Author Topic: Nectar Making Problem (Read 2253 times)

Taxingwoman · « **on:** February 14, 2011, 11:10:21 AM »

I have looked everywhere and couldn't find a similar topic

I can't make nectar. My Sims have tons of perfect fruit of every kind. I built basements, bought nectar makers and storage, studied nectar making. When I click on the nectar maker and click "add fruit" I get this pop up window that says "take all" and it's empty. Same thing happens when I try to do the nectar making opportunity in France. Well, nothing happens
What am I doing wrong?

Simstar3 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2011, 11:11:34 AM »

Did you try dragging fruit from your sims inventory into the empty box?

Hosfac · « **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2011, 11:50:17 AM »

Yes, at first you have to drag the fruit and drop it in the box to make nectar. This is so you can decide what combination of fruit you use, and the quantities of the different types. Once you have made a particular type of nectar, you will get an option to make that combination again when you click on the nectar maker. You can choose to make nectar with just one kind of fruit, but the best types of nectar are made from using several different types of fruit.

A good one is to use 6 life fruit, 3 flame fruit and 1 cherimola blan grape. It yields a nectar with a high value that gives all the moodlets in a single bottle. If you're going for value alone, though, you can't beat 9 life fruit and 1 pomegranate.

Leto85 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:18:08 PM »

So there is really no nectar already in your nectar machine when you want to make new one? I thought you've already said so, but I am just checking.

Taxingwoman · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2011, 09:26:00 PM »

Thanks for the replies I will try it and report back. No I don't have anything in the machine yet.

Pam · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2011, 03:02:10 AM »

It sounds like maybe you don't have the fruit in the inventory of the Sim who is clicking on the nectar maker. You need at least 10 pieces of fruit in inventory to make nectar.

Leto85 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2011, 03:59:26 AM »

I know a pretty good website where I sometimes find good info: http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/skills/worldadventures/nectarmaking/

Who knows, if you check that out you may found something you have simply overlooked. Would be awesome if that will solve your problem.

Taxingwoman · « **Reply #7 on:** February 17, 2011, 09:47:49 AM »

Yay! I made nectar. The guide on this site is very useful however I don't see any mention of having to drag fruit to the box. I'm one of those people who needs the "Dummies guide"

I guess I was confused, because it looks just like the box when you open a treasure chest, so I couldn't understand why it was empty. Also with other tasks like inventing, you don't have to drag and drop. Anyway it's resolved now Thanks to this excellent forum!!

Leto85 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:09:41 AM »

Quote from: Taxingwoman on February 17, 2011, 09:47:49 AM

Yay! I made nectar. The guide on this site is very useful however I don't see any mention of having to drag fruit to the box. I'm one of those people who needs the "Dummies guide" I guess I was confused, because it looks just like the box when you open a treasure chest, so I couldn't understand why it was empty. Also with other tasks like inventing, you don't have to drag and drop. Anyway it's resolved now Thanks to this excellent forum!!

Good to know. I believe mostly when writing a guide for people it is difficult to really write it in such a good way that everyone can understand it right away. Therefore it is good to get this kind of feedback.
I remember lately when I was working with a 3D animation tutorial that I couldn't start with step 1 because I was missing a step 0 (clicking the right button to activate things). Searching and searching before I found which button it was and no, I couldn't find it myself I think.
Haha, I wish I had a forum for that kind of trouble.

Hosfac · « **Reply #9 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:32:33 AM »

Quote from: Taxingwoman on February 17, 2011, 09:47:49 AM

Yay! I made nectar. The guide on this site is very useful however I don't see any mention of having to drag fruit to the box. I'm one of those people who needs the "Dummies guide" I guess I was confused, because it looks just like the box when you open a treasure chest, so I couldn't understand why it was empty. Also with other tasks like inventing, you don't have to drag and drop. Anyway it's resolved now Thanks to this excellent forum!!

Actually, you can buy those treasure chests and put them in your houses, and you can put items in them the same way. They are very handy for storing things that you'd rather not carry around. I store life fruit in there so they don't get used in general cooking or simply eaten when your sim gets hungry, plus I put gems and ingots in there that I plan to use in future transfigurication, just to get them out of my inventory.

With the inventor's workbench, you can invent with the scrap in your inventory. However, if you don't want the scrap in your inventory, or if you intend for other sims to train inventing, you can drag and drop the scrap into the workbench.

Leto85 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:39:56 AM »

Those chest ideas from Hosfac has worked for me also. It is really handy if you don't want to store your nectar in the basement, because 2500 nectar racks can slow down your game tramendiously. Okey, it only works if you don't really care about nectar aging though.

