Chapter 1. Guide Information
Immortal Life was still in Early Access during the creation of this guide, so some game mechanics may change with future versions.
The version this guide is based on is the Alpha Branch Update 0.5.10 to 0.6.03
How to join the Alpha version (copied from Development update):
(Making a backup copy of your savegame first, is recommended.)
1. Right-click Immortal Life in your Steam Library.
2. Choose Properties…
3. Choose BETAS tab in the Properties menu.
4. Enter the code, zhongtian2022 and click Check Code.
5. Click the select button and choose alpha – alpha test to activate the new branch.
6. You want to switch back? No problem, click the drop-down menu again and choose none – it will take you back to the Default branch.
As the controls of the game can be customized to a certain degree, this guide will refer to the keyboard default setting.
You can always check the current key settings by accessing the Options menu with ‘Esc’.
(I personally found navigating easier after switching the Action-key ‘E’ for the ‘left mouse button’.)
Chapter 2: Time, Saving And Recovery
The year has the usual 4 seasons but every season has only 18 days. The seasons are separated into 6 solar terms which are 3 days long each.
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After every solar term scavenge-able items and mana clusters are replenished.
The change of season will refresh the quests on the Quest board in town, change some of the scavenge-able items and influence which fish can be caught. The yield of harvested crops may change with the seasons as well.
Note that seasons and solar terms change at midnight but the plants grow and the soil dries up at 7am in the morning.
A day in the game has 24 hours and the Main Character can stay awake as long as they want. However depending on how long and well they sleep HP, MP and Stamnia can be recovered (see more in the chapter ‘Your Residence’).
After sleeping the MC will wake up at 7am the next morning and the game will automatically be saved.
The game can also be saved manually at the Startrack-crystals.
One can be found in the Mysty Valley near the cave entrance, the other one is in front of the Reconstruction HQ in the sect area.
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Note:
If you use 'Continue' your game will start at the last moment you saved.
'Load' will give you access to older saves of the same character as well.
You can also keep savegames of up to 5 different characters. If you want to load those, you have to click on the 'Character Exchange' icon in the loading screen and then slect from a list of available character savegames.
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Aside from sleeping, you can recover MP by drinking mana potions, cold potions or lotus leaf dew, consuming some scavenge-able herbs etc. but there are easier methods.
You can absorb mana clusters, which are found floating as a blue cloud all around the Misty valley, the Sunset Forest or the Sect Grounds.
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Once you have rebuilt the Misty valley Terrace you can meditate there and recover 6MP every hour. If you see a floating 'WASD' letter appear during meditation, hit the corresponding key for an extra boost in mana recovery. You can interrupt meditation any time you have gathered enough mana but the time runs faster.
Stamnia can be easiest recovered by consuming food. You can either pick a meal from the menu of the inn and eat it directly at a table, cook something at the rented inn kitchen (or the rebuilt sect kitchen) or buy something to go at a market stall or from Mrs. Ye at the inn.
Aside from sleeping, HP can so far only be recovered with a HP potion or consuming scavengeable herbs.
Chapter 3: Quests
There are four ways to trigger a quest in the game:
1. A character with an Exclamation mark over their head will give you a quest once you talk with them and inquire about the displayed dialog topics. The characters will mostly follow their normal daily routine. Their quests don’t have time limits but might require crops which are out of season or items you can not craft or buy yet.
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2. The Quest board at Ferry Stop will give you mostly time sensitive item-collection missions. The time usually runs out at the end of a season and the quests are then replaced for new ones. Be aware that some of the missions may require out of season crops or items you are not able to procure at the start of the season.
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You may notice that some of the quests can also promise an additional bonus for completing the mission fast. To snatch the bonus make sure you collect all necessary items, have identified the quest giver and have a rough idea about their daily routine before you accept the mission.
It also pays to check the other notices on the quest board, they can be helpful on occasion.
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3. Once you unlock them, you will occasionally get a Paper Crane letter with the request for a personal meeting from one of your fellow cultivators or friends. A lot of these quests are story related or will unlock new features for you. You should treat them as priority, especially if they request for a specific meeting time.
4. If a character is found in an unusual location or not in their typical routine spot, you may trigger an Event as soon as you approach even if there is no exclamation mark above their heads. It also pays to visit locations which are off your own usual routine once in a while. Some of the events may be triggered at a certain time of the day, by specific weather or require you to reach a level of friendship with the other cultivators, so keep your eyes open for them.
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Chapter 4: Item Quality
You may notice that some items come in different qualities. This can be crops, fish and scavenge-able objects like herbs and mushrooms.
The lowest quality is common ‘C’, the item is displayed on a grey background.
The next tier is good ‘G’ and the item is displayed on a green background.
The highest tier for fish, herbs and normal crops is super ‘S’ and the item has a blue background.
Crops however can also show a mutation and become a luxury ‘L’ item that looks distinctly different from the normal crop and is displayed on an orange background.
Example from screenshot:
a) Common grade 'Wheat' (grey)
b) Good grade 'Wheat' (green)
c) Superior grade 'Wheat' (blue)
d) Luxus grade 'Super Wheat' (orange)
Make sure you store items of the ‘S’ and ‘L’ grade for you will need them later, be it for special quests – including story missions – or for research at the later constructed R&D department.
Also keep a few common crops and seasonal items for cooking, processing or possible requests. And only sell off what you don’t need.
If you carry more than one different quality of the same quest items with you during delivery, the game will automatically chose the lowest graded items from them, to complete the quest. (Unless the quest demands a high grade item specifically.)
Cooking, processing and crafting will also use the lowest available quality items by default. keep that in mind when attempting to cook high-quality dishes.
Chapter 5: Getting Started
The game begins with a series of tutorial missions where your range of movement is restricted.
Save whenever it is suggested.
Your first mission is to wait with the other potential recruits in front of the main building.
Move with ‘WASD’ and talk with everyone with ‘F’ until an event begins.
Your next mission is to first find doctor Sun and then enter the inn to inquire about brother Xie’s health.
Move down the stairs first. After a short chat with the other cultivators move to the left and up the stairs. Doctor Sun is standing in front of his pharmacy – approach and talk to him with ‘F’.
After you talked to the doctor, take note of a faint blue sparkle between the furniture in front of the pharmacy. Use ‘space’ to jump over the obstacles and pick up the sparkling object with ‘E’. – You found yourself your first hidden treasure. Hidden objects like this can be discovered in several locations, so keep your eyes open for the blue sparkle.
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Now move to the inn on the right and enter. Brother Xie’s room is upstairs on the left. Watch a few more events playing out.
Your next Objective is simply to talk with everyone about their future plans and report back to brother Yang.
The next day you will finally enter the Misty Valley.
You will be given the first choice here. If you pick the first answer you will be granted a few points of ‘Willpower’. The second answer will raise your ‘Divinity’ by a few points.
While you may be tempted to pick ‘Willpower’, which will boost your combat strength somewhat, I highly recommend picking ‘Divinity’ instead, which will increase your perception. This does boost your chance of finding extra items and receiving higher quality crops during harvest. (Your choice here does NOT influence the maximum either of the stats can reach, anyway.)
Brother Yang will hand you an axe and request you to chop down a few of the nearby trees for wood.
The axe is placed in the hotbar slot #1 and automatically equipped for this task.
You can hold the ‘E’ key down to keep chopping.
After that you will be introduced into the basics of farming.
Chapter 6: Farming
Brother Yang hands you a hoe and requests that you remove some weeds and till the soil.
The range of your motion again is very limited – however you can reach a few extra tiles at the border of the allowed area.
