Getting Started

What is Ballin Tycoon?

Ballin Tycoon is an idle ball-drop arcade. You launch balls down a peg board; the coloured bin each ball lands in pays coins, gems, balls, gold balls — and a guaranteed piece of ore. Ore gives you XP and is smelted into bars; bars buy upgrades; the upgrades arm the pets you station in THE HOARD, where they crack chests and batter down a ladder of 50 gates. Every gate you break opens more of the game — new modes, new machines, new menus.

Around that loop sit the ARCADE machine (coins in, levels and Marquee stats out), pets from the Pet Crates, 5 worlds behind padlocked doors, and prestige, which resets the temporary part of your progress for permanent power. It runs in the browser and as a phone app, keeps earning while you are away, and every drop rate in it is public — see Rates & Odds.

The core loop

1. Launch balls. You start with 500 balls and regenerate one every 30s up to your cap (500 to begin with). Tap LAUNCH, or switch the bar to AUTO to fire one every 0.5 s. Up to 100 balls can be on the board at once. → The board
2. Bins pay loot and ore. Seven tiers from Grey to Diamond. Higher tiers pay more coins, drop gems and gold balls, and the top three chip the world lock. Every bin except Diamond also pays the metal ore of its colour — TIN, COPPER, SILVER, GOLD, VERDITE, CRIMSONITE in World 1 — and each world has its own 6 metals. → Bucket rates, Ores & bars
3. Ore is XP. Every ore you collect fills the green XP bar at the top of the screen. Your player level opens new upgrade rows and, at level 10, PRESTIGE. The level cap starts at 10 and rises by 5 for every gate you have broken.
4. Craft bars, buy upgrades. MENU → CRAFTING turns ore into bars (4 Tin ore per Tin bar; richer metals take more). MENU → UPGRADES spends bars on rows such as GATE DAMAGE, HOARD POWER, GATE ACCURACY, ORE YIELD. → Crafting, Upgrades
5. Work THE HOARD. The HOARD tab on the bottom bar is a second screen where your pets go to work: they crack chests for shards, balls, gems and artifacts, and you send them against the current gate. It is its own screen, so any pet you own can stand in it — even the ones on the board. → The Hoard, Hoard chests
6. Break gates to unlock the game. An attack lasts 30s and then the gate is on a 20m cooldown; damage carries over between attacks. Gates give no stats — each one opens content instead (table under Next goals). Gate 1 opens THE ARMORY; the last is gate 50. → Gates
7. Coins go into the ARCADE. Every launch on the pinball machine costs 1,000 coins × your stake and scores points into the Arcade level bar. Every Arcade level pays one Marquee reward — lock damage, coin gain, gate damage, ball storage, pet inventory — up to Arcade level 500. → The Arcade
8. Gems buy pets. A pet crate costs 200 gems in World 1 · Meadow (+100 per world). Pets ride along with passive buffs; feed them gold balls to level them, fuse three copies for a star, salvage spares for Pet Essence . Every pet also has a nature that makes it better at one job and worse at another. → Pets, Pet Crates
9. Break the lock, hop worlds. Emerald, Ruby and Diamond landings damage the padlocked door beside the bins. Aurora needs 25K HP; breaking any lock pays 1,000 gems and each new world brings new bins, ores, pets and pet cards. → Worlds
10. Prestige. At level 10 you can prestige: your level, ore, bars, upgrade rows and bounties reset, and you are paid Prestige Points to spend on permanent heirlooms. Gates, pets, the Armory, the Marquee and everything you have unlocked stay. → Prestige

The bins (World 1 values)

Coins per landing are flat and later worlds multiply them (×1.375 in Aurora, ×2.8 in Inferno). Ore is guaranteed on every landing; gem and ball drops are a chance, and the exact odds for every world are on Bucket rates. The XP figure is per ore in World 1 — later worlds pay their world number times as much.

