Friends & Social
The Social menu: friend codes, adding and chatting with friends, the achievements timeline, gifts, and what lights the RANKS button.
Overview
SOCIAL opens from the 
RANKS button beside LAUNCH on the board — THE HOARD has the same button beside its action button (see Menu & HUD). It is one sheet with five tabs — FRIENDS, TIMELINE, LEADERBOARD, TRADE and GUILD — and it is where everything multiplayer lives: adding friends, chatting, gifting stickers and potions, trading pets, racing the hiscores and running a guild. The Invite Friends screen opens from the bottom of the FRIENDS tab.
Your friend code
Every account gets a permanent friend code made of 8 letters and digits, drawn from 23456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ — there is never a 0, 1, I, L, O or U, so a code can be read out loud without confusion. The game shows it as ARC-ABCD-2345-style groups; friends can type it with or without the dashes and in any case.
- Format
ARC-ABCD-2345(the ARC- prefix is decoration — only the 8 characters matter)- Where to find it
- Top of the FRIENDS tab (tap to copy), on your title-screen profile card, and in Settings as your Support ID
- Also used as
- Your invite / referral code — the share link is built from the same code
Adding friends
- Open the FRIENDS tab, type a name or a code into the Name or ARC-XXXX-XXXX… box and press LOOKUP. Searching by name finds any player whose name contains what you typed; a code finds exactly one player.
- Send a request. The other player sees it at the top of their FRIENDS tab with ACCEPT / DECLINE. Only one pending request can exist between two players at a time; if you both request each other, accepting one clears the other.
- Friendship is mutual — you appear in each other's lists — and lists are capped at 100 friends. A request is refused if either list is full ("Friend list is full (100/100). Remove a friend before adding more.").
- Guildmates can be added straight from the guild roster (+ FRIEND), and raid teammates from the team lobby.
Your friends list
- Filter chips ONLINE / ALL / BLOCKED, a search box ("Search friends by name…") and an n/100 capacity chip that turns gold at 80% and red when full.
- A friend counts as online if they have been active in the last 5m. Online friends sort to the top, then everyone A→Z.
- Each friend's tile shows their gate (the chat drawer's list too). Friend requests scroll in their own box above the list, so the list itself stays in view.
- Tap a friend to open their profile; the tile also offers CHAT, and a menu with UNFRIEND, BLOCK and REPORT.
Blocking
Blocking removes the friendship and stops that player from sending you requests or messages; they cannot tell they were blocked (they simply see "Cannot add this player."). The BLOCKED filter lists everyone you have blocked with an UNBLOCK button.
Chat
Press CHAT on any friend to open a private conversation. Messages are up to 280 characters; you must be friends (and not blocked either way) to send. Unread messages light the Social button and show a count on the friend's tile.
Guilds have their own room — see Guild chat.
Timeline
The TIMELINE tab is a feed of your friends' achievements, newest first — on this sheet and on the chat drawer's own TIMELINE tab. Every entry is a friend's name, one of the lines below and the art of what they got (the pet, the world's globe, the gate, the item, the statue…). Your own achievements appear on their timelines the same way. It holds your friends' last 300 entries; scroll for more.
| Reads as | Posted when | More |
|---|---|---|
| … reached Arcade 40 | A friend reaches a new Arcade level. | Read more |
| … unlocked Meadow Mole | A friend owns a pet species for the first time. | Read more |
| … pulled a LEGENDARY Octopus | A high-rarity pet from a pet crate. | Read more |
| … found a SHINY Fox | A shiny pet is rolled. | Read more |
| … hatched their Dragon | An egg pet hatches. | Read more |
| … 2-starred Piggy | A pet is fused to 2★. | Read more |
| … 3-starred Piggy | A pet is fused to 3★. | Read more |
| … maxed Rabbit to Lv 100 | A pet reaches its level cap. | Read more |
| … unlocked World 2 · Aurora | A friend opens the portal to a new world. | Read more |
| … cashed out a Jackpot — 1.2M coins · 5 gems | A Jackpot Frenzy cash-out. | Read more |
| … completed the FULL Endless Summer album! | A sticker set or a whole album is completed (gold and rainbow have no sets - only the full gold album). | Read more |
| … got the Beach Ball sticker from Pool Party | A friend answers a sticker request. | Read more |
| … claimed the grand prize | A Ticket Trove grand prize is claimed. | Read more |
| … found a RARE pet item: Lucky Penny | A rare-or-better pet item drops. | Read more |
| … brought back Miner's Headlamp from an EXPEDITION | A pet item from an expedition or a Boneyard dig. | Read more |
