Welcome to Toontown!

When you begin the game, you will first have to go through a Toontorial of the game to teach you some basic things. If you want to look over the steps of this, you can read it in our Toontorial Section.

After the toontorial is done, you might find yourself confused about what to do. You will find yourself in the very first playground of the game: Toontown Central. This is your home base for the first set of tasks that you will encounter. In this playground, you will find a lot of other players that are new, just like you, but you will also find some experienced toons that are there to help the new players or to work on building up some gags without running into any of the bigger cogs in the game.

To move around in Toontown, use your arrow keys on your keyboard. You can also jump around Toontown, if you like, by pressing down CTRL on your keyboard. In the different headquarters, there are some areas where you will have to jump to get across lava or some other obstacle. If you're not happy with your camera view, you can use TAB key to cycle through the different views until you find one that you like. And if you want to look up or down, use Page Up and Page down. Sometimes you might want to take a screenshot of what is happening. If you press F9, the game will take a screenshot for you and place it in your installed Toontown folder on your hard drive. If you are using a Mac, you use the command key (apple) + F9 to take screenshots.

All the playgrounds in Toontown look different. but they all have the same basic things: a headquarters where you can get tasks, a gag shop where you buy your gags to battle the cogs, a clothing store, a fishing pond, a trolley for earning jellybeans, a pet shop for buying your very own pet and entrances to streets where you find the cogs to battle. The cogs can't visit the playground so it's a safe place where you won't ever get hurt or do battle. The streets that go from each playground is designed so that the cogs that wander around will be suited for your toons level. That means that if you don't stray into the higher level playgrounds, you have a better chance at successfully battling the cogs. You can read more about the playgrounds in our Playground Guide. If you're interested in a more detailed overview of the different playgrounds, with a map of each, you can look at each one below:

Toontown Central
Donald's Dock
Daisy Gardens
Minnie's Melody land
The Brrrgh
Donald's Dreamland

Your Schticker book

At the lower right corner of your screen, you seeyour Schticker book. You can open the book by clicking on it or by pressing F8. In the schticker book, you have access to your game options and can turn on/off the sound, change display settings, set the color for your chat bubble and whether or not you want people to be able to ask you to be their friends. Note that turning off the friend request option is session-based and the next time you log in you will have to change it again if you don't want to allow friend requests.

When you log into toontown, you are automatically placed in an open district. If you want to change districts you can open your schticker book and find a list of  the districts. Next to each district is a blue, green or red circle indicating how busy that district is. A blue district has the least amount of players, a green one will be a bit more crowded and an red one is so full that you can't teleport directly into it unless you teleport to a friend that is already inside the district. If you have a task that requires you to go into a specific shop and talk to a vendor but find that the shop is taken over, you can teleport to another district and see if that shop is open there. It's also very useful to hop to another district when you are searching for specific cogs or buildings to rescue. Just because a shop is taken over by cogs in one district it does not mean that its overtaken in all the other districts. The map in each district is the same but the cogs activity is different.

In your schticker book, you also have a map showing you Toontown. Playgrounds that you have visited will show up on the map, while those your toon have never visited will be covered by clouds. If a friend of yours is in a part of toontown that you never visited, you can't teleport over. You can only teleport to known locations. As you work yourself through the playgrounds, you will also be able to pick up tasks that allow you to directly teleport to the playground whenever you want. If you haven't earned the ability to teleport back to Toontown Central yet and your toon has wandered off, you can always return to Toontown Central by choosing to go to the Welcome Valley district. It's the only district that always puts you directly into Toontown Central. All other districts will place your toon in the same playground you were in before you teleported.

In your schticker book, you can also find information regarding your missions and progress. Flip through your schticker book and learn what is there. You can also hold down your END key to take a quick look at your tasks. If you have a Mac you can access the tasklist by pressing FN + left arrow. By holding down the HOME key, you can see a list of your gags. For Mac owners you can view your gags by pressing FN + right arrow.

Your estate

Every toon has a home. Every player can have a maximum of 6 toons per account and they all live together at the same estate in different houses. At your estate, you can easily identify your toons house since the name of the toon is written above the door of the house and on the welcome mat. When you teleport home, your toon will always land right by their own mailbox. The mailbox is where your toon will pick up any deliveries that you have ordered through the cattlelog or gifts sent to you by friends. You will get a message from Clarabelle in your upper right corner when you get deliveries, but you can also see by the flag on your mailbox when something new is in there.

