Currencies

Overview

Ballin Tycoon runs on five wallet currencies — Coins, Gems, Balls, Gold Balls and Pet Essence — plus a handful of resources that live outside the wallet: Marquee stars (your Renown), Arcade candy, Ticket Trove tickets, Time Candy and the Ballin’ Potion. This page lists what every one of them is for, every way to earn it and every way to spend it. Exact bin odds live on Bucket Rates.

Coins

Spent in the Arcade

Gems

Pet crates & guilds

Balls

One per launch

Gold Balls

Pet food

Pet Essence

Fusion & evolution

Marquee stars

Renown ladder

Candy

Arcade XP

Tickets

Ticket Trove

Time Candy

Instant balls

Ballin’ Potion

Fast regen

On top of those sit the progression currencies: the ores and bars the bins pay, and the purses that belong to The Hoard, Prestige, Bounties, the sticker album and the Boneyard. Each one is earned in one system and spent in that system's own shop, and none of them can be traded between players.

Ores & Bars

Bins pay ore, crafting pours bars

Prestige Points

Heirlooms

Hoard Shards

Shard shop

Achievement Points

Achievement shop

Skill Points

Skill tree

Bounty Points

Bounty upgrades

Chest Keys

Open a Hoard chest now

Sticker Stars

Vault & sticker upgrades

Bone Dust

The Boneyard

Coins

Coins are the fuel for the ARCADE machine: every shot costs 1,000 coins × your stake, and those shots are what raise your Arcade level. Almost every coin you earn comes from balls landing in the coloured bins on the board.

Other coin sources

Source	W1 Meadow	W2 Aurora	W3 Flora	W4 Maelstrom	W5 Inferno
Bonus Wheel · COINS slice (34% of spins)	40,000	66,000	96,000	130,000	168,000
Jackpot Frenzy · starting coin floor	50,000	68,750	90,000	113,750	140,000
Ball Grove basket · coins roll (regular / hard)	200K / 300K	200K / 300K	200K / 300K	200K / 300K	200K / 300K
Meadow Mole · Buried Treasure dig	2,500	2,500	2,500	2,500	2,500

Chest Rush, tournaments and sticker set rewards also pay coins — see their pages. The Shop sells coin packs and pet bundles whose coins are multiplied by your best world and Coin Gain stat.

Spending coins: Arcade stakes

Coins have two sinks. The Upgrades page's higher rows — GOLD BALL GAIN, TRIPLE CRAFT CHANCE, GATE CRIT CHANCE, RICH VEINS, GATE DAMAGE PER PET — and every row on the World 2-5 tabs take coins beside their bars, on the same climbing curve, from a base that grows by world. The other is the Arcade. Each launch costs 1,000 × stake and pays candy × stake, so higher stakes buy speed, not value. Stakes above ×1 open permanently with your Arcade level (×2 at Arcade Lv 10, ×3 at Arcade Lv 30, ×5 at Arcade Lv 50, ×10 at Arcade Lv 70, ×25 at Arcade Lv 90, ×50 at Arcade Lv 110, ×100 at Arcade Lv 130).

Stake	Coins per launch	Coins you must hold
×1	1,000	always available
×2	2,000	always available
×3	3,000	always available
×5	5,000	always available
×10	10,000	always available
×25	25,000	always available
×50	50,000	always available
×100	100,000	always available
×200	200,000	always available

Gems

Gems buy pets. Their main use is the Pet Crates, where each world's crate costs more than the last, and a one-off 100 to found a guild. Gems never inflate, which is why the daily gifts and quests pay in gems.

Pet crate prices

World	Price per pull	Intro price
W1 Meadow	200	—
W2 Aurora	300	225 for the first 50 paid pulls (25% off)
W3 Flora	400	300 for the first 50 paid pulls (25% off)
W4 Maelstrom	500	375 for the first 50 paid pulls (25% off)
W5 Inferno	600	450 for the first 50 paid pulls (25% off)

Free pulls never use up the intro allowance. Every rate the crates roll is on Pet Crate Odds.