The hoe Is now in slot #2 of your hotbar.
All tools and items in the hotbar can be equipped and unequipped by hitting the corresponding ‘number’ or ‘letter’ key or by directly clicking on their icon in the hotbar with the mouse.
Remove weeds and till the soil on a selected tile with the equipped hoe by hitting ‘E’.
You can also smooth it back to normal by holding down the ‘E’ button longer while the hoe is equipped.
(For placing decorations such as fences or food processing facilities, the ground needs to be smooth.)
The weeds will regrow periodically unless a tile is tilled or something is placed on it.
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Brother Yang will inquire about your skills – if you are not confident into your combat abilities pick the answer with the extra HP but again the choice here does not matter much in the long run.
Afterwards Yang will give you nine pouches of wheat seed to plant.
It is recommended that you remove as many weeds and till as much ground as you can reach. There is a small chance that removing weeds will give you a few pouches of random seeds, which you can at once plant alongside the wheat seeds brother Yang gave you.
While Yang will call you back, if you move a step too far away, you should be able to clear a 5x4 tiles area with some careful manoeuvring (aside from tiles blocked with rocks).
You can also reload your last save, if you are not happy with the results of your weeding. A higher Divinity stat helps somewhat to improve your chances for success.
You need to open your inventory and drag the pouches of seeds into the item hotbar. Once you have equipped them, you can plant them on a tilled tile with ‘E’. Planting costs 1 Point of Stamnia for each seed pouch.
Once you can buy seeds, check for their appropriate harvest season. If you harvest something at the wrong time, you will yield less crops for your trouble. While the plants wont wither like in other games, you will still make a loss. You can however plant a seed a few days before and then harvest it right after the season change.
(There is also a quicker method to plant several seeds at once which will require holding down the ‘E’ key and moving with ‘WASD’. However it will only be unlocked later in the story. This method costs 4MP and works similar to the magical gourd which is described below.)
The next tool you are introduced to is the Gourd – it will act as your watering can. However the gourd never runs out of water and does not require refilling.
It can either water one tile at a time with ‘E’, which will cost you 2 points of Stamnia or you can hold down the ‘E’ key and move it with the ‘WASD’ keys to water several tiles in one go, which will instead cost you 15 MP.
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Your basic Mana Pool has 40 to 42 points at this time, so you can use the magic watering method twice before you have to recover.
With some practice controlling the gourd you can move it right onto the border between two tiles and then proceed to water two rows of 8 to 9 tiles at once, so with the starting MP you can water up to 36 tiles in a tilled 4x9 square.
Only for the tutorial quest all your tilled tiles will be watered after you tried the magical watering method.
Once the soil is watered, Sister Ji Yaohua will approach you and hand you a magical talisman. You can either use it directly from the inventory by ‘clicking right’ on it and select ‘use’ or you can drag it into the item hotbar like the seeds and use it from there.
It will make anything that is planted in your field ripen instantaneously – you can now harvest the wheat you just planted (and anything else you managed to plant on the side) with the ‘F’ key.
Harvesting (and scavenging) will cost you 1 Point of Stamnia every time.
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(Later in game you will receive a magical harvesting sicle tool, which will allow you to harvest multiple crops in one go without requiring any Stamnia or MP.)
Give 10x Wheat to sister Ji, who will give you two more harvest talisman.
Store those talisman until you really desperately need them. One can make crops on the entire field ripen, so using them when you have barely anything planted or using them on fast growing crops is a great waste. They can be helpful in a pinch, if you can’t complete a timed quest without them or a field of very expensive crops wont ripen in time before going out of season.
There also seems to be an increased chance to harvest a special luxury crop when using a harvest talisman.
If you require a specific mutated crop or a high quality one, you can save your game right before harvesting and reload, if you didn’t get what you wanted. Higher divinity will help you find the good stuff.
Once Ji has received the wheat, it turns evening and all the cultivators meet around the campfire for another event and you are sent to bed in your new house after you have talked with them. You can also use your hoe to quickly harvest a few spring bamboo shoots, if there are any within your limited range or chop down another few trees with the axe before calling it quits for the night but it can also wait till the next day.
The main tutorial is pretty much complete at this point and you can roam more or less freely now.
As soon as you step outside your house in the morning sister Ji Yaohua will hand you a few more seeds with the request to bring her a certain number of grown crops.
You can either use another harvest talisman to complete the quest instantly or just wait for the crops to grow naturally – either way just plant and water the seeds.
Now go and look for brother Chen who waits for you at the lake near your field.
You can use the map with ‘M’ to find him faster.
Talk to Chen and he will introduce you to fishing.
Chapter 7: Fishing
Upon your approach, brother Chen will hand you a fishing rod and request that you catch a ‘bighead carp’.
Equip the rod, step onto the small pier and hit ‘E’ to start the minigame.
With the current rod not all types of fish are catchable yet.
To fish hit the ‘E’ key. again.
The fish will test the bait a few times in advance so you have to wait until the swimmer goes completely down. It will also make a splashing sound that is audibly different from before.
Now quickly pull in the line with ‘E’.
Once you caught a bighead carp, brother Chen will send you to the inn with it, to borrow their kitchen. Head there as directly as possible.
Places to fish in the game are:
1. Misty valley lake pier (big head carp, silver spotted carp (night))
2. Mystery valley northern fishing spot (-pier needs repair-). It is a bit hidden on the west side of the map.
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3. Ferry stop harbor pier (crucian carp, krill (night))
4. Sect Fishery (-pier needs repair-, goldfish, tortoise)
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5. Pond on LV 6 of the Cave
6. Small boat on LV4 of the Lotus Realm
If there is a map of the area available, you can click on the fishing spot symbol, to see which fish can be caught there.
Some fish can only be caught during night time, others are only available during specific seasons.
Once you learn how to upgrade tools, a letter from Chen will reach you, telling you about advanced fishing. After that you can upgrade your fishing rod at the smithy in Ferry Stop as well. The advanced fishing rod will allow you to catch new types of fish.
Later in the game brother Chen will offer information about fish habits as well as craft fish into wall mounted display specimen for you (you need 3 of the same kind of fish for one specimen).
Chapter 8: The Inn Kitchen
At the inn talk to Mu Xia, she will lead you to the kitchen and if you ask, also gives you a short overview to the cooking minigame.
Generally your task is to cook all required dishes as fast as possible. You can’t end the minigame until you have placed the finished dish(es) on the serving counter. Until then the ingredients wont run out. However, your rating will go down if you make too many mistakes and take too long.
There are no repercussions, if something is not perfect though.
- You will find the raw ingredients on the tables at the back of the room.
- Fish and meat can be cut at the processing table on the right side. In the recipe this table is symbolized with a pointy knife.
- Vegetables have their own processing table which is represented by a square hacking knife.
- There is a big sink in the middle of the room, where you can get water, which some recipes require aside from the main ingredients – especially for the boiling pot or for kneading dough.
- Anything that requires dough needs you to use the kneading table on the right side of the room. It is represented by a diagonal block and a dust cloud symbol. Don’t confuse it with the mixing table.
- The mixing table is located at the south end of the cooking space. Here you stir a few ingredients together and it is represented by a bowl with two chopsticks. Be careful! This symbol is easily confused with the symbol of the wok. Double check the recipe for it.
- The wok at the right wall is used for frying one or more ingredients. You don’t need to add extra oil. Most dishes are completed afterwards and can be served. The wok is represented by a bowl symbol with a spatula.
