Nanites are robotic looking bugs featured in The Sims 3: Into the Future and they can be found in Oasis Landing, predominantly in the wasteland area[1], or near your Reventlov's Bot Workshop after catching all the unique nanites from the Nanite Collector collection challenge. These are not actually considered insects, but are a collection item and have their own filter with the Collection Helper. Note that they still raise the Collection skill when catching nanites, just like catching insects because it is the same action.
Nanites are essential components of some, but not all, trait chips, and some advanced chips require specific nanites. Sims can design, create and reverse engineer nanites. To design and create them requires Reventlov's Bot Workshop. Designing and creating a nanite increases the bot building skill, and at level 3 they can also be reverse engineered. Reverse engineering a nanite lets a Sim learn how to design it, which is needed to create rare nanites, and may yield empty processors.
Processors[]
When reverse engineering a nanite there is a chance of failure, which is reduced by 25% if you have Bot Fan. The amount of processors yielded is a minimum range of 0-2 and maximum range of 2-4. So if you get two different sizes of processors you have a chance of 0-4 of each type.
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Small Processor | 50-100% chance to be obtained from reverse engineering common, uncommon or rare nanites. Alternatively, can also be bought at the bot shop. |
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Medium Processor | 50% chance to be obtained from reverse engineering uncommon or rare nanites. Alternatively, can also be bought at the bot shop. |
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Large Processor | 30% chance to be obtained from reverse engineering rare nanites. Alternatively, can also be bought at the bot shop. |
Creating Nanites[]
Nanites take only 30 sim minutes to make; which if you are making for profit is very time efficient. If you have completed the Micro-Master challenge by creating 200 nanites the cost to make nanites is halved–making rare nanite producing very efficiently lucrative.
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Neutron Nanite | Common | 18 | 20 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Caustic Nanite | Common | 18 | 25 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Quantum Nanite | Common | 22 | 30 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Scalar Nanite | Common | 22 | 30 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Lite Nanite | Common | 26 | 35 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Lepton Nanite | Common | 30 | 40 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Tribble Nanite | Common | 37 | 50 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Heisenberg Nanite | Common | 41 | 55 | 90% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Tunnelling Nanite | Uncommon | 75 | 100 | 80% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Torque Nanite | Uncommon | 78 | 105 | 80% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Induction Nanite | Uncommon | 86 | 115 | 80% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Polar Nanite | Uncommon | 86 | 115 | 80% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Thermo Nanite | Uncommon | 93 | 125 | 80% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Condensor Nanite | Uncommon | 67 | 90 | 80% | Bot Workshop, Oasis Landing |
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Dispersion Nanite | Rare | 187 | 250 | 75% | Bot workshop,[2] Oasis Landing |
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Entropic Nanite | Rare | 206 | 275 | 75% | Bot workshop,[2] Oasis Landing |
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Prismatic Nanite | Rare | 262 | 350 | 75% | Bot workshop,[2] Oasis Landing |
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Damping Nanite | Rare | 236 | 315 | 75% | Bot workshop,[2] Oasis Landing |
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Optic Nanite | Rare | 232 | 310 | 75% | Bot workshop,[2] Oasis Landing |
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Uber Nanite | Rare | 412 | 550 | 75% | Bot workshop,[2] Oasis Landing |
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