Sims 3 hints and strategy guides. Choosing Traits: You should definitely select the “greenthumb” trait for gardening sims, this goes without saying. Also you can choose “loves outdoors” but I wouldn’t call it a requirement. Lifetime Purchases: The Collector 4. Really all you need is the Collector, which allows you to see seeds, rocks, insects and fish in the overhead map view. 3 Levels; 4 Science Career Books; 5 Science Options. Gardening (3-6) Handiness (1-4). Whenever you zoom in on area the spots you have selected will glow, making it super easy to find what you are looking for! Super Greenthumb 2. Again, this improves your plant quality so you should pick this up asap (probably after steel bladder though)Getting Started. While you can read gardening books (Volumes 1, 2, and 3) to improve your gardening skills, I always prefer doing the “real thing”. I like the natural progression you get and you’ll know what plants have been growing instead of nothing happening and you reading. A healthy combination is probably best. The Sims 3 Ambitions Science Career. When you are ready to begin your career in Science. Fishing / Gardening / Handiness / Mood.The new forum for The Sims is live at forums.thesims. The Game - Career - Science. Skills: gardening (10), manual work (10). The Sims 3 Game Guide is also available in our Mobile App. The Science career track returns in The Sims 4. Science is a career track in The Sims 3. Gardening, Handiness. A Guide To Science Career in Sims 3. By Charlotte Howard, 12th Jul 2010. Keep up with the gardening and handiness skills to reach level 5. Guide to Careers in The Sims 3. The Sims 3 careers available are. To join the ghost hunter career, go to the science lab and apply. Sims start out in this. HINT: when you first start out the game you have no seeds. Once you reach level 1 you automatically get some free seeds to plant but they are “normal”. If you buy the fruit/veg from the store they are already “Very Nice” quality? Hi Ali, You can take the gardening class at the Science Facility. Classes are like watching tv, they don’t give you the actual gardening experience, and they cost you money. They are good if need to improve your skills at the beginning, but I was able to get to level 3 in about 2 days without taking the class and just planting seeds. Step one: Visit The Grocery Store. At first you will only be able to grow certain products because of your low skill level. As it raises visit the grocery often until you have planted all the Fruits and Veggies available from there. I suggest buying at least 5 of each item you plan to plant because sometimes they end up in meals you decide to cook. Don’t skip any fruits or veggies!, make sure you plant them all so that you can get rewards easier down the line. Step Two: Planting. Plant your seeds by selecting them from the inventory and click “plant“. If you have more than one (if you paid attention you should : P) you can click “plant many” and it will allow you to plant multiple seeds one after another without having to re- select them. If you decide to stop planting I find it easiest to hit your “ESC” key when you are finished, otherwise you could try to do something else and your sim will still be holding onto a seed to plant. Step Three: Tending. Tending involves watering, weeding, and harvesting your plants. You should first buy the sprinkler to water your garden, I leave mine on full time. Second choose a plant with a weed, and click “tend garden“. This is a lifesaver because your sim will automatically tend the entire garden! Also see the FERTILIZER section, because it deserves a section of its own. Step Four: Get Special Seeds. Special seeds need be acquired as quickly as possible. These plants take much longer than common plants to grow, so I try to plant them early. The best way to find seeds is with the Collector, but because it costs 4. I’ll assume you don’t have it. In Sunset Valley look around the graveyard and in the hills on the EAST side of the map (when ocean is South). In Riverview look by Sim. Henge and check along the path in the island surrounded by the river where the main part of town is. Oh you are looking for SPECIAL seeds only! Leave all the others. Once your Trees are growing, watch for them to drop the occasional seed! Step Five: Re- Planting. Once your garden is moving and producing a harvest, it’s time to upgrade your plants. Here is a little guide for you to use (also applies to fish)QUALITY CHART (from lowest to best)Normal. Nice. Very Nice (bought from store)Great. Excellent. Outstanding. Perfect. Each time you replant a seed it will grow the next quality level. For example when you plant a Very Nice Tomato from the store, it will produce a Great Tomato plant when it grows, and It’s fruit will be Great. So you can see why it is important that you re- plant your harvested goods and not sell them. Eventually you will reach Perfect quality and from there it’s just a matter of re- planting them once they die – or if you are ahead of the game, re- planting them before they die. Sometimes when you take care of a plant well enough, it will grow even better quality than it already should! Step Six: SPECIAL PLANTS (SPOILERS! When they first start to grow, you will not know what they are until they harvest. Life Plant: produces life fruit. These take a day from your sim (or add a day however you want to phrase it), and they are an ingredient in ambrosia. Death Flower Bush: I just call