Corsair Cove: building costs, outputs and hub scores

Data basis: the Corsair Cove Wiki’s Buildings page (wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Buildings) and its List of buildings sub-page (restructured into per-category tables on 2026-08-07), read 2026-08-22, against game version 1.1.4.242868 (Patch #4, 18 August 2026). This is the publisher’s own wiki — a semi-primary source — but building costs and outputs may drift from what you see in a live save if a balance patch changes them after this read.

The wiki’s building tables tell you what a building costs to construct and what it produces per minute. What they don’t tell you is which buildings actually matter to your wider economy — a building whose output feeds six other production lines is a different investment decision than one whose output goes straight to storage. That’s the join this page adds: for each of Corsair Cove’s 77 production buildings, we count how many other buildings consume its output as an ingredient, turning a flat spec sheet into a dependency ranking.

How the hub score is computed

For every production building, we take its listed output resource(s) and check every other building’s input list for a match. A building’s hub score is the number of distinct other buildings that need its output to run. Woodcutter produces Hardwood and nothing else, but Hardwood feeds into Cooper (Barrel), Hardwood Workshop (Wooden Awl), Sawmill (Planks), Tar Kiln (Tar), Master Carver (Figurehead), Master Shipwright (Silver Lining), Limb Maker (Prosthesis), Copper Smith (Copper Lamp) and Charburner (Charcoal) — nine separate downstream buildings, more than any other single production building in the game. Of the 77 production buildings, 39 have a hub score of 0 (their output is a finished good nothing else consumes), and only 13 have a hub score of 3 or higher — the small set of buildings that function as chokepoints for the entire economy.

Hub ranking: the buildings everything else depends on

Notice that 8 of these 13 hub buildings produce raw or near-raw materials with no input at all (Woodcutter, Quarry, Leafcutter, Lime Kiln, Herbalist, and — one tier down — Cistern needs nothing either). That means the highest-leverage buildings in Corsair Cove are mostly the cheapest, simplest ones to build: Woodcutter costs nothing at all in the wiki’s Building Cost column (None), Quarry costs 25 Planks, and Cistern costs 20 Planks. The economy’s real chokepoints aren’t its expensive end-product buildings — they’re a handful of unlocked-early, near-free extraction buildings whose output every other chain quietly depends on. If one of these nine goes down (destroyed in a raid, or simply outpaced by demand), the failure cascades into every building on this list downstream of it, which is the practical reason to duplicate Woodcutter, Charburner and Cistern before scaling into depth-3/depth-4 goods (see the chain depth matrix for which resources sit that deep).

Full production building matrix (all 77)

One row is worth calling out on its own: Sawmill’s Building Cost is listed as 10 Hardwood while its Input requirement is 4 Hardwood — the only production building in the set whose construction cost and running input are drawn from the same resource it doesn’t itself produce. Every other Materials building either costs Planks/Stone Blocks or nothing at all.

Two buildings — Tinkerer and Spyglass Maker — both produce Spyglass from different input mixes (2 Tools + 2 Lime vs. 8 Lens + 4 Leather); the wiki lists them as separate production buildings rather than one recipe with two paths, which we’ve preserved here rather than merging, since the game apparently treats them as distinct build options.

Principal (unlockable, non-production) buildings

Separate from the 77 production buildings, 30 more buildings unlock through Compass progression (see the progression path comparison for the point costs) and don’t produce a resource — they’re capacity, cosmetic, or functional buildings tied to Notoriety, Empire, Seafaring or Wealth thresholds:

Every single one of these 30 rows has a blank “Effect” cell in the wiki’s own table — this is not a data-extraction failure on our part, it’s a column the wiki itself has never filled in, confirmed by checking the raw table structure directly (the cell renders as an empty icon slot, not missing text). What is verifiable from the cost column alone: the four Tier-5 (20-point) capstone buildings — Military Fortress, Ocean Colosseum, Great Lighthouse, Golden Palace — all cost either 1000-2000 Coins plus Stone Blocks/Tabby, roughly 2-4x the Coin cost of any Tier-3 building, and every path’s cheapest two unlocks (its Banner at 3 points, costing only 10 Coins) are effectively free compared to everything else on this list.

What we could not confirm

• What any of the 30 principal buildings actually do. The wiki’s Effect column is blank for all 30 rows as of this read — we can report the unlock cost and requirement, not the function.
• Production cycle time (seconds per batch) for any of the 77 production buildings. The wiki states per-minute rates only; whether Woodcutter produces 8 Hardwood in one large batch or eight small ones per minute is not specified.
• Whether “Downstream buildings” as computed here matches in-game UI labeling. We derived hub score purely from matching output resource names to input resource names across the two tables; the game itself may or may not surface this as a stat to players.
• Balance changes since the 2026-08-22 read. Patch #4 (18 August) predates our read, but any patch after that date could change these costs; check the patch timeline tracker for what’s shipped since.

Sources

• Buildings and List of buildings (restructured into per-category sub-pages 2026-08-07), Corsair Cove Official Wiki (Hooded Horse), read 2026-08-22.
• Game version at time of read: 1.1.4.242868 (Patch #4, 18 August 2026).

Related

• Corsair Cove: all 77 resources ranked by chain depth
• Corsair Cove profit-per-minute vs. cohesion tradeoff
• Compass progression paths compared
• Corsair Cove patch timeline tracker
• Everything else we have on Corsair Cove