Kindergartening and You

This is a page for *Gempire's* basic guide to **kindergartening**, or growing your own Gems.

## How to make an Injector

First of all, you'll want to go underground and gather some colors of Chroma. Chroma generates on stone blocks and are glowy colored crystals. You'll get a tiny bit of chroma with every crystal cluster you harvest. You may even be lucky enough to get a prismatic chroma!

While you're underground, raid some mineshafts and look in their chests for Gem Essence (Item). Gem essence and chroma are very important for gem creation. Gem essence is apiece of what determines the type of gem that grows, while chroma enables you to obtain different color variants (if they're available).

Once you have chroma and gem essence, you'll have to work on obtaining your injector pieces. To start with, you'll need to craft different kinds of Pebble gems. Create them by throwing a *Stone Button* (or a *Nautilus Shell*) into a puddle of gem essence.

Pink essence creates a Pebble. Yellow essence creates a Mica. Blue essence creates a Shale. White essence creates a Nacre. (Nacre is not involved with creating an injector setup, but is useful later.)

Once you have your starting gems, you may begin to create your injector pieces.

**To obtain a Drill block, follow these steps.**

* Place a **Hopper** block on the ground.
* Surround the hopper's side with **Iron Bars**, one on each side.
* Bring your Pebble nearby and right click her with a pickaxe. (Be patient, sometimes it takes a minute for Pebble to notice.)

**To obtain a Power Crystal block, follow these steps.**

* Place a **Redstone Block** on the ground.
* Surround the Redstone Block's sides with **Glass Blocks**, one on each side.
* Bring your **Mica** nearby and right click her with a pickaxe. (Be patient, sometimes it takes a minute for Mica to notice.)

To build your full injector, you place down the Drill block, followed by the [i forgot the name of the middle block girl help] block, then the Power Crystal block on the very top. To use your new injector, you'll have to fill it with essence by placing your different gem essence bottles into the **INJECTOR PANEL** screen. The bars to the right will fill up with the differing colors.

Once you fill up the bars as much as you can (or as much as you'd like to), you can select different combinations to help influence the type of gem that emerges by using the Injector Remote. One color at a time can also be selected for gems that only use one essence color, like Ruby using pink gem essence.

Place your chroma into the very middle slot on the **INJECTOR PANEL** screen, and any primer item you wish to use in the injector, then attach a button or Hand Plate to the back of your Injector and right click it to make the machine inject into the ground.

## Injection and how it works

Injectors are used to inject your gathered Gem Essence (Item) (or essences) and Chroma into the ground, preferably into a nice chunky vein of minerals (**Cruxes**), to help your gems grow big and strong. If you're having problems finding gem essence in mineshafts or dungeon loot, Shale can help you! Shale transmutates your EXP into random colors of gem essence as long as you have Gilded Lapis in her inventory, ample EXP and empty essence bottles to put in the proper places.

After you select your required essence colors and place your chroma into the **INJECTOR PANEL** screen (if required), then you can inject your very first gem! The earth will begin to drain before your very eyes and soon your gem will pop out from the ground, an exit hole forming in the ground and your gem standing at the back of her emergence tunnel.

Keep in mind that Gempire's gem incubation system is more complex than KAGIC's. Biome temperature as well as crux blocks will also influence what gem emerges from your kindergartens.

To claim a gem, simply right click her. To toggle her following modes, shift-right click her. Gems can be told to wander, stay, and follow you.

## How do you determine the optimal placement of an injector?

For optimal gem growth, you should choose an area like a cliff face, or a hill with a relatively flat top (you need room for your Injector, after all). It's also best if your kindergarten area has mineral deposits, like veins of iron ore, or coal.

After that, space out your injector(s) evenly, inject Geodes into the earth and play the waiting game.

## Cruxes and how they affect Gem quality

Cruxes are what give your incubating gems life and energy to emerge properly, and they are what help define the type of gem that emerges alongside the previously mentioned essence and chroma items. The less cruxes you have in the area, the weaker and more likely your gems will emerge defective. If there's little to no cruxes available, a hostile Clod entity will spawn and attack you, wasting your gem essence.

Likewise, if you have an abundance of cruxes (natural or artificially placed) your gems will come out with a greater chance of being perfect! More cruxes also help brute-force specific gem types if you're after a certain one.

## Primers, but not the kind that go on your face

What are "primer" items? You may notice these things listed on each gem's page, some of them incredibly rare or expensive to make. Primer items are an item you can use to help force a specific type of gem in your kindergarten. Each gem has its own specific primer item. Primer items are also not a requirement, they're more of a tool for end-game players who have done all the things and gathered all the resources.

There are also speed booster and prime booster items, to increase the quality of the gem that emerges *or* to help it emerge from the ground faster.

(THIS PAGE IS A **WIP** AND WILL BE UPDATED AS NEW FEATURES ARE IMPLEMENTED.)