Game Currency

There are 2 forms of currency used in the game: Gold Coins and Gems. Below are all the uses for these & how they can be earned.

## Uses of Coins

### Expeditions

The main purpose of coins in the game is to access Expeditions and Digsite Mines. Above the Digsite or Mine, a green pop-up is shown with the amount of Gold Coins needed to start digging for Dino Bones.

The prices for Expeditions have a starting price and as you keep digging, the prices will go up. The starting prices for each Expedition will continue to get more and more expensive over time. You will only ever have to pay gold coins to go on Expeditions.

### Race Of Explorers

In addition to Expeditions, you will also have to pay gold coins for the Race of Explorers event. Each course in the Race Of Explorers will become more and more expensive, but digging while one course is still active will not raise the price of that current course.

### Upgrading Dino Pens

Upgrading exhibits takes both a sum of gold coins and some gems. The prices for each pen and level varies.

### Upgrading the Treasury

Your Treasury acts as a storage for your Gold Coins. The higher the level of your Treasury is, the more coins you can store at a time. To upgrade the Treasury, you need both a sum of gold coins and gems. The price increases per Treasury level.

## Earning Coins

### Ticket Booth Funds

The Ticket Booth is where your Park Visitors pay Gold Coins to enter the park. Your funds will increase over time with Popularity Points. It is the main and easiest way to earn coins in the game.

### Visitor Bonus

Your Park visitors often drop coins onto the path. The larger the coin, the more gold you can get by tapping on them before they disappear. The coins will blink on and off for a few times before disappearing, so make sure you collect them quickly.

* Blank Coin: +5 Coins
* Coin with a bone: +10 Coins
* Coin with a Triceratops: +200 Coins
* Coin with a T-Rex: +500 Coins

### Stalls

There are 6 food stalls and 1 balloon stall in your Park. You unlock them each after obtaining a certain number of different Dino species. Each stall gives a different number of coins with the max capacity being increased per stall. The level of your stall also increases your capacity.

**Stalls**:

* Hot-Dogs
* Dumplings
* Soda
* Ice
* Pizza
* Sushi
* Balloons

### Combat

Battle Arena: The Battle Arena, unlocked at level 10, is the first place you will engage in Dino Combat. Winning rounds will reward you with Coins. The reward increases as you continue completing Arena Stages.

Multiplayer Arena: The Multiplayer Arena, unlocked at level 20, is similiar to the Battle Arena but allows you to compete with actual players instead of bots. Defeating your opponents will reward you with Coins. If you lose, you will still be given a small sum of coins. The rewards for winning and losing will increase as you advance in the Arena Leagues.

### Buying With Gems

Coins can be bought from the Shop for Gems. The number of coins you can buy will increase depending on the capacity of your Treasury.

### Announcements

Announcements are an excellent way to gather coins. They sometimes appear when you're low on funds from the Ticket Booth, but overall, they're randomized and vary. Each Announcement gives you a different task to complete and different sums of Coins will be rewarded for completing them. *See this page for all the Announcements in the game.*

### Events

* Sky Tournament: Emerging victorious in 5 battles in a row against other players in the Sky Tournament will reward you with Coins and other prizes.
* Race of Explorers: Tiny sums of Gold Coins can be found under random Grid Squares in the race.
* Dino Prize Wheel: Gold Coins are one of the available prizes on the Dino Prize Wheel, an event that occurs every few days in your Park.

### Field Stones

Field Stones are groups of rocks that appear at the end of your Park, particularly whenever you unbox a new Dino. Tapping on these rocks will remove them for free and in a few seconds. Under the rocks, you can collect entire Coins OR collect them from tapping a mound of gold.

## Uses of Gems

### Speeding Up Time

You can use Gems to speed up waiting times for a number of things.

* Hatching Eggs
* Time taken for Explorers to return from their expeditions
* Reviving your Dinos after being defeated in a battle
* Time taken to train your Dino on the Trampoline
* Time taken to unbox a new Dino species

The number of gems needed varies depending on how much time is being skipped.

### Upgrading Dino Pens

Upgrading exhibits takes both a sum of gold coins and some gems. The prices for each pen and level varies.

### Upgrading the Treasury

Your Treasury acts as a storage for your Gold Coins. To upgrade the Treasury, you need both a sum of gold coins and gems. The price increases per Treasury level, but the number of gems needed is always significantly lower than the amount of gold needed to upgrade it.

### Buying Coins

As mentioned above, Gems can be used to purchase coins. However, Coins cannot be used to buy Gems in its place, making Gems harder to earn.

* 5 Gems: Small amount of coins
* 9 Gems: Average amount of coins
* 20 Gems: Large amount of coins

### Upgrading Stalls

Every Stall in the game has 5 levels in total. These levels can be seen under their pages. To level up a Stall, you need a sum of Gems (only) that increases per level.

**Stalls**:

* Hot-Dogs
* Dumplings
* Soda
* Ice
* Pizza
* Sushi
* Balloons