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Miracle Worker achievement in The Sims 3

Miracle Worker

Complete 1,000 Wishes.

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  • Parallax DemonParallax Demon
    18 Dec 2010 18 Dec 2010 09 Feb 2011
    When people really want to get the achievement in the fastest way possible, do what I did (only do it this way when you got all other achievements out of the way and need more than a 100 wishes completed).

    All credits go to Askeroth, who posted this on 360A.

    Make a new household, consisting of 6 adults. To speed this process up, make one adult and make 5 copies of him/her
    (preferences doesn't matter at all). The only thing I did was giving them a number instead of a name, because 6 lookalikes can be very confusing.

    Next go to a new house and buy it without any furnishing. After that sell all what is left in the house (toilet, bath, stove and fridge).

    Next go to the options menu and disable free will.

    Start playing the game and fastforward it. Don't get any wish and wait a couple of ingame hours. After about 10 ingame hours all your sims get the same wishes; they want a toilet, a shower/bath, a fridge and/or stove and a bed.
    Accept all those wishes and save afterwards on save 1.

    Next buy all the things your sad sims want. You'll get 24 wishes completed in one go.

    Save your game on new save 2. Quit the game and load save 1. Rince and repeat. Just make sure you always make a save on no. 2, so you can load your original save.

    It took me little over 3 minutes to do this, once the original save is made. That's about 450 completed wishes in a hour.

    * Also added the stove, as Channel 8 News experienced it, while doing it this way.

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    J4M35Worked for me, thanks! smile
    Posted by J4M35 On 11 Jan 16 at 08:29
    DJBringaStill works like a charm in October 2018. Thank you for this. I ran through all the other achievements and only had about 400 completed organically. There's no chance in hell that I would have ever had the patience or the time to grind out the other 600 naturally, lol.
    Posted by DJBringa On 06 Oct 18 at 14:20
    SincereSeeker6Now that this game is wrapping up for me, I actually enjoyed it a lot...
    Makes me want to continue Sims 3 Pets that I started 6 years ago. Despite the long completion time.

    Edit: On second thought, that looks like a pretty mean list, haha.
    Posted by SincereSeeker6 On 08 Jun 21 at 00:49
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  • Fire Hawk DFire Hawk D
    11 Dec 2010 10 Dec 2010 10 Dec 2010
    I found a quick way if you want to just get this achievement and don't really want to play anymore:

    First, I'd recommend getting EVERY other achievement before going for this one. You can work on getting wishes while whittling down the achievement list, netting quite a few in the meantime.

    Next, get as many of your household to have as many easy, quick wishes on hand as possible (aka "Pickup [baby]", "Buy [furniture]", "Chat with [Sim]", etc).

    Now, save your game. Then, quickly complete all of your Sims' wishes and any that come soon after. Usually, after completing the wishes that are on hand, some more that I can easily follow up on come soon after and I go ahead and do these too. Once you feel they aren't coming anymore, save your game, but this time in a second save slot.

    Now, the thing here is to then reload the original save file, go through the wishes again, and save in the second slot. How this works is that the completed challenges and progress on them is saved to your gamertag when you save, not the file itself. So, as long as you're saving, you can just keep stacking the wishes. Works for "Epic Fail" too.

    All in all, this is quicker than playing the game normally. During my grinding, I was able to jump in and get around 7-10 wishes each game load within 6-8 minutes, depending on if more wishes popped up or not.
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    xFallenCastielxIll be finishing this one tomorrow, but I took your idea and tried to amp it up as much as possible. I start a new house with 6 people, all with the same traits, and lined up 3 or 4 for each one. My ideal set up for each one was

    1. Join A career
    2. Learn a skill
    3 Take a class in the skill for 2
    4. Go inside.

    This allowed me to get about 20-25 every reload. Ideally, to save a little time, the career lining up to where the skill class is is the best choice.
    Posted by xFallenCastielx On 13 Dec 10 at 10:52
    Fire Hawk DYep. That's exactly how to max it out. I just wish it still wasn't such a grind. So boring... ~_~
    Posted by Fire Hawk D On 13 Dec 10 at 17:00
    xFallenCastielxI'm just gonna watch a couple of movies while wrapping it up
    Posted by xFallenCastielx On 13 Dec 10 at 18:42
  • SteSteSte91SteSteSte91
    16 Nov 2010 15 Nov 2010 17 Nov 2010
    Wishes are things that your sims want to do and can be compared to small goals. They are short term things that your sim would like to accomplish such as eating a certain food or talking to someone. A notification will come up on the top right corner of your screen when your sim has a new wish. Push RT to read the wish and what it wants you to do. To accept it push A and to decline it push Y. You can have a maximum of four wishes at one time so if you get a wish when you already have four you can open up the main wish screen by pushing and you can change which wishes you want and which wishes you don't. Note that once you decline a wish or get switch out one of your wishes you can't undo it. The type of wish will come up again but you'll just have to wait so pay attention when managing wishes. Also note that you must have the wish active for you to be able to complete it. If a wish is on standby and waiting to be switched in you can't complete it until you make it one of your four wishes. Once you complete your 1,000th you'll get the Achievement.

    There are a few good ways to get wishes quickly. One requires some very specific traits but if you don't have them you can always buy the "mid-life crisis" lifetime reward for 20,000 lifetime happiness points. This method requires you to have learned both the guitar and logic skill, it requires a romantic interest and it also requires the following traits and lifetime rewards.

    -Neat -Trait
    -Genius - Trait
    -Hates outdoors -Trait
    -Party animal - Trait
    -Charismatic - Trait (not required)
    -Legendary host - Lifetime reward (not required)

    When you have the necessary requirements in place throw parties whenever you can. During the party you'll be bombarded with wishes and you should complete at least 10 by the end of each party. At that rate you can get a lot of wishes per hour. Credit goes to darkconsoles over at the sister site for this method. Along with this you could do other things to help such as setting the traits of your housemate to slob and also if one of your sinks break don't repair it, you'll be given the wish "mop the puddle" all the time. I found that you have parties at least every 3-4 hours(sim hours) If you have legendary host, throw a party, invite one person, when they arrive ask them to leave, you automatically throw a great party and you'll still get all the wishes like "Play the Guitar", "play chess".

    Another method to getting wishes quickly is having children. If you have a family oriented sim with an infant in the family the sims is going to get loads and loads of wishes having to do with the care of your child. They're easy things too like snuggling your baby or buying them toys.
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