The Sims 3 Supernatural Fact Sheet
This article contains all officially confirmed information regarding the Sims 3 Supernatural Expansion Pack. When new info becomes available and confirmed, this fact sheet will be updated. To view the Official Press Release, click here.
❗ Images and information for this fact sheet has been collected from developers of the game, and previews from fansites around the world. See the preview lists below!
❗ To read the Community Interviews & Previews (Part 1), click here.
❗ To read the Community Interviews & Previews (Part 2), click here.
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Game Summary
Become supernatural in new world full of magic, mystery and mischief. Enter the mysterious town of Moonlight Falls, where strange things happen by the light of the moon. Create supernatural beings from menacing werewolves and cackling witches to mischievous fairies and more intriguing vampires.
Then stalk the night, use your wand to cast spells, stay home and claw the furniture and more. You can mix dozens of elixirs from turning Sims into zombies to transforming them into gold. Share your enchanted brews with any friends who have The Sims 3. Spooky surprises are in store for you in the world of The Sims 3 Supernatural!
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Limited Edition & Origin Pre Order Content
The Sims 3 Supernatural comes with a variety of exclusive Plants vs. Zombies bonuses for purchasing the Limited Edition, even more bonuses when Pre Ordering from Origin, and two Sims3.com registration bonuses. Once photos are uploaded, they will be added to this post. For those that are unfamiliar with Plants vs. Zombies, see here for more info.
Limited Edition Content
The Sims 3 Supernatural Limited Edition will be available through all online/in store retailers. The exclusive Plants vs. Zombies content that comes specifically with the Limited Edition Pack are as follows.
♦ Peashooter – This steadfast ally is ready to defend your house from zombified Sims and other unsavory characters like burglars and repo men! It actually shoots peas at unwanted guests!
♦ Ripped Zombie Suit Outfit – Dress your male or female Sim in the classic zombie attire from PvZ
♦ Newspaper Zombie Suit Outfit – There’s nothing quite as terrifying as loud boxers and sock garters. Dress your male or female Sim up as the newspaper zombie from PvZ
♦ Cone and Bucket hats – Those pesky zombies might have worn these objects for protection, but they also make a bold fashion statement. Deck your male or female Sim out in this hilarious headgear.
Origin Exclusive Pre Order Content
When Pre Ordering The Sims 3 Supernatural Limited Edition from Origin, you get all the content of the Limited Edition, and much more! Pre Order The Sims 3 Supernatural via Origin to assure you get all the bonus content being offered.
♦ Plantern lamp – This unique item looks just like the planterns that keep the fog at bay in the Plants vs Zombies game. Use it to light your Sim’s house or yard!
♦ Wall-nut sculpture – Nothing says “get off my lawn” like an angry-eyed wall-nut. Place one at a time, or put down a whole row as a fence.
♦ Zombie gnome sculpture – The iconic undead garden gnome from PvZ can grace your Sim’s house or garden.
♦ Brains flag sculpture – Deck out your garden, rooftop, or anywhere with this flag used to lead the charge in Plants vs Zombies. Those guys really love brains.
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New Social Options
♦ Rock Paper Scissors
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New Town – Moonlight Falls
Inspired by the misty valleys of the Pacific Northwest, Moonlight Falls is a brand new backdrop for The Sims 3 full of secret revelations and mystical locations for your Sims to explore, play in and build on
Live a supernatural life with your Sims in a new world full of magic, mystery and mischief! As players delve into the world of the supernatural and explore the eerie new town of Moonlight Falls, they will uncover enchanted objects and gothic décor, including a sliding bookcase that conceals a hidden lair and a powerful mirror with magical interactions. The onset of the mysterious lunar cycle will unveil strange revelations, secrets and mysteries that will shake up the entire town.
Moonlight Falls is home to some very unsuspecting Sims. This is no ordinary town. The inhabitants all possess unique and magical characteristics that set them apart from their ordinary Sim neighbors. For the residents of Moonlight Falls, their town is unlike any other with its towering falls, foggy hills, and mysteries that lurk around every corner.
