Life-Bound Treasures

A Life-Bound Treasure is a weapon or armor piece personalized to one specific player rather than to its item type - it levels up from combat, and its bonus grows with it.

Binding an Item

Run /cultivation bind while holding the item to personalize it. Running the command again on your own already-bound item resets it back to level 1 - so if that item has grown past level 1, the bare command only warns you, naming the level you are about to throw away. It takes /cultivation bind confirm to go through with it. A treasure still sitting at level 1 has nothing to lose, so it re-binds without asking.

• Weapons gain XP from every hit that lands (any creature, not just kills), and level up to deal more damage.
• Armor gains XP from surviving hits, and levels up to reduce incoming damage.
• The item's level shows in its name, and its tooltip states exactly how much benefit it is currently granting - no hidden numbers.

Leveling Curve

Both XP rates are a multiplier against the final damage dealt or taken on a hit, after weapon bonus and armor reduction are already applied:

• LifeBound-Weapon-Xp-Per-Damage-Dealt: 0.15 - a 20-damage hit dealt grants 3 XP.
• LifeBound-Armor-Xp-Per-Damage-Taken: 0.1 - fires only if the wearer survives the hit.

The skill tree's tier-8 Life-Bound XP Gain capstones multiply both rates.

Combat Bonuses

The 60% combined cap exists so a fully-levelled Life-Bound set cannot approach damage immunity, however many pieces are worn.

These four settings govern the two original benefits, which since 0.7.2 are two of six natures a treasure can roll. A treasure whose nature is Blood Drinker or Vessel of Life is not bound by them — its own trait entry carries its cap.

Traits: a Treasure’s Nature

Before 0.7.2 every bound weapon was the same weapon with a different number on it. Now a treasure has a nature, and it is rolled once, at the moment you bind it, and never rolled again. The blade a cultivator happens to bind is theirs, and cannot be traded in for a different kind.

A trait’s magnitude is BaseAmount + AmountPerLevel × level, capped at MaxAmount — and what that magnitude means differs per trait. Damage and reduction are percentages as before; Blood Drinker and Qi Siphon are what one hit returns; Spirit Conduit multiplies meditation; Vessel of Life is flat health.

How the roll works

• Weight decides the odds. The two originals are twice as likely as the drinkers and four times as likely as Spirit Conduit — so the nature a long-term cultivator actually wants is the rarest.
• Slot is a real restriction. A Weapon trait never lands on a breastplate, which is what stops half of all rolls from being useless. Only Spirit Conduit can appear on either.
• Weight 0 retires a nature from the roll without breaking treasures already carrying it — the way to remove one from a live server.

Arts a treasure lends you

Two natures grow into more than a number. Once the treasure reaches the trait’s UnlockTechniqueLevel, it lends its owner an art while it is held:

• Blood Drinker at level 8 lends Blood Devour — normally a Demon-only art.
• Spirit Conduit at level 10 lends Qi Barrier.

It is checked live, so sheathing the treasure takes the art away again. UnlockTechnique names any registered technique id, which means a server owner or an add-on can point a trait at anything on the technique list, including its own.

Awakening

A Life-Bound Treasure that reaches LifeBound-Max-Level awakens, and gains a final benefit applied on top of the usual caps:

• Awakened-Bonus-Percent (10): extra damage percent for a weapon, extra damage reduction percent for armor.
• Awakened-Proc-Chance (0.25): each landed weapon hit has a 25% chance to flare with a spirit-energy particle burst.

Because the awakened bonus is applied after the caps, an awakened weapon can exceed LifeBound-Weapon-Max-Damage-Percent and an awakened set can exceed the 60% combined armor cap - awakening is the reward for taking one item all the way to 100.

Changing Owners

If a Life-Bound item ends up with a different player - traded, dropped and picked up - LifeBound-Reset-On-Transfer (true by default) decides what happens:

• true: the item silently rebinds to its new holder at level 1 / 0 XP the next time they land a hit with it.
• false: the item stays permanently bound to its original owner and grants nothing to anyone else.

Every number on this page lives in Arts/LifeBoundConfig.json - see Arts Configs - and the commands are documented in full on the Commands page.