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A blog to try (and fail) to sort out things I use in Sims 4.

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IMPORTANT:

April 14, 2025: Because of the (so far) two creators whose SFS accounts have been hacked, I've uploaded everything that doesn't already have an alt download directly to patreon for now. You can find links here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qqaDNmDPBpjz4xGTstA-xmK4vUpqfMfEyVYF-N0iwbY/

I haven't removed everything from SFS yet but if someone else gets hacked, I will. That will mean that links on my posts here will be broken until I get a chance to update them. That's a lot of links, so it would take a while. My spreadsheet has links to it all.

Update April 17: someone else did get hacked, so I broke all the links. Grab things from patreon please.

My tumblr is getting too big for me to keep track of or find things. So here's a list of links.

Mod Status and CC List (basically links to everything) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qqaDNmDPBpjz4xGTstA-xmK4vUpqfMfEyVYF-N0iwbY

Mods, cc, and other things I've shared https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qqaDNmDPBpjz4xGTstA-xmK4vUpqfMfEyVYF-N0iwbY

Some of the random things:

Drama Rolls https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fousiAhNtHpuagaDu8-gaABffU3yCWJKf7EQbJ46C6o/edit?usp=sharing

Random Genetics https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iBUR7-mShi_kA4GVifwtoluojI0SYzK9fEbIiGn11Mg/edit?usp=sharing

Guide to Sims4Studio batch fixes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B3tiSjiJ1nwSwWKy5Nf6gFyH4SdZaTnZq8b5cswtxUQ/edit#heading=h.pc6903y6b0wm

Guides to setting up and using PlumbBuddy: https://plumbbuddy.app/text-guidesk

CC lists for the sims in my gameplay: https://amethystamanda.tumblr.com/tagged/cc%20list

If you want to know where something is and it's not on those lists, let me know and I'll try. Gameplay/challenge posts are numbered in the tags, to make it easier to find which one you're referring to.

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Choose Accesssories

This mod lets you pick accessories in live mode that you can then put on or take off. Those accessories hide (but don't remove) any accessories in the same slot that were put on the sim in CAS. So you can, for example, choose your sim's glasses and hearing aids and they'll wear them on all outfits (including work) until you take them off (or until they take a bath or shower, go to sleep, or go swimming in most cases). Or you can pick their bonnet that you want them to wear to bed. Or you can pick their hijab and put it on and take it off when appropriate.

(There's a TLDR at the bottom, but if you skip the description and then get confused, I'm going to tell you to read the description or watch the video.)

With a teen or older sim, click on a mirror or dresser and find the menu called Choose Accessories. Then pick the type of accessory you want to put on your sim. Pick an option and a menu will appear that gives shows you what's available.

Currently included are glasses (prescription type), hearing aids, and various types of head coverings.

After you pick your accessory, it will appear on your sim and they'll get a trait telling you which one they've chosen. If you decide that's not the right one for them, you can go back in and pick a different one. For ten sim minutes, the ones you've already tried will have a green outline so that you don't lose track, because the list can be long.

After you've made your decision, there will be a new interaction available to your sim in the outfit menu. While they have their chosen accessory on, they'll have the option to take it off. While they have it off, they'll have the option to put it on. That's unless you choose the Hide CAS option (not available for hats), which will only hide whatever their CAS accessory. Then you'll have the option to hide or unhide the CAS accessory. When you take off the accessory (or unhide), whatever the sim has set in CAS will reappear.

To reset your chosen accessories, choose one of the reset options in the menu on a mirror or dresser.

For the most part, all accessories will stay on until a sim showers, takes a bath, swims, or goes to sleep. Hide CAS options will stay on until you remove them (or pick a conflicting option). Options that may be for sleeping will not be removed automatically. Prescription-type glasses and hearing aids should go back on when your sim stops bathing/sleeping/swimming.

You can pick one option from each menu. If you pick a different option, the one you had previously will be removed. So you can pick glasses and hearing aids and one from each group of head coverings (auto remove and no auto remove), but if you pick a different hearing aid, the first one will be removed. You can keep track of what your sim has selected in their traits.

The chosen accessories will not be visible in CAS. You can only give them to your currently active sim (unless you cheat, but then the same restrictions will apply -- on until they bathe, swim, or sleep while on or near an active lot -- you won't have the interactions to put them on or take them off available, and it's not something I'm supporting, so if it goes weird, you'll need to play them and reset their accessories).

In most cases, I used something close to the internal name. Sometimes there is no real internal name (some things are just the pack code) or there are multiple different things with the same name, so I added one.. Sometimes the name was too long and I had to change or shorten it. Most of the time I used something close to the internal swatch name. Sometimes the internal swatch is just wrong -- sometimes I could change it and sometimes I couldn't.

Categories included, and small details:

Glasses:

Glasses -- things that I thought were likely to be prescription lenses. In most cases, that's all of a certain kind, but in a couple of cases, it's only some swatches (Casanova Cave's last two swatches, half of the Cottage Living glasses). Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and will be put on when stopping sleeping, bathing, or swimming.

For the Golden Years glasses, the necklace glasses are included here and you can switch between glasses worn as glasses and glasses worn as a necklace. Blue Fade doesn't have an equivalent necklace version for some reason. If you have that kit and choose not to download my extra file for that, you won't have a necklace version for those. The option will appear, but the glasses will disappear if you try to put them around your sim's neck. The necklace version of Fade Blue will appear in CAS as an add-on swatch after the existing swatches.

Eyepatches from the Lost Legacies Event (related to the royalty pack) should be greyed out if you don't have them unlocked. If you have an unlocker for event items, you can try it, but I can't promise it'll work.

205 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Piercings:

Hearing Aids -- come in left, right, and both ear versions, as indicated in the name and by a letter on the thumbnail. Hide CAS will also hide earrings, because on a technical level, they're the same thing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and will be put on when stopping sleeping, bathing, or swimming.

46 swatches (15 each).

Headwear

Head Coverings (Auto Remove) -- things that you'd put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons, or to just cover your hair, that would NOT be worn when sleeping, swimming, or bathing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and you'll have to put them back on. Does not include things that are meant solely for formal wear (according to google). Use CAS for that. Does include some things that fit more in a historical or fantasy setting. Not divided by gender -- with one exception, everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are various types of head scarves, hijabs, prayer caps, turbans, and other cultural headwear, whether current, historical, or fantasy, that are included in the game.

The Mirialan head covering is the only one to be locked to the feminine frame and have no masculine frame equivalent. It's marked with [F] in the picker, and will be greyed out when playing a sim with a masculine frame.

168 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Head Coverings (No Auto Remove) -- things that you might put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons or that you might wear while sleeping, swimming, or bathing. You will have to manually put these on and remove them. Does not include things that appear to me to be solely for swimming. Use CAS for that. I'm aware that some may be worn in different contexts as day wear and in other contexts as sleep wear, or even shower caps or swim caps, but things are in one menu, so if they can reasonably be called sleepwear, they're here. Not divided by gender -- everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are slik bonnets, various head scarves, durags, and night caps.

149 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Details

This is NOT a small mod. Each and every swatch needs to be added individually, with at least 11 files created per swatch, sometimes more, and four more edited. And sometimes one small change means going back and editing one (or more) per swatch again.

That means there are a LOT of parts to it, and while I think I have everything working right, please let me know if I missed something. Also let me know if it's too wide for your screen (ideally with screenshots on discord). There can be fewer columns, but there'll be more rows, so I went with something that fits on my screen, but I can't say if it will adjust well to other screens.

This is not everything that I want to add, but I've been working on it for over two months, and I need to look at something else for a while. If you're a patron, there's a poll available to help me decide what to add next when I come back to it.

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

Choosing an accessory WILL override all outfits as long as that accessory is on, and it will show up in the sim's portrait and in the change outfit menu.

Other Mods and CC:

Chosen accessories MAY override things meant to be added by other mods or in the game itself. If that happens, you can use the interaction on the sim (in the Outfits menu) to remove them temporarily. Or the other mod may override mine. Depends on what they set their priority to and which comes first.

As of June 1, 2026, integrated with ADeepIndigo's EyeCare (When glasses are on, they will count as prescription eyewear and when you take them off, they will count as not having glasses on.) and Healthcare Redux (Hearing aids will work for hearing aids with that mod).

Accessories will NOT work with the colour slider mod, because it adds new swatches and I can't add those to the mod, because they only exist in your game.

If you use these mods, they'll work for things chosen in CAS but not things chosen using this mod (so things chosen in CAS will be removed and put back on as these mods say, but my mod controls things chosen using my mod):

Sleep Without Shoes or Glasses by HelenTheHunter

Remove Hats & More Indoors by MizoreYukii

No Accessories and Makeup Sleeping by Szemoka

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

I'm planning to add a template for if people want to add things on their own to existing menus, but I have to wait and see if Core Library will get an update to add the ability. That will come later, if it's possible. When that happens, it won't be simple. It'll be more for people who know their way around Sims 4 Studio. I made each one with 11 files plus edits to more. Adding cc will require at least that, maybe more.

I'm also planning to let people commission additions, if you don't want to do it yourself. That also needs to wait for an injector to be added to Core Library or for me to find out that that's not going to happen. So that's also for the future, although it'll probably happen either way. There will be restrictions on what I'll do, but adding new menus is a possibility, so this won't be completely restricted to existing menus.

Installation:

Download the zip.

Unzip it. This may happen automatically if you're on a mac.

Put the amethyst-Choose Accessories folder in your Mods folder. You can rename it, but please keep the files together

Make sure you have Lot 51's Core Library.

Inside the folder, there's amethyst-Choose Accessories-Main.package. This file is required.

There are also three folders. Install whichever parts you want.

Glasses has two files.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Glassses.package is required if you want to choose glasses.

amethyst-Golden Years-Blue Fade Necklace Glasses.package requires the Golden Years kit adds a missing swatch to the glasses necklace (available in CAS and in the mod). If you have that pack and delete this, if you choose the Blue Fade swatch of those glasses, you'll have an interaction that's supposed to put the glasses around your sim's neck that does nothing. (You can keep this even if you delete everything else. It's just cc.)

Hats has two files. What they do is described above.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-AR.package is the Auto Remove file.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-NAR.package is the No Auto Remove file.

Piercings has amethyst-Choose Accessories-Hearing Aids.package which is, shockingly, hearing aids.

TLDR:

Pick things on a mirror or dresser.

Put them on or off using an interaction on your sim, in the Outfits menu.

Most will come off when sleeping, bathing or showering. You have to put hats back on yourself. Glasses and hearing aids will go on after sleeping, bathing, or showering.

