I have an entire set of posts explaining what Venues do.
Now that we have custom venues, we can remake venues with more detail or special behaviors...but we've lost some of those special features the EA venues come with. For example, Socially Awkward Sims consider a Bar to be intimidating. But ...
2025-11-30 15:18:21 +0000 UTC View PostUnder-reported news relating to modding and the future of the game!
First off, EA_Cade soft-deconfirmed that The Sims 4 is ending, by noting that they are making changes to "continue delivering content for years to come".
The changes announced are to the way the UI team has shifted from Adobe Flash to what is, essentially, its sequel- Adobe Animate. What does this actually mean?...
2025-11-26 14:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostDeath By Flies ghosts learn the Adventure Awaits Entomology skill faster.
This is a cross-pack feature with an obscure ghost/death from a pack released 5 years prior!
It's also the only feature specific to these ghosts besides a permanent immunity to the thing that kills them- Failing to bond with flies from a Dumpster.
Perhaps I'll do a whole Ghost explainer post, to see if ...
2025-11-24 00:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostDid you see my post Modding Sucks and is Hard? It tells the tale of how this mod broke at some point, and in several hours of trying to fix it, nothing was going right. It was going so bad I cried for real lol
Well, I redid the whole thing and now it works and has more features. Note that because this is a remake of an existing mod, you'll want to remove the old mod if you have it- it no longer work...
2025-11-23 19:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostALL the info, and I mean ALL the info, found here!
Requires Eco Lifestyle and Lot51 Core Library!
Updates:
8PM EST (Day of Posting)
Resolved issue where secret scary warning motive was applying to all Sims at below the scary warning threshold, resulting in every single Sim when you visit a lot spawning in with flies to wave off.
9PM ES...
REV UP THOSE CRIERS BECAUSE I AM ONE ANGRY-
This was going to be paired with a mod update post but the mod is not getting updated at the moment because of all the stuff I'm about to complain about so get ready
I have a mod. It is called "Death by Flies". It is pretty simple all things considered. Every single Sim is checking every 2 hours for trash.
They check to see if there are >25 items on the lot. Those 25 items have to have certain "tags" in them, that the game use...
2025-11-22 17:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Changes the Secret Admirer phone call from Lovestruck.
By default, if you agree to meeting your admirer, you get a pretty strong immediate romantic relationship with them (pictured above). This makes it a much lower value- still higher than meeting them on the street, but not "We're dating" levels of romance. It also stops Relationship Satisfaction immediately starting when the caller comes over.
I also made it so they can only be Young Adult or Adult, because I kept getting Elder...
2025-11-16 21:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostThey are dangerous, they will create confusion for you and anyone you get support from, they are HARDER to keep updated than mods you know you downloaded because you chose to download them, and they are against pretty much all modders' TOUs. Support channels hate them! And not in a "Doctors hate this one trick" way! They legit will not help you if they know you downloaded a mod pack and will be really pissed if they don't know that but find out 2 hours into trying to help.
DO NOT EVER ...
Updated to cover the latest 3 kits and Adventure Awaits. Removes icons from pack content across all menus. Old versions should be removed, and will have the name Waffle_PackIconHider_blahblahblah!
I posted this in the Paralives Discord. I was genuinely surprised by the intimately detailed responses that followed, and I thought it'd be nice to save it here, too.
It is thoughts on what makes The Sims a genre in its own right, and how/why it works, and what imitators seem to be lacking and need to focus more on, from what I imagine is a more philosophical perspective than most players ever get into when playing.
The two examples pictured took...20 minutes to make, because I have to browse through stuff to figure out what specific special features a trait has, and it's essentially impossible to weed out irrelevant things. For instance, every single trait is accounted for in zillions of social interactions. I'm not going to check each and every interaction to see if it's tied to it for a special reason, but they're all in there because of compatibility calculations and stuff. So I have to do a...
2025-11-12 23:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I celebrate every 1k milestone, but I have nothing specific to offer for this one. I saw it coming and am surprised it happened so fast from when I first noticed it was close.
I'm not currently playing Sims 4 even though The Sims is my entire thing, and I'm sorry that I'm not posting anything lately. :( With the current bug where careers and school aren't properly raising Sim motives, as well as a general lack of inspiration and motivation to mod at the moment, I've been playing some o...
DEPRECATED: Lightning Root Fix is no longer necessary, as EA fixed it.
BROKEN: Meet Coworkers Automatically. Not sure what I need to do to fix it, but my first attempt created an error and I'm now a bit lost, so remove it for now. I'll probably throw it back together from scratch later. (edit: ea broke careers a little and I'm unclear if this mod would need changes to fix them, so for now it won't be updated until ea fixes careers.) 2025-11-06 00:19:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I post updates here all the time but I feel bad sending emails to people (even if they do have them enabled) so sometimes I'll post news there too.
Todays news is that there will be no news until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. I just spent 2 hours carting my cat to and from the vet and I just...not today, sorry. I wasn't mentally prepared for this patch anyway.
