Share Your Nectar Making Recipes

[wildredchild]

My gardening sim just made a batch of Nectar that is Perfect Quality.  He put in 6 Perfect Life Fruit, 2 Perfect Flame Fruit and 2 Perfect Grapes and it is only only the 4th time he has ever made nectar.  He is a level 10 Nectar creator and used the concentrated method of making this batch.  Value is set at $199.

[chrys]

I liked your guide, so I figured I'd share some of my findings (I played around with nectar making way too much for my own good). Warning: This could be considered a spoiler.

Anyway, first the basics.

Each fruit has a value. To figure it out, it's as easy as making a "pure" nectar with that fruit and dividing the price of that bottle by 10. Here are the numbers I have for the fruits' values (assuming every fruit is perfect) - from highest to lowest:

Life Fruit: 40
Flame Fruit: 32.6
Cranerlet Nuala Grapes: 29.1
Gralladina Fran Grapes: 21.7
Pomelo: 21.7
Meloire Grapes: 18.1
Cherry: 16.3
Avornalino Grapes: 14.5
Plum: 12.7
Lime: 12.7
Watermelon: 12.7
Pomegranate: 10.9
Cherimola Blan Grapes: 9.1
Renoit Grapes: 9.0
Apple: 5.4
Grapes: 5.4

(For clarification, these are with level 10 nectar making, perfect fruits, all relevent gardening and nectar making challenges, as well as the "better quality" upgrade for the machine).

There doesn't seem to be any logic to what quality the finished product will have, though I wouldn't mind being proven wrong on this. What IS logical is that the quality acts as a multiplier. Its exact value isn't shown, but the "grade" is the range of the multiplier:

Amazing: 1.5 and up (highest I've seen is 1.68)
Great: 1.3 to 1.5
Pretty good: 1.1 to 1.3
Not very good: 0.9 to 1.1
Terrible: 0.9 or less (lowest I've seen is 0.63)

The rating makes a huge difference obviously.. Take 5 life fruit, 5 flame fruit.. That's a "base value" of 363, but the result is terrible. Final price: 251 (a 0.69 ratio). 4 life fruit and 6 flame fruit however taste great together, and are worth 503 for a base value of 355.6 (1.41 ratio). You get the idea.

From there it's fairly clear that a life fruit heavy recipe is probably worth the most. That is, unless there's something beyond "Amazing" quality. My candidate for "best in game" is this one:
9 Life Fruit, 1 Pomegranate
Amazing quality, with perfect ingredients and the right tools, that's §604 a bottle.

That's what I found out so far. However, there is a doubt: Either people on forums aren't very reliable, or there might be a variation on what comes out as "Amazing" for different people. Some of the recipes I've read about simply don't give the right results.. Regardless, here are some to play with.. All the "amazing" quality recipes I've found, sorted from highest "value ratio" to lowest.

5 Apples, 5 Renoit Grapes
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Base value: 72
Actual value: 121
Ratio: 1.68
^^^^ Highest ratio, and a nice one to play around with early on. Both fruits are common and found within walking distance of the nectary in France. Doesn't sell for much though.

2 Gralladina Fran Grapes, 2 Cranerlet Nuala Grapes, 1 Flame Fruit, 1 Life Fruit, 1 Cherry, 1 Pomelo, 1 Avornalino Grapes, 1 Meloire Grapes
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Base value: 244.8
Actual value: 408
Ratio: 1.67

6 Life Fruit, 3 Flame Fruit, 1 Cherimola Blan Grapes
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Base value: 346.9
Actual value: 572
Ratio: 1.65
^^^^ Highest value nectar that gives both flame and life fruits buffs

2 Life Fruit, 2 Gralladina Fran Grapes, 2 Cranerlet Nuala Grapes, 2 Cherry, 2 Pomelo
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Base value: 257.6
Actual value: 422
Ratio: 1.64

7 Life Fruit, 2 Flame Fruit, 1 Plum
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Base value: 357.9
Actual value: 586
Ratio: 1.64