Updates:

May 8, 2026: Description update only. No need to redownload. Added a section specifically about other mods and cc, and added a TLDR at the bottom.

May 9. 2026: Updated so that glasses and hearing aids will go back on after a sim wakes up, gets out of the shower or bath, or stops swimming. The change will happen fast, and it will happen whether or not your sim was actively wearing them before starting sleeping/bathing/swimming. This change it NOT reflected in the video, because I'd have to reupload the video and I don't have a couple of hours to keep my computer from falling asleep while not using it much at the moment. That's the only way it can work with also allowing your sim to take them off when they want to. Organized the description a bit more. I know it's still too long, but I don't think there's anything I can cut.

June 1, 2026: Added integration with ADeepIndigo's EyeCare (glasses that are on will count as prescription eyewear) and Healthcare Redux (hearing aids that are on will count as hearing aids). Thanks, ADeepIndigo!

Download on patreon or simblr.cc

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Update June 1, 2026:

Added integration with ADeepIndigo's EyeCare (glasses that are on will count as prescription eyewear) and Healthcare Redux (hearing aids that are on will count as hearing aids). Thanks, ADeepIndigo!

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Mood Based Interactions

This is a set of interactions that are available based on your Sim's mood.

Most interactions have a variety of in-game names that you may see -- I like variety. They may have varying effects on Sims, including buffs/moodlets, Parenthood value gain or loss, and relationship gain or loss. Many will reveal certain specific traits that the Sim they're talking to has -- to both the Sim running the interaction and the Sim being talked to. Most are autonomous, but ones that have serious repercussions are not, like the last one in the video at the top. They have cooldowns, so your Sim can't spam them. Many have contextual restrictions, like relationship, location, traits, and life experiences.

Most interactions are child and older and for sims who have already met. Sometimes the language doesn't really fit most modern children who aren't Bookworms or Macabre or something similar-ish. Sometimes I restricted things by age or trait, or gave different language to kids or sims with certain traits or life experiences, like sims who dislike wellness not asking about yoga or sims who've visited certain secret locations wanting to go on another adventure. Where possible, I restricted it to things your Sim can actually do.

This was started after I realized how much I missed Emotional Socials by @simhelaene. The original plan was for it to be inspired by that, without ever looking into how it worked, going solely on memory of the things I liked and coming up with my own ideas. After Helaene announced that she wouldn't be updating her mod, she gave me permission to include parts of hers in this project. I took strong inspiration from her mod, although I started it without looking at hers and had a definite direction and parts done -- I was calling Angry complete -- before I looked at her mod, but looking into hers definitely enhanced mine. Don't expect it to be the same, but don't be surprised to see things that look familiar if you used Emotional Socials.

Some have more 'things' than others, but that's because I stopped when things felt complete. If an interaction felt good with only one display name, it only has one. If it felt right to have one possible buff, that's all it has. If it felt like it needed more, I kept going.

The interactions have the icon from the category they would go in if they weren't in a custom menu. So Friendly interactions have the Friendly pie menu icon, Romance interactions have the Romance menu icon, etc. This is to help you know what kind of interaction it is. You don't want to flirt when you mean to tell a joke.

Currently complete and up for download: Angry, Bored, Confident, and Dazed.

I'm releasing this now because I need feedback. I've done my absolute best to make it balanced while still being impactful, and it works for me, but I'm one person. I need to know what people think. I don't usually get a lot of feedback, and in cases like that, I have to assume that things are going well. There are at least 15 moods to make interactions for, and I'd like to do any adjustments before I get too much further. It's my current major project, and while I'll probably be doing smaller side projects, this will be my main modding focus for a while. If you don't like something, let me know what and why. If something doesn't work right, PLEASE tell me.

For a full list of what's complete and in progress, see here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/140662103

That's a working page. I will update it as I work. You'll be able to see what's coming for the most part. I'm not including it here because it's going to change, and because it's going to be LONG.

Fully base game compatible, but enhanced by having packs, and:

This mod requires Lumpinou's Mood Pack and Lot 51's Core Library

Seriously. Neither is optional. You need them both. Things will either not work at all or will break in strange ways if you don't.

Translations:

Brazilian Portuguese, by Akinxo: https://www.patreon.com/posts/158955521

French, by Hope: https://www.patreon.com/posts/traduction-du-de-144333870

Updates:

Nov 22, 2025: Added Confident interactions. Renamed the main file and added two optional files for skill boasts (you can have either or both). Changed how things are injected to try to prevent menu lag. You NEED both the main file and the most recent version of Lot 51's Core Library, because there was a new thing added to it for this mod (thank you, Lot 51 and Lumpinou, for figuring that out).

Nov 24, 2025: Updated the PlumbBuddy manifest to correctly show that you need the main file instead of one of the add-ons. Sorry, and thanks to zee for letting me know!

Mar 18, 2026: Updated thee flirty interaction to match EA's romantic interactions that they updated in the patch.

May 12, 2026: Patch update

May 31, 2026: Added Dazed.

Download on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/141674441 or at simblr.cc

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May 31, 2026: Added Dazed interactions

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Renowned Photographer Aspiration by xbrettface Updated

There was very very little that needed to change in this aspiration. It just needed updating for new added tuning and to mark it as a teen+ aspiration (there's no straightforward way to mark it as young adult and older). and to and to swap out an objective that's bugged on EA's end for one that works. So I changed as little as possible.

From the original description (also the picture at the top):

Renowned Photographer: This sim wants to capture beauty through photography and share their vision with the world! Reward Trait: World-Renowned Photographer (Adds Marketable trait) This sim has earned a place among the best photographers the world has seen! 1) Click And Shoot Take 5 Photos Share Photos 2) In A Flash Level Up Photography Skill Take Photos of Mua Pel'am Take a Photo at Myshuno Meadows Take 30 Photographs 3) Full Exposure Reach Level 3 Photography Skill Browse Art on the Web 4) Perfectly Posed Take a Photo of a Sim posing in front of a Fashion Studio Backdrop * Reach Level 5 Photography Skill Buy a Photo Studio (Retail Lot)

With 'Take a Photo of Sims in Formal Wear'  subbed in for 'Take a Photo of Sims illuminated by Fashion Studio Lights.' which doesn't complete because of a game bug.

What I've changed:

That one objective.

I updated one of the tooltips to reflect changes in the pie menu, so one string is changed.

I added the teen+ aspiration_valid_age_type. Not having that is the main reason it was broken.

I added completion loots to the objectives, for wants and pivotal moments, as is now the standard.

I added a buff to let the game know that the aspiration was completed. I'm not sure why it's in all the aspirations I looked at, but it is, so this one matches those. Maybe milestones?

The reward trait is now valid for reincarnation.

The reward trait is now available for teens.

The reward trait now has a display_name_gender_neutral.

The reward trait is restricted to humans, or available for humans--humans meaning not pets. Probably both. I think a species test became required since the mod was last updated.

I re-used the included icon on the trait, since it didn't have one.

I updated the SImData.

I added comments, since I had to update all the files anyway, and if it does require a full overhaul at some point in the future, they'll make it much, much easier. This time it just needed a little touch-up.

Most of those are things I've done for every aspiration I've updated.

I haven't added wants. I've made so few changes that it didn't feel right to, and xbrettface said they had plans for the aspiration the last time they updated it. Hopefully they will come back and make those changes.

If you've been playing with the aspiration despite it being a bit broken, you can pop the update into your game and keep going with no progress lost.

Existing translations will probably still work (no idea where they are, since they're not linked or included), but that one string ('Share Photos interaction can be found under the 'Friendly' category when you select another sim.' became 'Share Photos interaction can be found in the 'Small Talk' section under the 'Friendly' category when you select another sim') could use updating. I can't guarantee it though, because the group number got changed from 00000000 to 80000000.

Requires Get to Work, City Living, Island Living, and Moschino Stuff.

Updates:

May 28, 2025: Remade the mod. In the process, discovered an unintentional (on my part, at least) requirement for Discovery University -- nothing that would cause errors, but one of the goals would have been missing. That's been fixed. Added a whimset. Since it had to be remade, if your sim had the aspiration or the reward trait, they'll lose it. There were assorted other minor fixes that weren't anything breaking, but since I was digging into it anyway, those got fixed. For translators: there are 5 new strings, and 'Purchase a Retail Lot (Retail Lot)' and 'Purchase a Retail Lot through the Owned Businesses menu on your active sim' have been changed. That's because a Small Business Venue from Businesses & Hobbies now counts. It can't be a home lot, and it can't be a lot you already own, but you can use the new lot type.

May 12, 2026: Patch update

May 18, 2026: Reverted where the aspiration instances got accidentally changed from 32 bit to 64 bit and may have caused an error when sims aged up to this aspiration.

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/renowned-by-120431451

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Updated May 18, 2026:

Reverted where the aspiration instances got accidentally changed from 32 bit to 64 bit and may have caused an error when sims aged up to this aspiration.

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Rules to Holiday Traditions

A set of holiday traditions based on club/small business/getaways/custom venues/dynasty rule sets. They're divided into groups, because boy are there a lot. For the most part, the grouping follows the categories that the game used, but I added occult and gathered those in one group. A few are skipped because there's already a holiday tradition for the same activities (or close enough to count).

All holiday traditions require Seasons (for holidays) and some require other packs. You can download the files as long as you have Seasons, and the ones you don't have the packs for simply won't appear in your game.

The traditions and how to fulfill them are below. They should be ignored by sims who wouldn't like them or who can't fulfill them, and loved by sims who should love them. Let me know if I missed an interaction that should count, or if I got the preferences wrong or missed a trait.

This is a WIP, but I'm releasing the parts as I finish and test them. I'm doing that with this one and Emotional Socials to see if it pushes me to get more done on them. The parts that are released are complete and ready to play with.

Art and Music

Most interactions need to be done twice to fulfill the tradition.

Dance - Dance using a stereo, dance floor, DJ Booth, or bonfire; practice dancing with a mirror.

Listen To Music - Listen to music (not talking) on a radio (including the ones from my mod Listen To A Radio Show); listen to another sim play music on a guitar, piano, violin, DJ booth, performance space, or pipe organ; listen to sims singing karaoke.

Play or Listen to Music - Listen to music (not talk) on a radio (including the ones from my mod Listen To A Radio Show); or listen to another sim play music on a guitar, piano, violin, DJ booth, performance space, or pipe organ; listen to sims singing, including karaoke; play a piano, guitar, violin, pipe organ, or DJ booth, including writing songs on an instrument and practicing; sing, solo or karaoke or on a microphone, including practicing.

