Ball Factory

Overview

The BALL FACTORY is a floor of gumball machines that make balls while you are away. Each machine is a workbench: a pet stands at it and forges bars into balls, which pile up in the machine's hopper until you claim them. A machine with no pet, or no bars, makes nothing.

Any pet works a machine at the machine's normal pace. A good worker — purple stars, an evolution, a FORGE nature — works it up to 2.88× faster, and better bars fill the hopper faster still.

The machines

Coin bays are bought in order, and the later ones also need their world unlocked on the board. The two premium bays cost gems, not money — they are the FACTORY MACHINE row of the Shop's GEM UPGRADES (and can be bought from the factory floor too), need no world, and are bought in order. Anyone who bought one while they were paid items keeps it. Every bay has its own machine art; a machine's level shows as its frame (brass, chrome, neon, gold).

The 8 bays

	Machine	World	Price	Needs	Lv 2–10 upgrades (total)	Drops fuel	Shiny Gumball
	Meadow	World 1	50K	none	2.04M	Carnival Fuel	World 1
	Twin Globe	World 1	250K	none	10.2M	Carnival Fuel	World 1
	Aurora	World 2	5M	World 2 unlocked	204M	Aurora Fuel	World 2
	Flora	World 3	25M	World 3 unlocked	1.02B	Flora Fuel	World 3
	Maelstrom	World 4	125M	World 4 unlocked	5.11B	Maelstrom Fuel	World 4
	Inferno	World 5	500M	World 5 unlocked	20.4B	Inferno Fuel	World 5
	Chrome Deluxe	PREMIUM	50,000	none	10.2M	Premium Fuel	never
	Royal Gold	PREMIUM	150,000	none	51M	Premium Fuel	never

Levels

A machine levels from 1 to 10 with coins. Even levels open storage — the hopper is a 5 × 2 grid of slots behind glass panes, each open slot holding one stack of 200 balls — and odd levels add speed. The numbers below are for a plain worker forging the first bar in the game (Tin), with no items, fuel, gears or gumballs.

Upgrade prices are a percentage of the bay's value, so a late bay's upgrades cost far more than an early one's:

Machine	Bay value	To Lv 2	To Lv 6	To Lv 10
Meadow	100K	64K	182K	520K
Twin Globe	500K	320K	910K	2.6M
Aurora	10M	6.4M	18.2M	52M
Flora	50M	32M	91M	260M
Maelstrom	250M	160M	455M	1.3B
Inferno	1B	640M	1.82B	5.2B
Chrome Deluxe	500K	320K	910K	2.6M
Royal Gold	2.5M	1.6M	4.55M	13M

The worker pet

Tap the WORKER card on a machine's bench to pick a pet. A working pet is busy: it cannot also be on the board or on an expedition, and it cannot be traded until you take it off the bench (One pet, one job). It can still stand in the Hoard, which takes any pet. Moving a pet between machines is allowed.

Work speed is the pet's work power — the same number the Hoard and the mines read — scaled so that the best pet there is (a Lv 200 evolved 3★ mythic with three purple stars) works at 105% of the pace a machine ran at before it needed a pet. Every step helps:

• Rarity and level (to 200 once evolved), fusion stars, purple stars from Ball Grove amplification, evolved and shiny.
• The spread is softened (power to the 0.5), so a brand-new pet still runs a machine at about 42%.
• Then the pet's nature multiplies the total: ×1.15 if it raises FORGE (Fiery, Crafty, Patient), ×0.9 if it lowers it (Earthy, Nimble, Rowdy).

The worst possible worker still runs at 38%. Work speed multiplies everything else the machine has — its level, Production Upgrades, fuel and Power Gears.

Bars

Tap the BARS card to load a machine with any bar you have crafted. The worker forges them one action at a time. An action always takes the time 10 balls take at the machine's speed — but a better bar makes more balls per action, so the hopper fills faster. The first bar (Tin) makes 10 balls an action and every step up the bar ladder makes one more, to 39 for Embersteel — ×3.9 the speed.

Storage does not change with the bar. A machine holds at most one full hopper's worth of actions, so loading is a trip you make each time you claim, not a silo you fill once. One action eats 1 bar, in every world.

