Until these last couple weeks, pursuing the gemstone collection seemed like a marathon and I was hitting the wall.
That all changed at the end of June with the Sunstone being available in the mine. I focused on getting multiple Sunstones from mining and the same with Ravens and Tigerflys from the Spin to Win - to get enough duplicates to trade for 2 large quartz and 3 large onyx and used them to craft the Quartz, Jade and Onyx dragons. With those three, I've completed all of the gemstone dragons by crafting!
I'm on the version of the game where we evolve at levels 4, 7 and 10 - so in addition to starting the mining with a full load of 25 bombs, I had a bunch of breeding fails sitting at level 3 ready to evolve. I did spend gold on speed evolving to make sure I got enough bombs to get enough Sunstones to trade. I wouldn't do this with every mining / crafting dragons - just the prizes that are super rare pink or black hybrids (I did the same at the end of March when the Amber dragon was the mining / crafting prize).
Congratulations AJImmer. It took me many months but I finally got all the gemstone dragons crafted a little while ago. It's quite an accomplishment.
Don't worry PineapplePigeon. Hang in there and you'll soon get that large pink gem before you know it!
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