7 Life Fruit, 2 Flame Fruit, 1 Watermelon
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Base value: 357.9
Actual value: 586
Ratio: 1.64

9 Life Fruit, 1 Pomegranate
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Base value: 370.9
Actual value: 604
Ratio: 1.63
^^^^ Highest value nectar

5 Life Fruit, 5 Pomelo
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Base value: 308.5
Actual value: 479
Ratio: 1.55

5 Life Fruit, 5 Cranerlet Nuala Grapes
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Base value: 345.5
Actual value: 533
Ratio: 1.54

5 Gralladina Fran Grapes, 5 Apple
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Base value: 135.5
Actual value: 209
Ratio: 1.54


I've also found 23 great recipes, but listing them all might take a bit too long, this post is already enough of a wall o' text

Hope that helps!

[PJSim]

Ha, amazing, this is great.

I played around with nectar making way too much for my own good

I believe it.

[Nukapei]

Carl, I just wanted to tell you, there are places that you can get other locations' rare fruits in France.  If you go to Map View and find La Gallerie d'Art (the art museum), a little ways towards the river there's a large house with a huge garden in the front.  When France first opens up, it's owned by the Pivert family, although in my game they moved into town and now it's vacant.  You can recognize it because the garden is laid out in a pattern of interwoven X's.  In the garden, there's a pomegranate, a plum, and a pomelo tree, as well as a few Base Neighborhood varieties.  Also, there's several apple trees behind the Nectary.

[Pam]

Hi chrys and welcome to our Forum!

Carl will absolutely LOVE all that information!  Thank you for posting it!   

[Akila906]

Hi,

This is my first post here.  I found the link on the sims3.com forum about nectar recipes.  Cooking and gardening are my favorite things to do in TS3, so nectar making was a natural for me.  I've been playing around with 2 fruit combos and have a huge list of combos and their results.  But I just started playing around with 3 fruit combos.  

Chrys, your post was extremely helpful!!   Thank you so much for sharing!  Anyway, I have 2 "Absolutely Amazing" 3 fruit combos so far.

The first one is: 4 Life Fruit/3 Cherimola Blan/3 Meloire.  All are "perfect" fruit, made by a level 10 nectar maker.  The blend is classified as "Perfect" and was worth $330 per bottle right out of the nectar maker.  I will check on its "aged" value in a Sim week.  UPDATE: 3 Sim weeks later it's now worth $706

The 2nd one is: 4 Life Fruit/3 Pomegranate/3 Plum.  Again, all "perfect fruit", made by a level 10 nectar maker.  The blend is also classified as "Perfect" and was worth $322 per bottle right out of the nectar maker.  Again, I will check in its "aged" value in a Sim week.  UPDATE: 3 Sim weeks later, it's now worth $575

I will post more as I make them.  

[Carl]

Thank you to everyone who's helped with this one. Clearly I have a lot of data to incorporate from the post by Chrys. That type of research wasn't feasible for me at this stage of the production process so I'm very very grateful.

[Carl]

Carl, I just wanted to tell you, there are places that you can get other locations' rare fruits in France.  If you go to Map View and find La Gallerie d'Art (the art museum), a little ways towards the river there's a large house with a huge garden in the front.  When France first opens up, it's owned by the Pivert family, although in my game they moved into town and now it's vacant.  You can recognize it because the garden is laid out in a pattern of interwoven X's.  In the garden, there's a pomegranate, a plum, and a pomelo tree, as well as a few Base Neighborhood varieties.  Also, there's several apple trees behind the Nectary.

I must be missing something, or there's random variation. I just can't find this house you're talking about. Anyone able to provide further clarification?

[wildredchild]

The house is the one closest to the lake in France.  Took me a while to figure it out with the prior directions, but I persevered.

[Carl]

Gotta be honest I love tips but I have been a little frustrated sometimes trying to track down things when there is so much more to do. Thanks for the assist to the Original Poster of the info and you as well.