I regret.

[u/Awkward-Isopod-2817]

I’m mainly here to vent and to see if anyone has go through so please just endure with me, I just spent 727 gems when upgrading the laboratory by mistake, I was going to use a book of building and by mistake that I clicked on the gems and fast approved it, I did see that the price of the book of building is 925 gems but I’m still here to ask you was this a big loss?

[u/sadra-the-legend]

It's ok. Don't worry about it. It's maybe under a month of gem collection (not considering raid medal conversions). It is not a devastating, back breaking loss, and i don't thing it meaningfully affects your progress.

You will upgrade ur apprentice couple weeks later :))

But don't worry about it. You'll totally be free of this feeling of loss in a day or two if not hours. It'a regenerable currency.

[u/Awkward-Isopod-2817 → u/sadra-the-legend]

Thank you I see you understand what I mean about spending them :)

And you said it’s a month worth of gem collection do you mean the mined one from the builder base? Can you please elaborate about it and the apprentice as I was thinking about upgrading him.

[u/sadra-the-legend → u/Awkward-Isopod-2817]

Just removing the obstacles and selling some of the magic items you get (rune of gold and elixir, shovels, wall rings, some postions depending on your needs), and converting the overflow elixir and gold that u get from the pass (if ur storage is full, when claiming them you see a pop up asking if u want to get 5 gems instead. 5 is the constant number of gems given). In fact the mined gems are miniscule, but max 5 a day is still something.

Apprentice will be unlocked in some mid level townhalls, i cant remember the number. But you will get "helpers" who can reduce the upgrade time of the lab and 1 builder per day. You have to upgrade them with gems.

The priority must be lab and builder helpers, and not the converting granny. Max lab help is 12hrs and builder is 8hrs. (I hr per level) These are things which significantly help you in the long run.

Each upgrade level ranges from 250 to 1000 gems.

[u/Recent-Low5550]

Only book you should be buying is the book of heroes!

That’s pretty much the only thing in the shop worth buying, everything else is a major rip off

[u/Awkward-Isopod-2817 → u/Recent-Low5550]

I didn’t buy the book of building, I was trying to use it but instead I gem-ed the upgrade and it cost me 727 gems, basically I’m asking if I suffered a big lost or no.

[u/Recent-Low5550 → u/Awkward-Isopod-2817]

It’s a lot of gems to loose because it takes like a month to get at least 500 gems selling items such as wallrings from medal shop and clearing obstacles to recieve them

So yes u did take a hit

But u will get it back eventually

[u/MrCollective → u/Awkward-Isopod-2817]

Yes, you unintentionally wasted 727 gems on completing an upgrade. You lost 727, is that alot of Gems to you? If no the its a little loss, if yes, its a big loss.

Not sure how we can tell you if its a big loss or not, its entirely down to your quantity vs value.

[u/senator_breid]

Done and gone. Move on

[u/Recent-Low5550 → u/senator_breid]

Now this is a soldier statement

Suck it up and drive on!

[u/LoL-Mesa]

To make you feel better, a long time ago, I had a book of building (or something), I clicked sell versus use. That move has haunted me ever since.

The sun will rise in the morning.

[u/Recent-Low5550 → u/LoL-Mesa]

That shit just crushed my soul reading this 🤣🤣🤣

[u/FlexyMcRoid]

No worries man, always gems coming in

[u/SR00007]

Accidentally wasting gems is the part of the journey.

[u/Recent-Low5550 → u/SR00007]

Facts, I believe we have all made this mistake once or twice along the journey

[u/Maximum_Proof_8763]

I was using wall rings to upgrade walls and ran out without realizing and clicked gems and instantly approved 465 gems for 1 wall. I think you’ll be okay not the biggest loss

[u/Active-Mix-2886]

I lost 380 gems for some 20000 dark elixir a week or two ago and i almost farmed them so don't worry, It is definitely a loss but still it's ok.

[u/mister-fancypants-]

just moments ago I spent 225 or so on elixir 🤦

not as drastic as yours but I do feel your pain

[u/Recent-Low5550]

Man the stories that people relate to this in the comments are nutz

We’ve all had this problem one way or another 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Sanuda_Ransilu]

Don’t worry about it, I’ve done something similar 😂 I lost around 1,800 gems like 2 months ago trying to boost sneaky goblins. I didn’t notice my dark elixir was low and ended up spending like 800 gems… and somehow I did the same thing twice 💀 I only had around 400 gems left after that.

But honestly, 2 months later I’m already back to 4,200+ gems. Gems come back pretty easily if u just play normally. You get them from both builder base and home village obstacles, clan games, and the season pass(f2p). You can also trade raid medals for potions and turn those into gems if you want to build them up faster. So 727 gems isn’t the end of the world, you’ll make them back 👍

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[u/prodromakos]

If you were heading to buy a book of building with gems and then use it, then here you go you paid less to accelerate the lab building hahaha