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 helps determine 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 a Fluid Tank block. The recipe is as follows:

Iron Ingot in all 4 corners, Glass Block in the very middle, Bucket filling in the other spaces.

Then, place your Fluid Tank onto the ground temporarily and fill it with one color of gem essence. I recommend making 4 fluid tanks for pink, yellow, white and blue gem essences.

Place a Stone Button into the secondary slot on the TANK PANEL screen.

If your gem essence is pink, you will receive a Pebble gem. If your gem essence is yellow, you will receive a Mica gem. If your gem essence is blue, you will receive a Shale gem. If your gem essence is white, you'll receive a Nacre gem but ONLY if you use a Nautilus shell instead of a Stone Button. Nacre is also not involved with creating an injector setup, but is useful later.

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

To obtain a Drill block, follow these steps.

To obtain a Power Crystal 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.)


 * 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 Fluid Tank 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. One color at a time can also be selected for gems that only use one essence color, like Ruby using pink gem essence.

If a gem has a color variant, like Sapphire or Agate, you will place your chroma into the very middle slot on the INJECTOR PANEL screen. (Its a round outline, in case you can't find it.) Each chroma color corresponds to a color variant.

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 highlight 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. Firstly, know that there's a difference between a primer item and a Prime Boost item. Primer items are an item you can use to help force a specific type of gem in your kindergarten, while prime boosts help increase the chances of getting a perfect gem. 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.

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