So for this guide, people may have already discovered this spot while some may have walked past it without knowing. It's fairly simple and quick to get gems in no time! The location we will be going to is Tan Line Island, inside the Tan Line Temple. (The one where you got a costume change. You also may or may not have Risky Boots in your ship if that matters since I don't have her in the ship, due to me finishing the game.)


Once you're inside the temple, keep heading right until you get to the main center room with chains and platforms, make your way to the very top and enter through the door.


Head to the right and make your way up the chain and continue on to the left, going through the rooms. You'll know you're close is when you get to a save room, then just keep heading out.


Once you get to this spot, this is where you can grind out some gems. The wall behind Shantae, you can crawl under which is filled with pots, in which you will get 80 gems each time you break all the vases!


Showing how many gems drop even though I collected a few and some got cut out of the screencap. After you collect all the gems, leave that wall and head left until you come to some purple blocks, break those blocks, enter the door, then enter that same door, break the blocks, run to the right and the vases will have respawned for you to break all over again!


Comparison of how many gems before and after smashing the vases. Top before, bottom after.



Spot on the map where I am at for the vases in case you need it.

In total, this took me about 7 minutes to do, partly because of me messaging people, but nonetheless, it's a fairly quick and simple way to grind out some gems. You can do this as soon as you have access to the Tan Line Temple, even when you have to get the keys to rescue Sky, Rottytops and Risky Boots, if you wish to get more gems as soon as possible. The spot should be fairly known by now, but in case anyone has missed it, this is here to help out, so go enjoy those gems!