Partnered Cultivation

Partnered Cultivation (双修) lets two married cultivators cultivate together. Sit and meditate beside your spouse and you each draw more Qi from the vein than either would alone — and your Yin-Yang balances pull toward one another as you sit. New in v0.6.0.

There is no command to start it. Sit down near your partner, both meditate, and it begins.

Beginning a Session

Four conditions, all of which must hold:

When it takes, you are both told so. When it ends, the partner still seated is told — the one who stood up already knows.

Check where you stand with /cultivation partner. It reports which condition you are failing, so a session that will not start is never a mystery: not married, partner offline, different world, too far apart, or the feature disabled.

What It Does

More Qi. Each partner draws Partner-Qi-Multiplier times as much from the spirit vein while the session lasts — 1.25× by default.

That figure multiplies with everything else: the vein's own tier, weather resonance, a Qi-Gathering formation, your cave abode, and a Gatherer spirit beast. A couple sitting on a dragon vein inside their own abode compounds all of it, which is why the default multiplier is deliberately modest.

A steadier balance. Each partner's Yin-Yang balance drifts toward the other's while they sit. A cultivator who has leaned dangerously far toward Yin, sitting with a Yang-leaning spouse, is drawn back toward center — and away from the Heart-Devil Trial that a deep lean invites.

Neither partner shifts while their balances are already within Partner-Convergence-Deadzone-Percent of each other, so a settled couple does not oscillate. The pull also never overshoots: it closes the gap and stops rather than sending the pair swapping leans.

Your race's own Yin bias still applies, so a Yin-natured race resists being pulled toward Yang — it converges more slowly rather than not at all.

Twin Spirit Pact Arts

v0.10.3 Two techniques used to be admin-grant only. As of v0.10.3 a married, beast-bonded pair can comprehend them naturally, purely by meditating together for long enough:

Both draw on a shared "Twin Spirit Reservoir" that fills while you and your spouse meditate together, each of you also keeping a bonded spirit beast — the same conditions What It Does already requires, extended into a second, slower-building resource alongside the Qi multiplier and the balance convergence. Twin Spirit Descent buffs both of you together (a shared Iron Body plus Qi Infusion, scaled by your weaker beast's level and by how long the pact has stood); Yin-Yang Reversion spends a larger draw on the Reservoir to snap both of your Yin-Yang balances toward your shared midpoint in one motion.

Learning them is a matter of accumulated pact depth — seconds of partnered meditation with the pact active, tracked independently for you and your spouse. Once your own pact depth clears Twin-Pact-Depth-Seconds-To-Learn (one hour, by default), each further credited second of meditation rolls a Twin-Pact-Insight-Chance-Per-Second (0.4%) chance of a flash of insight that comprehends Twin Spirit Descent for you outright — no admin grant needed. A second, deeper threshold, Twin-Pact-Depth-Seconds-To-Learn-Reversion (two hours), gates Yin-Yang Reversion the same way, at the same per-second chance.

This roll is rolled separately for each partner — pact depth and the insight roll both live on your own side of the bond, so one spouse can comprehend an art well before the other does, and either of you comprehending it does not teach it to the other.

The Dao Fusion Rite

A married pair has one more shared art, and this one needs no meditation. The Dao Fusion Rite (道法双融) blends the Dao elements you and your spouse have each chosen into a matching Iron Body and Qi Infusion buff for both of you. It is cast standing up, with your spouse in the same world and within Dao-Fusion-Radius-Blocks (8) of you, and it rides the same marriage bond Partnered Cultivation does without asking either of you to be seated. Unlike the Twin Spirit Pact arts it is comprehended like any other open art. Its realm, cost, cooldown and numbers are on Techniques.

Settings

All in Society/PartnerConfig.json.

There is deliberately no gate by default. Partnered Cultivation is a reward for playing together rather than a milestone to earn, and gating it would only punish a couple who started at the same time.

See the Society config page for the rest.