The Rift is an area in World 4 which consists of various waves and after you defeat a certain amount of them, you receive a game changing bonus or boost, all of which are very powerful.
The Rifts difficulty scales fast and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it while still in World 4, but once you get stronger and obtain Sailing bonuses from World 5, you will be able to reach more Rift bonuses.
This guide will go over how to unlock the rift in the first place, how many waves there are and how to complete them, as well as what kind of rewards you will receive.
How to Unlock The Rift
In order to reach the rift, you have to finish a simple material collection quest in World 4, after which the Rift will become visible on your map so you can teleport to it directly on any character.
To start the quest, go to The Untraveled Octopath map in World 4 and climb to the top right of the map to find the Rift Ripper quest giver.
The quest requires you to find and turn in the following items, out of which the Lost Batteries will definitely take the longest to find:
| Monster | Drops Needed | Drop Chance | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
 Purp Mushroom |  Purple Mushroom Cap x878 | 1 in 6 | World 4 Spaceway Raceway |
 TV |  Lost Batteries x5 | 1 in 50,000 | World 4 TV Outpost |
 Flying Worm |  Wurm Tail x592 | 1 in 6 | World 4 Wurm Highway |
Once you get all of the items and turn them in, you will receive great rewards in the form of free gems and Cosmic Time Candies as well as access to The Rift.
All Rift Rewards Explained
There are currently 7 different rewards that can be unlocked from The Rift, with more coming in later updates.
When you first get in the Rift, you can see a bunch of locks on pedestals on the left, showing which wave you must reach to unlock each bonus.
| Reward | Effect | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
 Trap Box Vacuum | Traps will be collected automatically every 24 hours. | Beat Rift #5 |
 Infinite Stars | Transforms Star Signs into passives with no negative effects. Get more from Shiny Pets. Read our guide here! | Beat Rift #10 |
 Skill Mastery | Gives bonuses to all skills depending on total skill levels across all characters. | Beat Rift #15 |
 Eclipse Skulls | Adds Eclipse Skulls to Deathnote at 1 Billion kills. They give +20 points to multikill multiplier and +5% Multiplicative Damage. | Beat Rift #20 |
 Stamp Mastery | Chance to get 95% discount on a Stamp upgrade every day. They stack if you don’t use them, so you can use them whenever you want. Chance increases for every 100 total stamp levels. | Beat Rift #25 |
 Eldritch Artifact | Ability to get an Eldritch Artifact, if you already have the Ancient version. They usually triple the artifacts bonus instead of the Ancients double. | Beat Rift #30 |
 Vial Mastery | Each maxed out Vial (level 13), will boost all other vial bonuses by x1.02. Read more about Vials… | Beat Rift #35 |
 Construct Mastery | Various bonuses depending on your total Construction level between all characters. | Beat Rift #40 |
 Ruby Cards | You can level up cards further from 4 Stars to 5 Stars. (All your previous cards will count towards this once you unlock it, so you won’t miss out!) | Beat Rift #45 |
 Killroy Prime | Damage multiplier to all characters based on your unique monster kill records in Killroy’s Slaughterhouse. Also adds 5 new upgrades to buy from Killroy’s Skull Shop. | Beat Rift #50 |
 Sneak Mastery | When you reach the top floor in Sneaking (World 6), you can restart from the bottom with a higher difficulty and higher gains. You also get bonuses depending on how many resets you’ve done. Rank 1: +30% Drop Rarity Rank 2: +10% All Stats Rank 3: +5 to All Talent Levels Rank 4: 1.10x All Damage Multiplier | Beat Rift #55 |
All the bonuses are very powerful and also fairly self explanatory so they don’t warrant much further explanation.
The Trap Box upgrade deposits all the critters to your Storage Box as long as you have space and gives the XP from a trap to the character that placed the trap.
As for the Eclipse Skulls, to give context, the normal highest Red Skull which requires 100M kills gives 10 points to the multikill tier, while the new one doubles that, while also giving all you characters more damage.
The Skill Mastery is probably the best upgrade, as it gives a lot of Skill Efficiency to all skills and even turns most Skilling Cards into Passive cards!
Construction Mastery gives great bonuses to unrelated stats, but you can see which ones you can get from the image below.
All Rift Challenge Requirements
There are currently 39 Rifts that can be completed, but the last 3 will currently give you no rewards.
The bonuses are unlocked every 5 rifts so once you reach the rift that is seen on the locks, you unlock that bonus instantly.
