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Nine Cauldrons
May 17, 2026 at 07:20 AM
Initial version (2026-05-17)
The Nine Cauldrons are a collectible system in Huaxia: Warring States that rewards exploration and lore-aware play. The cauldrons themselves appear in the game as shattered relics from an earlier age, and players gather their fragments across the world. Each gathered fragment can be carried back to a ritual site and offered up in a sacrifice that converts the fragment into a Talent point. The system pairs the exploration loop with the broader talents and skills economy.
Inside the game, the Nine Cauldrons are presented as ancient relics tied to the Hua-Xia world's mythic past. Their thematic framing draws on a real Chinese tradition, but the in-game mechanic and lore framing are the game's own and should be read as the game's depiction rather than as canon history. The cauldrons are broken; the player gathers the surviving fragments scattered across the map.
Fragments are found across the world map. Likely places to look include:
Hidden chambers inside secret realms, especially in older or shrine-flavored realms.
Ruined temples and abandoned estates along travel routes.
Reward chests for completing certain quests tied to scholar or temple NPCs.
Loot dropped by certain named opponents, including some bandit chiefs and stronghold guardians.
Fragments do not stack like ordinary materials; each fragment is identified by which of the nine cauldrons it once belonged to, and the world's hidden chambers contain multiple fragments rather than a single guaranteed drop. The system rewards a wandering-warrior loop over a quest-only loop, because so many of the fragments live in optional content.
To convert a fragment into a Talent point, the player performs a sacrifice at the appropriate ritual site. Each successful sacrifice currently awards five Talent points per fragment, a value that was raised in a recent balance pass to make the collection effort more worthwhile relative to other Talent sources. Older guides may quote a lower per-fragment value; the current value is five.
The sacrifice itself is a brief sequence: the player presents the fragment, completes a short ritual prompt, and the fragment is consumed. The Talent points enter the character's pool immediately. Players with multiple fragments in inventory can sacrifice them in succession at the same site.
A bug that froze the sacrifice sequence when the game ran in a non-Chinese language was fixed in the May 11 update. The ritual now works reliably in English and Traditional Chinese alongside Simplified Chinese.
Talent points are the currency for unlocking and improving entries in the talents and skills system. A fragment delivers a meaningful chunk of progress on a single talent; a player who collects steadily over a campaign can unlock several signature talents through Nine Cauldrons sacrifice alone, on top of the points awarded for normal play.
In-game characters refer to the Nine Cauldrons as relics of a broken age, gathered to restore an old harmony. The exact narrative arc varies by quest line and NPC, and the lore is partial in the current Early Access build. Treat the system as a confirmed gameplay mechanic with developing in-game lore; future updates may add quest chains tied to specific cauldrons.
Sacrifice fragments as you find them. Carrying many at once is fine, but five Talent points is a noticeable boost in early play and there is no benefit to delaying.
Combine fragment hunting with secret realm exploration. The two loops overlap heavily.
Note which ritual sites you have used. Some are easier to reach than others, and a clan-builder with a stable homestead has more options than a wandering warrior mid-journey.
Talents and Skills: where the Talent points go after a sacrifice.
Secret Realms: one of the main places fragments turn up.
Setting and Lore: broader mythic context for the cauldrons and the Hua-Xia world.
