Gather resources and gems in Vanguard

The Gather page in Vanguard sends your fastest gathering commander pairs to the nearest free resource nodes and keeps them busy, so your marches are never sitting idle at home. The card works like every other feature card: a switch, Run now, Settings ▾, Advanced and Test run — sends nothing.

Gem farming works only with a Tier 2 license. Vanguard Farm, the lighter edition, never gathers gems. See License.

What the page shows

At the top of the page you see:

Box	What it shows
Marches out	Marches on the map, out of your march slot limit.
March slot limit	How many marches your account can have out. Vanguard learns this from the game. Press re-learn after you unlock a new slot.
Gathering commanders idle	Idle gathering commanders out of those you own.

Below it, a list of your gathering commanders shows each one’s level, skill and whether it is idle, out (and where) or in a garrison.

Choose what to gather

Pick resources

Under What to gather, tap the resource chips (Food, Wood, Stone, Gold, Gems). The order you switch them on is the priority. Keep at least one on.

Gems only (optional)

Tap Gems only to send every gathering march to gem nodes. This appears only when gem farming is allowed by your license.

Set the marches

In Marches for gathering, type how many marches to use. 0 = every free march; the rest stay idle for other tasks. With a number above 0, each march gets its own picker: a resource, or Any (chips above).

Limit the distance

Max distance from your city is in tiles. 0 = any distance. 1 tile = one step of the X/Y numbers the game shows on the map: a city at X:625 and a gem mine at X:630 are 5 tiles apart.

Gem march pairs

With gem farming allowed, Gem march pairs picks the commanders for your gem marches. Press + add pair and choose two commanders. Each gem march takes the first pair whose commanders are both home and free. When none is free, Vanguard picks the best pair itself. Your pairs also go ahead of a saved gem march.

Toggles

Toggle	What it does
hop	When a returning march is not full, Vanguard sends it to another node instead of home.
gatherers only	Keeps combat commanders at home. When it is off, any idle commander can be sent, combat ones included, and the page shows a red OFF warning. Switching it off asks for a deliberate second tap.

Settings

Setting	What it means
Troops per gem march	Troops sent in each gem march.
Only nodes your march reaches within	Going by how fast your own gathering marches really moved. 0 = no limit.
Send a march out again the moment it gets home	Sends a returning march straight back out instead of waiting for the next check.
Stop a gem march where it is instead of walking home	Then finds it a new gem node instead of letting it walk home while the map is searched.
Longest walk to a node	In minutes.
Check every	How often Vanguard looks for idle marches.

Gem limits

Gem limits keep your account safe by capping how much gem farming Vanguard does. Vanguard sets limits for every user. Your own limits can only make them stricter, never looser. When a limit is reached, no new gem march goes out. Marches already out come home normally. Limits count per game account. The day resets at 00:00 UTC (game time), and the gems-today count follows the same day.

Setting	What it means
Most gems per day	Stops sending gem marches once this account has brought home this many gems today. 0 = no limit of your own.
Most hours of gem farming per day	Stops sending gem marches once they have been out this many hours today. 0 = no limit of your own.
Farm gems only between (game time, UTC)	Sends gem marches only inside these hours, for example `08:00-12:00, 18:00-23:00`. A range like `22:00-02:00` runs past midnight. Empty = any time.
Farm gems like a person (random breaks)	Each day’s limits come out a little lower, the hours start a little late and end a little early, and gem marches take short random breaks.

If Vanguard’s own limit is lower than yours, Vanguard’s limit wins. Hours set by Vanguard apply as well as yours.

Advanced

Setting	What it means
Check once an hour whether you gained a march slot	Sends one extra march once an hour to see whether the limit went up after a new VIP level or a march-slot item.
After a march finishes, wait at least	Minimum pause before Vanguard sends the same march out again.
After a march finishes, wait at most	Maximum pause before Vanguard sends the same march out again.
If the game has not caught up, look again after	Retry interval when the game still shows the march as out.
Stop looking again after	Give-up timeout for waiting on a march to register as home.
Gem nodes to try before giving up	How many gem nodes Vanguard attempts before stopping the search.
Rings to search around a stopped gem march first	Searches right around the stopped march first, one ring wider each time, before searching around your city. 0 = always around your city.
Extra, wider gem searches	Additional wide searches for gem nodes.
Look again for a stopped gem march every	Retry interval for a gem march that is stopped in place.

Gather resources and gems in Vanguard

What the page shows

Choose what to gather

Gem march pairs

Toggles

Settings

Gem limits

Advanced

Next steps

Troubleshooting

Settings

​What the page shows

​Choose what to gather

​Gem march pairs

​Toggles

​Settings

​Gem limits

​Advanced

​Next steps

Troubleshooting

Settings

What the page shows

Choose what to gather

Gem march pairs

Toggles

Settings

Gem limits

Advanced

Next steps