Game Help:Sims 3 Skills/Nectar Making

Nectar Making

Does your sim have a knack for cooking or trying new things? Or do they want to try a traditional French activity? Then Nectar making is for you!

Starting Out

When you first start out on this skill, head down to Champs Les Sims in France. You'll need two things to start making nectar:

• A Nectar Maker: You can purchase this from the Nectary in France from the vendor for 1500 Simoleons.
• Fruit: France has several different varieties of grapes (some better than others) available from the Nectary vendor, the Special vendor, and from vines growing around France.

You can also purchase racks to store your nectar bottles in from the Buy mode catalog under Surfaces > Storage, or just keep them in your sim's inventory.

Making Nectar

To be more successful in nectar making, having your Nectar Maker in a basement is recommended.

To start making nectar, click on the Nectar Maker and select 'Add fruit'. You need 10 fruits to make nectar successfully and it will taste even better if you use more than one fruit. Stomp the fruit, and then Make Nectar. The Nectar Maker will chug away for 2 sim hours, and then you'll get a popup that tells you how it tastes, with an option to name it. After that, you can pick it up from the Nectar Maker and store it in a rack or your inventory. The Nectar Maker will let you choose previous recipes for nectar, so you can remake your favourite blends easily.

Variations on Making Nectar

As your sim grows in skill at making nectar, they will be able to do different things with the Nectar Maker.

• Basic - 0 Nectar Skill - Make 3 bottles of basic nectar. Sims at 0 nectar skill make nectars worth 25% less than the base price.
• Concentrated - 4 Nectar Skill - Nectars are worth 25% more, but you only make 2 bottles instead of 3.
• Mass Produce - 7 Nectar Skill - Nectars are worth 25% less, but you make 5 bottles instead of 3.
• Extended Nectaration - 9 Nectar Skill - Nectars are worth 15% more, but take 50% longer to make.

Storing and Aging Nectar

Nectars, once stored, increase in value. Aged nectars can be extremely valuable. Placing your nectar in a nectar rack, instead of your inventory, increases the amount that the nectars increase in value by a small amount - 2% for the small nectar rack and 3.5% for the larger rack.

Nectar Maker Upgrades

The Nectar Maker can be upgraded by sims with handiness skill. It has three upgrades:

• Unbreakable
• Flavor Enhancement
• Improved Pressing - Adds 1 bottle to the number made in a batch.

Nectar Making Challenges

There are several Nectar Making challenges to complete so your sim can earn new rewards!

• Master of Nectar Making - After making 200 bottles of nectar your sim can make an extra bottle for each batch.

• Mix Master - After completing 15 combinations of fruit which allows you to see the outcome of fruit you combine.

• Flavorful Feet - After stomping through 40 bins of fruit, the value of your nectar increases by 10%.