Game Help:Sims 3 Rocks Gems and Metals

Collecting Metals and Rocks

As part of the collection aspects of The Sims 3, your sims can locate various rocks and ores scattered around on the ground (or in a few other ways). These ores can be smelted by sending them off by mail. The next time the mail comes, your sims can check the mail and retrieve the ingots, which can then be sold or displayed. Ingots will stack on top of each other.

Ores/Metals

A stack of all five types of metals (from the base game) as ingots.

Name	Weight	Price	Expansion
Iron	1-52	§7-§20	TS3 Base Game
Silver	1-52	§25-§35	TS3 Base Game
Gold	1-52	§40-§120	TS3 Base Game
Palladium	80-300	§300-§500	TS3 Base Game
Plutonium	0.1-5	§1000-§1800	TS3 Base Game
Mummitomium			EP1: World Adventures
Copper			EP1: World Adventures
Iridium			EP1: World Adventures
Titanium			EP1: World Adventures
Platinum			EP1: World Adventures
Mercury *			EP1: World Adventures
Compendium			EP1: World Adventures
Supernovium			EP1: World Adventures

• Though Mercury starts as an ore, when smelted it returns to you as a liquid in a vial rather than an ingot.

Rocks

Name	Weight	Price	Meteor Name
Small Space Rock	1-65	§10-§30	Medium Meteor
Medium Space Rock	100-1050	§50-§200	Large Meteor
Large Space Rock	50,000-10,010,000	§2,000-§4,500	Huge Meteor

Rock Names

Values of the rocks found are calculated by the (weight of rock) x (multiplier), unsure of exact formula and price.

Name	Multiplier
SpecialMazzadrayte	2.1
SpecialRodiekceous	2
SpecialDukeadite	2.2
SpecialHolmberic	1.8
SpecialCusterousGossticite	1.9
SpecialBellacite	1.6
SpecialPearsonite	2.1
SpecialLlamatite	2
SpecialSporecite	1.7
Howardite	0.7
Eucrite	0.8
Diogenite	0.9
Shergottite	1
Nakhlite	1.1
Chassignite	1.2
Lunar	1.3
Aubrite	1.4
Acapulcoite	0.7
Lodranite	0.8
Ureilite	0.9
Angrite	1
Brachinite	1.2
Winonaite	1.3
Hexahedrite	1.6
Octahedrite	1.8
Ataxite	1.5
Pallasite	4
Mesosiderite	10
Rumurutite	3
CarbonaceousChondrite	5
OrdinaryChondrite	0.5
EnstatiteChondrite	6
Kamasite	1.75

Challenges

Name	Description
Metal Collector	Find every unique metal, and your Sim will routinely get additional ingots returned in the mail.
Amateur Rock Finder	Once your Sim finds at least half of the varieties of space rocks, it will be easier to find ones you haven't yet stumbled across.
Awesomest Rock Collector in the Universe	Find all the space rocks, and your Sim will have more luck collecting ones of higher value.