Journey to Immortality

A Message from the Developer

Thank you to everyone who has downloaded and played Record of a Minecrafter’s Journey to Immortality.

The mod has passed 1,000 downloads, and honestly, that’s pretty crazy to me. It’s not a huge number next to the biggest Minecraft mods, but knowing that so many people took the time to download something I made, explore its systems, cultivate their characters, and hopefully have some fun with it means a lot.

This update is the first alpha of the overhaul: the mod has been rebuilt from the ground up as a bigger and better foundation for Journey to Immortality. My break is over, and development is back on. I’m still in school, so updates may come a little slower than before, but the overhaul is moving and there’s a lot more on the way.

Since this is an alpha, expect bugs, missing features and balance changes between versions. Worlds from 1.0 are not compatible. If you find a bug or have ideas, I’d love to hear them.

Thank you again for the 1,000+ downloads, and for giving my little cultivation mod a chance. ❤️

— The Developer

Record of a Minecrafter’s Journey to Immortality

A xianxia (cultivation) mod for Minecraft 1.21.1 (Fabric). Begin as a Mortal,
awaken your spiritual roots, learn a cultivation art, and break through realm after
realm on the path to immortality.

Alpha v0: the overhaul’s first release. The starter arts take you through

Condensation and Foundation; higher arts and the systems below under

Coming later arrive in future updates.

⚡ Features

Getting Started

• Mortals can’t gather qi on their own. Find a Spirit Sensing Stone to reveal your spiritual roots, then read a cultivation art manual of one of your elements.
• Manuals and stones turn up in village houses, dungeons, mineshafts and the wandering trader. The stone can also be crafted from 4 amethyst shards around a lapis lazuli.

Cultivation & Progression

• One cultivation base that grows your Mystical Power (法力), Body (肉身) and Spiritual Sense (神识).
• Meditate to gather qi. Condensation’s 13 layers advance on their own; minor and major breakthroughs need a channel, and failing one causes Meridian Injury.
• The realm ladder of the novel: Mortal, Condensation, Foundation, Virtuoso, Nascent Soul, Incarnation, Voidbreak, Wholeness and Completion.
• Lifespan (寿元): you age as you play, and each realm extends your years.

Spiritual Roots

• Five-element roots (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth), accepted or re-rolled up to 3 times, plus rare mutant roots: Thunder, Ice, Wind, Light and Dark.
• Roots set your cultivation speed and decide which arts you can learn. An art’s qi only gathers through a root of its element.

Cultivation Arts

• Three art slots: a Main art (required to cultivate), plus an optional Body art and Sense art.
• Every stage you reach unlocks a new layer of your art. Forks let you choose how your art develops.
• Five starter main arts, one per element: Sharp Metal Canon (庚金诀), Evergreen Art (长春功), Flowing Water Sutra (流水经), Blazing Sun Art (烈阳功) and Thick Earth Scripture (厚土诀). Also Bronze Bone Tempering (Body) and Spirit Eye Contemplation (Sense).
• Art skills that gain new effects as they rank up: Sword Qi Streak, Fire Bolt, Spring Rejuvenation, Water Curtain, Stone Skin and Iron Body.

Spiritual Sense

• A Sense bar and a sweep that shows creatures on a radar.
• Danger intuition warns you when something starts hunting you.
• Hold Sneak while looking at a creature to see its lock card.

Body & Flight

• Your Body raises health, armor, toughness, knockback resistance, attack damage, attack speed, movement speed and safe fall distance.
• Fly from Foundation onward by double-jumping. Flight drains qi.

Interface

• A HUD with the radar, your cultivation progress, and Qi and Sense bars.
• The Cultivation screen with Status, Stats and Arts tabs. Every stat shows where its value comes from.

🎮 Controls

| Key | Action |
|—|—|
| G | Cultivation screen |
| Z | Meditate |
| R | Sense sweep |
| X | Cast your main art’s skill |
| B | Cast your body art’s skill |
| Double-jump | Fly (Foundation+) |

🔮 Coming Later

• Closed-door seclusion
• Spirit herbs, alchemy and pills
• Refining, artifacts and flying swords
• Higher cultivation arts for Virtuoso and beyond
• The Ascension tribulation

🔧 Configuration

A config/journey-to-immortality.json file is created on first launch. Use it to
tune cultivation, Sense and more. For example, starter.give_on_join gives new
players a Spirit Sensing Stone, and arts.require_matching_root turns off the root
requirement for arts.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• Fabric Loader 0.19.2+
• Fabric API
• Java 21+

📄 License

CC0-1.0: learn from it, build on top of it, ship it.