Collecting

Careers are the major thrust of Ambitions, but they are not the only way to earn Simoleonsin Twinbrook—orany town. Valuable collectibles are around the city and can enrich your household account or beautify your lot.

You can collect butterflies and beetles to sell to the science facility(or keep for yourself). Precious gems and metals can be refined into brilliant treasures.

Space rocks hurtling down from the heavens have smashed into the ground all around Twinbrook too.Use them as in this section to pin point the locations of all collectibles.

A randomness factor is involved in collecting. Alhough we have provided the locations of collectibles, there is a chance they will not be the re on the specific day you check.

Maybe the next day. Maybe the next week. And if multiple collectibles in a category arel isted for a spot, perhaps only one of that group will be present on any given day.

Insects

There are two types of insects to collect: beetles and butterflies. Collecting these insects gets your Sims out of the house where they can avoid going Stir Crazy and soak up some nature.

Insects can be sold to the science facility for Simoleons (the rarer the insect, the more it is worth) or kept on your lot in terrariums.

Sims love to have a collection of pretty insects at home, so consider your lot environment before trading these finds in for cash.

Having an attractive butterfly or rare beetle in a terrarium could be the difference between an okay room and one that gives your Sim the Nicely Decorated moodlet.

Beetles

Watch your step! There's an entire world under your feet in Twinbrook. Beetles scurry about until a curious Sim like you comes along to collect them.

You can find several types of beetles in Twinbrook, all worth different amounts of Simoleons if you take them to the science center.

But keep in mind that the more valuable a beetle is to the science center, the more of an environmental bonus it will have on your lot.

BEETLES

Butterflies

Butterflies float and flit around Twinbrook, filling the air with flashes of color. Like beetles, there are many different butterflies, each with a different value to both the science center and your home.

As tempting as it is to trade those pretty little wings in for some cash, you may wish to install a handful of butterflies in terrariums around your lot for the beautification factor.

BUTTERFLIES

Minerals

Gems

Don't just walk by the rocks you see on the ground. Upon closer inspection, your Sim will discover that some of them are actually gems.

However, gems require an extra step. You must send them away to be cut into beautiful stones, which increases their value.

GEMS

Ambitions introduces an all-new gem: Flourite Palmstone. Here are its values:

PALMSTONE

Having a gem cut increases its value, but this comes at a cost. You must pay to have a gem cut, which occurs when you send it away via the mailbox. When you first start collecting gems, the only cut available is Emerald.

The next available cut is Oval, but to unlock this cut, you need to send off four previously collected gems to be cut by the professional jeweller. After that fourth cut, you get a note saying the Oval cut is now available.

So, while it does cost to get these gems cut, the more you do it, better cuts you get—and the more money you can make from selling. The best cut is the Heart cut, which multiplies the value of the gem five-fold.

GEM CUTS

There is also a brand new gem cut in Ambitions: Sculptor's Egg. This cut is available right away, too!

AMBITION GEM CUTS

There's a chance you'll dig up gems and metals while using the Miner invention.

Metals

Sims can collect five different kinds of precious metals: iron, silver, gold, palladium, and plutonium. However, when you pick them up, they are still in ore form.

These metals must be smelted to make them valuable—and pretty. To turn ore into ingots, just send them away via an interaction with your lot's mailbox.

When the ingot comes back, the value has improved by up to 75 percent. That's quite a boost for the §40 smelting fee.

METALS

New to Ambition is Woohooium, a precious metal that is found only during the sculpting process. When a sculptor works in stone, there is a small chance the stone will break and reveal a raw sample of this romantic ore.

WOOHOOIUM

Any time while sculpting in stone, it could shatter and reveal Woohooium or Flourite Palmstone.

Meteorites

Not every rock found in Twinbrook is from this planet. Some are meteorites that streaked down from space and crashed in the borders of this lovely city. These rocks can be worth serious Simoleons. There are three sizes: small, large, and huge.

METEORITES

Meteorites can be worth quite a bit of money, but there is a degree of risk when you analyze a meteorite to determine what it is. Sometimes the raw value of a meteorite is greater than its worth once it has been identified.

For example, if analysis reveals your meteorite is Ordinary Chondrite, the meteorite is now only worth half of its previous value.

After analyzing it, there is no way to reverse the process, so you might be stuck with a less valuable space rock.

Here is a list of all of the possible results of analysis and the value multipliers of such discoveries:

Meteorite Values

Death by Meteorite!

You find most meteorites on the ground, but in Ambitions, there are still plenty up in the air.

Sims who spend time in the outdoors or look through telescopes at the stars run the risk—however minuscule—of being flattened by a falling meteor.

Fortunately, you get a moment of warning before this actually happens. A shadow appears on the ground around the Sim and foreboding music lilts through the air.

But the warning lasts only a few moments and any Sim still in that shadow when the meteor strikes is instantly killed. If the dead Sim is turned into a playable ghost, the ghost is orange.

Babies and children cannot be squished by a meteor. So relax.