The Ultimate Magic Gnome Thread

[Jowkoul]

Pam, that's because in one of my game files I had never got gnomes in mail before finding one (while fishing) and knocking it. After knocking it a few more times, every second gem sent to be cut was returned as a gnome... Anyway, that save file was corrupted, and I deleted it completely.

[chrissie]

I thought that growing plasma fruit would eventually give you a vampire gnome. My level 10 gardener has been growing them to perfection (literally) for years and nothing I'm so disappointed.

[trubble]

Buy a cuddly teddy bear, they seem to change into vampire gnomes - I'm not sure of the reason. I've had vampire and plasma fruit-less households and the bears always change.

[Esther1981]

I thought that growing plasma fruit would eventually give you a vampire gnome. My level 10 gardener has been growing them to perfection (literally) for years and nothing I'm so disappointed.

I've heard you have to have at least 3 at once. I normally do 5-10 and always have 1 show up, then buy teddies and get hundreds more lol.

[mtglady]

I finally started receiving gnomes in the mail just this past week after playing for about 4-6 hours daily since June 2009 and after purchasing each SP and EP as soon as they were released (all have been pre-orders with same day delivery).  I even had Sim family members, up to the 10Th generation dedicated as 'collectors' and never received them in the mail, even after finding every gem and mineral there was at the time. 

I was very surprised to receive 5 gnomes in the mail in place of 5 gems while in Egypt last week.  Two days later I received another 2 gnomes.  Last night, after being home in Bridgeport for a couple of days, I received 3 gnomes in place of 3 gems.  Good thing I like having so many of those critters  .

As to Vampire gnomes, I have one Sim whose husband is a Vampire and that family has quite a number of Vampire gnomes.  She only has a small garden and maybe has 3 Plasma Fruit plants planted at a time.  And yes, lots of Teddies to make even more Vampire gnomes - lol!

Another Sim I played recently was not a vampire and he didn't receive a single gnome even after having 5 perfect Plasma Fruit plants ready to harvest at one time.  Note:  This Sim was made specifically for a challenge.   

Sometimes I think they are all just hit and miss. 

[GenTheHen]

It surprises me that people are finding it hard to get gnomes in the mail
It really annoying when I find a rare gem and send it off to be cut and comes back a gnome! then have to try and find another gem
SIGH pretty much all of the original mysterious magical gnome and the 3 WA I got through posting gems/metals in the mail...

my current sim, who I have been playing with for 10 Sim weeks has 63 Mr.Mysterious Magical Gnome, 23 France Gnome, 31 China Gnome, 17 Egypt Gnome, 4 sculpting gnome, 23 Inventing gnome, 10 Caveman Gnome, 39 Laundry gnomes, 7 Vampire gnomes, 1 Blingaboo gnome.

Blingaboo is really hard to get, my sim is a 5 star celeb(has been since 3 days after she was created) and has received 199 freebies/gifts and only 1 of those was a Blingaboo gnome he was her 51st gift.

[pallyndrome]

Is there a trick to getting the laundry gnome? Like do you have to use the special wash or the more expensive/cheap washing machine. And does it come from the mashing machine or the dryer?

[Huge]

What are these even for? Never seen one until I installed LN, then suddenly, a vampire gnome turned up. I only noticed him because he appeared in the way of the loo, and my sim wet himself. I too was busy trying to get Mrs sim to feed the baby to notice!

[Edited for language.  Please do not use profanity of any kind.  -Pam]

[Lilygirl]

They are for amusement and awesome fun! They move around and change poses. To really appreciate them you need a grain of salt and to zoom in on them with some imagination!

[mtglady]

Is there a trick to getting the laundry gnome? Like do you have to use the special wash or the more expensive/cheap washing machine. And does it come from the mashing machine or the dryer?

They come from the dryer. My Sim has two different dryers on their lot (an expensive one on the ground floor and a cheap one in the lower basement) and occasionally have received the laundry gnome from both.  I think the more you do laundry, the better your chances.  

What are these even for?

Like lilygirl said - they are lots of fun!  I caught these two while at my home in Egypt.

[Esther1981]

That's just weird Mtglady! I guess he wanted a piggy back ride!!

[mtglady]

That's what I thought too! 
Or else they were wrestling and Ami (the one on the bottom) was not as tough as Amail (the one on top).  Ami looks like she is hollering for help.  There were actually two other sultan gnomes standing in the corner and looking at these two. 

[Esther1981]

Lol that's funny!

[CatnOnion]

About the laundry gnome, I can't figure it out why the heck it won't show up after I finished doing my laundry hundreds of time until now (50+ days of laundry x average twice a day doing laundry, you guys do the math). The thing is, the custom content washing maching and the dryer wont dish out any gnome at all, including the one i downloaded from sims 3 store. I changed back to the usual one and the next thing i know is the teddy bear appeared in my inventory. Well, its just superstition or maybe I'm right. Prove me wrong guys?

On unrelated note,
Don't rank up in the firefighter too fast. Some of the disaster won't show up later when i became the firechief. Stuck with small and large fire house. Another thing is, I realize my sim ran to everywhere (running bug much?) after I was done catching angry gnome. Well, I'm happy because I can do stuff faster with my sim but just a precaution for you guys, avoid it.

(Edited for inappropriate content-Hosfac)

[malteser60]

I've been trying to get a laundry gnome for ages and no luck so far. I'm using the Ambitions EP washing machines and dryer. It's a bit frustrating as so far I have no Ambitions gnomes and only the vampire gnome from LN. With loads and loads of WA gnomes.

Thought I'd post a funny gnome picture. This little dude made me laugh so much when I found him.



I'll leave the caption up to the reader's imagination