Bin	Ore	Coins	Gems	Gold balls	Also
Grey	TIN (1 XP)	100	—	2	portals
Bronze	COPPER (2 XP)	200	—	5	portals
Silver	SILVER (3 XP)	300	—	10	portals, sticker packs, time candy
Gold	GOLD (5 XP)	600	2	20	portals, sticker packs, time candy
Emerald	VERDITE (10 XP)	1,200	4	30	sticker packs, time candy, lock damage ×1
Ruby	CRIMSONITE (20 XP)	2,000	6	50	sticker packs, time candy, lock damage ×1.5
Diamond	none — the gem bin	—	—	—	lock damage ×20, JACKPOT FRENZY

Your first hour: the intro tasks

A new account has no tutorial to sit through. Instead one task at a time appears in a slim INTRO TASKS bar across the top of the board, with a progress count and the reward it pays. Tap the bar for a hint about where to go; when the task is done a green COMPLETE TASK button hangs under it, and it tells you what claiming it UNLOCKS. While a task points at a menu, the MENU button pulses and the right tile is ringed. There are 25 tasks and they take you through every part of the core loop once. → Intro tasks

The intro ladder — 25 tasks

#	Task	Reward	Unlocks
1	Launch 25 balls	60 balls	—
2	Collect 25 Tin ore	100,000 coins	CRAFTING
3	Craft 5 Tin bars	Free pet crate — always a Lucky Rabbit	UPGRADES
4	Open a Pet Crate	150 balls	ARCADE
5	Level up the ARCADE	50 gems	SHOP
6	Launch balls until you hit the Diamond Jackpot	Free pet crate — always a Silver Magpie	—
7	Open another Pet Crate	Free pet crate — always a Lucky Rabbit	—
8	Open a Pet Crate	60 gold balls	—
9	Equip the Magpie and the Rabbit	Free pet crate — always a Lucky Rabbit	COIN GAIN
10	Open one more Pet Crate	500 Pet Essence	PET FUSION
11	Fuse 3 of the same pet	100 balls	—
12	Collect 150 Copper ore	100 balls	—
13	Craft 10 Copper bars	3,000 coins	GATE ACCURACY
14	Upgrade Gate Accuracy	50 gold balls	THE HOARD
15	Upgrade Gate Damage	400 gold balls	—
16	Put a pet in the Hoard	Free pet crate — always a Lucky Rabbit	—
17	Level up the Rabbit 10 times	60 gold balls	ORE YIELD
18	Open a Pet Crate	150 gems	SALVAGE
19	Salvage a spare pet	500 Pet Essence	—
20	Reach level 10	100 gold balls	PRESTIGE
21	Prestige	100 gems	—
22	Unearth an heirloom and level it up	200 gems	—
23	Attack the gate	100 gold balls	DOUBLE BALL
24	Claim the Shop free gift	500 gold balls	—
25	Your adventure begins	1 Hoard chest key	—

The last task asks nothing of you: its bar fills itself, 0 to 100% in about 10 seconds, and claims itself - no button - paying a Hoard chest key and ending the intro with a send-off. The key is yours to use whenever you like: in THE HOARD, USE KEY under a chest that is still cracking opens it on the spot. While you play as a guest, each time you come back the welcome-back page is followed by a reminder to save your progress with an account (creating one pays a free pet crate opening).

• The free pulls are rigged in your favour. 5 tasks pay a free pet crate, and each always lands a named pet (4 × Lucky Rabbit, 1 × Silver Magpie) so that you have the copies the fusion and salvage steps ask for. Free-roll copies are ordinary pets: they trade and salvage for full essence like any other (only the bonus gem roll on salvage is skipped).
• XP is doubled until the ladder is done. Every bin landing pays ×2 XP while the intro tasks are running, so level 10 (the first prestige) comes in about half the balls. The bonus stops with your first prestige.
• The jackpot task is guaranteed. While "Launch balls until you hit the Diamond Jackpot" is up, a lucky portal chain into the Diamond bin is on its way — just keep launching in World 1.
• Menus open as you go. CRAFTING, UPGRADES, the SHOP, SALVAGE, PET FUSION, the ARCADE and THE HOARD are all locked behind a TASKS chip until the task that introduces them is claimed. QUESTS open when the whole ladder is finished.
• Keep a pet spare for the hoard. The salvage menu will not let you break down the pets the later tasks need, but it is still worth remembering that the hoard wants a pet that is not equipped on the board.
• Accounts older than version 3 never see the bar; everything it opens, THE HOARD included, is already open for them.

