My Dino Empire Base Guide: Parts, Upgrades and Expansion

Quick answer

Your My Dino Empire base is a multi-level operation: placed dinosaurs dig up ancient bones at its pads, the FLOOR 1 upgrade panel offers Fossil Respawn, Digging Speed and Sell Multiplier, and the Bone Crusher station converts stored bones into money. You improve the base through those upgrades and expand it with Unlock Floor and Upgrade Plot in the upgrade menu.

• Place a dinosaur beside a base pad and it starts digging bones for you
• The FLOOR 1 upgrade panel offers Fossil Respawn, Digging Speed and Sell Multiplier — Digging Speed speeds up digging on that floor only
• The Bone Crusher pays a stated +50% money bonus when it converts bones
• Unlock Floor adds a level; Upgrade Plot is the big plot-wide purchase
• The base keeps earning while you are offline

Your base is where a rolled dinosaur finally earns its keep. A dinosaur sitting in your collection does nothing; once you place it at the base, it digs up ancient bones, the bones sell for money, and that money pays for every new roll and every base upgrade. The base even keeps earning while you are offline — that is the base's own income, separate from the Playtime window reward you can claim before leaving. If you want the details of either side of that loop, see how to get bones and offline earnings.

Money is the reason to care about all of this: rolls and upgrades both run on cash, so developing the base is how the whole loop speeds up. Working codes also drop free cash along the way — the My Dino Empire codes page tracks those. Brand new to the game? Start with how to play.

The parts of your base

• Base pads — where a placed dinosaur stands and digs. A collected dinosaur becomes productive the moment it is placed beside a pad.
• Floor upgrade panels — the base is multi-level, and the demonstration suggests each floor has its own upgradeable system. The panel shown in that video, FLOOR 1, offers Fossil Respawn, Digging Speed and Sell Multiplier.
• Bone Crusher — a conversion station, seen on the second floor in one demonstration, that turns stored bones into money with a +50% bonus.
• The plot itself — the ground your base sits on, growable through the expensive Upgrade Plot purchase in the upgrade menu.

Getting dinosaurs onto the pads

1. Roll and collect a dinosaur (see how to roll dinosaurs).
2. Walk it over to a base pad. In one demonstration, holding a Gallimimus beside the pad showed an E PLACE prompt — use whatever prompt your own device shows, because keys and buttons can appear differently on PC and mobile.
3. Once your dinosaurs are working, use the Up and Down controls to move between levels and the E COLLECT prompt to collect.

For the placement step in more detail, see how to place dinosaurs.

What each floor upgrade does

The FLOOR 1 panel shows three separate upgrades. They are three different purchases, not three names for one improvement:

Note the scope on Digging Speed: it speeds up digging on the current floor only, not the whole base. When your next goal is making the floor you already use dig faster, that is the switch to look at.

Expanding the base

Two bigger purchases sit in the same upgrade menu:

• Unlock Floor — buys an additional level once you have enough cash. One demonstration showed a 120 billion cash requirement.
• Upgrade Plot — an expensive plot-wide purchase that a demonstrated playthrough treated as the top progression priority. Example costs in that session ran from 400 billion up to 70 trillion. Treat those as session examples, not fixed prices — your menu always shows the current cost.

Two conditions are worth planning around before you buy a new floor:

1. A newly unlocked floor earns less at first. In one playthrough, the new floor's dinosaurs contributed little until its upgrades were raised to match the floors below.
2. In that same playthrough, prices got increasingly higher as the player moved up, so expect higher floors to carry higher upgrade prices.

The full process is covered in how to expand base.

The Bone Crusher

The Bone Crusher is a station that converts stored bones into money, and it states a +50% money bonus. The demonstrated player assumed that the more you upgrade it, the faster it converts bones — and he upgraded it repeatedly for exactly that reason. In the session where it was demonstrated, one conversion paid out 38 billion after an upgrade, and a dinosaur processed through it yielded 35 billion — very high numbers from a developed base, useful as a picture of what the station grows into rather than rates to expect early on.

Where the next sale should go

After your first bone sale, give the money a job before spending it. Improving the floor you already use and saving toward a larger base are two different development choices, and you do not need to chase both at once — pick one of them as the goal for your next batch of bone money. That one habit keeps upgrade cash from leaking into random purchases and is the simplest way to keep your base moving forward. For the earning side, see how to get bones.