Ascend From Nine Mountains Modding Competition
The Super Ultimate AFNM Modding Extravaganza #1 Cultivators, artisans, formation-breakers, and suspiciously powerful script gremlins: we are hosting our first-ever Ascend From Nine Mountains modding competition! Create a new mod during the contest period and submit it before the deadline for a chance to earn glory, prizes, and possibly a few raised eyebrows from the heavens. Even if you are not making a mod yourself, this event is still for you. It is a chance to discover new creations, try out community-made content, talk with mod authors, and help celebrate the AFNM modding scene.
Join the Discord
For contest discussion, help, submissions, and voting updates, join our Discord here: Join the AFNM Discord
Once inside, look for the contest channels:
mod-contest-signup to register as a participant
mod-contest-submissions to submit your entry
the-modding-extravaganza-1 for discussion, feedback, testing, and help
Important Dates
Contest begins: Now
Submission deadline: May 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT
Voting begins: May 28, 2026 at 12:00 AM EDT
Voting ends: June 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT
Winners announced: June 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT
Award Categories
Best QoL Mod For the mod that best improves the player experience through usability, convenience, readability, or general quality-of-life improvements.
Most Creative Mod For the mod with the most original, unexpected, clever, elegant, strange, or wonderfully unhinged idea.
Greatest Breakthrough For the most ambitious mod — the entry that takes the biggest swing by adding substantial content, changing systems in a meaningful way, or expanding the game in an especially impressive way.
How to Enter
Join the Discord and grab the Contest Participant role in mod-contest-signup.
Submit your mod in mod-contest-submissions.
Include a short description of what your mod does and which category it best fits.
Your mod must be newly created for this contest.
Rules
Mods must be created during the contest period.
Mods must be submitted by the deadline.
Mods must include a short description, either in Discord or on the Steam Workshop page.
Mods must follow Discord server rules and Steam Workshop rules.
Solo and team submissions are both allowed.
You may submit a mod for multiple categories.
You may submit multiple mods, though quality is encouraged over quantity.
Existing mods are not eligible, but you are welcome to create a newer, better version of an older idea as a brand-new mod.
Prizes
All First Place Award Winners:
Inner Disciple role (with Patreon privileges)
Best QoL Mod:
Harmony Forger role
Most Creative Mod:
Dao Innovator role
Most Ambitious Mod:
World-Shaping Artisan role
All Award Winners and Second Place Runner-Ups:
Special mention in an announcement post and feature in a Steam announcement
Added to a Steam Collection featuring the best mods from the competition
New to Modding?
You do not need to be an experienced modder to take part. AFNM modding is approachable, and this contest is a great chance to try it out.
Helpful starting points:
If you need help, feedback, or testing, ask in the Discord contest discussion channel. If there is something you need for your mod that the ModAPI does not support yet, you can also make a ModAPI request in Features and Suggestions.
Submission Format
Please use the following format when submitting your entry in Discord:
Mod Name:
Steam Workshop Link:
Category Best QoL / Most Creative / Greatest Breakthrough
Short Description:
Creator(s):
Creation Date:
The path is open. Forge your treasure, refine your technique, and show us what kind of mod can shake the sect halls.