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Inventing Playthrough
« on: April 28, 2021, 03:20:11 PM »
Overview
Items Needed: Scraptronic™ Workbench
Related Skills: Inventing and Handiness for inventing, Gardening for Simbot creation
Useful Traits: Eccentric and Handy for inventing, Athletic and Logic for tunnel exploration
Lifetime Wishes: Monster Maker, Descendant of Da Vinci
Lifetime Rewards: Efficient Inventor, Artisan Crafter
Career: Self-Employed Inventor


Activities
- Working on/Mastering Skills
- Collecting Palladium Metal, Pink Diamonds and Special Seeds
- Growing Life Fruit Plants
- Collect Scrap
- Detonate Objects
- Invent Everything Possible
- Have Fun with Inventions
- Collect Unique Items and Outfits
- Complete Skill Challenges
- Complete Opportunities*

*A specific opportunity chain must be completed in order to be able to create a Simbot, the ultimate invention.


Simbot Recipe
1 x Palladium (ore or ingot)
10 x Life Fruit
1 x Pink Diamond, Heart-Shaped Cut
100 x Scrap


Tips & Notes
*Very important! Keep a shower close to the workbench for when your Sim catches fire.
*Don't store too much scrap in the workbench, it will make interaction with it very laggy.


Service Rewards
I don't see it mentioned anywhere, but inventing comes with its own share of service rewards from the cityhall.
They are seperate from the self-employed inventer profession.
I will add them as my VJ earns them, and you can let me know if your Sims earns one not listed here.

- Hero Medal (invent the time machine)
- Honor Trophy (create 75 inventions, I think)
- Inventor's Widget Medal (create 50 widgets)


Useful Links
www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/skills/ambitions/inventing/
sims.fandom.com/wiki/Inventing
sims.fandom.com/wiki/Time_machine


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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2021, 03:20:35 PM »
VJ is my guinea pig again. I replaced his artistic trait with eccentric and gave him the Efficient Inventor LTR, and changed his LTW to Monster Maker.

Before anything else, I had him max out handiness and inventing. Then he registered as self-imploded inventor. Now, he is inventing.

I will try to achieve everything possible.

*I play with basegame, Ambitions, Generations and Late Night (for the musical instruments), Supernatural (for the storage cabinets)
*Workbench is slow to show pie menu, when I ask my Sim to invent.


VJ's Inventions
1. Rotational Pull, widget
2. The Miner, big invention
3. Improved Drinking Llama, widget
4. Robot Toy, crafted toy
5. Improved Tentacle Wind, widget
6. Flying Fighters, widget
7. Improved Localized Static Tester, widget
8. Cow Toy, crafted toy
9. Time Machine, big invention (service reward medal)
10. Magical Gnome of Invention
11. Improved Floating Duck, widget
12. Harvester, big invention
13. Dog Toy, crafted toy
14. Whale Toy, crafted toy
15. Smasher, widget
16. Floor Hygienator, big invention
Done

I can't believe it - VJ did not catch fire, not even once :o

Now, it is time to tackle challenges and sell stuff, and wait for opportunity.


Past Rewards
- Child
- Fire: Terrifying but Essential, non-skill book, worth §751
- Thoggus, a new sculpture

Future Rewards


Update April 30
VJ has accepted the Master Invention opportunity that will lead to the creation of a Simbot. I'm excited, but it takes a while to get there. Little Bayou had found a piece of Palladium. Miraj, who is now a Sous Chef, has taken some days off to master gardening and grow some special seeds, that VJ collected. Hopefully, at least one will be a Life Fruit plant. Currently, VJ is using his mining machine while I'm looking around town in the hopes of finding a pink diamond. Twinbrook is a frustratingly large place when it comes to this. I lent him some lifetime happiness to get a hold of the Collection Helper. I will subtract the amount at a later date.

On a related note, VJ has collected 1000 pieces of scrap and thereby completed The Scrap Collecter challenge.


Update May 1
VJ delivered 10 Life Fruit to the science facility. Now, they "just" need the heart-cut pink diamond. VJ knows the cut now, but those pink diamonds are rare. As in extremely rare. Other than that, he has been jumping up the promotional ladder selling all of the 250 widgets required for the Widget Wonder challenge - he has done it! I'm so glad the workbench has the option to 'make many...' of a thing. Also, traveling to the past, he has managed to retrieve a copy of a rare book.


Update May 2
VJ has completed the Master Inventer challenge by creating 100 big inventions (floor hygienator). Also, VJ has returned from the past with a child of whom he is the father. The kid has no second parent and looks like a clone of VJ. LOL


Update May 10
VJ is working on his last SimBot and will then have completed his LTW. The only challenge remaining is the Diabolical Demolisher. I need to make a list of things acquired from time travel. Miraj now also has a child from the past - a little female lookalike.


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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2021, 08:12:08 AM »
Did you know that  you can go through the steps of selling the seeds (and then cancel) and if they're worth any money, then it's either a life plant or a flame fruit plant. If it's 0, then a money tree or death flower. I don't know about other things.

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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2021, 11:01:25 AM »
Ooh, nice info! I didn't know about that. Thank you, Sunshine <3
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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2021, 12:06:36 PM »
I think the higher value would be the life plant.

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Yasmine Ferrari
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2021, 10:27:24 PM »
   * Name: Yasmine Ferrari
* AGT: YA Female Vampire
* Sign: Gemini

* Traits: Clumsy, Eccentric, Good, Green Thumb, Loves the Outdoors
* Faves: Egg Rolls, Pop Music and the color Purple, I mean Lilac.
* LTW: The Perfect Garden ~ Plant and Grow 8 Different Species of Perfect Plants

* More Info: Playing with WA, Ambitions, Master Suite - enabled.
Minimal mods, and some store and custom content.
Skilled up Handiness, but will be skilling up inventing naturally as this is my first time really doing anything with Inventing.

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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2021, 11:16:07 PM »
Welcome aboard, Yasmine and MrsFlynn <3

I now want to put her in my game.

*goes to put her in*


Update
Yasmine is my game now. She has had a somewhat extensive makeover, but I found some things that I feel suit her. The glam is not all gone, but she does looks a tad less innocent. Hmm...breeding project in the future? Her original LTW is to turn the town. Being the only vampire in my Twinbrook, I could see that coming true ;D

Anyways, back on topic. My bad.
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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2021, 12:15:58 PM »
I'll be playing With Yasmine. As I've decided to play with minimal packs installed again.

I'll be changing her LTW for this playthrough, but I'm not sure to what. Something that goes with the inventing skill. I haven't gotten that far yet. I'm still working on a house for her in Twinbrook.

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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2021, 01:36:57 PM »
I am miserable :'(

Pink diamonds are not spawning and the consignment store is not selling any. It has been about a week now and I'm losing my patience. And my save is one big mess again with everything enabled, just like all the other ones. As soon as I decide I will go with a save and start a thread over at Carl's, something goes awry, and I just feel like tossing my save, give up and hide.

Why do I keep finding myself in this predicament? It's embarrassing. I would so much like to succeed with something...anything. Like my AP save that ran for 6 months or so. Now, it's two entries and I'm done.

 :'( :'( :'(


Update
I have put VJ and Miraj in a new Twinbrook.
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Re: Inventing Playthrough
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2021, 03:42:13 PM »
Adding some info...

There's one spawner by the diner in TB in the trees that has Pink Diamond

- Photo thanks to Mrs.G. :)


Spawner Info for Twinbrook

Treasure Box *Compatible with 1.67*
https://modthesims.info/d/383093
-- Buy gems/metals in quantity