The Sims 4 Horse Ranch: Guide To Nectar Making (2024)

One of the new skills to learn in The Sims 4 Horse Ranch is nectar making. This five-level skill allows Sims to buy a nectar maker and then stomp on a range of fruit to produce bottled nectar they can then drink, sell, or store in a rack to mature.

There is a range of different produce to experiment with and maturing your nectar can increase your profit if you want to make a business out of this new skill. Here's everything you need to know about crafting, drinking, and selling nectar in The Sims 4.

Updated on December 4, 2023, By Helen Ashcroft: We've updated this nectar making guide to help you get started with growing produce for nectar making, rather than just purchasing it at a premium. This will increase your Sim's profit with very little effort.

What Is Nectar Making?

Nectar making is essentially producing the Sims equivalent of wine and involves a simplistic version of grape stomping. Your Sim will need to purchase a nectar maker, and then some produce to get started with.

The skill works best alongside gardening, so you can grow your own produce to turn into nectar, allowing you to make even more profit and eliminate some of the hassles of ingredient purchasing.

Is It Expensive To Make Nectar?

The real beauty of nectar making is that you can get started with just a few hundred simoleons. A nectar maker will cost you $350, and if you want a rack to store your produce in this will cost another $300 for a stackable shelf that stores ten bottles.

To make your first few bottles you can purchase basic ingredients just by clicking the nectar maker. This will allow you to make grape and apple nectars at level one skill, as well as strawberry nectar, which can be crafted at level two.

All bottles sell for a profit. At first, you'll get poor-quality nectar, and the profit is low, but your earningsincrease if the quality is higher and if the nectar is left to mature for up to a week.

What Are The Best Things To Grow For Nectar Making?

You can use almost any fruit, berry, or herb for nectar making, but some items offer a much faster yield, increasing your profit. Here are the recommended items for your garden, including the growth times.

How Do I Make Nectar?

It's very easy to make nectar. All you need to do is right-click on the nectar maker barrel and select craft nectar. This will display a menu that allows you to choose from all the available recipes. If you do not have the ingredients and/or skill level the recipe will be grayed out and unselectable.

The better your mood and higher your skill level the better quality nectar you'll produce. Like most crafted produce you can have poor, normal, or excellent quality.

Your Sim will stomp the ingredients and then decant the nectar into a bottle. The bottled nectar will go into your inventory. In order to age it you'll need to place it on a table or in a nectar storage rack.

The Different Types Of Nectar

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There are five levels to the nectar making skill and ten different recipes. However, two of the recipes are flexible, allowing you to combine different fruits and berries to see if your Sims enjoy the result. Below is a list of the available recipes, the skill level required to unlock them, and the ingredients needed.

Each type of nectar gives Sims different buffs. These vary depending on the type, quality, and maturity level of the nectar. If you are making fruit or berry nectar you can combine different ingredients to get different effects.

How To Mature Nectar

Maturing nectar is simply a case of waiting. You can just leave a bottle on the side, and as long as it remains unopened, it will mature. Here's how long it takes.

• Lightly Aged - Two Sim Days
• Moderately Aged - Five Sim Days
• Finely Aged - Seven To Eight Sim Days

Nectar seems to mature after a specific number of hours, meaning it will count each day as 24 Sim hours from when it was bottled. The first two stages appear set, but the final stage of maturity sometimes takes a little longer.

If you complete the Expert Nectar Maker aspiration you'll gain the Nectar-Know-It-All trait which allows you to craft nectar that is already lightly aged. Once you reach skill level five you will also craft excellent quality nectar the majority of the time, as long as your needs are met before you begin the process.

How Quickly Can You Max Out The Nectar Making Skill?

The nectar-making skill is easy to max, as long as you can keep your needs up. You simply need to keep making nectar. There appears to be a steady increase in how many bottles it takes to max out a level as follows.

• Level One - Zero
• Level Two - 7 Bottles
• Level Three - 12 Bottles
• Level Four - 17 Bottles
• Level Five - 22 Bottles

This means making approximately 58 bottles. However, there does seem to be some slight variation depending on what you make that is difficult to measure.

What Does Nectar Sell For?

You'll need to take into account the cost of ingredients when making nectar, and this is a good reason to learn the gardening skill. With gardening, you can grow the fruits and berries that offer the highest profit. You'll also maximize all profit by not having to pay out for ingredients, which are generally a couple of hundred simoleons per bottle (excluding the clearly expensive vitality recipe)

Here are all the recipes you can craft and the maximum prices they sell for at each maturity level. If your nectar is of normal or poor quality it will sell for less. These prices are based on excellent quality, something you'll achieve with pretty much every bottle at max level skill.

When you hit level five you'll pretty much be finished with the aspiration and will be crafting lightly aged items as a default. Therefore, it's difficult to get not-aged versions of the highest-level recipes.