Building a sect: what pays, what caps, and what is free

Once you are 掌门 the sect becomes a base you place buildings on. There are two layers to it and the game explains neither: the placed buildings, which cost materials and produce on a ten-day clock, and the upgrade tracks, which cost 资金 and raise the ceilings everything else runs into.

Three buildings out-earn everything else combined

The production buildings you can stack six of look like the economy. They are not.

Against the six-slot production buildings, whose best tier pays 105:

Six 珠宝坊 at the cap is 630 资金 per ten days, for 384 宗门木材 and 28,800 资金 in fees. 富贾阁 pays nearly four times that, for thirty copper ore and no fee at all. The same holds for 丰稔堂 against the 药粮 line and 金石馆 against the 矿石 line.

Build those three first, before anything with a 资金 price on it.

The two extractors are the other free lunch: 锯木厂 (铜矿 ×10) yields 宗门木材 ×8 and 石料厂 (铁矿 ×10) yields 宗门石料 ×10 per ten days, nine of each allowed. Those two materials are what every other building is paid for in, so the nine-and-nine go up before the things that consume them.

BuildEntity.ModMenPaiAttri is the payout: ouputtype 2 adds a sect attribute, 1 adds an item, and the amount is misvalue2 — the same number the panel prints beside "/十天".

云霄殿 is five of the game's eight ceilings

Every sect resource is clamped to a maximum, and MenPaiAttriManager.GetMaxAttri says where each maximum comes from. Four of the eight columns in the build table are read under names that have nothing to do with what they cap:

So 云霄殿 alone governs how much money, ore, medicine, reputation and how many disciples the sect can hold. At level 1 that is 48,000 资金 / 12,000 矿石 / 36,000 药粮 / 25 门人; at level 10 it is 716,650 / 180,000 / 540,000 / 160.

Consequence worth stating: income above your cap is discarded silently. Running 富贾阁 into a level-1 云霄殿 wastes most of it. 云霄殿 is the only upgrade that is always worth doing next.

安定 is capped at 100 and no building changes that. The 镇安殿 exists and 安定 is granted in chunks of 4–12 at a time, so it saturates almost immediately and stays there.

The two naming collisions to know before you read anything else

The enum names and the data names disagree, and one name is used twice:

There is also a separate placeable building literally called 聚贤房, which recruits disciples and is not the 聚贤房 that caps 人数 — that one is 贤堂. When a guide says "build 聚贤房 to raise your member cap", it means 贤堂.

Upgrades: one cost curve, one prerequisite, and a worker bill

Every one of the first five tracks upgrades on the same 资金 curve:

1,174 → 1,760 → 4,694 → 9,976 → 17,604 → 27,580 → 39,902 → 54,572 → 71,590 → 90,954

藏宝阁 and 天工坊 are cheaper and take a second currency — 998 资金 + 565 矿石 and 998 资金 + 565 药粮 respectively at level 1.

Everything except 云霄殿 and 城池 requires 云霄殿 at level 2 before it can start. And every track demands the same staff at the same levels:

That is the real bottleneck past level 5: you need ranked disciples, which means recruiting and promoting them, not just money.

城池 levels itself, and never charges you

MenPaiEntity.CheckChengChiLevelUp checks the requirements and then does exactly one thing:

if (flag) { menpaiBuildDir[7]++; }

It never deducts a cost. The 城池 rows carry a price — 15,360 资金 + 9,520 药粮 + 3,340 矿石 at level 1, rising to 100,800 + 75,600 + 25,200 — and none of it is ever taken. There is no upgrade button either; the check runs at the end of every 宗门考核 payout.

The thresholds it watches, all three of which must hold:

城池 level is the largest multiplier in the sect economy, because it scales the resource grant on every 宗门考核 commission:

资金  += Random(400·L + 300,  1200·L + 900)
药粮  += Random(300·L + 150,   900·L + 300)
矿石  += Random(180·L + 75,    400·L + 150)

At 城池 0 a commission pays 300–900 资金. At 城池 4 it pays 1,900–5,700. Nothing else in the system multiplies by six for free.

商业, 矿业 and 农业 are income tiers, not numbers

Every real minute, MenPaiAttriManager.Update runs one tick per elapsed minute and converts: 商业 → 资金, 矿业 → 矿石, 农业 → 药粮. The rate is not proportional — it steps at thresholds:

You start at 商业 4,800 — below the first threshold — so the first 3,036 商业 you earn is worth a 75% raise, and the next 17,584 is worth 54%. Points spent inside a tier do nothing at all.

