Inventing



Inventing is a skill that appears in the Ambitions expansion pack for The Sims 3.

This skill benefits from the Eccentric trait. As an inventor, Sims can create either brilliant or destructive gadgets. There is a new Junkyard lot where inventors can collect junk using detonation packs. Inventive Sims can provide junk as a medium for Sims developing their Sculpting skill. There is a new inventions log that lists all the inventions a Sim has created and the travels they had in the time machine. Inventing will also increase Sim's handiness skill. There's another invention called the Harvester which collects any harvestable objects (scrap, plants, garbage, dishes, etc.) in an area around the Sim.

Inventor Sims use the Scraptastic™ Workbench to build inventions.

Children can become inventors as well.

Inventions

 * Floor Hygienator (provides hygiene to Sims who walk over it)
 * Toys
 * Widgets (devices with no practical function)
 * Personal drilling device
 * Time machine (Rabbit hole)
 * Sim Bot (a new life state)
 * Magical Gnome of Invention

These inventions (and other things) can be used to complete opportunities or be sold via the consignment store for a handy profit

Getting Sim Bot:

Despite the skill goal listed in-game, your Inventor Sim can receive the phone call to begin the Sim Bot questline at any time.

The quest chain has four goals:

First, you must bring one piece of Palladium to the Science Facility.

Then you must turn in 10 life fruits, which requires someone in the family to have a 7 gardening skill.

Third, you must find a heart shaped Pink Diamond. The heart-shaped cut is only available once you have collected ten different types of gems.

Once you turn in the heart-shaped Pink Diamond, the Science Facility will ask for 100 Scrap which should be incredibly easy to find. Turn everything in and you will receive a "Life Core" and will be directed to create a "Mystery Invention" which, of course, turns out to be a Sim Bot. Your Sim will shout "IT'S ALIVE!" in Simlish and you will be prompted to either adopt your Sim Bot, or "release it into the wild".

From there, you will be able to create more Sim Bots using the following materials:

Palladium (x1)

Life Fruit (x10)

Heart-Shaped Cut Pink Diamond (x1)

Scrap (x100)

You can choose the gender of every Sim Bot after your first.