Sees video title: "Ha! I've already seen every terrible thing Sims 3 has to offer" Spiff then proceeds to literally create a household earth gremlin that lives in the soil and hoards very pretty (and valuable) gems and rocks. "... Nevermind."
@@IcepersonYT Thanks mate, been a fan of the Spiff for a bit now. His mean spirited torture of his digital peons does great good for this savage's heart. Will be making more gaming content myself too, eventually. Hitman 2 video coming out hopefully within the next few months ;D Until then, I leave you in good Spiffing hands.
PhantomSavage yeah Spiffing Brit is awesome, I recently caught wind of him because he joined the Yogscast. And I basically grew up on your Dead Rising videos, so the reply means a lot. I look forward to that Hitman video. Have a good day dude!
There's a much easier, and achieveable without cheats (unless you lack the DLC) to generate *vast* sums of money, it does however, require the sacrifice of orphans. In the Supernatural DLC, there is an item called "The Philosophers Stone". How it works is simple; drag an item onto the Stone and get a sim to interact with it for a chance to turn it into a gold bar. The gold bar isn't what we're going for however, you see, The Philosophers Stone has a wonderful side effect; it has a chance to kill the sim using it by turning them into solid gold, which leaves a golden statue of the Sim worth 50k a piece. With this in mind, how do ophans come into the mix given that you can't kill children, you might ask? Simple: The Sims 3 lets you forcibly age a Sim by one life stage by buying the "Birthday Inferno Birthday Cake" for 30 simoleons. So, adopt a child, forcibly age them into a young adult and have them repeatedly use the Philosophers Stone until they are killed and turned into gold. Sell the dead orphan for 50k, meaning a lovely 49,970 simoleans in profit for each orphan.
TheDancerMacabre really? Your boss turns you into a gremlin that just digs holes all day? I doubt it. I bet your boss make maybe 50% more than you doing 100% more work and one time he yelled at you so hur dur screw capitalism.
@@thecrystalcave4627 Now this is a man that has accepted being exploited for financial and material gain. 100% more work? Please. The only reason 99% of the management in most companies are there is either 1 of like 3 things (Or a combination thereof); 1) They stayed there all their lives and have seniority; 2) They purchased their way to the top of the place by owning more than 50% of the shares; Or 3) Favoritism; For instance: I have degrees in networking, cyber security, and I am A+ certified to work on any computer system, be it mobile devices, computers, or any Cisco systems. I apply at a job for Best Buy to fix people's computers. I go there and the fucking moron couldn't tell you the difference between M.2 and an SSD. With those qualifications I should've been in upper echelons, but I saw who had that job and that bimbo probably couldn't even spell computer. She was just there for the looks, and they probably only give her about $10/hour, and refused me because I cost WAAAAY more considering I can do freelance security audits for $2k/site. If that's not exploitation, I don't know what is.
"Now, technically, this existence is absolutely horrible and terrible, but at the same time, he can't die from it, and he's only going to profit." Deep
"You cant stop him" of course I cant! The dude carried a giant ass meteorite out of a small hole in his underpants. The dude is magical and super buff.
Sir. Cumference is actually a good name for an ""intelligent"" goblin that doesn't actually understand what a Sir or a Circumstance actually is, but gives itself a self-proclaimed title anyways
A man desperate to interact with anybody, but being compelled by an unknowable force to dig deeper and deeper into a mine instead is some Junji Ito shit
I actually still play Sims 3! ... Maybe a lot. And this adventure can be improved! If you give Toby the Born Salesman trait, which will boost his sales at the consignment store (which is a large point to most broken ways to make an excess of cash in the Sims). Also for better sales, you can get the Gem Cutter (from the Supernatural expansion) out of buy mode. This removes the cost of cutting all gems, and gives you some piles of gem dust on the side that sell for an absurd amount. I've not tested it, but I think you could give Sir Cumfrence the Loner trait and have the Enjoying Solitude buff help improve his mood and counter the negative social mood? It would take longer to get the social bar to decay all the way though. I don't think the Lucky trait actually helps Sir Cumfrence, it helps with other chance based activities but not actually collecting stuff. For this you actually want the Gatherer trait, and then you will also want Sir Cumfrence to be the one to use the gem cutting machine (it increases cut gem values). Since Sir Cumfrence ultimately spends all of his time outdoors, and eventually fulfills very few wishes, he may get a better mood boost out of Loves the Outdoors over Ambitious. Since you can have very bad luck with getting what you were looking for out of the Consignment Store, I would put Eccentric on Toby, and then as a back up he can start leveling the Inventing skill so that you can guaranteed get the miner one way or another. Since the miner and the spelunking decay your sim's hygiene very quickly (though I couldn't tell how badly it did it in the video with the exploit), you could give Sir Cumfrence the Slob trait. This allows him to absolutely never bathe and suffer no debuffs from it. He will also like his burned/awful food. Other people won't like encountering him, but that's okay! He needs to stay away from them anyways! Also, if you were to end up doing inventing yourself, he would be able to dig for scrap without being bothered by the disgusting stench of himself and all the garbage. Fun video! That was a hilarious and actually unique way to make Sims 3 even more broken than usual!
@@nathanjames5101 Sims 3 is a massive game, and unfortunately not a very stable one. My game does crash. There are a few mods from NRaas that improve stability and fix bugs, that should be a must for Sims 3. Other than that, unfortunately try to keep optional mods (hair, clothes, etc) to a minimum. Within the game, also try to not let your Sim inventories get too overloaded (use it, it's integral, just move things out of it rather than piling up), and purge and turn off the memories (do not use at all). There are a lot of things that will degrade a save over time, but these two can get bad very quickly. A couple of the neighborhoods themselves are very buggy, the most notable one is the beach/mermaid map. Check the Sims wiki for those.
@@LilliumElessa cool, thanks. I always use the optimization mods, but maybe i can try the inventory and no other cc.. i usually have the maxis cc but i will try cutting that too.
@@LilliumElessa i dunno which sims. But i can remember just using loner skill and make my sim do non stop paintings. Starts op crappy. But after a while you can make mood paintings and things that sell for like 4 grand or something. Easy to do and was enough money to build any house i wanted to. Providing i made him paint all day.
My favorite exploit is from sims 2. You get thr expansions that include all of the instruments and plant sims. Plant sims have a different set of needs, which allow you to set up a stage with sun lamps and sprinklers, a set of instruments, and have a family of plant sims all play for tips together. This ends up perpetually filling all of their needs, and they xan continue playing like this /forever/. And people will wander by and dump immense riches into your tip jar.
