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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #465 on: March 19, 2013, 02:20:04 PM »
I have merged together three threads into "The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread!" 

The subjects used to be:

Magic/Mysterious Gnomes: How Many
How to get all the Magic Gnomes?
What's up with Gnomes?

For the expansion specific gnomes, they will stay within the expansion boards for now.

Bless you Rica that would be great!

Ok, here's my gnome news du jour.  It is confirmed!  FreezerBunny Gnome DOES ride a llama!  It is so adorable and funny due to the look on it's face.  When you first get FBG, he just looks like the typical goofy freezer bunny.  Big eyes, etc.  But when he's riding his llama, (ready for the llama wrangling round up, lol), he has the most satisfied, crinkly eyed smile.  Like he's pulled off the biggest joke in the world.

I was checking out the garden to see if my Sim FINALLY had something she could do in it.  (Gardeners really can't do much in the garden in Winter or Spring except weed, and fertilize in spring).  I noticed the FBG and saw what looked like mud on his feet and he seemed to be a bit higher in the air.  Well, since I'm charting all their poses I had to have a closer look.



I couldn't get very close but here's the proof.  FBG on his llama!  It was dark, and hard to see but if you look closely you'll see the llama.





R.I.P. you darned gnome!  Yes, it's true.  The Gnome of the Darned can die!!  When I first got my GD gnome, (Gnome of the Darned gnome),  I didn't want to take the time to see what he would do.  I'd heard he brought ghosts to the lot and I didn't want to have to deal with that, so I put him in family inventory, figuring he'd just be static in there till I wanted to deal with him.  Yet every time people or animals would look at my Sim they would see a ghost.  I didn't think anything about it, although I did wonder why they had that idea.  After all, the ghost gnome was put away in storage, right?  So one day while I was training my dog in the living room, (I'm thinking you not only have to have a pet but the pet has to be maxed out on skills before you get a dog gnome),  all the gnomes in there went audibly and visibly POOF!  All at once!  So I paused the game and went looking and here's what I found:





There were two gnome memorials with the inscription of Here Rests Mr. Gnome of the Darned.  He will be missed" and most of my gnome collection, (springtime gnomes were in storage), had gathered around them.  A spontaneous gnome funeral for two gnomes that never got a chance to be part of them.  Who knew a ghost gnome could die?  Or maybe, since they were already ghosts and therefor dead, they just finally made it to the great beyond.
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Re: What's up with gnomes?
« Reply #466 on: March 21, 2013, 12:57:31 AM »

He can also be found on the Fortune Teller's lot and can be moved into your inventory the same as the gnomes in the art gallery in France can.

Is the Gnome of the Darned always on this lot or does he just appear?

Has anyone heard anymore about the 2 animal gnomes for the cat and dog.  I heard maybe puppies or kitten will work.  Also that dogs have to have all skills and be best friends to get the dog gnome.



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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #467 on: March 21, 2013, 04:47:51 AM »
A cat gnome appeared in my living room but unfortunately i'm not sure what my cat had been doing at the time, my sim had been out of the house, I know whacked out cats are supposed to make them appear but my cat is always playing with the catnip mouse and is in an almost permanent whacked out state.

I do think she had got her hunting skill to about 6 or 7 by the time the gnome appeared, perhaps that has a bearing as well. Oh and she is best friends forever with my sim.

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Re: What's up with gnomes?
« Reply #468 on: March 21, 2013, 04:58:34 AM »
Has anyone heard anymore about the 2 animal gnomes for the cat and dog.  I heard maybe puppies or kitten will work.  Also that dogs have to have all skills and be best friends to get the dog gnome.

I know for a fact the dog doesn't have to know any of the tricks, as most of the time I
My sims are too busy doing other stuff. The only thing for me that has triggered the dog gnome is when the dogs are BFF with the sims, not just best friends.
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #469 on: March 21, 2013, 06:30:42 AM »
According to the game coding, the dog & cat gnome both have a 7% chance of appearing on your lot.    For the dogs, it matters that they are best friends.  The dogs being best friends with everyone in the house will expedite you getting one.  For the cats, it's being whacked out.   The chance for one appearing is only checked once per day unlike some other gnomes.


I can't get an Evil Gnome to save my life.  I want one so bad and he just never comes!  Has anyone else been able to get one?
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #470 on: March 21, 2013, 06:36:56 AM »
I've played one of the evil sims from Monte Vista - I think his name is Carlos - he always gets sent one. The trick is to have the evil trait and lots of enemies. Also, you can get them the same way you get normal mr gnomes, but I haven't gotten them that way before.

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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #471 on: March 21, 2013, 06:46:34 AM »
I've played one of the evil sims from Monte Vista - I think his name is Carlos - he always gets sent one. The trick is to have the evil trait and lots of enemies. Also, you can get them the same way you get normal mr gnomes, but I haven't gotten them that way before.

Yeah I can't get one to spawn like the normals.  I guess the game thought 8 enemies wasn't enough or it knows I really want one.   Time to go tick off Sunset Valley with Artie.
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #472 on: March 21, 2013, 06:56:11 AM »
According to the game coding, the dog & cat gnome both have a 7% chance of appearing on your lot.    For the dogs, it matters that they are best friends.  The dogs being best friends with everyone in the house will expedite you getting one.  For the cats, it's being whacked out.   The chance for one appearing is only checked once per day unlike some other gnomes.


