Game Help:Sims 3 Skills/Nectar Making

Nectar Making

The exterior of The Nectary in Champs Les Sims, France.

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! EP1: World Adventures has added the much-wanted feature from The Sims 1 back into the game and made it more interesting than ever.

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. Any fruit (except tomatoes) can be used to create nectar.

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.

You can also purchase Skill Books to learn Nectar Making from the Book Merchant in France so you don't waste your produce on a low-level sim's practice nectars.

Making Nectar

To be more successful in nectar making, having your Nectar Maker in a basement is recommended - this is suggested in one of the game's loading tips but is unverified.

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.

Nectar Values

Each of the fruits in the game (excluding tomatoes) can be used to create nectar, and has a Nectar Value and Ancient Nectar Value which factors into how good the resulting nectar is. These values are listed below.

Icon	Produce	Base Price	Nectar Value	Ancient Nectar Value	Expansion	Additional Info
	Apple	4	3	2	File:TS3-base-game-icon.jpg
	Lime	9	7	0	File:TS3-base-game-icon.jpg
	Flame Fruit	10	18	1	File:TS3-base-game-icon.jpg	25% Flame Fruit will make flame effects (unverified - xml tuning comment)
	Grapes	4	3	0	File:TS3-base-game-icon.jpg
	Watermelon	9	7	0	File:TS3-base-game-icon.jpg
	Life Fruit	25	22	1	File:TS3-base-game-icon.jpg	50% Life Fruit will give the Make Younger effect (unverified - needs explanation - xml tuning comment)
	Avornalino Grapes	4	5	12	(France)
	Gralladina Fran Grapes	4	5	12	(France)
	Cherimola Blan Grapes	7	8	12	(France)
	Cranerlet Nuala Grapes	8	10	12	(France)
	Meliore Grapes	10	12	12	(France)
	Renoit Grapes	13	16	12	(France)
	Pomegranate	8	6	3	(Egypt)
	Plum	7	7	5	(China)
	Pomelo	15	12	3	(China)
	Cherries	12	9	3	(Egypt)

Making Valuable Nectars

Nectar making is a complex process, and there are a lot of factors involved in the outcome of your nectar. There is some randomness involved, but here are some of the things that increase your nectar's value:

• Use Quality Ingredients: Use ingredients with a high Nectar Value (as listed on the above chart) that are as high a produce quality possible (Perfect quality is best). Perfect quality ingredients provide a 250% value increase over Normal quality.

• Combinations: Using combinations of different ingredients can result in up to 75% greater value (though it can make your nectar worth less too).

• High Skill Level: Nectar made by Level 10 sims is worth 50% more than the nectar of lesser skilled sims.

• Improved Flavor: Get a sim with a high Mechanical Skill to Upgrade the Nectar Maker for a 15% increase in value.

• Flavorful Feet: Complete the Flavorful Feet skill challenge (details below under Nectar Making Challenges) to increase nectar value by 10%.

• Concentrated: Make your nectars Concentrated instead of any of the other types for a 25% increase in value over Basic nectar.

• Age It: Store your nectar in the large nectar rack, purchasable from the Nectary in France. This is preferrable to storing it in the two nectar racks purchasable in Buy Mode, or in your inventory as there is a greater value increase on the large rack. One of the Tips on the in-game loading screens suggests that nectar ages better in a basement, but this is unverified.

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%.

Related Pages

• Gardening
• Books
• Upgrades