Martial arts

The Martial Arts skill is a skill introduced in The Sims 3 World Adventures, and will, like all other skills introduced in this expansion pack, have a trait, Disciplined that increases its learning rate.

Sims can train at the Phoenix Academy of Martial Arts in Shang Simla. However, Sims may purchase a training dummy, board breaker, and books to train at home. Sims get different color belts at different levels, just as real martial athletes do. At Level 5, Sims may also Meditate to increase the Martial Arts Skill as well. Long periods of meditation will cause a "Meditative Focus" moodlet to appear. The positive moodlet increases in duration as the Sim continues to mediate and decreases while not meditating, maxing out at just over 4 hours of focus for around 2.5 hours of meditation; the Sim receives no further focus for continued meditation. At this point the Sim will glow with a green aura, levitate, and may choose to "Zeneport" to any location on the map, which will remove the focus moodlet and end the meditation. Receiving the Master of Meditation (MOM) achievement will also allow the Sim to teleport via "Tranquil Transference", which can be used at any time the Sim has more than 30 minutes of focus remaining, at the expense of 30 minutes of focus (i.e. 2 hours of focus allows 4 Transferences if no time is wasted between teleports) Because Zeneport removes the focus moodlet, it is not possible to use Zeneport and then Tranquil Transference immediately after. Masters at meditating can summon natural elements to help them in their battles. Sims who have mastered the martial arts skill can teach other Sims as well.

While breaking a space rock block on the board, a random gem will spawn. For example, smashing a space rock earned me a Soulpeace and Pink Diamond. By breaking a Space Rock you may see a cameo of Command & Conquer in the form of Tiberium. However, keeping Tiberium in a sim's inventory will make them nauseous. you may, for 6000 simoleons cut the mineral in Spire cut, which allows it to glow.

The Mummies in Al Simhara all have their martial arts skill on level 10.

Belts
Depending on your level, your sim's martial arts belt will change colors depending on their level of skill.