Add referrals to the Getting Started guide

frontend/app/wiki/data/getting-started.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { WikiCommandSet, WikiSection } from "./types";
 
-// ---------- Lobby RuleQuiz, ActivityTF, VotingPlugin and Essentials /helpop ----------
+// ---------- Lobby RuleQuiz, ActivityTF (activity and referrals), VotingPlugin and Essentials /helpop ----------
 
 export const gettingStartedCommands: WikiCommandSet = {
   system: "Getting Started",
@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ export const gettingStartedCommands: WikiCommandSet = {
       command: "/activity",
       description: "Opens your daily tasks and weekly activity bar, where you also claim the rewards.",
     },
+    {
+      command: "/referral",
+      aliases: ["/referrals"],
+      description: "Opens the referral menu, where you name who invited you and claim referral rewards.",
+    },
+    {
+      command: "/referral invitedby <name>",
+      description: "Names the player who invited you. You confirm before it is saved, and it cannot be changed.",
+      notes: "Anyone can do this in the first 14 days of a referral season, after that only in your first week.",
+    },
     {
       command: "/vote",
       description: "Lists the sites where you can vote for the server.",

frontend/app/wiki/data/materials.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import type { CatalogMaterial, MaterialAcquisition, WikiSection } from "./types"
 // perk drops), `Dowsing/production_methods.yml` (node focuses), the active
 // detector list in `geiger_counter/config.yml`, `TrialRooms/loot-tables.yml`,
 // `CustomFishing` loot, `Cooking/husbandry.yml` and the MMOItems station
-// configs. Drop chances stay off the wiki.
+// configs; referral rewards from `activity/referral.yml` (2026-10-24). Drop
+// chances stay off the wiki.
 //
 // Recipes are not written here: every station recipe comes from
 // `generated/stationRecipes.ts`, and `catalog.ts` attaches the ones that make
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ const activity: MaterialAcquisition = {
   method: "Weekly activity rewards",
   detail: "Part of the rewards for reaching your weekly activity goals.",
 };
+const referrals: MaterialAcquisition = {
+  method: "Referral rewards",
+  detail: "Part of the rewards for inviting a player, or for being invited, as the invited player's playtime grows.",
+};
 const infestationMonsters: MaterialAcquisition = {
   method: "Infestations",
   detail: "Monsters from an infestation can drop it.",
@@ -239,6 +244,7 @@ export const dropOnlyMaterials: CatalogMaterial[] = [
       fishing,
       trialRooms,
       activity,
+      referrals,
       infestationMonsters,
       {
         method: "Faction battles",
@@ -259,6 +265,7 @@ export const dropOnlyMaterials: CatalogMaterial[] = [
       detector,
       actFishing("an Abyssalite Rod"),
       activity,
+      referrals,
       infestationMonsters,
     ],
     usedFor: "A crystal catalyst at the Forging Station.",
@@ -274,6 +281,7 @@ export const dropOnlyMaterials: CatalogMaterial[] = [
       detector,
       actFishing("an Abyssalite Rod"),
       activity,
+      referrals,
       infestationMonsters,
     ],
     usedFor: "A catalyst at the Forging Station.",

frontend/app/wiki/getting-started/page.tsx

@@ -129,6 +129,28 @@ export default function GettingStartedPage() {
         reroll their daily tasks once a day before earning any points.
       </p>
 
+      <WikiSectionHeading id="referrals">Referrals</WikiSectionHeading>
+      <p className={body}>
+        If someone invited you to the server, name them as your inviter and you both get rewards as you play. Open{" "}
+        <code className={code}>/referral</code>, or click the <strong>Referrals</strong> head in{" "}
+        <code className={code}>/activity</code>, then click <strong>Who invited you?</strong> and pick the player. You
+        can also type <code className={code}>/referral invitedby &lt;name&gt;</code>. Either way you confirm the choice
+        before it is saved. You can only name one inviter, and you cannot change them later.
+      </p>
+      <p className={`mt-3 ${body}`}>
+        Referrals run in seasons. During the first 14 days of a season, any player can name an inviter. After that, only
+        accounts in their first week on the server can. Your playtime this season counts even before you name anyone.
+      </p>
+      <p className={`mt-3 ${body}`}>
+        Rewards unlock at 1, 4, 12 and 24 hours of the invited player&apos;s playtime, and both of you claim them in the
+        same menu. AFK time does not count. The invited player&apos;s first reward is steel tools, rations and denars,
+        and the later ones add metals of the current act. The inviter gets denars and act metals for each player they
+        invited. Inviters also have a <strong>rare track</strong> that pays Tin and Abyssalite Fragments: its first step
+        opens once two of your invited players have reached 24 hours, and the next ones at four, six, eight and ten
+        players, where it ends. Claim each reward while playing a character, because it goes to the character you are
+        playing.
+      </p>
+
       <WikiSectionHeading id="choose-path">Where to go next</WikiSectionHeading>
       <DataTable
         columns={[{ header: "If you want to…" }, { header: "Read" }]}