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ELEVATOR

The Elevator is used to take Bitizens and VIPs to different floors in the player's Tower. It is a fundamental part of gameplay because you can earn coins (or occasionally a 5 Bux tip) from helping Bitizens. Bitizens can also move into your Residential floors by riding up to them on the elevator.

Appearance[]

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The elevator shaft before version 3.0.0

When the player first begins, they will start out with the Trusty Rusty, which looks like an average real-life elevator. As of version 3.0.0, the look of the elevator has become completely independent from its speed. Both the elevator speed and appearance can be upgraded with Bux.

The elevator runs up and down a dim elevator shaft on the left side of the player's tower. The basic shaft is built with gray bricks, and has two ropes (two metal rails before version 3.0.0) for the elevator to run on. The design of the shaft changes when the elevator's appearance is changed (the shaft didn't change before version 3.0.0).

Every level has a dark gray (brown before version 3.0.0) door painted with white numbers (that match the floor's number). When the player runs their elevator to a floor, it moves in position with the door of the floor it is closest to.

Using the Elevator[]

Bitizens[]

Elevator

When a Bitizen arrives in the Lobby and wants to be taken to a certain floor in your Tower, a red icon with two arrows (seen on the left) appears on the bottom left of the screen. Tapping the icon or the elevator itself will display the elevator controls (an up and down arrow).

The Bitizen will tell you the floor number they wish to go to. Taking them to their desired floor earns you a tip of coins (and occasionally 5 Bux), and takes a minute off the timer for that floor (construction or restock time), plus another minute for each gold ticket that you have.

The base amount of coins you receive is 50 + [S * F * (1 + G)] where S = your elevator speed (FPS), F = destination floor number, G = number of Gold Tickets. For example, if you took a Bitizen to floor 10 with a 5 FPS elevator and you have 2 gold tickets, you receive 50 + [5 * 10 * (1 + 2)] = 200 coins. Note that the upgrades to elevator speed you can get in the Tech Tree do count towards your elevator speed.

The elevator coin multipliers you can get in the Tech Tree are then multiplied by that value to give the equation C * (1 + E*F + T) where C is the base amount of coins you received, E is the Exponential Growth Tech, and T is the Lift Boy Tips tech. Any other multiplier earned from the Boosters is then multiplied. For example, if you had all level 1 tech, and using values our previous example, the total number of coins you get is 200 * (1 + 0.01*10+0.05) = 230 coins. With level 5 tech, that would be 200 * (1 + 0.05*10+0.25) = 350 coins.

A Bitizen will not get off on a floor they don't want - they will sit and wait in the elevator until they're taken to the right floor. If the Bitizen goes to a Residential floor with an open slot, they will move in.

Visit Friends[]

Friends

As of version 3.1.5, a player may send their Doorman to a friend. When that friend receives your Doorman and completes the elevator trip, they receive 10 Bux. If your friend chooses to return the visit and you complete that elevator trip, you will also receive 10 Bux. This can only be done once per day.

The maximum number of friends a player may add is 256. Sending your Doorman to a friend serves as another method of sharing Customize. If the doorman goes to an empty apartment, a random Bitizen wearing the same costume will move into the apartment instead (you still get 10 Bux).

VIPs[]

VIP

When a VIP appears in the lobby, the player can only use their ability by taking them to the floor of their choice via the elevator. You can take a VIP to any floor; when you stop on a floor, you will be asked if you want to let the VIP off on that floor or try a different floor.

For more info see the VIP page.

Check Dream Jobs[]

Gold & Silver stars on elevator with dream jobs

When you place a bitizen in their dream job, a star is displayed in the elevator shaft of the corresponding job floor. If a dream job bitizen's skill is 9, the star will be golden, and 8 or less will be silver. Before version 3.0.0, the star was yellow with a grey background, regardless of what skill number the bitizen had.

Upgrades[]

Elavators

The original Elevators, from left to right: Trusty Rusty, NB200 Commercial Lift, Insta-Lift 2000 SE, Ultra-Lift 3000 Extreme, and Infini-Lift Lightspeed.