"You'd have to be digging around in a very strange place to find this bad boy." Is there something you'd like to tell us, Spiff? Perhaps about how you found this exploit?
@@hanselsihotang It doesn't matter how it tastes; if I had a lobster the size of a small person I'd try to keep it alive and growing for as long as possible
easier way: literally, start the game with a dog, train dog in hunting, have dog start digging up shit until you find tiberium. cut tiberium. set tiberium crystal and dust on the ground, allow it to grow and spread, sell every chunk for 50k+ cut and sell all other gems gained too
Came to make a shout out for Sims 2, still has an active community making great CC. Not too many bloggers or you tubers playing with it but man, it’s still a great game. Has that early Sim silliness that I think it lost from Sims 4.
@@Alizudo I reckon it is about the size of a volkswagen Beetle, with tail and all. Probably is horrifically mutated as well, considering it was found deep underground.
"He's just vibrating away over a massive gaping hole!" Oh, the amount of jokes with that... You make us Aussies look tame in comparison, when you make a dirty joke or phrase, accidentally and inadvertently haha. Not that I'm complaining, about them
Love these kinda exploits! Downloading Sims 3 to do it myself now with some storytelling in the background. I have one pretty known one for Sims 4! Start a club and make the activity to painting and make everyone in it only paint! Spam start club activities and make them paint non-stop while you keep selling all the art. Eventually their painting level go up so fast the painting will sell for a lot! Do it on a tiny living house to speed up their painting! Just throw tons of easel outside the apartment. Or you could even lock them in the apartment with only easel!
My most recent exploit of the Sims 3, which I do play occasionally still, is to play as a charismatic witch character, buy or make potions which allow me to become friends with them and move in and set all the people I don't like on fire. It seems the fire spell when you use it by clicking just beyond another sim standing opposite of you, it sets them on fire. My sim and their army of green goblin children quickly took over a town by marrying the richest celebrity and then selling said celebrities house and burning their friends alive. Getting rid of the people that the celebrities and families live with is easier than making them paint in a locked basement until the end of time. Cheers.
Creating a highly charismatic sim is probably the easiest way to make money, beyond exploiting glitches or being a genie and mind controlling people. You are technically playing the game as intended. At the minimum all you have to do is be sly, make a rich friend, marry them or ask to move in, depending on if you want to be romantic or just incredibly and maliciously friendly. I prefer the latter method as you simply move in and can then have complete control of the household you've assimilated or dare I say, colonized. I can see it now, instead of an evil goblin sorcerer bewitching the town, insert Mr. I.M.P Erial. He goes about convincing people to let him move in on their property, then slowly moves them out, greatly reduces the property value by selling everything but the essentials, thus leaving them with a run down shack and then takes over the next household. You could technically do this and earn more money until you physically own every lot in the game and collect rent from the locals you have colonized. This is even further made great as if you have the University expansion you can literally sell the dorms, as in the entire building and leave a tiny shack with bare essentials for your dorm-mates.
I think this is the game where I bought an empty plot of land, built nothing on it, put a sleeping-bag in my inventory and lived in the gym to quickly max my athletics score.
I have fond memories of my sister and I playing Sims 1 when it came out. Now we've both been playing The Sims 3 nonstop and texting each other about our adventures!
Use this exploit together with the research bench from the university dlc, then find the best space rock and clone it, with the chance of making it even better all that money.
After watching The Spiffing Brit videos for a couple of days, I already felt like a veteran. Therefore, I pressed the subscribe button and made a cup of tea for myself. Unfortunately, my grandparents - unlike my parents - did not have Yorkshire Tea, but only Lipton Yellow Label.
Ah, this makes me want to revisit Sims 3 or Sims Medieval. I was really looking forward to that Animal Crossing video and hope you are able to get it back up.
Honestly, I did not know this was an exploit, but I have found out several other similar methods, where you pretty much take either a werewolf or dog sim, give them the gatherer or hunter trait, and then pretty much have an army of living drills which will find loads and loads of valuable materials you can refine and sell for massive profit- The trade offs with that are, if you're using a werewolf, they're restricted to only being able to find metals, gems, and I think bugs or something like that, but you get credit for everything you collect, which will allow you to unlock powerful bonuses such as the heart-shaped gem cut, and generally increase the value/volume of things that you find, meanwhile if you use dogs you can find all kinds gems, metals, and even space rocks, but you won't be able to get any credit for the things you collect, because it'll be your dog doing it, therefore not getting any bonuses unlocked by completing collecting journal challenges, cats are...not very good from what I remember, they're only capable of collecting/hunting bugs, animals, and other living things, which are only valuable if you find exceptionally rare ones, and even then it just can't compete with the consistency that comes with the thousands of dollars per item that you can make from refined gems, metals and and space rocks- If it counts in your journal though, you can just use this method to collect space rocks for your journal challenge, and then just go nuts with a werewolf and pack of digging dogs, since once you're done cashing in on the exploit and using it to fill your space rock collection journal, you can stop it and just start using the hunting features to find such things, as, if I'm correct, it might not matter who or what collects the space rock, as long as the one who analyzes it has the perks, you'll probably get all the benefits, and therefore will further be able to do this- Also, I wonder if this works with places like the catacombs, because if so, you may be able to make an even wider variety of loot- Edit: Also, it should be mentioned, almost all these methods, including the one in the video, require some sort of DLC, the method shown in the video by Lord Spiff himself is only available if you have the Sims 3 Ambitions expansion, as that unlocks the cosignment shop, and the mining drill, meanwhile, you can use a gem cutter to refine gems at no cost and to unlock new special gem cuts that are equally as powerful as the mist expensive, and most difficult to unlock, heart-shaped gem cut, but that is only available if you have the Sims 3 Supernatural expansion, as well, werewolves are only available in the Sims 3 Supernatural as well, meanwhile, dogs can of course only be obtained via the Sims 3 Pets expansion. It's all very separated, and can vary in degrees of complication, but generally, the more DLC you own, the more options you have for your mining operation, for example, if you don't have the gem cutter from the Supernatural expansion, you may also want to keep in mind that you may actually not be making an ideal profit from cutting every last gem, as cutting a gem with too low value with a high value cut will boost it's value more, yes, but using more expensive cuts on cheap gems will actually cause you to make less profit or even lose money, since the bonus that using more valuable cuts gives you is based on percentage, say you're using a cut that costs 500 to cut via mail, and it will boost the original value of a gem by 200% it's initial value, but you are using it on a raw gem that's only worth 10 dollars initially, then it'll only be worth 20 after you cut it with this uber expensive and valuable cut, meaning you'd actually lose 480 dollars in the process, however, if you have the gem machine from the Supernatural expansion, this math becomes irrelavent because you'll be able to cut gems for completely free, meaning that the most prestigious and valuable cuts will always turn you the most profit per gem, there are also additions made by the Sims 3 World Adventures that'll add new gems and cuts to your game, but I can't vouch for how they may or may not change this strategy as I don't own that expansion myself.
