karritz What adventure is linked to that tomb? I've never come across one in my several years of playing with WA content and having my sims travel to France, but I also haven't done every single adventure available. I'm curious as to whether I've missed something fun.
For anyone else doing this tomb, be sure to bring something to sleep in, especially if your sim wants to stop and harvest the plants. Even without that, it's an all-day experience. I typically send two sims, one to do the tomb-related activities and the other to harvest grapes to use for nectar later on, especially since you can't buy the rare grapes without a level 3 visa and it takes a while to grow more of them.
It doesn't take all that much, or too long to get to level 3 visa if you go hard at it with a couple of people, I mean sims, the teamwork thing. I usually try to get someone to that soonish so they can have a holiday house there - much better than base camp! I suspect its one of the adventures that comes up later, possibly triggered by having the axe.
Which rare grapes are you meaning btw? The red, blue, pink and green one's? You can get those in the big tiered front garden of the house at the end of the riverfront, and some around the ruins on the island, and then grow them at home. They're definitely all there by day 3 of a minimum trip. And a pink diamond somewhere in on the winery side of the river ... have to really look for it.
I wish my procrastinating would hurry up so I can play.
DivinylsFan I know it's easy to get to visa level 3, which is why I haven't done all the adventures. I don't generally grind enough to accomplish it in one trip though, and I space out the trips, so it takes a while for my sims to actually get there.
The grapes (I meant cranerlet nuala and gralladina fran, only available at visal level 3) do grow in the basement of the Landgraab estate, and probably at the abandoned house too, although I haven't checked there in a while. But there are only a few plants each, and my sims want to make nectar while they're waiting for their crops to mature, so collecting a large quantity at once is much more convenient. Not to mention, my sims sleep overnight on the island and get another pass through Tuatha's Garden the next day without having to travel over there again.
My understanding is the island is only accessible by swimming (which takes a very long time) or Zeneport (which means time spent building the Martial Arts skill and meditating), so it's not any better from an efficiency perspective. And this way, they get treasure along with enough grapes to last until one of them can plant and harvest the rare grapes at home.
To get to the island, just go into map view, click to go there and the sims will automatically go there via taxi-boat if they don't have their own boat from home in their inventory. Swimming is just a romantic thing for taking pictures in stories, and doesn't take all that long and is definitely not necessary. The dark blue grapes and the red grapes are available on that island, around the blocks of ruins, as well as a few butterflies and bugs and a couple of fishing spots, and a tent or two will fit on there. There's also a couple of excavation spots. The grapes will definitely be ready for harvest by the last day of the shortest holiday. I always make my sims go there for them by rule of thumb. Whereas the pink one's they can get over at the tiered front garden of the vacant holiday house at the end of the foreshore. And of course the green, yellow and white ones, but they can be got at the winery vineyard too. To grow them at home you only need one of each, which you have to keep replanting until you get the perfect quality anyway, so if you plant more than one its too much work. Unless your sim has top gardening skills, a quick-gro station, fertiliser, and science radiation experiment thingy, but they still need replanting once or twice. Even if they don't need replanting, you still only need one because the plant produces more.
That's been my experience anyway. I've probably got some photos somewhere.
@puzzleaddict It isn't an adventure - I got a bit carried away with that statement - sorry about that. But there is a way to get there by completing another tomb. World Adventures was released before we had boats in the game so initially the only way to get to the island without completing the huge tomb near the little fishing hole was to teleport across and that would have meant using a cheat or getting a lot of happiness points and buying the teleporter.
Or, since World Adventures is the thing in play, mastering the meditation skill gained by learning the Martial Arts skill, to a point where they levitate, which they can then use to zen-teleport. I usually have at least one of my sims taking advantage of that to get out of or past traps, usually an older sim who had plenty of time on their hands to practice it, or a third wheel sim who sits there practicing meditation while the main sims do the fun puzzles getting through the maze and collecting, which by that time, they've levitated and zen-teleported up to or past them.
