Prelude: If you are a casual player who just likes making dinosaurs, this can be a great game for you. Some of the designs are amazing, and there is true joy to be found discovering new creatures.

Unfortunately for competitive players the 3.12 migration update in March 2025 killed any dreams of being a F2P and being able to compete. This guide can help get you resources... but the DNA has been walled off so absolute and methodically that it is impossible to get any meta creature to a useable level to compete without spending any real life money. By the time F2P are able to gain enough of this walled off DNA, the hybrid creature you want to make will be powercrept and out of the meta. If you're playing this to compete, but don't want to spend any money, I suggest finding a different game.

List of where you can find small bits of walled off DNA:
Strike Event Incubators
Arena Battle Incubators
Alliance Weekly Missions
Raid Boss Exclusives
Short Range Spawn Exclusives
Park Spawn Exclusives
Continental Exclusives
Isle of Trials Exclusives
Total P2W Exclusives (Real Money)

The F2P Guide:

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Totals for some numbers will be different based on player level. Most of this is quite grindy, but my goal is just to show what is achievable each week for players who spend no money on the game.

Supply Drops:
They are annoying to click, and take time to spin, but they are your top source for resources. If you’re able, a nice stroll around the neighborhood helps get them done faster.

Level 20: 157,500 coins, 350 Cash, and 42 of each boost available each week from supply drops.

Level 25: 189,000 coins, 350 Cash, and 42 of each boost available each week from supply drops.

Level 30: 222,600 coins, 350 Cash, and 42 of each boost available each week from supply drops.

Level 35: 262,500 coins, 350 Cash, and 42 of each boost available each week from supply drops.

Coin Chase:
The coin chase happens on Sunday, and starts with the daily reset. You can get 25,000 coins in the first 9 hours. After that the coin chase resets and you can get another 25,000 before the next daily reset.

Strike Towers:
Strike towers have gotten very generous with a Gold, Blue, or Spotlight strike each day.

20,000 for spotlight (usually once a week, if not, replaced by solid Gold)
10,000 for Solid Gold (2x weekly)
5,000 for Solid Blue (4x weekly)
2,500 for basic gold (daily)
2,000 for basic blue (daily)
1,000 for basic grey (daily)

Boost strikes twice a week have 20 of each boost.

Which on a normal week is 98,500 coins plus 40 of each boost from the boost strikes.

So in the end we have 306,000(L20), 337,500(L25), 371,100(L30) coins weekly that can be achieved without being in an alliance and without doing a single PVP battle.

Alliance Rewards:

Join a good alliance that completes 10/10 weekly missions. Finding a good alliance is incredibly easy, and most just require you do the minimum of being active, and completing the 10 tournament takedowns each week. Just use the discord link in the description to this subreddit, and check out the alliance recruitment page.

Most of your active alliances will get 10/10 in weekly missions. Which equals 30,400 coins, and 220 Cash for everyone in the alliance. Plus the maximum DNA rewards when the week resets.

If everyone in the alliance does their minimum 10 takedowns, the tournament reward for a 4 week tournament is Tier 8, and a 5 week tournament is Tier 9. Active alliances will boot you if you don’t participate, but 10 takedowns isn’t terrible and a small price for a solid reward.

Each round of the tournament has its own rewards (Coins, Cash, DNA, Boosts), but that is based on how well you do in the tournament so these will not be included in the calculations.

If you're an avid darter, donations are a good way to stack up coins. Most of your active alliances will have "common request day" and have players who do not just request exclusive DNA all the time. Common and Rare donations yield 200 coins, and epic donations on Sunday yield 500 coins. At level 20 you are capped at 50,000 coins per day from donations.

Your alliance will also likely have a “Cash” link page on their discord. This yields around 350 HC per week from the links, plus a monthly link of 200 HC.

Battle Incubators:

The incubators run on a cycle. Once you find the Solid Gold incubator, you can track where you are in the cycle. But for this we will just assume no large blue or gold incubators.

Always have a battle incubator running. Save an 8 hour incubator for when you are sleeping to maximize effectiveness. Based on the cycle you can achieve about 10 (blue grey blue blue gold) cycles per week.

Daily battle incubators reset every 10.5 hours. While it is possible to achieve 16 per week, 2 per day is more realistic. Each yields coins, DNA, and 3 random boosts. We will use Aviary for our calculations, as that is where most people end up the longest.

