╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ hi, i'm lilo! i'm 26 and i've been playing since sims 2 came out (well, my sisters played and i annoyingly watched). i've had this tumblr as a cc finds blog for ages, but i started posting a uberhood, so check that out if you'd like!
What do I do when I'm back in game? I close it down and mod it! High time I released some of my stash.
Made with all packs in mind. If you don't own Mansions or Apartment Life, these hacks may or may not work well for you.
If these mods conflict with some other mods you have, change load order or toss them. I do not promise to make compatibility patches, but reports are always welcome 🌺
Put In Crib Menu For Carried Kid
Adds a 'Put This_Kid in Crib' option when a sim is carrying one and when there are multiple babies or toddlers around. The usual 'Put in Crib...' with a selection of kids' names is also there. See, I had a problem with twins: not being able to tell which is which when I wanted to put in crib the one already in sim's hands.
- @differentwolf137 provides his version comaptible with Simler90's BabyToddlerMod (it may probably be used without Simler90's mod as well)
Yet Another Apartment Nanny Controller Fix
I've had this Becks fix for a while, but it couldn't keep *all* the errors at bay, possibly because I've been also using 'ask to watch kids' on non-apartment lots. I found two more error causes and fixed them here. Becks fix is not included.
Fixed SimWardrobe's Employee Digging Controller
I used to have it error out after some time and had to re-buy and re-assign it almost every sim day. Had enough of that dance and fixed it!
Homework Help: Ask Visitors or Friends & Relatives
Normally, a kid can only ask household members to help with homework. But what if they have a smart uncle, can't they ask them when they visit? Choose one version: either all visitors, or only relatives and friends can be asked.
- Conflicts with Cyjon's Help Homework Owner, try loading my mod after his, to keep my feature and the owner's name part of his
Homework Help: No Drop From Queue
Chasing people around the lot to ask for their help only for them to ignore you and for the interaction to drop out. No more of that!
May also fix other interactions that call 'Teach - Init' global.
Had already been done by none other than Cyjon
Balloons Live Longer
Party balloons will wait for more hours before they start popping. Because I sometimes predecorate for sims' parties, and seeing half the balloons dead before the guests arrive is just. no.
Restockable Photos & Price Fix
If you set for sale a print of a photo made by sim's personal camera or a photo from the Artist career reward in an owned business, and if someone bought that photo, you'd now be able to restock it and sell again, and again. Also, selling price of a Uni camera photo is fixed now. Yay, photographers
Less Complaining & Only When Open (Edited Cyjon's Hack)
In home businesses, I was annoyed by family guests complaining outside of business hours, acting like customers during parties and social visits, but I didn't want to remove complaining altogether. So I took CJ's mod and added a check for if the shop is open. The result: visitors complain less in general and don't complain at all if the business is closed.
Uni Home Business
Allows you to start a home business in university sub-hood. Convenience of doing it after it's started is not guaranteed (but it's fine).
Death Removes Going Steady
I've had 2 issues that I didn't know were related: Grim Reaper sometimes errored out in the middle of his business and some sims thought they were still going steady with their dead boyfriends and girlfriends. When I made this lil' mod for the latter issue, I realized that Adults Go Steady mod already tried to do that, but it had a mistake in it, causing Grimmy to reset and not remove the 'go steady' flags from sims' relationships. If you have it, make my DeathRemovesGoingSteady load after it.
- Conflicts with Postmortem rel flags by Midge, and Midge's mod also removes that relationship flag, see which one suits you better
Death Memory Given To Best Friends, Lovers & Household
I noticed that only relatives and witnesses get a memory of sim's death, and it sucks that sim's best friends and household members may not even acknowledge their death if they didn't happen to be there. Now Grim additionally gives death memories to sims who have these types of relationships to the dead sim: love (red heart), best friend, going steady, engaged, married, enemy (optional), same family/household, relative -- but only if they have met. Color* and strength of the memory varies, i.e. relative who hated them will get a green* 'oh well' memory.
