List of items & rituals that generate or make the most of gems?

[Major.Pain]

Dwarven Hammer
Mother Oak
Maelstrom
Fire in a Jar
Earth Blood Deep Well
Well of Misery
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Clam of Pearls
Water Lens
Eternal Pyre
The Ruby Eye
Blood Stone
Forge of the Ancients
Hammer of the Forge Lord
The First Anvil
Raven Feast
Arcane Nexus??
Gale Gate
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Mod:
Crucible of Stone
Fairy in a Bottle

[harmony of bean and dog]

crucible of stone and fairy in a bottle don't exist in the vanilla game

[Manatee]

xibalba has a natonal ritual that steals the sun. gives 10 fire gems/month and 5 astral/month

[zest]

Much shorter list of the ones that really matter in a significant portion of games so as not to overwhelm those still learning :P :

Dwarven Hammer
Mother Oak
Maelstrom
Fire in a Bottle
Earth Blood Deep Well
Well of Misery


I'd say roughly in that order of importance for relevent nations considering both how early they come out and their potency once they do(though don't read too much into the lower half's order as it's really hard to compare fire in a bottle which is essentially an early game booster for nations with lots of F1s with a late game big gem global).

And yeah, Eternal Pyre and water lens are definitely very good, I agonized a bit over whether to include them- but I feel there's a significant gap between them and the ones I listed, so when trying to make an "essentials," list I would choose to cut them to highlight that gap.

[harmony of bean and dog]

gale gate.

[zest]

Originally posted by harmony of bean and dog:

gale gate.

Why do I always forget that one exists?

[Staythecourse]

Because there's like one nation in the entire game that wants to research Thaum 8 before literally every other school, and multiple nations that really don't want to hit Thaum 4 ever to avoid the berserk spells.

[zest]

Yeah, probably that. Also with how good fog warriors is and eats up gems saving up 60 late game can be hard when you're doubtless at war trying to take advantage of having researched fog warriors(casting storm and cloud trapeze also chew through them). My experience with late game air nations has generally been living one turn to the next on my air gem income.

[meglobob1]

Originally posted by zest:

Yeah, probably that. Also with how good fog warriors is and eats up gems saving up 60 late game can be hard when you're doubtless at war trying to take advantage of having researched fog warriors(casting storm and cloud trapeze also chew through them). My experience with late game air nations has generally been living one turn to the next on my air gem income.

This is so true!

Never enough A gems no matter your income...