REFERRAL PROGRAM

Bring friends to the Rift and you’ll both walk away richer. QuantumRift’s Referral Program rewards you once a friend who joined with your invite has played for a couple of hours, and keeps paying out as you bring in more settlers — forever, through repeating “prestige” cycles.

Everything lives in one place: the Referrals tab of your PDA. Type **/referral** (or **/ref**) to jump straight to it.

Until you’ve set a referrer, and only during your first 30 days, you’ll see this reminder in chat when you join, at most once a day: “Did a friend invite you? Type /referral to name them, and you’ll both get a reward.” Click /referral in that line to open the tab.

Where to find it

Open your PDA and select the Referrals tab (short label REF), or just type /referral or /ref. This works whether you’re using the newer cursor-driven menu or the classic chest-style menu — both show the same information and behave identically.

• Access requires the permission quantumrift.referral.use, which is granted to everyone by default. If it’s ever revoked (an anti-abuse measure staff can apply to a specific account), the tab will simply say: “Referrals are not available on your account.”

Your invite code

The moment you first join the server, you’re automatically given a personal 4-character invite code (letters and numbers, e.g. a1b2). You don’t have to do anything to get one.

• Your code is shown uppercase in the PDA under YOUR CODE, though it’s matched case-insensitively — share it however is convenient.
• Anyone who wants to name you as their referrer can either:
  • type your 4-character code, or
  • type your username instead — this works even while you’re offline, as long as you’ve logged into the server at least once.

Setting your referrer

If you’re the new player, open the Referrals tab and look at the YOUR REFERER row. If it isn’t set yet, you’ll see two options:

• BY CODE — opens a chat prompt: “Type the 4-character referer code:”
• BY USERNAME — opens a chat prompt: “Type the referrer’s username:”

You have 30 seconds to type your answer in chat before the prompt automatically cancels.

This choice is permanent. Once your referrer is set, it can never be changed — the game will tell you so up front: “This is one-shot — it cannot be changed once set.” Choose carefully, and note that you can’t refer yourself.

There’s a deadline. You can only set a referrer within 30 days of first joining the server. After that, the claim buttons disappear, and a late attempt gets: “A referer can only be claimed within 30 days of first joining.”

Messages you might see

The referral counts after 2 hours of play

Setting your referrer records it straight away, but the referral only counts once you, the new player, have played for 2 hours in total. Until then, nothing is paid, and your referrer’s invite total doesn’t move. Your PDA shows how long is left (“COUNTS AFTER 2h played (1h 20m to go)”). This check runs every minute while you’re online. Once you pass 2 hours, both you and your referrer receive a small flat bonus of Imperial Tokens (currently 1 token each), your referrer’s invite total goes up by one, and any milestone it reaches pays out. Anyone involved who’s online gets a chat message. If you had already played 2 hours when you set your referrer, all of this happens immediately.

The milestone ladder (for the referrer)

This is where the real rewards are. As your referrer’s total invite count climbs, they unlock bigger and bigger rewards at fixed thresholds:

A full run through the ladder (1 → 50 invites) pays out 169 Imperial Tokens on top of the credits and items — for context, playtime alone earns roughly 6 tokens/hour, and an Imperial rank costs 500 tokens, so referrals are one of the fastest free ways to stack up tokens.

Only the referrer earns ladder rewards — the invitee’s only guaranteed reward is the token bonus above, paid once the referral counts.

Milestone 25: the “Recruiter” tag

Hitting 25 invites (in a cycle) grants the Recruiter nametag/title:

• Display: “✉ Recruiter ✉” (light blue)
• Description: “Brought twenty-five settlers to the rift.”
• Source note: “Granted at the 25-invite referral milestone.”

This is a cosmetic tag from the Tags system, not a visual trail effect.

Milestone 50: the exclusive “Vanguard Beacon” trail

Reaching 50 invites unlocks the single most exclusive cosmetic in the game:

• Name: Trail — Vanguard Beacon (styled in gold/amber)
• Lore: “Awarded for bringing fifty settlers through the rift.” / “A slow crown of starlight circles every step you take.”
• Look: a Nether Star icon in your cosmetics list; in the world, a slow ring of END_ROD particles swirls around you as you walk.
• Price: not for sale — 0 tokens, reward-only.

What makes this one special: it’s excluded from the cosmetics shop, crate loot, and rotating cosmetic stock entirely. Out of every exclusive cosmetic in QuantumRift, this is the only one that isn’t tied to a paid rank tier (Legend or Imperial). It’s earned purely by referring 50 people — nothing else unlocks it. The moment you earn it, you can equip and use it right away — no extra setup needed.

Prestige cycles — the ladder repeats forever

The milestone ladder isn’t a one-and-done list. Once a referrer’s invite count for the current cycle reaches 50, the cycle resets and the same ladder fires again from 1 — but with bigger numbers.

• Each new cycle multiplies the ladder’s token, credit and item rewards, and the multiplier rises by 0.25× per cycle: your first pass through the ladder pays 1×, the second 1.25×, the third 1.5×, and the tenth 3.25×. The PDA numbers the first pass as cycle 0, so “cycle 1” there is your second pass at 1.25×. Credits scale exactly; tokens and item counts round to the nearest whole number (half rounds up).
• Tags and cosmetics (like Recruiter and Vanguard Beacon) aren’t duplicated on repeat cycles — you already own them after the first time, so later cycles just skip re-granting what you already have and continue paying out the token/credit/item portion.
• The in-PDA “HOW IT WORKS” explainer describes a simpler doubling curve than what’s actually live — don’t be surprised if the real numbers scale a bit more gently than the tooltip implies. Either way: yes, it truly repeats forever, and yes, it keeps paying out more.

What the Referrals tab shows you

Overview:

• YOUR CODE — your personal invite code
• YOUR REFERRALS — “N invited”
• YOUR REFERER — “not set” or “set” (with a checkmark once claimed)
• REWARDS section:
  • REWARD LADDER — your current cycle number; opens the full milestone list
  • HOW IT WORKS — a short explainer of the prestige system

Stats detail view:

• Total invited
• Current multiplier
• Progress this cycle (e.g. “7 / 50”)
• Who referred you, if applicable

Reward Ladder view: each milestone shows a lock icon (not yet reached) or a checkmark (already claimed this cycle). Tapping a milestone shows its exact reward list, already scaled to your current cycle’s multiplier — e.g. “100 Imperial Tokens”, “200.000 credits”, “Cosmetic: trail.referral_50”.

Offline delivery

• Tokens, credits, tags, and cosmetics land instantly, whether you’re online or not.
• Physical items (Diamonds, Netherite Ingots) are queued if you’re offline when a milestone fires, and delivered automatically to your inventory the next time you log in, with a chat message: “Delivered N pending referral reward(s).”

Fair play

Invites from the same household or network are treated like any other invite. Staff can still look into an account that farms rewards with alts and switch its referrals off.