types of gemstones?
phnxflyng:
I searched the forums and had no luck finding out if anyone had posted about gemstones... I have a sim who tried to "collect'em all" up until the day he died of old age (and he was actually very long-lived: 227 days, using the Long Life version). Anyway, I never found two types. Let me see if I can enumerate the ones I did find:
1. blue topaz
2. yellow sapphire
3. smoky quartz
4. ruby
5. emerald
6. luminorious (?) gem
7. tanzanite
8. diamond
So based on the fact that his skill sheet reported that he'd found 80%, I'm assuming there are two more I never found. And I had the collection helper thingy... I spent ages zooming in and out and had to click on every one of the rocks and queue it to be picked up so I could see what color it was. The collection helper thingy makes collectibles shoot out so much light you can't tell if it's a gemstone of a lump of iron.
Has anyone found all ten stones? Is there some secret place you find two of them?
Simius:
Awesomemod has an auto-rock-collecting feature in it (it is one of the functions under Supreme Commander). You might want to try that.
I don't bother with collecting gems so I'm not much help. Off the top of my head though... maybe the other two gems are only found in meteoroids and you need to examine them to get the gem type. I dunno.
Kyna:
There's a pink diamond and a rainbow gem. I have most luck finding pink diamonds when my sims go dumpster diving, which is used in the law enforcement and journalism careers.
bloodredtoe:
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Collecting_(The_Sims_3)
I found pink diamond somewhere behind the stadium. It only appeared there once, though. It's totally random. Presumably if you search for long enough you will find it.
IgnorantBliss:
I had a sim collect a ton of gem stones and find everything else but the pink one. I even used the map that suggests the places the pink stones are supposed to appear at, but I never had luck finding any. According to the guide, I think the pink gem stone is the most valuable one, so it makes sense it's also the hardest one to find.
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