A (somewhat) short and supplementary guide regarding golden cores. Intended for those with limited game experience. Introduction The purpose of this guide is to provide an introduction for those struggling with one of the first real challenges in the game, golden core formation. This guide assumes that the reader has played the game enough to realize that starting with a yaogui might be beyond their abilities, but not far enough to master the golden core process. There are two fantastic resources on this subject already available, the Wiki’s golden core breakthrough checklist (https://amazing-cultivation-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Golden_Core_Breakthrough_Checklist) as well as this guide (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2333994019), but I hope to fill in some of the gaps that may still exist. I recommend reading both of these anyways, and I will defer entirely to these two documents for subjects upon which I cannot improve. Shortest Possible Version For People Lacking Patience Learn every max Qi manual you can find, take 3-5 Red ginseng and Ganoderma, 1 earth flux, get constitution and intelligence as high as possible and try to get every green plus available on the breakthrough screen. The Golden Core In ACS the midpoint of cultivation involves converting all of the cultivator’s progress up to that point into the golden core. The more progress available to convert, the better the cultivator at higher stages. This is represented with 2 numbers, the golden core quality* and golden core tier. The former is the number that matters for gameplay reasons, and the higher the better for this one. The golden core tier is a number 1-9, with the lower number being better. The tier doesn’t really matter gameplay wise, but does provide most of the dopamine for the ambitious student of ACS. *There is some confusion with the names, I will use quality to refer to the big number, this is the same as the score, and tier to refer to the roman numeral. Mechanics of golden core quality While the mechanics of golden core formation appear complex, for the player the important factors are actually quite simple. The only two things that matter when forming the core is Max Qi, and conversion rate. When your cultivator initiates the golden core formation breakthrough they will convert 30 qi per second into golden core quality. Max Qi means they can do this for longer, conversion rate means that 30 qi is converted into more score. Qi regen has no effect on this process. Thus the only thing you need to do is to get max Qi as high as possible and make sure the conversion rate is at the maximum. The latter is easier so we will focus on it first. Conversion Rate The game very helpfully provides all the information necessary for viewing the conversion rate. These are the green pluses or red minuses on the breakthrough screen. It is not that hard to max this out (for most laws) and almost always worthwhile. Do not settle unless there is a good reason for doing so. I will briefly go over these factors, but they are almost all either self-explanatory or five elements based. The steam guide linked in the intro provides a more exhaustive summary of this. Mental State Probably the easiest thing to fix, make sure your cultivator is at max mental state (95+, or Pristine). Set them to “Mind” a few days prior to breaking through, or provide them with scented sachets or purity pills for a little extra boost. Never settle on this. Season Another very simple one, for every law there will be a few days a year that are optimal for breakthroughs, do your breakthroughs then. Not a difficult issue if you plan ahead. The rule of