If you’ve just started Soul Cultivation, pill crafting can feel confusing at first. There are different herb types, strange recipes, and strict order requirements — and the game barely explains it clearly.
This guide will walk you through pill crafting in a simple, beginner-friendly way so you can start boosting your progress immediately.
Soul Cultivation Pill Crafting Guide 2026 – How to Make
In Soul Cultivation, pills are not optional — they are one of the biggest progression boosters in the entire game.
They help you:
- Break through faster
- Increase chi training speed
- Improve cultivation multipliers
- Boost overall progression dramatically
Without pills, progression becomes extremely slow, especially after the early ranks.
Step 1 – Collecting Herbs
Before crafting anything, you need herbs.
Herbs spawn around the world and must be harvested manually. The most important thing to understand is that herbs have ages.
Older herbs are always stronger and produce better pills.
This means when farming herbs, it’s worth taking time to gather higher-age ones instead of picking only young plants.
A simple habit that helps a lot: whenever you see herbs while exploring, always grab them.
Step 2 – Go to the Alchemy NPC
Once you have herbs, return to the starter village.
You’ll find an NPC named Wooling — this is where all pill crafting happens.
Interacting with this NPC opens the alchemy interface where you combine herbs to create pills.
Step 3 – Understanding Herb Types
Every herb belongs to one of four elemental categories:
- Earth
- Heaven
- Yin
- Yang
These categories matter because pills require a specific order combination of these elements.
If the order is wrong, the recipe will fail.
Think of it like a formula — not just ingredients, but also sequence matters.
Step 4 – Finding Recipes
To check pill recipes, open the secondary menu using the number 2 key.
Inside this menu, you’ll see a list of available pills and their required herb order.
For example, a recipe might require:
Yin → Yin → Yang → Yang
This tells you exactly how to arrange herbs inside the crafting interface.
Step 5 – Crafting a Pill (Example)
Let’s walk through a basic example.
Suppose you want to create a Molyan Pill.
The recipe requires the following order:
Yin → Yin → Yang → Yang
To craft it:
- Talk to Wooling
- Select herbs in that exact order
- Confirm the craft
If done correctly, the game will display the pill name, confirming the recipe worked.
The finished pill will then appear in your inventory.
Step 6 – Using Pills
Once crafted, pills can be consumed directly from your inventory.
Each pill provides a specific temporary boost, such as:
- Faster breakthroughs
- Increased training speed
- Higher chi gain
Because of how powerful these effects are, experienced players constantly keep a stock of pills ready.
When I first started, I ignored pill crafting because it seemed complicated. Progress felt painfully slow.
The moment I learned how recipes worked and started crafting regularly, the game completely changed.
Breakthroughs became faster, training felt smoother, and progression finally started to make sense.
So if you’re struggling with slow progress, pill crafting is almost always the missing piece.