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Survive a Million Monkeys Wiki

Choose a class. Arm up. Keep the horde behind you.

Choose a class, claim Gems and prepare a gun before facing the monkey horde with friends. This wiki explains rewards, purchase choices and movement so your next run starts with a useful plan and an open escape route.

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Watch a full horde runFollow the player through early gun choices, a later Minigun purchase and growing monkey pressure. This recorded run illustrates the fight rather than promising the same result.13:34
Game type
Cooperative shooter
Server size
25
Devices
PC
Genre
Survival
Snapshot checked
October 5, 2026

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Getting started

Survive a Million Monkeys Beginner Guide: Your First Horde Run

Begin with the tutorial and an available loadout. Your first useful goal is to understand the lobby-to-fight loop, rather than buy every option you can see. Learn where preparation ends and crowd pressure begins, then carry one improvement into the next attempt.

First-run goal Reach the lobby, select a class and gun you can use, and fight while retaining a direction to move. A clear first loop makes later unlocks easier to judge.

Already reached the lobby?Continue from loadout preparation. You do not need to repeat a completed tutorial to use the next steps, and a purchase can wait until you know the role or gun you want.

  1. Finish the tutorial

    You have just joined Survive a Million Monkeys and have not reached the lobby.

    • Follow the tutorial’s own combat instructions until it ends and you return to the lobby.
    • Learn the controls it introduces rather than assuming another Roblox shooter uses identical inputs.
  2. Prepare an available class and gun

    You are in the lobby and ready to decide what to take into the fight.

    • Select a class available to your account and equip an available gun.
    • Use the starter as a baseline if you have not chosen a different role; leave unfamiliar class purchases for a deliberate decision.
  3. Enter with room to leave

    Your loadout is ready and the horde fight is beginning.

    • Move toward open space and attack without allowing the pack to close around several sides.
    • Relocate before the firing position becomes crowded; do not wait for a purchase to solve an escape problem.
One change for the next run

After a surround, remember where the exit closed. Leave that position earlier next time. This is more actionable than buying an unrelated class without identifying what went wrong.

Follow the full first-session walkthrough
Reward strings

Survive a Million Monkeys Codes

Three Gems codes were listed by the sources reviewed on October 6, 2026. MONKEYS appears in the official game description; the other entries are reported by Pocket Tactics. This review does not claim personal redemption, and the live game determines whether your account can claim an entry.

Open the code list and sources
3Sources reviewed Public source review; availability may change.
1MVISITS
10,000 Gems

Pocket Tactics reports this milestone reward. Start with an unclaimed entry, while allowing for changes in live availability.

Source-reported
MONKEYS
1,000 Gems

The official Roblox description publishes this string and reward. Exact spelling matters when entering it in the game.

Officially listed
SURVIVE
1,000 Gems

Reported for this experience by Pocket Tactics. A previous successful claim is not a repeatable Gems source.

Source-reported

Clean text still rejected?

Confirm the experience first, then distinguish a previous claim from a potentially retired reward. Do not cycle through random spellings.

Resolve a failed claim
Editorial weapon ranking

Survive a Million Monkeys Tier List for Gun Progression

Use this order for a gun progression decision: immediate access, firing pattern and later crowd pressure. It is not a measured damage ranking. The highest tier is a later goal, so an eligible free reward can still be the better action at the start of a run.

Site editorial judgmentAccess and horde progression

We compare four confirmed guns using their observed stage or firing pattern and the SMG’s reward access. Letters express that criterion; they do not represent an official balance verdict or universal purchase order.

  • Access at your current stage
  • Handling or crowd-pressure purpose
TierGun and stageRelevant distinctionWhen to use the priority
S
MinigunLater crowd-clearing target
Relevant distinction
  • The player saves battle money for it during a run.
  • It is used as pressure grows through later waves.
When to use the priority

If this is your chosen battle purchase, keep the run’s money for its displayed requirement. Do not ignore immediate escape pressure while pursuing the target.