thumb is that the element of each season is strongest at day 14, and you want the element to feed your cultivator. For example, a fire cultivator is fed by wood, making spring day 11-14 the best time for a breakthrough. For a full table of dates see the guide above. The exceptions to this are metal, which is strongest at the end of each month, and null element laws. Plan ahead and don’t settle unless you absolutely have to. Weather In the early game this is outside of your control. If you happen to have perfect weather at the right time of year then great, otherwise don’t worry about it. Once you have some Golden Core or primordial spirit elders this is another super easy one to control. Learn the various weather miracles, (the Primordial Symbols law has all of them and is easy to obtain) and cast the appropriate miracle. Again, the element should feed your cultivator, and yes, the referenced guide has a full chart. You may need to cast this more than once. Don’t worry about it early, don’t settle later. Law This one is fairly self explanatory as it is visible from the initial promotion from outer to inner disciple. Try and promote people with good law affinity. This can be raised by stat boosting manuals and pills, and temporarily by certain pills (the forming pill being the most notable), but in general you should be trying to promote people with high stats anyways so just plan ahead on this. The better your resources the lower the initial law match will be acceptable, but based on what I have seen from very limited testing, you will want the law match at the time of breakthrough to be somewhere around 130-140%. It might even be lower but that number is not difficult to reach presuming halfway decent starting stats. Plan ahead, promote good people to the right laws, do your best. Yin Yang This is actually one of the less important factors in most cases, but it is one of the easiest to fix. Yin Yang essentially refers to the optimal time of day, but considering that a good breakthrough can easily take a couple days, this will mostly even out (this is also why you start before day 14 for the optimal season buff). I will once more defer to the referenced guide for a nice chart on this but honestly, the better your breakthrough, the less I think this matters. No need to settle so don’t, but not a huge difference maker. Qi bonus and Element These two are highly related and mostly will reflect where you are in the game. Basically you want to breakthrough somewhere with a lot of Qi, and where the element feeds your cultivator. This should describe your already built cultivation room. Surround a Qi cushion (or altar of magic) with as many Qi gathering items of the proper element as you can find. This is a major area of optimization and I will not claim to be an expert here. As you progress in knowledge and material resources this will naturally improve. Do the best you can. Max Qi Alright, now for the more interesting part. It is not that hard to get all green pluses, thus maximizing the conversion rate. That leaves max Qi as the major factor in getting the roman numeral induced dopamine rush you deserve. Max Qi is something that gets easier to improve the further along in the game you are. As a result do not worry too much about your first generation of disciples, although it certainly is possible to attain high cores with them. As you progress in the game the golden core process gets easier and easier, mostly due to max Qi. The other good news is that while max Qi is affected by a lot of factors, there are only 4 things that you need to really be worried about. This is also where I believe the other guides have left some gaps so