Balls

Balls are what you launch. You start with 500, regenerate one every 30s up to your cap — even while you are away — and every launch spends exactly one. The cap is soft: bins, Time Candy, quests and purchases can push you far above it; only regeneration stops there. Everything about the cap, offline regeneration and the Ballin’ Potion is on Offline earnings.

Gold Balls

Gold Balls are pet food: every pet level costs gold balls, and the price climbs with the level and the pet’s rarity. The board’s bins are the steady source — every tier has a gold-ball slot — and the amount is the same on every world.

Pet Essence

Pet Essence is the currency of the pet workshop. You get it by salvaging pets you do not need, scrapping spare pet items (2,500 each, an Evolution Stone 10,000), and from the Arcade: filling the left portal ring (200 bumps) starts a double-or-done coin flip that opens at 50, doubles on every heads and retires after 5 heads — up to 1,600 — at most 3 times a day.

Essence from salvaging

Rarity	Essence per pet
COMMON	100
UNCOMMON	200
RARE	400
EPIC	800
LEGENDARY	1,600
MYTHIC	10,000

Every regular and limited pet salvages for its full essence, free-pull and starter copies included. Salvaging a copy you paid for also has a 20% chance to drop gems (see Gems above); free-pull copies skip that gem roll.

Essence costs

Rarity	Fuse to 2★	Fuse to 3★
COMMON	500	1,500
UNCOMMON	1,000	3,000
RARE	1,500	4,500
EPIC	2,000	6,000
LEGENDARY	2,500	7,500
MYTHIC	15,000	50,000

Fusion is guaranteed — the essence is the whole price. Making a max-star pet shiny by fusing in a shiny of the same species costs 10,000.

Rarity	Evolution
COMMON	25,000
UNCOMMON	50,000
RARE	75,000
EPIC	100,000
LEGENDARY	150,000

Evolution also consumes Evolution Stones — see Pet Evolution.

Marquee stars (Renown)

Your Renown is simply your Arcade level: every level you clear is one Marquee star, and every star is one rung on the Marquee ladder. The ladder pays a reward on every level up to 500 — 500 rows in all — mixing a handful of feature unlocks with a repeating rotation of permanent buffs. Read Renown for how the ladder claims itself and Arcade level for the level curve.

Candy (Arcade XP)

Candy is the Arcade’s score. Every pinball that drops into a bin pays candy (× your stake), the centre door pays candy cards, and the bar fills towards your next Arcade level. Candy is not a currency you can spend — it is your experience points.

Tickets

Tickets belong entirely to the Ticket Trove, the machine that opens when you break Gate 6 of The Hoard. They tick up on their own, keep accruing for up to 12h while you are away, and are only ever spent inside the Trove.

Time Candy

A Time Candy is a bottled block of regeneration: using one instantly grants the balls that many minutes of natural regeneration would have produced (one ball per 30s), and — unlike regeneration — it banks over the cap, so you keep the whole grant.

Candy	Time	Balls	Drops from
30 Minute Candy	30m	60	Silver 0.025% (1 in 4,000) per landing
1 Hour Candy	1h	120	Gold 0.0333% (1 in 3,000) per landing
2 Hour Candy	2h	240	Emerald 0.05% (1 in 2,000) per landing
4 Hour Candy	4h	480	Ruby 0.1% (1 in 1,000) per landing

Candy drops are an extra roll on top of the bin’s normal reward. The Ball Grove basket can also roll candy (30 Min 2.18% (1 in 45.9), 1 HR 1.08% (1 in 92.3)).

Ballin’ Potion

Drink a Ballin’ Potion and your ball regeneration jumps to one ball every 2s — 15× the normal rate — for 10m. Share it with a friend instead and you both get 20m. Potions stack (another potion extends the timer), and the clock freezes while you sit at your ball cap, so none of it is wasted. Potions come from the Bingo reward track (11 across the track, at milestones 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 points) and the post-event Bingo shop (up to 3 per event). Full details on Offline earnings.

Ores and bars

Every bin except the Diamond one pays a metal ore on top of its normal reward, and each bin colour has its own metal: the grey bin pays the world's cheapest ore and the Ruby bin its rarest. Each world has its own set of 6 metals, so 5 worlds means 30 ores and as many bars. Expeditions dig the same ores while you are away. Ore does nothing on its own — the Crafting page pours it into bars, and bars are what the progression shops charge.

