While setting up my Stardew Valley save, I wanted to find out if it was possible to create community lots that have live-in residents, given that many of the town buisnesses also function as NPC homes in Stardew
Turns out it is possible to do - it uses an NRAAS feature I never knew existed, so I thought I'd give a tutorial! (ty to the NRAAS forums & MTS help threads for this information! - I've just compiled it to help others :D)
Essentially, this means you can create functional pubs / bars / shops / restaurants etc. which your sims can actually live in while running the business, and other non-playable town residents will view the lot as a community lot and come to visit / interact with it as such!
Also, as I've got a few of these NRAAS tutorials going now, I made a page where you can find all of them linked here - I'm open to requests as well :)
Tutorial under the cut β¬οΈ
Mods you will need:
NRAAS MasterController & MasterController Cheats
NRAAS Register (only for Part 2)
EDIT TO ADD: I recommend using a business mod such as Ani's Merchant Mod to allow your sim to earn money from their business in addition to this tutorial - you may find this much better for current-household gameplay, because your sim will not earn funds from their business when you're only using the NRAAS method detailed here (apart from mixology tips etc.)
Part 1: Adding sims as residents
Start by building / placing your business of choice using Edit Town, and pick what kind of community lot you want it to be through the 'change lot type' menu
Plop down the sims you want to live there on a different residential lot in town (this is temporary housing, it doesn't matter where / what it is)
For this tutorial, I'm going to be using The Adventurer's Guild dive bar as an example, & I want my two sims to live there: Marlon & Gil - Marlon will be tending the bar and Gil will just be living on the lot without any specific role
Your business doesn't have to be a bar, I'm just using that for the purposes of this tutorial - You can add residents to any community lot type, someone on the NRAAS forums even suggested adding 'homeless' sims as residents of community parks which would be fun for a rags-to-riches challenge! - other examples include: a bakery, personal training gym, savvy sellers shop, a nectary etc. etc.
Now everything is placed, you need to alter some settings over in the NRAAS MasterController main menu to set things up
Click on a computer or city hall to bring up the NRAAS MC Menu:
NRAAS -> MasterController -> Settings
'Allow Add Sim on Community Lots' is set to false by default, click on it -> change it to true
Click the checkmark & exit out of the NRAAS MC Menu
Go back to your community lot, click on the building and bring up:
NRAAS -> MasterController
At the top of this menu, there should now be an option to 'Add Sim' (as there usually only is on residential lots)
Click 'Add Sim' and then you can either filter by sim type OR just click 'Test Full Family' to find your sims on a list of all the townies - once you've found them, select their portraits and press the checkmark to exit the menu
I recommend resetting the sims & the lot once you've done this, your sims should now be residents of the community lot of your choice! You can keep them as the active household (although I haven't playtested this) or just have them as non-active families who are meant to own businesses around town
Part 2: Giving sims Functional Roles
I'd like to go one step further and have Marlon be the functional bartender for this lot, for this part you will need NRAAS Register (linked above)
There are two ways to do this:
1. If it is within working hours (for my dive that's 11AM - 3AM, you can check your lot's hours in map view), click on the bar object (or whatever role object you want, such as the industrial oven / cash register etc.) and choose
NRAAS -> Register -> Select
This will bring up the same sim selection menu as before, just choose your sim out of the list
They'll now be the functional bartender / role sim for that object!
However, this menu may not show up for various reasons, the main one being if it's not within working hours for the lot - there's another way to assign your sim if that is the case:
2. Go through the main NRAAS Register menu - click on City Hall or a computer to bring it up
NRAAS -> Register -> Find Empty Roles
As long as you haven't pressed play on the game since you placed your community lot, it will not have anyone assigned to the object yet, and it will show up under this menu as an empty role you can fill with your sim (through the sim selection menu again)
If the object does already have a sim assigned to it, you need to find whoever the sim is and remove them from that role:
I suggest just waiting until it is working hours & the sim shows up for work, then click on them & choose
NRAAS -> MasterController -> Intermediate -> Remove Role
You need MasterController cheats for this 'Intermediate' menu to show up!
This should then free up the object for you to add your sim to it through either of the previous methods - KEEP YOUR GAME PAUSED while you do this so no one else gets assigned to it before you're able to assign your own sim!
And that's everything!
Have fun with your functional residential businesses - as always if you have any further questions leave a comment or send me an ask and I will try and help π₯°π₯°
Big thanks again to the NRAAS Forums & MTS Threads for this info, I'm just compiling what I found online as I had no idea this was a feature and figured it might be useful for others to know too!
What started as a fun li'l experiment naturally turned into a multi-hour adventure. And so I bring you this build generator! There are three separate generators you can play with on this page:
Random Exterior: comes with lot size, budget, number of rooms, architectural style, color palette, and extras like basement, attic, and one room size.
