Sims Freeplay | Seashell Collecting Hobby

Seashell Collecting is a hobby which is completed at the beach.  You must have completed the Life & Legacies quest to open the beach as you will need to use sporty life orbs to build the beach and begin the hobby.

Who can collect shells?

Toddlers and preteens

How do I collect shells?

Click on the pile of the shells on the beach.  These will move around the beach depending on the time of day.

What are the shell collecting options?

Night (between 12am - 6am) - 10 mins

Dawn (between 6am - 12pm) - 1 hour

Noon (between 12pm - 6pm) - 2 hours

Dusk (between 6pm - 12am) - 3 hours

What are the shell collecting levels?

Unlike other hobbies, it doesn't seem to matter what level your Sim is when collecting the shells.  The important thing with this hobby is the time of day.

1. Amateur Beach Comber
2. Competent Comber
3. Avid Shell Collector
4. Hermit Crab Evictor
5. Conchologist
6. Lord of the Conch

What shells are there to collect?

There are 6 shells to collect for each of the four times of day, which means 24 shells to collect in all.

Noon - Brightest Venus,  Sunkissed Sea Snail,  Midday Scallop,  Golden Tibia,  Magic Conch,  Freckled Cowry

Night - Midnight Ark,  Starlight Sea Snail,  Blue Moon Scallop,  Mystical Limpet,  The Speaking Conch,  Panter Black Cowry

Dusk - Crested Sun Clam,  Sunset Spiral,  Sundown Scallop,  Days End Cone,  Falling Golden Sky,  Tigerstriped Cowry

Dawn - Sunrise Venus,  Early Bird Paper Nautilus,  Creeping Dawn Scallop,  Twilight Periwinkle,  Horn of Daybreak,  Speckled Cowry

What do I win?

First time you complete the whole collection you unlock earrings for preteens found in the store in the accessories section and hats for toddlers found in the wardrobe in the hats section.

Further times you complete the collection you will win 6LPs

Here are the hats for the toddlers

Here are the hats and the shell earrings for the preteens