Moonlight Falls is a scenic escape filled with great places for exploring and hunting. While the natural surroundings of this town are quite beautiful, those seeking a lively setting will find a number of new venues to venture into to meet the locals and research some of the town’s eerie past.
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New Lots
♦ The Toadstool – The warm homey atmosphere of The Toadstool makes it a great place to unwind. Grab a rocking chair by the fire or take a seat on the upstairs balcony for a perfect people watching location.
♦ Varg’s Tavern – For a howling good time, give Varg’s Tavern a try. This old converted warehouse is now deemed the local ‘supernatural hangout’ and a great place to grab a juice or pick a fight.
♦ Red Velvet Lounge – While the Red Velvet Lounge might not look like much on the outside, this vampire lounge sits on prime real estate near the river, and is known as one of the more posh locales to enjoy some plasma or get down on the dance floor.
♦ Aleister’s Elixirs and Sundries – Want to practice a little alchemy, pick up a new elixir recipe or buy that rare ingredient? Aleister’s Elixirs and Sundries, named after the historical Alchemist Aleister Krummly, is the one stop shop for all your elixir needs! This is also the place to put your elixirs up for sale if you want to make some cash with your alchemy skill.
♦ Fae Ray Arboretum – Fae Ray Arboretum is a nature-lover’s paradise. Explore the grounds, read a book in the shade of your favorite tree or listen to the calming sounds of the fountains in this beautiful park. Inside the actual Arboretum you can search for fairies, take a tour or even play fairy games. For the competitive gardener, the Arboretum hosts frequent gardening competitions – enter your best produce and possibly win a prize!
♦ Library of Lore & Vault of Antiquity – For Sims with more intellectual interests, a visit to the Library of Lore & Vault of Antiquity is sure to satisfy even the greatest thirst for knowledge. Sims looking for ‘unique’ information can bypass the library building and head straight to the Vault of Antiquity. Trivia competitions and alchemy classes are just a few of the things to do in this historical location.
♦ Moonlight Point – Watch the sun set from Moonlight Point or take a walk along La Shove Beach with your werewolf pals to truly appreciate the beauty nature has to offer.
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❗ Controlling the Supernatural ❗
The new population control settings use checkboxes and not sliders. There has been some confusion over the new “Population Control Settings” that will appear in the option panel so let me explain this in a bit more detail.
Each Sims 3 town is setup to support story progression; this allows neighbors to move in, get married, promoted and advance in life. The game is basically working behind the scenes to keep the world balanced, alive and interesting over longer periods of time. This system also helps determine if there are too many or too few of a particular type of Sim and tries to keep it at an ideal population. The new population control settings allow players to turn this system on or off.
For example, if a player leaves the checkbox selected (the default), then they are choosing to have the game populate the world to its ideal setting for that particular Sim type. When the checkbox is empty, the game will do nothing to adjust the population of that Sim Type. Sims may still have supernatural babies, or may die, but the game will not go out of its way to maintain an ideal population for that Sim type. Note – If there are already werewolves in your world and you uncheck that Sim Type in the Population Control Settings, the existing werewolves will not be removed. If you would like a world free of werewolves, then you would need to make sure the checkbox is empty before any werewolves show up in your world.
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Create A Sim Features
Players have the new ability to create werewolves, fairies, witches and more intriguing vampires directly in the Create A Sim tool, customizing characteristics that range from the hairiness of a werewolf’s body to the shape and color of a fairy’s wings. The newest sliders are for all Sims (supernatural and regular) and players can also create Supernatural Children in CAS.
♦ New “Supernatural Types” button has been added to choose which supernatural you would like to create in CAS. This options is available for all ages.
♦ Not only can you control what the human form of a supernatural werewolf looks like, but you can toggle back and forth between so you can fully customize what your Sim will look like when he/she transforms.
♦ Body Hair has been added for Female Werewolves as well as for all werewolf age groups.
♦ Ghosts, Vampires, Genies, Fairies, Werewolves & Fairies can be created in CAS for all ages. You will also be able to select which ghost/death type you want as well.
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Hairstyles, Clothing, Accessories, Facial Hair & Tattoos
New Hairstyles
There are a total of 24 Hairstyles in Supernatural. All of them are for teen-adult sims and are split 13/11 (female/male)
New Clothing Options
There are a total of 86 Clothing Options in Supernatural. Clothing ranges from Child-Elder.
