The Pottery and Tattoo skills are both new toThe Sims 4through the Businesses and Hobbies Expansion Pack. Theyoffer you not only greatsmall businessideas but alsonew hobbies for your Sims to learn during their downtime.
Whether you want your Sims to craft beautiful clay creations or ink up another Sim’s body with beautiful, permanent designs, practice makes perfect, and it’s a long journey to the max level of these skills. We’ll dive into how you can master the Pottery and Tattoo skills, as well as what these skills offer your Sims.
Pottery skill guide in The Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies
Your Sims can now create a myriad of decorative objects with the Pottery skill. They can use this skill to either decorate their own home or sell their creations through a business. Eventually, they can also learn the art of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pots back together.
How to increase the Pottery skill
The main hands-on approach for Sims to learn Pottery is to create clay creations themselves. You’ll just need two items, the Pottery Wheel and the Pottery Kiln. Together, they’ll cost your Sim 1080 Simoleons, so it can be an expensive hobby to start if you’re low on money. If you don’t want to purchase these objects yourself, you can always visit Terra-Potta in Nordhaven, the new world in Businesses and Hobbies.
It’s a small business that you can support by only paying a 9 Simoleon entry fee, giving you easy access to these workstations. Your Sim must first start with the Pottery Wheel, and their skill will grow as they shape and create their pottery. After it’s done, they’ll take it to the Pottery Kiln to harden, and voila! Doing this over and over again will slowly build your Pottery skill, giving you access to better creations over time.
Other than this method, there are a few other ways you can boost your Pottery skill:
Pottery skill levels
Tattoo skill guide in The Sims 4 Businesses and Hobbies
The Tattooing skill allows your Sim to give other Sims permanent tattoos on their body either through pre-made designs or custom drawings. Although before this pack, Sims could have tattoos from Create-A-Sim, you’re able to now run a tattoo parlor and design hand-drawn tattoos yourself.
How to increase the Tattoo skill
The most common way for your Sim to build the Tattooing skill is to give other Sims tattoos with the Deluxe Tattoo Table. It costs 736 Simoleons, and although that sounds pricey, there’s no cost whenever you tattoo another Sim.
With this table, you can either practice on other Sims, or you can have Sims pay for you to tattoo them. If you’re struggling to get Sims to come to your lot to tattoo them, turning it into a small business may be the way to go.
There are a few other easy ways to boost the Tattooing skill if you don’t want to go for the typical route:
