Tower Guide

## Spoiler Warning

**This guide was written by Toffel and contains major spoilers regarding the Tower! By reading this guide, you accept the risks of being spoiled about the Tower.**

## The Tower

The tower is the endgame of Idle pins. Within the tower, you can create your own enemies each with their own loot table. You can save multiple enemies each on their own floor to keep getting back to them if they have the loot you desire.

## Unlocking the Tower

To unlock the tower, simply fight against any enemy Map 10-1 and up. Each of them has a small chance to drop one of 4 Mysterious Set that you can combine to unlock the tower. Once you obtained all 4 parts (Unknown Base, Unknown Panel, Unknown Chip and Unknown Board), you can fuse them into two new pins (Connected Parts and Welded Chip) and fusing those gives you the HoloMap that grants access to the tower.

Before you can fight enemies in the Tower, you need to unlock it. The Key to unlock the tower is sacrificing an Megatron (Tier 1 Transformer Pin). Once that is done, you can start climbing to the top.

## Getting Floors

Once you have sacrificed the Megatron, you can open the tower directly through the HoloMap symbol at the top-right. The Tower is permanent and will persist through seasoning. That means, if you are strong enough, you can fight the tower floors as soon as you start a new season.

After clicking on the Holomap, you will see the main window. On the right, you can see the tower. If you want to fight an enemy in the tower you click on the floor on the tower. On the top left, you find expeditions which lets you roll for new enemies.

Everyone starts with a Quality 1 (Q1) floor. To increase the maximum quality of your tower, you need to fight 1000 \* Max Quality floor enemies. Since everyone starts with a Q1 floor, this one will be good for the start.

After killing 1000 enemies, your maximum floor quality becomes 2. This means you can now find new floors with quality up to 2. If you killed 2000 enemies on a Q2 floor, then you can increase your maximum quality to 3.

### Normal and Special Expedition

Expeditions create new random floor for you. Normal expeditions are cheaper but on average worse quality and give worse rewards. If you click the yellow "i" in the middle of the window, it will open a new window which lists all the possible floor drops. The floor drops are locked by your maximum quality and will be hidden with question marks. Once unlocked (green), the drops can be obtained on any quality floor.

A normal expedition costs 200 Derium and a special expedition costs 1000 Derium. There are two differences.

1. While normal expeditions can create a floor whose quality is between 1 and your maximum, special expeditions can only create a floor between half your maximum and your maximum. The minimum quality for both types of expeditions are displayed in the upper left are of the Expedition menu.

2. Special expeditions can have more dropped special pins. Normal expeditions can roll a floor with a material drop and one Tier 1 drop (with a chance for a Tier 2 drop for floor tier 4 or 5). Special expeditions can roll a floor with a matieral drop, one Tier 1 drop, and one Tier 2 drop (with a chance for a Tier 3 drop for floor tier 4 or 5).

That means only special expeditions can create a floor with 4 drops. Of course, all drops from the tower are affected by your material, special and overall drop chance improvements.

The amount of Chikara dropped by a floor enemy is determined by the floor quality and tier: Chikara = (Floor Tier \* Floor Quality)^2.

The amount of Materials dropped by a floor enemy is determined by the floor quality: Material Drop = Material Base Amount \* Floor Quality.

### Floor tier

Each floor gets a star rating from 0 stars to 5 stars. Whenever a floor is created, the 4 attributes for each floor are created at random. Those attributes are:

* Health Points
* Damage
* Speed
* Targets

Those are the same 4 attributes as you can find on any map before on the right side of the enemy at the main screen. They also have a rating from 0 stars to 5 stars, also shown directly in the floor window. The total floor tier is dependent on the average of those 4 stats. If you have at least 15 stars combined in all 4 attributes you get the extra drop roll.

* 0 star floor - 0-2 attr stars
* 1 star floor - 3-6 attr stars
* 2 star floor - 7-10 attr stars
* 3 star floor - 11-14 attr stars
* 4 star floor - 15-18 attr stars
* 5 star floor - 19-20 attr stars

The floor quality has no impact on the floor tier. It only has an impact on the range of each attribute. You can get Q1 floors with a 5-star floor tier. They are easier to kill, but also have less Chikara rewards.

## Floor slots

Once you go on an expedition, the rolled floor appears in the Temp Slot under the expedition buttons. This floor is not usable and needs to be put into your tower to be fought. On the right, you can see all your tower slots. You start with one slot (which has a Q1 floor on it) and you can replace the floor by pressing C and clicking on the replace button on the top right of a tower floor slot. If you dont want to keep the temp floor, you need to discard it before you can roll for another floor.

If you want to get more slots, you can click on the hollow tower floor slot at the top of your tower in the main tower menu. Clicking on the hollow floor will tell you how many Key Fragments (KF) you need for the next slot. First extra slot costs 30 KF and each subsequent floor cost doubles in cost (30 -> 60 -> 120 -> 240 and so on). You gain KF by sacrificing transformer pins or some top tier support pins

* Megatron - 5 KF
* Optimus - 13 KF
* Bumblebee - 30 KF
* Starscream - 65 KF
* Jazz - 150 KF
* Soundwave - 350 KF
* D-Ray - 300 KF
* Penta-Extinction - 300 KF
* Penta Echo - 300 KF
* T-Hunter DX+ - 300 KF
* Gorilla - 500 KF
* Glue X++ - 1000 KF

## Hidden Wish Pins

Every floor has a certain chance to drop a hidden special pin. The chance for Wish pins to drop is dependent on the floor quality and floor tier.

`Wish Pin Drop Rate = 0.01% * ( (Floor Quality/10) + 1) * ( (Floor Tier/10) +1)`

Wish drops are in addition to the floor drops and also improved by your special drop bonuses. Wish pins are slow pins, but they are also smart, meaning that they wait for an enemy to appear before striking. They also each have a certain chance for hitting for a damage multiplier. Wish pins can be dismantled into souls.

## Boostomatizer Trophies

Boostomatizer trophies (or boosts) can only be obtained within the Tower once the Boostomatizer Craft has been completed. The craft requires Stardust and therefore a minimum Tower quality of 9. Boosts can drop on kill and this rate can be boosted by the T-Set support pins.

## Tower Floor Strategy and Skill Tree Bonuses

Leveling the first levels should be done with normal expeditions as they are much cheaper and you are mainly focusing on getting the maximum quality up. There are skill tree upgrades for the tower that can be bought for Souls (that you get by dismantling Sword, Bubble, Leaf or Wish pins). It is advised to buy some of the quality improving upgrades as they effectively save Derium while leveling up the maximum floor quality of your tower. Since those upgrades can make you hit Q+1 or even Q+2 floors, you can use one floor to climb multiple floor qualities.

### Improving Floor Quality

If your maximum floor quality is Q10 and you have 20% chance to roll a q+1 floor, then you can sometimes roll a Q11 floor. When fighting the Q11 floor, killing 11,000 (Q11 \* 1000) enemies will raise your maximum floor quality to Q11. The number of floor kills will reset to 0. Killing another 11,000 enemies will raise your maximum floor quality to Q12.

Visual to compare non-bonus vs bonus:

No Bonus Rolled: Max Q10 -> Roll for Q10 -> Kill 10,000 -> Max Q11 -> Need to roll for Q11

Q+1 Bonus Rolled: Max Q10 -> Roll q+1 for Q11 -> Kill 11,000 -> Max Q11 -> Kill 11,000 -> Max Q12

### Special Expeditions

At one point you do want to switch to special expeditions as they have chance for a fourth drop mod and they are more likely to hit the maximum floor level, as they can't roll the lower half of floor qualities. That means the higher your maximum floor quality, the higher your lowest special expedition floor quality and therefor the attributes of the floor. It can make sense to do special expeditions earlier in your tower progression to safe some floors with a relatively low monster life amount. But that also means some of the drops aren't available yet.