Into The Hive progression guide: base choices and Blast Grenade Mastery

After several runs, open Equipment in the lobby to inspect these base advancement choices:

Open the Armor screen to inspect armor rolls and armor choices.

Blast Grenade Mastery unlocks additional Augment slots:

These thresholds belong to Blast Grenade.

To follow the installation example below, you need the Common THROWABLE DAMAGE I, +10% Augment in your inventory, Blast Grenade available in the installation selector, and an empty SLOT 1.

Review new gear before spending Equipment Tokens

Equipment Tokens buy guns, throwables and sentries through the lobby’s Equipment section. Choose the category you want, review the available items, and check the selected item’s displayed requirements before buying. Having tokens gives you a spending option; the item’s own availability still matters.

The Equipment interface separates GEAR, AUGMENTS and CRATES. Its weapon view includes RIFLES, SMGS, PISTOLS and MARKSMAN tabs, so you can browse within a weapon category rather than treating the whole catalog as one list.

Read the status beside each item as well as its name. An example rifle view shows AR-01 marked EQUIPPED, with AR-02 and AR-03 marked LOCKED. That illustrates why seeing a weapon in the catalog does not mean it is already available to you. Use your own item panel to distinguish your equipped gear from locked options and inspect the requirements attached to the purchase you want.

For a focused explanation of this currency, see the Equipment Tokens guide.

Use Augments to customize equipment you already have

Back at base, Augments provide another advancement choice alongside purchasing new gear. Reviewing an owned Augment lets you consider its listed bonus, whether you want to install it, and the other actions offered by its detail panel.

A concrete example is the Common THROWABLE DAMAGE I Augment, which displays +10%. Its detail panel offers three choices:

• INSTALL: choose equipment and a slot for the Augment.
• REROLL — 9 Scrap: choose which roll to keep; the cost is spent either way.
• DISMANTLE — +10 Scrap: the displayed dismantling return for this selected Augment.

Those Scrap values belong to this particular example. Read the values on the Augment you select before making a decision. The reroll condition is especially useful to understand: being allowed to choose which roll to keep does not make the attempt free if you keep the original roll.

Install the example Augment on Blast Grenade

This route requires the shown Throwable Augment in your inventory, Blast Grenade available in the installation selector, and an empty SLOT 1:

1. Select THROWABLE DAMAGE I, then choose INSTALL.
2. Choose Blast Grenade and select its empty SLOT 1.
3. Check that the panel identifies Blast Grenade — SLOT 1, then select INSTALL AUGMENT.

The installation instruction says this moves the Augment from your inventory into the chosen slot. The target equipment and slot therefore matter: check both before confirming.

Blast Grenade’s later Mastery milestones expand the slots available for customization. Its Augment Slots panel labels Slot 2 with “Unlocks at Mastery 4” and Slot 3 with “Unlocks at Mastery 8.” These give you two concrete milestones to look for when reviewing the grenade at base. For more on the customization system, use the Augments guide.

Compare weapon Augment crates by contents and purchase type

The weapon Augment Crates menu lists the following options. Treat these as menu listings and check the price and description displayed in your game before confirming a purchase.

Both listings describe one Weapon Augment. Premium’s stated differences are its higher rarity odds and increased guarantee progress, alongside its Robux price.

The rarity panel also gives you a way to interpret the number of traits on an Augment: Common and Uncommon have one trait, Rare and Epic have two, and Legendary has three. Rarity and trait count are therefore useful details to inspect together when considering an Augment. The listed “3x guarantee progress” is a separate part of the Premium crate description; it should not be read as three Augments per purchase.

Inspect armor rolls and the armor’s actual properties

The Armor screen offers another set of advancement choices. Its displayed purchase options are NORMAL ROLL for $5,000, PREMIUM ROLL for 99 Robux, and 10 PREMIUM ROLLS for 799 Robux.

The ten-premium-roll description states “Epic+ within 10 Premium rolls” and “Open one at a time.” Keep that wording attached to Premium rolls when comparing the options. Check the purchase details shown on your own screen before spending.

Look beyond the rarity label when reviewing armor. For example, the retained Rare ARMOR SET 4 has Shield +20%, Recharge +15%, and Improved Recharge Delay +10%, with no passive ability. This gives you several distinct properties to inspect: the set’s rarity, each listed bonus, and whether it has a passive. Those values describe this armor example, rather than every Rare set.

The armor guide covers armor as a separate equipment choice.

Distinguish the paid progression bonuses

The paid VIP and Mastery Booster passes list different progression benefits, so compare them against the advancement you are considering.

VIP lists +50% Cash from missions, +50% Scrap, and +25% Rank XP. These benefits concern mission Cash, Scrap and Rank progression.

Mastery Booster lists double Mastery XP on every weapon and piece of equipment, plus half the Cash and ore required for every equipment upgrade. Its Mastery XP benefit is the relevant listed bonus when considering Blast Grenade’s Mastery milestones; its reduced upgrade costs address a separate equipment expense.

Use those specific benefits to judge the passes rather than treating them as interchangeable progression boosts. You can review the broader paid options in the game passes guide.