The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread

[PlatnumDymnd]

So far the only gnomes I have is the vampire gnome. She is kinda cute in a wierd gnomey witch sort of way. Now they are like everywhere. Are they stealing my teddy bears? Are they turning the bears into more gnomes? And I think I saw one float. But I'm not catching them move.   I now have them in each of the toddlers' inventory so they can sleep with them. I havent gotten any others. Maybe because I don't have WA?

[LlamaMama]

Gnomes don't move like sims do, they change position at most once a day. First you have to take the gnome out of inventory and place it on the ground. Sometime during the night it may poof and show up somewhere else on your property, often in a different pose. From your perspective, when the sun comes up, some or all the gnomes will be in different places, doing different things.

The vampire gnome will turn teddy bears into vampire gnomes. There is no "turning". The bear goes poof and a new vampire gnome appears. I think Saltypaws posted a video of the change (sorry if I said the wrong member name). A bear is worth $50 but a gnome is worth $1000, so it's not a bad deal.

[Pam]

So far the only gnomes I have is the vampire gnome. She is kinda cute in a wierd gnomey witch sort of way. Now they are like everywhere. Are they stealing my teddy bears? Are they turning the bears into more gnomes? And I think I saw one float. But I'm not catching them move.   I now have them in each of the toddlers' inventory so they can sleep with them. I havent gotten any others. Maybe because I don't have WA?

There's a regular gnome from the vanilla base game and some from Ambitions, too.  You can get gnomes from fishing and sending gems to be cut.  Sometimes the gem turns out to be a gnome and they send it to you in the mail.

[Asleep]

Or you can use BuyDebug.

[samoht04]

The ambitions Gnomes can be found on adventures as well!  I found that Egyptian dude in a chest in one of the pyramids.

[Vixxxxen]

Suddenly there are two vampire gnomes flying and moving around my house! Where the heck did they come from? Anyone got a clue?

[Schipperke]

Do you have plasma fruit plants on your lot?  I believe that attracts the vampire gnomes.  Also, once you have one of these gnomes on the lot, any teddy bears not in your sim's inventory are likely to be turned into vampire gnomes.

[sdinger70]

I think, but I'm not 100% sure, that you need at least three plasma plants in your garden to have the vampire gnome show up. Although I like having them, because if/when they do show up, I stock up on teddy bears - a random chance of turning $50 into $1000 is pretty nice, even if it is random when it happens.

[Pam]

I'm merging this with the main gnome thread. 

[LenaLJ]

Two little questions:

I know that the gnome from France is named Little Leon and the one from China Master Manchu.

But what about the Inventing, Sculpting and Vampire whats their names??

And I have seen The Sculpting Gnome in two Shapes now, one made of Stone, One of tree, can he be sculpted in other forms??

[LlamaMama]

I've never seen a wooden Sculpting Gnome! Do you have a screenshot you can share with us?

[LenaLJ]

I only have a screen where he accidently is on but its far away ill take a new screen later today when i load the game again.

[kestie freehawk]

I had a lot of fun with the Laundry bear, for me he seemed to be the easiest to acquire because a nectar making athlete spins their clothes off a lot.  You seem to get the bear after you get the clean sheets moodlet and do a batch of laundry.  I put a mummy bear in the yard and all the laundry bears in the yard in a circle.  The bears seem to poof into a new position at 3 am Sim time in my games, and they show me things that need repair or money tree seeds or that I need to have fun.  When I loaded Late Night I found a Vampire gnome in the house behind the bar.  The position is 4 spaces from the plasma fruit outside in the garden.  My gardener hasn't changed and will probably not become a vampire, but I haven't played with the gnome because I didn't know for sure that it was the fruit that attracted it.

[LenaLJ]

I know i promised a screenshot of the sculpting gnome in clay but my computer is buggy these days and wont let me upload pictures.

But i found this, its a post on a blog about a sculpting gnome in clay
http://simgnome.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/magical-gnome-of-sculpting/

Im not sure if its against the rules to link to other sites, if so please remove the link. But im quite surprised to see the gnome in other than stone. And just wanted to prove me research.

[Esther1981]

I have a pic of a sculpting gnome in wood! I know it's not clay, but I got wood lol. Actually I'm not sure if it's wood or clay! It might be clay!!