Anime Dice Dice Upgrades Guide — Luck, Money & Grades

Why Dice Upgrades Decide Your Entire Run

Anime Dice is a loop game, and the loop only runs as fast as your dice allow. You roll for anime characters, place them on your plot, and collect cash — but the multiplier sitting on top of that cash comes from anime dice dice upgrades, not from the units themselves. Two players with the exact same 1 in 24 trillion roll can be earning wildly different amounts per second depending on which upgrades they bought and in what order.

That's the trap most new players fall into. They hoard cash for a shiny new dice from the Dice Shop while their Luck and Money upgrades sit untouched at base values. According to community reports and long-form progression videos, the players who climb fastest treat upgrades as the foundation and dice purchases as the reward.

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This guide breaks down every upgrade type, the real costs you'll hit at each stage, how grades and traits stack on top of your dice multipliers, and the Rebirth decision that resets your cash but permanently boosts everything.

The Four Upgrade Tracks, Explained

Cash in Anime Dice flows into four different sinks. Each one solves a different bottleneck, and buying the wrong one at the wrong time is the single most common reason players stall out for hours.

The Dice Shop is technically not an "upgrade" in the menu sense, but it functions as one. A Celestial Prismatic Dice, for example, is reported by players to carry roughly a million times more Luck than the tier below it — which is why many veterans skip a Fortune upgrade to afford the dice instead.

Luck vs. Fortune: Which One First?

Fortune advertises that it "gives you two times Luck," but player testing suggests the actual result is closer to a modest percentage bump rather than a true doubling. In one documented session, a Fortune purchase moved the Luck stat from roughly 170 million to 341 million — a real gain, but not the 2x the tooltip implies.

The practical takeaway: buy Luck first, Fortune second. Fortune scales off your existing Luck, so buying it early gives you a smaller absolute gain for the same price. Stack Luck until the cost curve gets steep, then layer Fortune on top.

Costs You'll Actually Pay at Each Stage

Upgrade prices in Anime Dice climb aggressively. Here's a rough progression based on player-reported numbers from mid-2026 sessions:

Notice the jump. A player sitting at 50 quadrillion per second can afford a Money upgrade but not the next dice. A player at 1 quintillion is choosing between a Celestial dice and their first Rebirth — and that choice matters more than any other in the game.

The 100 Quadrillion Wall

Community players consistently flag the 100 quadrillion mark as the first real wall. At that price point, you can either:

• Buy the Money upgrade for a flat +100% cash, or
• Buy the Luck upgrade to improve future rolls, or
• Save toward the next dice tier

Player experience leans toward the dice purchase if you're within striking distance, because a higher base Luck dice improves every single roll you make afterward — including the ones you do while AFK.

How Grades, Traits, and Mutations Stack

Your dice upgrades set the ceiling. Grades, traits, and mutations determine how close each unit gets to that ceiling. This is where the real income multiplication happens, and it's the part most guides gloss over.

A single unit can carry a grade, a trait, and a mutation simultaneously. Stacking all three on a rare roll is what turns a 5 billion/second unit into a 500 billion/second unit.

Rolling for Grades: Set Your Floor

The grade reroll system lets you set a minimum grade so it automatically skips anything below your target. This is essential — manually clicking through hundreds of rolls is how players burn 1,000 gems and end up with a D.

Set your floor at A+ if you have limited gems. A+ still delivers roughly 4.5x income, and settling for it preserves resources for the next unit. Only push for S+ or Z+ on your single best roll, and only when you have several hundred attempts banked.

Trait Shards Are Scarce — Spend Them Deliberately

Trait shards are one of the hardest resources to farm in Anime Dice. The reliable source is Infinity Tower, which is why so many players keep it running continuously in the background.

Don't spread shards across five mediocre units. One 0.5% trait on a 1 in 24 trillion roll outperforms Money II on your entire bench.

Rebirth: When to Reset Everything

Rebirth is the biggest decision in the progression curve. It wipes your cash to zero but grants a permanent multiplier — player reports cite figures like 8.5x more cash and significantly higher Luck, plus an additional anime slot for your plot.

The catch: you need to hit the Rebirth threshold (commonly cited around 1 quintillion at mid-game) before you can trigger it at all.

Before You Rebirth, Do This Checklist

• Upgrade everything you can afford. Cash is about to vanish — spend it on permanent upgrades first.
• Confirm equipped units are safe. Equipped units, their Grade, Mutation, and Trait are retained through Rebirth.
• Clear your inventory. Sell surplus units before the reset so you don't lose track of what you had.
• Check your grade floor. If your best unit is sitting at a B or C grade, reroll it up before you reset.

Skipping the "spend everything first" step is the most expensive mistake in the game. Players who Rebirth with 200 quadrillion in the bank effectively delete that progress.

Building an Efficient AFK Loop Around Your Upgrades

Anime Dice generates cash while you're offline, but the offline rate is noticeably weaker than active play — community players frequently note that offline earnings "feel horrible" compared to leaving the game open. That makes your upgrade layout critical for overnight progress.

A stable AFK setup looks like this:

1. Fill every plot square with your best available units before going idle.
2. Set your auto-sell threshold just below your weakest equipped unit — many players use 1 in 80 billion to 1 in 100 billion at mid-game.
3. Run Infinity Tower continuously for trait shards and gems.
4. Keep Auto Roll on so new rolls keep flowing into your inventory.
5. Use Luck potions before long AFK stretches so any rolls that land are higher quality.

One documented two-hour AFK test moved a level 32 unit to level 37 and cash from 61.08b to 69.71b — modest but real. Treat that as a baseline, not a guarantee, since results swing heavily with your Luck stat and account progress.

For players running long sessions on a phone, cloud Android environments are a common workaround for battery drain and heat — the same reason many players use a secondary device or emulator for overnight farming.

Common Upgrade Mistakes to Avoid

• Buying Fortune before Luck. Fortune scales off Luck, so early Fortune purchases underperform.
• Ignoring Roll Speed. It's cheap early and directly increases your rolls-per-hour.
• Rerolling grades without a floor set. You'll burn gems and land on a downgrade.
• Hoarding cash past the Rebirth threshold. Unspent cash is wasted cash.
• Spreading trait shards thin. Concentrate them on your single best unit.
• Trusting the "equip best" button blindly. Player reports describe it as unreliable — verify your plot manually after using it.

The official Roblox game page for Anime Dice confirms the core loop: roll dice, upgrade them for more luck, build the strongest team, and collect rare characters and mutations. Everything else is optimization.