I will attempt to fill those in. Qi Sensing So you probably have figured out that the Qi sensing skill has something to do with max Qi. Good job! What you may not have figured out (and what took me way too long to realize), is that the number on the Qi sensing icon does not matter. That number (blue X below) is an indicator for the player, it is not something the game checks. What is important is the skill level (underlined in red below). To be clear, the number you can see without hovering over anything is not the one you are looking for, you should be concerned with the number/20 that appears when you hover over the icon. Simply put, we want that number to be 20/20. The ability rating, the bigger number that is always visible, is a combination of the skill level and some base stats; we want the individual components to be high but the actual big number is not important.

与其他可通过练习提升的技能不同，气感技能等级不会自行提升，实际上提升途径非常有限。这意味着你需要专注于能将气感技能提升至20级的角色。那么该如何实现呢？方法是使用手册，目前只有两本。一本是【葵花炼神法】中的【大地之母】技能，可提升5点气感，只要抄录该功法即可获得。另一本是手册【塞瑞卡通史】，同样能提升5点气感。这本手册可在国庆节期间从异界裂隙获取，若安装了合适的模组，则全年任何时候都能获得。你可以选择任何方式获取，但我强烈推荐使用模组，因为这是一本非常强大的手册。这两本手册一起使用能为任何角色提供【气感】技能等级+10的加成。实际上，这意味着任何基础技能等级在10-20之间的角色（比如上面提到的12/20的角色）都能将这个属性点满。前期游戏中要重点培养这类角色，找到他们并不难。到了游戏中后期，门派的修炼分支会对此提供大幅加成，届时这将不再是需要担心的问题。前期专注于培养优秀角色，后期再解决其他问题，不要满足于现状。 属性 那么那个高【气感】数值（实际术语为能力等级）是不是没用呢？完全不是，它体现了属性对最大真气值的影响。需要重点提升的属性是体质和智力。有多种秘籍可以提升这些属性，此外，除了考虑所需的功法亲和度外，还要尽量寻找这两项基础属性较高的人物。丹药可以提供永久性（长生丹搭配煞丹的组合效果很好）或临时性（主要是凝气丹）的帮助。对于计划重点培养的外门弟子，使用重塑肉身类神通效果显著。需要注意的是，维基指出感知可能会影响最大灵气值，而运气确实有助于结丹（据他人所说），因此实际上除了魅力（无论如何你可能都需要魅力来匹配功法）外，所有属性都应该提升。尽可能将所有属性提升到最高，这样就可以了。 秘籍 这是游戏进度真正体现出来的地方。基本上，每部无上功法都有对应的秘籍，一旦从藏经阁习得，就能以某种方式提升最大灵气值。这些提升方式的计算方法多种多样，可能是基础修正值、倍率加成，或是固定数值增加，但这些都无关紧要，你只需学习所有炼气期或筑基期的无上功法秘籍即可。太一宗的5部无上功法包含7本值得关注的秘籍（不包括提升灵气感知的地母秘籍），要让所有候选弟子都学全。说到提升最大灵气值的秘籍，就不得不提太初符文法……这部功法很容易获得，其中也包含一本此类秘籍。这样一来，即便是第一代弟子也能学习到8本提升最大灵气值的秘籍。随着游戏进程的推进，你应当优先获取无上功法。实现这一目标的主要途径是昆仑竞赛。维基百科对此已有详细解释，不过简单来说，即便在第一次尝试时未能成功，到第二次尝试时，你每年都应该能解锁至高法则。为达成这一目标所付出的机会成本是值得的。我承认自己会通过存档读档来确保这一点，因为这些法则的影响非常大。实际上，这是一个相当容易优化的目标，至少尽你所能去优化。为了方便记忆，我建议在手动功法阁中，将收藏功能专门用于存放最大灵气功法，这样在准备金丹突破时就不会遗漏任何功法。下面是收藏界面的截图，其中包含了来自五大太乙法则的灵气加成功法、先天符号法则以及两本灵气感知加成功法。全力以赴，不容懈怠。

丹药 最后我们来谈谈丹药，这是最有优化空间的领域。有几种物品可以增加最大灵气，但在讨论这些之前，我们需要先谈谈丹药抗性。基本上，我将要提到的大多数物品都会受到一个名为丹药抗性的收益递减系统的影响。简单来说，你服用的丹药越多，其效果就会减弱，而且通常减弱得很快。你可以在健康界面的弹出栏中查看每个角色的抗性。这是一个机会成本的问题，你需要决定如何分配你的资源。 新手玩家重要丹药： 【地脉精华】：提升最大灵气最重要的物品。它的效果非常显著，任何认真冲击金丹境界的角色都不应错过。幸运的是，它在游戏前期相当容易找到，在中后期也很容易刷取。你可以在毒龙湖（狂喜教派领地）或宝石泉洞穴（蓝莲花领地）的地面上捡到，到了后期，高幸运值的火属性修士可以在后者地点稳定刷取这些东西。对于你的第二代弟子，我建议让你的长老魂修将这些东西精炼到12级，这是对资源的合理利用。土元具有90%的丹药抗性，所以除非你有无限的土元供应，否则每人限用一个。 垃圾丹（紫色）：另一种有用且容易获得的物品，这些可以在炼丹师峰找到，但要注意你只需要紫色的那种。此外，它们的效果略带刺激性，因此需要有人在一旁为食用者施展【万灵药】（指法术奇迹，而非丹药）。另外，对其进行精魂提炼也是个不错的选择，由于其药物抗性为100%，多次使用不会带来任何额外收益。 灵芝与红参：我将这两者放在一起是因为它们极为相似，基本上分别通过种植灵芝或人参时以稀有掉落的形式获得，也可以用相当便宜的价格购买。它们对最大灵气的提升效果并不显著，但获取难度低，且药物抗性仅为35%，因此你可以给所有修仙者使用3-5个。 邪流与邪元能够提升最大灵气，但存在副作用，使用时需谨慎。它们带来的灵气增益虽然可观，但对于形成优质核心并非必不可少。凤凰肉和龙肉也有帮助，有时可以通过拍卖会获得，但对于本指南的读者来说，获取它们可能超出能力范围。 在丹药方面，第一代弟子最重要的是土行精华，第二代弟子则是十二阶精炼土行精华。实际上，只要属性良好、转化率优化，并学习了所有容易获得的功法，仅用十二阶土行精华、一些灵芝、红参和普通丹药，就能凝聚出强大的一阶金丹。 最终思考 需要注意金丹品质的影响。由于系统只关注这个数值而非品阶，在此过程中没有收益递减，品质越高越好。换句话说，无论最终评分如何，质量提升10k点所产生的影响都是相同的。虽然相对差值会有所不同，但从10k提升到20k对属性的影响，与从130k提升到140k是一样的。这一点有两个重要意义。 第一，不要因为角色刚过某个阈值就停止投入。例如，从140k提升到150k会使一个二阶核心变成一阶核心。但再提升10k也会带来完全相同的收益，不要仅仅因为角色勉强达到一阶就停止投入。 第二，记住不要过度追求让角色多提升几点【气】来晋升境界。金丹境界除了让你感觉良好外，并没有实际作用。虽然这确实是一个值得追求的目标，但资源是有限的，而且为了获取最后那一点点必要的灵气而竭尽全力，其 gameplay 收益是微乎其微的。要理解机会成本，并做出谨慎的资源分配决策。 最后，关于内鼎的说明。我之前没提是因为它并非必需，但由于游戏对此解释得不够清楚，我还是简单描述一下。基本上，当你进行修炼时（在炼气和筑基阶段），内鼎会慢慢填满。仅此而已。内鼎中的一点就等于一点最大灵气，没有其他加成。需要知道的是，让你的修炼者在达到上限时继续修炼并没有任何坏处。这填充速度太慢了（除非之后能大幅提升修炼速度），在金丹期没什么用。显然它对优化有帮助，但对于一品金丹来说完全没必要。 资源（和上面一样，但它们确实很好，所以我再列一遍）： 【维基】 【你应该在本指南之后阅读的指南】 【如果你不知道炼魂是什么意思】 本指南撰写时使用的音乐： 【音乐链接】