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The buttons and counters around the field, with a crop for each label. There is no Codes button in this layout.

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Top bar buttons Shop, Stop, Base, and 1x during a wave
During a fight the green Fight button becomes Stop.

Shop, Fight, Base, and 1x

The top bar has four buttons. Shop is orange. Fight is green, and it changes to a red Stop button once a wave is running. Base is blue. The last button says 1x. Those four words are the whole top bar in the footage. There is no fifth button labeled Codes.

Shop on the top bar and Shop on the left rail both exist. The left rail is the one stacked with Abilities and Dinos. Use the left Dinos button for the index. Use either Shop label for the defense shop. Base is the blue button, not the floating name over someone else's plot.

Top buttons labeled Shop, Fight, Base, and 1x
Shop, Fight, Base, 1x, before the wave starts.

Abilities, Shop, and Dinos

Down the left side, the labels are Abilities, Shop, and Dinos. Abilities is the top icon, a set of flaming meteors in this frame. Shop is a basket. Dinos is the dinosaur head. The index screenshots on this site were opened from that Dinos button.

Abilities was not opened into a full menu in the frames we kept, so this page does not list ability names or cooldowns. The label is real. The contents of the menu are not filled in from a guess.

Left rail with Abilities, Shop, and Dinos labels
Abilities, Shop, Dinos.

Cash and Friend Boost

Bottom left, the big green number is your cash. In one mid-wave frame it read $2,640, with a floating +$61 over it as a dino paid out. That $2,640 is one moment in one run. It is not a price and not a goal. The official line is that you earn cash for every dino you stop.

Under the cash, a two-face icon and the text Friend Boost: +20% were on screen in the wave 13 frame, again at wave 28, and again at wave 51. The bonus we could read is +20%. An early blurry pass looked like +201. The clear line is +20%.

Cash counter showing +$61, $2,640, and Friend Boost +20%
Cash, a +$61 popup, and Friend Boost: +20%.

The wave bar

A black bar near the top of the field says Wave: and the current fight. We read Wave: 13, Wave: 28, and Wave: 51. A thinner line under the bar points at a coming wave: wave 20 while the bar said 13, wave 30 while it said 28, and wave 60 while it said 51. The number in front of that thinner line is not clear enough to publish.

Do not mix this with a card. Pachycephalosaurus says DINO - WAVE 13 because that is its index slot. The HUD saying Wave: 13 means you are fighting wave 13. Boss cards tell you which of those fights is a boss: Boulderback is BOSS - WAVE 30, Gravemaw is BOSS - WAVE 50.

Wave bar reading Wave: 28
Wave: 28 on the fight bar.

Next event, and the egg labels in the world

Top left, a small stack says NEXT EVENT and a countdown. One frame read 5:33. That timer is in the session, not the October island event on the Roblox page. The Roblox page is a different clock.

World text also names eggs. FROST EGG and ROYAL EGG appear as signs over the plots, and FROST EGG can show $10000. A red damage number such as -400 floats off dinos during the fight. Those popups are combat text. They are not the DMG pill on a card.

NEXT EVENT timer reading 5:33
NEXT EVENT, 5:33, on the left of the field.

Crates on screen

The official description says to open crates to unlock epic weapons. In the footage, a world object is labeled MAGMA CRATE, with a hexagon and 29. A separate Roblox purchase dialog says Purchase completed and You have successfully bought Gold Crate - Skip Timer. Those are two different lines. Magma Crate is the object on the grass. Gold Crate - Skip Timer is the receipt.

Neither dialog lists the weapons inside. Weapon names stay off this site until a crate open shows them. The HUD around the crate is still Shop, Fight, Base, and 1x, and the left rail is still Abilities, Shop, and Dinos.

  • MAGMA CRATE uses a hexagon price. The frame shows 29. It is not a dollar price.
  • Gold Crate - Skip Timer is the name on the purchase receipt, not a code.
  • Index prices and trap prices use a dollar sign. Do not add them to the crate.
World label MAGMA CRATE with a hexagon price of 29
MAGMA CRATE and the hexagon price 29.

FAQ

Build a Dino Defense HUD FAQ

Where is the codes button?

It is not on the top bar or the left rail in these frames. The labels are Shop, Fight or Stop, Base, 1x, Abilities, Shop, and Dinos.

Does Friend Boost change a dino's DMG pill?

The line we read is Friend Boost: +20% under your cash. The DMG pill on an index card is a separate number and does not show +20%.