Part 1: Dig site - collecting jewels and monster missions
Part 2: Upgrading Jewels - increasing the bonus of jewels
Part 3: Using Jewels on Equipment - ready for your monsters to wear!
Do I have any Jewels?
If you've used any of your daily digs at the Dig Site, you're likely to have a collection of level 1 and/or level 2 jewels within your inventory. You can look at your jewels by opening up your inventory and clicking on the backpack tab.
Jewels cannot be traded with other players. Jewels can only be used by your monster when they are socketed on equipment that your monster is wearing (see post 3), and they only affect monsters of the same element as the jewel. For example, socketed water jewels only increase the statistics of water monsters, and will have no affect if worn by a rock monster.
How can I get more Jewels?
Every day you are given a limited number of digs at the dig site, which can uncover level 1 or 2 jewels. This is the most common method of gaining jewels as it's a completely free process. (See Post 1 in this series for more information about the dig site)
You can purchase extra level 1 or 2 jewels from the troop shop in exchange for loyalty points (earned by sending monsters on missions at the dig site). To access the troop store, open up your troop screen and select the "Shop" tab as shown in the below screenshot. The type of jewels available change daily and the quantity can also be refreshed. To refresh the troop store click the "refresh" button at the bottom of your screen. You will then need to wait a further 24 hours before you can refresh again (or speed up the process with 10 gold). Everyone in your troop will have their own troop shop screen and your purchases/refresh will not affect your troopmates.
Screenshot of my Troop Shop.
The final way of gaining more jewels is to try your luck on the Jewel Grab, within the "Store" button on your main screen. Most players do not purchase these for 50 gold (there are better things in the game to spend gold on!), however some events will give you free jewel spins as prizes. When you spin, you'll see the spin land on a particular level "white" jewel. The game will then announce which level jewel you have won and which stat it will affect. Jewels from level 3-7 can be won in this manner.
Using a free spin in the Jewel Grab to win a level 4 leaf recovery jewel
Jewel Upgrade Station
The jewel upgrade station can be found in your troop hall (near the roasting pig). It has a jewel icon above it with the words "Upgrade".
Clicking on the Jewel Upgrade station will open a screen titled "Jewels" with three tabs: Attack, Health and Recovery. Each of these tabs is further subdivided into levels from 2 through to the maximum level 8. If you're new to Jewels, most of the jewels displayed will be faded and unavailable. It takes three identical level 1 jewels to be able to try making a level 2 jewel. Once you have these lower level jewels available, the jewel they'll create will brighten and enable you to click on it.
Why should I Upgrade Jewels?
Jewels can be socketed within equipment that your monsters can wear (the topic of part 3 of this series of posts). Each jewel will provide a bonus to the monsters stat, as described by the jewel name. A fire attack jewel, for example, will provide a bonus to a fire monster's attack stat when it's wearing that equipment. The higher the level of jewel, the higher the stat bonus becomes, as shown in the list below. (Note that equipment can be broken halving the damage shown below. Post 3 will contain more information about this).
Jewel Stat Increases:
Level 1 - 1.0%
Level 2 - 1.75%
Level 3 - 3.0%
Level 4 - 4.5%
Level 5 - 6.5%
Level 6 - 10.0%
Level 7 - 14.0%
Level 8 - 20.0%
Two methods of finding out the stat bonus of a jewel
(As detailed above)
How to upgrade jewels
There are two ways within the game to find out the above jewel stat increases. The first method involves opening the Jewel Upgrade station, click on the image of the jewel you are interested in (even if faded out on the screen) and then click on the jewel displayed in the top half of the screen - the pop-up will tell you the stat increase as per the screenshot on the left below. Alternatively, if you already own the jewel that you're interested in, you can find it in your backpack and click on it to immediately bring up the screen below on the right.
(As detailed above)
Let's return back to the Jewel Upgrade station and click on a jewel for which I can upgrade (displayed in full colour instead of whited out). In the example I'll work through, I've opened up my level 2 fire attack crystals from the screenshot earlier in this post. The upgrade screen shows that I can create 5 of these level 2 jewels (as I have 15 level 1 jewels in my backpack). By default, the game will assume that you only want to upgrade one jewel at a time, however you can process them as a batch by clicking on the "+" button. Note that this multiplies the stone cost by 5 as well as the number of scrolls needed for a successful batch. (For more information on scrolls and how to get them, please see below).
Clicking the "+" button multiple times to set five jewels to be created at once.
The warning message can seem a bit misleading, especially if you are creating multiple jewels at once. What it's trying to say is that for each jewel that you're creating, there is a 25% chance that the upgrade will fail and you will lose all three jewels that were used in the attempted creation. If you are creating multiple jewels at once, you can choose to either use scrolls on all jewels or on none of the jewels - there is no option to use it on only some of the created jewels. However, the success rate is applied individually to each created jewel, so that some may fail and others may be successful. If you intentionally chose not to use scrolls, click the upgrade button and the process will begin.
You will now be returned to the Jewels screen and the time remaining until you can claim your results will show up on the relevant crystals. As the levels increase, the time to create the jewels will also increase (2 hours for creating level 2 jewels, 4 hours for level 3 jewels, etc). If you choose to process multiple jewels, the time required for the batch to process is multiple times longer.
All of my attack jewels set to process. Note the difference in times within the
same level is due to multiple jewels being created at once
same level is due to multiple jewels being created at once
When your upgraded jewels are ready, the word "Ready" appears instead of the timer. Clicking on one of your ready jewels will bring up further information about those jewels.
The initial screen will remind you of how many jewels you were attempting to create. In the right screenshot below, I've opened up my level 2 leaf attack jewels that were processed in a batch of 10 jewels to be created.
Clicking on the Result button will first show you how many jewels were successful, and then the Next button will show you how many were unsuccessful. Luck was on my side and 9 jewels were created and 1 jewel was destroyed. If I'd chosen to use scrolls, I would have had 100% success and 10 upgraded jewels, instead each jewel had a 75% chance and luck was on my side that more jewels made it through than average. (This is not always the case!!) The nine level 2 leaf attack jewels that I have created can now be used to create up to three level 3 leaf attack jewels.
Repeat this process for all of the other jewels you have on the attack, health and recovery tabs.
You may be starting to gather, and correctly so, that if it takes three lower level jewels to create a higher level jewel, then the jewel making process is a slow process of farming enough low level jewels to one day be able to create a jewel that will make a big stat boost for one of your monsters. Start early in the game and by the time you're wanting to use jewels and equipment to increase your power rating, some of these may be ready and waiting for you.
All About Scrolls
When you send monsters on missions in the dig site, you're able to earn Loyalty Points. These points can be spent within the troop shop as detailed earlier in the post. If you scroll down to the end of the Troop Shop, you'll find that you can buy a small number of scrolls each day. The quantity can be refreshed every 24 hours, or earlier for 10 gold. As your troop level increases (by troopmates donating stone or sending monsters on missions) you'll be able to buy slightly more scrolls each day.
The only purpose of scrolls in the game is to use them to guarantee successful upgrades of your jewels. Each level jewel requires more scrolls to guarantee success - by the time you've spent months to be able to upgrade to your first level 5+ jewel, you're probably going to want to make sure it's successful by using scrolls! I tend to use scrolls for levels 5+, however depending on your comfort with risk, you may choose to use scrolls all of the time or none of the time.
Still to come: Post 3 - Using Jewels on Equipment
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