Gems



Gems are found in the Treasure section of the Market. They are used to speed up the time it takes to:
 * Construct buildings
 * Clear obstacles
 * Hatch eggs
 * Breed
 * Upgrade the Nursery to hold up to four eggs
 * Upgrade the Hibernation Cave to hold up to 100 dragons
 * Grow treats
 * Build decorations
 * ... and anything else that involves time  except  the Colosseum

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 to hatch or breed, it will cost 3 Gems to finish it (2 for the hours + 1 for the 3 minutes). However, if you wait 5 minutes until 01:58:00 it will cost 2 Gems.

There are two ways obtain Gems in DragonVale.

Paid Gems
Gems can be purchased as Treasure through the Market screen for real money. The images above show how many Gems can be bought per dollar (USD). Like Treats and DragonCash, more "incentive" Gems are offered when a larger sum of money is spent at one time.


 *  Example : Unlike Treats and DragonCash, the lowest price of a Gem purchase is $1.99 (£1.49) rather than $0.99 (£0.69). This is likely because they are much more valuable than their counterparts.

Free Gems
Gems can also be obtained for Free by friends gifting them to you. You can receive an infinite amount of Gems a day (assuming you had an infinite amount of friends willing to send them to you) but you can only send out 3 Gems a day to people on your friends list. The Strategies page lists a very useful strategy in which you create a circle of 4 friends. You only gift your 3 Gems a day to the other 3 people in the group (4 including you) and they do the same, that way you are all guaranteed to get 3 Gems per day no matter what. It's very effective as you can essentially take 3 hours off of a breeding time or hatch time per day or build up a stockpile of Gems and do very rapid breeding in succession.

Note: you can also get gems for free by winning in the Colosseum. For bronze medal you get none, for silver you get 2 and for gold you get 5. If you only want gems for your nursery, you just need 2 golds, so you don't have to pay.

Note: You can also purchase a Dragonsai Gifting Tree for 100 and after that you will be able to give away 3 additional Gems per day.

' Please remember to only use the Friends page for friend and gem requests.