Reposting this from /r/Gemcraft. These are a collection of the discovered secrets in Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows. Some of this may be slightly inaccurate, but hopefully compiling all the knowledge here will get us closer to the final answer.
Grey Trees
ReaperGuy on the AG forums figured out GreyTrees, and Seberoth also identified some extra codes. It was discovered that the outside corner squares of the map (zoom out to make them easier to see) are clickable. Various codes inputted will do changes to the game, but so far it's only cosmetic aside from the almost-useless Gift Gems.
The codes are entered with the following scheme (as if they're four corners of a number pad): Southwest = 1 Southeast = 3 Northwest = 7 Northeast = 9
The codes discovered so far are: 11331791 - Grey Trees - To get the achievement, finish any field with this set. 11319773 - Black Orb 13371337 - Spinning tower shots 11379197 - Mossy towers 97713791 - Mossy amplifiers 77919713 - Heavy rain 79797919 - Heavy snow 77311973 - Gift gems 11799397 - Dark monsters 11111111 or any 8 digits of the same number - Mods reset
Assuming up to 8 digits in any given code, there are still over 65k codes to try. I don't think brute forcing these will work. Again, all credit for this discovery goes to ReaperGuy and Seberoth on the AG forums.
Compass
The basic gist is that you need to set all compass pieces to tier 5 and beat the final one that drops the field marker. Rinse and repeat 11 times for talismans and field markers. The third reward is a bugged field marker that prevents the round from finishing. Just manually end it and start on the next compass set. You'll know you have completed them all when the gems no longer show up in the loading screen.
The compasses themselves correspond to the gem tiers you see on the loading screen of compass levels. Teardrop is tier 1, triangle is tier 2, square is tier 3, a "U" shape is tier 4, and an "X" shape is tier 5. Every time the compass tiers reset, the compass correspondences are set to a random orientation, which always follows a pattern of 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2.
Let me be perfectly clear: The directions on the compass don't matter for any tutorial/description, because where Tier 5 is pointing is random each time you do things such as reload the game, change your skills, or beat a level.
The compass levels, in left-to-right order, are C2, E3, J2, K2, O3, U4, and X7. The easiest level to finish at is E3, with only 24 waves at untraited Looming.
Here is my basic algorithm for setting a compass based upon the gem at the loading screen: Tier 1 - Turn 4 times. Done. Tier 2 - Turn 3 times. Recheck. Tier 3 - Turn 2 times. Recheck. Tier 4 - Turn 7 times. Recheck. Tier 5 - Done (duh).
With this algorithm, tier 2 and 4 always become a tier 3 or 5. Tier 3 always becomes a tier 1 or 5.
The rewards for completion of a certain amount of cycles is as follows: 1 - Field D6 3 - Bugged Field Marker (perhaps supposed to be N7?) 5 - Field O4 (Already acquired through normal progression) 7 - Field P6 9 - Field Q7 11 - Field X6 2, 4, 6, 8, 10th times: Talisman fragments of ascending quality
Missing Fields
This list is FAR from complete or entirely accurate. These are just the notes I have from field markers I have acquired or seen from other sources.
A6 - Complete A4 on Glaring B6 - Complete the achievement "Still Alive B1" D6, P6, Q7, X6 - See compass explanaition above. Y4 (->Y5->Y6) - Complete all waves on X5 without charging up the gem. G4 - Complete the rest of Hex G on Haunted difficulty L5 - Complete L1, L2, and maybe L4 on Haunted difficulty
Got a question. Where is the poolbound tome located? I can't seem to find it anywhere. I've looked at every place except for X and Y, I think. Only skill I am missing.
I play Lv E3 and can change the second gem in the loading screen to tier 5 and beat all waves, but when i try to change the 3rd gem to tier 5 the 2nd wont stay tier 5 and change to tier 1. and the 1st i cant change. what i'm doing wrong?
I don get the whole code thing. Or is it only after you finish the game? My corners of big map are not clickable in any way.
However I don't yet have access to X-compass. CEJKOU I've already set to be grade 5. But even then I'm not sure how are we supposed to set those codes. seven compases and eight 1-9 digits? Also I do have Grey Trees achievement, so... this is all confusing
The corners of the map are clickable for the whole game (as far as I can tell) Each one is a number, if you look at your number pad each corner has a number, they are the same in game, top left is 7, bottom right is 3 an so on. When you click the corner there will be a slight flash around the square,but that is the only indication until the code is fully completed. You will notice that each of the codes only have 1,3,7 or 9 in them, that is when I originally worked it out, As far as the compass all they do is change the gem on the loading screen until they are all set to 5, when you will get a reward. Hope this helped anyone struggling on this topic.
Like other people have reported, I don't have anything clickable in the corners of my map. There is no change in cursor nor are there any numbers. I have tried pretending there might be and clicking there anyway, but nothing happens.
My brightness and contrast settings along with my screen quality are more than sufficient to see anything since I do professional graphics as part of my job. I have zoomed out all the way on the map as well.
So the questions are: Does this work for everyone? or is it something only certain people can see? possibly paying players?
How can you possibly click on the corners of the map when game stuff is in the way? The upper right is the settings tab and the lower corners are both covered by an xp bar.
I can see the 7 gems on the loading screen, I understand you are saying they all need to be tier 5. I have been trying to get the E3 field gem (the second one I believe) to change and it doesn't work.
So the second gem is at Tier 2, so according to the posts you turn it 3 times and then it should change to Tier 3. This doesn't work. Because there was disagreement as to whether you needed to fight the battle or not, I did it both ways. Neither worked. I tried spinning it 2,3,4, and 7 times in each scenario. None of them worked to change the gem.
I am not sure if something is wrong in the instructions, or if it is different for different people, or if it is only for paying players. Either way, something needs to be improved as I tried every iteration I could think of and none of them worked to change the gem.
Like other people have reported, I don't have anything clickable in the corners of my map. There is no change in cursor nor are there any numbers. I have tried pretending there might be and clicking there anyway, but nothing happens.
How far into the game are you? For me, I had the two left buttons, but was missing the right ones until I unlocked more hexes. So you might just have to unlock the hexes closer to the edges of the map for them to show up. The stuff in the way won't be an issue. There's gaps between pieces of the interface, and the buttons are quite big.
How far into the game are you? For me, I had the two left buttons, but was missing the right ones until I unlocked more hexes. So you might just have to unlock the hexes closer to the edges of the map for them to show up. The stuff in the way won't be an issue. There's gaps between pieces of the interface, and the buttons are quite big.
That might be why. I am not that far in as I've been stuck on one field for a week and can't seem to get past it.
So the original report needs to be modified to say that you can't see the corners of the map until you unlock most of the map. Thanks.
