Gem

*This is about Kingdom Two Crowns.*

**Gems** are a secondary currency, used to unlock mounts, hermits, and statues.

## Acquiring

 To acquire gems on campaigns, Monarchs must find and open gem chests.
All gems originally come from those fancy coffers found in the forest.
For further details, see: Ruins § Gem chest.

On Lost Islands however, there are no gem chests.
There, all needed gems can be bought from the Gem Keeper.
For further details, see: Lost Islands § Gem Keeper.

## Behavior

Just like coins, gems are collected and stored in the Monarch's purse.

If Monarchs intentionally drop their belongings, coins are prioritised, and then, if there are no more coins on the purse, gems will drop.

### Left on ground

Unlike coins, which vanish with time, gems will never disappear if they are dropped on the ground. Also, subjects won't collect them. Only greedlings can take them away.

It doesn't matter if the Monarch travels away, or loses the Crown, the gem will be there until being recovered by a Monarch, or stolen by a greedling.
No amount of decay can make a gem disappear either.

Gems spat out of the cave with the bomb detonation are guaranteed to be somewhere near the cliff, as greedlings can no longer appear on that island to grab them.
However, next Heirs will have to spend some gold and a couple of days to visit that island, if they want to retrieve the dropped gems.

### On aggressions

When Monarchs are hit, either by a greedling, a breeder, or a boar, coins are prioritised as well. When no more coins are left on the bag, gems become the target, and then, the Crown.

Crown stealers ignore gems just as they ignore coins: their first target is always the Crown.

### Stolen gems

Greedlings are the only monsters able to steal gems left on the ground.

Gems stolen by them on an island can be recovered after the cave (*not* the cliff portal) of that specific island has been destroyed: all gems stolen on that island are spat out of the cave entrance with the bomb detonation. However, in order to collect them, the Monarch must escape the bomb explosion, or a Heir would have to visit that island.

### Unrecoverable

Gems in the pouch are lost for good if the Monarch loses the Crown (or the Crowns, in co-op).
This includes both:

* losing the Crown on a cave explosion
* having the Crown taken by a crown stealer.

Gems lost in these situations are lost forever.
Heirs won't find them anywhere.

### River waters

Unlike coins, gems will *never* fall into the waters of the river (or sea). If a Monarch drops a gem—intentionally, due to the purse being full, or due to a hit from a Greed or boar—this gem cannot fall beyond the line of the ground.

## Banking

On campaigns, it's possible to store gems with a merchant banker that appears by the central wharf.
For further details, see: Gem Keeper.

## Unlockables

There are
26
different unlockable features in the campaigns, including
statues (5),
hermits (6), and
mounts (15).
They are all listed below along with the number of gems required to unlock them *(between parentheses)* and the island they're unlocked on.

The precise amount of gems found on each island is listed on the second column. The total of gems available in all islands of a campaign is the same of those required to unlock all of its features:

* thirty-eight gems in all campaigns (except Norse)
* forty-one gems in the Norse Lands campaign.

*For the alternative monarchs unlocked in Dead Lands, see: Monarchs (Dead Lands) § First time using.*
*For the rulers' abilities unlocked in Norse Lands, see: Stones of Power.*

## Achievements

Acquiring a gem by day IX grants the "On the Ninth Day" achievement.

## History

The gems system has been introduced to replace the signpost. People didn't always understand the previous unlock system and, because of it, thought there was not that much unlockable content in *Kingdom: New Lands*. It was often left locked.

 2020-11-03
 2018-12-11
 2018-12-11
 Introduced.

## References

1. ↑ Also called **diamonds** by a considerable amount of players.
2. ↑ Gordon Van Dike during a Jack Pattillo's live on *Twitch*. Video uploaded on *Youtube* on 9 December 2018.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 See three gems being spat out of the cave in this video by LadyShelab on *Youtube*. 24 December 2018.
4. ↑ Tested by Sapador on v.1.1.15, on the first island of the Norse Lands campaign. 3 April 2022.
5. ↑ The "Kingdom Two Crowns - Q&A Livestream" report on *Reddit*.
6. ↑ Fixed gems. *Youtube* video shared by developer Alan on *Reddit*. 1 April 2022.
7. ↑ Tested by Sapador on v.1.1.15, on the fourth island of the Norse Lands campaign. 4 April 2022.
8. ↑ **“***I've just cleared the cave on the last island and all other islands. Not a single one of my lost gems was given back to me. I'm playing ps4***”**, said a player on *Reddit*. 1 January 2019.
9. ↑ Kingdom Two Crowns Patch #01 Roadmap on *Reddit*. 13 December 2018.