Auras
Every cultivator gives off an aura — visible Qi that says what they are at a glance, from across a field. Realm sets its color and how thickly it pours off you; your sub-stage sets its size. New in v0.7.0, on by default, and readable by anyone: auras are the public face of the ladder, where the HUD is the private one.
The Realm Aura
| Realm | Color | Motes per second |
|---|---|---|
| Body Refinement | earthy bronze (#C08A5A) | 2 |
| Qi Condensation | pale sky (#8FD4F0) | 3 |
| Foundation Establishment | spring jade (#7FD8A0) | 4 |
| Golden Core Formation | gold (#F0C44F) | 5 |
| Nascent Soul | amethyst (#B888EC) | 6 |
| Soul Formation | moonlit white (#E4E8FA) | 7 |
| Void Refinement | void indigo (#9B5EFF) | 8 |
The density climbs with the realm — a Void Refinement cultivator sheds four times the motes a Body Refinement one does. Your sub-stage sets the width: a Peak cultivator's aura stands roughly 1.7× as wide as an Early one of the same realm, so the two things worth reading about a stranger are both there before a word is spoken.
The aura shows your effective realm — a technique or an add-on that temporarily raises your realm raises your aura with it.
Auras are visible out to about 50 blocks, deliberately shorter than Hytale's own entity range so the effect thins out before it clutters a busy town.
The Meditation Aura
Sitting down to meditate gives you a second, different aura. Where the realm aura rises and spreads, this one converges inward — Qi being drawn out of the land toward you. It deepens through three stages the longer you sit:
| Stage | After | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| Stirring | sitting down | a faint drift |
| Gathering | 45 seconds | a steady draw |
| Converging | 3 minutes | the land visibly feeding you |
The clock only advances on ticks that actually drew Qi, so the aura stops deepening when the vein beneath you runs dry — a bystander can tell a fruitful meditation from an empty one. Standing up resets it; so does logging out.
Your Three Switches
In Settings, under Cultivation Aura:
| Setting | Default | Means |
|---|---|---|
| Give off an aura | on | Whether anyone sees yours. Also toggled by /cultivation aura |
| Show me my own aura | on | Whether you see yours |
| Show me other cultivators' auras | on | Whether you see anyone else's — the one to reach for on a busy server |
The first switch is yours as the emitter; the other two only filter what your own client is shown. Hiding your aura hides it from everyone — there is no reading someone who chose not to be read.
Server Owners
| Variable Name | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
Aura-Enabled | true | The whole feature, both auras, server-wide. |
Aura-Pulse-Interval-Seconds | 4.0 | How often each aura is re-spawned at its player's position. Clamped between 1.0 and 6.0 — the assets are sized so exactly two pulses overlap at the default. |
Both live in the root Config.json — see the Core config page. The colors themselves are baked into the particle assets rather than configurable — recoloring them means editing Server/Particles/Cultivation/RealmAura/ (the mod's tools/gen_realm_auras.py regenerates the set).
Auras are spawn packets, not entities — nothing about them exists server-side between pulses, and a player who disabled theirs costs nothing at all.