Cultivation: Jade Slip (Addon)

A jade slip is the tablet an immortal's arts are handed down on. This one hands down a look.

Jade Slip is the supporter add-on for Cultivation: ten hand-made palettes — eight you buy in, two you earn — that recolor every menu, the HUD and the skill tree, plus the aura you give off, which is the one cosmetic other players see from across a field.

It comes with a Cultivation subscription. Cultivation itself is free and always will be; Jade Slip is what supporting it buys, and it is what pays for the time that goes into the free half.

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Full Jade Slip Wiki

Every palette, the aura set, banners and titles, Inscribed Slips, Champion Looks, the Sect House Look, the extra keybind and profile slots, and the settings for server owners — walked through in full.

What it does not do

It changes nothing about progression, balance, or what any player can do. No stats, no power, no advantage.

A server without Jade Slip plays exactly the same game, and a player without it stands beside one who has it as an equal. That is deliberate and it will stay true.

Ten palettes, two of them earned

Frost Peak · Verdant Hall · Bloodmoon · Golden Court · Ink Wash · Starfall Peak · Jade Dawn · Lantern Court — plus Victor's Laurel and Starlit Destiny, which nobody simply buys their way into.

Each is a complete set of 139 recolored documents — every page, every card, the HUD, and the skill tree's nine branch halos, which are the fiddliest part and the one most likely to be skipped. Nothing is half-themed.

They cover add-on pages too, so a server also running an add-on with its own Cultivation pages gets those in your palette rather than one stubbornly crimson page in an otherwise frost-blue menu.

Choose one from the theme dropdown in Cultivation's Settings page, which lists every installed look from any mod. Jade Slip's own Palettes page was removed in v0.1.2 once that shared list existed — a separate tab for one mod's looks was always the lesser answer. Your saved choice carries over untouched, and you can change it whenever you like.

Victor's Laurel and Starlit Destiny — earned, not bought

Victor's Laurel opens for anyone Cultivation's own Hall of Fame has recorded as a season champion, on any of its four boards. Starlit Destiny opens for whoever currently holds the Child of Destiny title, a once-a-season honor from the Sacred Bodies add-on — it works fine without Sacred Bodies installed, it simply never unlocks. Both come with a matching sect hall banner, and both stay yours once earned: a look marks having worn the crown, not currently wearing it, so losing the title later never takes it back. A server can turn Champion Looks off entirely from the admin menu.

Inscribed Slips

/jadeslip inscribe <layout name> writes one of your technique keybind layouts onto a jade slip you can hand to another player. Reading it copies the whole arrangement — key, modifier and art — onto a new layout of their own.

It never teaches an art: any slot naming a technique the reader has not learned themselves arrives blank rather than filled in, because the check runs inside Cultivation itself. Costs spirit stones to make (configurable, can be set to free), and a slip nobody could use anything from is refused before it is even inscribed.

Sect House Look

A sect leader can hang one palette over the whole hall with /jadeslip house <palette>. Every member who has never picked a theme of their own — menus, HUD, aura — sees the leader's choice instead of the stock look; anyone who already chose their own keeps it untouched. A None row in Cultivation's own settings lets any member opt back out. Optionally raises the sect's own hall banner to match, through the same permission gate an ordinary banner change goes through.

Brighter auras

Your cultivation aura is the only cosmetic in the mod that other players read from a distance.

Jade Slip ships its own aura set, emitting roughly twice as thickly as the base mod's, so your realm reads at proper distance instead of only up close. One switch returns you to the quieter original.

Banners, titles and lore

• Thirteen more sect hall banners to fly over a claimed hall, on top of the six Cultivation ships — two of them tied to the earned Champion Looks above.
• Eleven cosmetic titles. Eight are earned by wearing the palette they belong to — so settling on one says something, rather than everyone carrying all eight at once. Two more, Victor's Laurel and Starlit Destiny, are earned the same way their palettes are. The last is simply for carrying the slip. Owning Jade Slip also earns the separate Jade Slip Scribe title on any server running Cultivation, cosmetic only.
• Seven Codex articles, written as lore rather than as mechanics: where the slips came from, what a banner meant to the people who first raised one, why the Four Symbols are the four they are, what each palette's colors say about a temperament, and three more covering Inscribed Slips, Champion Looks and the Sect House Look.

A little more room

Six technique keybind layouts instead of three, and five cultivation profiles instead of three.

This is the one part of Jade Slip that is not purely decorative, and it is worth being precise about: a keybind layout is a saved arrangement of the same slots everybody gets, and a profile is a separate save of a character. Neither grants a single point of power — nobody with Jade Slip can fire an art a plain-Cultivation player cannot.

For server owners

Everything is configurable and editable in game from Cultivation's admin page: both caps, per-look permission nodes (hand palettes out as rank rewards instead of giving everyone everything), the titles, the aura, and — since v0.3.0 — whether Inscribed Slips work and what one costs, whether Champion Looks are offered, and whether a sect leader may hang a Sect House Look.

Palettes-Require-Permission and Banners-Require-Permission take effect immediately, with no restart, same as every other toggle added since. They gate choosing, not keeping: a player already wearing a palette keeps wearing it, and a sect keeps flying its banner. That is deliberate and matches how Cultivation treats its own cosmetics — an equipped title outlives its requirements too. If you want a permission binding from the start, turn it on before handing the looks out.

Jade Slip also verifies itself against this site to confirm it is a genuine, current build. If it cannot verify for 30 days it withdraws its palettes, banners, titles, meditation auras, Codex articles and Sect House Look, and falls back to Cultivation's own look — nothing is lost, saved palette choices are kept, Inscribed Slips already handed out keep working, and everything returns the moment the build is current again. If your server has no outbound connection, the console warns you for a week beforehand.

It reads the published compatibility list alongside that check. If a future Cultivation release turns out to break this build, Jade Slip stands its cosmetics down and says exactly why in the console rather than misbehaving quietly, and everything returns on the next boot once the versions match.

Getting it

Jade Slip comes with a Cultivation subscription, which also carries every other paid Cultivation addon for as long as you hold it.

Install it beside Cultivation like any other add-on — it declares Cultivation as a dependency, so a server missing the base mod, or running Cultivation older than 0.11.0, refuses to load it rather than half-starting. The current build (v0.4.0) runs against the Hytale 0.7.2 server (Update 7).