Gems are the real money currency for Idle Skilling and are used to buy various different items, services, and permanent bonuses.
Package | Gems Purchased | USD Cost | |
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Pile of Gems | 200 | 20 Kreds ($2) | |
Sack of Gems | 600 | 50 Kreds ($5) | |
Chest of Gems | 1500 | 100 Kreds ($10) | |
Mountain of Gems | 4000 | 200 Kreds ($20) |
Free Gems
Media
The quickest and easiest way to earn up to 60 gems is by clicking on lavaflame2's Youtube, Discord, and Twitter links on the "Buy Gems" page.
Raids/Asylum
Once you've unlocked the second Contract shop, it's possible to buy a +2% chance per level (up to 20%) for a gem to drop in any Raid/Asylum encounter. With 12 tickets earned daily, this averages out to 2.4 gems per day, or 4.8 gems with a maxed out Counterfeit Tickets AP perk.
Events
Seasonal events award some amount of Gems after spending event currency gained by farming monsters. The Lunar and Christmas event has a chance to earn both small and large sums of gems, whereas the Spooktober and Thxgiving events had stores that sold small guaranteed amounts of gems.
Gem Portal
The Gem Portal is a special Rift in Summoning that can be activated once for 500 Gems. While not exactly "free", the Gem Portal acts as an investment that returns a net gain of 1,000 Gems.
Pachinko Arcade
One can earn free Gems through the Arcade rewards, earning small amounts of Gems. If one is lucky to get the Gem Jackpot from the Arcade, they instantly get 2000 gems and the procession of balls can get you more gems.
[3.10] You also can get playing cards in Pachinko to boost gem count. Suits are Stars, Diamonds, Hearts, and Spades. Getting a 5-card Poker hand can get you at least 10 gems for a High Card hand (called trash in-game), but getting a Royal Straight Flush gets you 50 thousand. This has a cooldown of 22 hours.
Hoop Challenge
Through the Hoop Challenge Secret recently added to the game, a person can earn Gems according to their performance up to a maximum of 50 per day.
Rebirth
Your First 3 rebirths give you 150, 100, and 50 gems for your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rebirth respectively.
Research
The second Yellow Tank's first perk sometimes gives gems when it levels up.
Gem Shop Items
Cards
Card packs are opened from the "Packs" button on the Cards screen. It is possible for card packs to award duplicate cards of an equal or lower rarity to those already owned and will automatically convert them to star cards. However, if a monster card is awarded then it means it replaced the one you already had with a higher rarity.
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Extra Card Slot | Opens up another slot for you to put cards into | 100 | 7 | |
Extra Card Deck | Adds an additional deck slot for card sets, tinker sets and 5 additional slots for Pets | 150/150/200 | 11/9/26 | |
Star Cards | Gain 12 gray, 3 green, and 1 blue star cards | 100 | ∞ | |
Star Cards+ | Gain 7 green, 2 blue, and 1 purple card with a chance for 1 orange card (if not, it is blue) | 250 | ∞ | |
Starter Pack | Gain 5 cards from Grasslands or Desert, up to blue rarity | 75 | ∞ | |
Journeyman Pack |
Gain 5 Cards from Desert, Mountains, or the Mist, up to purple rarity Includes a chance for a random boss card |
400 | ∞ | |
Legend Pack |
Gain 5 cards from Mountains, the Mist, or Dungeon, up to orange rarity Includes a guaranteed random boss card |
1000 | ∞ | |
Pillager Pack | Gain 5 cards from Bruiser, Toxic Sludge, Killer Rabbit, Desert Giant, Pincermin, and Tremor Wurm Crusades, up to blue rarity
Includes a small chance for a Crusade boss card |
350 | ∞ | |
Deus Vult Pack | Gain 5 cards from Desert Giant, Pincermin, Tremor Wurm, Faust, Arachneon, Gheist, and Basilisk Crusades, up to orange rarity
Includes a good chance for a Crusade boss card |
750 | ∞ |
Skill Boosters
Skill boosters grant permanent bonuses to their respective skills. Gem costs are always constant, no matter how many boosters are purchased.
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Overlord Mining Kits | Gives one miner double speed and ore mined per swing | 75 | 6 | |
Infinity Forge | Grants infinite forge charges and doubles EXP in Smithing | 150 | 1 | |
Funny Hat | Gives the fisherman double fishing speed and fishing EXP | 100 | ∞ | |
Hyper Spiriting | Gives one Cultist and one Acolyte double soul gain and double soul chance | 70 | 8 | |
Overclocked Glyphs | Grants all Rifts +50% more EXP to Rift levels per cycle | 40 | ∞ | |
Double Spirit EXP | Gain +100% Spiriting EXP | 125 | ∞ | |
Double Summon EXP | Gain +100% Summoning EXP | 125 | ∞ |
Time Candy
Time candy is used to gain instant progress in any single area. When buying candy, there's a chance to receive 5 different flavors: 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, 24 hours, and 72 hours. It always costs 50 Gems to buy candy, but if you've earned Candy Coupons from Raid drops or the Candy Freebies AP Perk, then candy can be purchased freely without gems.