If you go inside your house, you will see a phone on the wall. This phone is where you can order things for your toons house, new speedchat phrases, emotes and doodle tricks. Just simply pick up the phone and you will get a cattlelog that you can look through. You can also order presents for your friends in the cattlelog and it will be delivered to their houses. Depending on what you order, the delivery time will be different. Some items like furniture takes 24 hours before delivery, clothes for your toon takes a few hours and speedchat phrases are instantly delivered. Every week your toon will receive a new cattlelog at the same time and weekday as your very first cattlelog was sent to you. If you're curious about what the cattlelog has to offer in the future and plan ahead you can follow the link to Clarabelle's Cattlelog.

In your house you can also find a large piggy bank. This is where your toon stores any jellybeans that you can't carry on you. When you start the game, you are limited to only carrying 25 jellybeans and every time you earn more than 25 jellybeans the extra beans will go into your bank. The first jellybean bank can hold 1000 beans, but in time you will be able to order larger jellybean banks from Clarabelle's Cattlelog. The biggest bank can hold 10,000 beans. Any extra beans that you can't carry yourself or fit into the jellybean bank will just disappear. If you're at the gag shop trying to buy gags and find that you don't have any jellybeans on you, the clerk will tell you to ride the Trolley for more beans. However, you might try going home and check your bank first and withdraw beans from there instead.

To read more about the items at your estate and how to furnish it, read our Estate Guide. And if you're looking for some fun and games on your estate, you might also want to check out our Cannon Guide.

Fishing

All around Toontown, and at your estate, you will find fishing ponds. By fishing, you can earn jellybeans, but also earn new laff levels. There is a total of 70 fish species that you can catch in the different ponds and for every 10 species you can earn 1 laff. Fishing can be a fun pasttime, especially on Wednesdays when there is a huge bingo game going on all day while fishing. To read more about how to fish you can go to our Fishing Guide. There is also a guide to the Different Species you can find while fishing and where to find them and finally there is an overview of all the Ponds.

Racing

From the Toontown Central playground, you can find your way to Goofy's Speedway where you can kart race against other toons. Any toon can race, since size doesn't matter to be eligible for racing. There is no advantage in having more laff or having done more tasks in racing. Racing can be a fun activity, but it can also earn you some laff points. By racing, you can win trophies and for every 10 trophies you win you also earn a laff level. There are 30 trophies that you can win at the races. To win them all, you also have to participate in the Tournament Races that take place on Mondays. For more information about racing, and some advice on how to win, read our Racing Guide.

Gardening

At your estate, you can start a garden by buying a kit from Clarabelle's Cattlelog. There are a total of 40 flower species that you have to find in order to earn a total of 4 laff. Now, you can chose to experiment and find these flowers yourself, or you can use our Flower Recipe Page. The flowers grow from planting jellybeans, and as you start your garden you will only be able to plant flowers grown from 1 jellybean. For more information on how gardening works you can read our Gardening Guide.

The Trolley

Each playground also has a Trolley where you can play some mini games with up to 3 friends. Going on the Trolley is part of the Toontorial, so all players will ride the Trolley at least once. You can't earn any laff levels by playing the Trolley games, but it is a fun way to earn some extra jellybeans. There is a lot of different games you can play on the trolley and some of them require that you have more than one player on board to be able to play. You can read about the games in our Trolley Guide.

Doodles

All toons can have one pet. If you go into a pet store at a playground, you can buy yourself a Doodle. You can teach your Doodle some tricks and play with it at  your estate. In battle, you can also call your Doodle and if it successfully performs a trick, all the toons in the battle will get healed a little bit. Before you run out and buy yourself a doodle, you might want to check out the Doodle Guide as it contains some information about what to think about when selecting a good doodle. And if you'd like to prepare yourself before naming your new pet, here is an overview of the Doodle Names you can give your doodle.

