v0.2.0 — Heavenly Tribulations, Skill Tree & Dragon Veins

The heavens have taken notice. This update adds the mod's biggest systems yet — a full radial skill tree, tribulation lightning during breakthroughs, and legendary dragon veins — plus a ground-up visual retheme and a long list of fixes.

NEW — Skill Tree

• A massive radial skill tree with 9 branches and 108 nodes across 7 tiers — Health, Breath, Damage, Damage Reduction, Qi Gain, Ritual Speed, Movement Speed, Stamina, and Mana, each radiating outward from a central medallion showing your unspent points.
• Earn skill points from every sub-stage advancement and realm breakthrough, then spend them your way: outer tiers fork into hybrid nodes that blend neighboring branches' stats, ending in powerful capstones that close the tree into a full ring.
• Deeper nodes cost more — tiers 1-4 cost 1 point, the fork tiers 2, and the outer capstones 3 — so going deep in one branch is a real build commitment.
• Every node is framed in its branch's color, with gold marking what you can afford and jade marking what you own. The tree is bigger than the screen on purpose — scroll down and across to explore all of it.

NEW — Heavenly Tribulations

• Realm breakthroughs now call down tribulation lightning! While your breakthrough ritual progresses, lightning strikes you at regular intervals — each bolt dealing a percentage of your max health, scaling harsher with every realm you've reached.
• Strikes are lethal by default — prepare before you defy the heavens. Armor, Life-Bound gear, and the skill tree's Damage Reduction all soften the bolts, so tanky cultivators genuinely endure tribulations better.
• Everything is server-tunable in BreakthroughConfig.json: strike interval, damage, realm scaling, and a non-lethal mode that always leaves you a sliver of health. Servers that want every ritual to carry risk can also enable a milder tribulation on sub-stage advancements (off by default).

NEW — Spirit Vein Quality Tiers

• Rare chunks now hide something greater than a rich vein: dragon veins — vast pools of Spirit Qi that regenerate three times faster than normal. Find one, and you've found a home worth settling (or fighting over).
• Rich veins also regenerate faster now (1.5x), making high-quality meditation spots matter long-term, not just on first arrival.
• You'll be told the moment your meditation taps a rich or dragon vein, and /cultivation debug vein now reports a vein's quality tier.

Visual Overhaul & Interface

• Every menu got a ground-up Xianxia retheme: gold-rimmed lacquer panels, deep crimson title bars, warm ink backgrounds, and crimson-and-gold buttons — the current page/selection now reads as an engraved gold plaque at a glance.
• Admin Player menu: set a player's banked Qi directly from the menu, and Reset Player now requires a confirmation click before it wipes anything.
• All new content is fully localized in English, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, and Simplified Chinese.

For Mod Developers

• The public API gained a full event system (CultivationEvents): listen for breakthroughs, advancements, race changes, skill unlocks, tribulation strikes, and Life-Bound level-ups from your own mod with one line of registration.

Fixes & Balance

• Fixed the admin config editor never actually saving edited values, and the admin Player tab's dropdowns not applying the selected player/realm/stage/race.
• Fixed the Settings menu's HUD toggle, which silently did nothing.
• Fixed several menus getting stuck on a loading state after clicking buttons.
• Skill tree balance: the Qi Gain branch was toned down to stop it dwarfing every other stat, and hybrid/capstone values were retuned around the new point costs.
• Combat performance: the Life-Bound damage path does a fraction of the item-data work per hit that it used to.
• Config files migrate automatically (BreakthroughConfig v3, SpiritVeinConfig v4) — new fields appear with sensible defaults on first run.

Tribulation difficulty, skill tree balance, and vein rarity are all fresh numbers — feedback on how they feel in real play is especially welcome this update!