Gemstone

Gemstones are 8 types of Crystal Hollows and Crimson Isle resources. They are used as crafting ingredients, forging, reforging and can be added to certain items to boost certain stats.

Mechanics
Gemstones come in 8 varieties:, , , , , , , and.

Each Gemstone has 5 tiers, listed from lowest to highest:, , , and. Each tier is crafted from 80 of the previous, except which is created in The Forge.

Mining
Gemstones can be mined in Crystal Hollows from their ores and in the Crimson Isle. Their ores generate in differently sized veins, in set locations within the Crystal Hollows and within random structures. Veins regenerate after five minutes, except when destroyed using Bob-omb.

Mining Gemstones will always give tier of the item. grants a chance to drop a gemstone for each  gemstone harvested.

Treasure Chests
Gemstones of Rough, Flawed and Fine qualities can be found in treasure chests, except for Opals. A treasure chest can spawn in random structures or randomly when mining in the Crystal Hollows. The possible gemstone type(s) depends on the location of its appearance.

Mobs
Certain mobs drop Gemstones when killed. The Bal boss has a chance to drop or  when hurt.

Crystal Nucleus
Crystal Nucleus loot bundle drops 1 Fine Gemstone of each type when completed. It can also drop additional Flawed, Fine and Flawless Gemstones of any kind.

Other
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Using the in the  can yield random amounts of Rough, Flawed, and Fine Gemstones of any kind.

Throwing the into the correct lava pool yields.

Collection
All 8 types of Gemstones from any source (except metal detecting in Divan Mines) increase the Gemstone Collection.

Usage
Gemstones are used in forging, , , , , , , , , , , ,.

Sell
All 8 types of Gemstones sell for the same price to NPCs. Rough, Flawed, and Fine Gemstones can be sold. The ability to sell Flawless and Perfect Gemstones is disabled.

Equipment gemstone slots
Gemstones can be applied to select items at Geo. They provide different stats to the item based on the Gemstone's quality and type, and the item's rarity.

Trivia

 * Gemstones are the only Collection items which have 5 tiers (,, , and ).