I have explained how to get all these currencies, items, and other things in the game in this guide.
How to get Currencies and Items
Here is the table formatted with the given information:
| Item | What? | How to Get | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
 Copper | Common free currency | By playing (doing dailies), by winning 1st or 2nd place in Silver+ Rooms, by participating in events, given for free if Adept+ | Buy Gifts, buy Spheres, get Stardust (by buying Gifts and “donating” them), entering matches (Silver+ Room, very small amounts) |
| Chest | Opens to give Gifts and Spheres | By playing in Silver+ Room | Opens automatically into Gifts and Spheres |
 Gift | Goofy items to gift to characters. They come in 3 colors (rarities): green, blue, and purple. | From Chests, bought from Shop with Copper | Gift to characters to increase Bond (hearts), “Donate” to get Stardust |
 Stardust | “Donating” (breaking down) Gifts (in the “Items” > “Gift” section of the game there is a Donate button) | Buy Summon Scrolls, buy purple Bags, buy other Bags (bad) | |
 Jade | Premium currency $$$ | Paying real money. The “Fortune Charm” is the cheapest way, but you need to log into the game each day to collect the Jade | Rolling on the gacha for Characters (and Decorations*, and you’ll also get Gifts), changing your username, exchange into Copper (bad) |
 Outfit Voucher | Premium currency for Outfits (skins) (direct purchase, not rolling) | Paying real money | Buy Outfits (skins), buy skins for the background screen of the main menu |
 Spheres | Single-colored balls named “Courage”, “Hope”, etc. | Chests, events, buying from Shop with Copper, buying from Shop with Wishing Stones | Bond* with a character, buy loading-screen art |
 Faith | Pity system | Get 1 every time you roll on the gacha | Buy any Character of your choice outright, buy any Decoration of your choice outright, exchange for Wishing Stones (1 to 1) |
 Wishing Stone | Exchange from Faith, get a duplicate character | Buy purple Gifts, buy Spheres (bad?) | |
 Star Stone | Like Wishing Stones but for Decorations | Get a duplicate Decoration | Buy your choice of Decoration from a small selection, buy blue Gifts (bad) |
 Summon Scroll | Ticket to roll on the gacha | Buy with Stardust (up to 5 per month), earn in events (usually 1 or 2 tops), sometimes given away in very few events | Rolling on the gacha for Characters (and Decorations, and you’ll also get Gifts) |
Some concepts mentioned:
- Decoration: these are cosmetics and might be a background music track, a “riichi music”, a riichi stick, a skin for your character’s hand (mainly cat paws), a skin for the back of tiles, a skin for the tablecloth in-game, or a frame for your character’s portrait. They are not a skin for your characters.
- Bond: each character has a bond level (hearts), like a relationship meter. After you fill all 5 hearts of this bond level you can “Bond with the character” (which is a related separate concept!) to unlock a special skin with them, additional emotes, the last of their story (if they have one) and the few extra “thoughts” voice lines. You advance the bond meter (hearts) by playing with them in Silver+ Room and by giving them Gifts (if its their favourite kind of gift, it is worth +50% bond points).
Getting Characters without $$$
If you want to stay free-to-play, getting a character will take a bit of time, but getting a specific character you really want may take very long.
You do it by rolling on the gacha using Summon Scrolls instead of Jade (Jade is the premium currency).
How to get Summon Scrolls?
- Go to Items (inventory) -> Gift and click “Donate” to donate your Gifts. This will give you Stardust.
- Then, go to Shop -> Fortune, and exchange 50 Stardust for 1 Summon Scroll.
- You are limited to 5 scrolls per calendar month via this method. You can also get Summon Scrolls in in-game events (0, 1 or 2 usually, don’t get your hopes up ).
Playing -> Gifts -> Stardust -> SummonScroll -> Character
Careful, don’t Donate any purple Gifts if you want to later use them to Bond with a character, as they are very rare!
You will get many more Gifts if you play in the Silver Room or higher (ie. everything except the Bronze Room), so it really pays to learn how to play Mahjong well enough to get out of Bronze!
How many times do I have to Roll to get a Character??
Each time you roll, you have a 5% chance to get a character. So, unless you get unlucky (which you might!), you can expect to get a character around every 20 rolls.
- In terms of free-to-play Summon Scrolls and Coppers:
- 1 Summon Scroll = 50 Stardust = 750,000 coppers worth of Gifts.
- Therefore, 1 character ~15,000,000 coppers. Yeah. But don’t worry, you will be getting more Gifts from playing and events.