LINE Play 101: Accessing Hidden Gacha

LINE Play
     This is part of the LINE Play 101 series of updates.  Each update covers a specific section of the LINE Play app.  Please read the LINE Play review for more information about this app, before reading this post.

     If you are accessing LINE Play from the US, Australia, UK, etc, you probably have your app set to "English".  However, this could be keeping you from accessing every gacha available.
     In fact, some gacha are only available if you change the app language setting to Japanese.  So let's take a look at what gacha you can try out if you change this setting, how to change the setting, and how to change it back.  Yes, the items will still be in your inventory, and usable, even after you switch back.
     Currently there are 173 Gacha in the English version of LINE Play.  That's a lot of variety.    However, the Japanese version has 203 active gacha right now (These numbers are subject to change).
     Before I show you how to access these gacha, allow me to show you some of the gacha that are only available in the Japanese language version of this application.

     That isn't even all of the gacha that are eluding you.  So let's move on to the steps to take to switch from English to Japanese, access the gacha, then switch back to English.
     First you'll need to go to your settings panel.  Scrolling down you will see the words "Language Settings" (You can view the image on the left.  You can click it to view the larger image).  This is where you want to go.
     Now you'll want to choose "Japanese".  Once you choose that language the app will prompt you (Still in English) asking if you want to restart the application.  The application needs to restart in order to switch everything from English to Japanese.  If you aren't sure what the different languages mean, view the screen shot to the right.
     The top option is English, of course.  The next option is Korean.  Option three is Japanese.  That is the one you will want to click.  If you are curious about the other options, the fourth is simplified Chinese (Mandarin).  The fifth is traditional Chinese (Cantonese).  Finally, the last option is Thai.
     Once you agree to restart the application will go back to the loading screen and you will start on the main landing page.  It looks just like the English version, so you should be able to navigate it easily.
     Just click on the gacha building to view the new gacha!  It will have the same ones available in the English version with other ones mixed in.  A lot of the new gacha will be at the bottom of the list if you click the "New" tab.
     Once you have purchased all of your new special items, you will want to switch your app back to English mode.  To do this, from the landing page click the More button.  Remember, that is the button on the bottom to the far right.
     Now you'll want to click the settings button.  This is on the top right of the screen.  You can view the screen shot on the right of this text to verify.
     Now, scroll down to the Language Settings again.  Of course, it wont be in English this time.  So if you can't read Japanese, it is the one under the toggle switch.  You can view the image on the left to verify.
     Now click the top option which says English.  It says it in English, so it should be obvious.  You will again get promoted for a restart to change the language settings.  Again, choose yes.
     Once the application restarts you will be returned to your regular English settings.  Your new purchases will be available to use in your closet (Or home deco page) for you to use with your other items.  Enjoy your new variety!

LINE Play 101: Daily/Weekend Quests

LINE Play
     This is part of the LINE Play 101 series of updates.  Each update covers a specific section of the LINE Play app.  Please read the LINE Play review for more information about this app, before reading this post.

   Let's cover the daily quests.  Every day your daily quests will reset.  Any progress made on daily quests that was not complete will be reset to zero.  Any quests that were completed the day before, will reappear.  The daily quests are as follows:

Try out the "Hello" feature at the room party. X20
This quest can be difficult to complete.  You must either create a room party or be invited to one.  You can only invite people on your friend list who are online, and visa versa.  Once in a party you will see an icon over the heads of the other users currently in the party.  Clicking them will give you 10 gems and count as one of the 20 required to complete the task.  Even if you do not complete this task, you will still keep the 10 gems for each of the users you clicked the icon for.  Finishing this quest will earn you a bonus 300 gems.


Fish up the trash in Treasure Island X20
Treasure Island is one of the "Squares" on LINE Play.  A square is a place you access through the glowing yellow gem on the landing age.  The squares allow you to move around and chat with other avatars, as well as buy potions and explore, interact with decor/environment and access special shoppes and gacha that you can only see in the squares.  Once at Treasure Island you will need to purchase a fishing potion to complete this quest.  Once you have your potion on, click one of the circles near the water.  Starting users will want to stand on a bronze circle, closest to the left.  These will be easier.  When you are fishing you have a chance of fishing up a fish, a treasure chest or trash.  Once you have fished up 20 pieces of trash the quest is complete and you earn a bonus 300 gems.  You get 10 gems for every piece of trash you fish up, even after the quest has ended.