Making friends

Teamwork helps in Toontown, but unfortunately you can only have a maximum of 50 friends. You can access your friend panel by clicking the icon on the upper right on your screen, or by pressing F7 on your keyboard. You can have 3 types of friends in the game:

Regular friends are other players who you can only communicate through speedchat with. In your friend list, in the upper right corner of your screen, these friends will show up with green names. Using the speedchat might seem a bit odd to new players, but in time you get faster at it. Here's a guide to the Standard Speedchat Phrases available to all players. You can also buy some extra phrases from Clarabelle's cattlelog. At the most, you can have 15 extra phrases, but when you try to buy a new one you will get the option to cancel your purchase or replace an old one with the new phrase. Here is a listing of the Speedchat Phrases For Sale. 

Toontown secret friends are players that you have befriended by using a secret friend code inside of the Toontown game. In your friend list, your secret friends will be blue. With secret friends you can communicate more freely, since you aren't limited to using the speedchat. You should be aware of the fact that the toontown chat is limited and some words will filter. Unfortunately there is no indication that is visible to you when you have typed something that filters. On your screen, what you typed will show normally but the other player won't see your chat bubble at all. So if you said something and you find it strange that your friend didn't respond,  it might be because your friend never saw what you tried to say at all. Using smilies and other special characters was filtered in Toontown for a long time. At the moment it is possible to use emotes in chat, but that might change again in the future. A feature that is helpful when you want your chat bubble to stay on screen longer is to type a "." in front of what you want to say. Doing that creates a thought bubble that hangs over your toon's head until you type something else.

Disney recently added the ability for players to friend each other through their Disney DxD site. This feature is still in beta, so many of the basics for it could change anytime. By logging into the DxD, using your same account name and password as you do for Toontown, you are able to get a D-name. The advantage of getting a D-name is that you are able to talk to your friends, by whispering,  from inside of toontown as long as they are playing one of Disney's other games or are logged into the DxD site at the moment. It also makes it so that you don't have to individually friend each of your friends' separate toons, since you can see what toon they are playing by looking in your friend list. Your friends from DxD will appear in a bold blue on your friend list. Right now, you can't chat freely with these friends since you have to whisper if they are not your secret friends in game too. But if you have filled your friend list, this is a good option to make room for more.

To make a secret friend is a bit complicated, since one of you will have to give a code to the other. That means that you will either have to have another way to communicate to your friend outside of the game, through email or voice chat for instance, or have a friend in game that is already a secret friend with both of you and able to pass along the code. There are also some advanced techniques being used in the game by some players in giving codes to others by spelling them out by moving around paintings at their estate to step by step spell out the code on their wall. Another way is to use the speedchat system to give out a code. To give a code in speedchat you need a code that contains only letters so that you can find speedchats that begin with the letter you need. So to give the code "WHN" a player might say "Welcome to Toontown", "Hello", "Nice Gag". To indicate that a player wants to secret friend you a player might for example say things like "Please be my friend" followed by "Lets go to my estate". 

If you press the little chat bubble to the right on your friend list in the upper right corner of your screen, you will get the window where you are able to either retrieve a code of your own to give out to friends or to type in a code that has been given to you.

The Battles

Your enemy in the game is the cogs. The cogs are robots that are slowly trying to take over Toontown by capturing buildings and roaming around the streets. They have also built a few headquarters in their attempt to take over. The cogs are easy to recognize and you will find them in every street of Toontown. To engage into battle, all you have to do is walk up to them. The battles in Toontown are turn based and you always get to make the first draw over the cogs. How you chose to play your first gag is very important, as it will affect the rest of the battle many times. As a beginner, you don't have many choices other than to throw a cake at it or squirt it. But in time, you will learn more types of gags and you will have much more to think about when battling.

There are 4 main types of cogs  (sell, cash, law and boss) and they come in different levels. In our Cog Guide you can read more about these types and how to find the ones you are looking for. All cogs are vulnerable to gags and if hit enough times, they will explode.

One important thing to remember when battling with other toons is teamwork. If multiple toons use the same type of gag against a cog it will do more damage than if you use different gags. You should also be aware of the fact that you don't gain any experience at all from hitting a cog with a gag that is higher level than the cog is unless a higher level cog is in the battle too. If a gag is greyed out for you when selecting it, it won't count for XP in the battle.

When working with others, it's also important to know that there is a specific order to what gag will attack first when you have selected different ones. The order is easy to remember, since it corresponds to the top-to-bottom order on your gag selection screen. So Toon-up will go before Lure who goes before Sound and so on.