- The boiling pot is found at the back wall, it usually requires water or soy sauce aside from processed ingredients but there can be exceptions. Make sure everything is ready before you start the cooking process. You can leave the cauldron to boil while you take care of some other preparations to save time. It is represented by a pot with a fire burning below it.
- The steamer is placed on the right side of the pot at the back wall. You can leave items to steam while you take care of other preparations but again make sure that everything is in place.
- In the middle of the room is an empty table, where you can set down processed ingredients you have no other space for currently.
- The trash bin is a nondescript basket next to the sink, if something goes terribly wrong during cooking, toss it in there and start over.
- The serving counter is at the southwest corner of the cooking space. Place everything that is finished there as fast as you can. If you have to cook several dishes at once serve them one by one as you have them ready, the order plays no role, start with the one you are most comfortable with.
Some mistakes I have seen and made ^^’
- Confused the wok symbol with the mixing table symbol
- Confused the steamer with the boiling pot
- Cooked/steamed something twice instead of picking it up
- Cooked something without water
- Forgot to cook something because it looked finished
- Forgot one ingredient
- Forgot to process one ingredient
- Cooked something with the wrong ingredient when several dishes were to be cooked at once.
As I mentioned before it does not matter in which order you cook the quest-dishes, you can click on a different recipe to start cutting ingredients while something else is in the pot or the steamer.
Despite what Mu Xia told you, you can’t leave things too long in either pot or steamer, so you have time to finish whatever else you are working on the side before you go and reclaim the items from them.
Mu Xia will give you the first few recipes after you completed the cooking minigame as well as the quest to bring lunch boxes to your fellow sect members (Why is there no lunch box for the MC?)
Again you can find everyone by taking a look at the map with ‘M’. Depending on how long it took you to complete the cooking, the first person/s might already be at the inn.
After completing a few more cooking quest (Kitchen helper I to III), Mu Xia will offer you to research recipes for you in trade for the necessary ingredients. You can either take a direct look at her requirement list when talking to her about recipes, or check the recipes’ requirements in your notes section of your inventory.
She will take double the amounts of ingredients which are actually required for cooking a dish later.
Once you trade more recipes from Mu Xia, you will notice that some need more than one item of a kind for cooking, however when in the kitchen, you only need to grab one item no matter what the recipe said you needed – the right amount is automatically deduced from what you brought to cook.
On the other side you wont waste any materials even if you encounter a failure during cooking and had to use the trash bin.
When you cook a single dish from a recipe you own with a three star rating, you’ll unlock the quick cooking option for it. This wont work for quests where the recipe is provided by the inn, though.
After the tutorial cooking lessons, you have to pay 200 spirit shards to rent the inn kitchen till the end of the current solar term, if you want to cook.
However you can keep cooking after completing a cooking quest until you leave the kitchen on your own or run out of stamina, as long as you have the recipes and brought enough ingredients. This can save you a bit of money at the start of the game.
Also note that when you cook something while you rented the kitchen, you can only cook a single recipe at a time. The cooking minigame ends as soon as you serve the first dish and will only count that one as fisnished, even if you have prepared more of it on the side.
Later on you can build the Sect kitchen which has a few more functions than the inn and where you can cook for free (as long as you have ingredients and recipes).
How to read a recipe - with an example from a screenshot:
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1. Cut pork on the meat cutting table.
2. Cut a bamboo shoot o the vegetable cutting table.
3. Get red pepper and water from the sink and mix both on the mixing table.
4. Take the cut pork, the cut bamboo shoot and an unprocessed helping of wood ear mushrooms to the wok and stir-fry it all.
5. Take the stir-fried pork and vegetables over to the mixing table where the red pepper sauce is already prepared and mix it together.
6. Take the finished dish to the serving table.
For this recipe it would not matter, whether you cut the pork or the vegetables first.
You could also for example stir-fry the meat and vegetables first and mix the pepper sauce afterwards. It only matters that you put the right ingredients together into the right processing step.
If you feel really confident in your cooking, you can even work on two recipes at the same time and save a lot of time .
Should a bugged spoon get stuck to your avatar after fetching water during cooking, you can either save and reload the game or change your outfit in the character screen to make it disappear. (You need at least one extra set of clothes for the latter to work.)
Chapter 9: Reconstruction HQ
While completing the 'lunchbox delivery' quest, you will find brother You Jinghe at the sect grounds.
He has an Exclamation mark above his head, indicating that he has a new quest for you.
Talk with him to receive the quest to bring him 30x Stone to set up a Reconstruction HQ. He will hand you a pickaxe and request that you start with removing the boulders on the sect grounds.
The rocks gathered from there however wont be enough to complete the quest in one go.
Now that you have the pickaxe, you can also take the Exclamation mark quest from sister Li at Ferry Stop, to clean up the market and the docks. And if you still want more rocks, you can start cleaning up the field in Misty valley.
Once you hand over the stones, the reconstruction HQ will be built and you can find both You Jinghe and Wei Hong inside there for most of the day and talk with them to rebuild other buildings and create blueprints for furniture and processing equipment.
(You's Reconstruction list becomes available as soon as construction of the HQ is complete. Wei Hong's blueprint list requires you to repair the Workshop first.)
Both will cost you a lot of raw materials and most buildings also require a good sum of spirit stones.
After the Reconstruction HQ is set up, you can access the Quest board at the Ferry Stop market.
Also the paper crane messenger system will be unlocked, once you saw a small event near the path leading to Ferry Stop and talked with brother Wei Hong. Make sure to reply to his letters and read any letters you receive afterwards as soon as you can.
Every completed building from brother You's Reconstruction list will grant a few points in Contribution and Sect Developement.
Contribution points will help the Main Character to rank up within the Sect.
Sect Developement will unlock rewards and new goals every time the Sect reaches a new level.
Chapter 10: The Ferry Stop Market
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As you have seen at the beginning the market place is as good as destroyed.
You can still access the smithy and the groceries booth at the far left, the furniture store in the upper middle and the pharmacy, the fishing spot at the big pier as well as the inn.
- The grocery store sells a basic collection of seeds, some processed items for cooking and meat as well as eggs.
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There are also solar term sales of special items, which can include seeds you have not yet unlocked and rare ingredients.
Note: If cucumber seeds show up during 1st year spring, buy a few bags, best all she got to sell, whenever you have a bit of extra cash at hand. There will be a well paying quest during summer that requires you to deliver 50 cucumbers to a customer but with no guarantee that the seeds will become available during that season as it is a random special deal crop. You can get 3 bags for free, if you can complete another quest that requires you to deliver 9 tomatoes first, however those just wont be nearly enough to harvest 50 cucumbers.
- The smithy only sells a few basic materials at this point, later on it will offer tool upgrades and more materials.
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The upgrades give the following boosts to the tools:
Axe: Felling hardier trees for Superior Lumber, opening the path to Sunset Forest.
Gourd: The gourd flies further when controlled with Mana. (Still consumes 15MP at each use.)
Fishing Rod: Additional fish species can be caught.
Pickaxe: Mining harder ores for Superior Stone and Luminous Sand, opening the shortcut
between the Misty Valley Farm and the Sect Area, opening the passage to Cave lv6.
- The pharmacy sells herbs and a few seeds the grocery booth does not offer. (Once the silkworm care is unlocked, you can buy new silkworms here as well.)
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- The furniture shop sells items to place inside your house to improve your sleep quality.
It also offers new sales every solar term, where selected items are 20% off.
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While new furniture is very expensive at the start of the game, recovering stamina and mana becomes easier with each item you place in your house.
