Crystals

Crystals are the main currency of Dillo Hills 2. You can use them to buy items from the Race Shop such as card packs, items and secret racers.

## How to get crystals

While in a public or private room you can find crystals in chains on certain slopes. Collecting them will speed up your racer, the more the higher is the level of your character's Crystal Boost stat.

On certain maps (Meteor Moon, Crumbling Ruins) you earn crystals by smashing through meteors. Each meteor is worth roughly 12 crystals, depending on its size.

***Warning!*** Meteors are supposed to increase the character speed, although there were some reports that characters slow down while being very fast.

In Party races there are jumbo gems, each counts as 5 crystals. As usual crystals, jumbo gems counts towards the crystal boost as well as they fill in the cart on mining maps.

***Note***  You can turn off picking jumbo gems by typing **`/jumbo`** in the chatbox, especially when trying to unlock certain achievements.

Crystals can also appear in race packs and certain booster packs. League packs may contain crystal cards, each worth 100 or 250 crystals. A referral pack contains 10,000 crystals, but only one can be purchased each day.

### Purchasing crystals

Certain amounts of crystals can be paid with real money. For that click *Get more crystals* at the right edge and pick the amount. You can buy as little as 10,000 for less than a dollar, and as much as 700,000 for $49.99.

***Note***  Dillo Hills 2 is not a pay-to-win game. Buying crystals may help you to upgrade your character but it will not replace mastering your skills. In fact, many of the top players have bought no crystals at all!

## Increasing the crystal gain

Certain items in the Race Shop double the income from crystal collected while racing either temporary or fovever. They will not double the amount of crystals you get from packs or by buying directly.

The first three items cannot be stacked. However, they can be stacked with the Jeweler's Crown, resulting in a trippled crystal gain.

***Note***  If a racer does not finish a race on a mining map it is still rewarded 200 crystals (400 or 600 with crystal doublers). Some players abuse it by leaving and re-entering the room after finishing a race to get this additional gain.

## Related achievements

There is a few achievements related to collecting crystals.

### Achievements for collecting crystals and meteors

* Greedy — win a public race after collecting at least 500 crystals.
* Crunchy — smash through 25 crystal meteors in a single race.
* Want not! — complete a public race on Meteor Moon without collecting any crystals.
* The Motherload — smash through 4 crystal meteors without touching the ground.

### Achievements for saving crystals

* Girl's Best Friend — save up 50,000 crystals.
* Hoarder — save up 250,000 crystals.
* Monopoly — save up 1,000,000 crystals.

### Achievements for collecting certain types of gems in mines

* Beaurocracy — finish filling all three bars within 5 seconds.
* Eagly eye — pick up at least one gem every time you touch the ground on the first floor. Jumbo gems don't count.
* The Heist — reach the fifth floor without picking up any gems.
* Blue Sky — max out your blue gem bar before picking up any red gems.