Ranks & Rankup

In Paradise Cove, every bee earns its place in the hive. Ranks are your progression ladder, and each one you climb unlocks more homes, more job slots, more claim space, and quality-of-life commands that make survival smoother.

Two Ranking Systems

JartonMC has two separate rank tracks, and it's worth knowing which is which:

• /rankup: the free-to-play ladder. This is the one everyone climbs by playing, and it's what this whole page covers. Run /rankup when you're ready to advance to the next tier.
• /ranks: the server's premium ranks, available from the Store. These are an optional, separate set of donor ranks that support the server and come with their own perks.

The /ranks menu: the optional premium donor ranks from the Store.

The rest of this guide is about the free /rankup ladder.

How /rankup Works

Each rank costs a combination of Gold and playtime. The exact cost of your next rank is always shown live in /rankup, so check there before you start grinding.

One special gate: Farmer

The Farmer rank is the only one gated by something other than Gold and time. To unlock it you must complete the "Path of the Farmer" quest first. Ask an NPC at spawn or check /quests for the quest.

When you rank up, you don't just unlock perks. Each promotion also pays out Nectar, a crate key, and sometimes additional job slots, so advancing is a reward in itself, not just a gate.

The /rankup menu: your next rank's exact requirement, shown live.

The Free Rank Ladder

Perks are cumulative: every rank keeps everything from the ranks below it and adds more on top.

#	Rank	Gold	Playtime	Crate Key	Nectar	Job Slots
1	Hatchling	Starting rank				1
2	Farmer	2,500	30 min	1 Common	20	2
3	Wanderer	3,000	1 hour	1 Common	10	2
4	Explorer	10,000	2.5 hours	1 Common	15	2
5	Commoner	20,000	5 hours	1 Common	20	2
6	Merchant	40,000	10 hours	2 Common	40	2
7	Artisan	80,000	18 hours	1 Rare	40	3
8	Noble	200,000	1.5 days	1 Rare	80	3
9	Bishop	500,000	3 days	2 Rare	80	4
10	Monarch	1,000,000	5 days	1 Epic	80	5
11	Emperor	2,500,000	1.5 weeks	1 Epic	100	6
12	Eternal	5,000,000	3 weeks	1 Jartonite	150	All

Farmer comes before Wanderer

The Farmer rank sits second on the ladder, not fifth. It's the cheapest paid rank on the ladder (just 2,500 Gold and 30 minutes of playtime), but it requires completing the "Path of the Farmer" quest before you can purchase it.

Notable Perks Per Rank

Rank	Signature Perks Unlocked
Hatchling	Starting rank: 1 home, can join towns
Farmer	2 job slots, /craft, /trash
Wanderer	Can found a town with /town create
Explorer	/back, personal player vault
Merchant	Can rent a market stall
Artisan	3 job slots, /heads
Noble	/enderchest, /condense
Bishop	4 job slots, /feed, personal weather and time
Monarch	5 job slots, /nick, /fix
Emperor	6 job slots, /heal, /repairall, town-flight
Eternal	All job slots, a survival building wand, a Hall of Fame NPC at spawn, a Jartonite Crate Key

Eternal is the summit

Reaching Eternal is the top of the ladder. Beyond the perks, you get your own NPC immortalised in the Hall of Fame at spawn, proof to every player who walks past that you went the distance.

The Hall of Fame. Every Eternal player gets their own NPC here.

The first name in the Hall belongs to tf2, the very first player to climb all the way to Eternal. Their NPC stands at the front as the Cove's original summit-reacher.

tf2, the Cove's first-ever Eternal.

AFK Gold by Rank

Time spent in the AFK Pool earns passive Gold at a rate that scales with your rank:

Rank	Gold per Minute
Hatchling	2
Farmer	10
Wanderer	4
Explorer	6
Commoner	8
Merchant	12
Artisan	14
Noble	16
Bishop	18
Monarch	20
Emperor	22
Eternal	24

Why Ranking Up Matters

Ranks quietly power up everything else you do on the server:

• More job slots: your rank decides how many Jobs you can hold at once. Early ranks cap you low; Eternal unlocks every slot, so you can stack income streams.
• More claim chunks: extra land to protect your builds and grow your town.
• Quality-of-life commands: /fix, /heal, /enderchest, /condense, and town-flight remove daily friction so you spend time playing, not micromanaging.
• Economy reach: higher ranks raise your Auction House listing limits and unlock market stalls in the shops, letting you trade at a bigger scale.

Think of ranks as the backbone of your progression. Skills empower you, jobs pay you, but your rank is what raises the ceiling on both.

Commands

Command	What it does
/rankup	Advance along the free ladder and view your next rank's exact requirement
/ranks	Browse the server's premium ranks, available from the Store

Related Guides

• Jobs: your rank controls how many you can hold
• Economy: higher ranks raise your Auction House reach
• Shops: rent a market stall once you hit Merchant
• AFK Pool: passive Gold that scales with your rank