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The Sims 3 Ambrosia Recipe Guide
Getting Death Fish and Life Fruit for Cooking Ambrosia
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Ambrosia is the most coveted, most expensive and most difficult-to-prepare recipe in the Sims 3. Learning the recipe is no challenge at all. Nay, the Ambrosia recipe book can be bought at the book store for 12,000 Simoleons and requires level 10 cooking skill to be learned. The true challenge comes from getting both the ingredients required to make it. Even better, these ingredients should be in perfect quality. This will help your Sim to get lifetime happiness points for cooking with perfect ingredients.
Ambrosia is so popular in The Sims 3 because it gives a divine meal moodlet that lasts a full week. This moodlet gives a +75 boost to mood, and is better than the vacation packages. Ambrosia can bring Sims as ghosts back from the dead, just get them to eat it. Additionally, it can reset the age bar, allowing Sims to jump back to the beginning of the life phase they're currently in. It won't make an elder into an adult, but it can keep that elder from dying. Coupled with a death flower your Sim can easily have immortality, while all the other Sims around them die of old age and accidental death.
To create ambrosia, two items are needed. Death Fish and Life Fruit. Let's go over how to get each of them, and improve the quality of the ingredients.
Death Fish
Getting your hands on some Death Fish for the Ambrosia is not hard, so long as you follow these simple steps. Death fish are easy to catch. They'll require level 5 Fishing skill (to unlock live bait) to catch. Their favorite bait is angelfish, so the first task should be to get the bait required for angelfish, alley catfish. Alley Catfish can be bought at the grocery store, but don't expect your catches to be high quality at first if you use this default alternative.
Alley catfish are caught using cheese, which can be purchased at the supermarket. To see specific locations for each of these types of fish, as well as the death fish, head to my Riverview and Sunset Valley fishing spot guides.
Start with the cheese, then catch about 6 to 8 alley catfish, then finally catch as many angelfish as you can get. Head to the cemetery in either town (again, consult the fishing spots guide). This can only be done after midnight and before 6am. Use the angelfish as bait, and catch away. This can be done as early as level 5 and catching deathfish will quickly increase the skill. If you get higher quality angelfish, it will become easier to catch better death fish. Eventually you will almost always catch perfect death fish. Completing fishing challenges can help make this even easier. The angler trait would also be handy, but isn't required.
Life Fruit
Getting Life Fruit for Ambrosia can be time consuming. Life Fruit are harvested with the Gardening skill. In order to grow them, level 7 gardening is required. Look around in town for special seeds. The cemetery is usually a good spot in Sunset Valley. Check near parks in Riverview, as well as along the River. You can tell if your unknown special seed is a life fruit plant by checking if it's wilting as soon as you've planted it. They require loads of water. Sprinklers will help with the daily routine of watering them.
Once you've got one life fruit plant, you can begin fertilizing them and improve their quality over a couple of generations. Use vampire fish, and indeed, life fruit itself as fertilizer to help the plants grow better produce. With the first life fruit, you can make Ambrosia as long as you have a death fish as well. Continuing your Sim's gardening effort will lead to perfect ingredients for their ambrosia recipe.
A Divine Meal leads to One Happy Sim
Yes, Ambrosia's +75 mood boost is huge. Couple this with a trip to the day spa, and your Sim can easily have a full mood bar every single day of the week. Once you've got your perfect life fruit, begin stocking them. Stock death fish in the fridge as well. Eventually ambrosia will be enjoyed as often as they like. With minimal effort you can keep up your stock of these valuable ingredients.
Replicating Ambrosia
While it's generally held that you can't replicate ambrosia in the food replicator, Swede1992, one of our forum moderators, had a great suggestion for a workaround. Prepare ambrosia; however, when your Sim comes to mixing the ingredients in a bowl, cancel the interaction. The bowl is now saveable on the replicator and when you recreate the ambrosia it'll come out at normal quality, but as a fully prepared meal. Don't be discouraged though, it holds all its ghost-reviving and anti-aging qualities along with the divine meal moodlet!
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Cooking Overview | Master Cooking | Recipe List | Ambrosia | Good Traits
Challenges and Opportunities
| The Sims 3 Skills | |||||
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| Tips | Cheats | Athletic | Charisma | Collecting | Cooking | Fishing |
| Gardening | Guitar | Handiness | Inventing | Logic | Martial Arts |
| Nectar Making | Painting | Parenting | Photography | Sculpting | Writing |