High Five in the square X20
I mentioned what the squares are in the treasure island quest.  However, unlike that quest, this quest can be completed in any of the squares.  I would actually avoid using treasure island for this quest, as most people do not use that square, and it will take longer to complete.  Line Stadium is equally scarce of users.  New York Times Square is the best for this, as it is always bustling with users.
When you enter a square you will see a hand icon above some users.  Click it to give them a high five.  Do this 20 times.  Each time you will get 10 gems.  When the quest is complete you get 300 bonus gems.  Not all users will have a high five icon.  You may want to try various squares to collect all 20.  Once the quest is complete you can not high five anyone until the next day.

Clean up messy rooms X20
Any time you load a room, you may see a number of icons over particular items.
Remember, rooms are not part of the squares.  To access your room, click the house on the landing screen.  To access the rooms of other users you can click the rainbow portal on the landing screen or click the "Visit" button of any user, friend or NPC you click on.
The icon you will want to look for to complete this quest, within a room, is a little broom.  You will only see one per room.  It can be above almost any item in the room.  You will need to visit at least 20 rooms to complete this quest.  Each time you click the cleaning icon, you get 10 gems.  You get 300 bonus gems when the quest is complete.  If you visit an "Official account" that is currently being promoted then you get 60 gems for every cleaning icon you click.  So visit them first.  You can only clean 20 times a day.  Once the quest is over you will no longer see these clickable icons.

Water the thirsty plants X20
This also involves visiting rooms.  You need to visit at least 20 rooms to complete this.  When entering a room you may see the drop of water icon hovering over a plant.  Clicking it earns you 10 gems.  Once the quest is complete you get 300 bonus gems.
Like the cleaning quest, promoted rooms will give you 60 gems per watering, so visit them first.  You can only water 20 times.  Additionally, not everyone has a plant in their room, so you wont always see this icon in every room.

Send hearts to your favourite avatars X20
This is the easiest quest to complete.  Any avatar you see, anywhere, can be clicked.  Once clicked, you will see a little bubble with a heart in it.  Clicking this will send them a heart.  You will always see hearts hovering over avatars in rooms.  But you must click the avatars individually in squares, lounge or your friend list.
Each heart given will earn you 10 gems.  Once the quest is complete, you will get 300 bonus gems.  You can also purchase more hearts for real money.  However, this is not an efficient use of money.  You will receive 20 hearts after each daily reset.  Hearts do not carry over, if not used (They used to, but this feature was removed).
     If you complete every daily quest you will earn 1800 Bonus gems plus 1200 individual gems, totaling 3000 gems every day for completing the daily quest.

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     Now lets discuss the weekend quests.  These quests change often, but they always involve fishing.  Remember, to fish, you must purchase fishing potions.  These quests can only be completed from 12AM Saturday to 11:59PM Sunday (GMT +9).
Catch 100 fish
Once you have caught at least 100 fish while fishing, you will earn your Sally bonus.  Sally Bonus is 500+ to your Fishing Skill.
Catch 5 ____ (?)
Catching the required number of this particular fish (It changes every weekend), of the size indicated in the parentheses will gain you the Brown Bonus which gains you 1000 extra fishing skill points.

LINE Play 101: How To Earn Gems

LINE Play
     This is part of the LINE Play 101 series of updates.  Each update covers a specific section of the LINE Play app.  Please read the LINE Play review for more information about this app, before reading this post.
   
     One thing many users have trouble with is earning gems.  Gems are actually not difficult to earn.  I am going to help you learn every way there is to earn gems on LINE Play.

Buying Gems:  Though I would recommend not wasting your real world money on gems, this is the fastest way to earn gems.  They often have sales and discounts on buying gems.  However, the normal price is :
01.99USD for 2,000 gems
05.99USD for 6,300 gems
11.99USD for 13,200 gems
22.99USD for 27,600 gems
46.99USD for 57,600 gems
89.99USD for 128,800 gems
     There is a bonus for first time buyers.  a 400% bonus will allow you to get 10,000 gems for 1.99USD.  This can only be used once.