You can also buy the carpets here which you need for one of the Quest board jobs in spring of year 1.
- In case you need some liquor or some other snacks, Mrs. Ye at the inn reception will sell a few items as well.
You can also order from Ma Xiaozhu's menu and eat directly at a table.
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Help sister Li with her quest to remove the rubble and the other merchants will reopen their booths.
- The fishbooth is an expensive but sometimes godsent alternate to trying to catch every quest fish on your own.
They also offer random solar term sales on rare fish.
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- The snack booth can help you get your stamina back up, if you are in a pinch.
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- The mysterious merchant will start visiting during the 1st solar term of each season as well as during solstice and equinox solar terms.
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She sells Soulgras seeds which can’t be bought anywhere else and which can earn you a lot of money.
She also randomly sells items you can gift to your fellow cultivators, spell scrolls, decoration items and so on.
The mystery merchant has a series of quests for you, which require you to grow mutated luxury crops for her.
Chapter 11: Sunset Forest
Priority: Very High
When: After the Reconstruction HQ is built
Where: Northwestern exit of your farm
How:
Sister Li will wait near your house and tell you about the Forest Entrance in the Misty Valley.
Unfortunately it is blocked by giant roots, which have to be cut down with an upgraded axe.
- Talk with brother Yang.
- Talk with the smith in Ferry Stop and you get access to the tool upgrade menu.
- Each of the available tool upgrades costs 1,000 Spirit Stone Shards (and upgrade materials).
- (The upgraded fishing rod becomes only available after a letter from brother Chen.)
- Cut away the giant roots with the upgraded axe and proceed into the forest.
The Sunset Forest will be your main source of Lumber (& superior), Bamboo (& superior), you can also scavenge for herbs and find many mana clusters in the area.
- During Spring you can harvest Spring Bamboo Shoots with the hoe.
- During Summer you can collect Cicada Sloughs from big trees.
- (No special items during Autumn).
- During Winter you can harvest Winter Bamboo Shoots with the hoe.
All resources in the Forest will reset at the start of a new Solar Term.
An exit to the north, leading to the Deep Sunset Forest will open, once you start the events to recruit Song Yantong.
The area to the east, which is blocked off by another giant root is not yet accessible in the current version (v 0.6.03).
Chapter 12: Your Residence
At the start your house is a very empty, tiny one-room hut. It has a bed and a wardrobe and that’s it.
As the amount of HP, Stamnia and MP recovered here depend not only on the time you spent sleeping but also on the quality of your sleep, it is obvious that with more and better furniture your recovery will be more complete and faster.
As the room is at the start of the game, you will only recover a few points of HP and Stamnia but zero MP.
While there are items available at the furniture house which allow for recovery of MP, most are very expensive for your starting funds. So your best options are to get them by completing quests or wait for sales.
It makes no sense to mindlessly stuff furniture into your house however, as there is a cap of how many points are regenerated.
Once the sect’s Main hall is completed the Reconstruction HQ will offer you a series of house upgrades. These not only allow for you to place more furniture inside the building, they also raise the cap for the maximum points the amassed furniture can help you recover while you sleep.
Brother You Jinghe also offers a selection of floor and wallpaper designs for your house.
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During the lunchbox delivery quest, you should have received a bag with a bamboo table, a bamboo bench and a storage box, which you can all set up inside your house.
Press ‘H’ to change into the furniture placement menu and double click on the item you want to set up.
This menu will also show you the current hourly recovery when sleeping and the recovery cap of your current house upgrade.
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While in the furniture menu:
- Click left on the categories to look for the items you want to place.
- Click twice on the object you want to select.
- Move the furniture item onto the chosen tile(s) with 'WASD'. Make sure you are not standing in the way.
Green tiles are free. The tiles will change their color to red, if they are blocked, and to blue if the item hovering above them can be placed.
- Turn the item by 90° with 'Q' or 'E'.
- Set the item down with 'Space'.
- Pick an item up by standing on (carpet, etc.) or near (furniture, etc.) it and pressing and holding 'E'.
Most furniture objects meant for inside give a passive bonus on the regeneration when the character sleep at night.
But as the name implies the storage box can be used to stash a few items you want to keep for a later date. Best put things in you don't want to accidentally sell.
Decoration which is placed outside won't give a regeneration bonus as it does not influence the Main Character's sleeping comfort.
Chapter 13: The Cave
When you return to your house one evening, you will hear a loud rumbling sound coming from the east side of the valley.
Go to investigate and meet brother Yang, who heals your stamina, hands you a wooden sword and takes you to the cave, that has just opened.
he'll ask you to defeat the monsters on the first level.
You can hit the lizards by pointing the mouse at them and click the left mouse button repeatedly.
Report back to Yang after you defeated two brown lizards. He will teach you your first spell – equip it from the second tab in the character menu to the combat-hotbar.
You need to activate the spell in the combat-hotbar by selecting it with a left click. You can fire it with a right click.
(There is a bug in the current version that gives instant cooldown times and reduces combat spell costs to zero. So you can just keep casting constantly and easily clear an entire floor. As the combat system is currently in the progress of being completley rewritten, this bug is likely to be removed next update.)
Don’t forget to scavenge a few of the easy to miss Shiitake mushrooms.
You can also use the pickaxe to mine some of the rocks on this level. There will be more and different mineral nodes and two more types of mushrooms deeper down. Some rocks will require an upgrade of the pickaxe to mine.
You can instantly leave the cave any time by taking the staircase back up.
The further you go down in the cave the bigger swarms of enemies are around and the higher the difficulty rises.
- Brown lizards
- Blue rock turtles
- Bats
- Big brown lizards (using an earth-spell attack)
- Red rock turtles
- Pink jellyfish (only vulnerable by magic attacks).
On level 5 of the cave you can unlock a portal leading back to your farm. You then can use it as a shortcut to access the 5th level directly from outside.
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Amount and quality of the loot can be increased by a higher divinity stat.
Monsters and resources are both reset after leaving and reentering the cave.
Chapter 14: The Workshop
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Priority: Very High!
Talk with brother Wei Hong after the Reconstruction HQ has been completed. He will suggest to build a workshop between your house and the cave entrance on your farm.
Talk with brother You Jinghe, to start the construction once you collected the following materials:
1,000 Spirit Stone Shards
40x Lumber
25x Stone
10x Obsidian
Lumber can be gathered by cutting down trees on your farmland, stones can be either gotten from clearing your field or mining in the cave. Obsidian can be mined from blue or red rocks within the cave or be received as loot from defeating rock turtles.
Some things that can be built in the workshop after the blueprints are available:
- Warehouse: A big storehouse that can be upgraded several times to stash giant amounts of items. The blueprint is already available as soon as the workshop construction is completed. It is a 3x3 tiles construct that needs to be placed somewhere on your field. Unfortunately you can only build a single unit.
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- Octopath well: Place this well on an untilled tile in the middle of a 3x3 square of your field. You need to manually activate it with some stamina to instantly water the 8 (tilled) tiles surrounding it. You can have up to 10 of these wells on your farm.
- Modified Octopath well: This well has the same range 3x3 as the normal octopath well but it works completely automatically. You can also have 10 of this kind of well at a time.
- Irrigation well: This again is a manually activated well but it can water a 5x5 square (24 tiles) at once.
- Stonemill: A mill to grind grain to flour, etc. get the recipes from Mu Xia at the inn.
- Fermentation jar: Make wine or sauces by aging your crops in it, again Mu Xia has most of the recipes you require for it.
They can be upgraded later on to ferment a batch of up to 10 objects from your crops. The upgraded version also works faster.