New Accessories
There are a total of 9 Accessories in Supernatural. Accessories include fingernails (aka: claws) that are available to regular and supernatural Sims.
New Facial Hair
There are a total of 2 Facial Hair Options for men in Supernatural.
New Tattoos
There are a total of 10 New Tattoo Options in Supernatural.
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New Build/Buy Objects
♦ Sliding bookcase that conceals a hidden lair
♦ Powerful mirror with magical interactions.
♦ Magic Cauldron
♦ Crystal Ball
♦ New Vampire Alter
♦ Grandfather Clock
♦ Functional Rocking Chair – Rock your babies to sleep or read books
♦ Sonophone
♦ Wardrobe
♦ Lunar cycle dial – The Moon Dial is a fun object that reflects the current phase of the moon. It will also tell you your horoscope.
♦ Gypsy Caravan
♦ Magic Broom
♦ Gem Cutter
♦ Wack a Mole
♦ Claw Machine
♦ Train Set
♦ BeeHive
♦ 9 Wands
♦ Chess Table
♦ Moon Spectrum Lamp
♦ Witch Arena
♦ Gem/Stone Cutter
♦ Alchemy Station
♦ Jelly Bean Bush
♦ Magic Mirror
♦ Fortune Ball
♦ Bonehilda Coffin
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New Skills
♦ Alchemy – Curse or charm your Sims’ lives with powerful spells, volatile elixirs and magical abilities in a world of strange happenings, spooky surprises and even the occasional zombie attack. Players have the option to learn magical crafts by casting spells and brewing elixirs that will charm or hex their Sims’ lives.
Both supernatural and ordinary Sims can build their skill as an alchemist and mix dozens of elixirs with a variety of powerful effects, then share these enchanted brews with any friends who have The Sims 3.
These potent concoctions have a wide variety of effects from career-boosting to weight loss and even zombification. The zombification elixir will turn unsuspecting Sims into brain-hungry, shuffling monsters that are driven to wreak havoc on the town.
♦ Broomriding – Broomsticks can be flown on roads and you can do awesome stunts, as you build up your broomriding skill, in the Broom Arena.
♦ Lycanthropy (werewolves) – Enables werewolves to transform between human and werewolf forms at will, so long as they can control their animalistic instincts. Building up your your Lycanthropy Skill can give you hefty benefits, including rare collectables when you’re hunting as a werewolf, and decreased loss of various things like Energy and Bladder whether or not you’re transformed.
♦ Hunting (werewolves) – Info Pending
Elixirs (Potions of the Alchemy Skill)
However you choose to play, you can opt to dabble in magical crafts, building your career as a mystic fortune teller or developing your alchemic skills to brew elixirs with potent effects. Elixirs give you the power to turn other Sims into zombies, boost your learning abilities to acquire skills faster and more.
The elixirs are made with existing collectibles (gems, metals, insects, harvestables, etc) and some new Supernatural ones. Werewolves can also hunt for these special collectibles.
Elixir’s can have permanent or temporary effects on a Sim.
♦ Zombification (Temporary Elixir): Mix a special elixir to create shuffling, brain-hungry monsters of your very own. Chomp on other Sims to spread the love and wreak havoc. Don’t fret, you can always concoct an elixir to change your Sims back.
♦ Skill Booster: Info Pending
♦ Weight Loss: Info Pending
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New Traits
♦ Brooding
♦ Gatherer
♦ Supernatural Fan
♦ Supernatural Skeptic
♦ Night Owl
♦ Proper
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Lifetime Wishes
The Sims 3 Supernatural also introduces new lifetime wishes. For instance, witches may wish to become a master of dark magic or a master of light magic, depending on whether they cast curses or charms. Fairies may wish to become the ultimate trickster and werewolves may wish to rise to be the leader of the pack.
