Gems

can be purchased in the Treasure section of the Market.

are used to speed up the time it takes to: AND can be spent to:
 * Construct buildings.
 * Clear Obstacles.
 * Hatch eggs.
 * Breed dragons.
 * Grow treats.
 * Complete Quests.
 * Anything else that involves time  except  the Colosseum, Dragonsai Gifting Tree, the four-day wait for Kairos to be activated, cash or gem collection from habitats, and the 24 hour clock to give free gems.
 * Upgrade the Nursery to hold up to four eggs.
 * Upgrade the Hibernation Cave to hold up to 200 dragons.
 * Purchase the Epic Breeding Island.
 * Purchase the Dragonsai Gifting Tree.
 * Upgrade the Breeding Cave to the Enchanted Breeding Cave.
 * Upgrade the Epic Breeding Island to the Epic Breeding Sanctuary.
 * Buy Dragon Eggs (only applicable to some dragons).
 * Buy Time Fragments to assemble the artifacts - Chronolith, Time Claw, and Statue of Kairos - required to summon Kairos.

Gem Prices
The purchase price for are constant throughout game progression. can be purchased for:

Gem Value
One Gem is equal to whatever time is left  up to  an hour. This means if there is 02:03:00 (hh:mm:ss) left for the egg to hatch or breed, it will cost 3 to finish it (2 for the hours + 1 for the 3 minutes). However, if you wait 4 minutes until 01:59:00 it will only cost 2. There is a glitch that allows players to spend 1 when the timer shows 00:00:00.



Obtaining Gems
Free can be obtained by friends gifting them to you. An infinite amount of can be received daily (assuming you have an infinite amount of friends willing to gift) but only 3  a day can be sent to people on a player's friends list. See the Strategies page for additional information on gifting.

The Dragonsai Gifting Tree can be purchased for 100 and will allow the player to give away 3 additional  per day.

Free Gems can be obtained by winning in the Colosseum. A silver trophy is worth 2 and a gold trophy is worth 5. A bronze trophy does not reward you any.

can be obtained by obtaining first place or on the Bonus Spin wheel at the Dragon Track.

can be gained by Gemstone Dragons in the Gemstone Island.

For DragonVale's 1 year anniversary, Backflip Studios gave 25 free gems to the accounts of those who logged in between September 14 and September 17, 2012.



' Please be reminded that the  Friends  page is the ONLY acceptable place outside of a user's profile and personal pages for friend and gem requests to be posted. '