Getting rich with the gem-u-cut machine

[grimsoul]

I bought the Gem-u-Cut machine that came with SN and I got rich fast with it.
My dog brought in a tiberium gem and I cut it in a spiral cut with the machine. Cuts made with the machine cost nothing. I got the spiral cut gem and 5 piles of gem dust.
I placed all 6 items on the ground and they all grew up to be worth around $40,000 each.
So around $200,000 off of one tiberium gem. Not bad.

[callycat]

Wow, that's impressive. I cut 6 tiberium earlier and just stashed the dust in a chest - I think I'll be scattering some around instead!

Cal

[TheAshpie]

Does this only work with Tiberium? Or can you place any gem on the ground and it'll increase in value/grow?

[Joria]

That has made gem hunting even more important!  No more starving Sims.  Instead of buying that first toilet etc. when you are new, get a gem cutter and theoretically you can have a mansion in a day.  I like it.

Only tiberium grows, unless some of the newer stones also grow.

[grimsoul]

I sim diffidently isn't starving now. But he was living on a empty lot at the time. Now I can build him a house.
My dog brought another tiberium home and when I cut it I only got one dust this time. But between the gem and the dust growing I still got about $75,000 from 1 cut.
I love my dog.

[sims96fan]

Wow, that's great to know.  The tiberium dust made my sim sick in his inventory, and I thought it was useless since it wasn't cut, so I sold it off.  Simoleons down the drain! 

[grimsoul]

The dust made my sick sic also. I placed it on the ground just to get it out of my inventory. Then a few days later it grew just like the gems do and my broke sim wasn't broke anymore.

[Cas]

All gems can be sold at the Alchemy consignment store, unlike at the regular consignment store, so you can also sell your Tiberium there and make even more money.  I sold one at zero experience and got $92,000 for it! 

[Ricalynn]

All gems can be sold at the Alchemy consignment store, unlike at the regular consignment store, so you can also sell your Tiberium there and make even more money.  I sold one at zero experience and got $92,000 for it! 

Did you sell the uncut rock or a cut tiberium for that much?

[Anushka]

Both can be consinged and I just sold around 298.000$ worth soulpeace spirecut for around 491.000$ as my first sell! raw moonstone went for 1.981$.
This is fantastic news!

[Cas]

Did you sell the uncut rock or a cut tiberium for that much?

A cut tiberium.  I sold 4 pieces that had grown, and one of the pieces sold for 92k whilst the other 3 ranged from 40-70k.

[Joria]

Isn't there a way to store the dust since it is an alchemy ingredient?  Did the dust you left on the ground become a fulll tiberium or just more dust?

[Anushka]

Had to check to see if it works, old formula for soupleace gem with transfiguration works with gem dust too.
So use the byproduct of cutting 5 different gems and add just one more cut - I used emerald cut emerald and gem dust from 5 more gems and got soulpeace gem.
This machine plus gatherer are my favorite parts of this SN.

PS Gatherer will increase the number of gem dust you get as a byproduct, without that trait it is average 1-2 gem dust per gem cut, while with it it is 2-3 gem dusts. Not shore how you got 5 from one cut.

Isn't there a way to store the dust since it is an alchemy ingredient?  Did the dust you left on the ground become a fulll tiberium or just more dust?

It grows into a full spire cut tiberium but you can store it in chest and probably in cabinet as other gem dusts.

[Ricalynn]

Isn't there a way to store the dust since it is an alchemy ingredient?  Did the dust you left on the ground become a fulll tiberium or just more dust?

If you get an alchemy display shelf, you can store elixirs, metals and gems (cut/uncut) inside. 

[runesky77]

Thank you so much for this tip! I will be trying this when I play tonight!