Ranch, Pens, and Cash

What the ranch is for

The official description says you bring tamed dinosaurs home, upgrade pens, and earn cash while you ride. Feature notes for this experience add three ranch actions that the listing does not price:

• Pen upgrades add dinosaur slots.
• Placed dinosaurs earn money over time. One writeup says money every second. Per-species rates are not published.
• An Index can be claimed when you tame a dinosaur you did not have yet.
• Dinosaurs can be sold, including by rarity filters in those feature notes. Sell prices are not published.
• The same notes describe equipping the highest earners on the ranch, which means income is not identical across species. Read the in-game number. Do not copy a rate from another game.

A ranch pass after each tame

1. Return to the ranch with the new dinosaur.
2. Place it if a pen slot is free. If the pen is full, upgrade the pen when you can pay, or sell something only after you have checked the Index.
3. Claim the Index if the game offers a claim for that species. Reward contents are unpublished, so this is a precaution, not a promised payout.
4. Look at the cash figure the game shows for the new dinosaur and for the ones already placed. Keep the higher earners placed when slots are scarce.
5. Spend surplus cash on the next machine upgrade or the next aura in the cash column. Those prices are the ones that are actually published.

What not to assume

• Slot counts per pen level are not published. A guide that lists "pen 1 holds 4" is guessing.
• Offline earnings are not in the official description. Do not plan around cash that arrives while you are logged out.
• Selling a rarity in bulk can remove a species you have not indexed. Claim first when the claim button is there.
• The ranch is not described as a combat base. Nothing in the listing says other players can take your placed dinosaurs.

Cash shorthand used on this site

Aura prices use the suffixes printed by the aura list: K, M, B, T, and Qa. This site does not convert $5Qa into a full integer. When you compare a price with the cash on your screen, match the suffix the game itself shows.