Eco Lifestyle - Bits and Pieces??

"Sha2520032003;d-976875" wrote:
I'm playing Rags to Riches, Off the Grid style and having a blast!! Trying to have my freelance Sim focus on candle making and fabricating which requires bits and pieces, instead of the easier money makers such as painting. I've been having her dumper dive & recycle for 'bits and pieces'.

In the panel where the money is located, there's also two numbers which I think are the bits and pieces.
I have less of the top number (which I need) - I'm assuming that's the bits.
The bottom number I have tons - I'm assuming that's the pieces.

Does anyone know how to get more bits? I can screenshot what I'm referring to (hopefully, I don't have them reversed). I'm curious if recycling certain 'items' gives more bits vs pieces?

Recycling trash bags gives the most amount of bits and pieces from what I have noticed. Don't think you can collect them separately, they always seem to be collected together.

I'm also just figuring this out now -- I found that when I recycled little things like fruit or a photograph, I only would get something like two (what I think are) pieces. But then my sim went diving for deals, got a planter decoration, and that FINALLY gave me around 45 bits too. So I guess that's not anything definite but it seems like the best bang for your buck is to recyled more substantial things you get from diving for deals.

"CharmedSlayer6;c-17530121" wrote:
I don't know. I am so confused as to how to even get them from the machine. they aren't in my inventory and I can't get them out of the machine so I can't make candles.

Candles only require wax and dyes. You can get wax from buying them, bees, and the soy plants.

The burnt furniture you get from dumpster diving doesn't give any bits and pieces. Probably because they're completely destroyed objects and there's nothing to recycle.
I've found that instead of doing the dishes, you can just recycle any plates, bowls, etc. I think they give more bits than pieces? But it may be the other way around, my sim has plenty of both so I'm not really paying attention to it.

You can also use dishes or packed lunches to refill dumpsters.

Go to the bar in Port Promise, order the meat and cheese platter, pack it into several packed lunches, and then head to the dumpster right outside the bar. Dumpster dive a few times until it's empty, dump the packed lunches in to refill it, and dumpster dive some more. You can do the same thing using quick meals from refrigerators or coolers.

Then use the recycler on the broken furniture or items you get.

You can also put the packed lunches or dishes into a small trash bin, click "empty trash", cancel it so they drop the trash on the ground, put the trash in your inventory, and then recycle it from inventory.


I've also noticed on the dumpsters that sometimes there is a "sort recyclables" option. When you do this and there is a recycler nearby, your sim will automatically take it to the recycler to get bits and pieces. If there isn't one nearby they add the recyclables to their inventory. I'm not sure why this only shows up sometimes, it might be only available to freegan sims.

One thing that's frustrating is that you can't split bits and pieces when someone moves out of the household. Before my Sim aged up from a teenager I had her rummaging in the bins to gather bits and pieces. When she aged up and I moved her to Evergreen Harbour she had to start all over because the pieces stayed with her previous household.

"DreamOperator;c-17536205" wrote:
Has anyone figured out what gives bits and what gives pieces? I think it is strange that they are even separated like that instead of just being one type of recycled material. I ask because I had my spellcaster sim recycle a lot of potion ingredients that he had stored, but didn't need anymore since he can just duplicate the potions. He got like over 1000 of the pieces (I think...it was the bottom one), but barely any bits. There were a variety of things that got recycled as well such as crystals, metals, harvestables and mysim figurines. So apparently all of those kind of things mostly give pieces? So what gives bits?

I think bits are from anything that isn't natural maybe like a couch and metal etc while pieces are natural stuff like veggies and fruits etc. The symbol for pieces is a banana by the looks of it. But going by what you said of your spellcaster only getting pieces I am getting confused myself. I think I will go in my game in a bit and specifically only recycle produce and then something metal or the like to see which is which. The developers should make this more clear!

If you have Spa Day installed—yoga mats!! They cost 125 simoleons, and you get like 32 bits, and only 10 pieces. It’s the quickest way I’ve found to balance out my bits and pieces, because I used to have way WAY more pieces than bits.

The Waterfront lot in Evergreen Harbour is landfill. Sims bring trash bags and dump them there.

I feel like the banana means compostable materials like food or compost bits where as the screw is recycled materials like scraps of wood or metals :P