Misc adventure tip – always go back to tombs

There’s a tip in the game that says you should have your sims save up their simoleons because adventures can be expensive.  I’ve found just the opposite – adventures are very profitable.

After your sims have gone through the various tombs in the three World Adventures destinations, always have your sims go back to walk through them again.  The treasure and relic spawners within the tombs respawn throughout each tomb when your sims return to their home worlds.  Since your sim already opened all the doors and disarmed the traps, she can just walk through the tomb collecting everything in a fraction of the time it took to explore the tomb in the first place.

This screenshot shows portions of five rooms in two different tombs under the Celtic ruins in Champs Les Sims.  There’s a relic on the table nearest the camera, just out of the frame to the right in the corner of the next room is a money bag (the spawner is under a rubble pile the first time through this tomb), there’s a pile of ancient coins on the table in the middle of the screen, just behind that table (the small room that has a secret door entrance) is a gem spawner that sometimes produces extremely rare gems, and in the far background corner we can see another money bag.  Treasure chests will also be refilled, so open them all again too.

The only places treasures don’t respawn are inside sarcophagi.

Mummies and their needs

When you send your sim on an adventure, she will often find canopic jars and pieces of sarcophagi.  Collecting and building these is one way to add another sim to your family.

Collect enough sarcophagus fragments to build one, which is five fragments for any of the sarcophagus types, then collect five canopic jars of any type.  Your sim must be on her home lot before you will get the reconstruct action for the sarcophagus; unfortunately, the base camp lot in any of the adventure towns will not work, but if your sim has purchased a vacation home, the sarcophagus can be built there.  Once the sarcophagus is built, make sure the canopic jars are in your sim’s inventory and have her use the “summon mummy” interaction on the sarcophagus.  She will put the jars into the sarcophagus and step back as the mummy appears.  Once in a while this interaction will fail, but don’t worry, the jars that you tried to use will be restored in your sim’s inventory.

Voila!  You now have a mummy in your household.  The mummy has the usual hunger, social, hygiene and fun needs, but bladder and energy needs both appear with mummy wrapping around them.  Hovering over the bladder need sows this tooltip:

If you happen to have the Sarcophagus of the Kings on your lot, you can have the mummy rest in it and he will soon be “cured” of his mummification and become a regular sim.