Art Inc. is a new museum-running sim for the iOS and Android platforms, in which you can rack up three different currency types. One of these is the gem, which is the premium currency of the game and looks like diamonds. Still rarer is the Dollar Bills, or Bucks.
You can use both of these advanced currencies to purchase some rare boosts and decorations, but getting them is the hard part. Read on for some tips on how to get more gems and dollars/bucks in Art Inc.!
Even though gems can mostly be purchasing from in-app purchases, there are plenty of ways to get them for free. One of them is to complete the Silver Fox Challenges. These take awhile, but once you do, you’ll get between 50 and 150 gems instantly, depending on the challenge.
The most basic way to get free gems is to scroll all the way to the right in the museum, until you get to the fountain. The fountain collect ten gems every four hours; tap the fountain and you’ll get all of the free gems that it’s earned so far.
To get unlimited free gems almost instantly, set the clock on your phone or tablet ahead by four hours, then go back to the game and tap it again. Set it ahead by four hours again, then tap the fountain again. Repeat until you have enough gems for whatever you need.
You can boost what the fountain gives you by heading to your museum upgrades menu. Once you have 100 gems, tap on the one that says Fountain Boost. This one will cause your Fountain to collect 10 more gems before it maxes out.
Your max gem total will be 20, meaning that you earn 2 gems every 24 minutes. After that, you can upgrade it again by spending 200 gems to upgrade the max gem total to 30, which will mean 1 gem every 8 minutes or three every 24 minutes. And so on and so forth.
Some of the quests given by your caretakers will be worth free gems, but you won’t know which ones until you complete them. Just complete all of the quests that you can for the best shot at earning gems.
To load up on free gems AND free bucks, tap on the button on the right side of the screen to invite your friends to play the game via Facebook. You can invite up to 20 people and earn rewards from each one.
On invites 1, 4, 7, etc. you will earn coins as a reward. On invites 2, 5, 8, and so on, you will earn free gems as a reward – lots of them, in fact.
Finally, on invite 3, 6, 9, and so on, you will earn free dollars. This is currently the only known way to earn bucks in the entire game, so use it to the best of your advantage.
Right now, the only thing that you ca nurse the bucks for is to buy new, more advanced decorations in the decoration store. They don’t give you any performance boost; they’re entirely cosmetic.
As for the gems, the main thing to spend them on is recruiting a 4-6 star caretaker in the hiring tab. Then, of course, you can speed stuff up (don’t do it unless you are rich IRL) and the upgrade to the fountain so that you ca collect more gems (usually a good idea)