♦ Master of Dark Magic (Witches)
♦ Master of Light Magic (Witches)
♦ Ultimate Trickster (Fairies)
♦ Leader of the Pack (werewolves)
♦ Magical Makeover – Award 12 different Sims their inner beauty, have level 10 charisma
♦ Greener grass – Let 100 plants bloom, have level 10 gardening
♦ Artisan alchemist – Have level 10 alchemy, use 50 alchemy elixirs
♦ Famous paragnostsic– Become level 10 fortune teller (crooks branch)
♦ Mystic healer – Heal 12 different transformed Sims with a sun spell or a powerful healing elixir
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Lifetime Rewards
♦ Alpha Wolf (werewolves)– Gives you a terrifying howl and the ability to bite anyone without being rejected.
♦ Flying vacuum (10,000) – It’s a bird! It is a broom! No, it is a flying vacuum cleaner! Step in and enjoy a luxurious stylish ride that you only can make a vacuum cleaner.
♦ Philosopher’s Stone (40,000) – It will not be able to really amateur alchemists to transform simple objects into gold. This is the real deal! Give yourself incredible powers, but remember that it also belongs to responsible behavior.
♦ Queen/King of Fairies – Edit your Fairies at will.
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New Fortune Telling Career
Sims can build a career as a fortune teller in The Sims 3 Supernatural. Within this career, Sims can opt to be a mystic with a genuine connection to the great beyond or choose to exploit their clients as a scam artist, selling out psychic conventions and giving bogus readings. The fortune tellers job is inside the Gypsy Caravan (rabbit hole), and is not like an Ambitions profession.
Just as is the case with some of the game’s other career paths there’s more than one way to play. Since it is a supernatural expansion, you’ll have the option of turning your Sim into a mystic Fortune Teller with the power to see into the future for realsies, just in case you want to take things super seriously. If you’d rather play a more realistic version of the profession, you can do that too, swindling people out of their money and scamming the world into believing your crystal ball is more than smoke and mirrors.
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New Plants/Recipes/Collectibles
The addition of Supernatural Collectibles will help Sims build their Alchemy Skill & create potions.
Recipes
♦ Aloo Masala Curry
♦ Potato & Trufle Torte
♦ Mushroom Omelette
♦ Ceviche
♦ Chili Con Carne
♦ Fire Shrimp
♦ Porcini Risotto
♦ Hot Sour Soup
Plants
♦ Mandrake
♦ Glow Orb
♦ Chili
♦ Porcini
♦ Tryfle
♦ Wolfsbane
♦ Flugsvamp (mushroom)
♦ Red Valerian
♦ Spotlight Mushroom
♦ White Cub Mushroom
Collectibles
♦ Bloodstone
♦ Moonstone
♦ Sunstone
♦ Toads
♦ Luminous Salamander
♦ Fairy Damsel
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Lunar Cycle
The newest gameplay feature is the Lunar Cycle and its effects on Sims in The Sims 3 Supernatural. Players will notice strange happenings, enchanted transformations and effects on magical potency as the moon changes its phases.
The new Moon Dial object keeps track of the lunar cycle, and is important if one of your werewolf Sims happens to be on a date. You can also customize the lunar cycle in order to control its duration.
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Magic Gnomes
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New NPC – Bonehilda
Bonehilda is a maid type NPC that was first introduced in The Sims: Makin’ Magic. Bonehilda will clean your home, take care of the kids, but cannot become a part of the family. Purchase Bonehilda in buy mode, and then click her standing coffin to awaken her. Take a look at The Sims Wiki for a complete background on her.
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The Supernaturals
This part of the post contains tid bits of info regarding each of the new life forms. Updates will be made when more information is available.
♦ Supernaturals will be able to Simport, but in order for your friend to see them perform in their supernatural form, he/she will need to have Supernatural installed.
Werewolves
♦ Can hunt Collectibles
♦ New Social Interactions include: Nuzzle, Sniff and more
♦ Can eat raw food from their inventory
♦ Controlled by the Lunar Cycle
♦ The lunar cycle is important, especially if one of your werewolf Sims happens to be on a date. After all, transforming into a hairy beast under a full moon during a date is not ideal for making romance blossom (unless, of course, your date is also a werewolf).
♦ The howl of the werewolves can be heard from afar. Especially during the full moon.
