The “Inventing the Previous” quest is a part of a collection of timed-limited quests within the “Blast from the Previous” occasion in The Sims 4.
Every week within the occasion brings new story content material for gamers to finish. In case you do it — and all the opposite quests a part of the occasion — you may get free gadgets like The Shock Birthday Cake and The ElectroDance Flooring.
Right here is methods to unlock and full the week two “Inventing the Previous” quest within the “Blast from the Previous” occasion in The Sims 4. For the reason that quest includes loads of particular steps, this information may also clarify methods to stage up Logic, methods to stage up handiness, and methods to discover plathinum and ironyum in The Sims 4.
Tips on how to unlock the ‘Inventing the Previous’ quest

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To unlock the “Inventing the Previous” quest, you could full three different occasion quests prior: “A Unusual Customer,” “Lacking Clues,” and “Echoes of Time.” When you full the “Echoes of Time” quest, the sport will mechanically begin the content material for “Inventing the Previous.”
‘Inventing the Previous’ quest walkthrough
As you begin this quest, you’ll begin with three duties off the bat:
- “Learn Theoretical Electronics at a Library”
- “Restore One thing whereas Handiness Degree 2 or Increased”
- “Train Your Thoughts whereas Degree 2 or Increased in Logic”
The primary job is fairly easy: Press M to drag up the map and journey to any neighborhood library, like Willow Creek Archive. Go into the library, click on on a bookcase, and choose the choice, “Learn Theoretical Electronics.” Wait a second, and that job shall be full.

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The remainder of the search is sort of a lengthy to-do checklist of random duties. The remainder of the information goes into element on methods to full all the opposite duties.
Tips on how to stage up Handiness in The Sims 4
To begin on the Restore “One thing whereas Handiness Degree 2 or Increased” job, that you must stage up your Sims’ Handiness to stage two or increased. In case you’re taking part in from an present save file, it’s doubtless your Sim has already reached a excessive sufficient stage. If not, right here is methods to stage up Handiness in The Sims 4.

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A simple approach to stage up your Sim’s Handiness stage is by placing a Woodworking Desk in its residence. It’s a chunk of furnishings within the “Actions and Expertise” part of the objects menu and it prices 750 simoleons. Upon getting one and positioned in your house, it’s time to make use of it. Click on it and choose “Horse Sculpture” or “Knife Sculpture.” Proceed to create sculptures till you stage up. We solely needed to make three to boost our Handiness from stage one to 2.
Now we have to restore an object. To do that, you may proceed to reside your day-to-day life till any object breaks. To hurry this course of up, gamerlifemedia purchased the most cost effective sink and used it a ton by cleansing dishes and having our Sim use it to clean its arms. When an object breaks, click on it, choose the “Restore” choice.
Tips on how to stage up Logic in The Sims 4
Now the sport asks you to “Train Your Thoughts whereas Degree 2 or Increased in Logic.”

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The simplest approach to stage up your Logic in The Sims 4 is to play chess. In case you don’t have a chess board, you should buy a fundamental one for 450 simoleons or you should utilize the general public ones totally free in Magnolia Blossom Park. Go to a board and proceed to play till your Sim’s Logic stage will increase from one to 2. As soon as your Sims has Logic stage of two, play any chess sport once more, and it’ll fulfill the search request for, “Train Your Thoughts whereas Degree 2 or Increased in Logic.”
Tips on how to get plathinum and ironyum in The Sims 4
Now that you must discover two sorts of ores: plathinum and ironyum. They’re totally different gadgets, however you employ the identical course of to search out every one. Right here’s methods to discover them.
Hit M to drag up the map and journey to an outside space like Magnolia Blossom Park. Now go searching outdoors till you discover the spots to mine for the ore. Pause Reside Mode if you would like, and scan the encircling space for protruding rocks that mark the place you may mine for plathinum and ironyum. They seem like the picture under.

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Click on on every rock and choose the “Dig” choice. Proceed to dig in these marked spots till you unearth plathinum and ironyum.
After finishing that lengthy to-do checklist, the sport now instructs you to “Construct the Time Journey Element.” To do this, pull up your stock by urgent I and scroll right down to “Shard of Time” icon that appears like a purple crystal. Click on it and choose, “Construct Time Journey Element.” Do this and the search is finished!
For extra “Blast from the Previous” quests, see our walkthroughs for “Echoes of Time,” “A Unusual Customer,” and “Lacking Clues,” or our full “Blast from the Previous” rewards checklist.