What to spend on first

Currency	Spend it on	Why
Bars	UPGRADES first, then THE ARMORY once gate 1 falls	Upgrades reset with a prestige, so a run buys the early levels again; each level costs more than the last. Armory rows are permanent — every bar spent there survives every prestige.
Coins	ARCADE launches at ×1 (1,000 each)	Every Arcade level is a permanent Marquee reward. Raise the stake only when coins pile up faster than you can launch.
Gems	Pet crates (200 in World 1)	Pets are the biggest multiplier you control, and the hoard wants a second team of them. Later, founding a guild costs 100.
Gold balls	Feeding the pets you actually use	1 gold ball = 1 pet XP. A common pet reaches Lv100 for about 25K gold balls. A pet's level and stars count in the hoard as well as on the board.
Balls	Launching	They are the fuel, not a currency to hoard — the cap stops regeneration once you hit it.
Pet Essence	Fusion and later Evolution (gate 8)	Salvaging a spare common pays 100 essence; three copies of a pet fuse into the next star for a rarity-priced essence fee.
Prestige Points	Unlocking and levelling heirlooms	They are permanent. The last two intro tasks walk you through your first prestige and your first two heirlooms.

In the Shop the FREE GIFT is the only thing you need to touch early. Nothing in the Shop is required to reach any world or break any gate.

Common mistakes

• Ignoring the hoard. The gates are what open the game. If nothing new has unlocked for a while, check the HOARD tab — a green timer chip on it means an attack is ready.
• Putting every pet on the board. Hoard pets and board pets are separate teams; a pet can only do one job at a time (the same goes for expeditions and the Ball Factory).
• Sitting on ore. Ore does nothing until it is crafted, and bars do nothing until they are spent. Upgrades are wiped by a prestige anyway, so there is no reason to save for them.
• Being afraid to prestige. A prestige only takes the TEMPORARY section of the menu — level, ore, bars, upgrades, bounties. Gates, pets, Armory rows, heirlooms and unlocks are permanent.
• Ignoring the ARCADE. Board balls earn coins but never Arcade levels. Lock damage, coin gain and gate damage from the Marquee only come from launching in the machine.
• Chasing high stakes early. ×10 costs ten times more for ten times the points — identical value, just faster.
• Leaving pets in the inventory. Only equipped pets buff the board (and elusive pets must be activated).
• Salvaging or fusing your only copy. Fusion needs three identical copies at the same star; salvage is for spares.
• Playing as a guest forever. A reinstall or a cleared browser loses a guest account. Save it — it is free and keeps your friend code.
• Forgetting the timers. The FREE GIFT (every 8h), gate attacks (every 20m), daily quests (reset at midnight UTC) and the Sticker Vault (every 1d) all idle if you do not tap them.

Where things are

The screen is the same on every platform: a top bar with your profile circle, level and currencies; the board; the LAUNCH bar with QUESTS and RANKS beside it; your pet row with the bag button; and a bottom bar with the three scene tabs — ARCADE, BOARD, HOARD — plus MENU and the green SHOP. Everything else lives inside MENU. The full tour, button by button, is on Menu & HUD.

Next goals

After the intro tasks, the gate ladder is your to-do list. Every gate below opens something; the number is the gate you have to break. Locked tiles in the MENU show the same gate number on a chip.