@@JDG-hq8gy Thank you for that. ^-^ Maybe it'll at least get close enough for lord Spiff to see it and take a few of those things into account, also, I've edited the comment's ending to have much more detail on what's required to use all these methods, including the one in the video that Lord Spiff overlooked and neglected to mention.
So glad you did this! I love the Sims games. I play 4 right now, even though I do think it’s lacking in some SERIOUS areas. I’d love to see more exploits with Sir Cumference and whatever else you dig up!
I was just trying every inventions my sims made. the drill was my love from the first sight ~~ although i didn't made people jump in holes, just stole some sims from here and there and set them to dig a lot, the gems were for my collection. much more easy than having werewolves run around and yes, the sims 3 must be my favourite of the series, still enjoy playing it!
I've been playing a ton of Sims 3 since there's a stay-at-home order where I live right now. Let's me live out the fantasy of going outside and having a job. Love your videos, thanks for keeping me entertained through quarantine
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"He should be round!" **makes him square jawed with pointy ears**
I played Sims 3 back when I still had my laptop and got some amazing achievements without exploits and playing just one Sim: 1. Earned 100k Simoleons working as an astronaut 2. Graduated university with all A's in every degree 3. Became an unexpected celebrity 4. Beat Grim Reaper in chess to save a close friend 5. Became best friends with Grim Reaper afterwards
Ha, I'm still revisiting sims 3 now and then. I have several of the expansions, the combination of supernatural, pets and superstar is really fun (I had a stage magician who was a witch). The pets, particularly the dogs, are amazing for sniffing out gems, while the cats hunt and often catch rare prey. I swear the pets bring in more money to the household for most of the game than the sims do.
I still play TS3. I play all of the sims actually for some reason. I just decide which one i feel like playing and go. they all have their plus and minus points. TS3 I usually play more though do to the maximum amount of easy customization of objects and clothing, I also liked the open world a lot more.
I don't know if my game is glitched or not, but after I find a cave I can put the miner anywhere I want, but after the fact it's stuck there until I find another cave. That made me cram a lot absolutely chockful of pits, not even a scrap of land left.
This exploit mixed with the cloning machine from sims university and the transfiguring from supernatural forever changed how I played sims. So much so I haven’t played it in a month and am somewhat disappointed in the sims 4
All OGs agree that the Sims 4 has the most disappointing gameplay in the whole franchise. Sims 2 and 3 are by far superior in gameplay. Although you can't even begin to compare the build mode abilities from the previous installments to what we have now. Sims 4 build mode is the best thing since sliced bread.
Before having watched the video, I want to say that I too have found that you can make money by mining. But on my one and only playthrough of the sims 3, I visited the future because it sounded cool. I pulled a back to the future on the game, by that I mean I cheated at the lottery and then bought the town. Before that I sustained myself by having the maximum allowed number of roommates. I gave them sleeping bags to sleep on and tried to avoid them for the most part. I stayed in my basement mixing alchemical potions to make myself an immortal human in a town full of monsters.
FYI Spiff. In one of my Sims 3 playtroughs, my male sim got abducted by aliens while Stargazing with maxed logic skill, after that he gave birth. So Tobe Lerone might not be dumb to prepare for that. xD
My sim is an inventor and she actually has a mining drill in her inventory as we speak. She also happens to have two very inconvenient children and a deadbeat husband... _Extraordinary wealth, here we come_
Oh I play this game so often lol. I grew up with 2 and 3 lol. If you see this have have you used the into the future pack to win the lottery. I had a sim with the want of checking town hall for lottery records and you are pretty much guaranteed to win. My sim bought a new house and built a workshop to build her robots in. It was a good life.
I am from Sweden. First thing i do when loading a video from the Spiffing Brit is to hit the like button. Then i watch the video. Because i know the video will be amazing! I know what we are talking about, i am Swedish after all. We are the second greatest country after all, just after the great nation that is Britannia! My her royal person be eternal!
The Sims 3 is my favorite Sims and I still love it! I have 4, but I don't play it as much as 3. However, I've NEVER even heard of the excavator or this spelunking. This was really fun to watch!
I feel like Spiff does normal everyday things like buy a candy bar and decides "i could find a exploit to make this about" lmao another great vid my gugie boy
There's a display for 1200 simoleons that if you add 4 different gems cut the same way and 3 gem dusts from those gems, and a gem dust from a 5th different gem, you can use Irreversible Transfiguration, which turns them into a Soul peace, worth about 2-3k. After cutting 10 different gems, you unlock the heart cut. The heart cut multiples the value of the gem by 5. Heart cut the soul peace for a gem of 10-20k. I usually sell it from my inventory, as the consignment shop is finicky. But if it works, you can turn 5 gems into 20-40k.
@@IndigoGollum No I believe he meant speedy as a noun. Perhaps referring to a quick fish, or other fast thing, belonging to Sterben that Spiff wants damned. Also, if the only thing yore going to do on the internet is correct people using the incorrect yorr. You're being on the internet is just a waste of you'res and mys time
I love listening to your commentary on classic games. My mother used to prefer Red Rose tea. I ordered some regular Yorkshire Tea (purely because of your unofficial endorsement) and she prefers it. (I didnn't-- want to spend the extra coin on Yorkshire Gold) Thanks for making her breakfast better though. Anything for you. I know nothing about the flavors of tea and I enjoyed it myself. Know not if I prefer it over any other kinds, but it is an enjoyable flavor of tea.