Lightning Root Hookup Fix is no longer necessar...
Lumpinou has been working on Law and Disorder for a long time and it's now public!
This mod makes many things in the game count as "misbehavior" that can be punishable by law! Including things like failing at hacking, or being seen doing it, or blackmail, or being naked in public. Sims who get caught will get arrested and even have to attend a court hearin...
2025-11-04 17:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostI am at the point where I don't want to do it myself because I despise blender.
It took me like 2 hours to even get my extracted model to look right and even then it's not right (the antlers should have a shader of some kind, but im not sure if that's even compatible with vtuber software).
I'm hoping to get my model and textures converted into one of the vtuber formats that can be co...
2025-11-03 02:49:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnd neither do many other modders- but they may not feel comfortable saying it out loud. But what I have to say about it may help you understand some reasons others may feel the same.
As I approach 6000 patreon followers (wow!!!!) I don't really want to make a post about this, but as others do so, a pressure builds to say something. I often stand up for other modders and the game's devs, and I think putting something like this out here is another way of doing that. I ...
Didn't follow me for a post about making a cake? Too bad!
First my ceramic ice cream cone fell off the fridge and a chunk of ceramic got into my wet ingredients, so that was great
(I dumped them and started over dont worry I did not make a cake with ceramic in it)
Then i couldnt figure out how to make a circle snowflake out of parchment paper, so i bet the first layer is gonna s...
2025-10-18 17:41:52 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, that's not how any of this works.
I don't take requests, I take suggestions (and even then not really), and only those that make sense for what I do already. We don't update other people's mods unless the creator is wildly inactive, and even then, it can be questionable. I made the mistake of updating someone else's mod when they were still active one singular time, and I shouldn't have done it.
Even if a modder is inactive, I don't post script mods, so why are you as...
2025-10-18 15:13:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: EA has released a post explaining things that can contribute to performance issues, and functional objects with lots of interactions- like Fridges and Stoves- is one of them! You ever notice when you click on a fridge or a stove, the game might take a second before the click feels like it registered? That's because they're FULL of interactions. Un...
2025-10-18 01:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostAdded "Occult:" to 3 missing Occult activities!
2025-10-15 23:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you finish a Getaway you can get a "Still Vibing" buff. It's pretty overpowered and adds a strange VFX to your plumbob for up to an entire week. There's two versions- a normal one and a better one you get for a better getaway experience.
This mod makes these buffs shorter and less powerful and features 3 options for the VFX.
By default, the better version of the buff lasts 10 days, and the normal version lasts 3. This mod makes them last 3 days and 1 day ins...
2025-10-14 23:35:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhen a fox is stalking your house there's a notification. It has a joke in it that's a reference to something really bad. I don't like that it's there. This replaces it with something silly.
2025-10-14 22:53:52 +0000 UTC View PostLowers the money reward for completing a challenge getaway from 10,000 to 5,000. That's it!
All challenges have the same money reward. Note that challenges have chances of random other rewards depending on the challenge, those are unchanged.
Because Challenges can be completed on Getaways with varying lengths, and the cost varies based on the lot value and attending sim count, this means that sometimes you'll pay more or less money for the opportunity to win. My...
EA for example decided that water activities should be named 3 different ways-
Do 2025-10-11 14:22:43 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're not sure what this is, click here to view previous posts about it. TLDR- A custom save that aims to bring premade households up to modern standards, give them more details, reno their homes a bit, and add Sims from previous entries in the series, all while adding cross-pack features.
Stupid name, but I haven't made a ton of progres...
2025-10-08 22:16:58 +0000 UTC View PostI had an anxiety attack at work over this event today and left to go to the bank with my dad for support because i was so freaking out. Bank told us to file a police report which i couldn't believe I hadn't done. I was still getting emails from Paypal insisting the transaction was mine due to the IP address used and ignoring all other factors. I yelled at them. all caps- listen to what I am saying, actually address this, escalate this now.
We got a police report, printed out r...
Yesterday I woke up to a 4,000 dollar charge from Paypal. It used my balance, and then the rest came from my bank.
PayPal is not being helpful. They immediately rejected my dispute automatically. I replied to the dispute email as instructed and they tell me to click appeal on the site. There is no appeal button on the site.
I have contacted my bank. I have called PayPal.
The dispute emails keep responding to me- and all they have to say is "The IP Address used was consist...
Playing around with Venues and Getaways I've found some important information that I'm gonna throw out there.
No modding spree just yet, I'm still not even in live mode...but I'm gathering intel.
So if you plan a getaway in 2 weeks, then swap to another household and do something there for a week (or even 3 seconds), then come back, it won't be planned anymore....
2025-10-05 14:21:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's just say, it'll happen. Pictured: A premade role, found in the Role Library, that was made outside of the game with no in-game editing whatsoever, added via a .package file in the mods folder.
And yes, we'll be able to provide premade schedule sets, too.