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The Sims 3 Collecting Guide
Collecting Metal Ore Sims can Smelt
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Metals
Metal ores your Sims collect in the Sims 3 can be smelted for $40. Because of this cost, and the fact that ingots seem to return at 175% of original value, you shouldn't smelt anything under $54. However, once you have completed the Metal Collector challenge (finding all five types of metal) you will sometimes get extra ingots in the mail. This means you could smelt items in the $40 range because you'll often get extra ingots back. Ingots can be stacked. If you want to make an impressive display, make a table with stacks of ingots! Here's all five types of metals with an estimated base price, which is based on weight:Iron: $20
Silver: $30
Gold: $80-120
Palladium: $400-500
Plutonium: $1200-1800
So, with smelting costs, you generally won't want to have iron or silver smelted unless you want to lace the back stacks of your gold pile to make it look more impressive! Really light pieces of gold could actually result in a loss, but I have to say I think that's pretty rare.
Metals can be found out in the world, but you can find them in the catacombs sometimes.
Ambitions offers up a new type of metal, Woohooium. This metal is generally worth more than Palladium and when smelted will be worth around $1200 Simoleons. It is found mainly by breaking stone sculptures, although this option is unavailable to Sims with the Savvy Sculptor trait. Additionally, Woohooium can be found by rummaging through trash, using the miner, and when traveling with World Adventures as a reward for tomb exploration or at a relic vendor.
The Woohooium will spew hearts when Sims nearby perform WooHoo, so it's a nice decoration for the night stand in the bedroom. It's unclear as to whether the metal gives any bonuses. Let us know at our Sims 3 Forum if you discover a hidden use for it.
World Adventures' New Metals to Smelt
World Adventures adds two new metals from each destination, along with the ability to create two new types of unique metal through transfiguration. Here are the new metals with estimates of their values:
China
Mercury: $400
Platinum: $500
Egypt
Copper: $20
Mummitomium: $1000
France
Iridium: $150
Titanium: $700
In addition to these, your Sims can create Supernovium and Compendium from the Carter's Display Case XL Edition introduced with the expansion. Read the transfiguration guide to learn more.
| Collecting | ||||
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| Maps | Bugs | Butterflies | Gems | Metals |
| Space Rocks | Transfiguration | World Adventures Maps | ||
| The Sims 3 Skills | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tips | Cheats | Athletic | Charisma | Collecting | Cooking | Fishing |
| Gardening | Guitar | Handiness | Inventing | Logic | Martial Arts |
| Nectar Making | Painting | Parenting | Photography | Sculpting | Writing |