I can't get an Evil Gnome to save my life.  I want one so bad and he just never comes!  Has anyone else been able to get one?
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #473 on: March 21, 2013, 07:42:49 AM »
Two of my sims (a teen and a kid) got an evil gnome each when trick or treating. Neither of them are evil or have any enemies that I know of. Their siblings only got candy.

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Re: What's up with gnomes?
« Reply #474 on: March 21, 2013, 03:34:43 PM »
Is the Gnome of the Darned always on this lot or does he just appear?

Has anyone heard anymore about the 2 animal gnomes for the cat and dog.  I heard maybe puppies or kitten will work.  Also that dogs have to have all skills and be best friends to get the dog gnome.

When you first go to the fortune teller there is a GD there.  If you take it, and go back later, you probably won't find another.  I've tried, after mine died, and no luck.  So whether they respawn there or not I don't know for sure yet.

I was able to get one when using the miner.

Me too.  It was the first time try too and I was surprised it was an evil gnome.  Haven't pulled him out of the treasure chest I'm keeping him yet though.

According to the game coding, the dog & cat gnome both have a 7% chance of appearing on your lot.    For the dogs, it matters that they are best friends.  The dogs being best friends with everyone in the house will expedite you getting one.  For the cats, it's being whacked out.   The chance for one appearing is only checked once per day unlike some other gnomes.


I can't get an Evil Gnome to save my life.  I want one so bad and he just never comes!  Has anyone else been able to get one?

I can't get the dog gnome to save my life.  lol  Or a laundry gnome for that matter and he's one of the easiest ones to get.  My dog is bff but maybe I trained him too much.  I did finally get a Freezer Bunny gnome from his barking.

I've been trying to get a springtime gnome in my UC file for quite some time and the only way I've gotten one so far has been through egg hunts.  It's pretty random though I've noticed there is a time factor there.  After a bit most of the townies will start hanging out on the festival lot so you definitely have to work fast and be there fairly early.  When I went BEFORE 8 am I had no luck.  When I went around 10 am I had no luck.  When I went at 8 am I got three of them.  So I'm figuring timing is a factor.  I'm currently trying to get one to show up on my lot from whoohooing, and while my Sim and her partner are having a lot of fun, no spring gnome has appeared.  wink, wink  My Sims partner, (he moved in but they aren't engaged yet), is going for a career in music to try for the lounge lizard gnome and he is pretty high up in celeb status so we'll see if he gets a Bling Bling gnome.

Gotten my troglodyte gnome from time travel to the past.  Am now traveling more to see if I get any other gnomes.

Summer time gnome is adorable.  (I do love the Seasons gnomes!).  He showed up on my lot after I cranked the heat up to 100 and napped in the sun.  My Sim had the LTR that prevented heat problems so I was worried he wouldn't show up. 



He does tricks on his life preserver!



The Gnome of the Darned comes in colors.  When you get him from the Claaw he is an orangey pink.  He's usually ticked off.  When you get him from the gypsy he can start off white, or grey but soon becomes cyan colored.  After he's been on the lot awhile, the Claaw gnome will go yellow and hunt other gnomes, Sims, or plants.  They can also go green.  The cyan colored one looks sad, the yellow or pink one looks angry.  I THINK, but don't know, the colors are part of their mood.  They attract a variety of ghosts to your lot who do the usual ghosty things like play pranks, or play in the sprinkler, eat your food, (leaving the mess behind), sleep in your bed and more.  When they die or get sold, the ghosts stop appearing.







They seem to really dislike vampire gnomes and frequently will stalk them.  Mine has even gotten the rest of the gnome family to join in and they will all go after the poor vampire gnome.





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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #475 on: March 21, 2013, 05:06:34 PM »
Is that a witch gnome in the last picture? :o
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #476 on: March 21, 2013, 06:01:55 PM »
In The Sims 3 Pets for PS3 you can invent a gnome.  He's made of stone I think and has big yellow eyes.  Every now and then you find him in a different part of the house or yard.  One time my sim was out in the town and came back and the stereo was turned on and the gnome was in a pose which looked like it was dancing.  I've seen him have a walking pose, a pose with him bent over a cain, a pose of him up against the wall with his hands up.  If you kick him and he falls over his hands move like he's trying to stop himself from smashing his face on the floor.

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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #477 on: March 21, 2013, 08:16:37 PM »
Is that a witch gnome in the last picture? :o

The witch is the Fall Gnome.
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #478 on: March 22, 2013, 06:40:14 PM »
I keep getting Gnome gravestones... But no "live" gnomes... Is there something in the code for why this happens?
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Re: The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread
« Reply #479 on: March 23, 2013, 09:18:54 AM »
The Gnome of the Darned, can they change colors?  I got one out of the Clawww and he was pink.  I hope he changes color, I really, really, don't like the color pink. 

My fairy sims were working in the nectar garden I am creating, they had been there for a couple of  days (on static) and when I went to check an area he was there by the fence.  I don't know if having the sprinkers on, I don't turn them off, was a factor.  I keep the temps at 75 so that can't be the reason, at least in my case.
I'm assuming he is the Darned one, as he has the life preserver.

I have yet to have a gnome leave, they change poses often, like to move around and will get in a bunch as if they having a chat time.  I have never told my sims to kick one, although they do so in the Fall.  I try to stop them, I feel it is so mean of them. 

I wish I had posted a picture I had taken before I unistalled.  Had two of the gnomes in the hedge fence.  One was on one side with showing just from his waist back. The other was on the other side, just from head to waist showing. It was obvious it was two different types, cute picture. 
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