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NTE Pukaland Guide: Buy the Gold Pass, Then Farm Flora Maze for Puka Stars

The order that saves the most Fons and time in the Version 1.4 theme park, from NITrogen’s beta walkthrough, with every price checked against the live servers.

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By ntebuild.com·Published September 30, 2026

Video by NITrogen

The fastest way through Pukaland in NTE is to buy the Pukaland Gold Pass at the Star Ticket Counter first, for 1,000 Puka Stars, then farm Flora Maze, where an S rank pays 900 Puka Stars for a run of about a minute and a half. The pass cuts every attraction’s Fons price by 90%, and nothing else in the park comes close to the maze’s payout.

That is the core of NITrogen’s five-minute guide, published on 29 September 2026, the day before Version 1.4 went live. He filmed it on the beta server and says so on screen. Updated 5 October 2026: the live servers halved every Star Ticket Counter price, so the prices below are the live ones, read off Zeeebo’s launch-day footage for our Pukaland 100% guide, with the beta price next to them. This page follows NITrogen’s order, reads every payout table off his footage, and does the arithmetic his time estimates skip, including one that does not add up. For the free Annulith and cosmetics on the side, the current NTE codes are the other easy win this version.

Should You Buy the Pukaland Gold Pass First?

Yes, and NITrogen puts it before everything else for a reason. Every attraction charges Fons per play, and those prices look small until you add them up: Flora Maze costs 500 Fons a run, and the whole counter takes hundreds of runs to clear. The Gold Pass is sold at the Star Ticket Counter for 1,000 Puka Stars on the live servers (2,000 on the beta), with a stock of one. Once bought, it applies for good.

The item text on the beta promises a 10% discount. NITrogen noticed it is wrong in the players’ favour, and the official Version 1.4 patch notes agree with him: pass holders get “a permanent 90% discount on all Pukaland attractions”. His footage shows it working. Puka Stack reads 10 Fons per play with a VIP badge next to the price.

The pass costs Puka Stars, not Fons, which makes the decision easy. 1,000 Puka Stars is a little over one S rank in Flora Maze. After that, each maze run costs 50 Fons instead of 500, so the pass has paid for itself in Fons within the first handful of runs and keeps saving for the rest of the version. Buy it with your first 1,000 stars.

Where Are the Pukaland Attractions on the Map?

Pukaland opens next to Hethereau with Version 1.4. The attractions that pay Puka Stars carry a pink icon with a red border, and the map lists them under “Pukaland Attractions”. Select one and the panel shows its name and a one-line pitch; Star-Struck, the darts game, reads “Bullseye! Find the perfect angle and let your lucky dart fly!”. Walk up to the attraction itself and it shows the price per play and the score needed for each rank before you commit.

The counter has its own icon, a yellow ticket with a magnifying glass. NITrogen calls it the exchange shop and the patch notes call it the Puka Exchange Shop; the map labels it Star Ticket Counter, subtitled Puka Stars Exchange Shop. They are the same place. The white icons around them are food stalls and gift shops, which pay no Puka Stars.

What Can You Buy With Puka Stars?

The counter mixes one-off cosmetics with materials you can buy by the dozen. The table gives the live price, read off Zeeebo’s launch-day footage, next to the beta price in NITrogen’s video. Every one is halved.

Rank the counter by what it does for your account. The Annulith comes first: 240 Annulith for 3,600 Puka Stars, if the live stock is still 24, is the only premium currency on the counter, it goes straight into the current banners, and NITrogen points it out on its own. The Elite Hunter Guides and Chaotic Dye are next if you are levelling a new character such as Blackbird. The cosmetics are there for collectors.

Two cosmetics stand out. Big Brains is one of the new Version 1.4 accessories, and the patch notes confirm this counter is where you redeem it; at 6,000 it is the second priciest thing here, after the boat. Row to Tomorrow! is a boat on a key fob: its text says to use it near the ocean or a lake, and NITrogen calls it a pretty nice boat. He did not grind the stars to test its speed on the beta, so nobody in the video knows how fast it is.

The livery skins the B100, and every other 1.4 outfit and livery is on the skins page. The materials sit at the bottom of the counter, along with the daily Beetle Coin bundle.

