How to get free diamonds in FOE

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.

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Events in FOE a general guide

This is a general guide of how to do common quests.  Every event will have its own currency, mechanics, mini-game and strategies.  The best way to do well in events is to prepare in advance to do quests quickly.

FOE events give event buildings which are like mini-great buildings.  They usually have 7-12 levels.

Events also give special buildings and selection kits to level up older event buildings.  Usually events are well worth doing.

Events will usually have a special currency that you get by logging in every day, completing quests and sometimes from incidents in your city.

Most events will have two strategies.  Go after fully leveled event building or try to maximize a daily special prize.

If you are using a browser you can use FOE helper that automatically calculates which option in the event will get you farther towards the event prize or which option will maximize opportunity to get daily special.

Most events will allow you to hoard the event currency when you complete events and allow you to just play the event mini-game when there is a good daily prize.  Some events will only allow you to collect a certain amount of currency and essentially punish you for hoarding.

I cannot emphasize this enough.  Completing events, especially in early age cities is the best way to get good fast.

Event buildings will usually provide some combination of population, supplies, coin, goods, attack boost, attack defense boost or forge points.  This allows players to remove housing, supply buildings, goods buildings etc from your city for better options like GB’s.

Hacks to complete quests fast:

There will be a specific guide for each event if this guild wants it.  If not then just use the full quest list to find the ones that can be prepped.  Those guides will include a “crib notes” portion.  These are quest that can be prepared in advance to make things go quickly.

For example if you see, “4-1hr” that means quest 4 requires 1 hour productions.

If you see, “2 AD or 8hr” that means you will need to trade 2 items in the antique dealer or have 8 hour productions.  Iron age cities do not have an antique dealer.  EMA and higher cities will ignore the 8hr and just prep the AD with completed trades and leave them uncollected until the quest comes up.  Iron age players will prep blacksmiths with 8 hour productions and leave them uncollected until the quest comes.

Production quest will be produce 4-20 4hr productions or give a specific number.  The quests that give a range will depend on your city’s age.

Some quests will specify the number of productions which makes prepping easy. 

Some quests will specify age.  Be careful with this.  I will specify this in the crib notes if you decide to use those.  The options for the quest is your age or age below or any age.  If no age is listed then just use blacksmiths.

Some quests will be produce x population.  You don’t have to build housing and wait for it to complete.  Build a military building and destroy it right away.  Boom, instant population.

Produce x coins or supplies.  Build more buildings and tear down if there are no supplies or coins to collect.

Produce x goods.  Ok here’s the thing.  Before an event starts we should all be putting trades in the market that are ticked as guild only.  They will be circular trades.

Cloth 100 for Ebony 100

Ebony 100 for Cloth 100

Repeat as often as needed.  Just use goods of the same age so whoever takes them ends up at the same spot they were in before.

Trades for goods one age up or down may just sit there depending on player stock.  Personally I gave away almost all my goods below Industrial age so it would be hard for me to take trades that are not balanced.

Gain x happiness.  Do not build culture buildings and wait for them to finish.  Build decorations that take about 6 seconds, destroy, and build again.  Or use a mass self-aid kit if you have not already.

Quests that ask for units.  Many ways to complete this.  Leave units uncollected from barracks, gov villa, bathhouse or traz is easiest.  You also get units from GE and GbG.  If the quest is just for units and not units of your age or age bellow then you can build spearfighter barracks and units in seconds.  Just remember rogues don't count.

 If you are in space ages and have a colony you can complete quests easy without messing up your city space.  For example building goods or housing or placing an expansion.

You can also use settlements to place an expansion quest.

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