I still play the Sims 3 and love it! I recently discovered a bit of an exploit involving the World Adventures Expansion pack while trying out the Midnight Sun Challenge. The money making scheme I enacted is two pronged and goes something like this: 1. Travel abroad and steal all of the books out of bookcases at Basecamp. They won't be worth anything while you are still traveling, but once you return home they are worth a pretty penny apiece. Note that this will only work once per location (unless you refresh the bookcases between trips) and there is usually a clepto in Champs Les Sims who may get to the bookcases before you. 2. Accept a quest that has you hunting for metal but don’t turn in the quest once you have enough, just keep collecting (with the exception of the Egypt opportunities). This acts as a poor man’s Collection Helper (lifetime reward) and can be repeated on every vacation without the need for added skill or lifetime happiness points. Most profitable collection adventures by location: 🥋Shang Simla: Telescopic Metal (ignore gold and silver if short on time) 🍷Champs Les Sims: The New Nectar Machine ☀Al Simhara: The Age of Copper -> A Longing for Gold -> Finding Mummitomium (Completing the chain allows you to pick up the repeatable “Mounds of” opportunities, with Mummitomium farming being the most lucrative)
Still a Sims 3 player here, you can also buy a gem cutting machine to cut the gems that you collect. That way you can cut them right away without sending them through the mail plus it costs some money to send them away via mail. Im not sure expansion the gem cutter came with but its awesome. Oh and each time you cut one type of gem you slowly learn about new cuts of gems and each successive cut can add to the value of the gem. Only downside of the gem cutter is dont put it in a room where another sim will be sleeping cause the sound of the gem cutter will wake them up.
Sees video title: "Ha! I've already seen every terrible thing Sims 3 has to offer"
Spiff then proceeds to literally create a household earth gremlin that lives in the soil and hoards very pretty (and valuable) gems and rocks.
"... Nevermind."
PhantomSavage hey, did not expect to see you here. I love your content dude. Especially when you did gaming videos more often.
Oh you would LOVE, DF (DangerouslyFunny)
@@IcepersonYT Thanks mate, been a fan of the Spiff for a bit now. His mean spirited torture of his digital peons does great good for this savage's heart.
Will be making more gaming content myself too, eventually. Hitman 2 video coming out hopefully within the next few months ;D
Until then, I leave you in good Spiffing hands.
Along with a man sized lobster 🦞
PhantomSavage yeah Spiffing Brit is awesome, I recently caught wind of him because he joined the Yogscast. And I basically grew up on your Dead Rising videos, so the reply means a lot. I look forward to that Hitman video. Have a good day dude!
There's a much easier, and achieveable without cheats (unless you lack the DLC) to generate *vast* sums of money, it does however, require the sacrifice of orphans.
In the Supernatural DLC, there is an item called "The Philosophers Stone". How it works is simple; drag an item onto the Stone and get a sim to interact with it for a chance to turn it into a gold bar. The gold bar isn't what we're going for however, you see, The Philosophers Stone has a wonderful side effect; it has a chance to kill the sim using it by turning them into solid gold, which leaves a golden statue of the Sim worth 50k a piece. With this in mind, how do ophans come into the mix given that you can't kill children, you might ask? Simple:
The Sims 3 lets you forcibly age a Sim by one life stage by buying the "Birthday Inferno Birthday Cake" for 30 simoleons. So, adopt a child, forcibly age them into a young adult and have them repeatedly use the Philosophers Stone until they are killed and turned into gold. Sell the dead orphan for 50k, meaning a lovely 49,970 simoleans in profit for each orphan.
and why should i take an orphan for that? i could put my harem for some good use after all..
Why sacrifice them? If they have the loser trait the grim reaper pities them and lets them live. You can even save on the birthday cake!
Oh yes! This is such a perfectly balanced game, alright.
And not only that you can also sell the gold items the sim made
This sounds so evil, lol
- Is that a gigantic space rock in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
- It's a gigantic space rock. I'm not allowed to talk to anyone.
- Oh.
That's socialization. It is not permitted
@@zyxluz4645 i wouldn't call having a boner socializing..
@blackrave404 you think he had moonrocks in his pocket?
"Oh he's had a bad day. Well that's ok, because he's gonna go to sleep and then tomorrow his day will be exactly the same"
Damn
This entire video is an allegory for how capitalism and exploiting the working class and ugly.
I love it.
TheDancerMacabre really? Your boss turns you into a gremlin that just digs holes all day? I doubt it. I bet your boss make maybe 50% more than you doing 100% more work and one time he yelled at you so hur dur screw capitalism.
@@thecrystalcave4627 read on the cave miners during the industrial revolution smart ass
@@thecrystalcave4627 AMAZON
@@thecrystalcave4627 Now this is a man that has accepted being exploited for financial and material gain. 100% more work? Please. The only reason 99% of the management in most companies are there is either 1 of like 3 things (Or a combination thereof); 1) They stayed there all their lives and have seniority; 2) They purchased their way to the top of the place by owning more than 50% of the shares; Or 3) Favoritism; For instance: I have degrees in networking, cyber security, and I am A+ certified to work on any computer system, be it mobile devices, computers, or any Cisco systems. I apply at a job for Best Buy to fix people's computers. I go there and the fucking moron couldn't tell you the difference between M.2 and an SSD. With those qualifications I should've been in upper echelons, but I saw who had that job and that bimbo probably couldn't even spell computer. She was just there for the looks, and they probably only give her about $10/hour, and refused me because I cost WAAAAY more considering I can do freelance security audits for $2k/site. If that's not exploitation, I don't know what is.
"We have discovered giga-lobster, it was just lying in a pit in the ground" I laughed way to hard at that.
same, lol!
Blue lobster is angry but happy
"Now, technically, this existence is absolutely horrible and terrible, but at the same time, he can't die from it, and he's only going to profit."
Deep
This is the end point of capitalism
Story of my life :(
Every person that hates their job.
Too real, man.
@@TheLozfan123 Oh, yes, "capitalism bad", a classic.
"You cant stop him" of course I cant! The dude carried a giant ass meteorite out of a small hole in his underpants. The dude is magical and super buff.
don't forget the 66 pound lobster
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck I thought that was just a euphemism....
1000 pound space rock
"Oh.. Spiffy is making him into an Elf"
*10 seconds later*
"Oh... spiffy is making a goblin"
Sir. Cumference is actually a good name for an ""intelligent"" goblin that doesn't actually understand what a Sir or a Circumstance actually is, but gives itself a self-proclaimed title anyways
@@Alizudo Sir. Cumference is now an important NPC in my D&D game.
@@GabrielArchon
Amazing 😂
I hope he collects many shiny rocks.