Those same three stats are what 城池 watches, so pushing 商业 past 7,836 buys the income tier and 城池 1 at the same moment. That is the single highest-value target in the whole system.

A 宗门考核 commission grants 商业 +900–2,800, 矿业 +360–1,000, 农业 +360–1,100, 繁荣 +8–25, 名声 +639–2,000, 人数 +3–9, 安定 +4–12 — so roughly two commissions clear the first 商业 tier.

A build order that follows from the above

1. 宗门基石, then 云宵殿 — 3 and 10 铜矿, no fee. Nothing else unlocks without them.
2. 锯木厂 ×9 and 石料厂 ×9 — 铜矿/铁矿 ×10 each, no fee. They pay the materials for everything else.
3. 富贾阁, 丰稔堂, 金石馆 — 30 ore each, no fee, and together they out-earn every six-slot building in the game.
4. 云霄殿 to level 2, which unlocks the other tracks, then keep it ahead of everything — it is the ceiling on four resources at once.
5. 商业 past 7,836, which buys an income tier and 城池 1 together.
6. Everything else, as workers become available.

The six-slot production buildings are worth building only after all of that, and only in the tier you can afford — the 4,800-fee tier pays 105 against the 480-fee tier's 60, which is 75% more output for ten times the fee.

What the community says, and what survives

Checked against 村头二狗's 门派经营 guide on TapTap and the summaries circulating on 3DM and 游侠.

This one is accurate, and unusually so. Every per-building yield it lists matches the table exactly — 香料场 60 资金, 胭脂坊 75, 珠宝坊 105, 农田 60, 鱼塘 75, 牧场 105, 人参园 45, 草药园 60, 炼丹坊 75, 瓷器窑 45, 丝坊 60, 茶叶园 75, 麻田 45, 棉花田 45, 桑田 60, 铁矿场 60, 铜矿场 75, 煤场 90. So do the caps: six of each production building, nine of each extractor, one of everything else. Its summary of 云霄殿 — "提高声望上限，矿石，资金存储上限，门人上限" — is exactly what GetMaxAttri does, and it is the only place anyone has written that down correctly.

Where it drifts:

• 锯木厂 and 石料厂 do not yield the same. It says both give 8; the table gives 宗门木材 ×8 and 宗门石料 ×10.
• 金石馆 is not "+2 石料 output". It is a standalone producer: 矿石 +600 per ten days, which is more than every 矿石 building in the six-slot tier put together.
• It never mentions that 富贾阁 and 丰稔堂 are the same shape and the same scale — the three of them are presented as ordinary buildings in a list rather than as the thing that decides your economy.
• It does not mention the caps binding, the income tiers, or that 城池 costs nothing.

Nothing anywhere mentions the 安定 hard cap of 100, or the four build-table columns read under the wrong names.

A bug worth knowing: five of the eight tracks have no requirement

Upgrade requirements are stored in the attri column and read by two functions that both parse it the same way — array[0] as the attribute type and array[1] as the minimum (MenPaiEntity.CheckAttri, MenPaiBuildInfoPanel.ShowAttriCondition).

50 of the 82 rows are written in a three-field format those parsers do not understand. They read kind|attribute|value — the same shape use and build use — but get parsed as attribute|value, so the third number is dropped and the second is read as a threshold:

Since you begin with 商业 4,800, every one of those five is satisfied from the first minute of the game and stays satisfied to level 10. Their only real gates are 资金, the 云霄殿 prerequisite and the worker bill.

The two that use the two-field form work as intended: 云霄殿 wants 名声 ≥ 800 and 杏林堂 wants 繁荣 ≥ 90. 城池's 4|3768;5|3768;0|7836 is three separate two-field clauses and also works.

Where this was read

MenPaiAttriManager (GetMaxAttri, GetCurIncome, AddShouRu, OnAttriGrowUp, InitBaseAttri, m_AttriUpperLimitDict, m_AttriIncomeDict), MenPaiEntity (CheckChengChiLevelUp, CheckAttri, GetCurBuildInfo, UpBuildLevel), MenPaiBuildInfoPanel (ShowAttriCondition, ShowCostCondition, OnBuildUpgrade), BuildEntity.ModMenPaiAttri, and the tables menpaibuild, buildprototype, item_base.

The ten-day period is the game's own label — LocalString.tendays is "{0}{1}/十天", and it is the string the build panel prints beside every output figure.