v0.3.0 — Sects, The Dao & Alchemy

The biggest update in the mod's history. Found a sect and claim a dragon vein with your disciples, choose your elemental Dao and balance Yin against Yang, brew spirit pills, awaken your Life-Bound Treasures, and transcend into the skill tree's eighth tier.

NEW — Sects (宗门)

• Found a sect, gather disciples, and claim a sect hall on a rich or dragon Spirit Vein — while your sect holds a hall, every member gains bonus Qi from all sources, server-wide, scaled by the vein's quality. High-quality veins are now territory worth competing over.
• A full jade-themed sect menu (open with /sect): manage your roster, approve join requests, invite players, set your motto and join policy (Invite Only / By Request / Open), promote Elders, browse and petition every sect on the server, and climb the sect rankings.
• Two leadership ranks: the Leader runs the sect; Elders can invite, approve requests, and discipline disciples. Everything persists across restarts, and the whole system sits behind a single config toggle.

NEW — The Dao (道)

• Choose your Elemental Dao from ten paths — Fire, Ice, Poison, Water, Lightning, Void, Earth, Wind, Metal, and Wood — seven of them brand-new damage types this mod adds to the game. Your strikes convert to your element with a damage bonus.
• The classic Wu Xing cycle governs the five phases (Wood > Earth > Water > Fire > Metal), a shadow ring governs the rest (Ice > Wind > Poison > Lightning > Void) — fight the element you overcome for bonus damage, beware the one that overcomes you. Wood walks the healer's path: it converts damage dealt into self-healing instead.
• Your first choice is free at the Dao realm; switching later costs realm-scaled Qi on a cooldown. And your deeds pull at your Dao — fight persistently with another element and it will warn you, then convert on its own.
• The Yin-Yang Dao: chunks now hold good or evil qi (evil is rare — and evil dragon veins exist). Meditating shifts your balance, night kills stain you with Yin, and your race colors what you absorb — a Demon darkens even good qi. Stay balanced for a blessing to all Qi and damage, or lean deep: Yin grants dark power (damage + lifedrain), Yang grants light power (defense + amplified healing).

NEW — Alchemy, Awakening & Transcendence

• Three craftable spirit pills give your cores a purpose: the Qi Gathering Pill (all Qi x1.5 for 5 minutes), the Clarity Pill (rituals 25% faster), and the rare Tribulation Ward Pill — a ward that fully absorbs one bolt of tribulation lightning.
• A Life-Bound Treasure that reaches max level now AWAKENS: a new ★ Awakened name, bonus power beyond the normal caps, and spirit-energy flares on its strikes.
• The skill tree gained a tier-8 Transcendence capstone per branch — the tree's only dual-prerequisite nodes — carrying three new stats: Qi Cost Reduction, Life-Bound XP Gain, and Vein Drain Radius.
• Skill nodes now show hover tooltips (tier, cost, bonuses), and /cultivation respec refunds every spent point to re-choose your build (config-gated).

Rankings & Interface

• New Rankings menu page and /cultivation top — the server's mightiest cultivators, ranked by realm, stage, and Qi — plus sect rankings in the sect menu and /sect top.
• Every menu (except the skill tree) is wider, and all buttons now size themselves to their text — no more clipped labels in any language.
• The admin config editor gained ~30 new live-editable values covering veins, tribulations, alchemy, sects, and the Dao.
• All new content fully localized: English, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian, and Simplified Chinese.

Fixes & Balance

• Fixed tribulation lightning being invisible to the cultivator it strikes — bolts now fall as a ring of five around you, impossible to miss.
• Fixed dragon veins regenerating faster than they could be drained (an accidental infinite Qi source) — special vein regen now always trails the drain rate, and rich/dragon veins are rarer overall.
• Config files migrate automatically, and the three race files gained a Qi-alignment nature for the Yin-Yang system.

Sect bonuses, Dao numbers, pill effects, and Yin-Yang pacing are all brand-new — feedback from real multiplayer play shapes the next pass!