Gem Pass:  Another pay option, the Gem Pass gives a user 20,000 gems instantly and 3,000 gems a day for 30 days (Only on days you log in).  It costs 19.99USD.

Daily Quests:  There are 6 quests that reset every day.  Each quest gives you 300 bonus gems.  You also obtain gems while working on these quests.  If you complete every daily quest you will earn 1800 Bonus gems plus 1200 individual gems, totaling 3000 gems every day for completing the daily quest.
Read more about Daily Quests here.

Fishing at Treasure Island:  There are 3 ways of fishing for gems.
     First is to fish up trash.  Every time you fish up trash you get 10 gems.  This is unlimited.  Every piece of trash you fish up, you get 10 gems for.
     Second is to complete a collection.  If you click the collection icon at the top of the page in Treasure Island (Found in squares), you will see several pages of fish collections.  Whenever you catch one of the fish on any of the pages, you unlock that fish.  Once you collect all of the fish on any particular page, you get the reward.  The reward for the first 7 pages is 5,000 gems.  Pages 8-13 is 10,000 gems, 14-18 has a reward of 30,000 gems.  Obviously the higher numbered pages have fish that are more rare, so they will be harder to complete.
     The last way is by fishing up a treasure chest.  These chests may obtain items, but they may also obtain gems.  Treasure chests can randomly appear while fishing.  You never know when you may fish one up!

Monthly Gift Log:  Every month you will receive a daily gift for the first 25 days that you log in.  This will usually be made up of 5 items and 20 days of gem gifts.  Gem gifts range from 500 gems per day to 5,000 gems per day.  So log in every day to get the most out of it.

Mini Game Quests: LINE Play has 4 mini games right now.  Fruit Monsters, GOLD RUSH, DropDrop and TapTap.
     GOLD RUSH has no daily quests.  However, the other games do.  Every day you can complete these quests for gems.  The next day they reset, and you can complete them for more gems.
     Fruit Monsters - There are 3 daily quests for 300 gems each.  This totals 900 gems, if you complete all of the quests.
Quest 1: Play Ten Times (The easiest)
Quest 2: Collect 20 Stars (You can get 3 stars per play.  You can replay the same levels and still be awarded the stars you win for additional plays)
Quest 3: Create 200 Special Blocks (Any time you create a 4, 5 or 6 single colour monster block during a game, this counts as a "special block".  The amount of these blocks you can make per game is unlimited.)
     DropDrop - This game has 2 daily quests and 2 repeat quests.  The repeat quests can be achieved over and over with no limit.  Every time they will gain you the reward listed.  The daily quests each give 500 gems.  This means that if you complete the 2 daily quests for this game, you will earn 1,000 gems.
Quest 1: Get 10 Million Points (The points you earn every time you lay add up.  Once the collective score equals 10 million, you win the reward.  Each game usually gains you between 300,000 to 1,300,000 on average, depending on you skil (Though you can earn less or more).  So earning this amount in a day is not difficult.
Quest 2: Get 300 Combo (Whenever you stack your blocks very close to straight you will get a combo until you either drop a block, drop a bomb on your blocks or stack a block too crooked.  Then the combo starts over.  Once your collective combos equals 300, you get this reward.)
[REPEAT] Quest 1: Play 5 Times (The reward is a free 2 plays)
[REPEAT] Quest 2: Stack 500 Blocks (You usually stack between 50 and 80 blocks per game.  Once the collective number from your games comes to 500, you will get a chest.  A chest can have gems, in DropDrop game items to use while you play or special avatar items you can only get from the DropDrop chests.  The gem amounts vary.)
     TapTap - There are four quests here.  3 are daily quests and one is a repeat quest that you can complete unlimited times.  The daily quests give out 300, 300 and 400 gems.  Which means you get 1,000 gems if you complete all of the daily quests.
Quest 1: Clear 50 Specials (The tapping boxes come to you in strings.  At the end of each string of boxes is a special box that you can use either side to tap.  Once you clear 50 of these total, throughout your games, you complete this quest and earn 300 gems)
Quest 2: Get 2,000 Combos (As long as you don't tap the wrong side, you'll be getting a combo.  Once you make a mistake, your combo starts over.  So tap carefully!  Once your total tapping combo reaches 2,000 you earn 300 gems!)
Quest 3: Get 20 Million Points  (You can easily earn over 1,000,000 points per game so you should be able to earn this in around 20 games or so.)
[REPEAT] Quest 1: Clear 1,500 Blocks (Once you pass that many blocks you get a TapTap chest.  This can happen an unlimited amount of times, and happens pretty frequently.  The chests can have gems in them, special TapTap game items or special items for your character that can only be obtained from these chests.)

