If you’re playing Mario Kart World, you’ll likely be unlocking a steady stream of new vehicles simply playing the game as you normally would — progressing through Grand Prix Cups, Knockout Tour and hunting down challenges in Free Roam.
All in all, there are 30 karts to unlock on top of the game’s basic eight vehicles. Every 100 coins unlocks a new kart, so you’ll need 3,000 coins to nab them all.
It’s not a particularly tall order, but that hasn’t stopped fans from immediately trying to maximise their Mario Kart World time to get everything even quicker.
Most tips involve Mario Kart World’s Free Roam mode, where players are hunting down the most lucrative spots to grind for coins — or even go AFK and watch their coffers slowly fill.
If you’re happy to rinse and repeat loading the game over and over, fans are recommending honing in on any of the game’s giant stacks of coins you can find in Free Roam which respawn every time you reload the game.
IGN has tested this method with the stack of coins by the Boo Cinema fast travel spot. Load into Free Roam from the game’s main menu, turn around and you’ll see the coin stack to your left. After collection, simply reload the game and repeat the process.
For something less labor intensive, other fans recommend parking up at Toad Factory, behind the conveyor belt which continually spits out a stream of coins and item boxes. It’s going to take some time to collect individual coins this way, but as an AFK method when you wouldn’t otherwise be playing the game… it works.
Finally, if you fancy chilling in Free Roam while actually driving, keep an eye out for the coin cars which toss out coins behind them as they drive. You’ll need to follow these vehicles fairly slowly to collect the currency it drops, but as an activity to cool off from a heated few Knockout Tour matches, it’s quite relaxing.
After unlocking all of Mario Kart World’s 38 karts, players are reporting still receiving stick rewards for milestones at 18,000 coins and beyond. But beyond stickers, there does not seem to be any reason (yet) for continuing to farm coins beyond the 3,000 mark.
Could a top secret golden kart still be hiding in the game, as it has in other Mario Kart entries? If it is, players are yet to find it. But there’s clearly plenty to do in the game — 394 P-Switches, for one — and fans are still discovering more. Earlier today, we noted the secret method that’s been found to explore the game’s world in Mirror Mode Free Roam, for example.
Check out our Mario Kart World guide and learn how to unlock every hidden Mario Kart World character, plus how Kamek Unlocks work — you’ll need them to unlock NPC Drivers. We’ve also got a guide to all the Mario Kart World food scattered across the open world and where to find it, which will help you get all the Mario Kart World outfits and costumes permanently.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