♦ Werewolves can transform at will, and doing so enables you to bounce back to your human form whenever you choose. Be warned, though, when a Sim transforms back into its human form it will be disoriented, and transforming is taxing on your Sims’ hunger meter.
♦ Whether you spawn your werewolf inside the included Moolight Falls city, or add them to your current town, you won’t ever have to worry about them accidentally hulking out and murdering your friends.
♦ Werewolves won’t kill people, but they will cause fear in fellow Sims, might randomly kiss them and could destroy property around themselves.
♦ Building up your your Lycanthropy Skill can give you hefty benefits, including rare collectables when you’re hunting as a werewolf, and decreased loss of various things like Energy and Bladder whether or not you’re transformed.
♦ Werewolves also live longer, have bonuses to their Athletic Skill, can eat raw meats and fatigue slower.
♦ Being the only werewolf in the world is a lonely existence, but you can spread it around. You can have children that inherit lycanthropy (50/50 chance if you mate with a normal Sim), or you can work your relationship up with other Sims, converting them with a bite (as long as they accept the offer).
♦ If you earn enough experience and Lifetime Happiness you can purchase an Alpha Wolf reward, giving you a terrifying howl and the ability to bite anyone without being rejected.
♦ You will have the ability to form a pack with your werewolf Sims and then hunt in packs
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Fairies
♦ Delayed Aging
♦ Fairies are a lifestate that can be created and acquired
♦ Fairies can shrink to a “natural form” to perform tasks that they can’t do normal sized.
♦ Bumble Bee style wings allow a fairy to “fly” a little under the radar.
♦ There is a forest-y part of the world where you tend to see fairies hang out.
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Witches
♦ Only witches can learn spells.
♦ Male and Female witches are both witches.
♦ Witches have a magic broom that allows them to fly through the air!
♦ There will be good and bad witch spells, so you can be good, bad or a mixture!
♦ Brooms are the prefered transportation method for witches and wannabe witches.
♦ Witches can wear anything they want, though we do have some fun new witchy looking clothes if you’re so inclined.
By now you’ve gotten the scoop on werewolves from SimGuruJon, frolicked with fairies and SimGuruArgus, and explored lunacy with SimGuruMegan. Today I’m here to tell you about the ‘real’ power that’s in TheSims 3 Supernatural… witches! From the day we started brainstorming ideas for this expansion pack, I was completely in love with witches and all the possibilities they could introduce to The Sims.
To me, playing as a witch offers the ultimate power of choice, “A am I good, evil, or just indifferent? Do I use my spells just to help my family and friends, or do I let my magic run crazy and turn everyone in town to toads?” Mwahahahaha, just talking about it makes me want to rub my hands together in evil glee…
Speaking of evil glee, I know you’re all wondering exactly what being a good witch vs. a bad witch really means. First and foremost are the traits. Witches with the good trait will get more wishes to cast spells that are considered ‘good’ and the same goes for witches with the evil trait, they will get more wishes to cast spells that are ‘evil’. However, being good or evil doesn’t mean you only have access to a certain type of spell. After all, even the friendliest of witches may need to throw a curse every now and then!
Just like the other supernaturals, you can create witches in CAS.
Male, female, green skin or golden, you’ll be able to customize your witch to fit the story you want to tell. Witches come in all ages, and some innate witch abilities can even be present in childhood. Hint, keep an eye on your little witch’s toy box as they’re playing, or they just may magically multiply! However, the teenage years are when a witch’s powers really manifest. This is the time when they receive a wand to play with magic.
Wand, wand, it’s all about the wand! Witches need a magical wand in their inventory to channel their special powers. Every witch is given a basic wand, but if your Sim loses it or wants to upgrade it, there are several options available in Buy Mode to purchase. There are numerous wands to choose from and while each one has a distinctive cool look, they more importantly have unique affects to the way your witch will cast spells. If you’re looking for your witch to have a high success rate at casting spells, I’d recommend giving the ivory wand a try.
But if you’re asking, “SimGuruBritt, I don’t want my witch to rely on a wand! I want them to be able to cast spells without that pointy thing in the way!” Don’t worry, we have you covered. The Lifetime Happiness reward Magic Hands enables your witch to cast spells only using their hands, plus their spells will never fail!
