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?

Yeah... I think he's full of fertilizer.


One of my sims who is a green thumb and has the super green thumb, but it not level 10 (he's like, 7, I think), also seems to be able to revive death plants over and over. I haven't tried after the fourth time, though, since I have no use for all these death flowers. Everyone in the fambly has two at least. So I let the plant die and tossed it.

I also have a veritable orchard of money trees. On a good harvest day I bring in $10K in money bags. It's nice. They've started dropping seeds, too.

Some plants do wilt every day. It's no big deal, just sprinkler or tend... I did have the dad of the gardening sim I mentioned upgrade the sprinklers... I don't know if I could leave them on, I guess it's hardwired in me not to waste water, even virtual water.  

Does anyone know if flame fruits have any effect other than the moodlet you get after picking them?
I was sort of hoping that my sim would burst into flames after eating one, but no, he chops them up and puts them on his pancakes.


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Thanks, this is helpful.

Do you know about this cross-pollination question? It's possible supposedly, to cross two plants. I wonder if he was just fertilizing one plant with the produce of another... he claims to be a gardening badass who knows his stuff and is writing a guide (haven't seen it yet).


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Is there any way to keep plants from dying/going barren? They seem to die even when they are good quality, tended by level 10 gardeners in my game.
There's a guy on TS3 forum who claims you can cross-pollinate... anyone do anything like that?

How does awesomemod change aging? I've read over the description again... am I not seeing something?

Thanks for the help! I'm going to dl everything and install it.   

This sounds... well, awesome.
So, I hope you'll explain a couple of things to a peasant (me).
What is a hack framework (it's required--what is it? is it related to ".NET Framework 3.5", which is a requirement for Install Helper Monkey? and I don't know what that is either). I know this is probably basic. I've lurked and read every post on the Awesomemod and I can't figure some of this stuff out. XML? (I see this one a lot... it's probably obvious  )

The Install Helper Monkey also states in its description on MTS "Please note that this overwrites any existing Resource.cfg file in the Sims 3 root folder." Should I care about this?

Sorry to ask stupid questions, but I want to learn!