> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pandor.gg/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dust > How your planet makes dust, the tank and your balance, collecting, what dust pays for, upkeep and debt. Dust is PANDOR's in-game currency. You spend it on upgrades and troops. Your troops eat it as upkeep. Raiders come to take it. Every planet starts with 25,000. ## Dust is made while a pack runs Your planet makes dust over time only while a pack is running. * **The free simulation pack.** Under **Mine**, tap **Start simulation pack**. It's free, your wallet signs nothing, and it runs for 7 days. When it ends, tap **Restart simulation pack**. Nothing restarts it for you. * **A real mining pack.** Paid packs pay the same dust rate while they run, on top of what they mine. You never earn two rates at once. See [Mining](/ore/mining). While a pack runs, your planet makes: > 50 × production level × species bonus × rarity bonus, in dust per minute, rounded down Terra's species bonus is ×1.25. Every other species is ×1. Rarity is ×1 for Common, ×1.05 for Rare and ×1.10 for Legendary. Dust per hour, while a pack runs: | Level | Common | Rare | Legendary | Terra Common | Terra Rare | Terra Legendary | | -: | -: | -: | -: | -: | -: | -: | | 1 | 3,000 | 3,120 | 3,300 | 3,720 | 3,900 | 4,080 | | 2 | 6,000 | 6,300 | 6,600 | 7,500 | 7,860 | 8,220 | | 5 | 15,000 | 15,720 | 16,500 | 18,720 | 19,680 | 20,580 | | 10 | 30,000 | 31,500 | 33,000 | 37,500 | 39,360 | 41,220 | | 20 | 60,000 | 63,000 | 66,000 | 75,000 | 78,720 | 82,500 | The first three columns are Ferox, Vex and Bastion worlds. To raise your level, see [Upgrades](/planet/upgrades). With no pack running, your planet makes no dust, but upkeep keeps running. A planet with troops and no pack slides into debt. ## In the tank and your balance Your dust sits in two places. | | In the tank | Your balance | | - | - | - | | What lands there | Dust from your packs | Collected dust, loot, Supply Drop dust | | Who can see it | Anyone: it's public on Solana | Other players can't: it's encrypted | | When you're raided | Taken first | Taken once the tank is empty | | When you spend | Collected first, automatically | Spent from here | Pack dust reaches your tank about once an hour, and right away before you spend or burn dust. The tank holds about 3 billion dust, so in practice it never fills. The **Dust** figure at the top of the app is everything together: your balance, your tank, and pack dust that hasn't reached the tank yet. Beside it, **Production** shows your dust per hour, with your net after upkeep underneath. **Upkeep** shows what your troops eat per hour. ## Collecting Collecting moves dust from your tank into your balance. It's free, and your wallet never signs. It happens in two ways: * **Collect.** Open Settings, then the Dust screen ("Your tank, and collecting it."), and tap **Collect**. * **Automatically, when you spend.** Every order that spends dust (training, upgrades, clearing a debt) collects your tank first. There's no timer. Dust stays in the tank until you spend or collect. **Collect often:** raids take from the tank first, and anyone can see what's in it. ## What dust pays for | Spent on | How much | | - | - | | Upgrades | 1,000 × level² for each level. See [Upgrades](/planet/upgrades). | | Troops | 200 a raider, 350 a heavy, 300 a defender. See [Fleet](/war/fleet). | | Upkeep | 10, 30 or 20 per troop per hour, taken continuously | | Burning | Premium only. **Burn dust** for the [weekly prize](/ore/weekly-prize): the tank first, then your balance. Burned dust is gone for good. | | Loot | What raiders carry off when they beat your defence | Premium, mining packs and Supply Drops are paid from your wallet in USDC or SKR, never in dust. ## Where dust comes from * Your 25,000 starting dust. * Your pack, while it runs. * Real mining: the pORE your paid packs earn also brings dust. See [Mining](/ore/mining). * Loot from attacks you win, added when your survivors land. * [Supply Drops](/ore/supply-drops): prizes of 500, 5,000 or 50,000 dust, paid straight into your balance. ## Upkeep Every troop eats dust every hour: 10 for a raider, 30 for a heavy, 20 for a defender. It comes out of your balance a little at a time, all day. * It starts the moment you pay for troops, not when they finish training. * It keeps running while troops are away attacking. * It stops when troops die in battle. Ten defenders cost 200 dust an hour. Check the **Upkeep** figure before you train a big batch. More on [Fleet](/war/fleet). ## Debt Upkeep can push your balance below zero, and so can a raid that goes unanswered (see [Loot](/war/raids#loot)). Nothing dies when that happens. But once your balance and tank together are below zero, your planet can be flagged as in debt, shown as **Owed**. While it's flagged: * you can't upgrade, train, attack, reinforce, or burn dust from your balance; * your planet defends at **half strength**; * Supply Drop troops arrive as their price in dust instead. To clear it, get back above zero: keep your pack running, and loot and Supply Drop dust count too. RHEA clears the flag on her own once your balance is back above zero, or you can tap **Clear it** on the Planet deck. The pill then reads **Stable**.