Candy | Flavortext | Roll | Chance | |
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2 Hour | - | 1 - 44 | 44% | |
4 Hour | Not too shabby | 45 - 70 | 26% | |
8 Hour | Hey that's pretty good | 71 - 88 | 18% | |
24 Hour | I don't quite believe it | 89 - 96 | 8% | |
72 Hour | Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner | 97 - 100 | 4% |
Events
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Lunar Daily Spin Limit of 5 | Increases the maximum daily spin limit from 3 to 5 | 450 | 1 | |
Lunar 5 Spins | Grants 5 extra spins on the Lunar Wheel | 225 | ∞ |
Miscellaneous
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Raid Tickets | Gain 3 Raid tickets (not available during Events) | 25 | ∞ | |
Random Time Candy | Gain 1 random Time Candy used for instant progression in any area | 50 | ∞ | |
Gem Portal | Gain 150 gems every day for 10 days (1500 gems total) | 500 | 1 | |
Vault Pass | Instantly refresh the timer on the Vault (not available during Events) | 20 | ∞ |
Crusades
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Second Necklace Slot | Unlocks the second necklace slot | 350 | 1 | |
Double Crusade EXP | Gain +100% more Crusade EXP | 150 | ∞ | |
Double Tinkering EXP | Gain +100% more Tinkering EXP | 150 | ∞ | |
Misc Bundle | Gain 3 of every special mutator for a discounted gem cost | 600 | ∞ | |
Safety Charms | Gain 5 Safety Charms, which prevents booster failures costing upgrade slots | 300 | ∞ | |
Lucky Donuts | Gain 5 Lucky Donuts, which gives boosters +15% chance to succeed | 250 | ∞ | |
Crystal Genesis | Gain 5 Crystal Genesis, which have a 50% to double applied booster's bonus | 250 | ∞ | |
Chaotic Mutators | Gain 5 Chaotic Mutators, which doubles mutator multiplier but cuts booster success chance by half | 200 | ∞ | |
Benign Mutators | Gain 5 Benign Mutators, which guarantees mutators with a 1.0+ multiplier | 200 | ∞ |
Pets
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Golden Nest | Gives :
4x Faster Hatching speed 3x Chance to create rarer Eggs 3x Bonus to Hatching new pets |
375 | 6 | |
Arcane Carpet | Used by support pets.
Gives x2 Effect for Pets genetic on this carpet, and count for 2 in Trekking combos |
525 | 4 | |
Diamond Piping | Make you able to change Research Tank pipe into Diamond pipe.
Gives x4 RP Gain , 200% for double level , x3 RP Effect |
225 | ∞ | |
Hyper Egg Coupon | Have a chance to hatch an Exquisite Boss Pet
Otherwise you get a 30% chance to hatch new pet |
300 | ∞ | |
Double Vessels | Each additional purchase gives +100% more Vessel | 450 | 6 | |
Shiny Lab Vat | Unlocks The Shiny Lab Vat. Gives:
x2 RP Gain Bonus +50% x2 Level Chance +100% Research Exp |
675 | 1 |
Tunnels
Item | Description | Gem Cost | Max. Amount | |
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Desolator | Gives individual spelunkers to:
x5 Speed x4 Dig down amount +2 Additional treasure bags every extraction |
375 | 8 | |
Sentinel Canary | Each bird gives one spelunker:
x4 Learning rate Double absorb powers (You can absorb twice instead of just once) |
350 | 8 | |
Iodized Builder | These builder's have:
x3 Building speed +10% speed every construction level instead of +2% Also gives immediate acces to the builder |
325 | ∞ | |
6-Star Pack | Gives 5 star cards all of 6 star rarity
These cards can be from anywhere in the game. (Tunnel cards are more likely to be gotten) 33% Chance per pack to get a Raid / Asylum Boss |
550 | ∞ | |
Fabled Potions | 3 Coupons witch give a level 15 potion randomly selected from first 24 darkmode potions
Gives +15 Lvs if the potion is a duplicate MUST BE EXTENDED BREWING UNLOCKED FROM CONSTRUCTION TO BUY |
525 | ∞ | |
Timeless Potions | 3 Coupons witch give a level 20 potion randomly selected from last 24 darkmode potions
Gives +20 Lvs if the potion is a duplicate MUST BE EXTENDED BREWING UNLOCKED FROM CONSTRUCTION TO BUY |
900 | ∞ |