New feature discovered from display case

[bshag]

I hear ya Pam...I put 8 gems as well, including a nice tanzinite and I got a huge emerald cut topaz worth $47.    Good grief!

I can't for the life of me, get a skull cut.  I found on sims 3 forum if you put 5 different cuts of gems plus 5 other items it will give you a skull cut.  I did and ended up with a pile of ancient coins. 

I guess it is all random and you take your chances...but I really want that skull. 

[PJSim]

I found on sims 3 forum if you put 5 different cuts of gems plus 5 other items it will give you a skull cut.

I don't think that's right, I think it needs to be all gems. If you mix different kinds of things I usually get ancient coins or money bags.
I've made something like 5 skulls in a row, I just took random gems of different kinds and cuts. If they're the same you just get that one large one worth nothing.

I have never gotten a gnome though, how do I make that one?

[Carl]

I found on sims 3 forum if you put 5 different cuts of gems plus 5 other items it will give you a skull cut.

I don't think that's right, I think it needs to be all gems. If you mix different kinds of things I usually get ancient coins or money bags.
I've made something like 5 skulls in a row, I just took random gems of different kinds and cuts. If they're the same you just get that one large one worth nothing.

I have never gotten a gnome though, how do I make that one?

Well, the Prima Guide got one right then. It says that using multiple cuts w/ different colors works. Thanks PJ

[sims96fan]

I got a gnome when I put a bunch of different vases and bowls (the non-collection kind) on the display, with no gems, and activated it.  It seemed kind of a waste of a bunch of bowls though.  They might even have all been ancient.  What does the gnome do?

[Pam]

It depends on what kind of gnome it is.  If it's one of the Mysterious gnomes, it's worth $1,000 and it disappears/reappears randomly.  Plus, there's a different looking gnome for all three locations in World Adventures, so it might be fun to collect all of them.

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I can't for the life of me, get a skull cut.  I found on sims 3 forum if you put 5 different cuts of gems plus 5 other items it will give you a skull cut.  I did and ended up with a pile of ancient coins. 

I guess it is all random and you take your chances...but I really want that skull. 

I'm the one who started the thread on TS3 forum and you've got the "formula" for a skull a little mixed up.  To make a skull you need 5 different cuts of gems (any 5 cuts...doesn't matter) and then the other 3 can be whatever.  If you want a skull of a certain gem, you need to have more of that gem than the others. 

For example...if you want a Tiberum skull, you need to use a heart shape & a spiral cut Tiberium, 3 other cuts of random gems (that's your 5 different gem cuts) and then the other 3 gems can be whichever cut of Tiberium you have...which makes a total of 5 Tiberium gems and 3 random gems.  You will more likely than not, get a Tiberium skull.

Here is the link to the thread on the TS3 Forum for additional  info and combos for metals and random items. http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/132219.page

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You don't always get something awesome from the display case.  After loading it with 8 gems and spending $500 on the transfigurization, I ended up with a large emerald cut Smoky Quartz worth less than $50.  Lame!

Hi Pam,

What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.  If you put in mostly smokey quartz, that's what you're going to get out of it.  To get skulls, you need to have 5 different cuts of gems and what KIND of skull you get depends on what gem you have the most of on the display when you activate.

If you want Magic Gnomes, you put random items.  For example, if you mix a bunch of different things, the majority of the time you get Gnomes.  If you want gems, put all gems, if you want metals put all metals.  If you mix gems and metals you will more likely than not get gnomes.  If you put all fossilized fruit, most of the time you will get a random seed.  You never know what it will be til you plan and grow it though

There are a lot of things you can do with it.  You should check out the thread on the TS3 forum for more ideas.  Eccles has been experimenting and has become the expert

[igzigpuff]

@ Akila906 thanks for posting the link to the thread over on the EA forum, I saw that awhile back but didn't bookmark it and couldn't find it again.  I have a Sim with a bunch of uncut gems and had him send them off so I could start trying for the skull, but when he got his gems back all I got were the magical gnomes!  When you want a gnome you can't get one!    He's still got plenty of raw gems to send, so I'm still trying! 

Here's a pic of the 5 Magical Gnomes he got instead of gems, I think my Sim will have an army of gnomes soon! 

[Pam]

Did you know that if you send off gems from vacation and they come back as magical gnomes, they will be the local ones for that country.  I've gotten two Chinese gnomes that way.

[igzigpuff]

That's good to know Pam, I hoped that would be the case.  Too bad I don't really want anymore gnomes right now,  this Sim already has like 9 or 10 Magical Gnomes 2 from China and not including the 5 he just received in the mail.  I need my gems right now for that darn skull gem! 

[Pam]

I just sell them after I have one to keep. They sell for $1,000 each! Also, if you have a Martial Artist, they can get plenty of gems by breaking space rock blocks.

[wildredchild]

Thank you Akila906 for the information about making skull cut jems.  I now have all 22 of them after some pitfalls and mistakes.  As soon as I save the picture to my photobucket account, I will edit this post with it.

[Carl]

Adding info from this thread to the collecting guide tomorrow... in fact, I think it deserves its own page.

Edit: A nasty crash at the wrong time has delayed this guide's edit. I have a nice master Sim collecting everything in sight and working to make plenty of stuff to figure out Compendium and Supernovium.

[mappam]

I have been using the smaller display case - it looks the same as the XL but is smaller and cheaper. BUT it takes more items before you can activate it. Instead of the 8 items needed for the XL I believe it is 10 items for the smaller one.

I would love to see some "recipes" for the smaller case as well as the XL one.

The smaller case fits better into a basement or living area within a house and is a good way to start if you are low on money.

[wildredchild]

I had no idea you could do anything besides display items on the next smaller case.  I will have to check things out later tonight!