* Green memories for low rel are only available with No Corrupted Death installed
- Choose one version: either BestFriendsLoversHousehold, or BestFriendsLoversHouseholdEnemies. The latter requires nocorruptdeath to get green memories, included in the zip
No Memory Distribution To Unmet Relatives
Your sim will not get the memory of their distant nephew getting a A+ if they've never met. I didn't like when toddlers' early memories got clogged up by an array of 'grew up well' etc. about relatives they haven't seen yet. But I didn't want to suppress these types of memories completely, so I filtered them by having met the person in question. My solution is not perfect: sometimes sims that have met are not important to each other story wise, but it's tricky to assess significance (0/0 relationships do not always mean sims are strangers).
- Pescado's No Telepathy looks like an extended version of this, choose one
Teddy Talk For Kids, Or Playful & Toy Interested
Who doesn't love it when grown sims pester other grown sims with teddy bear talk? Me, but I didn't want to ban it outright, so I made the autonomy consider sim's playfulness and interest in toys. Restrictions are looser for adult-to-child interactions.
Toy Robot Is For Playful & Interested In Toys
Sorry for the long names, trying to make them descriptive! Tweaked toy robot's autonomy to not attract teens and older sims unless they are playful and very interested in toys, or somewhat interested in toys and very interested in sci-fi at the same time.
Toy Robot Breaks Less
Made toy robots break less often.
Servo Robots Less Run Amok
They just did it too often. As soon as their mood got a bit below the equator it was all hell. Now it's far harder for them to break.
Apology More Effective
Bigger relationship bump after apologizing.
- Conflicts with CJ's Soothing Apology that edits the same BCON, but only affects furiousness, choose one.
- CJ-ApologyFuryFix can be used with this mod (and recommended)
Teens Can Work At Cafeteria Stove
Enabled 'Work In Cafeteria' interaction on that Uni cooktop for teen sims, in case you're using it not only in dorms like I do.
Owned Car Gives More Energy
Trying to motivate myself to use cars more often, I thought I'd choose to drive over 'walk to lot' action if it gave my sim some energy boost, since it's the motive that usually suffers badly when sims go out. So that's what I added: more energy for driving somewhere in a car.
Hobby: Talk, Read, Browse Unlocked To Predestined + Browsing Allowed On Community Lots
Normally, talking about hobby, reading a hobby section in a newspaper and browsing about hobby on a computer aren't available until a certain point of enthusiasm has been reached. I allowed these actions for sims in their predestined hobbies regardless of enthusiasm level. Also, made it possible to browse on community lots.
- If you use Simler90's Electronics Mod, get differentwolf's patch and make it load after both mods
Game Competition More Attractive
Computer game competitions (or LAN parties) made a bit more attractive for sims to start autonomously.
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💖 Download from SFS folder
Some testing pictures under the cut while I drop the files
These are some 2-in-1 cribs, found in kids section of buy mode as toddler beds convertible to cribs (and back)
What's new from the last time -- I improved getting in and out of inaccessible beds, and disallowed putting babies in toddler beds
Not new objects, but edited. I kept toddler beds GUIDs, so you'd have to replace original *toddler beds* with these if you have them
Custom *cribs* are not required, but they won't conflict if you keep them. In-game cribs are not affected
Anes bed by Gayle and Anne, edited by me, requires IKEA
Hemnes bed by Klaartje and Nathieke requires IKEA
Sleigh bed by Fractured Moonlight, crib edited by Tvickie, using this morph fix by Menaceman44 and this cep-extra by Klaartje, requires FreeTime
Cheap bed by EarthGoddess54 and Nathieke, put together by Tvickie and me, using this mapping fix by fway, is BG, doesn't require anything
If your game was saved with toddlers in beds when you installed these edited versions, they may reset/jump out of them at first (I moved BHAVs around, sorry about that)
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Credit to Rebecah for the original toddler bed code that I added upon
Special thanks to @nathieke for extensive testing and feedback and @tvickiesims for help with cloning and fixing maxis cribs
Incorporated edits from my Put In Crib Menu For Carried Kid and Simler90's edits from Baby Toddler Mod
Fixed an issue that when there is an (empty) open and a closed crib on the lot, nanny can´t put a baby in a crib sometimes
Fixed another one that when you cancel interaction mid way a kid would still get into bed if they're close to it (the result of me implementing a way for them to use inaccessible/blocked beds)
And one more where sims couldn´t put a toddler in a closed (baby) crib, this happened on lots with an open crib and a closed crib available at the same time
Big thanks to my crib modding buddy @nathieke for the help in identifying those issues and testing the fixes!