Enough about wands, let’s get into the actual spell casting! Witches will become increasingly proficient and learn more magic spells and abilities as they play with magic and cast spells. For instance, witches can learn how to use their wands to upgrade objects around the house – no more wrenches required! Quick tip, my advice would be to magically upgrade your wardrobe for a special surprise. You will get a message when your witch has learned new spells and abilities with hints for how to use them. Magic spells generally fit into one of three categories (with a few exceptions): Charms, curses and rituals. Charms are considered beneficial or ‘good’ spells.
They can be cast on oneself or on others and range from simple good luck charms to love charms. Curses are harmful or ‘evil’ spells such as the bladder curse (super funny at parties!) or toadification curse. Rituals are spells that can be cast on objects or lots. They have a wide array of effects from converting collectibles to cleaning the house.
I don’t want to give everything away. (Where’s the fun in that?!) But since so many people have asked about specific spells, I think a quick overview of a few of my personal favorites is in order.
One of the first spells a witch learns is the conversion ritual, which changes a collectible from one type to another. The conversion ritual is a pretty useful spell, especially if there is an alchemist in the family. If you have a surplus of gems laying around, simply flick your witches wand and transform them into something useful for your alchemist.
Ice Blast is one of those spells that doesn’t really fall under the category of charm or curse (since it is more of an elemental spell), but is super fun to use. Want to break your neighbor’s plumbing? Ice Blast! Want to give a Sim a severe case of chattering teeth and cold toes? Ice Blast! As a bonus, this spell has a chance of encasing a Sim in a solid block of ice, freezing them for a short time.
Sometimes spells can be fun, sometimes they can be useful, and sometimes they can be dark and dangerous. The haunting curse is definitely one of those dark and dangerous spells since your witch can summon a spirit from the netherworld to haunt a victim for days. Once cursed, the only way out for the victim is to wait for time to pass or to become friends with their ghostly tormentor. Be warned, cast this curse with caution! All spells can fail (sometimes with disastrous results for the caster), and the haunting curse does this in the most extreme way. If it fails, it could mean death for the witch that cast it!
I’ll leave you with just one more, the reanimation ritual. Cast this spell on any tombstone with a ghost and watch the dead rise as a gruesome zombie! Better have an exit strategy planned after casting this spell though as zombies make friends in interesting ways…
Like all great power, magic comes with a cost. Witches have to keep an eye on their magic meter as they use their spells and abilities. The lower the magic meter falls, the higher the possibility that a spell will fail. Once the magic meter is depleted, spells will fizzle and fail until the meter has been replenished. Magic power will slowly regenerate over time, or can be instantly replenished with an Essence of Magic elixir. Another, more leisurely way to regenerate magic power is to take a few loops around the magic broom arena on your broom.
Brooms! (You thought I forgot, didn’t you?) Here’s a secret, anyone can use a broom! Since the magic is in the broom, not in the user, even ordinary Sims can get a taste of magic by flying around town on one of these flying objects. Brooms come in several models. There’s even one with training wheels for the kiddies! For those daring Sims who think merely traveling around town by broom isn’t enough, the broom arena is a place to fly high and show-off your witches stunts.
Can’t afford to buy one of these arenas for your house? No problem! The citizens of Moonlight Falls have recognized every Sim’s right to practice broom stunts, and built their very own broom arena park for any Sim to use. Any Sim can buy and use a broom, but witches will use brooms automatically when traveling solo, just like a taxi.
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Zombies
♦ Zombies can *try* to attack Sims. But, you know, zombies are slow.
♦ There are several ways to see and make zombies in your town, not just with a potion!
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Revamped Vampires
♦ Supernatural will include an all new type of Vampire and will be available to those without Late Night as well.
And only some vampires sparkle…
I have to admit, I’m a big vampire fan and I love a great vampire story. Sparkly or not, there is something about a good vampire/werewolf rivalry that is just awesome. As we talked about the Supernatural experience, we decided that you simply couldn’t have werewolves and witches without also having vampires to round out the group.
