Into The Hive Weapon Upgrades: Best Early Spending Guide

How Upgrading Your Gear Works

Your first few runs set the pace for everything that follows. Knowing where your early Cash should go keeps you from wasting it. This guide covers Into The Hive weapon upgrades in the order that gets you the most power for your Cash: which purchases to skip, when to slot Augments, and when to finally buy a new gun.

Into The Hive is a co-op extraction shooter for 1–4 players. You head into randomly generated caves, fight insect swarms, and make the run back to extraction. Back at base, you customize your equipment with Augments before the next expedition.

You can strengthen your gear in three main ways:

• Direct upgrades: Open your weapon in the lobby and hit the upgrade button. Equipment upgrades cost Cash and ore.
• Augments: You spin for these, then slot them into a weapon to change how it performs. One Augment might raise your firing speed, while another makes a turret last longer.
• New equipment: Guns, throwables, and sentries are sold in the lobby's Equipment menu.

Skip the 5,000 Gun and Upgrade Your Starter

The first gun you'll be tempted to buy is the AR 02. It costs 5,000. Don't buy it. It performs almost exactly like the AR 01 you start with, so you'd be paying 5,000 for practically nothing.

Put that Cash into upgrading the rifle you already own. Keep saving toward the 12K and 20K guns, because those are the real step up.

Slot Augments Early

Get an Augment right after you start upgrading your starter rifle. Hit spin to roll one. Don't worry about rarity at this point. Even a common Augment noticeably improves an early loadout.

Keep these points in mind:

• Day-two bonus: Log in on your second day to get a free epic Augment.
• No risk in slotting: Augments can be removed at any time and moved to a stronger weapon later. Put your best one on your starter rifle now and carry it over when you upgrade guns.
• Second slot: A weapon unlocks a second Augment slot at mastery level 4. Keep using the same rifle until it gets there.

The Upgrade Order That Works

Follow this sequence to get the most out of your Cash in the early game:

1. Upgrade your starting rifle with the upgrade button instead of buying the 5,000 gun.
2. Spin for an Augment and slot it into the rifle. Add the free epic one on day two.
3. Push the rifle to mastery level 4 to open the second Augment slot.
4. Spin for armor. A common roll is perfectly fine for early runs.
5. Buy a 12K or 20K gun once your upgrades, Augments, and armor are set up. Move your Augments onto it.
6. Finish your loadout with grenades and turrets. Turrets help defend your squad against insect swarms.

Equipment Tokens and the HIVE1 Code

Equipment Tokens are a second currency for upgrades. You can spend them on new guns, throwables, and sentries in the lobby's Equipment menu, and they also unlock Augments.

Redeem HIVE1 for 1 free Equipment Token. Here's how:

1. Complete the first mission so you reach the lobby. New players can't redeem codes before this.
2. Open the Shop button on the right side of the screen.
3. Type the code into the box at the bottom of the shop window and select Redeem.

The last character of HIVE1 is the digit 1, not a lowercase L or a capital I. Codes are time-limited, so redeem them quickly. New codes are posted in the official Into The Hive Discord and the To The Earth's Core Roblox group.

To decide what to spend your token on, think about your squad. If your team keeps getting overrun, look at sentries first. If you want more personal firepower, browse the guns.

Game Passes That Speed Up Upgrades

You can grind every upgrade for free, but two inexpensive passes on the Into The Hive Roblox page directly speed up weapon progression:

Game Pass	Price	What It Does
Mastery Booster	199 Robux	Double Mastery XP on every weapon and piece of equipment; half the Cash and ore for every equipment upgrade
VIP	199 Robux	+50% Cash from missions, +50% Scrap, +25% Rank XP, VIP tag
Phoenix Armor	799 Robux	Once per mission, revive when downed, knock back nearby bugs, and get a 5-second shield dome

If you plan to buy only one pass, the Mastery Booster is the one aimed at upgrades. Halving upgrade costs makes every Cash payout go further, and double Mastery XP gets you to that second Augment slot at mastery level 4 much faster. VIP helps in a different way, by raising how much Cash each mission pays out.