The Arcade is a fun addition to World 2 of Idleon which allows you to get various rewards and upgrade bonuses by launching balls into the Arcade machine.
There are tons of random rewards to be gained and rotating upgrades to use your points on, however they’re not as game-changing as most other aspects of the game.
We will cover all the possible rewards and upgrades as well as all the ways to increase your Arcade Ball production speed.
World 6 Update
The release of World 6 also added 10 new upgrades to the Arcade Shop, so check them out from the Arcade Shop Upgrade Priorities (the last 10 rows of the table)!
How Arcade actually works
The Arcade logic is extremely simple, as all you need to do is launch your balls and hope for them to land into further buckets for better rewards.
The most common rewards are the Golden Balls, which can be used in the Arcade Shop to buy various permanent upgrades. We explained those upgrades at the end of the article.
They way you get more Arcade balls is simply by waiting for the timer at the top to go down and then clicking the Claim-button.
Once you click the button, the timer will reset to the highest value, so if you’re close to the next ball, it would be smart to wait for it first.
You can see your current maximum claim amount by clicking the green Info button on the right side of the Arcade view, then look under the Other Stuff -title.
You can see that once you reach the Max Claim amount, you will no longer get more balls until you claim them. The Max Claim amount will increase if you increase the Max Time or Recharge rate.
If you move the Speed slider at the far right to it’s highest setting, the balls will launch faster.
This is always recommended, as the speed has no effect on where the balls will land, it will only speed up your process.
Finally, if you receive a Red Dice as a bucket reward, you need to click on it and hope it stops at a 6, which will give you access to the Bonus Cade.
The bonus cade gives you a few red balls which will reward you with either more red balls or normal arcade balls.
Once you run out of red balls, you will return to the normal screen with all the balls you won.
Bonus Cade Note!
It is recommended to select the Right Tilt option, as it has been confirmed by the developer that it has a higher chance for better rewards, even though you start with less red balls.
Every possible Arcade Reward
Most of the rewards below are self explanatory, but we will explain a few of them after the tables to make sure there’s no confusion left.
Yes, the 3 Stamps in the Gold Bucket are extremely rare on purpose!
White Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
 Copper Portal | 25% |
 3x Shop Points | 33.3% |
 Money | 41.7% |
Copper Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
 Silver Portal | 30% |
6x Shop Points | 40% |
 Obol Fragment | 12.2% |
 1x Gem | 12% |
 Gold Food Coupon | 4.4% |
 1 Hour Time Candy | 1.4% |
Silver Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
 Gold Portal | 31% |
12x Shop Points | 20% |
4x Gems | 16.5% |
 8x Arcade Balls | 15.5% |
 Red Die | 8% |
Obol Fragment | 4% |
 Resource Coupon | 4% |
 2 Hour Time Candy | 1% |
Gold Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
 Dementia Portal | 33% |
75x Shop Points | 18% |
16x Gems | 16.61% |
20x Arcade Balls | 16% |
Red Die | 12% |
 Medium Experience Balloon | 3.3% |
 4 Hour Time Candy | 1% |
 Arcade Ball Stamp | 0.0072% |
 Gold Ball Stamp | 0.0108% |
 Ball Timer Stamp | 0.072% |
Dementia Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
200x Shop Points | 25% |
40x Arcade Balls | 18% |
50x Gems | 18% |
Red Die | 17% |
 Really Really Resource Coupon | 6% |
 Quality Obol Stack | 5% |
    Premium Stone (STR/WIS/AGI/LUK) | 2% each |
 12 Hour Time Candy | 2% |
 BallJoePickle | 1% |
Dreadlo Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
100x Arcade Balls | 35% |
500x Shop Points | 20% |
250x Gems | 17% |
 Marvelous Obol Stack | 8% |
 3x Large Experience Balloon | 8% |
 72 Hour Time Candy | 7% |
 Ancient Card Pack | 2% |
 Eternal Card Pack | 2% |
 The Red Boaty | 2% |
Godshard Bucket
| Item | Chance |
|---|---|
2,000x Gems | 100% |
3,000x Shop Points | 100% |
250x Arcade Balls | 100% |
For further explain a few items, starting off with the Copper Bucket, the Obol Fragments are the same pieces you would get when you trash any obol at the Altar.