Produce New Tracks - Requires Get Famous. Producing a new track never seems to end. I'm not sure if it's bugged or just really long (I let it run for hours; I remember it being long, but not that long). So for this one, you have to produce a new track using the Mix Master Music Production Station for an hour.

View Art - View various objects -- I can't control where the interaction appears -- including Bonsai trees, paintings, and sculptures.

View Collectables - View aquariums, frogs, insects, collectable posters, axolotls, plants, collectable magazines, collectable cartons, the key display case, and maybe some other collectables.

Waltz -Waltzing or practice waltzing.

Watch Live Entertainment - Watch sims play guitar, violin, piano, or pipe organ; watch sims use the microphone; watch karaoke; watch a living statue or busker; critique a performance.

Write Comedy - Write jokes or a comedy routine at a computer. Writing jokes will count when you cancel it, but the UI may not update until you do it twice.

Food and Drink

Most interactions need to be done once or twice to fulfill the tradition.

Note that some are eat, some are make, and some are both

Cook Gourmet Food - Cook anything that uses the Gourmet Cooking skill, including wedding cakes from My Wedding Stories.

Drink Coffee - Drink coffee; make a pot of coffee; make coffee at an espresso machine; make coffee with LittlBowBub's Home Barista, the Latte additions to Hot Chocolate Machine, or mangoninja's All-In-One Espresso Engine.

Drink Nectar - Requires Horse Ranch. Drink nectar.

Drink Tea - drink tea; drink bubble tea; offer tea (My Wedding Stories); pour (not steep) tea at a tea set; make tea at a tea brewer or LittlBowBub's Old Time Tea Pot; make bubble tea. Ignored by children, because as far as I can tell, the only base game teas are not available for kids.

Eat - Eat any kind of food; toddlers can drink.

Eat Excellent Food - Consume food or drinks that are Outstanding quality.

Eat Experimental Food - Requires Dine Out. Cook experimental food; eat experimental food.

Eat Poor Quality Food - Consume food or drinks that are poor quality. This is in the game as a 'do not do' for dynasties, and I don't know why you'd want to make this a tradition, but I'm sure someone can find a reason. Survival of the fittest maybe?

Eat Popcorn - Requires Movie Hangout. Eat popcorn.

Eat Snacks - Grab food or drink from the Quick Meals menu on the fridge; eat popcorn; grab a snack from a cooler or lunch box; certain other snacking interactions.

Make Food - Make any kind of food.

Make Nectar - Requires Horse Ranch. Make nectar using the Nectar Maker.

Make Smoothies - Requires Adventure Awaits. Make smoothies with a blender.

Make Treats - Make candy with a candy maker; make popcorn with a popcorn popper; make ice cream with an ice cream machine; use the cupcake factory.

Mix Bar Drinks - Make any drink that uses the Mixology Skill.

Serve Breakfast - Make breakfast. You can use the Breakfast menu on the fridge or stove, or serve waffles from a waffle maker. A Grand Breakfast also works. Other foods might work, depending on how they're tagged.

Serve Dinner - Make dinner. You can use the Lunch pie menu on the fridge or stove, or serve pizza from a pizza oven. A Grand Meal that's not breakfast also works. Other foods might work, depending on how they're tagged.

Serve Lunch - Make Lunch. You can use the Breakfast menu on the fridge or stove. Other foods might work, depending on how they're tagged.

Tend a Coffee or Tea Bar or Counter - Requires Get Together, For Rent, or High School Years. Tend a Coffee Bar, Espresso Bar, or Bubble Tea Bar, including certain market stalls, for 30 minutes.

Tend Bar - Tend bar for one hour.

Food and Drink

Most things need to be done 1-3 times. Many, but not all, of these require a pack in addition to Seasons.

Do Archery - Requires Adventure Awaits. Practice archery; compete in archery; bow fish.

Do Puzzles - Requires Growing Together. Do a jigsaw puzzle.

Do Tarot Readings - Requires Life & Death. Read tarot cards; do a daily tarot card reading.

Duel - Requires Realm of Magic, Royalty & Legacy, or Vampires. Duel with swords; duel with magic; have a vampiric duel; spar as a vampire.

Football - Requires High School Years. Throw a football.

Go Bowling - Requires the Bowling Night Stuff Pack. Go Bowling.

Go Skiing - Requires Snowy Escape. Go skiing.

Go Sledding - Requires Snowy Escape. Go sledding.

Go Snowboarding - Requires Snowy Escape. Go snowboarding.

Hopscotch - Requires For Rent. Play hopscotch; practice hopscotch.

Play Arcade Machine - Requires Get Together. Play on an arcade machine.

Play Basketball - Requires City Living. Play basketball; mentor a sim in basketball.

Play Cards - Play a regular game of cards (not using tarot or playing sabaac).

Play Chess - Play a game of chess; ponder moves.

Play Darts - Technically base game compatible, but requires either Get Together or the dartboard from the Happy at Home event to complete. Play darts.

Play Don't Wake The Llama - Play or practice Don't Wake the Llama.

Play Foosball - Requires Get Together. Play foosball.

Play Horseshoes - Requires Outdoor Retreat. Play a game of horseshoes.

Play Physical Games - Which ones are available depend on which packs you have. Play basketball; mentor a sim in basketball; go bowling; play darts; play foosball; throw a football; play hide and seek; play hopscotch; practice hopscotch; play horseshoes; practice horseshoes; juggle a soccer ball; play with a soccer ball; have a snowball fight; have a mud fight; have a water balloon fight.

Play Pub Games - Play darts, Don't Wake the Llama, foosball, juice pong, ping pong, or Simbles; practice Don't Wake the Llama or Simbles; do a keg stand.

Play Rock Paper Scissors - Requires Adventure Awaits. Challenge someone to Rock Paper Scissors.

Play Simbles - Requires Growing Together. Play Simbles; practice Simbles.

Play Soccer - Requires Discover University. Juggle a soccer ball; play with a soccer ball.

Play Table Games - Play a game of cards, chess, Don't Wake the Llama, Simbles, Thumbs-Up!, or Woo-Who!?; do a jigsaw puzzle; ponder chess moves; practice Don't Wake the Llama or Simbles.

Play Video Games - Play video games using an arcade machine, a computer, a console, a motion gaming mat, a tablet, a toddler tablet, your phone.

Play Who's Up Party Games - Requires Lovestruck. Play Thumbs-Up! or Woo-Who!?

Use Bubble Blower - Requires City Living. Use a bubble blower.

Use Lawn Water Slide - Requires Backyard Stuff. Slide on the slippy slide; do tricks on the slippy slide; put soap on the slippy slide.

Wear Costumes from Costume Trunk - Requires Lovestruck. Wear a costume from the Costume Trunk.

I'm aware there's a base game Coach costume trunk. The Coach costumes aren't costume-y, and the rule I'm basing the tradition on is Lovestruck only, and so is the icon. Coach costumes will work, but the tradition only appears if you have Lovestruck.

Currently working on: Hobbies

Future: Home Activities, Kids' Activities, Mischief and Mayhem, Occult, Outdoor, Skill Building, and Social. And maybe one more that's used by dynasties only and that I'll have to name, or maybe they'll get folded into one of the others, or not done at all (they're a bit weird for a holiday tradition).

Requires Seasons

Download amethyst-Rules to Holiday Traditions-All Packs.zip if you have all packs listed for all traditions.

Download amethyst-Rules to Holiday Traditions-By Pack.zip if you're missing some of the packs, so that you don't have llama images and missing text, and delete any files for packs you don't have. Note that some (like duels) will still require packs to complete the tradition, but not one specific pack, so they're in the main file for their group.

Updates:

Feb 27, 2026: Added Russian translation of Art and Music.

March 1, 2026: Added Food and Drink.

March 2, 2026: Added Russian translation to Food and Drink. Made Drink Tea compatible with LittlBowBub's Old Time Tea Pot (making tea only). Made Drink Coffee compatible with LittlBowBub's Home Barista and the Latte additions to Hot Chocolate Machine (making coffee only), and with mangoninja's All-In-One Espresso Engine. No new strings were added.

March 26: Added Fun & Games. Added Russian translations to Art & Music (sorry for the delay).

May 15, 2026: Now comes in two versions. Download amethyst-Rules to Holiday Traditions-All Packs.zip if you have all packs listed for all traditions. Download amethyst-Rules to Holiday Traditions-By Pack.zip if you're missing some of the packs, so that you don't have llama images and missing text, and delete any files for packs you don't have. No strings were affected, so translations should still work. Added a link to Liliaandthesims's French translation. Thanks to them for letting me know about the missing pack issue!

Translations:

Russian, by KsankaSims (Art & Music and Food & Drink, included)

Portuguese (PT-BR), by Hanabira: https://www.mediafire.com/file/a4u2wj362dstkqu/1_amethyst-Rules+to+Holiday+Traditions.rar/file

French, by Liliaandthesims: https://www.patreon.com/posts/traduction-du-to-158316022

Download free on patreon.

[amethystamanda]

Updated May 15, 2026:

Now comes in two versions.

Download amethyst-Rules to Holiday Traditions-All Packs.zip if you have all packs listed for all traditions.

Download amethyst-Rules to Holiday Traditions-By Pack.zip if you're missing some of the packs, so that you don't have llama images and missing text, and delete any files for packs you don't have. No strings were affected, so translations should still work.

Added a link to Liliaandthesims's French translation. Thanks to them for letting me know about the missing pack issue!

[amethystamanda]

Patch 1.124 Updates

I updated:

Continuing Education https://www.patreon.com/posts/continuing-124143469

Famous Pastry Chef Aspiration by xbrettface Updated https://www.patreon.com/posts/famous-pastry-by-120412364

MissBee's Child Aspirations Set updated https://www.patreon.com/posts/missbees-child-112948957

Mood Based Interactions https://www.patreon.com/posts/mood-based-141674441

More Sim Names https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-sim-names-126517152

Nightlife Superstar Aspiration by MissBee updated https://www.patreon.com/posts/nightlife-by-116151580

Renowned Photographer Aspiration by xbrettface Updated https://www.patreon.com/posts/renowned-by-120431451

Self-Sufficient Aspiration by MissBee updated https://www.patreon.com/posts/self-sufficient-115967000

The Culinary Librarian Aspiration by Keksdrache Updated https://www.patreon.com/posts/culinary-by-120354596

Deleted amethyst-Nature Is Calling Sandals override-YF.package and amethyst-Nature Is Calling Sandals override-YM.package from Sandals Overrides (Keep Your Shoes Out of the Pool) because they were fixed by EA

Everything else should be fine with the patch.

