The Daily Base: Quests First
The Evony guide wiki’s weekly breakdown puts daily quests at 200 gems a day: 100 from completing 10 solo tasks and 100 from 5 alliance tasks, or 1,400 gems a week for doing both every day. That is the floor of the farm — reliable, small, and independent of power level.
Daily login and shrine offerings add more, with one fan guide putting a week of logins at 2,500 gems, and server gifts on the city wall at 5,400 gems a week if collected hourly. These are claim income, not grind income: miss the day and the gems are gone.
Monarch Events: The Weekly Spike
Monarch competitions run five times a week in the weekly guide’s account: four one-day events paying about 500 gems a day to scorers, and a three-day kill event paying about 1,500 gems, for over 3,500 gems a week from this source alone. Placement matters — the top prize each event is the gems — so enter events your power level can actually score in rather than every event on the calendar.
Activity score is the other daily gate: the gem guide lists 145 activity a day as a target that feeds several reward tracks at once. One march that completes a quest, an activity milestone and an event objective pays three times.
Gem Mines: The Trap Source
Every gem guide checked says the same thing about gem mines: they work, and they are not worth it. Gathering gems consumes stamina and a march slot that could gather resources or hunt monsters, and the yield is slow even with research and gathering speed. The Evony guide wiki is blunt that earning a few thousand gems this way costs marches better spent elsewhere.
Use mines only when every better source is exhausted and marches would otherwise idle. A new player with low commanders and gear loses the most to mines, because the same marches build the city that unlocks better income.
Events Worth Your Time
The event list from the gem guides is long: Treasure Hunt (Pyramid), Crazy Eggs smashed daily, Dwarf’s Lucky Apple, Undead Invasion (over 1,500 gems for a good alliance score, per one guide), World Boss (five fights), Battle of Constantinople and Battle of Gaugamela (joining alone pays), Server War personal-score goals, Battlefields and the Battlefield Shop, and King’s Path day 2.
Joining beats winning for several of these: BoC and BoG pay for participation, and alliance events pay the whole alliance’s effort. The strongest single habit is an active alliance — alliance quests, alliance events and alliance gifts stack on top of solo play.
Spending: Save for Events, Not Speedups
Gems buy speedups, resources, generals’ gear and event currency, and the guides’ shared advice is to bank gems for events that multiply their value rather than spending them to finish a single building early. A gem spent during an event that rewards spending scores twice; a gem spent on a Tuesday speedup scores once.
If you top up instead, the official route is in-game purchase; third-party Evony gem top-ups are sold by Game ID, and the delivery shape — ID in, balance credited, no login — is what to check before paying.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many free gems can you earn daily in Evony?
About 200 a day from quests alone (100 solo, 100 alliance), per the weekly gem guide — before logins, wall gifts, monarch events and event rewards.
Are gem mines worth it in Evony?
No, per every gem guide checked: mines eat stamina and a march slot for slow yields, and the same marches earn more gathering resources or hunting monsters.
What is the best Evony gem event?
Monarch competitions, at over 3,500 gems a week for scorers in the weekly guide’s account — plus participation-pay events such as Battle of Constantinople and Battle of Gaugamela.
Sources
Checked October 26, 2026. Game systems change with patches, so confirm numbers in game.