The Resource Coupons will drop various resources on your feet once you hold down on them. However, when you get a coupon for the first time, drop it on the ground first and pick it up, as the game doesn’t recognize it as a picked-up item otherwise. (This will be needed for the item Slab in World 5, which will give bonuses depending on how many different items you have picked up!)
Next up, in the Dementia Bucket you have a 1% chance to receive the BallJoePickle item and its only use is to be dropped on the Alchemy cauldron so you can receive the Vial which will increase your Arcade Ball Gain Rate by +25% per level.
The Dreadlo Bucket has a rare Red Boaty hat reward, which is in fact a Premium Hat, so you can equip it over any normal Helmet and place premium upgrade stones on it.
Finally, the Godshard Bucket will give you all of the 3 rewards mentioned in the table, if you somehow manage to hit it.
All the ways to get more Arcade Balls
The most common way to speed up Arcade Ball generation are various Achievements, in fact a whopping 25 of them for a total of 50% more Arcade Balls per hour.
| Achievement | Requirement | Bonus Balls/hr | World |
|---|---|---|---|
 Heyo! | Say ‘Hi’ to 250 different people, without closing the game. | +1% | 1 |
 Decked Out in Gold | Equip a Golden Helmet, Chestplate, Pants, Shoes, 2x Gold Tools and Defenders Dignity Ring. | +3% | 1 |
 Lucky 7s | Punch a monster for 777 damage. | +1% | 1 |
 What a View! | Climb THIS TREE and say “Great view, 1 star” in chat. | +1% | 1 |
 Seriousleaf-ast! | Score a point in the Chopping Minigame on maximum speed. (Wait 20+ minutes without scoring, then hit a point) | +1% | 1 |
 Wassup Yo! | Say ‘Hi’ to 100 different people, without changing server. | +2% | 2 |
 Gold School | Make a stack of 1,500 Goldfish in the Storage Chest. | +1% | 2 |
 Hybernation | Claim 168 hour AFK gains on one character at once. | +3% | 2 |
 Obols Oh Boy! | Equip 10 Silver Obols at once. | +2% | 2 |
 Trial by Time | Run from Town to Efaunt’s Tomb in under 2 minutes with less than 132% move speed and no map teleports. Methods: – Use speed potions and Blink talent on a Mage. – Go to Town with one character, then swap to one that is at Efaunt’s Tomb. – Open and close the Gem Shop on some maps to move closer to then portal | +2% | 2 |
 Sweet Victory | Get a Score of 200K in World 2 Colosseum | +2% | 2 |
 WAAAAAAAH! | Complete all Treasure Hunts. | +3% | 2 |
 Bobjoepicklejar | Drop a BobJoePickle on the Cauldron. | +1% | 2 |
 Sad Souls | Make a stack of 1,000 Forest Souls in the Storage Chest. | +1% | 3 |
 Yawning Cogs | Have 4 unclaimed Yellow Cogs at once. | +2% | 3 |
 Soulslike | Unlock 4 Prayers from Tower Defences. | +2% | 3 |
 I Create… | Upgrade buildings in Construction 50 times. | +1% | 3 |
 Borrowed Pens | Kill all Penguins in the map in 13 seconds of entering. They must all be spawned in first. (Signature Slopes map in World 3) | 3% | 3 |
 Cogs Be Waitin’ | Have 16 unclaimed Gray Cogs at once. | +4% | 3 |
 Knock on Wood | Beat wave 50 of Acord Assault with only 4 towers. | +3% | 3 |
 Space Party | Dance with at least 5 other people in World 4 town. (Type “/dance” in chat to dance) | +2% | 4 |
 WOAH That’s Fast | Have a speed of ‘Too Fast‘ while cooking an Eggplant. | +2% | 4 |
 Chippin’ Away | Claim 25 chips from the Chip Repository. | +2% | 4 |
 Great Plate | Upgrade any meal to level 16. | +2% | 4 |
 Too Many Tentacles | Make a stack of 10M Wriggly Balls from Octodars in the Storage Chest. | +3% | 4 |
Alongside the achievements, there are a few more ways to boost the arcade ball generation speed, the best of which is the BallJoePickle alchemy vial, which you can get as a reward from the Dementia Bucket in Arcade.