These are ONLY updated on patreon, because simblr.cc isn't replacing the files correctly right now. I'll try again later.

[amethystamanda]

Odd Jobs Career Tone Fix

This is a fix for the Island Living odd job system where, if you're on another lot when a gig ends, there will be an error and the gig won't end.

It adds a career tone to each of the career levels so that they're always doing Work Normally instead of just At Work.

The only difference you'll see in game is that your sim will have a little work symbol and if you travel to another lot with another sim while the gig is active, the lightning bolt arrow for off lot sims is replaced by that.

(Zoe is at an odd job, Mitchell is at the park, and J and Gavin are at home.)

This should also fix the same bug affecting mods that use the Island Living gigs system (like Historical Gigs) but any mod that uses a clone of that will need to include their own fix.

This will conflict with anything that overrides any of these:

careerLevel_OddJob_0

careerLevel_OddJob_1

careerLevel_OddJob_2

careerLevel_OddJob_3

careerLevel_OddJob_4

careerLevel_OddJob_5

But any modder who does that should also include this fix in their override to make gigs work correctly and without errors.

You need Island Living.

Please vote for the bug report here if this bothers you in your game.

Download on patreon or at simblr.cc

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Choose Accesssories

This mod lets you pick accessories in live mode that you can then put on or take off. Those accessories hide (but don't remove) any accessories in the same slot that were put on the sim in CAS. So you can, for example, choose your sim's glasses and hearing aids and they'll wear them on all outfits (including work) until you take them off (or until they take a bath or shower, go to sleep, or go swimming in most cases). Or you can pick their bonnet that you want them to wear to bed. Or you can pick their hijab and put it on and take it off when appropriate.

(There's a TLDR at the bottom, but if you skip the description and then get confused, I'm going to tell you to read the description or watch the video.)

With a teen or older sim, click on a mirror or dresser and find the menu called Choose Accessories. Then pick the type of accessory you want to put on your sim. Pick an option and a menu will appear that gives shows you what's available.

Currently included are glasses (prescription type), hearing aids, and various types of head coverings.

After you pick your accessory, it will appear on your sim and they'll get a trait telling you which one they've chosen. If you decide that's not the right one for them, you can go back in and pick a different one. For ten sim minutes, the ones you've already tried will have a green outline so that you don't lose track, because the list can be long.

After you've made your decision, there will be a new interaction available to your sim in the outfit menu. While they have their chosen accessory on, they'll have the option to take it off. While they have it off, they'll have the option to put it on. That's unless you choose the Hide CAS option (not available for hats), which will only hide whatever their CAS accessory. Then you'll have the option to hide or unhide the CAS accessory. When you take off the accessory (or unhide), whatever the sim has set in CAS will reappear.

To reset your chosen accessories, choose one of the reset options in the menu on a mirror or dresser.

For the most part, all accessories will stay on until a sim showers, takes a bath, swims, or goes to sleep. Hide CAS options will stay on until you remove them (or pick a conflicting option). Options that may be for sleeping will not be removed automatically. Prescription-type glasses and hearing aids should go back on when your sim stops bathing/sleeping/swimming.

You can pick one option from each menu. If you pick a different option, the one you had previously will be removed. So you can pick glasses and hearing aids and one from each group of head coverings (auto remove and no auto remove), but if you pick a different hearing aid, the first one will be removed. You can keep track of what your sim has selected in their traits.

The chosen accessories will not be visible in CAS. You can only give them to your currently active sim (unless you cheat, but then the same restrictions will apply -- on until they bathe, swim, or sleep while on or near an active lot -- you won't have the interactions to put them on or take them off available, and it's not something I'm supporting, so if it goes weird, you'll need to play them and reset their accessories).

In most cases, I used something close to the internal name. Sometimes there is no real internal name (some things are just the pack code) or there are multiple different things with the same name, so I added one.. Sometimes the name was too long and I had to change or shorten it. Most of the time I used something close to the internal swatch name. Sometimes the internal swatch is just wrong -- sometimes I could change it and sometimes I couldn't.

Categories included, and small details:

Glasses:

Glasses -- things that I thought were likely to be prescription lenses. In most cases, that's all of a certain kind, but in a couple of cases, it's only some swatches (Casanova Cave's last two swatches, half of the Cottage Living glasses). Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and will be put on when stopping sleeping, bathing, or swimming.

For the Golden Years glasses, the necklace glasses are included here and you can switch between glasses worn as glasses and glasses worn as a necklace. Blue Fade doesn't have an equivalent necklace version for some reason. If you have that kit and choose not to download my extra file for that, you won't have a necklace version for those. The option will appear, but the glasses will disappear if you try to put them around your sim's neck. The necklace version of Fade Blue will appear in CAS as an add-on swatch after the existing swatches.

Eyepatches from the Lost Legacies Event (related to the royalty pack) should be greyed out if you don't have them unlocked. If you have an unlocker for event items, you can try it, but I can't promise it'll work.

205 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Piercings:

Hearing Aids -- come in left, right, and both ear versions, as indicated in the name and by a letter on the thumbnail. Hide CAS will also hide earrings, because on a technical level, they're the same thing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and will be put on when stopping sleeping, bathing, or swimming.

46 swatches (15 each).

Headwear

Head Coverings (Auto Remove) -- things that you'd put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons, or to just cover your hair, that would NOT be worn when sleeping, swimming, or bathing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and you'll have to put them back on. Does not include things that are meant solely for formal wear (according to google). Use CAS for that. Does include some things that fit more in a historical or fantasy setting. Not divided by gender -- with one exception, everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are various types of head scarves, hijabs, prayer caps, turbans, and other cultural headwear, whether current, historical, or fantasy, that are included in the game.

The Mirialan head covering is the only one to be locked to the feminine frame and have no masculine frame equivalent. It's marked with [F] in the picker, and will be greyed out when playing a sim with a masculine frame.

168 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Head Coverings (No Auto Remove) -- things that you might put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons or that you might wear while sleeping, swimming, or bathing. You will have to manually put these on and remove them. Does not include things that appear to me to be solely for swimming. Use CAS for that. I'm aware that some may be worn in different contexts as day wear and in other contexts as sleep wear, or even shower caps or swim caps, but things are in one menu, so if they can reasonably be called sleepwear, they're here. Not divided by gender -- everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are slik bonnets, various head scarves, durags, and night caps.

149 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Details

This is NOT a small mod. Each and every swatch needs to be added individually, with at least 11 files created per swatch, sometimes more, and four more edited. And sometimes one small change means going back and editing one (or more) per swatch again.

That means there are a LOT of parts to it, and while I think I have everything working right, please let me know if I missed something. Also let me know if it's too wide for your screen (ideally with screenshots on discord). There can be fewer columns, but there'll be more rows, so I went with something that fits on my screen, but I can't say if it will adjust well to other screens.

This is not everything that I want to add, but I've been working on it for over two months, and I need to look at something else for a while. If you're a patron, there's a poll available to help me decide what to add next when I come back to it.

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

Choosing an accessory WILL override all outfits as long as that accessory is on, and it will show up in the sim's portrait and in the change outfit menu.

Other Mods and CC:

Chosen accessories MAY override things meant to be added by other mods or in the game itself. If that happens, you can use the interaction on the sim (in the Outfits menu) to remove them temporarily. Or the other mod may override mine. Depends on what they set their priority to and which comes first.

Accessories will NOT work with the colour slider mod, because it adds new swatches and I can't add those to the mod, because they only exist in your game.

If you use these mods, they'll work for things chosen in CAS but not things chosen using this mod (so things chosen in CAS will be removed and put back on as these mods say, but my mod controls things chosen using my mod):

Sleep Without Shoes or Glasses by HelenTheHunter

Remove Hats & More Indoors by MizoreYukii

No Accessories and Makeup Sleeping by Szemoka

Adeepindigo's Eye Care mod doesn't know this one exists right now.

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

I'm planning to add a template for if people want to add things on their own to existing menus, but I have to wait and see if Core Library will get an update to add the ability. That will come later, if it's possible. When that happens, it won't be simple. It'll be more for people who know their way around Sims 4 Studio. I made each one with 11 files plus edits to more. Adding cc will require at least that, maybe more.

I'm also planning to let people commission additions, if you don't want to do it yourself. That also needs to wait for an injector to be added to Core Library or for me to find out that that's not going to happen. So that's also for the future, although it'll probably happen either way. There will be restrictions on what I'll do, but adding new menus is a possibility, so this won't be completely restricted to existing menus.

Installation:

Download the zip.

Unzip it. This may happen automatically if you're on a mac.

Put the amethyst-Choose Accessories folder in your Mods folder. You can rename it, but please keep the files together

Make sure you have Lot 51's Core Library.

Inside the folder, there's amethyst-Choose Accessories-Main.package. This file is required.

There are also three folders. Install whichever parts you want.

Glasses has two files.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Glassses.package is required if you want to choose glasses.

amethyst-Golden Years-Blue Fade Necklace Glasses.package requires the Golden Years kit adds a missing swatch to the glasses necklace (available in CAS and in the mod). If you have that pack and delete this, if you choose the Blue Fade swatch of those glasses, you'll have an interaction that's supposed to put the glasses around your sim's neck that does nothing. (You can keep this even if you delete everything else. It's just cc.)

Hats has two files. What they do is described above.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-AR.package is the Auto Remove file.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-NAR.package is the No Auto Remove file.

Piercings has amethyst-Choose Accessories-Hearing Aids.package which is, shockingly, hearing aids.

TLDR:

Pick things on a mirror or dresser.

Put them on or off using an interaction on your sim, in the Outfits menu.

Most will come off when sleeping, bathing or showering. You have to put hats back on yourself. Glasses and hearing aids will go on after sleeping, bathing, or showering.

Updates:

May 8, 2026: Description update only. No need to redownload. Added a section specifically about other mods and cc, and added a TLDR at the bottom.

May 9. 2026: Updated so that glasses and hearing aids will go back on after a sim wakes up, gets out of the shower or bath, or stops swimming. The change will happen fast, and it will happen whether or not your sim was actively wearing them before starting sleeping/bathing/swimming. This change it NOT reflected in the video, because I'd have to reupload the video and I don't have a couple of hours to keep my computer from falling asleep while not using it much at the moment. That's the only way it can work with also allowing your sim to take them off when they want to. Organized the description a bit more. I know it's still too long, but I don't think there's anything I can cut.

