Economy

Welcome to the Quasar Economy! Whether you dream of running a bustling empire of chest shops, flipping rare items on the auction house, or simply earning a steady income while you play, this guide will show you the way.

The economy rewards you for playing — your salary and earning potential are tied directly to your playtime rank. The longer you play and the higher your rank, the more you earn.

Essential Wallet Commands

• /eco — Opens the Economy Hub, your one-stop dashboard for the auction house, admin shop, chest shop directory, transaction log, and privacy settings.
• /eco balance — Check your current balance. Use /eco balance <player> for a friend's (if public).
• /eco pay <player> <amount> — Send money directly to another player.
• /baltop — See the richest players. Use /baltop global for the network-wide leaderboard.

Salary & Playtime Ranks

Simply being online and active earns you a salary every 15 minutes automatically. How much you earn depends on your playtime rank — as you climb by accumulating playtime, your salary increases like a raise for your dedication.

Other Ways to Earn

• Selling items on the Auction House or in Chest Shops
• Trading with other players
• Running a profitable Chest Shop — buy low, sell high!
• Voting — each online vote pays balance plus items. See the Community voting guide.

The Auction House is a cluster-wide marketplace — items listed on one server can be seen and purchased by players on any other server in the same cluster. Perfect for maximum exposure.

Selling an Item

Hold the item you want to sell in your hand and type:

• price — How much you want to charge.
• count (optional) — How many items to sell.
• days (optional) — Listing duration. A menu appears if omitted.

Listing Fees

Fees are deducted from your earnings when someone buys — you keep the rest. Shorter listings cost less but give buyers less time.

Browsing & Buying

• /ah — Opens the auction house browser. Click an item to purchase (confirmation screen first).
• /ah search <query> — Search for specific items by name.

Your Listings & Watchlist

Click “My Listings” inside the GUI to manage or reclaim expired items.

Waiting for a specific item? Set a watch:

You'll be notified whenever that item is listed — even on other servers in your cluster. Toggle sale notifications with the bell icon in /ah.

Chest Shops are your own permanent, physical shops in the world. Unlike the auction house, they're tied to a specific server and location — customers come to you.

Creating a Shop

• Place any container (chest, barrel, etc.) and fill it with items.
• Place a sign on the front of the container.
• Write [shop] on the first line and your shop name on the second line (3–15 characters).

The shop auto-detects all unique item types in the container and creates listings.

Managing Your Shop

Right-click your sign/container to open the shop GUI. As owner you can refresh listings, rename, view stats, and upgrade. Shift-right-click a specific listing to set prices, quantity, and toggle visibility.

Shop Tiers

Bidding & the Directory

Premium shops can set a monthly bid — higher bids display higher in /cs shops. Browse the directory with /cs or search with /cs search <query>.

The Admin Shop is a server-run store with fixed prices that never runs out of stock. Open it with /shop, or through the Economy Hub with /eco.

Curated for Your Modpack

An Admin Shop is set up for each cluster by our team of curators, stocked with helpful starter items specific to that modpack. It's a great way to grab the essentials you need to get going without hunting the player market first.

Ranks & Prefixes

The Admin Shop also sells ranks and prefixes that are only available with in-game currency — you can't buy them any other way. Earn your balance through salary, trading, and shops, then spend it on something that shows off your grind.

Player Trading

The trade system provides a safe, scam-proof way to exchange items and money directly with another player.

• /trade <player> — Send a trade request (or accept an incoming one).
• Both players see a side-by-side GUI — drag items and click the emerald icon to add money.
• Both players must click Ready. If either side changes their offer, both ready states reset.

Move your balance between PlayCDU servers at playcdu.co/transfer. Your money is converted at the current exchange rate, a fee is removed, and the rest lands in your wallet on the other server within seconds.

The Exchange Rate

Every server runs its own economy, so money is not worth the same everywhere. The rate between two servers follows the size of their economies: sending from a large economy into a small one shrinks the number, sending from a small economy into a large one grows it. A rate of 78 : 1 means it takes 78¤ on the sending server to make 1¤ on the receiving server.

Rates move slowly. They are recalculated from live economy data and smoothed over the last 24 hours, so nobody can swing a rate by moving money around.

How to Read the Board

1. Pick the server your money leaves under From.
2. Pick the server it arrives on under To.
3. The middle shows the current rate, the fee for that direction, and a worked example. The ⇄ button swaps the direction.

Under each server you can see its total supply, player count, and a 30-day supply chart. You can type in the server dropdowns to search.

The Fee

Every transfer pays a fee, and the fee is destroyed. Nobody receives it; it leaves the network's economy entirely.

• The fee starts at 15%.
• It rises for transfers that would multiply in value (small economy into a large one), up to 70%.
• The exact fee for your chosen direction is always shown on the board and again on your quote before you confirm anything.

The Limits

• Minimum transfer: 1,000¤ per transfer.
• Weekly receive limit: you can receive at most 10,000¤ per week on any one server, counted after the fee. The page shows how much room you have left, and the most you can send right now.
• New servers: servers younger than 30 days cannot take part yet.
• Unavailable directions: if a direction would pay out more than 3 times what you send, it is closed until the economies move closer together. The board tells you when this applies.

Signing In

No password and no email. You prove who you are through the game:

1. Be online on any PlayCDU server.
2. Type your Minecraft username on the page and press Send code.
3. An 8-digit code appears in your in-game chat.
4. Type the code on the page and press Verify.

Making a Transfer

1. Pick the From and To servers on the rate board.
2. Check the cards: your balance on the sending server, how much you can still receive this week, and the most you can send. The max button fills in the largest amount that fits.
3. Enter an amount and press Get quote. The quote shows exactly what you send, the conversion, the fee, and what you receive. It is locked for 120 seconds.
4. Press Confirm. Done.

Your balances update immediately on both servers. Check with /eco balance in game; the transfer also appears in your /eco history on both servers, and you get a chat message confirming it.

Common Questions

“The page says my player is not online.” You must be connected to a PlayCDU server when you request the code, because the code is delivered to your in-game chat.

“My quote expired.” Quotes lock the numbers for 120 seconds. Just request a new one; the rate will be the same or very close.

“Why did I get less than the rate suggests?” The fee. The quote always shows the exact breakdown before you confirm.

“Can I move money back?” Yes, in any open direction, but each leg pays its own fee, so a round trip always costs money.

“Where does the fee go?” Nowhere. It is burned, permanently removing that money from the economy.

Tickets

Tickets are special redeemable items that unlock perks like server ranks or chat prefixes. They can be bought, sold, and traded like regular items.

• Hold a ticket and right-click to open the redemption screen.
• Use /ticket check to verify a ticket before buying.

Economy Log

Every transaction you make is recorded — salary payments, auction house buys/sales, chest shop transactions, player payments, and trades.

Access it from the /eco hub (book icon) or with /eco log.

Balance Privacy

Toggle your balance between Public and Private in the /eco hub or with /eco toggleBalancePrivacy.

• Public — Visible to everyone, appears on /baltop.
• Private — Only you can see your balance.