One extra tip: change the chests colour to a colour that matches the stuff you've put into it. I had a chest only for tiberium, so I've painted it green.
Another one was for collections from foreign countries, so that one was painted gold, because it are actually treasures. And so on.
Chests with ghosts where made white btw.

Taxingwoman · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2011, 10:21:57 AM »

Very good tips. I thought those chests were purely decorative and I didn't know that about the workbench Thanks

squidlet · « **Reply #12 on:** February 20, 2011, 09:00:31 AM »

Sort of related to the above, is there an easy way of sharing produce within a household so its accessible to all for nectar-making ? My problem is that I have one highly-skilled gardener who can grow excellent and perfect fruit; and a separate nectar-maker, who is very Handy (and a good cook). But I can't find a way of getting the harvested produce from my gardener available to the nectar-maker - it sits in her inventory, which the nectar-maker can't access. One obvious solution would be for the nectar-maker to do the harvesting - but he is busy much of the time at his cooking job. Is there something like a shared treasure chest, or maybe something like shared fridges that might work ?

Thanks for any ideas !

Hosfac · « **Reply #13 on:** February 20, 2011, 12:32:34 PM »

You could store the fruit in the fridge, unless you have lower quality fruit in there that you use for cooking. Unfortunately, multiple refrigerators all use the same "inventory" when placed on a lot (i.e. If you put a meal in a fridge in the kitchen, you can pull it out of a different fridge in the basement). But if it was your desire to keep the perfect fruit separate from the stuff you cook with, you could use a treasure chest. And if you place multiple chests on the lot, they will all have their own separate inventory.

And in case you're unaware: you can move an entire "stack" of items from your sim's personal inventory. If you notice, the left hand corner of each item is a "tab," and if you click your mouse there and hold it, you can move the whole group of items. This also works for the family inventory (or simply placing things on the floor from personal inventory), and you can place multiple items out in the lot this way. When your finished (if you still have items left), simply click the Esc key to end the process.

Anushka · « **Reply #14 on:** February 20, 2011, 02:07:29 PM »

Treasure chests worked the best for me, or dragging items from gardener's inventory to nectar maker Sim (Just drag it on that Sim like Hosfac explained, Sim will appear lighter and everything will be placed in his inventory). Also, when your Nectar maker chose add fruit, while inventory is open, you can switch to another Sim and chose from their inventory (it won't work only if Gardener is on a road, but if in park or rabbithole or some other lot, it will work).

squidlet · « **Reply #15 on:** February 20, 2011, 07:10:29 PM »

Thanks Anushka and Hosfac. Yes, I've noticed the thing about all fridges being one on the same lot - annoying! I'll try using Treasure Chests - basically what I want to do is split out all the high quality fruit to upgrade the seedbank for the garden from the individual and household personal inventories, which can be use for cooking / fertliiser purposes.

Incidentally, does anyone know what happens to 'disposed' produce ? In Sims 2 you could recycle dead plants to make compost. In Sims 3 there is a recycle function for some indoors rubbish but as far as I can see it doesn't apply to garden waste. Ideally, it should be turned into 'fertiliser'.

I also miss the greenhouses you could build in Sims 2 !

Hosfac · « **Reply #16 on:** February 20, 2011, 07:42:50 PM »

While you can buy the recycle bin for your sims, all it does is give them a nice little moodlet for being environmentally conscious (although it may require the download of the "eco-pack" from the Sims Store, but at least it's free). Since you can use produce and fish to fertilize, there's not a whole lot of reason to have compost too.

It's worth noting that if you have a recycle bin, sims will automatically use it before they will the regular trash can. So typically, I place the recycle bin by the garden and leave the trash can near where the papers are dropped off (if I don't cancel the service).

Leto85 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 21, 2011, 04:31:50 AM »

Quote from: Hosfac on February 20, 2011, 07:42:50 PM

It's worth noting that if you have a recycle bin, sims will automatically use it before they will the regular trash can. So typically, I place the recycle bin by the garden and leave the trash can near where the papers are dropped off (if I don't cancel the service).

An exelent way in my opinion. I'm using it also and if your sims loves the outdoors and is a green thumb surounded by perfect quality plants which trickers the nicely decorated moodlet, combining those with the envrionmentally conscisous is a huge happyness factory.