Download on patreon or simblr.cc

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Update:

May 9. 2026:

Updated so that glasses and hearing aids will go back on after a sim wakes up, gets out of the shower or bath, or stops swimming. The change will happen fast, and it will happen whether or not your sim was actively wearing them before starting sleeping/bathing/swimming. That's the only way it can work with also allowing your sim to take them off when they want to.

This change it NOT reflected in the video, because I'd have to reupload the video and I don't have a couple of hours to keep my computer from falling asleep while not using it much at the moment.

Organized the description a bit more. I know it's still too long, but I don't think there's anything I can cut.

[amethystamanda]

Choose Accesssories

This mod lets you pick accessories in live mode that you can then put on or take off. Those accessories hide (but don't remove) any accessories in the same slot that were put on the sim in CAS. So you can, for example, choose your sim's glasses and hearing aids and they'll wear them on all outfits (including work) until you take them off (or until they take a bath or shower, go to sleep, or go swimming in most cases). Or you can pick their bonnet that you want them to wear to bed. Or you can pick their hijab and put it on and take it off when appropriate.

(There's a TLDR at the bottom, but if you skip the description and then get confused, I'm going to tell you to read the description or watch the video.)

With a teen or older sim, click on a mirror or dresser and find the menu called Choose Accessories. Then pick the type of accessory you want to put on your sim. Pick an option and a menu will appear that gives shows you what's available.

Currently included are glasses (prescription type), hearing aids, and various types of head coverings.

After you pick your accessory, it will appear on your sim and they'll get a trait telling you which one they've chosen. If you decide that's not the right one for them, you can go back in and pick a different one. For ten sim minutes, the ones you've already tried will have a green outline so that you don't lose track, because the list can be long.

After you've made your decision, there will be a new interaction available to your sim in the outfit menu. While they have their chosen accessory on, they'll have the option to take it off. While they have it off, they'll have the option to put it on. That's unless you choose the Hide CAS option (not available for hats), which will only hide whatever their CAS accessory. Then you'll have the option to hide or unhide the CAS accessory. When you take off the accessory (or unhide), whatever the sim has set in CAS will reappear.

To reset your chosen accessories, choose one of the reset options in the menu on a mirror or dresser.

For the most part, all accessories will stay on until a sim showers, takes a bath, swims, or goes to sleep. Hide CAS options will stay on until you remove them (or pick a conflicting option). Options that may be for sleeping will not be removed automatically.

You can pick one option from each menu. If you pick a different option, the one you had previously will be removed. So you can pick glasses and hearing aids and one from each group of head coverings (auto remove and no auto remove), but if you pick a different hearing aid, the first one will be removed. You can keep track of what your sim has selected in their traits.

The chosen accessories will not be visible in CAS. You can only give them to your currently active sim (unless you cheat, but then the same restrictions will apply -- on until they bathe, swim, or sleep while on or near an active lot -- you won't have the interactions to put them on or take them off available, and it's not something I'm supporting, so if it goes weird, you'll need to play them and reset their accessories).

In most cases, I used something close to the internal name. Sometimes there is no real internal name (some things are just the pack code) or there are multiple different things with the same name, so I added one.. Sometimes the name was too long and I had to change or shorten it. Most of the time I used something close to the internal swatch name. Sometimes the internal swatch is just wrong -- sometimes I could change it and sometimes I couldn't.

Categories included, and small details:

Glasses:

Glasses -- things that I thought were likely to be prescription lenses. In most cases, that's all of a certain kind, but in a couple of cases, it's only some swatches (Casanova Cave's last two swatches, half of the Cottage Living glasses). Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and you'll have to put them back on.

For the Golden Years glasses, the necklace glasses are included here and you can switch between glasses worn as glasses and glasses worn as a necklace. Blue Fade doesn't have an equivalent necklace version for some reason. If you have that kit and choose not to download my extra file for that, you won't have a necklace version for those. The option will appear, but the glasses will disappear if you try to put them around your sim's neck. The necklace version of Fade Blue will appear in CAS as an add-on swatch after the existing swatches.

Eyepatches from the Lost Legacies Event (related to the royalty pack) should be greyed out if you don't have them unlocked. If you have an unlocker for event items, you can try it, but I can't promise it'll work.

205 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Piercings:

Hearing Aids -- come in left, right, and both ear versions, as indicated in the name and by a letter on the thumbnail. Hide CAS will also hide earrings, because on a technical level, they're the same thing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and you'll have to put them back on.

46 swatches (15 each).

Headwear

Head Coverings (Auto Remove) -- things that you'd put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons, or to just cover your hair, that would NOT be worn when sleeping, swimming, or bathing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and you'll have to put them back on. Does not include things that are meant solely for formal wear (according to google). Use CAS for that. Does include some things that fit more in a historical or fantasy setting. Not divided by gender -- with one exception, everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are various types of head scarves, hijabs, prayer caps, turbans, and other cultural headwear, whether current, historical, or fantasy, that are included in the game.

The Mirialan head covering is the only one to be locked to the feminine frame and have no masculine frame equivalent. It's marked with [F] in the picker, and will be greyed out when playing a sim with a masculine frame.

168 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Head Coverings (No Auto Remove) -- things that you might put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons or that you might wear while sleeping, swimming, or bathing. You will have to manually put these on and remove them. Does not include things that appear to me to be solely for swimming. Use CAS for that. I'm aware that some may be worn in different contexts as day wear and in other contexts as sleep wear, or even shower caps or swim caps, but things are in one menu, so if they can reasonably be called sleepwear, they're here. Not divided by gender -- everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are slik bonnets, various head scarves, durags, and night caps.

149 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

This is NOT a small mod. Each and every swatch needs to be added individually, with at least 11 files created per swatch, sometimes more, and four more edited. And sometimes one small change means going back and editing one (or more) per swatch again.

That means there are a LOT of parts to it, and while I think I have everything working right, please let me know if I missed something. Also let me know if it's too wide for your screen (ideally with screenshots on discord). There can be fewer columns, but there'll be more rows, so I went with something that fits on my screen, but I can't say if it will adjust well to other screens.

This is not everything that I want to add, but I've been working on it for over two months, and I need to look at something else for a while. If you're a patron, there's a poll available to help me decide what to add next when I come back to it.

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

Choosing an accessory WILL override all outfits as long as that accessory is on, and it will show up in the sim's portrait and in the change outfit menu.

Other Mods and CC:

Chosen accessories MAY override things meant to be added by other mods or in the game itself. If that happens, you can use the interaction on the sim (in the Outfits menu) to remove them temporarily. Or the other mod may override mine. Depends on what they set their priority to and which comes first.

Accessories will NOT work with the colour slider mod, because it adds new swatches and I can't add those to the mod, because they only exist in your game.

If you use these mods, they'll work for things chosen in CAS but not things chosen using this mod (so things chosen in CAS will be removed and put back on as these mods say, but my mod controls things chosen using my mod):

Sleep Without Shoes or Glasses by HelenTheHunter

Remove Hats & More Indoors by MizoreYukii

No Accessories and Makeup Sleeping by Szemoka

Adeepindigo's Eye Care mod doesn't know this one exists right now.

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

I'm planning to add a template for if people want to add things on their own to existing menus, but I have to wait and see if Core Library will get an update to add the ability. That will come later, if it's possible. When that happens, it won't be simple. It'll be more for people who know their way around Sims 4 Studio. I made each one with 11 files plus edits to more. Adding cc will require at least that, maybe more.

I'm also planning to let people commission additions, if you don't want to do it yourself. That also needs to wait for an injector to be added to Core Library or for me to find out that that's not going to happen. So that's also for the future, although it'll probably happen either way. There will be restrictions on what I'll do, but adding new menus is a possibility, so this won't be completely restricted to existing menus.

Installation:

Download the zip.

Unzip it. This may happen automatically if you're on a mac.

Put the amethyst-Choose Accessories folder in your Mods folder. You can rename it, but please keep the files together

Make sure you have Lot 51's Core Library.

Inside the folder, there's amethyst-Choose Accessories-Main.package. This file is required.

There are also three folders. Install whichever parts you want.

Glasses has two files.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Glassses.package is required if you want to choose glasses.

amethyst-Golden Years-Blue Fade Necklace Glasses.package requires the Golden Years kit adds a missing swatch to the glasses necklace (available in CAS and in the mod). If you have that pack and delete this, if you choose the Blue Fade swatch of those glasses, you'll have an interaction that's supposed to put the glasses around your sim's neck that does nothing. (You can keep this even if you delete everything else. It's just cc.)

Hats has two files. What they do is described above.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-AR.package is the Auto Remove file.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-NAR.package is the No Auto Remove file.

Piercings has amethyst-Choose Accessories-Hearing Aids.package which is, shockingly, hearing aids.

TLDR:

Pick things on a mirror or dresser.

Put them on or off using an interaction on your sim, in the Outfits menu.

Most will come off when sleeping, bathing or showering. You have to put them back on yourself.

Updates:

May 8, 2026: Description update only. No need to redownload. Added a section specifically about other mods and cc, and added a TLDR at the bottom.

Download on patreon or simblr.cc

[amethystamanda]

Choose Accesssories

This mod lets you pick accessories in live mode that you can then put on or take off. Those accessories hide (but don't remove) any accessories in the same slot that were put on the sim in CAS. So you can, for example, choose your sim's glasses and hearing aids and they'll wear them on all outfits (including work) until you take them off (or until they take a bath or shower, go to sleep, or go swimming in most cases). Or you can pick their bonnet that you want them to wear to bed. Or you can pick their hijab and put it on and take it off when appropriate.

(There's a TLDR at the bottom, but if you skip the description and then get confused, I'm going to tell you to read the description or watch the video.)

With a teen or older sim, click on a mirror or dresser and find the menu called Choose Accessories. Then pick the type of accessory you want to put on your sim. Pick an option and a menu will appear that gives shows you what's available.

Currently included are glasses (prescription type), hearing aids, and various types of head coverings.

After you pick your accessory, it will appear on your sim and they'll get a trait telling you which one they've chosen. If you decide that's not the right one for them, you can go back in and pick a different one. For ten sim minutes, the ones you've already tried will have a green outline so that you don't lose track, because the list can be long.

After you've made your decision, there will be a new interaction available to your sim in the outfit menu. While they have their chosen accessory on, they'll have the option to take it off. While they have it off, they'll have the option to put it on. That's unless you choose the Hide CAS option (not available for hats), which will only hide whatever their CAS accessory. Then you'll have the option to hide or unhide the CAS accessory. When you take off the accessory (or unhide), whatever the sim has set in CAS will reappear.