They were Elves once. They were taken, tortured, and then...perfected.
A man desperate to interact with anybody, but being compelled by an unknowable force to dig deeper and deeper into a mine instead is some Junji Ito shit
''This hole was made for me!''
@@amelie1000pl More like ”I was made for this hole!”
We All Ignore The Hole
I actually still play Sims 3! ... Maybe a lot. And this adventure can be improved!
If you give Toby the Born Salesman trait, which will boost his sales at the consignment store (which is a large point to most broken ways to make an excess of cash in the Sims).
Also for better sales, you can get the Gem Cutter (from the Supernatural expansion) out of buy mode. This removes the cost of cutting all gems, and gives you some piles of gem dust on the side that sell for an absurd amount.
I've not tested it, but I think you could give Sir Cumfrence the Loner trait and have the Enjoying Solitude buff help improve his mood and counter the negative social mood? It would take longer to get the social bar to decay all the way though.
I don't think the Lucky trait actually helps Sir Cumfrence, it helps with other chance based activities but not actually collecting stuff. For this you actually want the Gatherer trait, and then you will also want Sir Cumfrence to be the one to use the gem cutting machine (it increases cut gem values).
Since Sir Cumfrence ultimately spends all of his time outdoors, and eventually fulfills very few wishes, he may get a better mood boost out of Loves the Outdoors over Ambitious.
Since you can have very bad luck with getting what you were looking for out of the Consignment Store, I would put Eccentric on Toby, and then as a back up he can start leveling the Inventing skill so that you can guaranteed get the miner one way or another.
Since the miner and the spelunking decay your sim's hygiene very quickly (though I couldn't tell how badly it did it in the video with the exploit), you could give Sir Cumfrence the Slob trait. This allows him to absolutely never bathe and suffer no debuffs from it. He will also like his burned/awful food. Other people won't like encountering him, but that's okay! He needs to stay away from them anyways! Also, if you were to end up doing inventing yourself, he would be able to dig for scrap without being bothered by the disgusting stench of himself and all the garbage.
Fun video! That was a hilarious and actually unique way to make Sims 3 even more broken than usual!
How do you keep it stable? It crashes for me.
@@nathanjames5101 Sims 3 is a massive game, and unfortunately not a very stable one. My game does crash. There are a few mods from NRaas that improve stability and fix bugs, that should be a must for Sims 3. Other than that, unfortunately try to keep optional mods (hair, clothes, etc) to a minimum.
Within the game, also try to not let your Sim inventories get too overloaded (use it, it's integral, just move things out of it rather than piling up), and purge and turn off the memories (do not use at all). There are a lot of things that will degrade a save over time, but these two can get bad very quickly.
A couple of the neighborhoods themselves are very buggy, the most notable one is the beach/mermaid map. Check the Sims wiki for those.
@@LilliumElessa cool, thanks. I always use the optimization mods, but maybe i can try the inventory and no other cc.. i usually have the maxis cc but i will try cutting that too.
@@LilliumElessa i dunno which sims. But i can remember just using loner skill and make my sim do non stop paintings. Starts op crappy. But after a while you can make mood paintings and things that sell for like 4 grand or something. Easy to do and was enough money to build any house i wanted to. Providing i made him paint all day.
@Drudge Report will look into thanks!
"Sir Cumference, it's 4 PM, time for another mining operation!"
"Yes Toby..."
Thanks, now you made me feel sad for the gremlin.
Talking? That's socialization!!!
@A Dude yes, he should at least get 2 treadmills.
I'm still waiting for Nintendo to release the claim on the Animal Crossing exploit
Nintendo patched the exploit in around 10 hours after spiffs video... This proves the power of Spiff.
@@thespiffingbrit isn't your video protected by fair use?
especially since spif was DAYS late in showing it off.
fair use is why it can be brought back, DMCA though allows temporary takedown while fair use is being decided.
I watched the first 5 minutes but was busy, comeback and video stolen by Nintendo:(
I never realised the Sims was able to simulate my social life that accuratly!
Playing Sims 3 like it's Rimworld. I truly love it.
Sir Cumference isn't a lonely miner. He's social distancing.
and making a sizable income, truly a person we should cultivate multitudes of.
@@Esproth And getting jacked
Ur mom is social distancing
He can't, he's also a genius
yes
"If you do it this way, it will take him 5 hours and I don't have that kind of time"
...
"Before we begin, let's get some sleep for about 7 hours"
Gotta make sure the gremlin is rested, he's got a big year ahead of him.
"let's go create a broken family" - Spiffing Brit 2020
there is no such thing like broken. its just perfectly balanced.
1:16 My dad did it first
The question is not how it is when
Misspoke at the start there. "If you're somewhat of a veteran" you already have a cup of tea.
"Let's go create a broken family" wow. Not even gonna sugar coat it.
@blackrave404 though this might be the painter goblin exploit but no....
My favorite exploit is from sims 2. You get thr expansions that include all of the instruments and plant sims. Plant sims have a different set of needs, which allow you to set up a stage with sun lamps and sprinklers, a set of instruments, and have a family of plant sims all play for tips together. This ends up perpetually filling all of their needs, and they xan continue playing like this /forever/. And people will wander by and dump immense riches into your tip jar.
Disappointed that you didn’t try and place the lobster down, see how massive it truly is
Eh... Giga Lobster would start ruining the town.
"You'd have to be digging around in a very strange place to find this bad boy."
Is there something you'd like to tell us, Spiff? Perhaps about how you found this exploit?
That lobster... is probably the size of a large breed DOG based on its weight
Now that's dinner for a week
Ugh, a lobster that big (and I presume old) might taste awful.
@@hanselsihotang
It doesn't matter how it tastes; if I had a lobster the size of a small person I'd try to keep it alive and growing for as long as possible
Homer wants his pet back, so he can bathe him.
@@Alizudo Technically they are immortal but molting eventually tends to kill them. This is the Lobster Elder. Chief Lobsteroni
easier way:
literally, start the game with a dog, train dog in hunting, have dog start digging up shit until you find tiberium.
cut tiberium. set tiberium crystal and dust on the ground, allow it to grow and spread, sell every chunk for 50k+
cut and sell all other gems gained too
Can confirm. Did this in real life with my dog. We ended up having to spend $5000 a year, just on rubber bands to keep our money together.
