Game Help:Sims 3 Skills/Inventing

Inventing

With Ambitions, sims get a new skill, Inventing. Using the Scraptastic Workbench, sims can create widgets, toys, big inventions, and robots!

Sims with the Eccentric trait will have an easier time inventing bigger and better objects.

As your sim invents, the Inventing skill and Handiness skill will improve.

Scrap

In order to create inventions, your sim will need scrap. For lazy sims with extra money, scrap can be purchased directly from the Scraptastic Workbench.

Digging for Scrap

Scrap can be gathered from the Junkyard by digging through scrap piles.

Rummaging through trash cans will sometimes yield a few scrap

Detonation

After a few skill points, you will get the option to detonate scrap piles (and pretty much everything else). This can lead to massive amounts of scrap. For example, detonating certain cars has been known to give over 100,000 scrap. Be careful of this, however, because your sim will almost always get fined for the replacement cost of whatever you blew up. Detonating things cannot also lead to chain detonations. This can be a good thing if you set up scrap piles or salvaged items, but careless detonation can lead to brand new objects being destroyed, not too mention your sim!

The Harvester invention is a good item to use when getting ready to collect scrap.

Inventions

Skill Level	Category	Name	Materials Required
1	Widget	Drinking Llama	2 scrap
1	Widget	Smasher	2 scrap
2	Toy	Dog Toy	2 scrap
2	Widget	Rotational Pull	3 scrap
3	Toy	Cow Toy	4 scrap
3	Big Invention	Floor Hygienator	10 scrap
3	Widget	Tentacled Wind Up	4 scrap
4	Big Invention	Harvester	25 scrap
4	Toy	Whale Toy	4 scrap
5	Widget	Localized Static Tester	6 scrap
6	Widget	Floating Duck	7 scrap
6	Toy	Robot Toy	3 scrap
7	Widget	Flying Fighters	9 scrap
7	Big Invention	Miner	50 scrap
9	Big Invention	Time Machine	75 scrap
10	Big Invention	Sim Bot	1 Palladium 10 Life Fruit 1 Heart-Shaped Pink Diamond 100 Scrap

More on Inventions

Sim Bot

See Sim Bot.

Challenges

• Widget Wonder
• Diabolical Detonator
• Scrap Collector
• Master Inventor
• The Ultimate Invention!

Inventing Professionally

The Inventing skill is one of those that allows sims to register as self-employed and become professional Inventors. See Skill Careers.