The developers of Forgotten Runiverse have announced the start of the Grand Summoning Event, giving the blockchain gaming community a new opportunity to earn $PIXEL tokens as leaderboard rewards.

What Is Forgotten Runiverse?

Forgotten Runiverse is a free to play fantasy MMORPG powered by the Ronin network. It’s based on the decentralized fantasy franchise called Forgotten Runes Wizard’s Cult, and has players journey through a magical isometric 2D world filled with quests and secrets to uncover while fighting a wide range of monsters for rare loot. Level up and craft weapons, armor, spells and more as you customize your own unique land plot with varied buildings and upgrades. Join one of 7 different Wizard cults and participate in the blockchain-powered economy by trading minted assets that are crafted using an array of resources gathered through gameplay.

Bring your Forgotten Runes NFT in-game as a playable character or start playing for free right now across any device through your web or mobile browser.

What Is Forgotten Runiverse’s Grand Summoning Event?

The Grand Summoning Event is a new referral program that incentivizes players to invite friends to Forgotten Runiverse and earn $PIXEL tokens for doing so from July 4 to July 18.

The $PIXEL token is the core token of the Pixels ecosystem, and the amount of tokens earned from referring friends will depend on leaderboard placement, with a starting total prize pool of 150k $PIXEL tokens (~$5250) said to be up for grabs throughout this event for the top 50 referrers.

To increase the starting prize pool, the community will have to collectively work together on converting as many new people into web3 Wizards as they can, as that will increase the chances of reaching global point milestones. Hitting these milestones will grow the leaderboard-based reward pool, giving the highest-ranked players a chance to win more tokens.

These prize pool milestones are unlocked using a points system. Basically, just inviting someone to open up the game is not enough for this event. Instead, the player who joins through your referral link has to start doing actual gameplay and on-chain activities in order to accumulate points. If the referred player does actions such as craft an Infused item or play a PvP match, those activities reward you with points. That being said, not only do points matter for unlocking bigger prize pools, but they’re also used to determine your position on the leaderboard. This means that it’s important to bring players who will actually be engaged in the game itself rather than just focusing on onboarding a higher quantity of people that won’t do anything. This also discourages and prevents people from botting the system, making it fairer for everyone to participate and potentially win token rewards.

Next to no botting or multi-accounting, other event rules state that anyone can refer players, regardless of whether they’re an individual or a guild, but only one prize is awarded per account. Points are awarded only once per action per account, and you must use the referral link from the character select screen to properly take part in this referral-focused event.

To further ensure dedicated players are rewarded, anti-bot screening will be done at the end of the event before reward distribution takes place.

How to Earn $PIXEL During the Grand Summoning Event

Whether you yourself are a new player or a veteran of Forgotten Runiverse, anyone can try to earn $PIXEL tokens during the Grand Summoning Event by inviting their friends and community over to the browser-based game.

Everyone has their own referral link that they can find in the character select screen. If you’re new, head to the game and create your account the old-fashioned email way. This will take you to the character creation screen, which contains a creator program banner in the bottom left corner. Click on that banner to find your unique referral link, copy it and send it to your friends while sharing on social media.

Only the top 50 players on the referral leaderboard will earn a share of the prize pool, which starts at 150k $PIXEL tokens. This prize pool will be increased if the 2500 Global Points Milestone is reached. After that, there are 2 more milestones, but the required amount of points for those has not been revealed at the time of writing.

That being said, inviting someone to create an account is not enough to compete for the top spots in this event. To climb the leaderboard, your referrals need to do various actions that reward you with leaderboard points. They only need to do these actions once, as repeated attempts of the same activity will not bring more points.

Here are the one-time actions your referrals need to do and how many points they each award:

  • Activates a Boost (Free counts): 5 points
  • Plays a PvP match: 5 points
  • Crafts and Infused Item: 10 points
  • Joins a Guild and contributes XP: 10 points
  • Mana Roll: 15 points
  • Completes the Gathering Tree: 15 points
  • Makes any Store Purchase: 20 points
  • Mints an item: 20 points
  • Completes Hollow Tree Dungeon: 25 points
  • Completes Windmill Dungeon: 50 points

If your referral does all of the above actions, you are getting a total of 500 points from one quality referral. The more real and engaged players you can bring to the game, the more points you are likelier to receive, thus increasing your chances of topping this event’s main leaderboard.

Next to receiving $PIXEL rewards for ranking in the top 50 as a contributor to the game’s playerbase growth, if you end up amongst the top 5 highest-ranked referrers, you will become immortalized in-game at the Hedge Wizard Camp as a display of the team’s gratitude for your significant contributions to helping the game grow.

At the time of writing, you can’t check your leaderboard standing, but in the coming days, the global referral leaderboard and community milestone tracker should both go live to allow anyone to track their rankings in real time and see how far the playerbase has come towards unlocking new prize pool milestones.