How to Roll Dinosaurs in My Dino Empire (And What to Do Next)

Quick answer

You roll for dinosaurs at the ROLL DINOS lever platform on the starter island — the spot with the Upgrade Roll Luck and Rolling Platforms signboards beside it. The dinosaur you roll goes to your backpack, and from there you equip it (or place it by hand) so it digs up bones at your base that sell for cash.

• Every roll costs in-game cash, and rolling is repeatable: roll once, check the result, roll again.
• The Equip Best button fills your base's work spots with your strongest dinosaurs in one press.
• A rolled dinosaur only earns once it is placed at the base — owning it and deploying it are different stages.

Where the roll lever is

The roll spot sits on the starter island, and it is there from a fresh save. Look for the lever platform labeled ROLL DINOS. Two signboards stand next to it, reading Upgrade Roll Luck and Rolling Platforms — those signs are your landmark. If you can read them, you are standing in the roll control area you will return to every time you want another crew member.

How a roll works

Rolling is the activity that builds your dinosaur crew. Pull the lever, pay the cash, and the game hands you a new dinosaur, sometimes after a short reveal animation. It is a repeatable loop by design: roll once, see what you got, then roll again when you want more.

A few things worth knowing before you start pulling:

• Every roll costs cash. Money keeps the roll loop moving, since each new roll needs it. Free cash from My Dino Empire codes helps you keep rolling without waiting.
• Results carry rarity labels. One player found their Mythical crew merely decent and noted that Apex ranks above Mythical. That is a useful reference point, but it only compares those two labels — it is not the full rarity list — so treat it as a starting point for judging a roll.

From roll to working crew

The roll itself is only step one. Here is the path a rolled dinosaur follows from the lever to actually earning:

How the cycle works

1. 01

   Pull the ROLL DINOS lever

   Each pull costs in-game cash. Roll once, look at the result, and pull again whenever you want another dinosaur.

2. 02

   Check your backpack

   The new dinosaur lands in your backpack inventory, sometimes after a short reveal animation. You own it now, but it is not working yet.

3. 03

   Equip Best or place it by hand

   Equip Best fills your base's open work spots with your strongest dinosaurs in one press. To place one manually instead, hold the dinosaur beside a base pad and use the placement prompt — demonstrated as E PLACE, so follow whatever your own device shows rather than treating that key as a universal button.

4. 04

   Let it dig bones

   Placed dinosaurs dig up bones at your base. A dinosaur sitting in your collection and one placed at the base are different stages — only the placed one is earning.

5. 05

   Sell the bones

   The bones your crew digs up sell for cash, which covers base upgrades and your next rolls.

The cash from bones pays for the next roll, so the loop repeats: roll, equip, dig, sell — and roll again.

That placement step is the one new players miss: an unplaced dinosaur is just inventory. If you want the manual route in more detail, see how to place dinosaurs, and how to get bones covers what happens after the digging. Bones are how a placed crew turns into cash, and our progression guide covers the wider picture.

Rolling tips

• Treat the roll input deliberately. Rolls go through the moment you pull — one player rolling repeatedly set off rerolls by mistake, and each unintended pull consumed a roll and its cash cost. They wished the game asked “are you sure you want to roll?” before going through.
• Spend on the upgrades around the lever. The Upgrade Roll Luck and Rolling Platforms signboards sit right beside the lever, and the base upgrade menu also lists an Upgrade roll entry. One player worked roll luck speed up a track of 100 upgrade levels, so there is plenty of room to keep investing there as your cash grows.

If you are just starting out, how to play covers the opening stretch of the game. After that, the lever, your backpack and the Equip Best button are the three things that turn cash into a working crew.