Lesser-known hotkeys and tricks

[[PCMR] Tizaki]

I've seen people make multiple gems at once. How do they do that? I think I may have seen them gembomb more than one at a time as well. Anyway, here's my list:

X: Eat gem
D: Duplicate
U: Upgrade
Shift+B: Continual gembomb from next gem available in inventory

[strigvir]

Cool tricks, bud. It's like there is no tutorial button with all hotkeys listed or anything.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=439435039

[Cinth]

Originally posted by Macintrash:

I've seen people make multiple gems at once. How do they do that? I think I may have seen them gembomb more than one at a time as well. Anyway, here's my list:

X: Eat gem
D: Duplicate
U: Upgrade
Shift+B: Continual gembomb from next gem available in inventory

Shift click on grae to make multiples, ctrl click to make a full inventory.

Bombing has a tutorial page explaining how it works (also see it early in the game), so I'm not sure how it is "lesser-known".

Shift+B -> prototype bombing from mana using first gem in inventory.
B+Shift -> Bomb continually from inventory.

[lfindlay]

To be honest making multiple gems at once isn't really a valuable ability. Makes it easy to get the achievement of filling your inventory with gems, but I never use it. I am either just dupping gems with "d' key or making them as I need them. You can only make pure gems of the same level and only to fill your inventory ........nothing else.

You can gem bomb lots at once by adjusting the number in the bomb box you hover over it and either use the mouse scroll wheel or the up and down keys. this is really useful at higher lever XP runs where I have bombed up to 550 grade 1 gems on each wave.

if you B then Shift you bomb a clone of the first gem in your inventory, which is also what you need to do to bomb multiple gems at once. saves having to make lots of gems to bomb like you did in earlier games in the series.

[astrosha]

While the "fill inventory" is pretty much a useless trick, making multiples in a hurry can speed things along, depending on what you are doing.

For me, once I got access to the right gem colors, its a simple matter to hold SHIFT down as I click once on the Red Gem, once in the Grade 1 line, once on the Yellow Gem, six times on the Grade 1 line, once on teh White Gem, and nine times on the Grade 1 line. That gets me that number of those three colors of Grade 1 gems. Continuing to hold SHIFT down, I hit G, and click on one of those gems, to mass combine all G1's into G2's. Another press of G and another click on a gem combines those G2's into G3's. I repeat that until all 16 gems are combined, into a Grade 4 killgem.

Yes, I could accomplish the same thing by creating a single G1 Red, G1 Yellow, and G1 White, then hovering over them and hitting the D key as needed. Use whatever method you prefer. D is invaluable when you are doing a Combine; but less so when first creating a simple gem.

[[They/Them] ChesseTheWasp]

gems are epic i wish i knew the commands

[morpheus]

Originally posted by astrosha:

While the "fill inventory" is pretty much a useless trick, making multiples in a hurry can speed things along, depending on what you are doing.

For me, once I got access to the right gem colors, its a simple matter to hold SHIFT down as I click once on the Red Gem, once in the Grade 1 line, once on the Yellow Gem, six times on the Grade 1 line, once on teh White Gem, and nine times on the Grade 1 line. That gets me that number of those three colors of Grade 1 gems. Continuing to hold SHIFT down, I hit G, and click on one of those gems, to mass combine all G1's into G2's. Another press of G and another click on a gem combines those G2's into G3's. I repeat that until all 16 gems are combined, into a Grade 4 killgem.

Yes, I could accomplish the same thing by creating a single G1 Red, G1 Yellow, and G1 White, then hovering over them and hitting the D key as needed. Use whatever method you prefer. D is invaluable when you are doing a Combine; but less so when first creating a simple gem.

i make one each of G1 y/o; b; r , press 9 and the gemcombiner software makes a cool gem i specified before out of them(up to grade 11 for the spec or initial gem) for me^^
combining up to 2048 G1 gems would take a while otherwise...

[daft wulli]

I would not call that lesser known, since the game literallky tells you that, for example hover over the bomb button and it tells you about the shift thing andf that you can set the numer with tzhe mousewheel.

But here is a cool lesser known trick (I guess more of an exploit then a trick. Pit a level 1 gem into tower, and have another one in your inventory. Hover over the one in the tower, hol.d shift and press b then u then b then u etc every time you do that it upgrades the gem in the inventory. Sounds like nothing special ? Well each upgrade only costc you like 100 mana or so. So with a bit over 2k (it is slightly above or below 100 depending on how much your gems cost1) you can upgrade that sucker to like level 20.

I do that to test things out, likwe how strong a gem of a certain level would be and other usefull stuff. THat way I do not have to playx a whole long l,evel to upgrade a gem to a certain level and can just do in a minute. Or I tested this way how high the monsters in the last levels of endurance are, so I know how far away I am from beating wave 999. A lot more thern i thought since i can get naturally to like wave 650 or so.. But the last few levels are nuts. G65 monster are bonkers.

[morpheus]

1) GJ necroing
2) look up the gem combiner tool; the normal gems just dont cut it.

[Retaryn]

G shift click and D shift click , they are not in tutorial (i think)