- Drying rack: Some crops and fish need to be dried before being used for cooking, Mu Xia will tell you which ones.
The drying rack can be upgraded later for 10 object batch processing as well.
- Etc.
Of course you can also build decorations or furniture for both inside your house or your field.
Chapter 15: The Main Hall
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Priority: High
Costs:
3,000 Spirit Stone Shards
100x Lumber
50x Stone
20x Bamboo
25x Obsidian
Recruitment Missions are on hold until this building is repaired.
The construction of the Main Hall takes several days.
On the day of completion, the MC will receive a letter, calling them to the Main Hall the next day, to join a meeting.
After talking several times with all Sect members, new quests and building-options become available.
The main hall is necessary to keep track of the development status of the sect.
Also you will have meetings there with the other sect members during some quests.
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Once it is constructed, you can pick up an allowance every new season at the office to the left of the hall. Said allowance consists of money, potions, seeds and a few snacks. The amount depends on your rank.
You can check the sect status on a board to the right of the main hall. When enough achievements have been accomplished the sect gains in rank and new features and goals are unlocked.
Once the Main Character fullfills all necessary requirements they can also accept a promotion (currently only the first one to Sect Overseer) at this board.
Chapter 16: The Lecture Hall
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Priority: High
Costs:
3,000 Spirit Stone Shards
140 Lumber
40 Stone
20 Superior Stone
15 Cinnabar
The lecture hall can be built (from the Reconstruction list) after the Main Hall construction is complete.
But since the Lecture Hall serves as a school, it is also necessary to hire teachers before lessons can be started.
- Visit Ferry Stop (after the Main Hall is repaired) to see a cutscene where sister Li is talking with a stranger near the Inn.
- Follow the stranger into the inn and talk with her.
- As payment you have the choice between three options. Give Tinfeng the Wanderer either:
a) Furniture (?)
b) Money (3,000 Spirit Stone Shards)
c) Items (1x Double cooked Pork, 1x Yellow Frog, 3x Life Energy Orbs)
- Once the Lecture hall is repaired, inspect the signboard in front of the LH.
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- On the left side at the bottom is the option ‘Lecturer Management’ click on it and open a sub menu.
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- At the beginning only Tinfeng is available as lecturer. Hire her for 500 Spirit Stone Shards.
- Leave the menu for now without doing anything else.
- Talk with brother Yang and then Tinfeng again.
- More lecturers can now be hired from the board.
- Tinfeng also offers you to invite more and better Lecturers, but instead of money they need to be bribed with various presents.
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- Return to the Signboard, hire as many teachers as you want or can afford with ‘Lecturer Management’.
- Check the list of available teachers in the main menu of the signboard. Compare which status improvements they offer with the Main Character’s abilities in the Character screen.
(If you hover the mouse over a status, you can see the MCs current potential. You can increase your status up to that potential cap. Once the cap is reached. The stat can’t be further improved until the MC successfully breaks through to the next cultivation stage.)
Example from screenshot:
- The length of the Health bar display is the current maximum HP.
- The red bar shows the actual HP. If the character is wounded it is shorter than the Health bar.
- When hovering the mouse over the display, a secondary display pops up.
- The length of the secondary display shows the HP potential cap for Main Character's current
cultivation grade.
- The yellow bar shows the current maximum HP. As long as the yellow bar is shorter than the
HP potential, the Main Character can take lessons at the Lecture Hall to improve the current
HP maximum.
- Once the grade's potential cap is reached, the Main Character needs a Breakthrough to
improve further.
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It is recommended to improve the MP limit and the Divinity stat first.
(The Stamnia pool is the only stat that can not be improved by the lectures or breakthrough. It can only be improved by using rare items.)
- Click on ‘Scheduled’ for up to three lecturers and confirm your selection with ‘Complete course scheduling’.
You can make a schedule only once every solar term. The lessons take 1 hour each and start the earliest possible date at 13:00 (1:00pm).
You will receive a class reminder papercrane at 12:30 (0:30pm) before the lessons start. You can click on ‘Go there at once’ on the papercrane, to teleport directly into the lesson from wherever you currently are.
(Of course you can also walk up to the Lecture hall and start the lessons from there.)
How much progress the MC and the fellow cultivators make is somewhat random and you can reload, if you are not happy with the results.
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Your fellow sect members will attend the Scheduled lessons, even if the MC misses them.
(However currently the lessons are the only source of experience for the other sectmembers so they’d have to study for at least 5 years with only the best teachers to be able to breakthrough.)
Chapter 17: The Qiongzhen-Pavillon And R&D
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Priority: High
Costs:
5,000 Spirit Stone Shards
180x Lumber
60x Superior Lumber
40x Obsidian
10x Luminous Sand
The Q-Pavillon is the Sect’s new trade center and it can be built once the Lecture Hall is repaired.
It sells new kinds of furniture, elixirs, swords, spatial rings and some blueprints.
But most importantly you can purchase crop, flower and herb seeds, 99x pouches each and there is a chance every solar term, that the seed quality is increased to ‘good - green’, which improves the base quality and selling price of the harvested crops.
However the starting stock is very limited. To improve the number of different wares new trade routes need to be found, opened and researched.
This requires building the R&D department, which is a side-room inside the Q-Pavillon.
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Priority: High
Costs:
5,000 Spirit
80x Superior Lumber
10x Superior Bamboo
70x Obsidian
20x Luminous Sand
Once its construction is complete, the Main Character can invest money to open known trade routes at the big map at the back wall of the room. (It currently costs 1,000, 3,000 or 5,000 Spirit Stone Shards for different trade routes respectively. Also a certain number of trade items need to be researched as well.)
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The research is done at the worktable to the right of the room. Here the Main Character can donate Crops, Ores, Herbs etc. in exchange for new wares to hit the shelves.
Note that the research demands crops of at least 'superior-blue' quality to be donated, some research even requires 'luxury-orange' mutated crops to unlock.
(However, a certain research topic does only accept 'common-grey'-grade Small Pearls, Pearl Oysters can be found randomly in the Lotus Realm when picking up Mussels but it is much easier to keep the common Pearls from the Oysters brother Chen sends you occasionally.)
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The researchable items come in sets and once a set is completely unlocked, you can claim a reward, which can be anything from bags of high quality seeds to furniture but most will be blueprints for the Workshop.
Later on sister Li will request assistance for travel preparations, as she is planning an expedition to search for new trade routes.
In the current game version, sister Li goes on two seperate expeditions and will discover two available trade routes.
Chapter 18: The Lotus Realm
When: After sister Li's return from her 1st trade expedition.
How:
- Meet sister Li near your field, when you return from Ferry Stop to start a new quest.
- Talk to Tinfeng the Wanderer at the inn and then talk with Li again to receive an artefact.
- Place the artefact either inside your house or somewhere on your farm.
- Use the artefact with 'F' to get teleported into the Realm.
- Point with the mouse into the direction you want to go and jump over gaps in the lotus pads with 'Space'.
- Fight monsters with either the sword or spells, similar to inside the Cave.
- Bush monsters will occasionally drop seeds.
- The Lotus Realm has six levels, with a giant water lizard as the boss on the last one.
The boss guards a rare Water Lingzi which will increase the MC's max. MP permanently, even beyond the current cap.
- There is a Fishing spot in Level 4.
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- On Level 6 just before encountering the Boss is a meditation platform to replenish MP.
- There are ladders near the exits of Lv 1 and Lv 6, leading up to a plateau each where Bush-turtles drop rare Rose seeds (in all colors).