Mini Game Chests: As I explained in some notes in the mini game quests section, the chests you obtain from TapTap and DropDrop can have gems in them.  The amount of gems vary but are usually under 100 gems per chest.  However, if you get chests frequently (And as they ar
e attached to repeat quests, you can), these gems add up!  There is no limit to how many you can get.

Invitation Codes:  Every user gets their own unique invitation code.  When you enter someone else's code, you get 1,000 gems.  You can do this 10 times.  This totals 10,000 gems.  20 people can enter your code, which also gains you 1,000 gems er time.  This totals 20,000 gems.  So once you have entered the max amount of codes, and the max amount of people have entered your code, you will have 30,000 gems.
     If you are curious about where your invitation code can be found, or where you can enter other people's codes, they are located in the same place.  Go to "More" and click either Profile or Settings/Profile.  From there you can click "Invitation Code".  That page will give you your code to copy, show you who has entered your code, allow you to enter other people's codes ans show you all the users who you have entered the codes of.

Inviting Friends:  This is separate from the invitation code section.  You will find this area in the same place you go to add friends.  You may invite friends from this area.  It sends the invite directly to the users you indicate.  I hear this can be used to invite Facebook friends, but as my account is connected through LINE, I can only cover how this part works.
     You will see a list of all the friends on your list who do not currently have a LINE Play account linked to their LINE account.  There will be an invite button next to it.  For every user you invite you get 1,000 gems.  You can do this up to 100 times.  that's 100,000 gems total!

Events:  Every so often LINE Play will have an event.  Some of these events will have gem prizes that you can win.  They usually range from 3,000 gems to 70,000 gems a win.  However, it usually costs 3,000 gems for each play.  There is no guarantee you will win a gem prize.  You may get a house item, avatar item, hearts or occasionally cash.  Keep an eye on the events section to watch out for these events.

Hearts:  Every time you give someone a heart you get 10 gems.  Every time someone gives you a heart you earn 10 gems.  Though the amount of hearts you have are limited, the amount you can receive is not.  If you give out 20 hearts per day, that's 200 gems.  If all of those 20 users give you a heart back, that's another 200 gems.  That is a total of 400 gems per day.  You could get more if you get extra hearts to give out or if more people heart you.  Also, you will get 50 bonus hearts (60 total) when you heart an official avatar that is currently being promoted.  You will be able to tell if you see a yellow shine in their heart bubble. (See image to the right for example)

Recycling:  Sometimes you get clothing you don't want from the gacha or events... Sometimes you get duplicates (Duplicates can not be worn at the same time, and are thus useless).  When this happens, you can recycle these items to earn gems back.
     The gems are small, but if you recycle a rare or super rare, you will get a significant amount of gems.
     Mondays are bonus days for recycling.  So do all of your recycling on Mondays to get the most gems back for your items.
     Keep in mind that not all items will give you gems when you recycle them.  You can see how many gems each item will be recycled for on the recycle screen.  So be careful, and keep track.

Baths, sit downs and Food:  Sometimes when you enter a room (Your own, another users or an official avatar's) your avatar will have a bubble over their head.  There are 3 bubbles.  Look for the item in the room that matches that bubble.  A soap bubble indicates they want a bath.  A chair bubble indicates they wish to sit.  A fork indicates they wish to eat.  However, you can't just sit anywhere or eat anything.  You have to tap the specific item that has the bubble that matches the one over your avatar's head.
     Some houses won't have a bath or food.  If you enter a room and you see a bubble over your avatar, but can not find the corresponding item in the room, don't panic.  That bubble will remain until you find a room where there is an item that matches the bubble.  So just try another room.