To reset your chosen accessories, choose one of the reset options in the menu on a mirror or dresser.

For the most part, all accessories will stay on until a sim showers, takes a bath, swims, or goes to sleep. Hide CAS options will stay on until you remove them (or pick a conflicting option). Options that may be for sleeping will not be removed automatically. Prescription-type glasses and hearing aids should go back on when your sim stops bathing/sleeping/swimming.

You can pick one option from each menu. If you pick a different option, the one you had previously will be removed. So you can pick glasses and hearing aids and one from each group of head coverings (auto remove and no auto remove), but if you pick a different hearing aid, the first one will be removed. You can keep track of what your sim has selected in their traits.

The chosen accessories will not be visible in CAS. You can only give them to your currently active sim (unless you cheat, but then the same restrictions will apply -- on until they bathe, swim, or sleep while on or near an active lot -- you won't have the interactions to put them on or take them off available, and it's not something I'm supporting, so if it goes weird, you'll need to play them and reset their accessories).

In most cases, I used something close to the internal name. Sometimes there is no real internal name (some things are just the pack code) or there are multiple different things with the same name, so I added one.. Sometimes the name was too long and I had to change or shorten it. Most of the time I used something close to the internal swatch name. Sometimes the internal swatch is just wrong -- sometimes I could change it and sometimes I couldn't.

Categories included, and small details:

Glasses:

Glasses -- things that I thought were likely to be prescription lenses. In most cases, that's all of a certain kind, but in a couple of cases, it's only some swatches (Casanova Cave's last two swatches, half of the Cottage Living glasses). Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and will be put on when stopping sleeping, bathing, or swimming.

For the Golden Years glasses, the necklace glasses are included here and you can switch between glasses worn as glasses and glasses worn as a necklace. Blue Fade doesn't have an equivalent necklace version for some reason. If you have that kit and choose not to download my extra file for that, you won't have a necklace version for those. The option will appear, but the glasses will disappear if you try to put them around your sim's neck. The necklace version of Fade Blue will appear in CAS as an add-on swatch after the existing swatches.

Eyepatches from the Lost Legacies Event (related to the royalty pack) should be greyed out if you don't have them unlocked. If you have an unlocker for event items, you can try it, but I can't promise it'll work.

205 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Piercings:

Hearing Aids -- come in left, right, and both ear versions, as indicated in the name and by a letter on the thumbnail. Hide CAS will also hide earrings, because on a technical level, they're the same thing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and will be put on when stopping sleeping, bathing, or swimming.

46 swatches (15 each).

Headwear

Head Coverings (Auto Remove) -- things that you'd put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons, or to just cover your hair, that would NOT be worn when sleeping, swimming, or bathing. Will be removed when sleeping, bathing, or swimming, and you'll have to put them back on. Does not include things that are meant solely for formal wear (according to google). Use CAS for that. Does include some things that fit more in a historical or fantasy setting. Not divided by gender -- with one exception, everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are various types of head scarves, hijabs, prayer caps, turbans, and other cultural headwear, whether current, historical, or fantasy, that are included in the game.

The Mirialan head covering is the only one to be locked to the feminine frame and have no masculine frame equivalent. It's marked with [F] in the picker, and will be greyed out when playing a sim with a masculine frame.

168 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Head Coverings (No Auto Remove) -- things that you might put on for modesty, cultural, or religious reasons or that you might wear while sleeping, swimming, or bathing. You will have to manually put these on and remove them. Does not include things that appear to me to be solely for swimming. Use CAS for that. I'm aware that some may be worn in different contexts as day wear and in other contexts as sleep wear, or even shower caps or swim caps, but things are in one menu, so if they can reasonably be called sleepwear, they're here. Not divided by gender -- everything's available for everyone, and you know your sims better than I do.

Included are slik bonnets, various head scarves, durags, and night caps.

149 individual swatches, if you have all packs.

Details

This is NOT a small mod. Each and every swatch needs to be added individually, with at least 11 files created per swatch, sometimes more, and four more edited. And sometimes one small change means going back and editing one (or more) per swatch again.

That means there are a LOT of parts to it, and while I think I have everything working right, please let me know if I missed something. Also let me know if it's too wide for your screen (ideally with screenshots on discord). There can be fewer columns, but there'll be more rows, so I went with something that fits on my screen, but I can't say if it will adjust well to other screens.

This is not everything that I want to add, but I've been working on it for over two months, and I need to look at something else for a while. If you're a patron, there's a poll available to help me decide what to add next when I come back to it.

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

Choosing an accessory WILL override all outfits as long as that accessory is on, and it will show up in the sim's portrait and in the change outfit menu.

Other Mods and CC:

Chosen accessories MAY override things meant to be added by other mods or in the game itself. If that happens, you can use the interaction on the sim (in the Outfits menu) to remove them temporarily. Or the other mod may override mine. Depends on what they set their priority to and which comes first.

As of June 1, 2026, integrated with ADeepIndigo's EyeCare (When glasses are on, they will count as prescription eyewear and when you take them off, they will count as not having glasses on.) and Healthcare Redux (Hearing aids will work for hearing aids with that mod).

Accessories will NOT work with the colour slider mod, because it adds new swatches and I can't add those to the mod, because they only exist in your game.

If you use these mods, they'll work for things chosen in CAS but not things chosen using this mod (so things chosen in CAS will be removed and put back on as these mods say, but my mod controls things chosen using my mod):

Sleep Without Shoes or Glasses by HelenTheHunter

Remove Hats & More Indoors by MizoreYukii

No Accessories and Makeup Sleeping by Szemoka

You can only pick things that are specifically added, which means that it doesn't work for cc unless it's specifically added.

I'm planning to add a template for if people want to add things on their own to existing menus, but I have to wait and see if Core Library will get an update to add the ability. That will come later, if it's possible. When that happens, it won't be simple. It'll be more for people who know their way around Sims 4 Studio. I made each one with 11 files plus edits to more. Adding cc will require at least that, maybe more.

I'm also planning to let people commission additions, if you don't want to do it yourself. That also needs to wait for an injector to be added to Core Library or for me to find out that that's not going to happen. So that's also for the future, although it'll probably happen either way. There will be restrictions on what I'll do, but adding new menus is a possibility, so this won't be completely restricted to existing menus.

Installation:

Download the zip.

Unzip it. This may happen automatically if you're on a mac.

Put the amethyst-Choose Accessories folder in your Mods folder. You can rename it, but please keep the files together

Make sure you have Lot 51's Core Library.

Inside the folder, there's amethyst-Choose Accessories-Main.package. This file is required.

There are also three folders. Install whichever parts you want.

Glasses has two files.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Glassses.package is required if you want to choose glasses.

amethyst-Golden Years-Blue Fade Necklace Glasses.package requires the Golden Years kit adds a missing swatch to the glasses necklace (available in CAS and in the mod). If you have that pack and delete this, if you choose the Blue Fade swatch of those glasses, you'll have an interaction that's supposed to put the glasses around your sim's neck that does nothing. (You can keep this even if you delete everything else. It's just cc.)

Hats has two files. What they do is described above.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-AR.package is the Auto Remove file.

amethyst-Choose Accessories-Headcoverings-NAR.package is the No Auto Remove file.

Piercings has amethyst-Choose Accessories-Hearing Aids.package which is, shockingly, hearing aids.

TLDR:

Pick things on a mirror or dresser.

Put them on or off using an interaction on your sim, in the Outfits menu.

Most will come off when sleeping, bathing or showering. You have to put hats back on yourself. Glasses and hearing aids will go on after sleeping, bathing, or showering.

Updates:

May 8, 2026: Description update only. No need to redownload. Added a section specifically about other mods and cc, and added a TLDR at the bottom.

May 9. 2026: Updated so that glasses and hearing aids will go back on after a sim wakes up, gets out of the shower or bath, or stops swimming. The change will happen fast, and it will happen whether or not your sim was actively wearing them before starting sleeping/bathing/swimming. This change it NOT reflected in the video, because I'd have to reupload the video and I don't have a couple of hours to keep my computer from falling asleep while not using it much at the moment. That's the only way it can work with also allowing your sim to take them off when they want to. Organized the description a bit more. I know it's still too long, but I don't think there's anything I can cut.

June 1, 2026: Added integration with ADeepIndigo's EyeCare (glasses that are on will count as prescription eyewear) and Healthcare Redux (hearing aids that are on will count as hearing aids). Thanks, ADeepIndigo!

Download on patreon or simblr.cc

[amethystamanda]

Fancy Soap From Washing Dishes

A tiny mod to give sims the Fancy Soap buff from hand-washing dishes that they get from washing their hands at a sink that has the Auto-Soap Dispenser upgrade.

Requires Lot 51's Core Library.

Download on patreon or at simblr.cc

[amethystamanda]

Random Holiday Traditions

These are holiday traditions that I want to exist, but that don't fit in with Rules to Holiday Traditions or any other mod I have, and that haven't been made by anyone else that I know of or not done as I want them.

These may be added to randomly.

Drink Hot Cocoa - Drink hot cocoa from a Cozy Hot Cocoa Tray; make hot cocoa with a kettle (pour, not start), Cozy Hot Cocoa Tray, LittlBowBub's Hot Chocolate Machine, or LittlBowBub's Hot Chocolate Addon of Home Barista. I can't include drinking hot cocoa from the kettle or LBB's objects, because they use a generic drinking interaction that applies to a lot of things, so the focus is on the tray.

Make a Dessert - Make any kind of dessert (as tagged by the game). Wedding cakes from My Wedding Stories don't count, but ice cream does. I am not responsible for EA's tagging decisions.

Tea Party - Requires the Wonderland Playroom Kit. Have a sim (child or older, the interaction isn't available to toddlers, sadly) Drink Pretend Tea.

Magic Duel - Requires Realm of Magic. As a spellcaster, have a duel with another spellcaster.

Sword Duel - Requires Royalty & Legacy. Challenge someone to a duel and then duel them. Accepting a challenge won't work, you have to do the challenging.

Vampiric Duel - Requires Vampires. As a vampire, have a duel with another vampire; as a vampire, spar with another vampire.

Ping Pong - Requires Discover University. Play Ping Pong or Juice Pong.

Seasonal Ball Fight - Have a snowball fight, mud fight, or water balloon fight.

