The Tartarus Rift
The Tartarus Rift is a personal, on-demand mining activity. Drop in whenever you have daily time left, mine as much valuable ore as you can across continuous rounds, and bank points that convert into Rift Marks.
Every Rift Mark is paid twice, in full: once as Tree Marks, which buy nodes on the permanent skill tree, and once as Shop Marks, which buy Rift Caches. Spending one balance never touches the other. /rift tokens shows both.
It's not a scheduled event and there's no queue: talk to the Rift Keeper at spawn, or run /rift, and you're in.
The Rift unlocks once the community completes Fund II (see /fund). The first time you talk to the Rift Keeper after it opens, he gives you 7,500 starter Rift Marks. This welcome is given again after every season reset.
The loop, in short
- Enter through the Rift Keeper or
/rift. Your inventory is stored safely and you're handed a Rift kit. - Mine ore for points across back-to-back rounds. Your daily time only ticks while you're actually mining.
- Leave any time (
/rift leave) and your real inventory comes back. Your points bank, and they convert into Rift Marks once your daily time is used up or the day resets. - Spend Tree Marks on the skill tree (permanent upgrades) and Shop Marks on Rift Caches (loot), and climb Rift Prestige.
The pages in this section break each part down.
Version history
v4.0.0 (Map 4)
- Rift Marks are now paid into two balances, Tree Marks and Shop Marks, and every mark is credited in full to both.
- Points now convert into Rift Marks once a day, when your daily rift time is used up or at the daily reset, instead of on every exit.
- Three new rift blocks: the Catalyst Geode, the Starforge and the Rift Wisp. See Rift Points & Shards.
- The Rift Keeper's welcome and 7,500 starter Rift Marks are given again after a season reset.
v2.0.0
- The Tartarus Rift is now a personal daily activity — enter through the new Riftkeeper at spawn (or
/rift) whenever you want, with no queue or wait. (It was previously a scheduled, server-wide Rift event.)
v3.0.0
- Rift Prestige and every skill tree node dropped their player-level requirements: Rift Marks and your Rift Prestige are the only gates left.
- The Prison Break Points Earned tracker is now called Rift Points Earned; your recorded total carries over.
- Rift event pickaxes can no longer be dropped into either wormhole.
- The Rift no longer appears in
/events, which now lists timed server events only. Enter it from the Riftkeeper or/riftexactly as before.