• Ore per landing — every world pays the same 1 ore per landing before upgrades (times the ore's richness, below). A later world pays its own metals, not bigger numbers, and its prices are written in the same digits as W1 Meadow's.
• Ore per bar — the recipe climbs bar by bar, from 4 ore for the first W1 Meadow bar to 250 for the last W5 Inferno bar. Rarer ores come proportionally thicker, so a better bar takes more ore without taking longer to earn.
• Where bars go — the 57-row Upgrades page (it uses 30 different bars), The Armory, Bounty hand-ins, Ball Factory machines, mineshafts on Expeditions, Research Hall projects and fossil revivals.
• Collecting ore is also what fills your player level — see the next section.

Every ore and its bar

World	Bin	Ore	Bar	Ore per bar
W1 Meadow	Normal	TIN ORE	TIN BAR	4
W1 Meadow	Bronze	COPPER ORE	COPPER BAR	5
W1 Meadow	Silver	SILVER ORE	SILVER BAR	6
W1 Meadow	Gold	GOLD ORE	GOLD BAR	8
W1 Meadow	Emerald	VERDITE ORE	VERDITE BAR	10
W1 Meadow	Ruby	CRIMSONITE ORE	CRIMSONITE BAR	12
W2 Aurora	Normal	FROSTITE ORE	FROSTITE BAR	15
W2 Aurora	Bronze	RIMEBRONZE ORE	RIMEBRONZE BAR	18
W2 Aurora	Silver	SNOWSILVER ORE	SNOWSILVER BAR	21
W2 Aurora	Gold	STARGOLD ORE	STARGOLD BAR	24
W2 Aurora	Emerald	AURORANIUM ORE	AURORANIUM BAR	27
W2 Aurora	Ruby	HOLLYSTEEL ORE	HOLLYSTEEL BAR	30
W3 Flora	Normal	STONEBARK ORE	STONEBARK BAR	35
W3 Flora	Bronze	OAKBRONZE ORE	OAKBRONZE BAR	40
W3 Flora	Silver	BLOOMSILVER ORE	BLOOMSILVER BAR	45
W3 Flora	Gold	LEAFGOLD ORE	LEAFGOLD BAR	50
W3 Flora	Emerald	SYLVANITE ORE	SYLVANITE BAR	55
W3 Flora	Ruby	ROSESTEEL ORE	ROSESTEEL BAR	60
W4 Maelstrom	Normal	BRINIUM ORE	BRINIUM BAR	70
W4 Maelstrom	Bronze	TIDEBRONZE ORE	TIDEBRONZE BAR	80
W4 Maelstrom	Silver	PEARLSILVER ORE	PEARLSILVER BAR	90
W4 Maelstrom	Gold	SUNKGOLD ORE	SUNKGOLD BAR	100
W4 Maelstrom	Emerald	KELPSTEEL ORE	KELPSTEEL BAR	110
W4 Maelstrom	Ruby	CORALSTEEL ORE	CORALSTEEL BAR	120
W5 Inferno	Normal	ASHIRON ORE	ASHIRON BAR	140
W5 Inferno	Bronze	CINDERBRASS ORE	CINDERBRASS BAR	160
W5 Inferno	Silver	SMOKESILVER ORE	SMOKESILVER BAR	180
W5 Inferno	Gold	PYROGOLD ORE	PYROGOLD BAR	200
W5 Inferno	Emerald	VENOMITE ORE	VENOMITE BAR	225
W5 Inferno	Ruby	EMBERSTEEL ORE	EMBERSTEEL BAR	250

Full drop maths, the crafting page and the upgrade list are on Ores and Bars, Crafting and Upgrades.

Player XP and Prestige Points

Every ore you collect is worth XP, and XP fills the player level shown on the HUD badge (rarer ores and later worlds are worth more). From level 10 you can prestige: the level goes back to 1 and you are paid Prestige Points for how high you climbed. Points buy heirlooms, permanent buffs that survive every prestige, in 4 tiers opened by breaking Hoard gates.

