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No Heart-Shape cut available.

Hi anyone. I have been trying to create a SimBot as a invention 'Expansion pack Ambitions' All was going well until I had to provide a heart-shaped pink diamond. The game I played was with the bas...
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    4 years ago

    @roberta591  Well, my data is from playing the game and observing the details.  But since that's not definitive proof, I figured why not test it myself, again.

    I modded a new save so my sim had a 100% chance of breaking a stone sculpture and finding fluorite, which he did, and then I placed a giant pile of spawners on an empty lot.  My sim collected nine of the ten base game gems, only missing the luminorious gem, and thus was credited with the Gem Collector achievement and had the heart-shaped cut available.

    @BillFlowerpot  Not to derail this thread completely, I did notice that gems my sim found while using the Miner didn't count towards the achievement and didn't unlock the heart-shaped cut.  So please check the collection journal, not the one under the Skills tab but the green journal icon in the Inventory tab, and make sure your sim is actually credited with finding ten gems.

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4 years ago

@puzzlezaddict My post is based on Prima's Essential Guide - The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack.

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4 years ago

@roberta591  Well, my data is from playing the game and observing the details.  But since that's not definitive proof, I figured why not test it myself, again.

I modded a new save so my sim had a 100% chance of breaking a stone sculpture and finding fluorite, which he did, and then I placed a giant pile of spawners on an empty lot.  My sim collected nine of the ten base game gems, only missing the luminorious gem, and thus was credited with the Gem Collector achievement and had the heart-shaped cut available.

@BillFlowerpot  Not to derail this thread completely, I did notice that gems my sim found while using the Miner didn't count towards the achievement and didn't unlock the heart-shaped cut.  So please check the collection journal, not the one under the Skills tab but the green journal icon in the Inventory tab, and make sure your sim is actually credited with finding ten gems.

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    4 years ago

    Thank you Puzzlezadict & Robert591 for responding to my enquiry.

    Puzzlezadict, I think you have put your finger on it, I remember finding a gem with the miner, I'm almost sure it was a white diamond. I did not realize that such finds don't add to the 'Collector's challenge'. I did check to see if I had passed a gem from one family member to another, as I know that does not add to the challenge count. I also think that the same is true for gems found in tomb chests in 'World Adventures'. However, only my inventor had collected any gems. That is why I was so puzzled to why the 10 different gems I had in my inventory did not trigger the completion of the challenge. WELL SPOTTED THERE. 

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