| … won a LEGENDARY Coin Charm from a MEGA WIN! | A pet item drops from a MEGA WIN. | Read more |
| … flipped 5 HEADS in a row — 250 Pet Essence! | A perfect Pet Essence coin-flip streak in the ARCADE. | Read more |
| … cleared the MINES board — 1.5K balls! | A full Mines board clear. | Read more |
| … shook a BUSH loose in the Ball Grove (2/3 planted) | A bush is knocked loose in the Ball Grove. | Read more |
| … found Bramble Hedgehog in the Ball Grove! | A pet is found in the Ball Grove. | Read more |
| … lit the THIRD purple star on Owl — fully amplified | A pet is fully amplified in the Ball Grove. | Read more |
| … broke GATE 7 — opened THE FORGE | A gate is broken. | Read more |
| … found Warlord Hyena in a hoard chest! | A hoard pet drops from a hoard chest. | Read more |
| … opened a CHAMPION CHEST — 1K gems · 500 balls | Every Champion chest, with all it paid. | Read more |
| … hit the GEM JACKPOT — 100K gems from a CHAMPION CHEST! | A hoard chest hits the gem jackpot. | Read more |
| … upgraded SOCKETED GEODE to GILDED | An artifact is upgraded to GILDED or DIVINE. | Read more |
| … built the PROSPECTOR statue | A statue is built, and again at SILVER and GOLD. | Read more |
| … found the HORNED SKULL recipe | A fossil recipe is learned for the first time. | Read more |
| … unlocked the Pinball Ace skin! | A new skin is unlocked. | Read more |
| … earned the Tycoon title | An achievement title is earned. | Read more |
| … got the BALLIN BUNDLE! | The Ballin Bundle is bought. | Read more |
| … rolled a 100% QUALITY Coin Gremlin! | A pet from the Summoning Altar rolls a perfect 100% quality. | Read more |
| … unlocked Bone Crown — a new collection log entry! | A notable drop from the Boss Raid. | Read more |
Trade tab
TRADE gathers everything friends can hand each other, with a TODAY card showing how much of each daily allowance you have used (all daily counters reset together at midnight UTC).
| Gift | Rule | Details |
|---|---|---|
 Sticker request | 1 request per day; one unanswered request at a time | Ask a friend who holds a spare of a sticker you are missing — from the sticker's zoom card in your album. Accepting hands over one of their duplicates. Cancelling an unanswered ask gives the day's request back. See Sticker requests. |
| Pet trade | 1 trade sent and 1 received per day | The two pets swap owners and restart at level 1 (an evolved pet at level 100). Offers wait here for OFFER / ACCEPT / DECLINE. See Pet trading. |
 Ballin Potion gift | 5 shares per rolling 24 h | Use a potion alone for 10m of fast ball regen (1 ball every 2s), or pick SHARE WITH A FRIEND: you get 20m and the friend gets a 20m gift to claim here — for one potion. One pending gift per friend; unclaimed gifts expire after 7d. See Items. |
Notifications
A red dot on the RANKS button lights up whenever any of these is waiting for you:
| Signal | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Friend request | Someone sent you a request (FRIENDS tab). |
| Unread chat | A friend or your guild room has a message you have not read. |
| Sticker request | A friend asked you for a spare sticker (TRADE tab). |
| Pending trade | A friend proposed or countered a pet trade (TRADE tab). |
| Potion gift | A friend shared a Ballin Potion with you (TRADE tab). |
| Guild invite | A guild leader invited you to their guild. |
| Join request | Guild leaders only: a player asked to join your guild. |
Trophies (retired)
Tips
- Your friend code is also your invite code — sharing the invite link adds new players and pays gems.
- Ask for stickers early in the day: the 1-per-day allowance and the pet-trade allowance reset at midnight UTC, not 24 hours after use.
- Sharing a Ballin Potion doubles its length for you (10m → 20m) and costs nothing extra — always share.
- Joining a guild unlocks free ball gifts and account-wide perks; guilds open when you break gate 3 in THE HOARD (see Gates).
See also
- Guilds — Founding and joining a guild, the 16-level XP ladder, free ball gifting, account-wide perks, ranks, chat and the crest.
- Referrals — Your referral link: 100 balls for each of your first 100 new friends who finish the intro, gems on the way, the Courier Pigeon at 25, a skin at 50 and wings at 100.
- Leaderboards — The hiscores: the 6 player boards led by GATES, the top-three podium, the guild, Boss Raid and Ball Grove tabs, and your profile rankings.
- Pet Trading — Pet swaps between friends: the propose/counter/accept flow, which pets can be traded, what travels with them and the daily limits.
- Player Profile — Your public profile: the title banner and its LEVEL / GATE / WORLD / PET SCORE chips, progress, the pet showcase, global rankings, and the title and colour picker.
- Sticker Requests — Ask a friend for a spare sticker: 1 request per day, one open at a time, gifts come from spares — gold and rainbow copies included.