BlockMaster Complete Guide — Controls, Targets, 12 Balls, 15 Materials and Special Blocks

This is the complete BlockMaster guide. Controls and the screen layout, the target and stars, all 12 balls and 15 materials, special blocks, wind and stages, coins and “One more shot”, the bonus round and daily missions — everything in the game, in order. Every number was checked against the actual game code, and every photo and animation was captured from the real game.

Every tower gets its own target

The target is not a fixed number — the game solves the tower in advance and sets it from that. The baseline rises from 60% to 92% knocked down between level 1 and level 40; it is then trimmed to what is actually achievable on that tower and rounded to steps of 5% (towers that could not be pre-solved use the table value, 65% → 82%). The first five levels get a floor so a single shot can’t end them: 75% for levels 1–2 and 80% for levels 3–5. The screen shows the “remaining” side, so level 1 reads TARGET 25% (25% or fewer blocks left).

Fail three times in a row and the game eases off: the target drops 6 percentage points per step (up to three steps) and you get 4 extra seconds to aim per step.

• Pull — touch the lower part of the screen (below 46% of its height) and drag. The ball flies opposite to the direction you pull, and the further you pull, the harder it goes. The angle ranges from 20° to 160°, and you need to pull at least 10% to fire. Pulling all the way gives you finer aim.
• Release — lift your finger to fire.
• Look up — drag the upper part of the screen and the camera pans up toward the top of the tower.
• 20 seconds to aim — when the clock at the top runs out, the ball fires automatically exactly as aimed. The clock only runs while you are aiming.

Level 1 shows Drag down and release to fire, and level 3 shows Break the base and the top comes down along with a weak-point marker.

• At the start of a level you see Choose 2 balls. Pick two of the balls you own, and the always-free Steel ball joins as the third.
• A ball is used up only when you fire it. Picking it without shooting costs nothing. You can hold up to 3 of each type.
• Before every shot you see Choose a ball to fire. The Tower row above the ball cards shows which materials this tower is made of.
• Tap an empty card to buy that ball with coins on the spot. Locked cards show the level they unlock at (Lv N).

The descriptions are the in-game text, word for word. “Strong against” is the material each ball beats best in the game’s matchup table.

The Steel ball gets weaker

The free Steel ball loses power as you level up: 100% on levels 1–5, 90% on 6–9, 72% on 10–14, 55% on 15–20, and 40% from level 21 on. Each time it drops you see Steel ball weakened · Power N%, and its card shows Power N%. Level 6 tells you The steel ball can’t break brick or stone, and level 8 Hard blocks? Try the Drill ball — from here on, the game is about buying balls that match the materials.

Add sand, clay and tempered glass to these twelve and you have all 15.

Every material has a ball that works best on it (the right-hand column of the table in Chapter 5). Three are worth memorizing:

• Sponge — no ball does more than half its usual damage. In practice it won’t break. Don’t try to break sponge: hit below or beside it.
• Sand — the Sonic ball is “the only answer”.
• Clay — it doesn’t break because it’s soft, not because it’s hard. Only the cutting Blade ball works.

From level 7, special blocks start appearing inside towers. Break one and its device goes off. Not all of them are a “one-hit win”, though — hitting the freezer or the iron weight on its own does nothing. Their job is to block the easy one-shot route.

9 tower styles

Every tower is built fresh, in one of nine styles: temple, arcade, fort, pagoda, spire, hall, aqueduct, chimney and lattice tower. From level 17 a theme is added — masonry, steel frame, glass, timber and so on — and from level 30 cushioned, quarry and modern join them. The higher you go, the fewer “right answers” there are: up to level 5 there are more than 8 ways to solve a tower, but from level 31 that narrows to one or two, and the angle window shrinks too (though never below 1.5°).

11 stages

The stages are meadow, forest, desert, glacier, city, ruins, cliff, construction site, volcano, factory and space. You won’t see the same stage twice until you’ve been through all eleven. Time moves 2.2 hours per level, starting at 8 a.m. and running through sunset, night and dawn. Space is always at night, and the volcano never has daytime.

• If three shots aren’t enough, you get GAME OVER along with N% short of the goal.
• [AD] One more shot — watch an ad for a fourth shot.
• [H] One more shot — the price depends on the level, from 120 up to 350 H coins (120 at level 1, 240 at level 30, 350 from level 58).
• Take the extra shot and you see Free shot · pick any ball — you can pick any of the twelve balls, whether you own it or not, and it isn’t used up. A level cleared this way gives no spare-shot bonus and only one star.
• RETRY — start over on the same tower.

• Bonus Round — 10 seconds, every five levels. (Tap the falling blocks) — 1 coin per block, 5 coins per ball. When it ends, choose Claim or Watch ad for 2x.
• Shop — the ITEM page on the bottom bar. There are no separate items; it sells balls only. Watch ad for 100 coins works up to 10 times a day.
• TODAY’s MISSION — nine missions every day, 20 coins each (doubled with an ad).