Gem collecting

Gem collecting

All gems in various cuts

Gems are collectibles in The Sims 3. They are found in their raw form and can be cut by sending them to a gem cutters or by using the gem cutter machine.

Raw

Gemstones are found in the rough, around neighborhoods and on adventures.

Image	Gem	Rarity	Min Value (§)	Max Value (§)	EP	Location
	Blue Topaz	Common	9	21	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Smoky Quartz	Common	15	25	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Emerald	Common	20	30	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Ruby	Common	25	35	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Yellow Sapphire	Uncommon	35	60	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Tanzanite	Uncommon	65	95	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Diamond	Rare	100	200	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Luminorious Gem	Rare	150	300	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Rainbow Gem	Rare	450	700	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Pink Diamond	Rare	1,200	1,650	&BG	Base neighborhood
	Amethyst	Common	18	24	&EP01	France
	Citrine	Uncommon	35	53	&EP01	France
	Opal	Rare	350	520	&EP01	France
	Alabaster	Common	9	55	&EP01	Egypt
	Turquoise	Uncommon	60	70	&EP01	Egypt
	Lapis Lazuli	Common	12	30	&EP01	China
	Jade	Rare	120	240	&EP01	China
	Quartz	Common	10	18	&EP01	Base neighborhood
	Geode	Uncommon	15	120	&EP01	Base neighborhood
	Septarian Nodule	Rare	50	350	&EP01	Base neighborhood
	Tiberium	Rare	75	125	&EP01	Base neighborhood
	Soulpeace	Rare	1,450	2,100	&EP01	Base neighborhood
	Fluorite	Rare	300	500	&EP02	Sculpting Station
	Smithsonite	Uncommon	31	71	&EP03	Base neighborhood
	Vampire's Eye	Rare	200	375	&EP03	Base neighborhood
	Sunstone	Rare	330	720	&EP07	Base neighborhood
	Moonstone	Rare	375	855	&EP07	Base neighborhood
	Bloodstone	Uncommon	35	105	&EP07	Base neighborhood

Tiberium

Tiberium growing.

Tiberium is an extraordinarily rare and potentially very valuable gem. It represents the Tiberium crystal in Command And Conquer: Tiberium Wars. The raw rock is worth §75-125. In the inventory (either as ore or cut) it will give a negative "Visceroidal Nausea" moodlet (-25 mood).

Tiberium can be cut into 2 different forms:

• Small Spire Cut (§6,500)
• Heart-Shaped Cut (§1,000)

No matter what the cut is, a non-large cut of Tiberium will grow into a Large Spire Cut within a day, giving it a value of around §40,000 or higher in some cases. Large cuts of Tiberium gems do not morph into Large Spire cuts.

Cuts

Skull cut gems.

Gems may be sent to the gem-cutter by mail and cut into the following cuts. Starting with the emerald cut, Sims gain cuts by cutting increasing numbers of gems.

Geode & Septarian Nodules only have polished split and heart-shaped cut, while Tiberium only has Spire and Heart-Shaped cut.

Sometimes the gem cutters will return an uncut gem, saying that it is actually a Mysterious Mr. Gnome in disguise.

The table lists both when you break even with a particular cut, and when a cut begins yielding better profit than the previous cut. For example, if a gem is worth §47, an oval cut provides §70 while the Pear cut yields §82. Factoring in the cost of the gem and the cost of cutting the gem, the Oval cut provides a §3 profit while the Pear cut yields no profit. The Pear cut does not start providing more profit than the Oval cut until the original worth is §60, as listed below.

With The Sims 3: Supernatural, Sims can purchase the Gem-U-Cut machine for a one-time investment of §975. It does not cost anything to cut a gem with the machine, meaning that the machine can eventually pay for itself. Sims gain access to new cuts when using the machine in the same way they would when sending gems to the gem-cutter via mail.

Image	Cut	Cost	Worth Change	Break Even	Range for Best Profit	Requirement	EP
	Emerald	§10	125%	§40	§40	None	&BG
	Oval	§20	150%	§40	§40-60	4 cuts	&BG
	Pear	§35	175%	§47	§60	+4 (8 total) cuts	&BG
	Plumbbob	§50	200%	§50	§60-83	+8 (16 total) cuts	&BG
	Marquis	§75	230%	§58	—	+14 (30 total) cuts	&BG
	Crystal ball	§100	260%	§63	§84-166	+15 (45 total) cuts	&BG
	Brilliant	§250	350%	§100	§167-233	+15 (60 total) cuts	&BG
	Heart-Shaped	§1000	500%	§250	§600+	Collect 10 different types of gems.	&BG
	Polished Split	§45	240%	§32	§32-367	Geode & Septarian Nodules only	&EP01
	Spire	§6500	6900%			Tiberium only	&EP01
	Skull	-	1000%			Available only via transfiguration	&EP01
	Star	§400	400%	§134	§300-600	+15 (75 total) cuts.	&EP01
	Sculptor's Egg	§175	300%	§88	—	Available to Sims with 5 points of sculpting skill.	&EP02
	Dust	N/A	25%			Obtained as a byproduct when using the Gem cutter	&EP07
	Sun	§600	500%	§150	§234+	+25 (100 total) cuts.	&EP07
	Moon	§600	500%	§150	§234+	+25 (100 total) cuts.	&EP07

Note:

The star-cut will be enabled after installing patch 26 or The Sims 3: Pets, otherwise it will be hidden from normal gameplay and cannot be produced by players but they can be found in tombs. A glitch that may be caused by testingcheatsenabled true is that when you are returning from any world causes all gems to become blue topaz in color. This can be fixed by restarting, although the glitched gems will stay blue.

Gallery

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  All gems in all cuts of the base game.

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  (Currently) All gems from all Expansion packs in all cuts