v0.10.2 — A Second Chance, and a Line Nobody Should Cross · Cultivation

A Nascent Soul cultivator struck down in a real fight now gets one chance to flee rather than simply dying — a soul, not a body, with real costs and real limits, off by default until you decide your server wants it. Alongside it: three fixes, one of them serious. Every custom theme now actually themes every menu it touches. A stray Qi spike out of enlightenment is gone. And the admin menu is finally locked to admins — it was not before.

Nothing an existing cultivator has earned is taken away

Worlds, progress, sects, abodes, beasts, arts and Life-Bound Treasures all carry over, and your config files are left exactly as they are — every new setting appears with a working default the first time the file is written.

Nascent Soul Escape: A Second Chance, Off By Default

A killing blow that would end a Nascent Soul cultivator or beyond can instead free their soul from their body — a real chance to flee a fight that would otherwise be over, not a second life handed out for free.

A soul cannot fight, trade, build, claim, or carry anything out of the window — it can only fly and look for safety. Reach a sanctuary before the window closes and you return to your body, weakened and short the Qi it cost to escape at all. Fail, and it is a real death, credited exactly as if the escape had never happened.

Nothing is duplicated, refunded, or lost in the process — every in-flight reward, stake, and delivery a soul is owed still arrives; everything a soul cannot touch waits untouched until they are back in their body.

Ships disabled (Soul-Escape-Enabled: false) — a server owner decides whether this belongs on their world, and every cost and timing window is configurable before it does.

Fixed

Custom themes now cover every menu. Some pages — the Merit menu among them — quietly stayed on the stock look even with a custom theme active. Every themed page now resolves consistently, no matter which theme is installed.
Enlightenment could occasionally hand out an enormous, out-of-proportion Qi reward just from walking around. The comprehension roll behind it now has a real, sane ceiling, scaled to your realm — the occasional windfall is still there, just no longer capable of running away with itself.
MAJOR: the admin menu could be opened by anyone, admin or not. This was a genuine permissions leak and is now fully closed — the admin menu, and everything reachable from it, requires the admin permission it always should have.