How to Unlock Ball x Pit Characters and All Stages

Ball x Pit locks most of its playable characters and stages behind blueprint progression and elevator upgrades. You start with only one character and one stage, and you unlock everything else by clearing stages, collecting blueprints, and upgrading your base structures.

As of the Regal update, the game includes 18 playable characters and 8 stages. Each character unlocks through a specific building blueprint, while each stage unlocks through elevator upgrades earned by completing stages with different characters.

How Character Unlocking Works in Ball x Pit

You unlock characters through housing blueprints.

Here is the exact flow:

1. Play stages and defeat enemies and bosses.
2. Blueprints drop during runs.
3. Pick up the blueprint before it scrolls off-screen.
4. Return to New Ballbylon (your base).
5. Open the Build menu → Housing tab.
6. Place the building linked to that blueprint.
7. Send townspeople to crash into the structure in harvest mode until construction completes.
8. The character unlocks immediately after the structure finishes building.

Simply placing the building does not unlock the character — construction must complete.

Blueprint drops follow a fixed progression order tied to stage completion. Most unlock naturally by progressing through the game, though late characters may require replaying stages to collect remaining blueprints.

All Ball x Pit Characters and How to Unlock Them

Here is lists all 18 playable characters, their blueprint buildings, and their gameplay traits.

Character	Blueprint Building	Starting Ball	Core Gameplay Trait
The Warrior	None (Default)	Bleed	Standard character with no special mechanics
The Itchy Finger	Sheriff’s Office	Burn	Autofires constantly, scattered aim, full-speed shooting
The Repentant	Haunted House	Freeze	Damage increases per bounce, balls return through enemies
The Cogitator	Villa	Laser (Vertical)	Automatically selects upgrades
The Embedded	Veteran’s Hut	Poison	Balls pierce enemies until hitting a wall
The Shade	Mausoleum	Dark	Balls launch from the back, increased critical chance
The Cohabitants	Cozy Home	Brood Mother	Fires mirrored balls with half damage
The Shieldbearer	Iron Fortress	Iron	Shield boosts ball damage after bounces
The Flagellant	Monastery	Egg Sac	Balls bounce off the bottom of the screen
The Juggler	Theater	Lightning	Balls arc into the field before bouncing
The Tactician	Captain’s Quarters	Iron	Converts gameplay into turn-based combat
The Radical	Campground	Wind	Fully automated gameplay and upgrades
The Physicist	Laboratory	Light	Gravity pulls balls toward the back of the screen
The Spendthrift	Mansion	Vampire	Fires all balls simultaneously in a wide arc
The Empty Nester	Single Family Home	Ghost	No baby balls, fires multiple special balls
The Makeshift Sisyphus	Rocky Hill	Earthquake	No direct hit damage, boosted AoE and status effects
The Falconer	Falconry Hut	Lightning	Fires balls from two falcons on screen sides
The Carouser	Party House	Charm	Returning balls orbit around the player

Each character changes how aiming, bouncing, upgrades, and positioning behave, so unlocking them significantly expands playstyles and build strategies.

After unlocking The Radical, you can let the character automatically clear stages. This makes blueprint farming easier for remaining characters, especially when replaying stages that still contain undiscovered blueprints.

How Stage Unlocking Works in Ball x Pit

Stages unlock through elevator upgrades.

You earn gears by completing a stage with a character that has not previously cleared that stage.

Important rules:

• Each new character completion gives one gear.
• Replaying the same character on the same stage does not grant extra gears.
• After unlocking the Matchmaker Blueprint, you can bring two characters into one run and earn two gears if neither has completed the stage before.
• Later elevator upgrades require multiple gears.

This system encourages rotating characters rather than repeating the same one.

All Ball x Pit Stages and Unlock Requirements

Stage	Unlock Requirement
The Bone x Yard	Unlocked by default
The Snowy x Shores	Earn 2 gears by completing Bone x Yard with different characters
The Liminal x Desert	Earn 2 gears from Snowy x Shores
The Fungal x Forest	Earn 2 gears from Liminal x Desert
The Gory x Grasslands	Earn 3 gears from Fungal x Forest
The Smoldering x Depths	Earn 4 gears from Gory x Grasslands
The Heavenly x Gates	Earn 4 gears from Smoldering x Depths
The Vast x Void	Earn 5 gears from Heavenly x Gates

Each stage increases difficulty and blueprint availability as you progress deeper.

Master every stage, experiment with builds, and New Ballbylon will reward you with some of the most creatively designed mechanics in any modern roguelike. Play Now!