This is a UI mod that makes selection dialog wider and higher and fit more items. You see this window when you buy magazines or video games on unowned community lots, or set up bed decorations with my Unmade Bed mod, or use other modded objects that may have been released or are going to be released soon 😏
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Special thanks to @lordcrumps for making maxis and clean ui pics and counting pixels with me. It was his and @simnopke's idea to make this thing bigger
Some behind the scenes under the cut
Stage 1, breaking out of the tiny window
Stage 2, figuring out how to mod UI again
Stage 3, going big! But not quite there yet
Stage 4, "should I move it 1 more pixel to the left"
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Secret bonus version for behind the scenes viewers who think that smaller is better, available exclusively and only in starship colors (you can only have one version)
3t2 foosball tables made functional
I made these two meshes converted by @veranka-downloads into functional objects, based on the Hotshot Foosball table by @jacky93sims. Grab the invisible pinball machine from her upload to have Sims playing on both sides of the table!
DOWNLOAD (SFS)
All original recolors are bundled with the meshes. I re-used Veranka's GUIDs, so you can't have both versions at the same time. I also lowered the price from a whopping §6000+ to a more reasonable §800 in line with Maxi's entertainment items.
4t2 Sweet Sweater mesh edit and default
I thought this sweater converted by @mdpthatsme would be perfect to replace the basegame vnecklongsleeve top! I ended up making 11 recolors based on @serabiet's beautiful retexture, and made a new fat morph because I like to stare at boobs for hours to remove the sharp creases and "vacuum packed" effect in the chest area, making it more consistent with the thin morph.
I made it into a default for aftopvnecklongsleeve, and used @deedee-sims' TF conversion to replace tftopvnecklongsleeve. I included completer recolors for TF so that teens get all the adult options.
DOWNLOAD vnecklongsleeve default
(AF and TF merged in one file)
You can also get the mesh edit and recolors as a non-default version:
DOWNLOAD mesh edit and custom recolors
(for TF, chose between standalone or texture-referenced to AF files!)
I made a default for aftoptshirt and tftoptshirt using @mdpthatsme's 4t2 TeeTucked conversion, with some of the original textures and recolors by Dare2DV8.
The same way I did for this sweater (wait that was a year ago??), I edited the AF and TF fat morphs to smoothen the chest area (Dina in the preview above models the "fat" version)
You get a total of 22 recolors for both ages. That's a lot, but I like having a decent choice of colors for a basic versatile tee, and there's some graphic/tie&dye options as well! I also made a repo'd completer for EF, it shows up decustomized in the catalog.
DOWNLOAD tshirt default
(TF and AF merged in one file)
DOWNLOAD EF completer
(default required)
Outdoor Gym set | Fitness trail and exercise bike
Popping in for another long-due upload!
This is a mini set of outdoor gym equipment, including a fitness trail cloned from the obstacle course career reward, and an exercise bike. Both use the AL monkey bar textures, and I made 4 custom recolors.
More details and download at MTS
or SFS
(personal rambling under the cut)
I'm still trying to keep up with the community and lurking around here but it's been more difficult to play and make progress on my projects lately, juggling between work, my computer showing signs of age, and personal life in general being pretty rough lately... I'm planning to switch to Linux on my laptop in hopes of (among other reasons) prolonging its life by a few more years but I'm stuck on installation problems. And in the longer run I need to prepare to buy a new computer anyway, pretty daunting task tbh.
Anyway, I have other stuff in the works that I hope to share before the end of the year at least!
Sul sul! Here is another default replacement for afhairbarrett_greyclip using @rascalcurious' 4t2 Conversion of sehablasimlish' Loaiza Hair. The polycount is the same as the original (10.7k, animated). Available for adults and elders only. Requires The Sims 2: Apartment Life.
I really like these TS4 pajamas, so I was super excited when they were converted by @lucilla-sims
well, long story short, I lost my mind and there are 52 recolours of these pajamas here.
nobody needs this many recolours of anything but here we are anyway??
patterns? spoonflower
coziness? a billion
sanity? non-existant
