ALL the ways to get gems in SOD
So people ask how to get free gems all the time. However all I see are the obvious video ad answers, maybe some Tactics or something thrown in. So here is a complete (to date) list of ways to get gems:
1. Buy them. This is the laziest thing to do in the game (not irl since you need to work for real money) but the quickest.
2. Purchase a membership. You'll start out with 500 gems + 500 more each month you remain a member.
3. Video ads (3 videos per day worth 10 gems each), they're annoying but each are about 30 seconds long.
4. Dragon Tactics. This is an unlimited fountain of gems that is widely taken for granted. My sister got 200 gems as a reward once. Occasionally I'll get 50, and most recently I got 165. ALL IN A SINGLE REWARD.
5. Daily rewards. You'll receive a few free gems during 5 days you've been on (in a row).
6. Stable quests. From time to time a stable quest will appear with a reward of one gem box. Go after them if possible.
7. Achievements. The Flight Club and Dragon Tactics offer the most achievements but the Cog Master and Incredible Machine Master achievements, if you complete both, will equate to a total of 300 gems.
8. Mystery Stable. Once you've accumulated 300 gems, you may buy a Mystery Stable from the store. Inside this stable, there exists a hidden treasure box containing 300 gems, and you can find a walkthrough on YouTube. Non-members will pretty much get this stable for free. The stable costs 240 gems to members so if a member finds the box, they actually get 60 free gems with it. To my knowledge you can only do this once per viking.
9. Journal achievements. Sometimes when you complete a journal achievement you'll be rewarded a varying amount of gems (depending on that achievement).
10. Sometimes the game will give a gem box, I've randomly found one in my bag that I know I didn't get from a stable quest.
11. A new viking slot costs 250 gems. Get 250 gems, open a slot, and make a new viking to complete achievements, do the stable and stable quests, etc.
12. An occasional glitch may affect how many gems you get or spend (a recent glitch caused members to pay 2500 gems for Dart when they were only supposed to pay 2000). The admins will eventually give them back.
There. Twelve ways to get gems, the majority of them free. You can grind for free gems if you don't want to pay. Cog and Incredible Machine are mini games that appear in the expansion pack "The Birth of a Leviathan" which is free with membership or can be bought with gems, but the minigames can be played without the expansion. They are both located on the boats on Dragon's Edge, on the beach. Walkthroughs on both can be found on YouTube.
*There is a bug with level 24 on Incredible Machine and bugs in achievements that prevent you from completion. Either wait a day or just restart with a new viking.
I don't want to sound rude, sorry if you feel it in that way, it's unintended. I just don't understand some points in your comment. It would be cool if you explained that, I might be wrong and don't know something. If so, enlighten me :)
"4. Dragon Tactics. This is an unlimited fountain of gems that is widely taken for granted. My sister got 200 gems as a reward once. Occasionally I'll get 50, and most recently I got 165. ALL IN A SINGLE REWARD."
Maybe the game doesn't like me, but in a single reward I get only 5 or 6 gems. I got 200 gems only once, when I completed the Rise of Stormheart DT achievement, which rewards 200 gems. How do you do that?
"10. Sometimes the game will give a gem box, I've randomly found one in my bag that I know I didn't get from a stable quest."
I've never gotten any additional box of gems, really. And I can't believe it could be given by the game. Are you really, really sure you didn't get it from a stable quest?
Anyway, thanks for gathering all the ways in a one comment. You really put your back into it. I appreciate it a lot ^^
Whenever you complete a dragon tactics gem achievement, the reward is given as if it was a typical bonus chest reward you get after a game, but that is just a one time achievement. This goes for the 200 gems and 50 gems prizes. As for the 165 you got, that's impossible. You can get 5-6 per chest so if you are lucky you can get up to 30, plus the achievements (there are two, one for clearing rise of stormheart battles and 50 for the basic training levels), so technically, you cannot get 165
I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you had found a box in your bagpack, not a gem. My bad.
Your answer makes everything clear. Thanks!
I think I don't have much time to play DT 20 times, but thanks for advice. I personally don't like this mini-game so much, because very often I can play 8-10 times trying to get gems and get nothing, so for me it's like a lottery :)
Where is cog and incredible machines located. I can't find them
Go to either impossible island or outpost island. If you did some of the quests, Mala would be there with her ships. Just get on the ship and go to the ship's helm. A notificiation prompting you to play the mini-games would pop up.
Thanks I will go to dragons edge
- Battle events are most of the time glitched
- (info) replace stable quests until you get a stable quest that rewars gems. Names are The Long Patrol, Nest Mates gives you egg chest(I think eggs) Construction Zone and others. Click on battle event rewards faster to get better rewards(same with all other chests) Fast but not too fast(you'll figure out the right timing eventually)
- After you defeat a battle(best battle event dragons are scauldron and titan thunderdrum[moldruffle if you can aim it]) go to settings, turn off MMO, then turn it back on. Try this several times until you get another battle event and you might get bronze or silver.
Any other things I havent mentioned getting in the way of gem harvesting or helping?
Sorry to just drop in but what is this about clicking on rewards faster to get better rewards? I haven't gotten an egg from a battle event a single time yet and if this is an actual trick I'd like to learn more please XD
You can harvest gems, which is basically to create a new viking and do all those, then erase that viking and do it again. You could get up to 1000 gems with each viking. But for me I think it should be enough to just do the flightclub achievements, it should be easier with membership but without that its still fine. This way you can earn 300+ a day if you watch adds and log in daily. And even in events you could still earn gems.
The most I've gotten in a battle event is 200 gems, however, it can be as little as 10 or 25 gems. However, in between there's the option of 50, 75, and even 100 gems, so the battle is like a jackpot waiting to happen. That's how I've gotten most of my titans, from the gems on battle events and also how i got my Chimeragon (i didnt make the event), and how I'm going to get my Slitherwing finally.
How to I play cog master and incredible machines?
If you have the secret of the leviathan then you can go to impossible island and get on the ships, clicking the area where the cogs and incredible machine is
I don't recommend this though because the minigame is buggy. Seriously, some levels won't work and even if you get the gems, they might label it as you cheated the game to get it.
I forgot to add battle events (sinking ships) to the list. MMO must be turned on for this.