it the death plant. It harvests death flower. If your sim has one of these when death comes along, you can give it to death instead of dying. This is the only use I’ve found. The death plant will die after harvest every time. The nice thing about being at a high level gardening is that you can occasionally revive the deathplant (click on dead plant, choose “revive“), getting a two for one deal. I have been unable to revive a death plant more than once as far as I can remember. Money Tree: produces money bags that you can sell. Although you can’t replant money bags, the Money Tree occasionaly drops a seed you can plant. I haven’t had one of these die on me yet, they seem to perpetually harvest as long as you take care of them. For a high quality money tree harvest, you can get a lot of simoleans out of these money bags. Sell them in your inventory for a quick cash in. You can find money tree and other special seeds occasionally while fishing! Flame Fruit: An ingredient that can be used to make Angel Food Cake. Also it will give you a constant 5 point mood boost whenever you have one in your inventory. Get some flame fruit growing for a glowing warm light in the dark. Step Seven: Cash In. So for all your hard work you get these three major things. Improved Happiness and Lifetime Points. Sell your extra perfect fruits and veggies for a House- Full of cash. Perfect quality food for your meals and no need to buy them from the store! Fertilizers! Fertilizers are probably one of the things I overlooked the most when I was growing my garden. They not only improve the quality of your plants, but they move the growing process along very quickly. Remember the faster you get to the next generation of plants, the better. All the plants in this screenshot were planted at the same time, can you tell which ones were fertilized? You can begin fertilizing at Level 3. Here I will list the levels where you can obtain special gardening abilities, and a list of fertilizer quality. Skill Level Gardening Abilities. Level 2 – Weed: pull up weeds before they harm the plant (gets faster with skill level)Level 3 – Use Fertilizer: improves quality of plants (see Fertilizer Quality below this section)Level 5 – Plant uncommon seeds: Lime, Watermelon, Onion, Potato (common: Apple, Grape, Lettuce, Tomato)Level 6 – Revive plant: Save a dying plant. Level 7 – Plant Rare and Special Seeds: Garlic, Bell Pepper. Special: Life Fruit, Death Flower, Flame Fruit, Money Treeonly unlocked through challenge – Cheese and Egg, Burger and Steak, Omni Plant. Fertilizer Quality: (from lowest to highest )Lower quality. Fish/Ingredientskill plant – deathfish. Anchovy, Goldfish, Alley Catfish/Cheese, Hamburger Patty, Egg, Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, Potato, Apple, Lime, Grapes. Rainbow Trout/Watermelon. Minnow, Jellyfish, Tuna/ Steak, Bell Pepper, Garlic, Flame Fruit—————————————————————————————- Highest Quality. Salmon, Black Goldfish, Swordfish. Red Herring, Blowfish, Siamese Catfish, Piranha, Tragic Clownfish. Shark, Lobster. 7- Vampire Fish, Angelfish. Achievements and Challenges. Achievements. Botanical Boss: harvest 7. Perfect fruits and veggies – effect: plants rarely die from neglecting them. Master Farmer: harvest 6. Master Planter: plant every type of plant: effect: – reduces weeds. Bonus Challenges: SPOILERS!! I am stilltesting these triggers! Grow 2. 0 (excellent or better) plants - > unlocks ability to plant cheese + eggs. Grow 1. 0 Excellent cheese plants- > unlocks ability to plant steak + burger. Grow 1. 0 (outstanding or better) steak plants - > Receive Omni Plant seeds and ability to purchase more. Omni Plant: This is a special plant that will reproduce whatever you feed it within a few days, and I believe you can either mail order or buy more seeds once unlocked. You can only feed it certain things. Because it’s special, I want you to experiment to find out what it can be fed, because that’s half the fun. But to appease the curious I will add some things that you can’t feed it. Cars. Paintings. Songs. Stereos. Guitars. Graves. Gnomes. Recipes. Prepared Food. Money Bags. Seeds (no money tree/omni plant farming)Rocks. If you do want to see some omni- awesomeness check the screenshots page. Thanks to nina for adding that the omni plant looks the same as the other “bush” plants. The first challenge is the hardest to get. It is totally random when you get it, so don’t expect it at a certain level (although you CAN get it as early as level 7- 8). One of my sims lived nearly 1. Now I did notice that the sim that got it at level 8 had no job, they were a fisherman, while my level 1. Frequent visits to the BISTRO and DINER may help trigger the event because that is where the challenges come from, but don’t count on it. GARDENING TIPSINSANE GARDENWhile it may be fun to have a ginormous garden, your sim will spend all day there if you have too many plants. I limit my sim to 5 of each and that seems to produce good harvest without spending too much time. One of sims spent 7- 8 hours of their day gardening. What’s so wrong about that? Nothing really, but it was very inefficient use of time because there were tons of low quality plants in the garden. I could have been using that time to do other things with my sim. Once you reach perfect plants though, all bets are off because you should be at a high enough skill level where you can pull off a Huge garden.
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