All 30 bars as factory feed

	Bar	World	Balls / action	Fill speed	Bars / action	Full load, Lv 1 (actions)	Full load, Lv 10 (actions)
	Tin Bar	World 1	10	×1	1	20	120
	Copper Bar	World 1	11	×1.1	1	19	110
	Silver Bar	World 1	12	×1.2	1	17	100
	Gold Bar	World 1	13	×1.3	1	16	93
	Verdite Bar	World 1	14	×1.4	1	15	86
	Crimsonite Bar	World 1	15	×1.5	1	14	80
	Frostite Bar	World 2	16	×1.6	1	13	75
	Rimebronze Bar	World 2	17	×1.7	1	12	71
	Snowsilver Bar	World 2	18	×1.8	1	12	67
	Stargold Bar	World 2	19	×1.9	1	11	64
	Auroranium Bar	World 2	20	×2	1	10	60
	Hollysteel Bar	World 2	21	×2.1	1	10	58
	Stonebark Bar	World 3	22	×2.2	1	10	55
	Oakbronze Bar	World 3	23	×2.3	1	9	53
	Bloomsilver Bar	World 3	24	×2.4	1	9	50
	Leafgold Bar	World 3	25	×2.5	1	8	48
	Sylvanite Bar	World 3	26	×2.6	1	8	47
	Rosesteel Bar	World 3	27	×2.7	1	8	45
	Brinium Bar	World 4	28	×2.8	1	8	43
	Tidebronze Bar	World 4	29	×2.9	1	7	42
	Pearlsilver Bar	World 4	30	×3	1	7	40
	Sunkgold Bar	World 4	31	×3.1	1	7	39
	Kelpsteel Bar	World 4	32	×3.2	1	7	38
	Coralsteel Bar	World 4	33	×3.3	1	7	37
	Ashiron Bar	World 5	34	×3.4	1	6	36
	Cinderbrass Bar	World 5	35	×3.5	1	6	35
	Smokesilver Bar	World 5	36	×3.6	1	6	34
	Pyrogold Bar	World 5	37	×3.7	1	6	33
	Venomite Bar	World 5	38	×3.8	1	6	32
	Embersteel Bar	World 5	39	×3.9	1	6	31

Collecting

Balls pile up in the hopper, stack by stack, until it is full — then the machine stops. Tap a machine and CLAIM to move them to your ball wallet; claiming also spends the bars those balls were made from. The factory tile and nav button show a dot when a machine is full. A machine that is standing still says why on its card: NEEDS A PET or LOAD BARS.

Machine upgrades and fuel

Every ball a machine makes rolls for these drops. Machine upgrades sit in a machine's two item slots and stack (two Production Upgrades = +20%). Fuel is a one-use can burnt on one machine: it boosts production for 2h (Premium Fuel for 6h). You can queue as many cans as you like; they burn one after another. A machine only drops its own world's fuel.

	Item	Kind	Effect	Drop chance per ball	Drops from
	Production Upgrade	UPGRADE SLOT	+10% production on this machine	0.005% (1 in 20,000)	Any machine
	Storage Upgrade	UPGRADE SLOT	+10% storage on this machine	0.005% (1 in 20,000)	Any machine
	Gem Spreader	UPGRADE SLOT	Every 100 balls this machine makes bank a gem	0.001% (1 in 100,000)	Any machine
	Carnival Fuel	FUEL	+10% production for 2 hours	0.1% (1 in 1,000)	World 1 machine
	Aurora Fuel	FUEL	+20% production for 2 hours	0.1% (1 in 1,000)	World 2 machine
	Flora Fuel	FUEL	+30% production for 2 hours	0.1% (1 in 1,000)	World 3 machine
	Maelstrom Fuel	FUEL	+40% production for 2 hours	0.1% (1 in 1,000)	World 4 machine
	Inferno Fuel	FUEL	+50% production for 2 hours	0.1% (1 in 1,000)	World 5 machine
	Premium Fuel	FUEL	+50% production for 6 hours	0.1% (1 in 1,000)	Premium bays

A Gem Spreader banks 1 gem for every 100 balls the machine makes, in its own hopper slot, claimed with the balls.

Shiny Gumballs, Power Gears and artifacts

• Shiny Gumballs — one per world (5 in all). Every ball a coin machine makes has a 0.004% (1 in 25,000) chance to be its world's Shiny Gumball (World 1 has two machines rolling for it; premium machines never roll). Each one found makes every machine hold +10% more, up to ×1.5.
• Power Gears — one per world (5 in all), a 0.001% (1 in 100,000) drop from real ball landings on that world's board. Each gear makes every machine +10% faster, up to ×1.5.
• Hoard artifacts GEAR GREASE and WIDE HOPPER multiply factory speed and storage again.

Tips

• Put a pet on every machine you own the moment you unlock the factory — any pet works, and an empty bench earns nothing.
• Your factory workers should be pets you do not need elsewhere: rarity and level are wasted here, so a low-rarity pet with purple stars or a FORGE nature is ideal.
• Feed the best bar you can spare. The hopper fills faster, and the machine needs fewer actions for a full load.
• Claim and reload before a long break so no machine sits full or dry.
• Save fuel for your highest-level machines; the boost is a percentage of what the machine already makes.