Gift Rocket on TikTok LIVE: which gifts to map and what viewers can trigger
In Gift Rocket, every gift adds thrust to a rocket that climbs an altitude gauge on your stream, and you choose which gifts count as a normal Boost or a Mega Boost. This guide covers which gifts to put in each tier, how to pace the climb, and what else your viewers can use to push it.
How Gift Rocket works in one minute
Gift Rocket is a browser overlay for OBS, so there is nothing to install. Gifts add thrust, and the rocket climbs an altitude gauge live on screen. You pick a target altitude, and chat's job is to get there.
The only real decisions you make are which gifts count as a Boost, which count as a Mega Boost, and how high the target is. Get those three right and the stream more or less runs itself.
Which gifts to map to which tier
Gift Rocket has two gift tiers. A Boost is worth 5 km by default and a Mega Boost is worth 30 km by default. That means one Mega Boost equals six regular Boosts, which is a useful number when you decide where each gift goes.
The simple rule is to match the size of the moment to the size of the gift. Cheap gifts should feel good to send often, and expensive gifts should feel like an event.
- Boost: the cheapest gifts in your gift panel, plus the small ones viewers send in bursts. These are the steady climb.
- Mega Boost: one or two big gifts you would actually want to stop and react to. Keep the list short so the tier stays special.
- Leave the awkward middle out at first. If a mid-priced gift doesn't clearly belong in either tier, skip it and add it after your first stream once you see what viewers actually send.
- Map the gifts your chat already sends. A gift nobody sends is a dead slot, so check your recent streams before you fill the tiers.
If you are not sure what each gift costs your viewers or earns you, run the numbers first. The free gift and earnings calculator is handy for that, and it needs no account.
Free gift & earnings calculator →
Pacing cheap gifts against big ones
Your target altitude decides how the whole stream feels. Set it too low and a single Mega Boost ends the round before anyone has time to care. Set it too high and viewers stop believing they can reach it.
Think about it in terms of your usual audience. With the default values, a target of 100 km takes roughly twenty regular Boosts, or a few Mega Boosts plus some smaller ones. If you normally get a trickle of gifts, aim lower. If you regularly get gift bursts, aim higher.
A good first target is one you expect to hit around the middle of your stream, not in the first ten minutes. You can always raise it for the next round.
- Start with a target you think is slightly too easy. A win early gets people sending more.
- Raise the target between rounds, not during one. Moving the goal mid-climb feels like cheating.
- If the rocket stalls, tell chat exactly how far it is from the target. A concrete number gets more gifts than a vague call to help.
Helpful versus harmful: there is no sabotage here
If you came looking for gifts that hurt the streamer, Gift Rocket doesn't have them. Every trigger pushes the rocket up. There are no enemies to spawn, no penalties, and nothing viewers can send to drag the altitude down.
That makes it an easy first interactive. Nobody can grief the stream, and you never have to explain why a gift did something bad. The tension comes from the target instead, and from whether chat can get there in time.
If you want gifts that cause chaos, look at the other TikPlays games. Several of them let viewers spawn enemies, change the weather or nuke things, and the games page lists them all.
What else viewers can trigger
Gifts aren't the only way to add thrust. Follows and shares can push the rocket too, which gives viewers who don't spend anything a real way to take part. Here is the full list of triggers:
Follows and shares are on by default. Likes and joining the stream are off by default, so you have to switch them on yourself if you want them.
Should you turn on likes and joins?
Likes are worth 1 km per 100 likes when enabled. For a small stream that is a nice way to keep the gauge moving between gifts. For a big stream with heavy tapping, likes can swamp the gift tiers and make your Boosts feel small.
Joining the stream is worth 2 km when enabled. It sounds harmless, but people joining and leaving can add thrust without doing anything. Leave it off if you want the climb to reflect real effort.
A reasonable approach is to start with both off, watch one stream, and then turn on likes if the rocket sits still for long stretches.
Fun combos to try
Because the tiers and the non-gift triggers are separate, you can build small routines around them. These work well on a stream where chat is already active.
- The follow push: ask new viewers to follow and watch the gauge jump 5 km. It is the same as a regular Boost, so a follow is worth as much as a small gift.
- The share relay: ask chat to share the stream, worth 3 km each. Sharing also brings in new viewers, so it helps twice.
- Mega finish: keep a Mega Boost gift in reserve for the last stretch. When the rocket is one Mega Boost short of the target, say so out loud.
- Tier swap: run one round with a cheap gift as the Boost and a different cheap gift as the Mega Boost, then compare which round got more gifts. It's a simple way to learn what your audience likes.
- Countdown rounds: give chat a fixed time to reach the target and announce how far they are every few minutes.
Setting it up with TikPlays
Gift Rocket is one of the 32 interactives included in a TikPlays subscription. Setup takes three steps, and there is no port forwarding and no installer for this one, since it is an OBS browser-source game.
It also works alongside TikTok LIVE Studio or OBS. If you already use goal bars, top-gifter overlays or a giveaway wheel, they sit in the same scene. Overlays are just links you paste in as a browser source.
- Add the Gift Rocket overlay URL from your dashboard as a browser source in OBS.
- Map gifts to boost tiers and pick a target altitude.
- Go live.
Overlays, Spotify requests and giveaways →
A first-stream plan
Keep the first round simple. Map your three or four most common cheap gifts as Boosts and one big gift as a Mega Boost. Leave likes and joins off and use a target you expect to reach about halfway through.
During the stream, keep the altitude visible and talk about it. Read out how far the rocket has left to go, thank people when a gift moves it, and reset the target when you hit it. After the stream, look at which gifts people actually sent and adjust the tiers.