Tested in Godot 4.7 and 4.8 beta.
License: use in personal and commercial games. Do not resell or redistribute the files as-is.
