Pet Salvage & Essence
Turn spare pets into Pet Essence — yields by rarity, the gem bonus, what cannot be salvaged, and everything essence pays for.
Overview
Salvage turns pets you do not need into Pet Essence 
— the currency behind fusion, evolution and shiny fusion. Open the SALVAGE tab in the Pets menu, tick the copies you want to scrap (up to 25 at a time), and confirm. The pets leave and the essence and gems are paid together in one step, so nothing is lost if the app closes during the animation.
- Unlocks
- The intro tasks (already open on accounts older than the intro ladder)
- Gem bonus
- 20% of salvaged pets also drop gems (amount by rarity below); free-pull copies skip this roll
- Protected
- Favourited pets never appear in the salvage list
Essence by rarity
| Rarity | Pet Essence | Gem bonus (20% chance) |
|---|---|---|
| COMMON | 100 |  10 |
| UNCOMMON | 200 | 20 |
| RARE | 400 | 40 |
| EPIC | 800 | 80 |
| LEGENDARY | 1,600 | 160 |
| MYTHIC | 10,000 | 640 |
The gem bonus is multiplied by the Crystal Cat's Gem Jackpot when it is equipped.
What can be salvaged
- Every regular and limited pet, for the full essence of its rarity: pet crates (free or paid), intro task pets, bundle, Founder and giveaway pets.
- Most elusive pets (the Hoard Mimic, the Bramble Hedgehog…) cannot be salvaged at all — fuse them instead.
- Elusive exceptions that do salvage:
Void Warden, 
Vinnie the Hamster, 
Fruit Worm, 
Dawn Zombie, 
Essence Wisp, 
Quest Goblin, 
Trinket Kobold, 
Gold Slime, 
Siege Minotaur, 
Sticker Cube, 
Coin Gremlin, 
Dice Imp, 
Packyack, 
Doppelgeist.
What essence buys
| Use | Cost |
|---|---|
| Fusion → 2★ | common 500 · uncommon 1,000 · rare 1,500 · epic 2,000 · legendary 2,500 · mythic 15,000 |
| Fusion → 3★ | common 1,500 · uncommon 3,000 · rare 4,500 · epic 6,000 · legendary 7,500 · mythic 50,000 |
| Evolution trial | common 25K · uncommon 50K · rare 75K · epic 100K · legendary 150K · mythic 200K |
| Shiny fusion | 10,000 |
Essence Wisp
The Essence Wisp gives salvage a chance to pay double essence — 0.00% at level 1 up to 40% at level 100.
Tips
- Salvage is cheapest on commons and most lucrative on mythics — a spare mythic is 10,000 essence, the same as 100 commons.
- Before scrapping a fourth copy, check whether three of them would fuse: a 2★ pet is worth more than 300 essence of commons to most loadouts.
See also
- Pets — Every pet in Ballin Tycoon — rarities, crate odds, abilities, natures and jobs, levelling costs, stars, evolution, shinies and where each one comes from.
- Pet Fusion — Fuse three copies of a pet into the next star tier — costs by rarity, what each star unlocks, and which pets can fuse.
- Pet Evolution — Evolve a 3★ level-100 pet through its trial — stones, essence, the 9 trials, and the level-200 forms.
- Shiny Pets — Shiny variants roll at 1 in 1,000 on every pet you receive — odds, shiny fusion, and a gallery of every shiny sprite.
- Currencies — Coins, gems, balls, gold balls, pet essence, ores and bars, prestige points, Hoard shards, achievement points, bounty points, sticker stars, chest keys and more — what each is for, every source and every sink.