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It's definitely enough to get you started (albeit pretty barebones and quite lengthy), and there's a fairly okay manual available in-game (and searchable!) on a lot of subjects. There's very much a learning curve, tho'. Helps if you're at least somewhat familiar with martial arts fantasy stuff as a genre, probably.

Pretty sure there's youtube vids out and about with fairly recent gameplay if you want to scope it.

Doesn't that soft-lock the game? I tried loner and raced for Foundation, but he refused to lower himself to accepting the new serfs he gathered from adventuring.

It might if you can't get anyone to join up. Least when I did it some critter that wandered in eventually jumped on board after I ticked the accept.

... that said, for a physical cultivator at a minimum it's not really a soft-lock, 'cause if you don't have someone fooding yer punch magician eventually starves and/or goes crazy from not having food/stamina. So it's not a lock, it's just a rather slow and pretty inevitable death... though I guess you could try adventuring for free food. Problem being your critter will go nuts if you feed them a steady diet of raw food. they won't starve, but it's a lose condition anyway

Injured wanderer needing help collapses! Check health screen, they're dying of thirst! Give them water, give them water!

Cause of Death: Bloating

wait no

itIf you have glowing grass (found on spirit soil), you get spirit dew when you clear it, which can be eaten to recover stamina. Just be aware that it will decay very fast so you want to consume it immediately, and probably replant grass to keep producing it.

I think that you can also get stamina pills from alchemy. And some ingredients like ginseng and bear gall can recover stamina iirc.

Long term, you probably want to find ways to accelerate the food->stamina conversion process. From what I understand, body cultivators eat a lot.

Ah, basically stuff I didn't/don't have, then

Good to have a short list of things to keep an eye out for, though, so cheers.

Least with the one I had, the biggest catch 22 I was seeing is its food->stamina acceleration seems to be locked behind the second or third breakthrough... which makes getting that far a pain if you don't have access to much else at the time. Got a better idea what I'm getting into with a new start, so hopefully it'll work out better this time (and I won't turn my sole critter into an inner disciple before having, y'know, someone else around to make food, this time :V). Game's uh, not lying when it says starting with a primordial unity body loner means you're in for a rough time, haha.

welp, shortly after sheng finally managed to bury starter guy, map special effects kicked in and starter guy's corpse dug its way back out

its walking around now

go team

e: and by "go team" i mean starter guy's walking corpse promptly murdered sheng and now everyone's dead sheng's slowly dying to undead wounds

this has gone well!I

e2: starter guy has now murdered a passerby, too

this guy's corpse is like ten times as effective as they were alive holy shit

well no, the evil comes from things like dysentery and plague and fatal or crippling congenital defects and neurological disorders and the divine genocide/mass murder/(allowing/encouraging mass rape)/etc., and so on and so forth

Folks aren't looking for eternal helicopter dad, they're looking for a dad that isn't fucking abusive and didn't decide crotch rot was a thing that should exist, and/or didn't literally build their creations to fail and suffer.

Like, you don't actually need widespread misery and gnashing of teeth for folks to understand some shit is bad, especially when you're literally the one that decided what said folks comprehensive capabilities are. You don't need to break your kids legs for them to understand they shouldn't run on slippery floors or some shit.

The hand puppets are part of the suit, actually. The bear summons are part of the suite of OP powers the suit grants.

The three kumas is a native language joke, iirc. If I'm remembering right it's the same word spelled/written or pronounced differently or something like that. There's not really a deeper meaning or specific reference, it's just a joke/pun/wordplay thing.

But yeah, bear suit, bear summons, bear magic blasts, bear houses, iirc a bear themed restaurant. The main character's word is bear, their sign is bear, their symbol is bear. Bear bear bear bear bear. They start off not wanting the bear but godlike power comes from the bear so their existence becomes the all powerful bear onesie of cash shop victory something something something.

it's honestly one the better lighthearted OP isekai works hahabear

Can you be specific here? I've seen statements to this effect somewhat often, but for the life of me I don't know how any actions by God in the Old Testament can be taken as mean, sadistic, or evil unless taken in a massively different context or with a specific set of assumptions.  The "sadistic" part especially intrigues me, because I can't think of any time in the Old Testament where God is portrayed as enjoying dishing out wrath. There's at least two specific instances where He's attributed with something like regret.

Just about any of the major stuff, the floods, the plagues, and so on, had a great deal of avoidable suffering and slaughter of the innocent/undeserving involved, just as kind of a baseline thing. I'd have to take time (I ain't got right now, being on lunch break) to pull it up, but pretty sure more than one of the conquests commanded/stated-to-be-blessed-by the christian god involved some pretty goddamn nasty shit, too. Revelations is its own can of worms.

Sadism might not be a perfect word for it, but when someone goes out of their way to cause pain and suffering, or do stuff like cause the widespread death of children, repeatedly, there's not many better ones available, y'know?