What the 50 gates unlock

Gate	Unlock	Type	What it is
1	THE ARMORY	FEATURE	Permanent upgrades, bought with bars. Every gate you break unlocks more of them.	Read more
2	BONUS WHEEL	FEATURE	The bonus wheel starts spinning on the board.	Read more
2	RED DICE	FEATURE	Roll a 6 to enter the Bonus Map — up to 3 runs a day.	Read more
3	GUILDS	FEATURE	Form or join a Guild — chat, ranks, ball gifting, and a badge.	Read more
4	BALL FACTORY	MODE	The machine that builds balls while you are away.	Read more
5	EXPEDITIONS	MODE	Send crews of pets down the mines and bring home ore for your bars.	Read more
6	TICKET TROVE	MODE	The prize machine opens.	Read more
7	STICKER VAULT	FEATURE	Trade spare stickers and Sticker Stars for balls, gems and packs.	Read more
8	BOSS RAID	MODE	Team up and bring down raid bosses.	Read more
8	PET EVOLUTION	FEATURE	Evolve your pets with evolution stones.	Read more
9	TIER 2 HEIRLOOMS	FEATURE	A new tier of heirlooms to unearth with Prestige Points on the PRESTIGE page.	Read more
10	BOUNTIES	MODE	Hand in bars for Bounty Points, and spend them on upgrades that reset each prestige.	Read more
11	ACHIEVEMENTS	FEATURE	Achievements, and the ACHIEVEMENT SHOP they pay into.	Read more
12	SKILL TREE	FEATURE	Spend skill points on the hoard.	Read more
14	TIER 3 HEIRLOOMS	FEATURE	A new tier of heirlooms to unearth with Prestige Points on the PRESTIGE page.	Read more
15	BALL GROVE	MODE	The grove and its baskets open.	Read more
16	WORLD 2 MINESHAFTS	FEATURE	The frozen mines can be bought, and World 2's shop rows start opening.	Read more
18	ASCENSION	MODE	Send spare pets up to the stars for Starlight that never stops.	Read more
19	TIER 4 HEIRLOOMS	FEATURE	A new tier of heirlooms to unearth with Prestige Points on the PRESTIGE page.	Read more
20	RESEARCH HALL	FEATURE	Research and build the statues.	Read more
22	WORLD 3 MINESHAFTS	FEATURE	The overgrown mines can be bought, and World 3's shop rows start opening.	Read more
30	WORLD 4 MINESHAFTS	FEATURE	The drowned mines can be bought, and World 4's shop rows start opening.	Read more
38	WORLD 5 MINESHAFTS	FEATURE	The burning mines can be bought, and World 5's shop rows start opening.	Read more

Gates also raise your level cap (+5 each), open more Armory rows, heirloom tiers and skill tree rows, and move you up the GATES board of the hiscores. Beyond the unlocks, the long-term collections are skins, titles, sticker albums and game completion.

World locks

World	Lock HP	Damaged by	Reward
World 2 · Aurora	25K	Emerald, Ruby & Diamond landings on World 1 · Meadow	1,000	World guide
World 3 · Flora	500K	Emerald, Ruby & Diamond landings on World 2 · Aurora	1,000	World guide
World 4 · Maelstrom	2M	Emerald, Ruby & Diamond landings on World 3 · Flora	1,000	World guide
World 5 · Inferno	15M	Emerald, Ruby & Diamond landings on World 4 · Maelstrom	1,000	World guide

Each landing removes your lock damage × Emerald ×1 / Ruby ×1.5 / Diamond ×20 + 10 flat. Lock damage starts at 1 and rises by 1 with every Lock Damage row of the Marquee.

Tips

• Your friend code (shown as ARC-XXXX-XXXX in SOCIAL) is also your Support ID and your referral link — every brand-new friend who finishes the intro pays 100 balls, and the REFERRALS ladder pays gems, a skin and, at 100 friends, wings.
• Every pet grant, from any source, has a 1 in 1,000 shiny roll.
• The Pet Crates guarantee a mythic on the 400th pull without one, and the first 50 paid pulls in each world after the first are 25% off (225 in Aurora, 300 in Flora, 375 in Maelstrom, 450 in Inferno).
• Time Candy from the bag is instant balls (30 Minute Candy = 60, 1 Hour Candy = 120, 2 Hour Candy = 240, 4 Hour Candy = 480) and can push you over your cap.
• Portals warp a ball back up for a second landing; once gate 2 is broken, 200 portals in a world spin the Bonus Wheel.
• When you come back after a break, the WELCOME BACK card sums up what the game did without you: balls regenerated, balls waiting in the Ball Factory and chests the hoard cracked. → Offline earnings