How to Get Microscope Prints in The Sims 4
With just the base game you can play with so many collections including the sims 4 microscope prints set.
These are found by using a microscope and analyzing samples of other collections!
How to Get Microscope Prints in The Sims 4
Getting microscope prints is actually super easy, you just need to first purchase the Life Under a Microscope item from build mode. This item costs §1,630 so it’s a hefty price! If your sim is in the scientist career from The Sims 4: Get to Work they have free access to this item if you join them at work.
Once you have this item you’ll get these prints in two different ways!
Using the Microscope
The first way you can get prints is to click on this giant microscope and choose use. Your sim will sit down and analyze stuff and can get prints easily by doing this. Six of the twelve prints can be found this way:
- Call Block
- Falling
- Hooplankton
- Psychedelic Rock
- Party in Pink
- The Drifter
Analyzing Plant, Fossil and Crystal Slides
The other sims 4 microscope prints are found by analyzing specific slides that you can find from fossils, crystals and plants. You’ll find two from each of those categories!
For plants, you’ll click on a fully grown plant and choose collect microscope sample. When you do this your sim will get a Plant Slide in their inventory.
You’ll then head to the microscope and use analyze plant sample and your sim will sit at the microscope.
Now, you won’t get a microscope print every time you analyze. To get the two plant prints I needed to have 6 slides so you’ll need more than you think. When you find one you’ll get a notification that says “Sim’s meticulous research has finally yielded spectacular results. A print of their discovery has been added to their inventory.”
This works the same way for fossils! To get a fossil you’ll dig up a fossil rock and you’ll get a limestone from it, you then extract the fossil. You’ll click on the extracted fossil and choose collect microscope sample and then you’ll click on the microscope and choose analyze fossil sample.
Same goes for a crystal! There are a bunch of ways you can get crystals in the game and you can click on them and choose collect microscope sample. You’ll then click on the microscope and choose analyze crystal sample.
There are six prints you can get from analyze slides, two for each category:
- Crystals: Crystal Palace, Snow Fight
- Fossils: Trace Remains, Leaf Meat
- Plants: Blemish Blossom, Rhapsody in Blue
Types of Microscope Prints
There are 12 total prints that your sim can find. Each of them has a rarity to it which is either common, uncommon or rare and as the rarity increases so does its value.
Common Microscope Prints
Hooplankton
- “This compelling artwork captures the plankton hula hoop performance team mid-rehearsal, for a number that will sink into obscurity when, enroute to a gig, the entire team is eaten by a turtle.”
- This print is found by using the microscope and will sell for §100
Party in Pink
- “Magnification reveals interesting facts about microorganisms, such as their preference for bubble gum pink decor and festive streamers hung in their living rooms, all year round. If life on earth were a giant party, microorganisms were the first to arrive, and as this painting reveals, they may be the last to leave!”
- This print is found by using the microscope and will sell for §115
Psychedelic Rock
- “If there’s one thing we’ve learned through microscopic explorations into the mineral world it’s this: Rocks sure are trippy! Here we have Dunite, magnified fifty zillion percent and capture in bright tempera. Hang it in a college dorm room!”
- This print is found by using the microscope and will sell for §110
Rhapsody in Blue
- “Don’t have a green thumb? No problem. Enjoy plants at the cellular level, where they’re actually blue – and in art form, where they require no water, sunlight, or “Please don’t leave me” pep talks.”
- This print is found by analyzing plant samples and will sell for §95
Snow Fight
- “They say each snowflake is unique. Up close, these snow crystals, secure in their individual flakiness, appear to be gathering around one deformed snow pyramid, who they will shortly beat up for being TOO different. As this painting reveals, snow is not as gentle as it seems.”
- This print is found by analyzing crystal samples and will sell for §110
The Drifter
- “Never fall in love with a plankton. Flowing wherever the current takes them, they are total vagabonds. Here’s one such plankton, dancing with groupies after a night playing electric guitar with the Bacteria Band. Fortunately this moment was captured in art. We’ll never see him again.”
- This print is found by using the microscope and will sell for §105
Uncommon Microscope Prints
Blemish Blossom
- “This artwork chronicles the awkward adolescent stage of plant cell development, where they are tormented by embarrassing acne. Absorbing enough rainwater can really help, and fortunately, a cell can just divide to create its own prom date.”
- This print is found by analyzing plant samples and will sell for §220
Cell Block
- “Look at the precision fit of these bright cells. No wonder they’re called the ‘building blocks of life.’ In fact, the only different between toy blocks and living cells is that organism are not assembled by children. (Except for the platypus; that was built by a third grader named Frank.)”
- This print is found by using the microscope and will sell for §220
Falling
- “Evoking all the colours of autumn, this mineral painting represents the diminished glow of youth, and the twilight years of life, when all hope is gone, and the path we have taken slides toward its eventual tear-filled end. Hang it in the breakfast nook or the baby’s nursery!”
- This print is found by using the microscope and will sell for §215
Trace Remains
- “Ever just know something in your bones? That’s because the skeleton can act as an antennae, transmitting info to the brain. In this dinosaur fossil, we see the haunting conduits where bone instinct may have cried out, ‘Run! METEOR!’ Dinosaurs had brains the size of peas. That’s why they all died. Enjoy your painting.”
- This print is found by analyzing fossil samples and will sell for §255
Rare Microscope Prints
Crystal Palace
- “At the crux of hard science and new age woo-woo lies the crystal. Here, we can see both the distinctive crystal geometry, revered by scientists for its electrical optical and mechanical properties, and the glittery crystal sparkles, known for their harmonic love vibrations and aura cleansing magic.”
- This print is found by analyzing crystal samples and will sell for §485
Leaf Meat
- “Isn’t it strange how zooming in on a fossilized leaf actually makes it look similar to a piece of steak? Are plants and animals more alike than they seem? Do leaves also feel love and fear? What does this say about veganism? Should we eat anything at all? Art raises some serious questions.”
- This print is found by analyzing fossil samples and will sell for §445
Reward for Finishing the Collection
When you gather the last print you’ll get a notification that says “A master of the microscope, that’s what you are. Good job collecting every single microscope print!”
Later in the mail you’ll get the Microspace Jockey plaque in the mail. Its description reads “Your attention to microscopic detail (literally) has paid off! The slides you possess are the envy of microscope-toting scientists far and wide, many of whom are now wondering why hadn’t they thought about magnifying their prints to a large gallery size earlier.”
