Awakening of the Dragons – The skies have begun to stir...
🟢 EARLY ACCESS LAUNCH – v1.0 🐉
Witness the first signs of the return of dragons in your medieval Sims 3 worlds. In this early version (v1.0), dragons will appear flying across the skies in the distance, randomly soaring above your lands, bringing an eerie and powerful presence to the game.
⚠️ Please note:
This version is still in testing phase. Dragons do not land yet — they are currently distant figures, adding atmospheric depth to your world. But fear not...
Over the coming weeks, they'll grow bolder, louder, and eventually begin to descend. 👀🔥
✨ Want to help bring this mod to life?
Support me on Patreon to get access and help me test this long-awaited project!
🛠️ How to add dragons to your game (for now):
Enter Build/Buy mode
Press Ctrl + Shift + C, then type: buydebug
Locate the Fog Emitter in the debug menu
With Shift held, click to place it
In the search, type "dragons"
While your lot is loaded, you'll see them soaring in the distance
World Used:
Lord Of The Rings Middle-Earth – @sims3medieval no Tumblr
This is just the beginning.
👉 Join the Early Access now and be part of the awakening.
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I've wanted kayaks in game ever since I started working on Tørsvall, and when TS4 included it with Adventure Awaits, I could finally make it happen! (I'm definitely not an animator lol)
This is a new boat type for a single sim. It's fully functional with custom converted animations. It currently has no fishing interactions, but I'll probably convert those animations and include them in the future. There's an adult and smaller child version.
KNOWN ISSUES
» The "Boat Here With" interaction on the kayak object is still there, despite specifically removing it in the code... when you click it, the sim will end up using the water taxi or another multi-occcupancy boat.
» Idle/Paddling animations continue for a few seconds before transitioning to the next state.
» The transparency on the adult kayak looks kinda bad, but I can't seem to make it look better, sorry!
The Sims 3 Living World Overhaul Mod
(Sample part 1)
It has been a minute since my last update, but I have a massive reason for the silence. I have been deep in the game's core files building a new mod that completely overhauls The Sims 3.
I initially started out just combining all of Simler90's fixes for the current game update. However, after hours of tinkering, it evolved into a massive project to make the game run flawlessly and feel incredibly alive.
In this preview video, you can see an alien autonomously deciding to invade a community lot. You will also notice firefighters acting much more dynamically, wearing various outfits and dealing with fires that can now start directly on windows.
My goal is to give you a mod that significantly improves game performance while making the world completely autonomous. We are talking optimized neighbor AI, fully overhauled routing to eliminate lag, and unlocked interactions that create spontaneous scenarios throughout your town.
This is just Part 1 of what I will be showcasing. Here is a taste of what is coming:
Bachelor party dancers autonomously showing up at the club your Sim is visiting.
Thieves actively robbing neighbor houses, complete with actual police responses.
Neighbors, children, and teenagers are also pursued by the police if they are out on the street too late after curfew.
Neighbors hire cleaning ladies and butlers to clean their dirty houses.
Fires breaking out organically anywhere in the world + fire at the window, and new animations of the NPC firefighter putting out the fire at the window..
Autonomous Ghost Hunter scenarios.
AND MANY MANY MANY MORE
Basically, imagine an optimized NRaas Story Progression mixed with Simler90's core optimizations and complete route and lag fixes, all packed into one single mod.
I've been playing in the recently released Exchange world "Crimson Cliffs Inhabited" for a few days now. It's a large island, sparsely vegetated, but it comes with a good handful of interesting households. Each household has its own description, and some of them are really intriguing and spark the imagination :) Currently, I'm not playing any stories there, but rather visiting the households one by one, editing the Sims in Create-a-Sim, and seeing what happens. Here I was with the Pike family at a fishing spot and was once again very surprised when the GetWild mod by @mathmodder made a few animals appear in the world. And there were quite a few! I'd never seen so many in one place before. ^^ It's definitely worth taking a closer look at the households, visiting them, and letting your imagination run wild. Even if the world doesn't seem particularly attractive or interesting at first glance, these different households and their realationships/stories more than make up for it. :)
Thank you so much for the kind words and for sharing your experience! It’s awesome to see the mod bringing so much life (and so many animals) to your game, especially in such an intriguing setting.