Came to make a shout out for Sims 2, still has an active community making great CC. Not too many bloggers or you tubers playing with it but man, it’s still a great game. Has that early Sim silliness that I think it lost from Sims 4.
"Sim silliness that I think it lost from Sims 4" agreed.
Toby Larone looks like the kind of guy whose father will be hearing about this. Just saying.
"Draco, what have you done to your house elf?"
"We have discovered Giga-Lobster"
Please keep playing with this perfectly functional household!
That lobster would have to be the size of a small person, or a massive dog
@@Alizudo I reckon it is about the size of a volkswagen Beetle, with tail and all. Probably is horrifically mutated as well, considering it was found deep underground.
@@Mabari1Hound I know, and I want a real one
@@Mabari1Hound Near the plutonium
Game Developers: Our game is perfectly balanced with zero exploits.
Spiff: *sips Yorkshire Tea*
All games, regardless of polish, have exploits. Some are just better hidden than others.
@@darkencroix6412 I had exploits in a *quiz* I made, so I can only agree
"He's just vibrating away over a massive gaping hole!"
Oh, the amount of jokes with that...
You make us Aussies look tame in comparison, when you make a dirty joke or phrase, accidentally and inadvertently haha.
Not that I'm complaining, about them
It's great. One of the things I absolutely love about this channel haha
That's the joke.
@@OldUKAds dude, we know urgh 🙄
Love these kinda exploits! Downloading Sims 3 to do it myself now with some storytelling in the background.
I have one pretty known one for Sims 4! Start a club and make the activity to painting and make everyone in it only paint!
Spam start club activities and make them paint non-stop while you keep selling all the art. Eventually their painting level go up so fast the painting will sell for a lot!
Do it on a tiny living house to speed up their painting! Just throw tons of easel outside the apartment. Or you could even lock them in the apartment with only easel!
My most recent exploit of the Sims 3, which I do play occasionally still, is to play as a charismatic witch character, buy or make potions which allow me to become friends with them and move in and set all the people I don't like on fire. It seems the fire spell when you use it by clicking just beyond another sim standing opposite of you, it sets them on fire. My sim and their army of green goblin children quickly took over a town by marrying the richest celebrity and then selling said celebrities house and burning their friends alive. Getting rid of the people that the celebrities and families live with is easier than making them paint in a locked basement until the end of time. Cheers.
Creating a highly charismatic sim is probably the easiest way to make money, beyond exploiting glitches or being a genie and mind controlling people. You are technically playing the game as intended. At the minimum all you have to do is be sly, make a rich friend, marry them or ask to move in, depending on if you want to be romantic or just incredibly and maliciously friendly. I prefer the latter method as you simply move in and can then have complete control of the household you've assimilated or dare I say, colonized.
I can see it now, instead of an evil goblin sorcerer bewitching the town, insert Mr. I.M.P Erial. He goes about convincing people to let him move in on their property, then slowly moves them out, greatly reduces the property value by selling everything but the essentials, thus leaving them with a run down shack and then takes over the next household. You could technically do this and earn more money until you physically own every lot in the game and collect rent from the locals you have colonized.
This is even further made great as if you have the University expansion you can literally sell the dorms, as in the entire building and leave a tiny shack with bare essentials for your dorm-mates.
@@Nolzei Basically IRL gold diggers and THOTs
I think this is the game where I bought an empty plot of land, built nothing on it, put a sleeping-bag in my inventory and lived in the gym to quickly max my athletics score.
This is basically what I done for a month. The stupidest part is I did have enough money to rent somewhere I was just super lazy.
I have fond memories of my sister and I playing Sims 1 when it came out. Now we've both been playing The Sims 3 nonstop and texting each other about our adventures!
I never cared much for the sims series but you make it actually look like fun. I love the way you chose to play it is without a doubt the best way.
A forgotten species of lobsters living underground. Everyone thought they where extinct.
Use this exploit together with the research bench from the university dlc, then find the best space rock and clone it, with the chance of making it even better all that money.
Spiff: *Releases a video in the afternoon*
Me: *TEA SOUNDS*
the sun never sets m8
unknow man he comes in The part of the day you least expected
Why is the time important? Aren't you always drinking tea?
@@Luci_Diavol
The afternoon has an entire meal dedicated just to tea
*Sploshh...*
Crazy that I get back into Sims 3 during this quarantine, and then one of my favorite RUclipsrs makes a video on it. Perfect timing!
After watching The Spiffing Brit videos for a couple of days, I already felt like a veteran. Therefore, I pressed the subscribe button and made a cup of tea for myself. Unfortunately, my grandparents - unlike my parents - did not have Yorkshire Tea, but only Lipton Yellow Label.
I like the "perfectly balanced" games the most, they bring the utmost joy.
3:20
holy shit, *you made Sims into Animal Crossing*
Spiff, your flattery gets me to like the vid every time.
yes! more TS3! would love to see more of Sir. Cumference and Toby Larone :D
The green gem that can actually grow is the most broken thing.
Isn’t it tiberium?
Sims 3 is my comfort game. Something I've consistently been coming back to every so often since it came out pretty much
I was literally playing Sims 3 today.
If I have to be on lockdown, so do they
Lmao this comment is hilarious 😂😂😂
Ah, this makes me want to revisit Sims 3 or Sims Medieval. I was really looking forward to that Animal Crossing video and hope you are able to get it back up.
