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Gems

Collect in home world or WA worlds, buy at Consignment Store or Relic Stores.

Cut or send away to have them cut before transmogrification.

DO sell gems at the Consignment Store to make WAY more out of them than selling through the interface. Takes a day or two longer.

If you add Spawners with BuyDebug

Gems that can be found in egypt will only spawn in egypt. Placing such a gem/metal's spawner in the base game or in another country will not spawn said gem/metal.

I've also observed that the game treats gems collected from another neighborhood/sub-neighborhood as different. I tried grouping together the rubies I collected in Bridgeport with the ones I collected in Egypt and they won't combine in my inventory.

The gems and metals DO take more time to start spawning than the insect spawners to activate, but I've never gotten the WA insect spawners to spawn the appropriate critters.

the Late Night insect spawners do work fine in any world as well.

WA gem spawners DO spawn things in home worlds, but only Geodes, iirc.

Fix for this from TWALLAN: You can remove the world restriction using an EA tuning mod: In the "InsectData" and "RockGemMetal" files, remove the <RequiredWorld> fields. See http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorial:Sims_3_XML_Tuning_Modding

Recipes that work with ALL EPs and SPs

If all gems placed on the bench are of a single cut, you will receive a large gem of that cut.

To show the different sizes: on the left a Yellow Sapphire Large Sculptor's Egg, on the other bench are 8 Jade Sculptor's Eggs.

TitaI Lights' family have a large collection of Large Sculptor's Eggs, since Surga took up sculpting.

5 or 6 different GEMS but only 4 different cuts used will give an uncut Soulpeace gem, worth more even uncut, but once cut into a Heart-Cut, or a Star Cut, sell for up to §20K, sell for more at the Consignment Store.

6 gem dust and two gems (any cut) ideally all different, usually gives a Soulstone. As above, cut into Heart or Star Cuts, they sell for up to 20K or more at Consignment. Also, if you have the skill to make Sculptor's Egg Cut, the soulstones will immediately cut into Large Sculptor's Eggs, they are each worth over $10,000 and look like large eggs. A very profitable way to get rid of the dust.
If the number of different CUT TYPES of gem input is greater than or equal to 5, you will receive a large Skull Cut gem which may or may not be the gem type of the majority used. To guarantee the Skull Cut, use all the same type of gem in different cuts - best is to use the more expensive cuts. NOTE: Skull cuts are decorative and therefore not worth the value of the input gems.

BAD Recipes

Fill a stand with 8 gem dusts, even all the same kind, even Soulpeace dust, and you only get a large pile of the same gem dust.
Large Sculptor's Eggs are NOT a way to make money. They are usually not worth the total value of the 8 small Sculptor's Eggs they take to make. But they do look pretty!

Durga's collection of green and blue Large Sculptor's Eggs. On the left display is glowy Tiberium, Jade, Luminorious and Emerald.

On the right display is glowy Moonstone, Blue Topaz, Tanzanite and Lapis Lazuli.

Each of thes apart from the Tiberium is made by putting 8 Sculptor's Egg Cut gems of the same type on the large Carter's Bench.

It is now possible (since University Life) to create small size skull cut gems.

A Sim with high Science skill can Analyze and Clone with a Science Machine the sample from a large cut skull and a small skull is created worth approx 50% of the large skull's value.

Introduced with Supernatural

Bloodstone: This rock has been around for thousands of years and was once used for ancient rituals. Now, it’s mainly used for the ritual of rock collecting. It has many uses in ingredients and also makes a fine display piece. The bloodstone is an uncommon gem that will spawn in any township, not just Moonlight Falls.
Sunstone: Some say the sunstone is a moonstone left out in the sun for too long. Others claim it is a piece of a solar flare from the sun. Although the origins of the sunstone are often debated, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: it’s a sharp looking rock. The sunstone is a rare gem that will spawn in any town or city.
Moonstone: This attractive rock won’t actually tell the phase the moon nor does it contain the properties of a real moon that elicits howls from werewolves. It’s just a simple rock that shares the name of the big mysterious moon everyone has come to know and love. The moonstone is rare gem, too. It will spawn in any township, but it has a much higher probability of spawning during the full moon and new moon phases of the lunar cycle.

Rainbow Gem

My Sim found Rainbow Gem in China.

Sita June 21, 2018