Rose seeds can only be bought in surprise bags, so aside from getting a seed pouch when harvesting, defeating Bush turtles in those two locations is currently the only way to find seeds of a color.
- Keep your eyes open in all levels for scavengeable items such as reed leaves, water chestnuts, lotus dew, lotus root, lotus flowers and mussles or even pearl oysters. You might also be able to collect frogs, crayfish or turtled tortoises by hand.
Chapter 19: Beekeeping
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How:
- Start the recruitment of Song Yantong until she teaches you about beekeeping
- Till (at least) one 5x5 tiles plot on your farmland but leave the tile in the center untilled.
- Plant any kind of flowers on the plot but do NOT harvest them!
(Ripe crops and Flowers don’t need to be watered anymore.)
- Build a beehivebox at your workshop. Place it in the center of the prepared 5x5 plot of flowers.
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- The hivebox will start to sparkle golden whenever honey can be harvested. As long as you don’t remove the flowers you can keep harvesting.
- The more flowers are blooming within the 5x5 square, the faster the honey is produced. With a full 5x5 square the honey can be harvested every day.
- Which sort of honey is harvested depends on the flowers planted.
- 1 or 2 different sorts of flowers will result in Nectar of the dominant flower species. (Rose Nectar and Orange Jasmine Nectar are ingredients in some recipes.)
- Planting at least 4 different flowers in ~ equal numbers (4 to 10 of each) around the hive will produce Mixed Honey, which is necessary for some recipes.
- Planting 3 different flowers (4 to 10 each) around the hive will produce Wild Honey.
- Of course you can set up the hive boxes close together so the flower field area they draw honey from overlap. Just note that the more hive boxes are crammed into the same 5x5 flower area, the longer it takes to produce honey. So ideally put down a hive box all 3 tiles.
- Flowers that produce honey:
o Roses (any color)
o Chrysanthemums
o Sunflowers
o Brassica
o Orange Jasmin
Note: It might be a smart idea to put a fence between your normal crops and your honey field.
That way you wont accidentally mow down your flowers while havesting crops with the sicles.
Chapter 20: Silkworm Keeping
How:
- Buy Mulberry Seeds from the Pharmacy or the Q-Pavillon.
Grow Mulberry Leaves on your field and store them. Keep all quality grades.
- Start the recruitment of Song Yantong until she teaches you about Silkworms.
- Plant rose seeds. Store all colors.
(Song Yantong will give you a starting batch, after that you have to either find them as monster loot in the Lotus Realm or buy them from the Q-Pavillon, once the Flower Valley trade route is open.)
- Build the Silkworm hut at your Workshop and place it either on your farmland or on the side-plot that becomes available after rebuilding the Hanging Bridge.
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- Inside the Silkworm hut, place the silkworms on the 4 racks at the back wall.
- You need to feed the Silkworms daily! 5x Mulberry leaves for every rack! (Else they’ll die.)
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- The quality of the Mulberry Leaves changes the probability to harvest Divine silk.
- The silkworms sparkle once they are ready to spin their cocoons. Click on each rack to prepare for it.
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- On the next day harvest the cocoons and put them on the small stove to the left.
- Use the silk spinner left of the stove to make Silk.
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- Take the Silk and Roses of different colors to Song Yantong .
- Complete the quest to give Song Yantong 1x Silk and she will offer you to create clothes for you.
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(Each costume needs at least 2x Silk and several Roses (which sort depends on coloration). The fancier ones also need an extra 1x Divine Silk on top of that.
Generally you will need a lot more normal Silk than Divine Silk, keep that in mind when feeeding the silkworms mulberry leaves.)
- You can buy more Silkworms at the Pharmacy.
- Sell Silk and Divine Silk you don’t want to keep.
Chapter 21: The Banquet Island *Apha Branch Only
(V 0.05.15 - there seems to currently be a bug that makes starting to hold banquets impossible. The Phantom disappears after guiding the Main Character to the island, without giving a tutorial. This blocks further progress in this area.
In case you encounter the same problem, return to the Main Menu without saving. Reload from before crossing the lake and change the language in the game in the options menu to the first language in the list. Then ltry to let the Phantom take you over the lake again. The tutorial should appear this time. You can change back to your preferred language after you got through the tutorial. The multiple choice answer is just a request for explaining different topics.)
When: After the R&D room is built.
How:
- Return to your house at night until you trigger an event.
- Talk with the Phantom.
- Repair the Lake bridge.
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(BUG WARNING: Don’t build the Gazeboo on the little island yet, its construction might block further progress in this questline.)
- Wait for a letter from brother You.
- Cross the lake bridge, talk with the Phantom again and climb onto the boat.
- Talk with the Phantom again for an explanation (Chinese) of the Banquet Island’s functions.
- Also ask some questions about Elder Zuo.
Pick through the Menu offered by the Phantom.
Here you can:
- Upgrade the banquet table with varying building materials.
- Chose how many seats and dishes you want at the table.
(The default is 3 seats and 6 dishes, you can select up to 9 seats and 12 dishes after all currently available upgrades. Not all seats have to be filled to start the banquet but obviously you need at least one guest.)
- Check out and claim rewards for achieved goals when hosting parties.
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- Check out your guests food preferences (based on previously hosted parties)
- Host a new party.
(You need to have the dishes you want to serve in your inventory. Quality does not play a role.)
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Your guests will judge the served food by their personal preferences.
(For example brother Chen will like anything with fish inside while sister Li craves sweet dishes).
You will receive 'Smileys' in the colors 'green' (like), 'yellow' (meh), and 'red' (dislike) from your guests, which can unlock different rewards in the Phantom menu.
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And your friendship with the guests will rise depending on how much they enjoyed the menu.
Green smileys give two, yellow one and red zero points.
(You can only get a maximum of 8 points from a single person, no matter how many dishes you serve. So if you have many guests and dishes, try to serve something for everyone instead of focusing on the preferences of a single person.)
Some of the claimed rewards will be displayed on the trophy wall on the side of the island.
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After the Phantom explained the details of the banquet table, it is safe to construct the Gazeboo.
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Chapter 22: The Sect Kitchen *Alpha Branch Only
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When: After Mu Xia joined the sect.
Where: Western Sect area next to the Fishery.
How: Wait for a letter from Mu Xia.
- Talk with Mu Xia and brother You inside the Reconstruction HQ.
- Gather the necessary resources and choose the ‘Kitchen’ from You’s rebuilding menu.
Function:
The Sect kitchen functions mostly like the Inn kitchen but has an additional smaller pot exclusively for simmering (broth, jam etc.), a pot with oil and two basins for deep frying dishes. (There is also a second steamer, in case you want to steam two dishes at the same time.)
After the kitchen is built, Mu Xia’s daily routine will shift and she will spend most of the day inside or near the kitchen, only returning home for the night.
- Every Solar Term you can pick up a free dish, cooked by Mu Xia from a table inside the kitchen next to the Menu Board.
- Every Solar Term the Menu Board inside the kitchen will show a set of dishes to be cooked. This functions like the 'Kitchen helper'-quests from the inn, you don’t need to own the recipes and the ingredients are provided. However, you can take the meals you cook for this quest home with you.
- As long as you have brought enough ingredients along and traded the necessary recipe’s with
Mu Xia, you can cook at the Sect kitchen for free (no rental fee like at the inn) any time of the day or night. Keep an eye on your stamina though.
Chapter 23: The Garrison (incomplete As In V0.6.03) *Alpha Branch Only
When: After brother Xie has officially joined the sect.
