How to get free diamonds in FOE

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How do you get free diamonds in FOE? 

The ability to setup diamond farms has become more difficult. Wishing wells (WW) and WW shrink kits used to be available as a daily prize in events but that has been taken away. We can no longer get 20-30 WW’s in an event but we can still get them just not in quantity. 

 You can win one WW a week from PVP arena if you rank 51-500 you get a 20% chance for one WW that averages 10.4 WW/year. 

 The castle system will give you 14 WW and 14 shrink kits but it will take 12-16 years to get them. Yes, years to get to lv20. 

 Daily challenges average 5.5 WW and 1.4 shrink kits a year. 

 The Mughal and Aztec Settlements can average up to 24 per year if you do them fast. 

 Antique dealer will sell wishing wells, shrink kits and fragments for both. 

Arctic harbor and Oceanic terminal. 
  •  If you use the scavenging ability crew member at lv10 Scavenger Josh will give a 2% chance of getting 35 diamonds. 
  • Seeker Fionn at lv10 will give 10% chance of 30 diamonds. 
  • You have a 63% chance of seeing these crew members per launch. 
  • If you send both every 18hrs without speed ups you can average 215 and 976 diamonds per year roughly. But gosh is that expensive and tedious to do. 

Conquering some sectors on the campaign map will reward diamonds. 6450 diamonds total including SAT map. 

Fountains of youth (FoY) and their shrink kits are still available in the Guild Expedition (GE) but that has also been nerfed. The average is 3.25 FoY per year or one every 16 weeks. 

Fortunately the Temple of Relics (ToR) still provides the FoY and the shrink kit as prizes (relics). At lv100 will give 43/year if completing GElv5 

Crow’s nest gives 5% chance of 25 diamonds (456/year) but it is less efficient than WW due to size. 

Hedge Maze averages 365 diamonds/year, same footprint as crow’s nest so even worse. 

Seed Vault lv100, 200 aids/day will average 8700 diamonds/year. 

Chateau Frontenac (CF) boosts diamonds from quests. At lv100 it gives a 600% boost so a 200 diamond reward becomes 1400. Every recurring quest (RQ) in every age will reward diamonds once. Keep track manually and do all RQ until you get the diamond reward. Don’t age up until you get it. Some quests that show the random item icon (dice) will give 20 diamonds once randomly then be replace by medals afterwards. Late-age story quests can give diamonds. 

HC and SC can give diamonds but average less than 1000/year at lv100. Don’t build for diamonds specifically. 
 SC can provide WW and shrink kits 18 per year. 

GE is still one of the best sources of diamonds in the game even after it’s been nerfed. You can now only get diamonds from three encounters in the 4th level of GE. Players average 81 diamonds a week playing GE which is 4212 diamonds a year. 

FoY and WW’s have a 1% chance of providing diamonds on collection. Yes Blue Galaxy (BG) charges will double it but do not use a BG for this and don’t build a BG in your diamond city. It is just not worth it. Use your FP on something more productive like ToR or a Seed Vault (SV). 

PVP Arena provides a 2.3% chance of getting 20 diamonds with each fight. 
 Chests can average about 312 diamonds a year if you rank top 51-500 players which honestly is really easy if you’re active at all. 
Rank 4-50 will average 520
Rank 3 average 1040
Rank 2 will average 1560
Rank 1 will average 2080 diamonds a year from chests. 

 Guild Battlegrounds (GbG) provide diamonds based on number of encounters and league. See chart below.
 





 Thank you for getting all the way to the end of the post.  I have a bonus for you.  For diamond farms the ToR and Seed Vault are no-brainers but what about the Blue Galaxy?  Well obviously it would be very useful if you could predict which WW or FoY to use your charges and right now there is no way to know for sure which ones are paying out diamonds.  But we can narrow down the possibilities.  Here's what we do to increase the odds.
1) Collect all WW's and FoY that pay out coin and supplies because we can see that finished production.
2) Make sure you FP bar is full (100 or more FP) so you cannot collect FP's by clicking on WW's.
3) What is remaining will pay out goods or diamonds,  

You only have limited charges to use and there is only a % chance if you chose correctly that it will be doubled but this is the only way to increase your odds.