Common terms in Island Experiment

Not in alphabetical order, but here is a list of common terms and some alternate names for things in the game:

XP: Short for "experience points". These are the yellow and green stars that you see floating off as you clear, harvest and gather resources, or by collecting from certain decorations. Also earned for finishing every quest. XP increases your level and you can see your XP by hovering over your level bar in the top left, under your name.

Wish List: your list of items you currently are requesting. Read this page for information on seeing your own list, and this page for sending items on other peoples' lists. You may see this in chat as "WL" for short.

Gift Box/In Box: The "boy with present" icon in the lower left. This is where all your gifts arrive, both the heart coins and the gifts of game resources. See this page for more information. Sometimes abbreviated as GB in chat.

Friendship Coins/Heart Coins: The round coins with a heart on them that you can send and receive for free every day. Max of 250 coins received, max of 250 coin points when you send out your daily coins. You can spend these in the shop.

Shop: Hammer and saw icon in the lower right corner. Contains all the game buildings plus shops for spending stamps, doubloons, and heart coins.

Delivery Hut/Market: Lower left corner, looks like a tiki bar, sort of. This is where you make all your deliveries. See this page for more information.

Teepee: Large teepee tent, given to you in your inventory when you first start making deliveries to the delivery hut. You can place it anywhere you like on the island, so make sure you remember where you put it. You spend your native coins here.

Dragon/Golden Dragon: A statue from the shop (2nd page of the 2nd tab) that uses gold bars to upgrade it. Gives XP, beauty points, and helps you earn the rabbit pet and the fox cub pet. VERY expensive!

Gold Bars: Used primarily to upgrade the dragon, but also for deliveries. Cheapest to make 1 at a time, not the 5 or 10 at a time options. Abbreviated as "GBs" or just "gold" in chat.

Inventory: The chest icon in the lower right corner. You can use it to move items from the main island to the deco island and back again, and you can also use it for storage of buildings and decorations that you don't want to place anywhere. Inventory will only hold certain things, not everything. Inventory will also hold free food from the daily rewards on the Official Page if your warehouse is full when you pick it up.

Warehouse: The building icon in the lower right corner. This is where all of your resources are stored. Abbreviated as "WH" in chat.

Pet section: Paw print icon in the lower left corner. Shows you all the animal collections.

Yellows: Yellow crystals

Pinks or Purples: Pink crystals

Blues: Blue crystals

Greens: Green crystals

Whites:  White crystals

Bullets: Artillery shells, as they are called in the game... but bullets is shorter to type. Also less chance of confusion with the seashells.

Critters: The assorted random animals that pop up while harvesting and clearing. Takes 5 food to smack them away.

Rats: If you smack 200 rats (see "critters" above) then you earn the kitty cat pet. NOT related to rat skins, and the rat traps do not help you with rats.

Rat skins: Harvested from the rat traps. They have nothing to do with the rats needed for the kitty pet. Also called just "skins" in chat.

Coins: Usually the regular game coins that are counted in the upper right corner. Sometimes called "spider coins" since they have a spider on them.

Doubloons: Coins with a face on them, has the tongue sticking out. Primarily earned on the arch islands, but can be found occasionally from other rewards. You'll see it spelled many different ways in chat, unfortunately. You spend them in the shop on decorations that produce coins or XP.

Stamps: Earned primarily during the 15 day events, but occasionally from other rewards. Spend these in the shop on decorations that produce coins or XP.

Native Coins: Earned by doing deliveries in the delivery hut. Has a picture of a ziggurat on them. Spend these in the teepee on decorations that earn you coins or XP, or more potion bottles for the delivery hut totem meter.

Totem/totem meter: The meter in the delivery hut that gives out rewards. See this page for more information.

Festival: A "Festival of Deliveries" happens about once per month, on average. See this page for an example Festival.

Event: A 15 day special side event. These are strictly voluntary, you can skip them if you prefer, but they do give good rewards. These cannot be repeated, once they're over, they're gone.

Bonus Island: The 6th island of the 15 day events. This island does not have a final reward like the first 5 does; it is a place to continue picking up stamps and unhexing items to turn in for additional rewards and upgrades.

Arch/Arch island: Side islands that are accessed via the map icon in the lower left corner. Also voluntary, but they do give rewards, just not as good as the 15 day events. These can be repeated if you pay gems to start them over. (Any rewards you earned in previous attempts cannot be earned again.)

Expeditions: The game's name for the arches. Your "expedition ranking" is the large yellow star to the right of your name, and shows how many stars you have earned while playing the arch islands. (Note: nobody in chat or the help groups calls arches "expeditions".)

Frags:  Short for "fragments", which are dug up in the dig sites.

Arts: Short for "artifacts", which are made in the restorers.

Batts: Short for "batteries".

Chemical Solution: You'll see this sometimes in your game notifications on Facebook. This just means you've received a daily heart coin gift from someone playing on their mobile app. The name is old wording and old coding left over from the previous mobile app gifts.