Tea Ceremony

v0.10.3

The Tea Ceremony (茶道) is a quiet duet for two cultivators: a shared sequence of timed prompts, answered together, that builds a Harmony score. Land it well enough and you both walk away with a modest, timed Qi-gain buff. There is no fighting, no wager, and no way to do it alone.

Starting a Ceremony

• /cultivation tea invite <player> offers to share tea. Nothing happens until they accept - the same mutual-consent shape as an Oath or a duel.
• /cultivation tea accept <player> accepts. Both of you need to be standing close together (within the ceremony's own drift radius) at the moment you accept, or the invite is refused.
• The host - whoever sent the invite - pays the herb cost. Accepting spends 2 Spirit Herbs from the host's own inventory, checked and consumed the instant the ceremony begins.
• /cultivation tea decline <player> turns down a pending invite.
• An unanswered invite expires after 60 seconds.
• Neither player may already be busy with another ceremony, duel, or similar activity when the invite is accepted.

Boil, Steep, Pour, Serve

Once the ceremony starts, both of you are cued through 3 rounds of the same four steps - Boil, Steep, Pour, Serve - one prompt at a time, roughly 5 seconds apart. Each step is answered with the matching hotbar key (1-4), and both participants see the same prompt at the same moment.

Your answer window shrinks as your cultivation grows: it runs from about 6.0 seconds for a Novice down to 3.5 seconds for a realm-capped Master, set by whichever of the two of you is the lower realm.

Land a prompt together and your shared Harmony score climbs; miss it, alone or together, and it falls. The finished ceremony's Harmony (0-100) sorts into one of four bands:

What Ends It

A ceremony ends the moment any of the following happens, and nothing is refunded either way - the spent herbs are gone regardless:

• Either of you disconnects.
• Either of you drifts more than 5 blocks apart and stays that far for more than 4 seconds - a brief step apart is forgiven, a sustained one is not.
• Either of you takes a hit. This is meant to be a quiet moment, not something to fight through.
• Either of you leaves on purpose with /cultivation tea leave.
• The feature is disabled mid-ceremony.

Any ending below Harmonious pays nothing at all - you simply drift back to your own business.

One Mind - the Reward

A Harmonious-or-better finish grants both of you a Qi-gain buff for 15 minutes and credits 20 Merit to each of you. The two halves of the reward follow different rules.

• The buff has a ceiling of 8%, scaled by the finish's Harmony score out of 100: a perfect 100 earns the full 8%, a bare Harmonious 60 earns 4.8%. It is granted on every qualifying finish - with the same partner or a new one.
• The Merit pays out only once per pair of partners - sharing tea with the same person twice never pays Merit twice. On top of that, each cultivator can collect it from at most Tea-Merit-Lifetime-Cap (25) different partners over their whole life; the count is kept per player, not for the server.

It is a quiet moment between two people, not a Merit farm.

The Guest of One Mind Title

Finishing ten ceremonies earns the title Guest of One Mind. Every ceremony that runs through all its rounds counts - whatever its Harmony band, and whoever the partner is, the same one included. Only a ceremony that is cut short does not count.

For Server Owners

Every value on this page lives in mods/Siren_Cultivation/Cultivation/TeaConfig.json.

The in-game Codex carries its own Tea Ceremony article - see The Codex. For every other bond between cultivators, see Duels, Heavenly Oath and Partnered Cultivation.