Points per prestige

Prestige at	Points (before bonuses)
Level 10	12
Level 30	269
Level 40	1,105
Level 50	3,222
Level 75	14,334
Level 100	37,547

Prestige Point Gain — an heirloom, a Bounty upgrade, the PAIR statues in the Research Hall and the skin ladder — raises the payout, and the Shop's 2x Prestige Points perk doubles it.

Heirloom tiers

Tier	Opens at	Heirlooms	First unlock costs
Tier 1	Open from the start	9	6
Tier 2	9 gates broken	6	400
Tier 3	14 gates broken	6	8,000
Tier 4	19 gates broken	5	1,200,000

Hoard Shards

The Hoard pays no coins. Its chests pay balls, gems and shards, and shards buy the Hoard's own upgrades — chest speed, Hoard damage and gate damage rows whose price climbs every level. Bigger chests carry more shards, and Shard Gain rows and artifacts multiply the haul.

Chest	Base shards	Skill points
COMMON CHEST	8	—
RARE CHEST	30	—
LEGENDARY CHEST	55	1
MYTHIC CHEST	140	2
CHAMPION CHEST	400	6

Achievement Points

The Achievements board (called Merits until October 2026) lists 151 long-term goals in three tiers — EASY, HARD, EXTREME. Every finished achievement pays 10 Achievement Points of its own tier, and each tier's points are only good in that tier's page of the ACHIEVEMENT SHOP, which costs exactly what the tier pays. A tier opens once every achievement in the tier before it is done.

Tier	Achievements	Points available	Shop rows	Cost to max the shop
EASY	47	470	11	454
HARD	51	510	10	500
EXTREME	53	530	8	522

Skill Points

Skill Points buy nodes on the Hoard's Skill Tree; the whole tree costs 7,527 points. Points only start once the tree is open: from gate 12 (the gate that opens it) every gate you break pays 2, Legendary and better chests carry a fixed amount (table above), and any opened chest has a 5% base chance of a bonus point. Before gate 12, gates and chests pay no points.

Bounty Points

A Bounty asks for a stack of bars. Hand them in and it pays 10 Bounty Points before multipliers, and the next bounty asks for a little more. Points buy the Bounty board's upgrade rows, which are strong but reset every time you prestige — they are the part of your build you rebuild each run.

Chest Keys

A Chest Key skips the wait on the Hoard chest your pets are working on. It is time, never loot: the chest pays exactly what it would have paid. Keys come from the top weekly quest chest (150 points), the Shop's Ballin Bundle, and — one find in a hundred — the Ballin Badger's forage.

Sticker Stars

Every sticker you get pays Sticker Stars equal to its star rarity the moment it arrives, a new card or a duplicate. A gold sticker is worth ×5 and a rainbow one ×25. A sticker a friend gifts you pays none, and gifting one away takes nothing back. Stars open the Sticker Vault's safes and buy the 14 account-wide rows on the Sticker Upgrades page, which have no level cap — each level simply costs more stars than the last.

Rarity	Regular	Gold	Rainbow
1★	1	5	25
2★	2	10	50
3★	3	15	75
4★	4	20	100
5★	5	25	125

Bone Dust, slabs and fossils

Expedition crews sometimes bring home a Strange Slab or a fossil. Slabs are dug out tile by tile in the Boneyard: a part-dug fossil crumbles into 3 Bone Dust per bone tile, and a whole fossil whose recipe you already know pays 6 per tile. Dust buys the Boneyard's perks and, at 150 dust, another slab. Fossils themselves are spent, with bars, to revive fossil pets.

Tips

• Coins do not scale with level, so the fastest way to earn more is to climb worlds — a Ruby bin on W5 Inferno pays 5,600 against 2,000 on W1 Meadow.
• Never buy pet crates with gems before opening the Free Gift and finishing the day’s quests — that is 175 gems a day for free.
• Use Time Candy when you are already at your ball cap: it banks over the cap, while regeneration would have stopped.
• Gold balls are worth most on pets you will actually equip — a mythic pet costs 400,015 to max, a common one 24,997.