Honestly, I did not know this was an exploit, but I have found out several other similar methods, where you pretty much take either a werewolf or dog sim, give them the gatherer or hunter trait, and then pretty much have an army of living drills which will find loads and loads of valuable materials you can refine and sell for massive profit-
The trade offs with that are, if you're using a werewolf, they're restricted to only being able to find metals, gems, and I think bugs or something like that, but you get credit for everything you collect, which will allow you to unlock powerful bonuses such as the heart-shaped gem cut, and generally increase the value/volume of things that you find, meanwhile if you use dogs you can find all kinds gems, metals, and even space rocks, but you won't be able to get any credit for the things you collect, because it'll be your dog doing it, therefore not getting any bonuses unlocked by completing collecting journal challenges, cats are...not very good from what I remember, they're only capable of collecting/hunting bugs, animals, and other living things, which are only valuable if you find exceptionally rare ones, and even then it just can't compete with the consistency that comes with the thousands of dollars per item that you can make from refined gems, metals and and space rocks-
If it counts in your journal though, you can just use this method to collect space rocks for your journal challenge, and then just go nuts with a werewolf and pack of digging dogs, since once you're done cashing in on the exploit and using it to fill your space rock collection journal, you can stop it and just start using the hunting features to find such things, as, if I'm correct, it might not matter who or what collects the space rock, as long as the one who analyzes it has the perks, you'll probably get all the benefits, and therefore will further be able to do this-
Also, I wonder if this works with places like the catacombs, because if so, you may be able to make an even wider variety of loot-
Edit: Also, it should be mentioned, almost all these methods, including the one in the video, require some sort of DLC, the method shown in the video by Lord Spiff himself is only available if you have the Sims 3 Ambitions expansion, as that unlocks the cosignment shop, and the mining drill, meanwhile, you can use a gem cutter to refine gems at no cost and to unlock new special gem cuts that are equally as powerful as the mist expensive, and most difficult to unlock, heart-shaped gem cut, but that is only available if you have the Sims 3 Supernatural expansion, as well, werewolves are only available in the Sims 3 Supernatural as well, meanwhile, dogs can of course only be obtained via the Sims 3 Pets expansion. It's all very separated, and can vary in degrees of complication, but generally, the more DLC you own, the more options you have for your mining operation, for example, if you don't have the gem cutter from the Supernatural expansion, you may also want to keep in mind that you may actually not be making an ideal profit from cutting every last gem, as cutting a gem with too low value with a high value cut will boost it's value more, yes, but using more expensive cuts on cheap gems will actually cause you to make less profit or even lose money, since the bonus that using more valuable cuts gives you is based on percentage, say you're using a cut that costs 500 to cut via mail, and it will boost the original value of a gem by 200% it's initial value, but you are using it on a raw gem that's only worth 10 dollars initially, then it'll only be worth 20 after you cut it with this uber expensive and valuable cut, meaning you'd actually lose 480 dollars in the process, however, if you have the gem machine from the Supernatural expansion, this math becomes irrelavent because you'll be able to cut gems for completely free, meaning that the most prestigious and valuable cuts will always turn you the most profit per gem, there are also additions made by the Sims 3 World Adventures that'll add new gems and cuts to your game, but I can't vouch for how they may or may not change this strategy as I don't own that expansion myself.
This should be top comment
@@JDG-hq8gy Thank you for that. ^-^ Maybe it'll at least get close enough for lord Spiff to see it and take a few of those things into account, also, I've edited the comment's ending to have much more detail on what's required to use all these methods, including the one in the video that Lord Spiff overlooked and neglected to mention.
This! This is the way my wife used to get ludicrous amounts of money!
So glad you did this! I love the Sims games. I play 4 right now, even though I do think it’s lacking in some SERIOUS areas. I’d love to see more exploits with Sir Cumference and whatever else you dig up!
I was just trying every inventions my sims made. the drill was my love from the first sight ~~
although i didn't made people jump in holes, just stole some sims from here and there and set them to dig a lot, the gems were for my collection. much more easy than having werewolves run around
and yes, the sims 3 must be my favourite of the series, still enjoy playing it!
I've been playing a ton of Sims 3 since there's a stay-at-home order where I live right now. Let's me live out the fantasy of going outside and having a job. Love your videos, thanks for keeping me entertained through quarantine
"He should be round!"
**makes him square jawed with pointy ears**
This first half honestly feels like some God or simulator controller focusing on one /fit/ poster just to fuck up his life. It's great
I played Sims 3 back when I still had my laptop and got some amazing achievements without exploits and playing just one Sim:
1. Earned 100k Simoleons working as an astronaut
2. Graduated university with all A's in every degree
3. Became an unexpected celebrity
4. Beat Grim Reaper in chess to save a close friend
5. Became best friends with Grim Reaper afterwards
Thanks for cheering me up Spiff, your voice and humor are a great thing
Ha, I'm still revisiting sims 3 now and then. I have several of the expansions, the combination of supernatural, pets and superstar is really fun (I had a stage magician who was a witch). The pets, particularly the dogs, are amazing for sniffing out gems, while the cats hunt and often catch rare prey. I swear the pets bring in more money to the household for most of the game than the sims do.
I still play TS3. I play all of the sims actually for some reason. I just decide which one i feel like playing and go. they all have their plus and minus points. TS3 I usually play more though do to the maximum amount of easy customization of objects and clothing, I also liked the open world a lot more.
I don't know if my game is glitched or not, but after I find a cave I can put the miner anywhere I want, but after the fact it's stuck there until I find another cave. That made me cram a lot absolutely chockful of pits, not even a scrap of land left.
I dont usually 'like' videos.. but I'm liking this one after 1.16 minutes so that he means me when he says "you, amazing being". Anyone else? Just me?
This is what I have been waiting for. You should look into toddlers in sims 4
This exploit mixed with the cloning machine from sims university and the transfiguring from supernatural forever changed how I played sims.
So much so I haven’t played it in a month and am somewhat disappointed in the sims 4
The only thing I've liked about sims 4 so far is the slight upgrade in details. That's about it. TL;DR just stick to the Sims 3.
Sims 4 is a direct downgrade, gameplay wise, in every way. Its nothing but an EA cash grab on the die hard sims playerbase.
All OGs agree that the Sims 4 has the most disappointing gameplay in the whole franchise. Sims 2 and 3 are by far superior in gameplay.
Although you can't even begin to compare the build mode abilities from the previous installments to what we have now. Sims 4 build mode is the best thing since sliced bread.
Which sim game let you grill babies again or did I just have some really weird mods?
Was it 2 or was sims 2 the mystery solving sims?
"Don't quote me on that" - Spiff 2020
Thank you. I thought those infinite caves were just randomly occuring glitches. I used to call them "gold mines"
Before having watched the video, I want to say that I too have found that you can make money by mining. But on my one and only playthrough of the sims 3, I visited the future because it sounded cool. I pulled a back to the future on the game, by that I mean I cheated at the lottery and then bought the town.
Before that I sustained myself by having the maximum allowed number of roommates. I gave them sleeping bags to sleep on and tried to avoid them for the most part. I stayed in my basement mixing alchemical potions to make myself an immortal human in a town full of monsters.
The Sims 3 is my happy place. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and hope you make more!
FYI Spiff.
In one of my Sims 3 playtroughs, my male sim got abducted by aliens while Stargazing with maxed logic skill, after that he gave birth. So Tobe Lerone might not be dumb to prepare for that. xD
The most overpowered way to make money I used was learning one song on a guitar and constantly going to the subways and playing that song
My sim is an inventor and she actually has a mining drill in her inventory as we speak.