Just a heads-up for everyone: we have an update coming for the GetWild mod tomorrow! 🐾
Stay tuned, keep letting your imagination run wild, and enjoy the new surprises coming your way!
With DXVK and S3SS living their high days, older Sims 3 installment guides are rapidly starting to become outdated. So here's a brand new and up-to-date step-by-step guide to go through when you do a fresh install of your game that will help you get the best performance you could possibly imagine for this old and laggy gem of a game.
Have Sims 3 installed, but is it performing abhorrently? I highly recommend a fresh install. You don't have to delete your saves or mods. Just get yourself a fresh bin to work with by uninstalling, going into your program files The Sims 3 folder and deleting any remnant files still in there. Then follow my guide!
All of the steps to follow are below the line ->
Step 1: install your game through your respected platform.
Just follow the regular steps and install the game without adding any other stuff yet whatsoever.
(I personally have a legit copy of the Sims 3 on Steam. If you use another app and have any questions, I'll probably not be able to help you.)
Step 2: run the game once through the official launcher. Once you get to the main menu, you can quit again.
It is very important you run your game through the original launcher at least once after installing it. Not doing so can cause problems with programs like CC magic. You only need to do it the first time. After that, we'll be skipping the launcher entirely.
Step 3: Create a short cut of TS3W.exe on your desktop.
You'll be skipping the launcher from now on. This helps with performance and it starts up your game much faster. It is also important to do this because of DXVK.
You can find TS3W.exe in your bin folder. For me (Steam version) it's in this location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin
Right click TS3W.exe, click 'show more options' and choose 'create a shortcut'. Place this shortcut on your desktop and Run Sims 3 from there from now on.
Step 4: Run the GPU Add-on Support patcher
You can find this patcher here. It is essential to run this because Sims will otherwise not recognize your graphics card unless it's over 10 years old. This patcher helps to get your GPU recognized.
The patcher will create a new Graphicsrules.sgr and new Graphicscards.sgr for you in your bin folder. After installing this, you can move the ones that have _old behind them somewhere else (or delete them).
P.S.: if you pirate your game you'll have to do this manually, there's guides online for it but since I have a legit copy I can't help you here.
Step 5: Install DXVK
Make sure you follow this guide by Nornite and do every single step. Don't skip anything!
I'd say DXVK is pretty essential nowadays, especially if you have a modern graphics card with 6GB of VRAM or higher. It'll greatly help to keep your game stable and can prevent a lot of crashes. The way Dxvk works, is that it loads textures through your VRAM instead of your RAM. Especially when you use a lot of CC or HD textures, this will make a huge difference for your RAM usage. Sims 3 can only use 4GB of RAM at once and will start crashing once you hit the 3GB mark in your task manager. With DXVK, you will use a lot less RAM and it'll take much longer for your game to reach this hard cap.
When not to install DXVK: if you have a shitty GPU (like an integrated graphics card on a laptop, or one with 4GB of VRAM or less).
Step 5: Start up the game
Use your new desktop shortcut that also has 'run as administrator' permissions now if you followed the DXVK guide properly.
Step 6: set up all your settings through the ingame options menu
The best graphics settings for you will highly depend on what computer you're using. But there are some things you should always turn off because they negatively affect performance. I will share my (relevant) settings with you (I use a custom UI so your screen style will look a little different from mine). Click on the images to enlarge them so you can read them:
Things of note about these settings:
I recommend you play in windowed mode, especially if you plan to use ReShade. Playing fullscreen is possible, but it does make Reshade presets behave differently in your game. I will include a step in this guide that you can follow to play windowed borderless. So, when you plan to do this: make sure you set the resolution to your display resolution.
Enable object hiding helps with performance. Advanced rendering is essential because otherwise your game looks like absolute shit.
Set your High Detail Lots to any value between 2 and 4. Don't go lower or higher, because you'll get rendering issues that lag out your game.
