Beginners Guide #1: Leveling (Experience Points and How It Works)

Explorers!

Welcome to Jurassic World Alive. If you're a brand new player, this is the place to start -- our beginners guides. We've got a bunch of them here at GamePress and you can check out the full suite of them below. But to get started, let's talk about how to level up your character in the game and why you should do it!

If you're at all familiar with Pokemon Go, the core game mechanics of Jurassic World Alive are very similar. You open the game being placed on a map while your phone or device connects to your actual real-world GPS location. Around you, there will be three dinosaurs.

Don't get too concerned about what you dart first. You'll see plenty more Velociraptors, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, and all manner of other wild creatures as you play. Your goal in the beginning is darting dinosaurs, collecting DNA, and getting your character level (from 1 to 20) up. We'll talk about Darting Tips, Sanctuaries, Alliances, Daily Missions, and all the rest when we get there. Let's stick to the basics for now and talk about how to gain experience points in Jurassic World Alive.

The reason your player level is so crucial to Jurassic World Alive is because each level you increase, you actually increase the DNA you can collect for each single dart. So the primary focus when you first start playing should be gaining experience points.

You can gain experience points in a few ways in Jurassic World Alive, but the most basic way to understand it is to think of it like this.

You gain experience any time you use DNA.

But there are a few ways you can use DNA.

Creating Dinosaurs is the first way you can gain DNA. The table below shows you the amount of experience you can gain by creating a dinosaur, but the formula is based on the following.

XP gain = DNA cost X [rarity tier value]

Using the below table, you can see that creating a Rare creature with 100 DNA will award 500 Experience Points.

The second way you can earn experience is by fusing two sets of creature DNA into hybrid DNA.

Hybrids in Jurassic World Alive are often more powerful than the components - and the rarity of the components generally shows you how powerful the hybrid will be. The more rare the components, the stronger the hybrid (generally speaking).

To create a Hybrid, however, you'll need to first get your component creatures to a certain minimum level, and then you'll need to fuse enough Hybrid DNA to create the Hybrid.

Fusing will cost you DNA and coins, and will earn you experience with the following formula:

XP Gain = ([DNA Requirement for Dino #1] X [rarity tier value]) +  ([DNA Requirement for Dino #2] X [rarity tier value])

The third and final way to gain player experience points is to evolve a dinosaur (once you've fused enough DNA). The formula for determining how much you gain is below:

XP gain = DNA cost X [rarity tier value]

And the table for the multipliers is below that:

As you progress in player level, you'll get more and more DNA per dart depending on how close to the center of the target area you hit. If you get a direct hit, you'll end up with the max amount listed below (by player level and by rarity tier of the creature you are darting). If you don't hit the center dot, you'll end up with a percentage of the maximum total you could get.

We'll talk more about darting in our darting guide.