diff --git a/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs b/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs
index d9c8f63..3ffa50b 100644
--- a/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs
+++ b/overlay/oxide/plugins/RunicGateway.cs
@@ -1372,8 +1372,10 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             // The map's sets are seeded here for the same reason: a hotload hears no spawns.
             SeedMapSets();
 
-            // Hand BetterChat the title getter, if it is here. When it loads later, or reloads and
-            // forgets us, OnPluginLoaded does this again (§33.1).
+            // The titles this plugin last held, if they are this wipe's (D144), and then the getter
+            // handed to BetterChat, if it is here. When it loads later, or reloads and forgets us,
+            // OnPluginLoaded does this again (§33.1).
+            LoadTitles();
             RegisterTitles("load");
 
             // Started here rather than in Init: this hook fires both at the end of server startup
@@ -8459,8 +8461,15 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
         /// <summary>
         ///     The chat titles players have earned on this server, by Steam id, already in
         ///     BetterChat's markup. The website composes them from the wipe's standings and pushes
-        ///     the whole set (<c>titles.set</c>); nothing here is persisted, because the site sends
-        ///     it again on every boot it has not sent to.
+        ///     the whole set (<c>titles.set</c>).
+        ///
+        ///     <para>
+        ///     <b>Kept on disk as well (D144).</b> The site re-sends on a new boot id or wipe id, and
+        ///     a hot reload of this plugin — an update, an <c>oxide.reload</c> — is neither: the boot
+        ///     id names the server process. Without the file a reload empties every title until the
+        ///     standings next move. A file from another wipe is not loaded, because titles rank the
+        ///     wipe they were earned on.
+        ///     </para>
         ///
         ///     <para>
         ///     <b>Swapped, never edited.</b> BetterChat reads this through <see cref="TitleFor"/> on
@@ -8598,6 +8607,7 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             }
 
             _titles = next;
+            SaveTitles();
 
             // A BetterChat that arrived without us hearing it load is picked up here, which also
             // makes a restart of either plugin heal on the site's next push.
@@ -8622,6 +8632,65 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             EmitFrame(reply);
         }
 
+        /// <summary>What <c>titles.json</c> holds: the set, and the wipe it was pushed on.</summary>
+        private sealed class TitleFile
+        {
+            public string WipeId;
+            public Dictionary<string, string> Titles = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+        }
+
+        private string TitlesPath()
+        {
+            return Path.Combine(Interface.Oxide.DataDirectory, Name, "titles.json");
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Main thread. Written on every set the site pushes — a set arrives only when it changed.</summary>
+        private void SaveTitles()
+        {
+            var file = new TitleFile { WipeId = _wipeId };
+
+            foreach (KeyValuePair<ulong, string> kv in _titles)
+                file.Titles[kv.Key.ToString()] = kv.Value;
+
+            WriteDataFile(TitlesPath(), file, "titles");
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     Main thread, from <c>OnServerInitialized</c> — the first moment the wipe id is real.
+        ///     A file from another wipe, or with no wipe, is left unread: the site sends this wipe's.
+        /// </summary>
+        private void LoadTitles()
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                string path = TitlesPath();
+
+                if (!File.Exists(path))
+                    return;
+
+                var file = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TitleFile>(File.ReadAllText(path));
+
+                if (file == null || file.Titles == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(_wipeId) || file.WipeId != _wipeId)
+                    return;
+
+                var loaded = new Dictionary<ulong, string>();
+
+                foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kv in file.Titles)
+                {
+                    ulong id;
+                    if (ulong.TryParse(kv.Key, out id) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(kv.Value))
+                        loaded[id] = kv.Value;
+                }
+
+                _titles = loaded;
+                _lastTitlesSummary = $"{loaded.Count} titles from disk, at={DateTime.UtcNow:HH:mm:ss}Z";
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                Puts($"could not read the titles: {Flatten(ex.Message)}");
+            }
+        }
+
         private void EmitTitlesError(string reqId, string reason, string message)
         {
             Dictionary<string, object> frame = Frame("titles.error", "reply");