Share Your Nectar Making Recipes

[Carl]

Nectar Making is complex, and I'm currently about to publish a guide to the skill. There are a ton of combinations to be made depending on what types of fruit you have on hand and the proportions used in the recipe. For example, while 5 gralladina fran grapes and 5 flame fruit don't make a very good combo, changing it to 9 of the flame fruit with one grape makes it a great combination and boosts the value.

I'd like to open this thread for discussion of recipes. The most expensive nectars you've produced are tracked in the skill journal. I'm interested in any combination of ingredients that was called amazing or great by the game. Any recipe will do. This applies even to nectars made with common ingredients. I'd like to get a list going where low level to high level gardeners have options for growing to produce profitable nectar.

That way, I can publish some of these so that people have options no matter their skill level. You can imagine how many combos there are to try given all the fruit in the game. I'm also interested in seeing if anyone manages to use garlic, because my Sim wanted to make garlic nectar. Maybe he'd need to be insane to do it. I'm not sure, because it won't let me put any veggie type items into the nectar maker.

I can't find an amazing combo that includes both life/flame fruit and rare ingredients. This would be optimal, as it should be possible to create a very high value bottle that gives both moodlet effects. It only takes 1 life fruit to kick it in, but 3 flame fruit.

For the purposes of having nectar to serve, either make your best regular batch (the moodlet effects are based on quality rating) or go with 4 life fruit and 6 flame fruit for a medium-dollar bottle that gives both life and flame fruit bonus moodlets if you're level 10 in nectar making. In general most bottles can be made perfect quality as long as they are produced with high quality fruit and a combination that is at least okay. Terrible combos tend to drop the quality level of a bottle to outstanding regardless of how great the fruit used.

What I've found thus far (to be updated and sorted as I go). I'll add your recipes to this list to help to avoid duplication.

Amazing Combos
5 cranerlet nuala grapes (rare)/5 life fruit (special) - highest value bottle made @ $533
5 apple (common)/5 renoit grapes (common) - good for starters

Great Combos
9 flame fruit (special)/1 gralladina fran grapes (rare)
9 cranerlet nuala grapes (rare)/1 pomelo (rare)
9 pomelo (rare)/1 cranerlet nuala grapes (rare)
8 pomelo (rare)/ 2 watermelon (uncommon)
6 lime (uncommon)/4 renoit grapes (common)

[Metropolis Man]

Carl, one thing I'm wondering about is -- are there new Special Seeds in the 3 new locations? Specifically, seeds that would result in new rare fruit plants that would yield very expensive nectar?

[Carl]

Nope, the fruits are all available at vendors of some sort, usually food. The 2 best grapes require visa level 3 and ancient coins to purchase. The 2 uncommon grapes are found in the wild.

The collection helper shows no seeds and I haven't found any on the ground in those locations. - apparently they do in China

So it's just: pomegranate, pomelo, plum, cherry, and 6 varieties of grapes.

[Metropolis Man]

The collection helper shows no seeds and I haven't found any on the ground in those locations.

I just traveled to China and my Collection Helper did point me to a couple seeds. But, they weren't Special Seeds.

[Carl]

I don't think I saw any at all in egypt, I was looking for cherries. I still don't have them to try in combinations. The food vendor in the city was gone for all of 3 days 1 trip, and 3 days another trip. I didn't let it go past 3. Very annoying.

[wildredchild]

There are cherry trees at the Zen Garden in China if you want to pick them yourself instead of waiting on the vendor Carl.  Also, the two most rare grape varities are on the little island in France.  You can catch the Glowy Butterfly there as well.

[Carl]

Thanks for that. I added that info to a topic I just moved to this board (where are all the new harvestables). I thought I had to buy those from the special vendor. I didn't see the two little buggers all nestled up to that building.

[RCHaynes]

I've not touched Nectar Making yet, but as a query is one limited to only 2 types of fruit? Could one combine, say 1 each of 10 different fruits? or a 3/3/4, or 2/2/2/2/2?

[Metropolis Man]

I've not touched Nectar making yet, but as a querym is one limited to only 2 types of fruit? Could onr combine, say 1 each of 10 different fruits? or a 3/3/4, or 2/2/2/2/2?

I'm pretty sure any combination is fine as long as the total is 10 fruits. Carl probably wanted to keep things simple since he was just testing the waters for the walkthrough.

[Carl]

exactly