Dancing - Dance, alone or with others, using interactions on a stereo or using certain mods (Mercuryfoam - Ballroom Dance Mod, adopted by Mod Revivor; Mercuryfoam - Salsa Dance, adopted by Mod Revivor; Cute Romance by thepancake1 and MizoreYukii; and Romantic Slow Dance by Sacrificial -- warning that this site contains NSFW mods). Show Off Moves does not count. It never did, from what I can tell, and that feels more like performance than dancing to me. Group and paired (wedding dancing, slow dancing, waltzing) dances do. If I missed any, or if anyone desperately wants Show Off Moves to count, let me know.

This was originally by ChippedSim, who has stepped back from smaller mods to focus on larger mods that she feels more connection to. With permission, I've updated the tuning, the string table, and the list of dances that count. It's cute, and I'm glad to have it in my game.

All holiday traditions require Seasons, or you don't have holidays. Some may require other packs.

(I don't know why one image is enormous)

Translations:

Russian, by KsankaSims, up to duels

Updates:

March 2, 2026: Made Drink Hot Cocoa compatible with LittlBowBub's Hot Chocolate Machine and the Hot Chocolate Addon of Home Barista (making hot chocolate only). Added Russian translations.

March 5, 2026: Added Magic Duel, Sword Duel, and Vampiric Duel. In my next update of Rules to Holiday Traditions, there will be a tradition for any kind of duel, but I thought that sometimes you might want to be specific.

March 26: Added Ping Pong and Seasonal Ball FIght. Added Russian translations to duels (sorry for the delay).

April 21, 2026: Added Dancing

Download free on patreon.

[amethystamanda]

Now has Dancing

[toastie-sim]

Mod management apps

Disclaimers: - This is going to be long. - This is all based on my own testing and my own personal opinions. - This is not to spread hate towards anyone. This is purely to add some information & context. Please do not go harass any mod management developers. - I am not an expert.

There's been an app going around recently that was marketed as a crashing & mod assistant. Other creators have raised concerns about it, but I held off on saying anything as I wanted to test it all on my own. This gets into my first point.

An application with a mac-compatible version made by someone who doesn't own a mac themselves and who had not tested it on any mac.

Mac computers are distinctly different than windows computers. They have their own UI, their own commands, their own applications, etc. I don't claim to be a mac-expert, but as someone who has had macs their entire life, I know that making something for a mac computer without actually having one to test is a recipe for disaster. Given that, I'd have to assume AI was used in some capacity to create the mac version and the mac instructions. I followed the instructions as they were written to install the app and get it up and running and I simply would not have been able to if I didn't have some technical knowledge of my own computer and how terminal commands work. If I were just someone looking to install this without much effort, I would've been disappointed and unsuccessful. The disappointing thing about this was that I personally offered to test any mac-related versions/instructions and/or give any mac-related advice before it was publicly released. My offer was not accepted.

The in-app user guide and the way this tool was marketed stated: "Reads your latest crash and exception logs and tells you what to try next."

This is misleading. This tool does not actually read the contents of these error files, or if it does, it does it in a way I was unable to uncover or does it incorrectly. Crash files cannot be read by anyone other than the game developers. There's been numerous attempts over the many years that the game has been around to decode them, but they've all been unsuccessful with how these files are written. Claiming that the tool can read these files is wrong and puts a false sense of "hope" in users expectations. Additionally, I couldn't get the app to even tell me that I had a crash file, probably because the app was looking for lastCrash_##.txt, when sometimes it's just lastCrash.txt. My game crashed, a crash file was created, yet the application told me there were no crash files created? The app's log said: Likely Cause: No clear mod reference found. lastCrash_*.txt Status: not found lastException_*.txt Status: not found lastUIException_*.txt Status: not found Bottom Line No recent crash or exception files were found. But this was what my "The Sims 4" folder showed:

When it comes to the exception log piece, I forced several sets of errors. At least one of them had a clear cause. I was unsuccessful in getting it to tell me anything other than "[the exception logs] were not clear enough to name one broken mod". There are already mods out there to help with error files. Better exceptions & MC Command Center both log exception files in a much easier to read fashion than the basic .txt file. I've already written a post about how to get help with error files on several discord servers, I really encourage people to use these servers as that's what they are here for! However, I can understand that people want to understand things for themselves or don't want to use discord or have had previously bad experiences. I'm happy to knowledge share anything/everything I know about error files as most, if not all of it has just been collecting information over time.

Finding the "problem" mod.

This does a sort of automated 50/50 but it doesn't do it in a way that is systematic. When I 50/50, I always start in a systematic way, for example, I start with just my custom content. My mods folder is incredibly organized, so I can easily pull out all mods and launch my game with just my custom content. I can also easily test mods in batches as each mod has its own folder. I highly suggest everyone organize their mods folder, it makes managing it exponentially easier! The app didn't do that, it was seemingly randomly pulling out folders of things and telling me to test. It didn't do anything to ensure that mods that have dependencies stayed together--which is a key part of correctly 50/50ing. The app was obsessed with quarantining .Ds_Store files as junk files. This goes back to my first point about having an understanding of mac computers. These files are automatically generated and are hidden on mac computers. The key piece being they are automatically generated. So whenever the app would move one out, a new one popped back up. I ended up in a never-ending cycle of 5050ing because it kept "quarantining" junk files. If I were really looking for the problem file, I would have had to manually 5050 anyway as the app wasn't actually helping me, in fact I got more confused because it kept moving out those hidden mac files.

Duplicate files

Part of the quarantine practice was to quarantine duplicate files. This is theoretically a good idea, except it quarantined both sets of duplicate files so you'd have to put one of them back anyway. The file names also have to be identical to be flagged as a duplicate. If you're looking to just get a list of duplicates, you can do that easily with MC Command Center by generating a system info log (Click on a sim choose MCCC > Sim Commands > Logging Commands > System Info Log) & looking at the full mod list. It'll tell you exactly what's a duplicate & where to find the file.

Clears the game cache

The app only deletes the localthumbcache.package file, which isn't the only cache file that you should delete. Cache files or sometimes referred to as L files are certain files that hold onto information that can mess up your game. Good rule of thumb is to delete your cache files any time you make any changes to your mods folder. I personally just delete them before I launch my game every single time, no matter if i have made changes or not. Cache files you should delete include, (if you want some more information about what these files actually include, review crin's breakdown!): Found in "The Sims 4" folder (*Files that can have _### at the end, for example LastException_1234556422.txt): - localthumbcache.package - avatarchache.package - localsimtexturecache.package - LastException.txt* - LastUIException.txt* - LastCleanException.txt* - BE-ExceptionReport.html (could also be BE-ExceptionReport-OLD.html) - lastCrash.txt* Found in your "Mods" folder, where your mc command center files are, if you use the mod: - mc_lastexception.html

Known mod repository

This was something that was hard-coded into the app and was a way for tagging & organizing mods. Unfortunately, it's pretty clear this list was made with AI as it includes items that simply don't exist and it includes a mod that is largely banned in the community--indicating a lack of fundamental understanding of the sims 4 community & "known" mods. The organization piece: - Relied on you organizing your mods in the exact same way that it was coded. - Looked for the folder name & not the actual files included. - For example, I put MCCC in a folder called MC Command Center. The app did not categorize it as MCCC. I changed the folder name to MCCC and put a random piece of hair cc into the folder and it flagged it as MCCC. I really don't see how that's helpful to anyone as yeah the folder is named MCCC but the folder contains something else completely.

The actual list piece: - One of the entries was: "label": "General Pie Menus", "creator": "TwistedMexi", "notes": "Support framework other mods may call into." this doesn't exist. TwistedMexi doesn't have any general pie menus, perhaps this meant to refer to adeepindigo's general pie menu that is required for several of her mods? Or maybe this meant to refer to Smarter Pie Menu by TwistedMexi but then it's not a support framework that other mods may call into. - Another entry was: "label": "S4CL (Sims 4 Community Library)", "creator": "ColonolNutty", "notes": "Shared library used by many script mods." I'm not going to get into the whole history of this mod & this creator, you're free to read about it here (TW). However, this mod is fairly well-known to be banned and "Shared library used by many script mods" is a gross overstatement.

Good developer practices

From any application/tool out there, not related to The Sims 4, I expect the developer to know the tool inside and out, have rigorous testing, fully documented the product, and able to answer publicly any/all questions. The developer of this tool had good intentions, however, there was a lack of testing, documentation, and transparency. I tried my hardest to be nice, supportive & ask probing questions. I offered my own support & advice, encouraged setting up FAQs & discord server for help, working with mod creators & sim support people, and getting a better/deeper/fundamental understanding of our community. I'm all for new people coming into the community, but I really encourage anyone/everyone to be receptive & understanding of the community.

Final thoughts

All in all, manually managing your mods folder is your best practice. There are helpful tools out there, but no tool is perfect and the better you know your own mods folder the better off you'll be. Need to know how to organize your mods folder? Check out this guide. Want to use some sort of tool to help wrangle your mods folder? Check out plumbuddy. Need to know what mods are out of date? Use scarlet's realm! Want help with an error? Come see me on sims after dark ;) or any other support server. Don't want to talk to a person but want help? Check out lot51's bot 51 Want an interactive 50/50 guide? Here you go

If you've downloaded the sul sul saver app, I'd suggest you delete it as the developer has decided not to move forward with this project.

[toastie-sim]

This app is back. Unfortunately there's not a mac version anymore so I can't actually test it, but I read through the documentation and it doesnt seem to be any different than the removed versions. Here are some of my additional thoughts from the "new" version:

"Many Sims 4 problems do not leave a obvious answer in the logs"

This is wrong. A good handful of problems have a clear & obvious cause. Which is why using mods like MCCC & Better Exceptions is super helpful.

Clearly using AI to make the "known mod" list

Everything I originally pointed out still stands. It still lists mods that don't exist and still includes sims 4 community library.

"Check My Game reads recent Sims 4 log files such as: lastException, lastUIException, lastCrash"

It still claims to read crash files, which again, no one can.

"An older CAS or build/buy item can still work perfectly if it does not rely on broken tuning or scripts."

This is wrong. I know of CAS & build/buy cc that can crash your game, cause it not to load, etc.

[amethystamanda]

And he's deleting criticism and questions, both about functionality

and about including s4cl (at least two people's comments about that got removed)

ETA: ...and I've been blocked

[amethystamanda]

Wrench Icon Overrides

This started with me wanting a different purple wrench icon override. I ended up with three?

These are three emojis that I drew turned into wrench icon override.

There's Lucky, a four leaf clover made up of hearts:

Heart:

and Question, a question mark with a heart for the dot:

I have no idea if anyone'll be interested in these, but the world needs more purple, and if I add it to my list of mods, I have to remember it exists and update it when it breaks.

