This guide is about mermaids and in particular 6 things you likely didn’t know about them.
- The first thing is that mermaids are exposed to the ordinary conch shell. This object is part of the seashell collection and you can find it by beachcombing for seashells.
It might look like your ordinary conch shell but in reality, it’s so much more.
When a sim blows into this conch shell, then the surrounding mermaids will head on over to your sims, flap their arms and hands, and make a weird kind of dolphin noise. It’s a great way to expose any mermaids while they’re on land.
- The next thing is that mermaids can talk to fish in fish bowls or aquariums and it will raise your sim social need.
It will effectively replace the need for sim friends with fish.
- On number three, it will require the spa day game pack. It’s the hydrating masks that have an extra special effect on mermaid sims. You can buy and apply it from the dark sweets fridge and they’ll help your sim to clear negative moodlets.
When a mermaid removes this mask, ey do they’ll gain a 12-hour happy moodlet called hydrated which has a powerful effect. It will max your mermaid sims hydration need and keep it maxed for the duration of the moodlet.
The mermaids use their hydration bar as a currency to use their powers. So when it is active, your mermaid will be able to spam its powers endlessly without recharging its hydration needs.
- The mermaids can’t snorkel or use ladders in water.
If you try snorkeling as a mermaid, then the option will be grayed out and replaced with a message telling you that it’s a taboo subject. Your mermaid sim has a tail they simply, so it’s not possible to climb up a ladder from the water.
- The tail gives a huge benefit to being a mermaid as it will allow swimming faster than all other sims in water.
Even if a regular sim has level 10 fitness they won’t be able to keep up with a mermaid in water.
- The final thing is that the mermaids can almost cheat high needs with one of their powers as long as the mermaid doesn’t have the good trait.
If a mermaid is swimming with another sim, then they’ll be able to perform the siren’s core power on them. It supposedly costs 100 hydration but in reality, it doesn’t.
This will see your mermaid sim pull that swim underwater after which you’ll drain the target sims that need to be deep into the red but in return, your mermaid sims knees will all be significantly boosted.
It’s hugely helpful and also offsets the hydration cost by boosting it right after.
It should be noted that if a mermaid has the good trait then they won’t be able to perform this power.
So you need to avoid that if you want to make use of this quick bonus.
Before finishing up, mermaids can both sleep and sunbathe on water and they’re also able to crawl over the azure dolphin whenever they’re in the ocean or a significant body of water in Celani. Immediately upon calling this dolphin over and talking to them your mermaid sim will find that they have a max friendship soulmate status with them. So just by being a mermaid, you get a dolphin best friend.