A
SMGCommunity reward option
Relevant distinction
  • An eligible community gift provides this gun.
  • Its access route does not depend on a normal gun-shop purchase.
When to use the priority

If you meet the gift conditions and have not claimed it, take this accessible option before assuming every improvement requires saving for the highest tier.

B
Burst rifleDistinct firing pattern
Relevant distinction
  • Burst firing differs from continuous automatic fire.
  • Its handling gives you a concrete comparison with a starter gun.
When to use the priority

When choosing it, expect separate bursts and direct them deliberately. If the pattern does not suit your movement, a tier letter is not a reason to keep using it.

C
PistolStarter baseline
Relevant distinction
  • Available early in the recorded gameplay.
  • Provides a gun to use while learning or saving.
When to use the priority

Keep an available Pistol when your immediate goal is learning the loop. C marks its place in this progression scope, not a claim that its damage is always worse.

These are editorial priorities, not tested DPS values, fixed prices or a complete inventory.

Class progression

Survive a Million Monkeys Classes: Unlock a Role or Upgrade One?

Choose by purchase purpose: unlocking adds a class to select, while upgrading develops one you already use. A support role and an improvement to your starter answer different goals.

A different job calls for a class unlock

You have played the starter and now want a distinct role in the next run. Medic is described around helping teammates, making support a concrete example of that change.

Choose the support class you intend to select and read its unlock requirement. An unrelated affordable class does not fulfill that goal simply because it adds a name to the roster.

Role changeAnother class is available for the role you chose.

A familiar role can make an upgrade useful

You want to continue playing a class you already enjoy, rather than replace it with a different job.

Read the existing class’s displayed upgrade effect. Buy when that effect addresses your goal; this wiki does not assign an exact effect or value to every class.

Existing choice developedThe purchased effect applies to the class you intended to keep using.

A movement mistake does not require a new role

The last run ended because the horde closed your escape route, and you still like the class you selected.

Keep the role and leave the crowded position earlier next time. Consider another class when you can name the job it should add, preserving Gems while correcting the actual mistake.

Purchase deferredYou keep Gems while making a specific movement correction.
Weapon access

Survive a Million Monkeys Weapons: Claim the Community SMG

The community gift provides an SMG and 1,000 Gems when its conditions are met. Use this route when you need the reward gun, rather than assuming it must be bought like a later battle weapon. The purple gift box handles this claim; entering a code follows a different lobby route.

  1. 1

    Like the correct experience and enable notifications

    Open the official Survive a Million Monkeys experience. Like that game and turn on its notifications. These are two separate conditions, so completing one is not a substitute for the other. Use the official game link above if search results show another monkey-themed experience.

    Experience conditions metThe like and notification settings apply to this exact game.
  2. 2

    Join gorilla warfare.

    Join the developer’s Roblox community named gorilla warfare. Keep this separate from following a creator video or joining Discord; the reported gift condition is membership in the Roblox group. Use the official community link in the footer to reach the right destination.

    Correct community joinedYour account is a member of the developer’s Roblox group.
  3. 3

    Use the purple lobby gift box

    Return to the game lobby, find the purple gift box and press its large green tick. Read the in-game outcome and confirm the SMG and Gems reward. A completed website action alone is not the final claim, and copying a reward code does not operate the gift box.

    Gift result checkedThe game processes the community claim for your account.
Budget decision

Survive a Million Monkeys Gems: Keep Enough for Your Chosen Purchase

Once you know the class purchase you want, separate “I can pay for this” from “this leaves my goal funded.” Gems are used for class unlocks and upgrades. Compare the actual displayed requirement with your balance and any reserve you want to protect; the examples below are arithmetic illustrations, not published class prices.

An affordable purchase can still reduce flexibility

Imagine 12,000 Gems, a purchase costing 4,000 and a protected reserve of 6,000. These are arithmetic examples, not actual class prices in Survive a Million Monkeys. After one purchase, 8,000 remain: the reserve plus 2,000.

  • Replace the example balance and cost with your live Gems balance and the requirement displayed for your chosen purchase.
  • Set a reserve for your separate goal. This is your planning limit, not a game requirement.

