PokéBonk Lab Upgrades and How to Get Stardust

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Stardust is PokéBonk's permanent currency. You spend it in the Lab on upgrades that apply to every run and on unlocking items. It never buys power with real money: the game has no shop.

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Earning and Spending Stardust

How to get Stardust

Every finished run pays Stardust. The exact amount is calculated on the game's server, but Hard pays ×1.75 and Nightmare ×2.5 compared with Normal, according to the region screen.

Daily and weekly tasks pay 60, 100 and 160 Stardust for the three daily tasks and 300, 450 and 700 for the three weekly ones. Finishing all three dailies adds a bonus of 50 Stardust per day of your streak (up to 250) plus a Bag item; finishing all three weeklies adds 500 Stardust, a Master Ball and two Bag items.

Achievements pay from 50 to 5,000 Stardust each; there are 70 of them. New shinies pay 120 (repeats 50), and season leaderboard places and event reward tracks pay more.

What to buy first

This is our suggestion, not an official one. Start with the cheap first levels: Skip (70), Refresh (100), Banish (130), Training (+4% damage, 85) and Stamina (+8 HP, 85). Extra Refreshes and Banishes make every level-up better, and a Skip pays PokéDollars.

Then save for the 4th move slot (1,275). A fourth attack is the biggest single jump in damage the Lab offers. After that, Fourth option (2,550) shows four level-up cards instead of three.

Unlock items once you know your favourite builds. Archive (from 510) is worth it later: archived items never show up in Poké Balls or the shop, so the items you want come up more often.

Every Lab Upgrade and Its Cost

Upgrade	Effect	Max	Cost per level	Total
4th move	Unlocks the fourth move slot.	1	1,275	1,275
Vitamin slots	+1 vitamin slot per level.	2	1,020, 2,550	3,570
Refresh	+1 use of Refresh offers per run.	6	100, 145, 200, 280, 390, 550	1,665
Skip	+1 use of Skip upgrade per run (gives you PokéDollars).	6	70, 95, 135, 185, 260, 365	1,110
Banish	+1 use of Banish: removes one option for the rest of the run.	6	130, 180, 250, 350, 490, 685	2,085
Fourth option	Level-ups offer 4 options.	1	2,550	2,550
Training	+4% damage per level.	8	85, 120, 165, 235, 325, 455, 640, 895	2,920
Stamina	+8 max HP per level.	8	85, 120, 165, 235, 325, 455, 640, 895	2,920
Agility	+2.5% speed per level.	6	100, 150, 215, 310, 450, 655	1,880
Study	+5% experience per level.	6	100, 150, 215, 310, 450, 655	1,880
Trading	+8% PokéDollars per level.	6	85, 125, 180, 260, 375, 545	1,570
Fortune	+5 luck per level.	6	120, 175, 250, 365, 525, 765	2,200
Magnetism	+0.6 pickup range per level.	5	70, 100, 145, 205, 300	820
Leftovers	+0.2 regen per level.	5	100, 150, 215, 310, 450	1,225
Shell	+2 armor per level.	6	100, 150, 215, 310, 450, 655	1,880
Revive	You start with a Max Revive.	1	4,250	4,250
Research	+25% research progress per level.	4	215, 340, 545, 870	1,970
Support team	+1 slot for captured Alphas (from 2 to 3).	1	2,975	2,975
Archive	+5 Archive slots: archived items won't show up in Poké Balls or the shop.	4	510, 1,020, 1,700, 2,550	5,780
Precision	+1% crit chance per level.	5	170, 255, 385, 575, 860	2,245
Swiftness	+2% attack speed per level.	5	185, 280, 420, 630, 945	2,460
Expansion	+3% area per level.	5	170, 255, 385, 575, 860	2,245
Harmony	The Ultimate charges 4% faster per level.	5	215, 320, 480, 715, 1,075	2,805
Big Bag	You can take 3 items from the Bag into each run (instead of 2).	1	3,400	3,400

Lab upgrades and their Stardust price for each level, from the game's data (v0.8.25). Buying everything costs 57,680 Stardust; unlocking all 59 locked items costs another 58,900.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you get Stardust fast in PokéBonk?

Play on the highest difficulty you can win (Hard pays ×1.75, Nightmare ×2.5), clear all three daily tasks for the streak bonus, and claim achievements. Your first shiny of each species pays 120 Stardust.

What should I buy first in the Lab?

We suggest the cheap first levels of Skip, Refresh, Banish, Training and Stamina (70 to 130 each), then saving for the 4th move slot at 1,275 Stardust.