how does "gather qi" work?

[cactus angel]

i was told to make a qi cushion and surround it with pedestals of stone essence, then spiritwood, but i'm not sure how fast the qi cushion is supposed to gain qi with this setup.

also, does it work through walls?

[Rogue]

https://amazing-cultivation-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/Qi_Gathering.

5 days for Qi to gather.

Work through walls if the material has a range beyond it but you are wasting one tile space for a possible placement of a Qi gathering material...

[Chronie]

Gather Qi adds to the value of the Qi in the area over 5 days.
After this time you either reset the placement to try and give a short term boost to the Qi in the area or keep the items in place to avoid the Qi potentially leaving.

This works to a maximum range on the item.

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Note: There is about a small penalty at max range for an item

I would not recommend the spirit wood surrounding the earth as I have found it lowers the base Qi in the area. Reset the placement a few times to give quick boosts to the base level of Qi and pay attention to the fengshui of the room.

When building your sect it is possible to boost the area Qi as well although this is much harder to do. If done correctly I have been able to have a base Qi level of over 1000 (almost everywhere in the sect) consistently however it is easy to lose this bonus and have to drop to around 300.

Note: There is a soft cap of 2500 Qi in an area any more requires a large amount of Qi gathering

[BoxingBud]

How do you get a cultivator to gather qi? I built the room with the spirit wood and spirit stone on stands in the room and a seat in the middle of them, and I assigned the seat as a practice spot, but no one's using it when they practice

[Big Dog]

Originally posted by BoxingBud:

How do you get a cultivator to gather qi? I built the room with the spirit wood and spirit stone on stands in the room and a seat in the middle of them, and I assigned the seat as a practice spot, but no one's using it when they practice

Seat? You need to use a training spot or a cushion and you usually want to assign them to the cultivator you want to use it.

[BoxingBud]

I have a room like that, but I don't know how to unlock the seat and until then the room is just there, it IS gathering Qi I can see it visually, it's just no cultivator is doing anything in it, people just go in to clean it etc.