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Contents

  • Essentials
    • What's New
      • What's New
      • A World Without Limits
    • Creating A Sim
      • A New You
      • Personality
      • Family and Aging
      • Making Catherine Browne
    • Creating a House
      • Creating a House
      • Building Basics
      • Buying a Lot
      • Build Mode
      • Furnished Lots and Pre-Set Lives
      • Households
      • Cheat Sheet
    • A Day in the Life
      • The Essentials
      • Wishes
      • Skills
      • Careers
      • Mood Maintenance
      • Relationships and Socializing
      • Meet the Brownes
      • Getting Settled
      • Making the Most
      • Keep On Keepin’ On
    • Traits
      • Traits
    • Moods
      • Mood
      • Moodlets
      • Positive Moodlets
      • Neutral Moodlets
      • Negative Moodlets
    • Wishes
      • Wishes
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • Wishes List
      • Lifetime Happiness Points
    • Skills
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
    • Careers
      • Careers
      • Business
      • Criminal
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Medical
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-time Work
      • School
    • Opportunities
      • Opportunities
      • Skills Opportunities
      • Careers Opportunities
    • Relationships and Aging
      • Relationships
      • Friendships (and Enemies)
      • Romance
      • Socializing
      • Family and Aging
      • Having a Family
      • Death
      • Service Sims
    • Tour of Sunset Valley
      • City Life
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Fishing Spots
      • Places to Go Collecting
    • Design Corner
      • Truly Custom Content
      • Winsome Farmhouse
      • Le Grand Palace
      • FoxGlen Manor
      • The Cherry Tree Houses
      • Richmond Manor
    • Object Catalog
      • Object Catalog
      • Living Room
      • Kitchen
      • Dining Room
      • Bedroom
      • Bathroom
      • Study
      • Kids’ Room
      • Multi-Room Objects
      • Outdoors and Landscaping
      • Object Interactions
    • Community
      • Sharing with the World

The Sims 3 Guide

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  1. Essentials93
The Sims 3 Prima Official eGuide is a digital web access strategy guide and includes:

• All career ladders revealed with strategies to succeed at any career path
• Accelerate skill development with our essential tips and tricks
• Fall in love and stay in love with our relationship tips
• Object catalogs reveal the hidden properties of every object in the game
• Find every hidden collectable
• Complete lists of every Achievement, Trophy, Opportunity, Challenge, and Karma Power
• Mood-boosting strategies for keeping Sims happy and productive

This guide covers the following platforms: PC