Since teamworks is key in Toontown, some players will be very annoyed at you if you make bad gag selections. This is especially the case if you make bad selections in any of the higher level playgrounds or headquarters, since the risk of going sad is much higher here. To understand the gags more you can read our Gag Guide so that you can prepare yourself better. Once you have maxed one or more of your gags you might also be interested in reading about the Level 7 Gags that work a bit different than the rest of the gags.

Your Laff

Your hit points in Toontown are called laff. When you lose all your laff points in a battle you get teleported to the playground where your toon will be in a sad state. To get your health up again, you can either wait around the playground, since it will raise up again 1 laff at time every few minutes. Or you can find special toon-up treasures lying around the playground that raise it up quicker.

If you go to your estate, another way of raising your laff up again is by having your doodle perform tricks for you, eating ice cream treasures, or playing the cannon game.

When you start the game your toon will have a maximum of 15 laff. By doing tasks given to you by the Headquarters, you can increase your laff level. As you work your way through all the playgrounds, you will find tasks that allow you to raise your laff.  But there are also other ways of getting more laff points.

Fishing can earn you a total of 7 laff  if you catch all 70 species. If you race, you can earn an additional 3 laff and if you garden and find all 40 different flowers you can earn 4 laff.

Finally you can earn laff points by fighting the cogs inside their headquarters. At the moment, there are 3 different headquarters: Sellbot HQ, Cashbot HQ and Lawbot HQ. Inside each of these there is a main boss that you can battle with the help of other toons. By working inside the headquarters and frequently battling these bosses and earn promotions, you can gain 5 laff per boss.

The Cog Headquarters

The cogs have established headquarters on some of the streets in Toontown. The very first headquarter you will most likely encounter is the Sellbot HQ in Daisy Gardens. At the end of Oak Street, you will find the sellbot headquarters and you will be sent in there to scout as part of your missions in Daisy gardens. The headquarters in Toontown can seem scary for a small toon at first, since the cogs in there tend to gang up on you more than they do on the streets. Anyone can enter the headquarters, but to get inside the elevator leading to the main boss, you will need to earn a disguise for each HQ and you also need to earn some credits in the form of merits for sellbot HQ, bux for cashbot HQ and notes for lawbot HQ. Earning these credits is fairly straightforward, as you only have to kill a number of cogs in each track to earn it. However earning these credits gets harder and harder as you progress and get promoted in the boss fights. But each HQ also has some facilities where you can go in and fight the cogs and earn more credits faster than you would by taking over buildings or killing cogs in the street. For more details of this check out our guides:

Sellbot HQ - First task
Sellbot HQ - The Factory
Sellbot HQ - The VP
Cashbot HQ
Cashbot HQ - The mints
Lawbot HQ
Lawbot HQ - Losing the CJ battle

Invasions

Sometimes, a district will randomly experience an invasion of a specific type of cog. During an invasion, all XP points are doubled when fighting the cogs. That means this is an excellent time to build up your gags by fighting as many cogs as you can and take back buildings from the cogs. During an invasion, merits, bux and notes are doubled so it's also a great time to do factories, mints and DA's. An important note here is that to get the extra merits, bux and notes the only thing that matters is that an invasion is active when you kill the very last cog inside. So if you're in a district where invasions are frequent, you will often meet other toons that want to wait until an invasion is active before engaging into battle with the last set of cogs. Some will use their speedchat and say things like "I need more merits", "wait a minute" or "lets wait for my friend" to try and signal to you that they want to wait for an invasion.

The ability to start an invasion is a reward that players that battle the Chief of Justice in the lawbot HQ can get. This reward has lead to players working together in trying to make the busy districts into invasion districts. At present, the "Nutty River" and "Nutty Summit" districts are the invasion districts. If you go to any of these districts you will find that invasions are very frequent and it is almost always expected of you to wait for an invasion when going into the factory, mint or DA since players that need a lot of merits, bux and notes gather in these districts. It can be hard to get inside one of these busy districts, since they are almost always red. But if you have a friend that is in a busy district you can teleport to your friend to get inside.

If you have any questions about the game that none of our tutorials give the answer to, you can always post to our Stratics Toontown Forum and ask. And of course you can just post to say hello and make some friends too!