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The Sims 3 Nanite Collecting Guide
Full List of Nanites, Rares, Maps, and Nanite Values
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Nanites are a new type of Collectible in The Sims 3 Into the Future Expansion Pack. These new mechanical insectoids are hard to spot, much like butterflies and beetles, but found aplenty in the Future World of Oasis Landing. This Guide will list the various types of Nanites that can be found, their values, and where you can find spawn points for Uber, Prismatic, and other Rare types of Nanites in Oasis Landing.
Bot Making, Designing, and Reverse Engineering Nanites
Nanites are used by Into the Future's Bot Making Skill to create Trait Chips for Plumbots. When you gained a few levels in the Bot Making Skill, you'll be able to Reverse-Engineer any Nanite you find to get Small-Large Blank Processors and learn to reproduce the Nanite (for a price) at the Bot-Building Station, where you are also able to learn the designs for Common and Uncommon types of Nanites. So, once you've caught a unique Nanite, you may use it to get yourself the new Design and never need to catch that kind in the wild again. To learn more about these features, read those other Guides. Here are the yields for Reverse-Engineering the three different Quality-types of Nanites:
- Common Nanites: 2-4 Small Blank Processors
- Uncommon Nanites: 2-4 Small to Medium Blank Processors
- Rare Nanites: 2-4 Small to Large Blank Processors
You can buy these Processors, along with Nanites, at the Bot Shop in the Future. You may also consign them there to sell them for more than their inventory sell worth when you've got some experience doing so.
Map Spawner Locations and Finding Rare Nanites
Unless you've used buydebug Cheats and placed spawners in your selected Town, you will only find Nanites in Oasis Landing. Nanites disappear between the hours of 11PM-2AM and gradually repopulate the world until dawn, upon which time they are at their peak until the sudden disappearance during the late night hours. Thus, your best bet is to start around 7-8 in the morning to ensure all spawners are active if you are going to go out Nanite hunting for a day.
There are no Nanite spawners in the center of the City in Oasis Landing, but on the outskirts and Wasteland they are plentiful. Nanites can be tracked with the Collection Helper Lifetime Reward. I will provide a couple maps of the Wasteland below to show you some spawners, but here is a simple list of where I've found Rare Nanite Spawners in Normal Oasis Landing (there are also Dystopian and Utopian Oasis Landing, which may be different). These Spawn descriptions and the maps should be more than enough to get you by and complete your Collection of Nanite Designs.:
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Outside Oasis Landing Town Center
- Outside Loel's Lounge, near the 3-way intersection in an open area
- Corner of the big solar array near the Zephyr Terminal
- Beside the castle household, near the Playful Public Pool
- Along the footpath leading back to town by Pleasant Meadows Cemetery
- Behind the Landgraab House at 1100 Serenity Road
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In the Wasteland, calling Oasis Landing's big wall North
- East of the site named Barren Wasteland, near a rock
- Another on the northern side of the Barren Wasteland site
- At the sunken houseboat south of the Barren Wasteland site
- At the sunken house north of the Crash Site
- Southwestern corner of the Wasteland, near another sunken houseboat, up on a hill
Maps
Here are a few Maps of Nanite locations to help you find them in the Wasteland and near the town. A few of the spawners on the list above are left off and not all Spawners are active at any given time, so check areas daily to see if Nanites have reappeared there.
List of Nanites in The Sims 3 Into the Future
Note on Nanite Values: Nanites are worth about 33% more than production value when made at the Bot Building Workstation, because you get a 25% discount over their set Max Value in the table below when making them yourself so that you can turn a profit, while Nanites made with Bot Making will always come out at "max value", so Ubers will always be worth $550. A Nanite found in the wild can fluctuate within +/- 25% of this value, so could be worth more than one your Sim creates. When you complete the Micro Master Bot Building Skill Challenge, Nanite prices at the Bot-Making station are halved, so you can get them for half of their production value and really begin to profit, particularly when crafting them into Trait Chips and selling them in Future Tech Plumbots. So an Uber Nanite would cost only $206 to create at the Bot Making Station but will be worth up to $550 Simoleons.
Finding all Nanites will unlock the Nanite Collector Collecting Challenge which will let Nanites spawn on your lot so long as a Bot Building station is present. I have not found this to be particularly useful given that you already have all Nanite Designs by then, but it's some occasional free money. When doing the 'Catch Nanite' Interaction, Sims have a 90% chance to catch Common Nanites, 80% chance at catching Uncommon Nanites, and a 75% chance of catching Rare Nanites.
| Nanite | Nanite Name | Rarity | Max Value | Cost to Make |
 | Neutron | Common | $20 | $15 |
 | Caustic | Common | $25 | $18 |
 | Quantum | Common | $30 | $23 |
 | Scalar | Common | $30 | $23 |
 | Lite | Common | $35 | $26 |
 | Lepton | Common | $40 | $30 |
 | Tribble | Common | $50 | $37 |
 | Heisenberg | Common | $55 | $41 |
 | Condensor | Uncommon | $90 | $68 |
 | Tunnelling | Uncommon | $100 | $75 |
 | Torque | Uncommon | $105 | $78 |
 | Induction | Uncommon | $115 | $86 |
 | Polar | Uncommon | $115 | $86 |
 | Thermo | Uncommon | $125 | $93 |
 | Dispersion | Rare | $250 | $187 |
 | Entropic | Rare | $275 | $206 |
 | Optic | Rare | $310 | $232 |
 | Damping | Rare | $315 | $236 |
 | Prismatic | Rare | $350 | $262 |
 | Uber | Rare | $550 | $412 |
This should cover Nanites. Share your experiences with these futuristic Collectibles in our Comments section below.
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2You are mentioning above that the uber nanite can be crafted.
"So an Uber Nanite would cost only $206 to create at the Bot Making Station but will be worth up to $550 Simoleons."I have maxed out my bot making, and know all nanite designs, except for uber nanite one.. any idea how to get the design?