You can upgrade your elevator to move at faster speeds using Bux. These upgrades come at increments of +0.25 FPS (floors per second). This becomes a necessary investment as your tower grows taller due to long travel distances! Your current elevator speed is kept after a rebuild.

In addition to upgrading using Bux, separately, the elevator speed can also be increased through the Tech Tree, which was introduced in version 4.5.0 (28 June 2022). It offers 5 tiers of 0.25+ FPS increments, which sum to a total of an additional 1.25 FPS, resulting in the maximum possible elevator speed of 11.25 FPS as of writing. For further information about the cost of these increments, see Tech Tree.

As of version 3.0.0, elevator speed is completely separate from its appearance (see next section). Table with upgrades and costs:

Speed Cost Cumulative Cost
1.00 FPS* (Default) (Default)
1.25 FPS 100 Bux 100 Bux
1.50 FPS 157 Bux 257 Bux
1.75 FPS 225 Bux 482 Bux
2.00 FPS 307 Bux 789 Bux
2.25 FPS 400 Bux 1,189 Bux
2.50 FPS 507 Bux 1,696 Bux
2.75 FPS 625 Bux 2,321 Bux
3.00 FPS 757 Bux 3,078 Bux
3.25 FPS 900 Bux 3,978 Bux
3.50 FPS 1,057 Bux 5,035 Bux
3.75 FPS 1,225 Bux 6,260 Bux
4.00 FPS 1,407 Bux 7,667 Bux
4.25 FPS 1,600 Bux 9,267 Bux
4.50 FPS 1,807 Bux 11,074 Bux
4.75 FPS 2,025 Bux 13,099 Bux
5.00 FPS 2,257 Bux 15,356 Bux
5.25 FPS 2,500 Bux 17,856 Bux
5.50 FPS 2,757 Bux 20,613 Bux
5.75 FPS 3,025 Bux 23,638 Bux
6.00 FPS 3,307 Bux 26,945 Bux
6.25 FPS 3,600 Bux 30,545 Bux
6.50 FPS 3,907 Bux 34,452 Bux
6.75 FPS 4,225 Bux 38,677 Bux
7.00 FPS 4,557 Bux 43,234 Bux
7.25 FPS 4,900 Bux 48,134 Bux
7.50 FPS 5,257 Bux 53,391 Bux
7.75 FPS 5,625 Bux 59,016 Bux
8.00 FPS 6,007 Bux 65,023 Bux
8.25 FPS 6,400 Bux 71,423 Bux
8.50 FPS 6,807 Bux 78,230 Bux
8.75 FPS 7,225 Bux 85,455 Bux
9.00 FPS 7,657 Bux 93,112 Bux
9.25 FPS 8,100 Bux 101,212 Bux
9.50 FPS 8,557 Bux 109,769 Bux
9.75 FPS 9,025 Bux 118,794 Bux
10.00 FPS 9,507 Bux 128,301 Bux
*FPS = floors per second

Customization[]

You can change the skin of the elevator. This costs Bux and is purely cosmetic, with no benefit other than decoration. Prices vary from 250 Bux to 10,000 Bux. Buying the VIP package unlocks all of them for free instantly. Also you can browse here.

Some lifts are only available during Seasonal Events.


Trivia[]

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    While the elevator is in use, it's not necessary to use the arrow controls. Tap anywhere on the left or right side of the screen to go up or down.
  • Once the elevator is active, the player has no way to quit until they take the Bitizen to their desired floor or quit the game. Furthermore, while the elevator is in use, it's not possible to do anything else, like open Bitbook notifications or tap Bitizens and objects in the tower to complete missions. (It was possible to open Bitbook notifications while using the elevator, this was probably a patched bug)
  • If you deliver a bitizen, then instantly go down and use a VIP (placing them in the elevator), the elevator will instantly teleport down to the lobby.
  • If you deliver a VIP, then instantly go down and attempt to use another VIP, the game will warn you that "you must wait to use the elevator".

Other[]

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