All other graphics settings can be set to your heart's desire. I'd say start with the highest settings and only go down if you notice your frames per second are bad.
Disable shop mode and lessons and fully disable memories or use this mod to severly limit them. Disable interactive loading screens as well. These are all performance eaters. Interactive loading screen also causes crashes. Memories also don't do anything for your sim, it's just a scrap book with no in-game effects.
Disable any online mode feature. This also lags out your game. Unless you really want to use these features it's best to just play fully offline.
Save your settings, close the game again.
Step 7: Install Sims 3 Settings Setter
This is the most recent magic genie that Sims 3 was blessed with. Especially combined with DXVK it is a life changer. Installing it is simple. You download the most recent version here and drop the .asi file in your bin. Also grab 'wininet.dll' from here and drop that one in your bin too.
Start up your game and load up a save. Once you're inside your save, you press 'insert' to open up the menu for Sims 3 Settings Setter. Go to the 'patches' tab and enable what you like. These are my enabled patches and they all work really well for me, but feel free to experiment with them to find your own performance sweet spot:
Only enable uncompressed textures if you have a GPU with at least 8gb of VRAM. My game will use over 6gb of VRAM easily with this enabled, so you've been warned.
Once you have everything you desire enabled, press 'file' in the top left corner and click 'save settings'.
Step 7.5: if you're playing windowed mode: go into the Other/QoL tab and enable 'Borderless Window'. Set it to 'Full Screen'.
Save your settings and close your game again. No need to save the game you entered for this unless you want to.
Step 8: Install Nraas Errortrap, MasterController and Overwatch
These 3 mods by Nraas are pretty much essential to keep your game from breaking down in the long run. You can download the mods here. Have you never installed a mod for Sims 3 before? Here's a guide (skip the part about Sims3pack and go straight to the part where it explains how to install .package mods).
That's it! You can now play The Sims 3 and it'll be as smooth and stable as it'll ever be. From here on, you can stock your game with more mods and CC (check out my mods masterlist!), or you can install Reshade (here's a guide).
Some important things to keep in mind while playing:
Clean up your game regularly. You can easily do this by using Regul Save Cleaner.
When you install a new mod or update/change Sims 3 Settings Setter, always restart and clear your caches.
Use CC Magic for installing CC, because it merges your files and this really helps with performance. Here's a handy guide on how to use it. Don't put your script mods in here, just your CC.
If you plan to travel to vacation destinations in the EP World Adventures, Nraas Traveler is a must to prevent most of the bugs and crashes that happen in this expansion.
Always keep in mind: mods and corrupt CC can still break your game, make it laggy or unplayable. Always be mindful of the mods you add, so you can always trace any issues you're having back to the mod causing it. I highly recommend not downloading a ton of mods in one session, but adding them step by step and see what they do to your games performance.
Use 'Reset the entire town' from Nraas MasterController at least every other sim week. It'll help clear up any lag that happens because of NPC sims getting themselves stuck routing or annoying stuff like that.
Got a slow CAS? Use Nraas MasterController Compact mode! (Make sure you have the Nraas MasterController Integration module installed).
Navigate to NRaas > MasterController > Settings > CAS.
Set the following to True:
Show in Compact Form: Accessories
Show in Compact Form: Clothing
Show in Compact Form: Hats
HAPPY NEW YEAR and Bring Your Horizons to Life! Introducing the "Busy Skies" Mod for The Sims 3
Get more from Math Modder on Patreon
Say goodbye to empty, static skies! I’m thrilled to release the Busy Skies mod, an overhaul that breathes new life into the horizons of your Sims 3 worlds.
This mod replaces the standard, rare hot air balloons with a bustling array of aerial traffic, making your cities feel like living, breathing metropolises and your towns feel more connected to the world.
It's available for those who support on Patreon, and will be available to everyone on Saturday!
✨ Key Features:
Fill the Skies: Adds a dynamic mix of helicopters, airplanes, and commercial blimps flying across the horizon.
Color Variety: Aircraft come in diverse color variations to keep the scenery fresh.
Nighttime Immersion: The mod truly shines when the sun goes down!