Who: Brother Xie
How:
1) Repair the Cloud bridge
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50x Superior Stone
15x Cinnabar
5x Water Essence
5x Earth Essence
- Talk with brother Xie at the inn, while he has an Exclamation mark above his head.
- Talk with Xie again at the sect area.
- Meet with Xie, Yang, You and Hong inside the Main Hall.
- Stand on the free fourth floor-tile to release the seal.
- Wait for brother You’s letter to arrive a day later.
- Gather the necessary materials to build the Cloud Bridge from You’s Reconstruction list.
(Earth Essence is dropped by monsters in the Cave, Water Essence is dropped by monsters in the Lotus Realm)
- Wait for brother Xie’s letter.
- Talk with brother Xie at the other side of the Cloud Bridge.
- Wait for brother Yang’s letter.
- (Questline ends here in current version V0.6.03).
Recruiting Xie Wentian *Partial Alpha Branch Only
How:
- Start Quest series ‘Relapse’ (I – III)
Begins: After the Main Hall construction is completed, at dusk
Who: Brother Yang and Dr. Sun
Where: Inn, Xie’s room
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Brother Yang and the Doctor are checking on Xie’s health.
They’ll ask you to find ingredients to make medicine.
This quest will have three stages which all start during dusk at the inn when both Yang and Sun are in Xie’s room. Give the necessary items to Yang and answer any of his letters.
(Most of the necessary herbs can be bought from Dr. Sun or collected in the Sunset Forest. He also sells seeds for Jujube and Anima herbs.)
However Ginger seeds can’t be bought early in the game. Luckily there is a quest to grow Ginger from sister Ji Yaohua during the 1st year summer and you will be gifted 15 pouches of Ginger seeds. As long as you plant and harvest the Ginger still within the summer season, you will have enough for both Ji’s quest and Xie’s medicine - just don’t sell any.
The necessary Ginseng fruits are a rare, mutated luxury level Tomato and are best grown in advance during summer. (You'll need 4 of them to complete this quest-series alone but there are a few other occasions they are required as well.)
(I)
25x Jujube Fruit
25x Anima Fruit
(II)
15x Ginger
1x Ginseng Fruit
(III)
5x Anima Herb
5x Honeysuckle Flower
- Wait for a letter from Yang which starts the second series of quests (Dietic Invigoration).
- Talk with Yang.
- Acquire the necessary recipes from Mu Xia, find the ingredients and cook the meals. Gather the crops. Wood Ear can be scavenged in the caves Lv4 -7, quality is random.
(There also is a Quest-board request for 100x Lumber in 1st year summer, which awards super quality – blue Wood Ear. It is advised to keep at least one of them for this mission.)
- Hand the requested items to brother Yang.
- To progress in the quest find Yang again later (Exclamation mark) and get the next menu order.
(I)
1x Veggie Congee
1x Crucian Carp Soup
(II)
1x Steamed Egg
2x Ginseng Fruit
(III)
1x Wood Ear (super quality – blue)
6x Jujube (super quality – blue)
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5x Crayfish
Wait for another letter from brother Yang, requesting a meeting.
(This may be delayed until the Q-Pavillon has officially opened.)
Talk with Yang and Dr, Sun at the inn to unlock the last quest.
Give Yang the following items:
3,000 Spirit Stone Shards
1x Ginseng Fruit
5x Anima Herb
5x Honeysuckle Flower.
Brother Xie wakes but has to stay in bed for recovery.
The questline continues here since version. V 0.5.13, Alpha Branch only
(The dialogs in the following part were still Chinese, I used Auto-translate and I hope it at least gets near the intended meaning.)
- Condition for contiunation: Song Yantong has joined the sect.
(Mu Xia has joined the sect. (?))
- Wait for a letter from Yang, (Chinese language)
-> Brother Xie is feeling better.
- Visit Xie at the inn.
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- Talk with Xie and chose the second answer (You don’t have to thank me!)
- Another visitor arrives and there is a short conversation.
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- Talk with Xie again and pick the first answer (I see him sometimes at the staircase leading to
the mountain.)
- Brother Xie joins the newly rebuilt sect.
(Xie seems not to have a portrait in the Friends Menu yet, he also can not be invited to a banquet in the current version. But you can already increase friendship by talking with him and give him gifts.)
Recruiting Song Yantong
(Big Thanks! to @LisaElmore who explained how to unlock all this in the Steam Discussion.)
How:
- You need the 1st axe upgrade, use the axe to cut down the roots blocking the way to the Sunsetforest (SSF)
- Explore the SSF and then talk with sister Li the next day to receive a quest about a mysterious woman.
- Talk with brother Yang.
- Take Yangs letter to the Hermit. (She can be found walking around the SSF all two days.)
- Go to the western side of the SSF at night (~9:00pm = 21:00) walk around until you trigger a cutscene. Follow the Hermit into the newly revealed Deep Sunsetforest area (DSSF). And talk with her.
- Visit the SSF western side during the day while the Hermit is present and watch another cutscene.
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- Gift Song Yantong a tortoise.
(They can be bought as special sales from the fishmonger or caught at the repaired Sect Fishery with an advanced rod.)
- Start befriending Song Yantong (Best gifts: Tortoise, Mysterios Egg)
- Wander around the Northern Fishery area near your farm at Dusk/night until you trigger an event with the Fox.
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Several conditions must be met to continue
(Main Hall repaired, Song Yantong friendship at ‘speaking acquaintance’, Brother Xie awake (?), Q-Pavillon officially opened (?) )
- Talk with Song once she has an Exclamation Mark to start a new questline.
- Wait for a letter from brother Chen and then go into the woods at night ~21:00 (9:00pm).
- Wait for a letter from sister Li then go to Song’s house In Deep Sunset Forest during daytime until you trigger an event.
- Walk towards the Sunset Forest in the evening to trigger another event.
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- Enter the sunset Forest. There are several black clouds floating around.
- Progress until you trigger an event.
- Collect 3x Soul Cores from the small black masses and hand them to Song. Offer to help.
- Bring Song the following items:
o 5x Health Essence
o 1x Divine Herb
(A Divine Herb is one of the two mutated, luxury versions which can be harvested from Soulgrass seeds, said seeds are only sold by the Mysterious Merchant).
- Wait for two letters from Song. (One is a gift for the first friendship heart - a tree you can set up on your farm. The second letter is the one, which allows to progress in the recruitment.)
- Talk with Song Yantong. -> You learn how to keep Bees.
- Visit Song’s house on a day that is not ‘sunny’.
- Pick up 3x Silkworms and hand them to Song.
- Remove the broken parts of the shed and hand the lumber you got from it to Song.
- Visit Song’s house the next day. -> You learn how to keep Silkworms and make Silk.
- Bring 1x Silk to Song. -> Clothes exchange is unlocked.
- Talk to sister Ji Yaohua.
- Wait for mails from all sect members concerning Song Yantong.
- After receiving Yang’s letter, go talk to Song once more.
- Talk to Yang.
- Investigate Song’s house (it is locked and she is gone).
- Investigate the river to the right side of the house until you find an object.
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- Talk to Yang
- Wait for a letter from Yang.
- Visit the Sunset Forest until you get a notification.
(If you can not trigger this event, double check whether you already had visited the Fire Realm with the Fox).
- Visit Song’s house again and talk with the Fox
- Give 3x Mulberry leaves to the Fox.
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- Wait for a letter from sister Li to start the quest ‘The little Fox’.
- Walk between your field and your Residence until you trigger an event with the Fox.
- Talk with the Fox west of your field near the fishing spot.