We thought long and hard about the best way to bring vampires into The Sims 3 Supernatural, as The Sims 3 Late Night had already done such a great job. After brainstorming and exploring several different ideas, we decided to hold onto the core of The Sims 3 existing vampire that we all know and love, but to add in a slightly different look and feel of a more intimidating, mesmerizing creature of the night.
Lots of people have asked on the forums and twitter what ‘more intriguing’ really means and how these vampires in The Sims 3 Supernatural will relate to the vamps in The Sims 3 Late Night, so I’m here to tell you, straight from the Guru’s mouth! If you do have vampires in your game from The Sims 3 Late Night, these vampires will be updated to have the new form and functionality of The Sims 3 Supernatural vampires when the game is installed. All the cool things your vampires could do The Sims 3 Late Night will remain, e.g. reduced aging, advanced speed and skill gain, offering to turn people, drinking from Sims and hunting. Plus they will get some cool extras. One point of clarification, if you do not have The Sims 3 Late Night installed, no need to worry, you will still get vampires in your game with the installation of The Sims 3 Supernatural.
In addition to the awesome The Sims 3 Late Night vampire functionality, The Sims 3 Supernatural adds some cool things for your vamps to do. Vampires can now be created and fully customized in CAS from the start of the game. Your Sims no longer have to wait to get bitten by another vampire in town. We’ve also added some new objects for vampires, such as an updated version of the altar bed and the vegetarian plasma orange juice (a yummy quick snack from the fridge).
Vampires also have some fun new social interactions to make them feel more mesmerizing and intense. I like Warn Away as it’s great for telling the story of forbidden vampire love. Intimidate is another one of my favorites. It’s a way to scare other Sims, but not all Sims are so easy to push around. Some people think it’s cool to be intimidated by a vampire; others are more willing to take intimidation as in invitation to fight.
Have you ever sent your vampire out for a quick bite, only to be rejected by your chosen victim? With Hypnotic Gaze your vampire can convince strangers that being bitten seems like a great idea.
Sims have some new interesting ways to interact with vampires as well. If you have found a vamp that you really don’t like then Imply their Mother was a Chupacabra or Threaten to Exploit their Weaknesses! Did you fall in love with a creature of the night, but really hate their schedule and constant need to nibble on your neck? Ask them to forsake their powers and see if your love really is true.
In addition, vampires can brew a special elixir to help get them outdoors and in the sunlight. Your vampire will no longer have to worry about passing out due to sun exposure. If you are a fan of sparkly vampires, then try out the Vampiric Sunscreen elixir that will provide your vampire with hours of sparkly outdoor fun!
One last thing to mention, vampires have a new immortal lifetime happiness reward that has a number of effects. Having this reward will completely stop them from aging, allow them to be in the sun without any penalties, will never have them be rejected when taking a drink of blood from another Sim and will need less plasma in order to survive. However, side effects of this reward may include slight sparkles…!
Hopefully this gives you a little more insight into the world of witches and vampires. We had so much fun working on these player types. The animators ran around practicing and filming intimidation. The fx artists studied ice cubes in search of the perfect ice blast. The designers and I dueled furiously around the office to practice wand poses. We hope you have as much fun playing with them in The Sims 3 Supernatural as we did creating them! This is all for now but be sure to stayed tuned for more updates to come as we are just a few weeks away from the launch of the game. Don’t forget to tune in for our third Live Broadcast this Wednesday, August 15 at 8:00 AM PST.
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New Death/Ghosts
♦ Green Ghost – Death by failed spell
♦ Electric Blue/Purple Ghost – Death by Jelly Bean
♦ Dark Gold – Death by Transmutation
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New Woohoo Offspring/ Woohoo Spots
The Sims 3 Supernatural allows for Inter-supernatural relationships. For example, a witch and a werewolf can woohoo with the offspring being one of the two supernaturals. The only supernatural that will not be able to woohoo and produce offspring, is the Zombie. Supernatural offspring will begin to take form as toddlers.
Woohoo Spots
♦ Fairy House
♦ Gypsy Caravan
♦ Magic Wardrobe
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Beekeeping
The beekeeping box can purchased in buy mode, and allow your Sims to harvest honey & beeswax. Producing quality ingredients requires constant care of the bees. Be careful though, they can sting you!
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