Random Interior: comes with room type, decor style, room size, budget, and color palette.
A cursed build/buy generator: challenge mode with many things you'll just have to look and see~ Or just look at the picture above. I'd suggest velocitygrass's Add Any Lot Size mod for this one.
I wake up, my debt is all paid off, my bank account is full, my relationships with my family are healthy, and Iβm able to travel anywhere in the world.
I wake up and roll over in bed to snuggle up to him. He smiles still half asleep and says "sleepy. Ten more minutes of cuddles." He wraps his arms around me and kisses my forehead before he drifts back to sleep. I get up out of bed and do the first thing I always do in the morning, take our two dogs out to go potty. When he finally wakes up, walking out to the kitchen where I have breakfast cooking, he smiles and hugs me from behind. Life is good, we are healthy and sober. His autoimmune disease is barely an issue and we have just paid off my loans. We both have jobs, that pay well. My once estranged parents and sisters, have made amends with me and our relationship is back to normal. Our small townhouse with a small yard will be paid off soon, and the upcoming summer is when we will get married. We are the happiest we have ever been.
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Rosewood Park was founded in 1879, in the Victorian era, as a getaway for the rich when the city pollution robbed their lungs of air. Grand Victorians constructed and lavish parties were hosted. During the first world war, it was a haven for those trying to escape the endless drone of the alarms and the destruction. With some distance from the mainland, it was barely attacked and houses an eclectic mix of people all with the same goal, of finding security. During the second world war, its hidden location but proximity to the mainland turned it into a hotspot for weapons factories. The docks were expanded to allow boats to transport the wares and neighborhoods were quickly established to house the factory workers. Only few of the old Victorians are still standing today, integrated into the varying communities that surround the docks. Since the last war, Rosewood Park has become calm, the bustling population long gone, left with a few settled families and a slow, peaceful life. Although in need of some repair, this town hosts everything needed to live surrounded by the beautiful Rosewood Mountains and a quiet lull.
WORLD DETAILS:
Small map
Around 60 residential lots with no interiors but finished exteriors
Around 20 community lots with most rabbit holes
A lot of CC (all included)
This world has its own lighting mod, so please remove any lighting mod you use or download the lighting mod if you want it for other worlds, its a realistic one!
Theoretically needs most EPs, however most of the necessary EP CC can be cloned and made BG compatible and much of it has already been done and is included in the Rockwood Island download here.
KNOWN ISSUES:
Please read the README:Β As this world is a Beta and I made it mainly for me, so if you have issues please tell me but I am not planning on fixing small things unless they really mess up. I am not really active anymore and this is just being uploaded because people asked :)
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Thanks to all my testers @simsoddball @mspoodle1 @nonsimsical and all the others, and a special thanks to@mspoodle1 for all the community lots, you are awesome <3
Y'all this was my first EVER house I uploaded on The Sims 3 exchange back in 2013! It's only gotten 72 downloads, which is nothing compared to some but hey i'll take it!
I only just now figured out how to share it here via simfileshare sooooo if you'd like this in your game you can download it here http://www.simfileshare.net/download/2857047/
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The Palms at Sunset Estate
Located at 15 Summer Hill Court in Sunset Valley
Lot is 50x50
5 bedrooms & 5 Bathrooms
2 car garage
Gated estate
In ground swimming pool
Library with secret passageway
Beautifully landscaped
CC included
Extra info: this was made from scratch using no blueprints, I literally winged this completely so go easy on me. This is by no means a followers gift, (I'll get around to that later) but more or so a free download if you would like it. I will give credit where it's due once I track down who the CC used came from.
Wisteria Cove, by @simsenrose is absolutely gorgeous! It's an empty world that is worth checking out. I've been busy building community lots from scratch, now that I have a gaming rig powerful enough to handle Cyberpunk 2077 on high settings :D
For now, enjoy this beautiful screenshot I took at night.
an idyllic little island off the coast of the uk, wisteria cove is renowned for itβs beauty, and itβs preservation of itβs small town ways of life.
this is a small - medium size world, meant to have french / uk inspirations, as well as being inspired by the cottagecore aesthetic. i wanted this world to have something pretty everywhere you look, so i tried to add in as much scenic detail as possible! this is the first world iβve ever actually made and finished, so iβm really happy to share it with everyone β‘
iβve play tested it myself and had a few friends play test it without any known major issues, but as this is my first world iβm sure some will crop up. this world also does not contain any premade lots, since i donβt know how to make them without heavily relying on cc. i do have a personal map of where i intended each community lot to be, but i also wonβt be sharing that as iβd love to see you guys make this whatever youβd like! most of the lots are small aside from the ones that are on the right side of the island, where some of the larger lots reside. thereβs also an area for tiny houses / container homes!Β
thank you to ats3 & gruesim for their converted ts4 caw objects, which really made this world shine β‘
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