Getting Started

Terminology

These are the terms we use:

Bits: Bitizens, the residents of your tower
Golds or Gold Bits: Bitizens with a max skillset (9 9 9 9 9)
9s: Bitizens with a 9 in their dream job’s category
Dream Workers: Bitizens working in their dream job (a silver/gold star will appear next to the store/bit)
Clones: Perfect copies of a doorman
GT: Golden Ticket, won from raffle or by rebuilding at >49 floors
GFarms or Gold Farms: Specially designed towers that upgrade normal bits to gold bits
Storage towers: Towers that temporarily hold bits
Coinfarms: Tall towers that can give you many coins when you visit them
FSB: Fully Stock Bonus
Bouncing: to temporarily send your bits to another tower to be immediately returned to you

Basic Tips

Rebuilding

Is it worth to rebuild?
Yes, but it depends on your play style.
It is highly recommended to rebuild at least 2 or 3 times even if you aim to have all the floors.

Where should I spend my golden tickets?
The first on Soda Brewery, the second on Cake Studio and the third onwards could be on your next best commercial floor (see Top Floors).
Why? Because they have the most stock at level 10 and you can do the Soda Brewery Combo and Cake Studio Combo, and gold bits (skills of 99999) are easily obtained through requests or the spreadsheet https://tinyurl.com/grd9wyl.

VIP

Is the VIP Package worth?
Yes, when it’s in 50% sale. It has tremendous advantages and you help NimbleBit, but this is up to you, a very personal choice.

Requesting bits

Where do I request bits?
In the #requests channel on the Tiny Tower Discord server or in the spreadsheet.

Starting tips

Considering 0 golden tickets.

Register your tower through the game’s cloud menu so you don’t lose progress.
Do the double rent trick.
Make sure all stores have 3 gold dream workers, and all apartments are full of gold bits working in their dream job. Try to stick to having 3 apartments for every 5 stores (pre Tech Tree Shared Living), go to requests to get what you need, and evict non gold bits as you get the new bits.
Focus on investing bux into your elevator. Go ahead and spend some bux on increasing store levels so they don’t run out so fast, but your elevator speed should be your priority.
Visit friends! Go to the #the_lobby channel on the Tiny Tower Discord server to collect codes of active players, add them to your friend list and visit them. Most will visit back. And each day they visit you back and you ride them up your elevator, you get 10 bux.
Visit tall towers like Jartwobs KMSF over and over. You can delete and re-add the tower as many times as you want and if you cancel out of the visit for low floors (under 2000) you can get 20,000 coins per visit.
Any time you get a Big Spender, send them to a store that only has the 3-coin item in stock (and hopefully a decent amount of it). The Big Spender will randomly choose which product to buy, but if only the most expensive product is in the store then he’s forced to buy it.
Abuse Melvyn: Camp out at the top of your tower between rides and tap on him when he shows up.
Enter the free raffle as much as you can. Once you have one, each Big Spender = up to 255k coins.

Non-VIP

Choose the orange Creative category for any new stores. They tend to have better stock levels, which means they’ll sell more stock while you’re away from the game without having to upgrade the level as much. Don’t worry about deleting any stores you already have so you can replace them with Creative stores.

VIP

Build stores according to the top floors list. These floors hold the highest amount of stock, which means they’ll sell more stock while you’re away from the game without having to upgrade the level as much.