The image above includes various Vial boosting effects, so yours wont be so high at first.
Another easy way to boost the gain rate is by purchasing the Weighted Marbles bribe from the last tab at the Stamp NPC.
It will give a whopping +10% boost for a fairly cheap price.
There are also the 2 stamps you can get from the Gold Bucket if you are extremely lucky:
| Stamp | Description |
|---|---|
Arcade Ball Stamp | +% Arcade Ball recharge rate |
Ball Timer Stamp | Higher maximum claim time to get more balls |
Finally, the last way to increase the arcade ball gain rate is from the World 2 Merit shop.
As you can see, it is also a very significant boost and worth upgrading once you get enough points from Achievements.
Arcade Shop Rewards Showcase
There are a total of 18 upgrades you can buy from the Arcade Shop, but 9 of them are visible at one time and they rotate every time the game is updated.
All the upgrades cost the same to level up and everything maxes out at level 100. It costs a total of 32,457 Shop Points to fully max out one upgrade, so it’s better to boost everything a little at first, since the cost scales up fast.
| Icon | Max Bonus | Priority |
|---|---|---|
 | +100 Base Damage |  |
 | +20 Defence | |
 | +30% Total Accuracy |  |
 | +30% Mining EXP |  |
 | +30% Fishing EXP | |
 | +2% Printer Sample Size |  |
 | +2% AFK Gains Rate | |
 | +12.5 Cap for all Alchemy Liquids |  |
 | +5% Multikill per Tier | |
 | +5% Catching EXP Gain | |
 | +5% Cash from Mobs | |
 | +10% Cash from Mobs | |
 | +8% Class EXP | |
 | +50% Shiny Critter Chance | |
 | +25% Trapping EXP |  |
 | +25% Starting TD Points | |
 | +10 Tab 1 Talent Points |  |
 | +7 Weapon Power | |
 | +10% Skill EXP Gain | |
 | +100 Base STR | |
 | +100 Base AGI | |
 | +100 Base WIS | |
 | +100 Base LUK | |
 | +15% Critters from Trapping | |
 | +15% Souls from Worship | |
 | +15% Refinery Speed | |
 | +50% Forge Capacity | |
 | +15% Drop Rate | |
 | +20% Cooking Speed | |
 | +15% Lab EXP | |
 | +20% Pet Damage in Breeding | |
 | +15% Nugget Regen Speed | |
 | +25% Artifact Find in Sailing | |
 | +15% Loot in Sailing | |
 | +20% White Essence Gain | |
 | +25% Jade Gain | |
 | +15% Farming EXP | |
 | +20% Divinity EXP | |
It is good to note that the Tab 1 Talent Point upgrade gives 0.1 points per level, so you will only see new points every 10 levels.
You can reduce the cost of these upgrades by up to 40% if you are lucky enough to get the Gold Ball Stamp as a reward from the Gold Bucket.
Buying Arcade Balls from the Gem Shop
If you haven’t read our Gem Shop Priority guide yet, give it a read as you will soon find out why there are many things to use your gems on instead.
You should never spend gems on Arcade Balls, as you get them for free every day and there are so many ways to boost your ball gain rate that spending copious amounts of gems on them would be a mistake.
The permanent upgrades are nice, but they cost a lot and are definitely worth wasting gems on.
The bucket rewards are great, but they are so rare that you will end up mad at yourself when you realize you spent thousands of gems on balls and ended up with a few shop points and useless resource coupons.
Save your gems for better things and keep the Arcade as a daily, passive slow burn!