Fast answer
The answer before the background
Searches for Spirits of the Hellements coins often use the wrong name. In the official pages we checked, the named economy terms include Souls, Blessings, and Gold; the store also describes Blessings as the tool used to shape a maze. We found no official evidence for a separate coins, gems, diamonds, or crystals currency. Build a farm around repeatable map progress and low-waste Spirit investment instead of following a guide that invents mobile-style currencies.
Currency map
Use the names the game actually uses
| Search wording | Evidence status | How to treat it |
|---|---|---|
| Souls | Named in official update notes | A real game resource tied to Spirit value and progression decisions. |
| Blessings | Named by the store and update notes | A core maze-shaping resource and an official reward term in endless-mode notes. |
| Gold | Named in official Shrine of Greed notes | A real run-economy term; do not automatically equate it with permanent account currency. |
| Coins or money | Generic search wording | Translate the searcher's goal into the real resource needed before following advice. |
| Gems, diamonds, crystals | Not verified in checked official pages | Do not invent a farm, store, or redemption method for an unsupported currency. |
Resource efficiency
Farm progress, not a screenshot balance
The useful unit of farming is a repeatable clear that teaches or unlocks something, not the largest number shown by another build. Select a map and difficulty you can finish consistently, record the reward and time, then change one factor. A slightly lower difficulty can outperform a failed high-modifier run because it produces reliable progress rather than restarts.
Within a run, protect the economy by upgrading positions that already hold enemies inside the strongest elemental interaction. A new Spirit creates value only when it covers a missing job or extends the controlled path. Buying several unrelated pieces early can leave every position below the threshold needed for later waves.
Endless mode
Read resource offers in the current ruleset
Hippo Rider Games' version 1.3 notes say chaos breaches in endless mode offer Souls and Blessings only after the run has reached a state where no tiles remain for creating new Hellements. That detail matters: an old route that expects those offers earlier may no longer match the official rules described by the developer.
The same update adjusted the chance of receiving a Hellement tier-up option and capped Shrine of Greed's gold-generation interval. Use the current patch notes as the version boundary for any best-farm claim. A strategy should name its mode, map, difficulty, and patch assumptions instead of promising a universal loop.
Track map, difficulty, modifiers, run length, result, and the exact named resource gained. Three clean observations are more useful than mixing Souls, Blessings, and Gold into one made-up total.
Spending order
A low-waste decision sequence
- First fund the route and control effect that keeps the main pack in range.
- Second strengthen one dependable damage position instead of spreading upgrades evenly by habit.
- Third add a counter only when armor, speed, spacing, or a special target exposes a real gap.
- Use checkpoints to compare a single spending change against the same wave conditions.
- Reject any guide that cannot state whether its number is Souls, Blessings, Gold, or something else.
FAQ
Common questions
Does Spirits of the Hellements use coins?
The official pages checked name Souls, Blessings, and Gold. They do not establish a separate currency called coins, so treat coin wording as a generic search term until the exact resource is identified.
How do I get gems or diamonds?
We found no official gems or diamonds system in the checked Steam description or developer update history. A page promising a farm for those names needs evidence that it is discussing the same game.
What is the safest gold-farming method?
Repeat a map and difficulty you clear consistently, record time and exact rewards, and optimize one route or spending decision at a time. Do not compare runs with different modifiers as if they were equal.
Do old endless-mode farms still work?
Not always. Version 1.3 changed chaos-breach offers, Hellement tier-up frequency, and Shrine of Greed timing, so check the strategy's patch assumptions.
Sources
What we checked
Official listings establish current availability and product facts. Community pages are used for mechanics and build history, then labeled separately.
- OfficialOfficial Steam store listing
- OfficialOfficial update history and version 1.3 notes
- CommunitySteam community hub