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Hearts & 200 coins｜Intl basics

On International, claiming a friend’s heart within one hour adds 200 coins. Here’s the window, Claim All trap, and how players use exchange groups.

If your coin pile never moves, check your Mail Box before you blame your Tsums. On the International app, every heart you open from a friend within one hour also drops 200 coins. Miss that window and you still get the heart—just not the coins.

This page is International-only. Japanese schedules and JP event calendars don’t apply here.

The one-hour coin window

The Fandom Hearts page spells out the rules players actually rely on:

Rule What happens
Play cost One heart per game
Natural refill One heart every 15 minutes (if you already have 5+, refill pauses)
Sending You can send each friend one heart per hour; sending does not spend your own hearts
Coin bonus Open and accept a heart message within 1 hour of receiving it → 200 coins
Mail Box Hearts can sit up to 30 days—but the coin bonus is only for that first hour

So “heart exchange” isn’t just free lives. It’s a coin faucet, if you open mail on time.

Claim All vs one-by-one

Same Fandom page, easy to miss:

  • Open hearts one at a time → the game auto-sends a heart back to that friend
  • Tap Claim All → you take every heart, but you do not send hearts back

If you’re in an exchange group that expects replies, Claim All can look like you ghosted people. For coin farming with active traders, one-by-one (or whatever your group’s rules say) usually matters more than speed.

Why Intl players talk about “15/7” groups

Bahamut’s International board keeps long-running threads for LINE heart groups (often labeled International / 國際版). You’ll see shorthand like “15/7”—community talk for something like fifteen return hearts a day and a multi-day trial, not an official in-game setting. Exact group rules change; treat board posts as player-run, and never download mystery APKs linked in random replies.

Reddit threads for International players push the same idea from another angle: bind LINE, add active traders, and cash the within-hour bonus. Older “how do I get good?” threads walk through the math (200 coins × hearts × sessions). Newer Aug 2026 new-player threads still point people at hearts and coin grind before chasing every limited banner.

We are not endorsing any single invite link. Use groups you trust, and keep the Fandom rules in mind so you don’t lose the 200-coin window.

What this is not

  • Exact daily coin totals depend on how many friends reply and how often you check mail—unconfirmed for any one account
  • Whether a specific LINE group is safe or still active—check the thread yourself; unconfirmed here
  • Japanese October 2026 events (Nightmare, Tower Villains, and so on)—those are JP-app timelines; International is usually months behind. Don’t spend coins because a JP calendar said so

After hearts: early coin Tsums

When hearts cover your play count, Reddit’s recurring beginner advice is still “unlock Gadget via the non-timed Coloring Missions and raise her skill.” Fandom’s Gadget page agrees she’s a reward Premium (not a box pull) and a solid early farmer at max skill level 3. That’s a next step, not a substitute for the heart window.

Quick checklist

  1. Open Mail Box within the hour when friends send hearts
  2. Prefer one-by-one accept if your group expects return hearts
  3. Don’t Claim All unless you know you won’t break the exchange
  4. Treat Bahamut / LINE group rules as community rules, not official patch notes
  5. For event dates, trust the International in-game notice—not a JP wiki calendar

In-game notices always win when something conflicts.

Sources

Rewritten by this site from the information on the pages below.