A smaller balance makes waiting useful

With an illustrative 7,000-Gem balance, the same 4,000 purchase would leave 3,000. If you want to keep 6,000 for another goal, paying now would miss that reserve by 3,000.

  • Keep the balance if the separate goal remains your priority.
  • Reduce the reserve only if you deliberately change that priority, rather than overlooking the shortfall.
Mid-run movement

Survive a Million Monkeys Survival: Recover a Route Before the Horde Surrounds You

Fast Monkeys can get ahead of the pack and block your next lane. Clear that immediate pressure and relocate before ordinary monkeys close from several sides.

One fast monkey reaches your route first

The main horde is still behind you, but a quicker monkey appears along the direction you intend to take.

What may be happeningFast Monkeys can move ahead of the pack and intercept the path. Attacking a distant target may leave that immediate obstruction in place.

Clear the next lane
Aim at the fast monkey threatening your route, then move through the recovered space while the pack remains behind.
If the lane is already crowded
Choose another open direction if the lane is crowded. Success means room to move, without assuming a one-shot kill or speed advantage.

Monkeys approach from several sides

You keep attacking from one place while your available directions narrow.

What may be happeningHolding the position too long can let the horde surround you. A better gun does not automatically reopen a blocked direction.

Relocate earlier
Move toward open ground before the last route closes. Clear nearby pressure as you leave and keep the pack behind.
Next-run correction
Recall when the position became crowded and leave earlier next time: a specific correction for this Survive a Million Monkeys survival problem.

A group fills the space ahead

Several monkeys are close together where you need to regain room.

What may be happeningCrowd density makes single-target attention less useful for recovering space when an area attack is available.

Use a grouped target
Hit several nearby monkeys with your available area attack, then use the opening to move instead of holding the crowded position.
When the attack is unavailable
Take an open alternative and manage nearest pressure with your gun. This does not assume every class owns the same attack or cooldown.
Cooperative coordination

Survive a Million Monkeys Team: Make the Next Move Together

Tell friends where pressure is building, which direction remains open and what nearby obstacle to clear. The game centers on fighting together; these communication suggestions do not assume special aggro, shared rewards or automatic protection.

The group needs to leave its firing position

Friends are firing as one side becomes crowded. Unannounced exits can scatter the group. In Survive a Million Monkeys, call an open direction before everyone moves.

  • Say the crowded side and the intended open direction in one short call, such as “pressure left; move right.”
  • Choose a direction recognizable from the shared position, then take that route instead of continuing separate distant fights.

Everyone focuses on a distant large target

A distant large enemy draws attention while monkeys approach the group’s route. Name the nearby obstacle threatening that exit instead of asking vaguely for “more damage.”

  • Identify the monkey pressure nearest the chosen route and ask the group to clear that obstacle.
  • Resume the large target after clearing the lane. Medic can serve a support role, but selecting a class does not communicate the route.
Before the next run

Survive a Million Monkeys Wiki Questions

Is this the official game wiki?

No. This is an independent fan resource for the Roblox experience by gorilla warfare. The official game, developer community and verified Discord are linked in the footer. Game account or purchase support belongs to the game’s own channels; this wiki explains player tasks and editorial recommendations.

Does a server size of 25 mean my team must have 25 players?

No. That number is the maximum server size in the recorded Roblox snapshot, not a required party size or a recommendation for your group. Coordinate with the friends actually playing beside you instead of treating the server limit as the number needed for a class role.

Does a tier predict my survivor leaderboard score?

No. The survivor leaderboard is an in-game goal, while the weapon tiers here describe editorial progression priorities. A recommendation does not award points or establish the live scoring formula. Use the leaderboard’s displayed labels when comparing a result, and avoid assuming a kills-per-point shortcut.

What does the upcoming boss announcement establish?

The official event was titled “BOSSES coming soon...” and listed for Saturday, October 10 in the review. That identifies an announcement, not a full boss reward or ability table. Open the Updates guide for its limits and use the Roblox event’s own time display for your account.