Relics are new to me. I thought I would be able to obtain some by buying a chest (50 gems!), but all I got were some stupid cells. Why are there no relics in the chest?

Cause it is a gambling \ blind selling system , you may geta relic or not

up to you if you want to try your luck

I got at least a dozen chests in the recent monsterwood event, and every one had a relic and then some. There are also many relics available along the paths of the Hidden Creatures maze. So far, the free chests every six hours have been a bust.

@Bruce-Hamilton said in No Relics in chests?:

I got at least a dozen chests in the recent monsterwood event, and every one had a relic and then some. There are also many relics available along the paths of the Hidden Creatures maze. So far, the free chests every six hours have been a bust.

Glad to hear! My monster has been a bust. It just ends and I get nothing.

Thanks for your comments, all. I will have to have some patience before I find my first relic :)

@Parbo just ignore those useless things. The more don't use them the better. Just play the game as it is meant to be played - without relics - and you'll be much happier ;)

@David-ML have you ever heard about opinions being like a certain body cavity? Just because you don't like the relics doesn't make them useless, let @Parbo make his or her own decision.

@David-ML said in No Relics in chests?:

@Parbo just ignore those useless things. The more don't use them the better. Just play the game as it is meant to be played - without relics - and you'll be much happier ;)

I disagree, I like the relics and so far they are useful to me.

@Bruce-Hamilton Ah, you're lucky ;) Unfortunately, for some reason or another, Monsterwood does not work for me. So, no relics, maze coins, or other goodies for me in Monsterwood. When I click the X AFTER having watched a video, the program usually crashes. I have contacted ML about this, but it appears there is nothing they can do about it.

Every time you close an app, it stays running in the background as a cache for faster loading next time. How often do you slide them off screen and fully close them?

@Bruce-Hamilton I do not close the app. I close the video screen I have just watched (this is the screen where you can decide if you want to install the game you have just watched). This should give me the message "Thanks, you will be rewarded shortly", but in my case Monsterwood closes without giving me my reward.

I mean when you go back to your home screen. Everything stays running in the background, try closing them.

@Bruce-Hamilton Closing ML and reopening it does not give me my rewards. I know everything is stored in internal memory, but not the rewards I should have got after having watched a video.

i also bought the 49 gems chest on special offer just to find out it doesn't contain any relics... was quite dissapointed!
i got 15 relics now - most from monsterwood some from the free chest... but they're all bronze and quite useless taking into consideration that all monsters i use are lv 100 and my runes are in between lv 5 and lv 7.
i also faced the "monsterwood-closing-without-effect-problem" just in the same way as described by parbo: click the x and instead of the reward message where you decide to just get the reward or watch another video you get thrown back to your islands as if you hadn't watched an ad.
...i don't understand why or when this happens yet - sometimes it stays for hours and then it's gone for hours, but i can definitely rule out full cache since i'm used to clearing it several times a day and the problem also occurs even after just opening ml.
sometimes i wonder if this implied to make us watch more ads and get less rewards?!

@Sebastian-Drozda So I am not the only one who watches videos without getting a reward. I guess we have to get our relics in other ways:(

I was watching the videos this morning during happy hour, and ended up with every video giving me a chest. Got all excited expecting a lot of new relics for my collection, and all they contained was gold and food. Two gave me a Hippie scroll.

@Parbo this morning i watched again and paid attention to the "closing screen" - all ads that didn't give rewards came from "unity ADS" for example "elvenar", "legend of solgard", a farming game and a space strategy; the logo is in the lower left corner.
had more than 10 of them, decided to wait a while and after an hour or so monsterwood worked again... with ads that didn't come from "unity ADS"
can you confirm that?
also read:
https://forums.socialpointgames.com/topic/941/all-about-monsterwood-it-may-not-be-bugged