My Dino Empire Progression Guide: Best Early Order After the Tutorial

Quick answer

Roll dinosaurs first, place them at your base pads, sell the bones they dig up, and give every payout one job at a time — improving the floor you already use or saving toward more base space. When your collection outgrows your placed spots, save toward more base space so the crew you already own can work; when your spots are filled with working dinosaurs and you want stronger ones, roll for rarer dinosaurs.

• Rolling builds the crew, and the base gives that crew a job.
• Every new roll and every base upgrade costs money, so selling bones keeps both sides of the game moving.
• Choose one money goal per stretch of play — you do not need to pursue more dinosaurs and base development at the same time.
• Digging Speed only affects the floor you upgrade it on, not your whole base.

Where everything sits after the tutorial

Once your save shows the "Tutorial Completed" badge, everything the early loop needs is already on your starter island: a ROLL DINOS lever platform (with "Upgrade Roll Luck" and "Rolling Platforms" signboards beside it), dinosaur pens where placed dinosaurs dig up bones, and a SELL BONE(S) zone. A locked round plinth labeled "Locked $100" blocks one path until you buy it, so early play mostly happens between the roll platform, the pens and the sell zone. You may also see a banner goal toward your first Pet Egg — the dinosaur loop below does not involve it. If the controls themselves still feel fuzzy, the My Dino Empire how to play guide covers them.

The early loop, in order

Roll, place, dig, sell, spend

1. 01

   Roll

   Use the ROLL DINOS platform to add dinosaurs to your crew. Rolls cost cash, and the crew you collect becomes the workforce for everything else.

2. 02

   Place

   Carry a dinosaur to a base pad and use the placement prompt your device shows — the demonstrated prompt is E PLACE beside a pad. The Equip Best button puts your strongest owned dinosaurs on equipped spots in one press.

3. 03

   Dig

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

4. 04

   Sell

   Take the ancient bones to the SELL BONE(S) zone. Selling is the step that turns digging into money.

5. 05

   Spend on one goal

   Give each payout a job before spending it: improve the floor you use, or save toward more base space. Pick one at a time.

Sale money pays for your next rolls and your next upgrade, so every pass of the loop restarts with more cash behind it. That repeat — not any single sale — is what builds early momentum.

Keep one habit from the very first placement: equip before you get sidetracked into upgrades or selling. Equipping is what converts a collection into a workforce, and skipping it leaves fresh dinosaurs standing idle while their spots stay empty.

Where the money goes

Money is the thread through the whole loop. Every new roll costs cash, and every base upgrade or expansion costs cash — rolling for rarer dinosaurs and growing the base are the game's two main money sinks. The more cash you hold, the shorter the wait between those big purchases, which is why selling bones matters even when individual payouts feel small.

Working codes drop free cash that shortens the wait between upgrades. Treat them as a supplement to the bone-selling loop, not a substitute for it — the current list lives on our My Dino Empire codes page.

More dinosaurs or base development?

Both choices draw on the same cash, so the real question is order. Fix idle dinosaurs first, then decide whether your next goal is a better floor or more space:

Decision guide

Choose for your situation

You have dinosaurs in your collection that are not placed at the base.

Place them first. Equip Best puts your strongest owned dinosaurs on equipped spots, and equipping before selling or upgrading is a step you should not skip.

Your spots are full, and you want better results from the floor you already use.

Improve that floor. The floor panel offers Fossil Respawn, Digging Speed and Sell Multiplier, and Digging Speed's tooltip says it makes dinosaurs dig up bones faster on that floor — a sensible first improvement. It only affects the floor you upgrade, not the whole base.

Your collection keeps outgrowing the space you have.

Save toward more base space instead of rolling for a while. Extra space gives the crew you already own somewhere to work.

Your spots are filled with working dinosaurs, and you want stronger workers.

Roll for rarer dinosaurs. Rolls cost cash just like upgrades do, so hold enough of a cushion that your next big base purchase stays within reach.

Whichever branch you take, give each stretch of earnings one job. Improving the floor you use and saving toward a larger base are different development choices — you do not need to chase both immediately, and a named goal beats buying whatever catches your eye.

Before you log off

Your base keeps earning money even while you are offline. Before you quit, run through three quick steps — the full details live in our offline earnings and playtime rewards guides.

Checklist

• Place or Equip Best any dinosaurs still in your collection

  They only start earning once they are at the base.

• Check the Playtime window and claim anything that is ready

  Its warning about leaving concerns Playtime progress only; your base's offline earnings are a separate system.

• Name your next money goal before you quit

  Return with a clear reason to roll, improve the floor or expand instead of re-deciding from scratch.

What base development opens up later

The first upgrade menu — Fossil Respawn, Digging Speed, Unlock Floor — grows into a much bigger project. In one recorded session, a player moved from that first menu through buying an upstairs floor, filling its dinosaur spots, a Bone Crusher that gives 50% more money, and plot upgrades, while floor unlocks and dinosaur purchases became steadily more expensive.

Two cautions come with that example. The session was heavily accelerated by Robux spending and a Halloween event, so its pace is not what a normal early game looks like. And the player's remark that upgrading your plot "kind of upgrades everything" was their own impression, not a stated game rule — weigh plot upgrades as one more base-development option against your goal.

When you want to plan the base side in depth, the My Dino Empire base guide connects floors, upgrades and expansion.