🚁 Helicopters will turn on active spotlights, illuminating the ground beneath them as they fly by.
🏙️ Blimps feature flashy, bright animated lights, perfect for a Bridgeport night.
⚙️ How It Works & Requirements:
This mod utilizes the game's native "Hot Air Balloon" effect slot.
Automatic: It works immediately in any world that already has this effect active (e.g., Sunset Valley, Bridgeport, and many popular custom worlds).
Manual Fix (If your world has empty skies): If you don't see the traffic, your world likely lacks the effect generator. You can easily add it yourself!
Open the cheat console (Ctrl+Shift+C) and type: buydebug on
In Build/Buy mode (sorted by function), go to the debug section ("?") and find the "Fog Emitter" object.
Place the emitter anywhere on a lot.
Shift-Click the emitter and set the visual effect to: hotairballoon
📂 Installation Guide (Important!)
This mod comes in three parts to ensure everything works correctly. Please ensure your resource.cfg is set up to read from an "Overrides" folder.
Into your Mods/Packages folder:
Place Busy Skies - Blimp and Hot Air Balloon (Math Mod).package
Place Busy Skies - Helicopters and Planes (Math Mod).package
Into your Mods/Overrides folder:
Place Busy Skies Override File (Math Mod).package (This is crucial for the mod to take priority).
Brother. I love your get wild and ocean life mod it really looks so fantastic. I already installed it for like one week now but It seem like any animal does not spawn in the world or any world. I place the files correctly with your mod instructions override flie to override folder and package to package folder. I wonder why? Or because my game is a 1.67 version? Please clarify me brother I really want to play your mod so badly. Thank you for reading this and sorry for my english 😂
Relax! I don't think it's a version compatibility issue; perhaps your world doesn't have enough insect spawners. Try placing 20 random insect spawners on a lot to see if they appear in 24 hours in game. If they don't, send me a screenshot of the mods and override folders so I can take a look. Anyway, I'll be posting a new update for this mod soon that improves the spawn method and includes new features.
Did you know there's a stingray hidden in The Sims 3 files? 👀
While digging through the game code, I found out that The Sims 3 actually has a stingray model — but it's completely unused and hidden! 🐠 Sooo... I'm working on a mod that brings it to life.
This mod will unlock marine animals to appear on beaches, acting both as an addon to "Get Wild & Ocean Life Mod" and as a standalone version if you prefer to keep things lightweight.
If you want to support my work and help me keep making cool mods and discoveries like this, consider becoming a patron 💖
👉 patreon.com/MathModder
I'm excited to share a brand-new update for GetWildMOD & OceanLifeMOD! This update brings several improvements and new features to make your game even more immersive.
What's New:
Nanite Addon: Added an optional addon that allows nanites from Into the Future to spawn animals as well!
Spawn Fixes: Resolved an issue where too many green goldfinches were spawning.
New Animations: Enhanced animal movements for a more dynamic experience.
Easter Eggs: Added hidden surprises for players to discover!
Spawner Optimization: Improved efficiency for better performance and reduced lag.
How to Install:
Main Files:
Place the file "GetWildMod & OceanLifeMod Override Folder (Math Mod)" in the Mods/Overrides directory.
Place both "GetWildMod and OceanLifeMod Animals Package File (Math Mod)" and "GetWildMod Spawner Package File (Math Mod)" in the Mods/Packages directory.
Optional Addons:
For additional features, you can install the following optional addons:
Nanite Addon (NEW!) - Allows nanites to spawn animals!
All optional addons should be placed in the Mods/Packages directory.
Important: If your PC doesn’t have a lot of memory, I recommend not installing all optional addons at once to avoid performance issues.
Support My Work:
If you enjoy these mods and want to support future updates, consider subscribing to my Patreon. Your support helps me continue improving and creating more immersive content! 💖✨
Feedback & Bug Reports:
This update improves the mod, but I always appreciate feedback! If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, feel free to reach out to me on Tumblr or Patreon.
I can’t wait to hear your thoughts and see how these updates enhance your game! 🌿🐠✨
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