Short Beginner Guide

First.. a word of warning for your safety: DO NOT EAT WHAT YOU DONT KNOW THE EFFECTS OR STRENGHT OF!!!!! DONT PUNCH THINGS YOU DONT KNOW THE STRENGTH OF!!! As there is many instant-kill-no-saving-yo-life things in this mod, just be careful. Especially as mortal.

To start off, you need to find so called "Extreme Qi" biome. It is easily noticeable by the massive mountains and clear grass. Only Wandering Cultivator mobs spawn here. There is quite the few benefits to Extreme Qi biomes, but those are to be listed somewhere else. Now that you have found Exteme qi, you need to start grinding the wandering cultivators.

You should only touch mortal essence level Wandering cultivators, although essence gathering and maybe even essence consolidation are possible. You should NOT touch revolving core or above cultivators as they will whoop you to oblivion. Easiest way to grind them is to make 2x1 hole(2 tall 1 wide) and drop them there, or othervise trap them, and proceed to bonk them to death. This is to gain items called "techniques". Once you have found 3 techniques, one for body, one for essence, and one for divine(soul) you can proceed to cultivate.

To cultivate is to steal and gather the essence of the heaven and earth and... No. When you have right clicked the techniques to learn them, press the button (K), as it is the default introspection hotkey. Then proceed to right click the orange meditating guy in upper right corner, so that he turns grey. Then proceed to [skills] tab, and choose all 3 cultivation skills that have appeared. Then press [esc] and choose which of the 3 types of cultivation you want to start off with(body, divine, essence).

Now how to use skills. You have already learned how to choose skills you have, from the skill tab. You can switch between chosen skills with [C] and [V] by default, and activate them by holding [F] by default. Skills get "released" aka cast, when the blue bar that appears over EXP bar gets filled, and resets. The bar appears when skill is being charged, and some skills take more time, some take less time to charge and get cast.

Skills, as all things, require energy, aka qi. You can either make them basic energy gathering formation, or even higher one, to begin your cultivation propelly. The skill bar gets "frozen" when not enough energy, and will continue to charge when either your natural energy regeneration, or external one gives you more qi. Being within 8 blocks of qi gathering array helps alot.

What about the so called breakthroughs?!? Its basically level up, but more awesome. To breakthru mortal essence, you need all 3 ways to 120%, and even somewhat decent foundations. They will all breakthru at once, BUT this is special and will not happen again. Later on you will breakthru the 3 ways one at a time, and at 100% with somewhat decent foundations. To cultivate foundations, make the little guy in upper right corner into gray. To cultivate "dragons" aka the breakthru process, you need to make the guy orange. At later stages(revolving core or so) you will need to go through tribulation to succesfully breaktrhu. Tribulation is hits of lightning, with specific levels of damage.

What else to take note of, the dangerous instant-death-no-saving situations? DONT eat any pills you dont know, dont use stones you dont know, dont use ANYTHING you dont know. Whats safe to eat as mortal then? So called "effect" pills, as they are really just minecraft potions, BUT pills. The cultivation, healing etc pills will literally blow you up due to the absurd ammount of energy within, same for too high level spirit stones. Spirit stones you can eat safely as mortal are as following: weak life stone, soul stone, primodial stone. Soul stone does NOT cultivate divine aka soul, as all stones cultivate essence. Its just bad choice of naming really. Get over it. You can also punch a training post to gain body cultivation. How do you gain divine then, if stones are for essence and post is for body? The answer is, you dont. Only way is cultivation skill, which is used for all 3 ways. DO NOT EAT WHAT YOU DONT KNOW THE EFFECTS OR STRENGHT OF!!!!!

Congrats! You have learned basics of how-to-cultivate for beginners! You still have long long journey of cultivation and learning ahead, such as formations, alchemy, doing better at cultivation and many MANY more things to do. Have fun and enjoy Wuxiacraft ! :D