Hosfac · « **Reply #18 on:** February 21, 2011, 02:52:18 PM »

Quote from: Leto85 on February 21, 2011, 04:31:50 AM

An exelent way in my opinion. I'm using it also and if your sims loves the outdoors and is a green thumb surounded by perfect quality plants which trickers the nicely decorated moodlet, combining those with the envrionmentally conscisous is a huge happyness factory.

Every sim gets that environmentally conscious moodlet when using the recycle bin. The bonus is bigger for Eco-Friendly sims.

squidlet · « **Reply #19 on:** February 22, 2011, 03:56:24 PM »

Great combination of advice. So I'm going to move the recycle bin to the garden and sort out Treasure Chests to store high quality fruit to keep upgrading the garden. Sort of related (though is moving from nectar-making to gardening) I'm having problems making my sprinklers come on automatically or indeed at all - I keep on asking my gardener to 'turn sprinkler on' but nothing happens. Also my Handy nectar maker has upgraded a couple so they should be automatic - but they don't appear to come on. Any suggestions ?

Hosfac · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2011, 02:33:18 PM »

Automatic sprinklers typically come on at about 5am (the time plants change their growth stage) and run for an hour or so. But I can't say why non-automatic sprinklers wouldn't turn on when you told them to.

TheChronicR · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2011, 03:43:54 PM »

@squidlet - Have you tried replacing the spinklers that aren't working with new ones? Also, you don't have to turn on automatic spinklers for them to start watering the plants around 5 AM.

Pam · « **Reply #22 on:** February 24, 2011, 03:10:52 AM »

Quote from: squidlet on February 22, 2011, 03:56:24 PM

Great combination of advice. So I'm going to move the recycle bin to the garden and sort out Treasure Chests to store high quality fruit to keep upgrading the garden. Sort of related (though is moving from nectar-making to gardening) I'm having problems making my sprinklers come on automatically or indeed at all - I keep on asking my gardener to 'turn sprinkler on' but nothing happens. Also my Handy nectar maker has upgraded a couple so they should be automatic - but they don't appear to come on. Any suggestions ?

The sprinkler bit is off topic and should be put in a separate thread.

Joria · « **Reply #23 on:** March 11, 2011, 11:15:32 AM »

You don't have to store your perfect fruits/veggies in a treasure chest. You can separate them and store them within your, or another Sims inventory. The best fruit/veggie will be the one on top and the lowest the one on the bottom of the stack. There is a way to expand the list of a particular fruit/veggie, which I forget how to do. If you are within your own inventory I think it's a double click on it to pop the box open and show each fruit/veggie in the particular frame separately. Then, when you mouse over the fruit/veggie, it tells you what quality it is. Simply drag the perfect ones to a different slot between others. I once had mine all lined up like little soldiers from Perfect to normal quality. (I obviously was bored that day) It made it easier for me, although VERY time consuming, to see what quality they were and sell off the lower quality ones to make room for only the top three best.

Hosfac · « **Reply #24 on:** March 11, 2011, 12:23:16 PM »

Quote from: Joria on March 11, 2011, 11:15:32 AM

There is a way to expand the list of a particular fruit/veggie, which I forget how to do.

There's a little tab that looks like the upper left hand corner is folded over. If you click on that tab, it opens up a scroll box that allows you to examine the individual fruit.

tdub92x · « **Reply #25 on:** August 26, 2011, 04:26:22 PM »

I read all the posts and I tried dragging the fruit into the box. I assume you were talking about the round box next to the Nectar Machine... correct me if I'm wrong. I have 10 of each fruit so I don't understand why I can't make Nectar. I'm in France right now and I've tried every machine. Tell me what I need to do please!

Anushka · « **Reply #26 on:** August 26, 2011, 05:21:09 PM »

Welcome tdub

You'll have to click on nectar machine, chose "add fruit" and than you'll get the same box as you get when you open treasure chest or fridge, or LN bar. Then you drag your fruit from inventory to that blue square you get, just above menu, press the "X" to close it after placing 10 fruits and then you can make nectar (and watch your Sim pressing the fruit in swimming wear).
I hope I managed to explain it good enough, let us know if you still have troubles with it.

tdub92x · « **Reply #27 on:** August 26, 2011, 05:45:04 PM »

Okay that helped a lot!

Thank you it worked! I was wasting all my days in France trying to figure this out!! Much appreciated!! Thank you

Anushka · « **Reply #28 on:** August 27, 2011, 05:33:13 AM »

You're welcome! And I'm glad it worked. Check out the recipes for amazing and very expencive nectars and some special abilities special fruit add to it. And make shore you drink it after great meals, it adds +5 to meal moodlet