Honey, I Joined a Cult: Comprehensive Building guide – SPOILERS (still updating regularly!!)

As by now you may know, one of the many challenges in this game is planning the buildings and the general outline of your cult. Since there are no refunds in the game when you demolish or delete objects, you pretty much have to know in advance where you put what.

The aim of this guide is to help you make these decisions in a cost-efficient way. Prepare in advance for picky cult members and leader expectations so you won’t get thrown under the rug!

If you are absolutely clueless as to where to start, here’s my construction as a whole for guidance (from left to right). I’m on day 115 at the moment, so this is pretty much tested. 🙂

You’d want your lobby to be very close to the entrance, as your potential followers will enter the premises through your lobby, as well as recruitment will take place there at the beginning. The latter will move to the Recruitment Office eventually, so I found it logical to place them near to each other, as recruiters will move from the office to the streets.
On a side note: it’s also a perfect place to have a random toilet for your members!

Recommended room dimensions (without walls):

• Lobby: 7×8

• Recruitment Office: 7×4

The first few rooms that will be available for you are the bathrooms and bedrooms. You’d think the most cost efficient way to build them is to have huge common rooms, but trust me it will only make things worse on the long run. Build separate bedrooms with top-most two beds and a separate bathroom to go with them. Later in the game you will face members who want to have individual toilets and want to sleep separately, otherwise mood penalties will take place. It’s worth the cost and you won’t have to rebuild your whole outline when these changes come along.

Bedrooms are enough to be 3×8 (excluding walls), bathrooms can be 3×6 (excluding walls). You won’t be able to have a full (20) prestige with these sizes, but for a long game these will make it.

Don’t worry if you don’t have enough toilets and showers, but do limit their number to 1 per bathroom. Not all members will use them at the same time.

IMPORTANT: to make sure nobody spoils themselves, have multiple bathrooms in each side of your territory!

Also note, have a separate room for your leader. This will also become a member need at some point.

You’ll want this room originally to be a bit bigger than the rest, as there will be eventually some upgrades which will allow you to have more followers in them.

I found 11×10 (without walls) to be efficient and spacey enough until the end game.

The House of Spod (for me) is the main room where you get most of your influence, so the bigger it is from the beginning, the more followers will generate influence and money to you.
Room size should be 14×9, that way you can also get the full prestige achievement, too with the special ornaments that will come along the way. An idea for an outline that worked for me is this:

Your Spirit chamber should be 8×10 without walls, even with updates you can only have two tables placed there, so it’s really all you need.

This was a hard experience. Make sure you have 2 canteens on the different sides of your territory, as your cult members are not the sharpest tools in the shed and tend to hunger themselves to death if they don’t find a canteen nearby.

Have a smaller and a larger one prepared so all 24 members of your cult can have their well-deserved treat at lunchtime.

Larger one: 11×9 (without walls)

Small one: 9×8 (without walls)

You can also see my blue kitchen with the smaller canteen. You will only need one kitchen, no need to have more, as canteens don’t depend on any food transportation from kitchens.

Kitchen diameters: 5×9 (without walls)

In the maintenance room although you will have multiple upgrades throughout the tech tree, but your members will only approach the workbench, so I’d suggest putting it close to the room entrance.

With all upgrades and some decoration, a 9×4 dimension room (without walls) is absolutely sufficient.

To contain all the late game upgrades of this room, calculate with dimensions 8×11 (without walls).

For a research office you’ll be fair enough with dimensions 7×4 (without walls).
Since I had three members work at the office 24/7, I placed this room amongst living quarters, the recreational room and one of the canteens, so workers there will have everything within an arms reach and can research more effectively.

Build this room with dimensions 11×7 (without walls) from the beginning, as there will be a major upgrade in late-game.