Keybinds & Profiles

The part of Jade Slip that is not purely decorative — and it is worth being precise about exactly what it is, because it is easy to mistake for something it isn't.

A layout is not a profile

Cultivation gives every player two separate, unrelated things to keep more than one of, and Jade Slip raises the cap on both:

• A technique keybind layout is a saved arrangement of the same four technique-bind slots everybody gets. Switching layouts re-binds which arts sit on ALT+6 through ALT+9 in one action — a combat set and a traveling set, say — without touching what those slots can hold or how many of them exist.
• A cultivation profile is a separate save of an entire character: realm, stage, Qi, race, Dao, skill tree, learned techniques and their layouts. Switching profiles changes who you are, not what any one of you can do.

Neither is progression. A layout is a convenience for a character you already have; a profile is room to have more characters. Nothing about either one touches a stat, a Qi total, or what a technique does.

The exact numbers

Both caps are raised through the same public API any add-on would use — registerTechniquePresetCap and registerProfileCap — not by editing anything Cultivation itself owns. Both are configurable: see For Server Owners for the exact keys.

Two engine-side ceilings sit above whatever any add-on asks for, and they're worth knowing so a number in the config doesn't imply more room than actually exists:

• Technique layouts cap out at 8, full stop. Jade Slip's own config field clamps to that ceiling directly, so a server owner asking for more than 8 simply gets 8.
• Profiles cap out at 6, full stop — Cultivation clamps every registered profile-cap request to this ceiling regardless of what any add-on asks for. Jade Slip's own config field will accept a larger number without complaint, but Cultivation will never actually honor more than 6, so setting Profile-Cap above 6 buys nothing beyond it.

Inscribed Slips

/jadeslip inscribe <layout name> writes one of your own technique keybind layouts onto a jade slip — an ordinary, tradeable item — that you can hand to another player. Reading it copies the whole arrangement, key, modifier and art together, onto a new layout of the reader's own, rather than making them rebuild it by hand from a description in chat.

It never teaches an art. Every slot is checked against what the reader has already learned, on the server, one at a time: a slot naming an art they don't have — or one your server has switched off — arrives empty and stays empty until they earn it themselves. That check lives inside Cultivation itself, where nothing a client can edit reaches it, so a forged slip is an arrangement of nothing. A layout with nothing bound on it is refused before it's even inscribed, and a slip nobody could use anything from is likewise refused rather than wasted.

Inscribing one costs spirit stones — Inscribe-Cost-Spirit-Stones, 10 by default, charged all-or-nothing and settable to 0 to make slips free. Whether reading a slip consumes it is a separate toggle, Consume-On-Read (on by default); switching it off makes a slip a permanent, shareable copy, since it can never teach an art either way. The whole feature can be switched off outright with Slip-Sharing-Enabled — off, /jadeslip inscribe refuses and a slip already in an inventory goes inert rather than being destroyed. /jadeslip or /jadeslip slips lists your own layout names and what inscribing one currently costs. See For Server Owners for all three keys.

The no-power-gain guarantee

Nobody with Jade Slip can fire an art a plain-Cultivation player cannot. The bindable slot count per character — how many techniques you can have keyed at once — is untouched; a layout only rearranges which four techniques occupy those slots, and an Inscribed Slip only moves that same arrangement between players — it does not grant a technique either end doesn't already know. And every profile decodes and plays by exactly the same rules regardless of which one it is; a fifth profile is a fifth character, not a shortcut to a stronger one.

If Jade Slip is removed

Nobody loses anything they already built. Cultivation decodes every stored layout and every stored profile regardless of the live cap, and only refuses to add past whatever cap is currently in effect. A server that uninstalls Jade Slip leaves its players holding every layout and profile they had filled — just unable to create a new one until Jade Slip (or some other cap-raising add-on) returns.