- Give 1x Carp to the Fox.
- Talk with Tingfeng.
- Wait for one day until you get a prompt to visit Song’s House.
- Give 1x Carp and 3x Mulberry leaf to the Fox at Song’s House.
- Talk with Song. -> You receive a Fox Nest, you can now raise the spirit Fox.
- Talk with Yang.
- Meet everyone at the Main Hall.
- Give the letter to Song and have a short conversation with her.
- Report back to brother Yang
- Give 3x Liquor and 3x Honey Wine to Yang.
- Attend the party for sister Song at your farm.
Recruiting Mu Xia *Alpha Branch Only
How:
- Start befriending Mu Xia
(preferred gifts: Red Flower, Book ‘Feast of flower dishes’)
- Talk with Mrs. Ye at the small pier just outside the inn during the night.
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- Wait a few days until Mrs. Ye is at the same location again and approach for another talk.
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The following condition must be met to progress:
Repair the bridge over the lake to unlock the banquet island.
(Wait for a letter from brother You Jinghe.)
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- Talk with brother Yang (Exclamation Mark).
- Agree that it is the right time for recruitment.
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- Meet with Tinfeng the Wanderer at the Inn.
- Give 1x Jujube Cake to Tinfeng.
- Answer Yang’s question with the 2nd option “Could it be Miss. Mu Xia?”
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- Talk with Mu Xia.
o Chose the 2nd answer “Tinfeng recommended your talent for cultivation.”
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- Wait for a letter from sister Li asking for a meeting. She’ll tell you about the “Little God of the Culinary World”-script.
- Talk with My Xia.
- Wait for a letter from Mu Xia, requesting a meeting. Answer a few questions:
o Chose the first answer to invite her.
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o Chose the second answer to sooth her worries about the inn.
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However, Mrs. Ye doesn’t approve.
- Visit the inn during daytime until at one occasion Mrs. Ye is NOT at the counter. Check on Tinfeng’s room to see her and Mrs. Ye having an argument.
- In the conversation with Tingfeng answer with
o First answer – ‘What Mu Xia wants is most important.’
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- Talk to Mu Xia. You’ll go visit the Sect Area together.
o Pick the first answer ‘That means…’
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o Pick the first answer ‘I agree.’
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- Give Mu Xia the following items:
o 5x Anima Herb
o 3x Azuki Beans
o 3x Jujube Fruit
- Talk to Tingfeng.
o Describe the taste of the sweet either as a) Explosion of taste or b) Soft texture and delicate sweetness. (For this guide I picked the 2nd option.)
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o Pick the 1st answer to say “Guess I can just eat it all then.”
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Tingfeng will run off at this point (afraid Mrs. Ye might kick her out of the inn), leaving you with only a riddle-clue (blue rose, white melon, green dumplings and prawn blessed water).
(Sorry, the answers make not much sense to me. It may be a play of words that is lost in translation. I thought it was a cooking recipe when I read it first ^^’.)
1) Pick the second answer “It is the color ‘blue’.”
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2) Again pick the second answer “A frost melon has a creamy white shell.”
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3) Pick the 2nd answer ‘Cyan’.
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4) And again the 2nd answer ‘Water with prawns in it.’
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5) Pick the 2nd answer: “It is a ‘cyan-blue frost-prawn’!”
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6) Pick the first answer: “The order…”
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- Talk to brother Chen (apparently about prawns ^^’) He is standing near the sect fishery, brother Yang is keeping him company.
- Talk to Mu Xia.
- Talk to Mrs. Ye and Mu Xia.
- Talk to brother Yang (Exclamation mark).
- Go to the inn between 19:00 and 23:00 (7:00pm to 11:00pm) for Mu Xia’s welcoming party.
If you want to know the story behind it look under the spoiler (as good as it can be translated with auto-translate ^^')
Mrs. Ye once was a cultivator herself and belonged to a group that fought for justice, calling themselves Cyan Blue Warriors.
(This also explains all the blue garments Mu Xia found in the wardrobe, despite Mrs. Ye only wearing red clothes).
According to brother Yang they were pretty famous before they suddenly disbanded.
One of the later elders of the Guiyun sect apparently was a member of the group as well and Mu Xia’s father.
When breaking up with him, Mrs. Ye settled in Ferry Stop, because after the cruelty and constant fighting of the cultivation world she considered a slow mortal life raising her daughter a paradise.
She is concerned that Mu Xia will come to regret her decision to cultivate down the road to immortality and has tried to convince her that she is not fit for it for that reason.
That is also the reason why she threatened Tinfeng with throwing her out of the inn should she not keep silent about the matter.
Mrs. Ye explains that Mu Xia, once she'll start practicing will slowly drift away from the inn and Ferry Stop, going on adventures and only ever look back to what she left behind, once it is too late.
Mu Xia finally convinces her that she needs to experience all that for herself and that whatever is yet to come, she will brave it together with her new brothers and sisters.
Other Objects From The Reconstruction List
1) The Hanging bridge
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Priority: Low.
When: The repair option becomes available in brother You’s list after the Sect has leveled up once.
(The Main Hall and several other buildings need to have been repaired already to achieve that.)
The hanging bridge opens access to a side area on your farm, which is overgrown with weeds and trees. There are also rocks and boulders dispersed in between. Unfortunately a part of the trees and boulders can not yet be removed with the current best available axe or pickaxe.
The ground is not fit for growing crops either.
The Side Area can mainly be used for placing decoration, the silkworm hut or moving the storage unit (though you'd have to somehow remove all items from inside, as the side area is a different buidling-area from the field and storage objects can't be stashed unless they are empty).
Aside from stone, lumber and some random free seeds when clearing the place, there is nothing else to be found either.
2) The Fairy mirror
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Priority: Low.
When: After the Reconstruction HQ has been built, and you completed a quest to find the blueprint.
How:
- Approach the two children in Ferry Stop while they play near the water wheel to trigger an event.
- Talk with the boy.
- Give the boy (Gou Wa) 2x Ricecake in trade for a broken jade slip
- Talk to brother You Jinghe at the reconstruction HQ
- Find the 2nd half of the plan (It is in Ferry Stop at the shore left of the large pier.)
- Talk to brother You again.
The Fairy Mirror can now be built from the reconstruction menu.
Where: Directly northeast of your farmland.
Function:
The Fairy Mirror can find clusters of Spirit energy for you to replenish your MP.
By the time you built this you will already have a good grasp as of where to look for it anyway.
3) The Meditation Terrace
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Priority: Middle
When: After the Reconstruction HQ is built.
Where: Directly west of your Farmland.
How: Brother Yang will inspect it one day and suggest you repair it when you approach him. It can be selected from the reconstruction menu afterwards.
Function:
The MC can meditate for regenerating 6MP per hour. Sometimes a reaction test will occur. If a letter ‘WASD’ floats up and you manage to hit the corresponding key before it disappears, the MC gains extra MP.
The platform gets less important later in game once there are more options for MP-regeneration methods.
4) The Valley Entrance
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Priority: Low
When: After the Reconstruction HQ is built.
Where: Gate between Ferry Stop and your farmland.
How: It can be selected from the reconstruction menu.
Function:
Decoration.
5) Brother Chen's House
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Priority: Middle
When: After the Main Hall is built brother Chen will give you a quest to build him a home.
Where: Near the Fishery at the Sect area.
How: It can be selected from the reconstruction menu.
Function:
Chen will move from the inn to his house, his daily routine changes accordingly.
As of the latest update the inside of the house can be visited.
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2855330245
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