Currency

Zoo 2: Animal Park has multiple types of currency. The different currencies allow you to purchase items and start upgrades in your Zoo.

There are two main currencies and various specialty types.

## Main Currency

The main currencies in Zoo 2 are coins (gold) and diamonds (gems).

### Coins

Coins are the basic currency earned and used in Zoo 2:Animal Park. Coins are generally easy to obtain and can be used to purchase Animals, Buildings, decorations, most upgrades, Enclosures, and Park expansions.

Some of the ways you may collect coins are (ordered from most frequent to least favorable):

1. Zoo Entrance fees from Visitors and purchases from Carts & Shops
2. Coins are almost always awarded for completing Quests and Achievements.
3. Coins may be awarded for the first day of the Monthly rewards path.
4. Coins are awarded for Zoo Level ups.
5. Most items can be sold for coins, though only for a fraction of the purchase cost. (Note & "warning": Even diamond items only sell for coins)
6. Coins can also be obtained by exchanging diamonds, though this isn't recommended.

### Diamonds

Diamonds are the premium currency of Zoo 2. A number of animals, decorations, land expansions and upgrades will require diamonds. Diamonds are much harder to get than coins and are rarely obtained through game play.

#### Free Diamonds

1. Monthly Rewards paths from the daily login calendars usually give diamonds on a few days. Bonus: *if you log in more than 25 days in the month, extra login days grant you one or more diamonds each*.
2. Zoo Level Ups give at least one diamond.
	* Levels ending in 5 (15, 25, 35...) award 5 diamonds
	* Levels ending in 0 (20, 30, 40...) award *that value* in diamonds
3. Video Ads from the main zoo entrance billboard can generate up to 2 diamonds per day. Ads are offered by a third party company which allows a daily limit of 20 videos and is only available on certain platforms. Watching 10 ads generates one diamond. After watching 20 ads, you must wait 24 hours before unlocking the ability to watch another video. *Note: If you save up 1000 video ads and then click redeem, your 100 diamonds may also come with a premium animal which lands in your inventory. If you save up 2000 video ads and then click redeem, your 200 diamonds may come with two premium animals which land in your inventory. Although this feature is not guaranteed by Upjers, players appreciate premium animals.*
4. Quests sometimes award diamonds upon completion, especially the ones given by the Mayor in the Zoo Title quests.
5. Upjers Portal: If you have an Upjers account at upjers.com, you can collect points with daily logins and exchange the points for diamonds.
6. Upjers Discord News Likes: By joining the official Upjers Discord server, you can access the news announcements and earn 1 diamond for every 10 'thumbs up' you give to their news posts. There's a new announcement every weekday. To redeem these diamonds, enter your numerical payment ID (not your alphanumeric support ID).
7. Telegram News: By subscribing to Uppy Bot on Telegram, you can earn 1 diamond for every 10 news announcements, which are generally released every weekday. Click “coins” after subscribing and enter your numerical payment ID (not your alphanumeric support ID) to redeem the diamonds.
8. Cross-Promotion: App users can click the orange Upjers logo at the bottom right of the game screen to find other Upjers games that give diamonds for downloading them. *Note: If the diamonds don't display in your account after downloading the apps and restarting the Zoo 2 game, send the Upjers Support team a screen shot of all the apps you downloaded and request the diamonds.*
9. Social Media Contests: Upjers Discord, Facebook, and Instagram usually have weekly or bi-weekly contests to win 20 to 100 diamonds. *Note: When you win a contest on Facebook or Instagram, Upjers will message you and only ask for your in-game ID and never your credit card or personal information. Beware of scammers.*
10. Promo Codes: Upjers sometimes gives out promo codes for free diamonds on social media or in the Upjers Newsletters delivered to your email. Click Grandpa Willy in the top left of your zoo and then the money bag icon to enter the case-sensitive promo code before it expires. *Note: You can subscribe to the emailed newsletters by logging into your Upjers.com account, going to your account settings, and making sure the newsletter box is checked.*
11. Upjers Forum Contests: On rare occasion the Upjers forum has a contest in which the Upjers team votes on a winner.
12. Breaking rocks in the Kujali Park savanna region may sometimes generate a free diamond.

#### Piggy Bank Promotion

For any player who has never purchased diamonds with real money, a piggy bank promotion should be available. By spending gold in-game you can fill up your piggy bank and then buy the piggy bank at a very reduced price compared to the diamond shop prices.

#### Buying Diamonds

Diamonds can be purchased for real money. Larger diamond packages usually include an exclusive premium animal with its enclosure. The price of diamonds depends on the player's platform, country and current promotion.

*As an example, the price for some currencies for purchasing diamonds through browser during “Secret Santa” promotion running in December 2022 is shown in this table below: For a table of all available currencies, click here.*

*The Norwegian krona (NOK) and the Swedish krona (SEK) trade for about 1:1.05, but buying with SEK is 30.77% more expensive. If you buy the 50 diamond pack using Hungarian Forint (HUF), it is only €3.32 when exchanged.*

## Specialty Currency

Specialty currencies are those that can only be acquired in limited ways. Most are time-limited with Events.

### Tickets

 Tickets are a type of permanent specialty currency. They are used to "complete" puzzles. You can find your current ticket balance when looking at the puzzle pieces screen.

Tickets might be obtained from:

1. Monthly rewards calendar path
2. Scrapping unwanted puzzle pieces
3. Spinning the Prize Wheel
4. Rarely from a few specialty Quests and Zoo Title rewards

### Energy

Another permanent currency, the lightning bolt icon represents energy used to power the bulldozer and the terrain editor. Energy may be obtained from:

1. Monthly rewards calendar path
2. Spinning the Prize Wheel
3. Occasionally Quests or Zoo Title rewards

### Event Currency

During some large Events, Special Decorations will be available for limited-time purchase (using either coins or diamonds). Events consist of a Collection Phase and a Redemption Phase. The Collection Phase is the time period when you can buy special decorations and collect event currency. Once the Collection Phase ends, the event currency timers will finish their current countdown and generate one final collection and you will no longer be able to purchase the event currency-generating decorations. You can redeem prizes with the event currency even before the Redemption Phase starts.

* This event currency can be used in the Event Store until the end of the Redemption Phase.
* The Redemption Phase is a period of seven days after the event decorations stop producing new currency. The event store remains accessible to spend your collected event currency during this time with an option to exchange diamonds for additional event currency.
* **Important**: Event Currency is NOT retained beyond the duration of the special event. Any unspent event currency disappears after the Redemption Phase is complete.