What Is the Fastest Way to Get Puka Stars?

Flora Maze, by a wide margin. It costs 500 Fons a play (50 with the pass) and pays on four ranks. NITrogen says a run takes under two minutes and usually one to one and a half. At that pace an S rank is worth about 600 Puka Stars a minute.

The maze is a timed hedge labyrinth, and the clock speeds up as you go (“Time is accelerating…”). The rank comes from your score, so the target is the 280-point S threshold, not a perfect clear.

NITrogen’s second choice is Punchulum Ride, a rhythm ride through the park. Hit the notes and the score climbs fast; miss them and the payout swings, and he admits it makes him dizzy, so he skips it. His third choice is darts, for a different reason: it is the one you can play half-watching something else. His tip is to start clicking the moment the round begins, because the marker starts in the centre of the board. He also warns against macros, which break the terms of service.

His beta result screen shows a score of 98 as an S rank paying 30 Puka Stars. On the live servers the S rank needs 150 points and pays 50, for 3 Fons with the pass. One maze S rank is still worth eighteen darts S ranks. Darts is a relaxed option, not a fast one.

How Long Does It Take to Buy Everything in Pukaland?

NITrogen totals the whole beta counter at 192,000 Puka Stars. His on-screen maths is 900 Puka Stars every minute and a half, which he turns into three and a half hours of pure Flora Maze. Redo it and it comes out longer: 192,000 divided by 900 is 214 S-rank runs, which is five hours and twenty minutes at a minute and a half each. Three and a half hours needs a run every minute, the fast end of his own range.

The darts estimate is further off on his own numbers. He puts the same 192,000 stars at seven hours of darts, but at the beta’s 30 Puka Stars per S rank that is 6,400 games, about four seconds each. The live game is kinder on both counts: halved prices put the whole counter near 96,000, and darts pays 50, so 1,920 games, or 107 maze S ranks (about two hours and forty minutes). Plan on the maze either way.

You also do not need the whole counter. Most of it is materials bought sixty at a time. The one-off items at their live prices come to far less:

45 S ranks at a minute and a half each is just over an hour of maze, and the Travelogue’s Spooky Trials, at 200 Puka Stars each, cover a good part of it. That is the realistic target for most players; the materials are there if you have stars left over.

What Rewards Does the Pukaland Travelogue Give?

NITrogen’s reminder in his “don’t forget to claim these” chapter is the one that pays extra for nothing. The Pukaland Travelogue event tracks every attraction you play. Open it from the events menu and each attraction on its Spooky Adventure map has its own Wonder Stamps (fourteen for Flora Maze), an Adventure Rating track and a set of Spooky Trials.

The Adventure Rating rows pay out as your best rank on that attraction climbs from C to S, and each claim in his footage includes 200 Puka Stars. This is the only reason NITrogen plays the other minigames at all: a few runs of each one to fill these rows, then back to the maze. The official patch notes list Annulith, Fabricated Dice, Floe Cinema Tickets, Elite Hunter Guides and Chaotic Dye among the event’s rewards, and it runs until 11 November 2026 at 05:59 (UTC+8).

Pukaland also feeds a second program the video does not cover: the Puka Membership Program in the City Tycoon menu, whose level rewards include an S-Class Standard Character Selection Box and outfits for Haniel, Baicang and Sakiri. Its levels ask for Puka Stars earned in the park, so the maze runs count twice. The full reward list is in our Version 1.4 recap.

Is the Magic Spin Worth Your Puka Stars?

No. Magic Spin is a wheel that takes Puka Stars as a bet: 500 for a Single Bet, 5,000 for a Mega Double Up. The payout multipliers on screen run ×0, ×0.5, ×1, ×2 and ×10. In the footage one spin lands on a consolation prize that refunds 2,500 Puka Stars, half a Mega Double Up.

NITrogen spun it on the beta and finished below where he started. The game does not show the odds of each slice, so there is no way to say whether it pays on average, and every star lost there is a maze run to earn back. Keep your stars for the counter. His overall verdict on Pukaland is lukewarm: he will not spend his own time on minigames for rewards this size, beyond the pass, the Annulith and the Travelogue claims.