Sects

A Sect (宗门) is Cultivation's guild system. Found one, gather disciples, claim a mountain of your own on a good Spirit Vein, and the whole roster cultivates faster for it. A sect that holds a hall can also carve an art into it that every disciple may wield, raise Formations on its ground, grow a shared Spirit Spring in the hall, and go to war over someone else's mountain.

Everything on this page is gated behind Sects-Enabled (default true). With it off, every /sect command refuses politely, the sect Qi bonus stops applying, and existing sect data is left on disk untouched.

Founding a Sect

/sect create <name> founds a sect with you as its leader.

• Names are 3 to 24 characters of letters, digits, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes. Anything else is refused.
• Names are unique, case-insensitively - no two sects may share one.
• You cannot found a sect while you belong to one.
• A roster holds up to 12 members including the leader (Sect-Max-Members).

/sect info (alias i) prints your roster, your hall, your hall's inscription and your sect's score. /sect leave walks away - and drops your elder rank with you, so rejoining does not silently restore your authority. A leader may not leave; they must /sect disband, which dissolves the sect, disperses every formation the sect controlled, drops its pending invites, and lets its hall spring be reaped.

Ranks: Leader, Elder, Disciple

flowchart TD;
    Leader["Leader<br/>One per sect, the founder"];
    Elder["Elder (长老)<br/>Promoted by the leader"];
    Member["Disciple<br/>Every other member"];

    Leader --> Elder;
    Elder --> Member;

Nobody can kick the leader, and an elder who tries to kick another elder is refused. Being kicked or leaving clears your rank and any pending join request you had.

Join Policies

The leader picks how outsiders get in, from the dropdown in the sect menu's My Sect tab. New sects start on Invite.

Notes on invites and requests:

• An invite expires after 300 seconds (Sect-Invite-Expiry-Seconds). Invites are held in memory only, so a server restart clears the pending ones.
• /sect join only ever works against a live invite. Request and Open sects are joined through the menu, not that command.
• Pending requests appear as approve/deny rows to leaders and elders in the My Sect tab. They persist with the sect.
• Every path re-checks the 12-member cap, and a request from someone who has since joined another sect is discarded rather than approved.

Motto and Renaming

A leader or elder can set a motto from the menu - free text, trimmed and capped at 60 characters. It shows under the sect name in the menu.

Only the leader may rename the sect, and the new name goes through exactly the same validation and uniqueness check as founding one. A rename carries everything keyed to the old name along with it:

• every Formation the sect controls, so the sect's own arrays do not suddenly treat its members as outsiders,
• the hall's shared Spirit Spring and everything banked in it (see Cave Abodes),
• every pending invite, so an invitee can still accept under the new name.

The Sect Hall

/sect claim claims the chunk you are standing in as the sect's hall. Only the leader may claim.

A claimed hall pays the whole roster a sect Qi bonus on Qi from every source - meditation, cores, spring collection, everything - multiplied in alongside your race, skill tree, pill and Dao multipliers:

A sect with no hall gets no bonus at all. Lose the hall to a siege and the bonus stops for everyone at once.

The hall also grows the sect's shared Spirit Spring when Sect-Hall-Spring-Enabled is on - it follows the hall, so moving the hall moves the spring and losing the hall hands the spring, and whatever it had banked, to the victor. See Cave Abodes for how springs fill and are collected.

Hall Inscriptions

Hall Inscriptions (碑文) let a sect teach one art to every disciple at once. Stand in your hall holding a technique Manual and run /sect inscribe.

• Leader only, and you must be standing on the hall's own chunk - the art is carved into that ground in person.
• The manual is consumed, but only after the inscription actually takes. If the manual cannot be removed from your hands the inscription is rolled straight back rather than teaching the sect an art nobody paid for.
• Only manuals that teach a technique work. Skill-tree manuals grant permanent stat nodes and are refused, because a permanent node cannot be revoked when the hall falls.
• One inscription at a time. Inscribing again silently replaces what was there - the old art is simply gone.
• Running /sect inscribe empty-handed scours the hall clean instead, taking the art from every member and refunding nothing.

The inscription lives in the hall, not in anyone's head. It is resolved live on every technique check, which means:

• Every member can perform the inscribed technique without having read its manual themselves, as long as the sect holds the hall.
• The instant the sect loses the hall - captured in a siege, unclaimed, or the sect disbanded - the art vanishes from every member simultaneously, with no cleanup pass.
• The inscription itself is stored on the sect, so a sect that later claims a new hall gets its old inscription back.
• Members are reminded of the art they are borrowing when they log in, and /sect info only lists it while the hall is actually held.

Set Sect-Inscription-Enabled to false to switch the whole feature off; inscriptions stop teaching immediately while it is off.

Score and Rankings

A sect's score is the summed global cultivation level of every member the leaderboard has seen, where one member contributes realm x 4 + stage + 1. Bigger, higher-realm rosters rank higher.

/sect top (alias leaderboard) lists the top 10 sects by score with their member counts. The sect menu's Rankings tab shows the top 20.

The Sect Menu

Bare /sect, or /sect menu (alias ui), opens the sect menu - the graphical face of every command on this page. Three tabs:

Commands

cultivation.sect is granted to everyone by default; rank checks happen inside the sect itself, not in the permission system.

Every field named on this page - Sect-Max-Members, Sect-Hall-Min-Vein-Tier, the two Qi bonus percentages, Sect-Invite-Expiry-Seconds and Sect-Inscription-Enabled - lives in the society config; see Society Config for the full reference, and Commands for every command in the mod.