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.

World Adventures tip: A room with no doors?

So as you’re wandering around and exploring in tombs on your World Adventures, keep an eye on your sim’s want list.  When you enter a room and see this one pop up in the top panel…

… it’s a pretty safe bet that somewhere in that room there is a hidden door.  So, assuming that you have an empty slot in your want list, add this wish to your sim’s list and find that door.  Look around the room for walls that have a slightly different shade of wallpaper color, or floor panels that use a different texture or that are covered with semicircular rugs against a wall.

However, be careful when you see the “Disarm a trap” desire pop up when you walk into a room, it is likely that there is a trap in that room, but I’ll have more on that at a later date..

Sims 3 World Adventures and Generations tip: sleeping in tombs

Here’s something that will help the adventurous sims in your families.  If you’ve got both World Adventures and Generations installed, buy a sleeping bag for each of your adventuring sims and then put the sleeping bags in your sims’ inventories before you send them off to any of the adventure worlds.

If your sim is new to adventuring, you will have to do this before he leaves for his vacations because you cannot enter buy mode on the community base camp lots.  You won’t be able to buy a lot in any adventure world until you reach visa level 3, and by that time you will have gone through most of the tombs already.

When your sims have a sleeping bag on their adventures, they can find a place to sleep in almost any tomb because the sleeping bag takes up only a couple squares of space whereas the small tent needs much more space (and the luxury tent that the special merchant sells requires an extra-high roof above it to accommodate the spire at the top of the tent).

Just be sure to have your sim put his sleeping bag back into his inventory before leaving the lot.