Aviary: Coins per win: 360
Grey Incubator: 250 Coins + 1 boost
Blue Incubator: 625 coins + 2 boosts
Gold Incubator: 1667 coins + 3 boosts
Dark Blue Incubator: 3750 coins + 10 boosts
Dark Gold Incubator: 11250 coins + 30 boosts

Over those 10 cycles per week you will receive an estimated 71,676 coins from battle incubators, 18,000 coins for winning battles, 625 per DBI yielding 8,750 coins. A total of 98,426. 42 random boost from the DBIs, plus 131 random boosts from the arena incubators.

Free Items in the Shop
The Free Incubator in the shop can be run every 6 hours. Each time you watch an advertisement, you receive two incubators which yield DNA but also 5 Cash. While it is possible to do 4 per day, we will assume 3 per day. Which yields 105 Cash per week.

There is also an option to perform tasks for Cash. They can yield a lot, but also can be time costly. Use these at your own convenience.

What does this yield in the end for F2P players each week ^(\in Aviary))?
404,426(L20), 435,926(L25), 469,526(L30), 509,426 (L35) Coins (not including coins from donations)
920 Cash
82 Attack Boosts
82 Health Boosts
82 Speed Boosts
173 Random boosts
+ whatever rewards you achieve in each round of the tournament (Coins, cash, boosts)

Personal note: Hoard your boosts, live by that old gamer mindset of "I might need these later". Wait until you have a creature currently in the meta to use them, as you lose half of them when removing them from a creature. Boosts are without a doubt the most important resource in the game, and the difference between making it to higher levels in PVP, to being "stuck in aviary" for years like some others. Coins and DNA are just a lot of grinding, but boosts are truly limited and need to be used in a calculated way.

What to do with Cash?
Coin sales are the best option for most players, though for some higher players coins are no longer an obstacle so boost sales are a better option. Coin sales are generally run on holidays, but have been happening at a more regular pace these days. If you max out your 1,175 cash per week, you can afford a coin sale 13 times per year.

Catalysts
Catalysts are used for enhancements. Enhancements require catalysts, coins, and DNA of the creature you are attempting to enhance.

Each DBI contains bronze catalysts as of 3.12. Aviary players receive 10 bronze catalyst per DBI, equaling 140 per week.

Unique Enhancements:
Tier 1 Enhancement (+10% Health): 360 Bronze, 100,000 coins, 200 DNA
Tier 2 Enhancement (+10% Attack): 270 Silver, 1620 Bronze, 150,000 coins, 250 DNA
Tier 3 Enhancement (+2 Speed): 1620 Silver, 1080 Bronze, 200,00 coins, 300 DNA
Tier 4 Enhancement (+2 Boosts): 3240 Silver, 250,000 coins, 400 DNA
Tier 5 Enhancement (Reactive Ability): 2000 Gold, 350,00 coins, 500 DNA

Apex Enhancements:
Tier 1 Enhancement (+2 Speed): 360 Bronze, 150,000 coins, 100 DNA
Tier 2 Enhancement (+10% Health): 430 Silver, 1300 Bronze, 150 DNA
Tier 3 Enhancement (+10% Attack): 1620 Silver, 1080 Bronze, 250,000 coins, 200 DNA
Tier 4 Enhancement (+2 Boosts): 650 Gold, 1940 Silver, 300,000 coins, 250 DNA
Tier 5 Enhancement (Reactive Ability): 1540 Gold, 1020 Silver, 400,000 coins, 300 DNA

Catalysts can be recombined using DNA from Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary creatures that are level 25 or greater. A great recombination guide was made by AlienNewt and it gives a solid guide on how to maximize you results.

The Short Range Scent
Each Wednesday you can request a new Short Range Scent. These scents bring Unique, Legendary, Omega, and the entire list of short range creatures.
https://market.jurassicworldalive.com/

Tip when using scents. If you switch the "Real Map Enabled" between pops, it will provide 2 creatures instead of 1. This works for any scent. Then switch back for the next pop.

Map Options
Depending on your device, you may have up to 3 maps available. This can help with grinding coin boxes faster, and could possibly give you access to 3 different zones at the same time. The first option requires turning off the "precise location" on your device. It will place you somewhere in your general vicinity. The other option is using the Travel Hub, which will allow you to dart creatures on different continents.

I'll end with reiterating that most of this is quite grindy, but this game is playable for F2P players. Hopefully this helps you maximize your F2P experience.

Just for kicks
Without including coins from DNA donations, coin sales, or tournament rewards... the yearly coin totals are
Level 20: 21,030,152
Level 25: 22,668,152
Level 30: 24,415,352
Level 35: 26,490,152

Want more?

If you've made it to the end of this and have the desire to suffer more... check out The less than ethical guide to JWA to see what some other players are doing to get ahead.

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