You can have one wrench override in at a time.

Updates:

March 18, 2026: Updated for patch 1.122.212

April 16, 2026: Update for patch 1.123.66

Download free on patreon.

[amethystamanda]

Updated for patch 1.123.66

[amethystamanda]

Wrench Icon Overrides

This started with me wanting a different purple wrench icon override. I ended up with three?

These are three emojis that I drew turned into wrench icon override.

There's Lucky, a four leaf clover made up of hearts:

Heart:

and Question, a question mark with a heart for the dot:

I have no idea if anyone'll be interested in these, but the world needs more purple, and if I add it to my list of mods, I have to remember it exists and update it when it breaks.

You can have one wrench override in at a time.

Updates:

March 18, 2026: Updated for patch 1.122.212

April 16, 2026: Update for patch 1.123.66

Download free on patreon.

[amethystamanda]

Updated for patch 1.123.66

[amethystamanda]

Hey, I think the infant reactions to breastfeeding mod is a really cool idea! I wanted to make a suggestion, though, specifically when it comes to a sick parent, because I breastfed both of my kids. When you’re sick, your immune system is putting out antibodies to heal you, and these go in the breastmilk. The reverse is true, too; when the baby is sick, your body can tell and puts more antibodies in your milk to heal your baby. That’s maybe the biggest benefit of breastfeeding your own child; it can’t be as readily replaced as the other parts like basic nutrients and bonding lol

I only just saw the post so I haven’t explored the mod, but if you added anything for nursing sims who’ve been drinking juice or nectar, I wanna also say that alcohol doesn’t actually get into breastmilk in a significant capacity at all. Weed, on the other hand, does, but still not enough to, like, get a baby high. I am pretty sure that simply being stressed can somewhat negatively affect breastmilk, but I’m not really asking you to make it all THAT nuanced. My main concern is that it’s actually good for a baby to be nursed by their sick mom haha 😅

Hi!

So far, as far as illnesses go, the baby feels sad because the person who was breastfeeding them feels bad and it made the milk taste a bit icky. I didn't add any positive effects like future immunity like I did for spellcasters but I also didn't add any real negative effects either. I might think about a trait that lets them have less chance of getting sick later because they built a good immune system as an infant.

I've been considering adding an optional add-on for sims who repeatedly breastfeed while using certain substances, including the in-game medicine. It wouldn't be that they'd be directly affected by the substance, but more like minor long term consequences. That might include things like nectar and some modded substances (including alcohol and other things from basemental). According to my research, many substances, including alcohol, will go into breastmilk for the first hour or so or longer in some cases, and I have no real way to distinguish between just ingested and it's been hours beyond the buff that's present.

That information comes from a variety of medical sources. I'd be interested in seeing sources that contradict that so I could make a more informed decision on what to do, if I choose to make that add-on.

[toastie-sim]

Mod management apps

Disclaimers: - This is going to be long. - This is all based on my own testing and my own personal opinions. - This is not to spread hate towards anyone. This is purely to add some information & context. Please do not go harass any mod management developers. - I am not an expert.

There's been an app going around recently that was marketed as a crashing & mod assistant. Other creators have raised concerns about it, but I held off on saying anything as I wanted to test it all on my own. This gets into my first point.

An application with a mac-compatible version made by someone who doesn't own a mac themselves and who had not tested it on any mac.

Mac computers are distinctly different than windows computers. They have their own UI, their own commands, their own applications, etc. I don't claim to be a mac-expert, but as someone who has had macs their entire life, I know that making something for a mac computer without actually having one to test is a recipe for disaster. Given that, I'd have to assume AI was used in some capacity to create the mac version and the mac instructions. I followed the instructions as they were written to install the app and get it up and running and I simply would not have been able to if I didn't have some technical knowledge of my own computer and how terminal commands work. If I were just someone looking to install this without much effort, I would've been disappointed and unsuccessful. The disappointing thing about this was that I personally offered to test any mac-related versions/instructions and/or give any mac-related advice before it was publicly released. My offer was not accepted.

The in-app user guide and the way this tool was marketed stated: "Reads your latest crash and exception logs and tells you what to try next."

This is misleading. This tool does not actually read the contents of these error files, or if it does, it does it in a way I was unable to uncover or does it incorrectly. Crash files cannot be read by anyone other than the game developers. There's been numerous attempts over the many years that the game has been around to decode them, but they've all been unsuccessful with how these files are written. Claiming that the tool can read these files is wrong and puts a false sense of "hope" in users expectations. Additionally, I couldn't get the app to even tell me that I had a crash file, probably because the app was looking for lastCrash_##.txt, when sometimes it's just lastCrash.txt. My game crashed, a crash file was created, yet the application told me there were no crash files created? The app's log said: Likely Cause: No clear mod reference found. lastCrash_*.txt Status: not found lastException_*.txt Status: not found lastUIException_*.txt Status: not found Bottom Line No recent crash or exception files were found. But this was what my "The Sims 4" folder showed:

When it comes to the exception log piece, I forced several sets of errors. At least one of them had a clear cause. I was unsuccessful in getting it to tell me anything other than "[the exception logs] were not clear enough to name one broken mod". There are already mods out there to help with error files. Better exceptions & MC Command Center both log exception files in a much easier to read fashion than the basic .txt file. I've already written a post about how to get help with error files on several discord servers, I really encourage people to use these servers as that's what they are here for! However, I can understand that people want to understand things for themselves or don't want to use discord or have had previously bad experiences. I'm happy to knowledge share anything/everything I know about error files as most, if not all of it has just been collecting information over time.

Finding the "problem" mod.

This does a sort of automated 50/50 but it doesn't do it in a way that is systematic. When I 50/50, I always start in a systematic way, for example, I start with just my custom content. My mods folder is incredibly organized, so I can easily pull out all mods and launch my game with just my custom content. I can also easily test mods in batches as each mod has its own folder. I highly suggest everyone organize their mods folder, it makes managing it exponentially easier! The app didn't do that, it was seemingly randomly pulling out folders of things and telling me to test. It didn't do anything to ensure that mods that have dependencies stayed together--which is a key part of correctly 50/50ing. The app was obsessed with quarantining .Ds_Store files as junk files. This goes back to my first point about having an understanding of mac computers. These files are automatically generated and are hidden on mac computers. The key piece being they are automatically generated. So whenever the app would move one out, a new one popped back up. I ended up in a never-ending cycle of 5050ing because it kept "quarantining" junk files. If I were really looking for the problem file, I would have had to manually 5050 anyway as the app wasn't actually helping me, in fact I got more confused because it kept moving out those hidden mac files.

Duplicate files

Part of the quarantine practice was to quarantine duplicate files. This is theoretically a good idea, except it quarantined both sets of duplicate files so you'd have to put one of them back anyway. The file names also have to be identical to be flagged as a duplicate. If you're looking to just get a list of duplicates, you can do that easily with MC Command Center by generating a system info log (Click on a sim choose MCCC > Sim Commands > Logging Commands > System Info Log) & looking at the full mod list. It'll tell you exactly what's a duplicate & where to find the file.

Clears the game cache

The app only deletes the localthumbcache.package file, which isn't the only cache file that you should delete. Cache files or sometimes referred to as L files are certain files that hold onto information that can mess up your game. Good rule of thumb is to delete your cache files any time you make any changes to your mods folder. I personally just delete them before I launch my game every single time, no matter if i have made changes or not. Cache files you should delete include, (if you want some more information about what these files actually include, review crin's breakdown!): Found in "The Sims 4" folder (*Files that can have _### at the end, for example LastException_1234556422.txt): - localthumbcache.package - avatarchache.package - localsimtexturecache.package - LastException.txt* - LastUIException.txt* - LastCleanException.txt* - BE-ExceptionReport.html (could also be BE-ExceptionReport-OLD.html) - lastCrash.txt* Found in your "Mods" folder, where your mc command center files are, if you use the mod: - mc_lastexception.html

Known mod repository

This was something that was hard-coded into the app and was a way for tagging & organizing mods. Unfortunately, it's pretty clear this list was made with AI as it includes items that simply don't exist and it includes a mod that is largely banned in the community--indicating a lack of fundamental understanding of the sims 4 community & "known" mods. The organization piece: - Relied on you organizing your mods in the exact same way that it was coded. - Looked for the folder name & not the actual files included. - For example, I put MCCC in a folder called MC Command Center. The app did not categorize it as MCCC. I changed the folder name to MCCC and put a random piece of hair cc into the folder and it flagged it as MCCC. I really don't see how that's helpful to anyone as yeah the folder is named MCCC but the folder contains something else completely.

The actual list piece: - One of the entries was: "label": "General Pie Menus", "creator": "TwistedMexi", "notes": "Support framework other mods may call into." this doesn't exist. TwistedMexi doesn't have any general pie menus, perhaps this meant to refer to adeepindigo's general pie menu that is required for several of her mods? Or maybe this meant to refer to Smarter Pie Menu by TwistedMexi but then it's not a support framework that other mods may call into. - Another entry was: "label": "S4CL (Sims 4 Community Library)", "creator": "ColonolNutty", "notes": "Shared library used by many script mods." I'm not going to get into the whole history of this mod & this creator, you're free to read about it here (TW). However, this mod is fairly well-known to be banned and "Shared library used by many script mods" is a gross overstatement.

Good developer practices

From any application/tool out there, not related to The Sims 4, I expect the developer to know the tool inside and out, have rigorous testing, fully documented the product, and able to answer publicly any/all questions. The developer of this tool had good intentions, however, there was a lack of testing, documentation, and transparency. I tried my hardest to be nice, supportive & ask probing questions. I offered my own support & advice, encouraged setting up FAQs & discord server for help, working with mod creators & sim support people, and getting a better/deeper/fundamental understanding of our community. I'm all for new people coming into the community, but I really encourage anyone/everyone to be receptive & understanding of the community.

Final thoughts

All in all, manually managing your mods folder is your best practice. There are helpful tools out there, but no tool is perfect and the better you know your own mods folder the better off you'll be. Need to know how to organize your mods folder? Check out this guide. Want to use some sort of tool to help wrangle your mods folder? Check out plumbuddy. Need to know what mods are out of date? Use scarlet's realm! Want help with an error? Come see me on sims after dark ;) or any other support server. Don't want to talk to a person but want help? Check out lot51's bot 51 Want an interactive 50/50 guide? Here you go

If you've downloaded the sul sul saver app, I'd suggest you delete it as the developer has decided not to move forward with this project.