In all the years I've been playing The Sims 3 and sending sims to Champs Les Sims, I never knew this was there. It doesn't seem to be part of an adventure, it has several levels, it's a complicated maze of passageways and doors, it uses no keystones, and it has the coolest looking dive well I've ever seen. It's like a cool easter egg that I've overlooked all this time. It's accessed through a stairwell to the west of the cemetery. The stairwell is blocked by stones that have to be removed either by the mystical axe from Shang Simla or using a delete cheat. It's a cool find!

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.

@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.

I don't remember exactly how they work but that's close. I think you drag one eye to a nearby floor or wall, and drag the other eye to a floor or wall where you want to go, then click on the one close to you. It's a good idea to put them back in your inventory right away, so you don't lose them or forget where you put them. They can save you a lot of travel time and even get you into places that are normally unreachable.

There is an adventure linked to that tomb. (EDIT: Not an adventure, but a game play way of getting there without teleporting across or using a boat to get to that island.)There is a place where I often send my sims to catch butterflies and fish at the little fishing hole. It's out in the world. Your sim needs Pangu's Axe which they find in China. If they have the Axe the sim can smash the boulders near that spot with the butterflies. There is a set of steps revealed under those boulders. The tomb is big and complicated but you will eventually come across a dive well that takes your sim to that tomb under that island.I have a series of videos that do walkthroughs of the World Adventures Tombs. In The Isla Paradiso Bunch Episode 35 you can see the boulders they need to smash to get into the tomb that leads to the tomb under that island. Later episodes of that video series will show how to get through that tomb and travel to the tomb you found under the island.You can see the exact spot and the boulders that the sim needs to smash with the axe in this video at about the 3:08 position.Location of boulders a sim needs to smash to find a large tomb in Champs Les Sims.

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.

I discovered a secret tomb under the ruins on that Island in Champs Les Sims!

16 Replies

puzzlezaddict
Hero+
8 months ago
Sketch793 True, you can use the teleportation pad, but (without cheating, at least), you can only place it on a lot your sims own, which means a vacation home and a level 3 visa anyway. I don't know how the Eyes of Horus work because I've never tried, but can you drag one of them out of inventory and place it on a lot far away from your sim?
karritz
Legend
8 months ago
@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.
karritz
Legend
8 months ago
@puzzleaddict there are a lot of grapes to be found in that tomb near the little fishing hole. You just need Pangu's Axe to get to it.
Sketch793
Seasoned Ace
8 months ago
I don't remember exactly how they work but that's close. I think you drag one eye to a nearby floor or wall, and drag the other eye to a floor or wall where you want to go, then click on the one close to you. It's a good idea to put them back in your inventory right away, so you don't lose them or forget where you put them. They can save you a lot of travel time and even get you into places that are normally unreachable.
DivinylsFan
Seasoned Ace
8 months ago
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.
HotBlackSand
Seasoned Ace
7 months ago
You mean this Tomb ...

Of course, if you get the Level 3 Visa and are going for the grapes ... Just build a mansion in France ...

Build a Garden and Nectary in the back corner of the lot ...

Do a little painting in your free time ... The light is wonderful there ... 😆
World Adventures is Awesome ... Lots to do, and many directions to go. With a little effort and planning, you can have lovely houses in all the locations and spread out your activities. You can get to know the people in the different locations, throw parties, take pictures and run the tombs. Eventually ... You can take fruits from all the worlds and make the highest quality nectars.
For instance ... The nectar with the highest value in production, and that will gain value the fastest in your cellar ... Doesn't even have grapes in it ... It's made with Pomegranates (from Egypt) and Life Fruit.
Anyway ... Glad to see y'all are still playing and having fun ... Happy Simming ... ❤️