You can see all the requirements for each Rift in the table below, after which we will explain some tips and tricks on beating them.
| Rift Number | Requirement | Reach this Rift to unlock: |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get 500 kills in 5 minutes | – |
| 2 | Collect 3 Rift Tears in 1 hour | – |
| 3 | Kill all mobs without any respawning on 3 characters | – |
| 4 | Get 500 kills in 5 minutes | – |
| 5 | Kill Mega Monster on 4 characters | – |
| 6 | Get 1,000 Skulls | Trap Box Vacuum |
| 7 | Kill Mega Monster on 4 characters | – |
| 8 | Get an Orb Score of 180 with a Divine Knight | – |
| 9 | Get a Wormhole Score of 60 with an Elemental Sorcerer | – |
| 10 | Get 200K AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 11 | Get 3 Rift Tears in 1 hour | Infinite Stars |
| 12 | Get 5,000 Skulls | – |
| 13 | Get 500 kills in 5 minutes | – |
| 14 | Kill all mobs without any respawning on 3 characters | – |
| 15 | Get 1M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 16 | Get a Pirate Flag Score of 75 on a Siege Breaker | Skill Mastery |
| 17 | Kill a Lava Skull monster on 2 characters | – |
| 18 | Get an Orb Score of 180 with a Divine Knight | – |
| 19 | Kill Mega Monster on 4 characters | – |
| 20 | Get 1M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 21 | Kill all mobs without any respawning on 3 characters | Eclipse Skulls |
| 22 | Get a Pirate Flag Score of 75 on a Siege Breaker | – |
| 23 | Get 5,000 Skulls | – |
| 24 | Get 500 kills in 5 minutes | – |
| 25 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 26 | Get 3 Rift Tears in 1 hour | Stamp Mastery |
| 27 | Get a Wormhole Score of 60 with an Elemental Sorcerer | – |
| 28 | Kill Mega Monster on 4 characters | – |
| 29 | Get an Orb Score of 180 with a Divine Knight | – |
| 30 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 31 | Kill a Lava Skull monster on 2 characters | Eldritch Artifact |
| 32 | Get 500 kills in 5 minutes | – |
| 33 | Get 200K AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 34 | Kill all mobs without any respawning on 3 characters | – |
| 35 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 36 | Get a Pirate Flag Score of 75 on a Siege Breaker | Vial Mastery |
| 37 | Get 3 Rift Tears in 1 hour | – |
| 38 | Kill Mega Monster on 4 characters | – |
| 39 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 40 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 41 | Kill all mobs without any respawning on 3 characters | Construct Mastery |
| 42 | Kill a Lava Skull monster on 2 characters | – |
| 43 | Get an Orb Score of 180 with a Divine Knight | – |
| 44 | Get a Wormhole Score of 60 with an Elemental Sorcerer | – |
| 45 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 46 | Get 1M AFK Kills in The Rift | Ruby Cards |
| 47 | Kill Mega Monster on 4 characters | – |
| 48 | Get 3 Rift Tears in 1 hour | – |
| 49 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 50 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 51 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | Killroy Prime |
| 52 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 53 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 54 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 55 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 56 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | Sneak Mastery |
| 57 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 58 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 59 | Get 5M AFK Kills in The Rift | – |
| 60 | Not out yet… | – |
Tips on beating different Rifts
There are a few different types of rifts which can be more complicated than others to beat and might even require some strategizing to beat effectively.
In most cases the key is to just wait until you get better gear and upgrades to boost your damage higher, but in others that’s not enough.
Starting off with the simplest ones which require you to get kills fast, including getting 500 kills in 5 minutes or killing mobs without letting them respawn.
Alongside buffing your damage, one of the most useful ways to kill the whole map fast is to use various Speed Potions, as they will make you run around the map extremely fast, making the process easier.
As a bonus, Siege Breakers receive extra damage from the added speed due to their SpeeDNA skill in Tab 3, which also makes the Pirate Flag scoring a lot easier.
Also make sure to remove any skills or gear that make mobs respawn faster, if you’re trying to clear the map.
Finally, the only other objective that might require some more strategizing other than more damage are the Lava Skull kills.
The way the Skulls work is that once you kill one, the skull can move on to a different monster as long as one is alive, and if that monster already had a skull, it will upgrade to a higher skull.
This means if you accidentally kill all the monsters on the map and the skull doesn’t have anyone to transfer to, you will start from scratch. This means it is usually easier to finish this challenge by doing attacks manually on enemies that have the skull on them.
The rest of the challenges really just require high damage to be able to kill the monsters.