She also happens to have two very inconvenient children and a deadbeat husband...
_Extraordinary wealth, here we come_
Oh I play this game so often lol. I grew up with 2 and 3 lol. If you see this have have you used the into the future pack to win the lottery. I had a sim with the want of checking town hall for lottery records and you are pretty much guaranteed to win. My sim bought a new house and built a workshop to build her robots in. It was a good life.
I am from Sweden.
First thing i do when loading a video from the Spiffing Brit is to hit the like button.
Then i watch the video.
Because i know the video will be amazing!
I know what we are talking about, i am Swedish after all.
We are the second greatest country after all, just after the great nation that is Britannia!
My her royal person be eternal!
Dude there's literally a 0 pound wallpaper and floor, don't keep walls bare.
The game measures money in Simoleons, and weight in Kilogramms.
@@Zuldaar dont be stupid..
Last Time I was this early we Americans were dumping tea in a harbor.
Heathen
CHEESE
Lol
HERETIC
How dare you Americans as a Brit I can not forgive you, you cretin
When I saw you typing "Sir", I was was expecting the surname to be Cumcision.
That, is his brother.
@@wickederebus He's the elf of the circles and his brother is the elf of the foreskins
r/cursedcomments
The Sims 3 is my favorite Sims and I still love it! I have 4, but I don't play it as much as 3. However, I've NEVER even heard of the excavator or this spelunking. This was really fun to watch!
I feel like Spiff does normal everyday things like buy a candy bar and decides "i could find a exploit to make this about" lmao another great vid my gugie boy
Jim Pickens: "My god, I found my spirit animal!"
@Anna333 It would be Gold :)
@Anna333 it would be hell in a nutshell
As someone who plays sims 3, I feel called out.
When is a game NOT a tycoon game with you, Spiff?
My answer to myself: when it already is a tycoon game, you melon.
Watching this show is the perfect compliment to an afternoon tea. Not even kidding.
I’m stuck in NY in the USA. Thank you for keeping me entertained during this time of quarantine
dya think his voice sounds a bit like johnsons from t he tv show peep show ? youttube it if u diont know who he is
1:17
My ancestors: "let's go create a broken family"
I just watched 10 videos in a row, now i need more tea!
“Check these two videos too” “content blocked by Nintendo”. Lol did they not like you exploiting it!
I feel the same way as Sir. Comfrence in college, wake up learn new skills, stay lonely, repeat.
There's a display for 1200 simoleons that if you add 4 different gems cut the same way and 3 gem dusts from those gems, and a gem dust from a 5th different gem, you can use Irreversible Transfiguration, which turns them into a Soul peace, worth about 2-3k.
After cutting 10 different gems, you unlock the heart cut. The heart cut multiples the value of the gem by 5. Heart cut the soul peace for a gem of 10-20k.
I usually sell it from my inventory, as the consignment shop is finicky. But if it works, you can turn 5 gems into 20-40k.
12 seconds after upload
Don't forget to hit the bell
BELLS? INFINITE BELLS? HOW?
Every other time I hit the bell I stop getting notifications. RUclips must be bugged
@@thespiffingbrit *You're
@@IndigoGollum No I believe he meant speedy as a noun. Perhaps referring to a quick fish, or other fast thing, belonging to Sterben that Spiff wants damned.
Also, if the only thing yore going to do on the internet is correct people using the incorrect yorr. You're being on the internet is just a waste of you'res and mys time
April Fools Day- The Spiffing Brit turns into the Spiffing American
"He'll dig holes in your garden!"
Welp am locking my doors now
I love listening to your commentary on classic games. My mother used to prefer Red Rose tea. I ordered some regular Yorkshire Tea (purely because of your unofficial endorsement) and she prefers it. (I didnn't-- want to spend the extra coin on Yorkshire Gold) Thanks for making her breakfast better though. Anything for you. I know nothing about the flavors of tea and I enjoyed it myself. Know not if I prefer it over any other kinds, but it is an enjoyable flavor of tea.
I still play the Sims 3 and love it! I recently discovered a bit of an exploit involving the World Adventures Expansion pack while trying out the Midnight Sun Challenge. The money making scheme I enacted is two pronged and goes something like this:
1. Travel abroad and steal all of the books out of bookcases at Basecamp. They won't be worth anything while you are still traveling, but once you return home they are worth a pretty penny apiece. Note that this will only work once per location (unless you refresh the bookcases between trips) and there is usually a clepto in Champs Les Sims who may get to the bookcases before you.
2. Accept a quest that has you hunting for metal but don’t turn in the quest once you have enough, just keep collecting (with the exception of the Egypt opportunities). This acts as a poor man’s Collection Helper (lifetime reward) and can be repeated on every vacation without the need for added skill or lifetime happiness points. Most profitable collection adventures by location:
🥋Shang Simla: Telescopic Metal (ignore gold and silver if short on time)
🍷Champs Les Sims: The New Nectar Machine
☀Al Simhara: The Age of Copper -> A Longing for Gold -> Finding Mummitomium (Completing the chain allows you to pick up the repeatable “Mounds of” opportunities, with Mummitomium farming being the most lucrative)
"giga-lobster" sounds like a new character name
Endgame alchemy plus consignment is incredibly broken. I remember getting 300k from a day of selling higher tier potions making them three at a time.
has anyone else noticed that he makes his own stock image water mark for the images
everytime i see a new video from spiff i have just finished drinking my tea and i think myself nice
I am sorry but your voice is so calming i can even listen to it as a lullaby.
I mean despite all the exploitation content.
I must admit I was expecting literally anything EXCEPT gigalobster
It's almost the size of a person.
Gigalobster would be an actual fucking monster
Creating a miner character I felt sure you'd call him 'Doug'! 😳
"Call me kevin would like to know your location"
He'd do this ngl
Is Mole available to talk?
@@allideni836 Damn it, I'm 3 months too late.
Still a Sims 3 player here, you can also buy a gem cutting machine to cut the gems that you collect. That way you can cut them right away without sending them through the mail plus it costs some money to send them away via mail. Im not sure expansion the gem cutter came with but its awesome. Oh and each time you cut one type of gem you slowly learn about new cuts of gems and each successive cut can add to the value of the gem. Only downside of the gem cutter is dont put it in a room where another sim will be sleeping cause the sound of the gem cutter will wake them up.