ShredDead upgrade costs in public sources
There is no honest DPS calculator for ShredDead yet. Damage per shot, fire rate, and the cost of each rank are not in a public table. Adding a formula here would be a guess. What follows is every cost I can tie to a source, and nothing else.
I listed a cell only when a video said the number out loud or the Steam screenshot showed the digits. The skill-tree shot shows many prices and almost no names, so those prices stay in a junk drawer instead of a calculator field.
| Item | Figure | Source count |
|---|---|---|
| Machine gun, first damage rank | 10 damage, then 14 | One video (Idle cub, 7 Aug 2026) |
| Rookie damage | About 5, narrator’s wording | One video |
| Rifleman recruit | 400 DNA | One video for the price; unit seen in a second video |
| Rotten zombie unlock | 800 DNA | CaptainCigar only |
| Slow zombie | 150 HP, 30 DNA | Idle cub only |
| Large enemy DNA | 500 | Idle cub only |
| Horde DNA bonus | +50% | CaptainCigar only |
| Inventory slot examples | 1K and 2K DNA | Idle cub only |
| Skill nodes | 125 through 9.9K visible, names unreadable | Official screenshot, unnamed |
What a calculator would need
- Two independent reads of the same node name and the same price.
- Which DNA color each node spends.
- Fire rate, not just damage, for the gun and for each unit.
- A developer note if those numbers change. The v1.0.1 post does not list upgrade costs.