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Adult Skills for Kids Mod!

Download Links:

MediaFire (Base Game Skills) MediaFire (Expansion Skills) NexusMods

What it does:

This mod allows children to learn and make progress on many of the adult skills that, to be fair, kids are also very capable of doing or learning. It makes no sense to me that kids can fish, yet can’t get the fishing skill, and the same goes for instruments. They can’t even learn the comedy or mischief skills either, it’s absolutely ridiculous. Now before we get into the nitty gritty of what skills kids can get now, I do also want to say, that this mod was made to work with my other mod: Kids Keep Skills, which allows child skills to evolve into matching adult skills on age up into a teen, so this mod does not add the Fitness, Painting, Logic, or Charisma skills for kids, as those are adjusted in my other mod. Also please note that skills that would normally increase a child skill, will now increase not only the new unlocked adult skill, but the corresponding child skill as well at the same time.

Now onto the fun stuff! Kids can now learn the following base game skills:

Comedy*

Fishing

Gardening**

Guitar**

Mischief*

Piano

Programming**

Video Gaming

Violin

Writing***

Kids can also earn the following DLC Skills (Expansion and Game Pack Skills):

Acting (GF)**

Photography (GtW)

Pipe Organ (V)

Research & Debate (DU)**

Robotics (DU)**

Rock Climbing (SE)

Singing (CL)

Skiing (SE)

Snowboarding (SE)

* Can only be learned through socials ** Can only be learned through skill books, still can’t interact with skill objects *** Can only be learned through skill books, unless you have Parenthood which has the journal which can also be used to obtain and improve the Writing Skill

But why?

Much like my issue with kids not retaining sets of skills upon age up, I also find it utterly ridiculous that kids can learn some skills like knitting, yet others like fishing are grouped into a child skill instead. And don’t get me started on things like programming or the instruments… I know I’m not the only one at this point, so hopefully this’ll help others out too to make kids seem less… useless?

Known Issues:

While the skills are unlocked, it doesn’t add the interactions (i.e. kids can learn the programming skill, but still can’t program on the computer)

Future Planned Updates:

Add interactions with skill objects as mentioned in Known Issues above

Nerdy Details:

Using S4S, I went into the adult skills and just added Child in as a classification of age that can obtain those skills. Nothing really fancy to it just yet.

Special Thanks and Credits:

I couldn't have even begun to learn how to do any of this without the Sims 4 Studio.

How to Download/Install:

If you only have the base game, or only want the base game skills, then you’ll just download the Adult Skills for Kids zip file. If you also have any of the packs with the skills mentioned above, you’ll also want to download the ASK Expansion Skills zip file as well. To install the proper expansions, make sure to only extract the .package files for expansions you own and want the skills from, or delete them from the mod folder after extracting.

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Update on KKS Mod

Just wanted to post a small update. Not only was I able to fix the notification for when a child maxes out a skill, but I was also able to create a secondary mod that can be used in conjunction with this mod, or separately, that unlocks a lot of adult skills for children to learn as well. I'll be making a whole post about that mod soon, but I need to get all of those details in order. Originally, it was just going to expand this mod, but it really did become it's whole own project and not everyone will want those skills unlocked, even though they may like the child skills transforming into adult skills on age up, hence the decision to make it a whole other mod.

The downloads from MtS and Mediafire have both been updated, so you should be able to just re-download and replace the current file and be set.

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Had a fun stream tonight where we built this lovely yellow home for the #SolidColorChallenge and I’m fairly surprised with how it turned out. I followed the “stricter” rules which meant I could only use base game items and everything had to be mainly yellow. It wasn’t easy, but it was definitely fun, and I completed the build in an hour and a half to boot!

If this quaint little 2 bedroom, 1 bath, house is your cup of tea, you can find it on the gallery either by the hashtag above or my username (PBHiccup). The house is called Daisy Dreams as I went with a daisy and sunflower theme for the landscaping and overall those were just the vibes I got from this bright build.

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Kids Keep Skills Mod

Last post for tonight, I promise, but I did want to include my mod among my first posts, so here ya go!

Download Links:

Mediafire ModTheSims NexusMods

What it does:

This simple little mod allows children's skills to actually mean something when they age up into a teen. No longer will those 7 motor skill levels go to waste on their birthday, instead, they'll be put towards the equivalent adult skill when aging up to a teen.

Kids skills will now contribute to an equivalent adult skill when they age up from Child to Teen, the higher the skill level, the further in the adult skill they'll be on age up. Specifically, the Creativity Skill will turn into the Painting Skill, the Motor Skill will turn into the Fitness Skill, the Mental Skill will turn into the Logic Skill, and the Social Skill will turn into the Charisma Skill. (Please note, it's not a 1:1 ratio, and more details on the values can be found below.

But why?

Hasn't it ever infuriated you that the Toddler Skills evolve to help with Children's Skills, yet when that rambunctious social butterfly ages into a teen, suddenly they can hardly speak, and god forbid they set foot on a treadmill, right? I know it bugged me quite a bit, especially since the only way to build adult skills as a child is to totally max the child skill out and "Ain't nobody got time for 'dat". So I decided if there was ever a reason for me to learn to mod this game, it was for this specifically.

🛑Known Issues: 🛑

⚠ When hovering over the skills gained on Age Up Trait Selection screen, dialogue is same as toddler dialogue

Future Planned Updates:

⚠  Fix the dialogue issue mentioned

Nerdy Details:

Using S4S, I copied the section that allows toddler traits to evolve into the children's traits from their respective tuning files. As for the values at each level of the skill, they're as follows:

1 = 600 2 = 900 3 = 1200 4 = 1600 5 = 2400 6 = 3600 7 = 5400 8 = 7200 9 = 10000 10 = 13500

Which roughly equals out to each level in the Child Skill equating to half a level of the adult equivalent, meaning a max skill will give just over level 5 to the adult skill.

Special Thanks and Credits:

I couldn't have even begun to learn how to do any of this without the Sims 4 Studio

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New Streaming Schedule!

My streaming schedule will officially be changing starting this Monday, April 19th, to the following:

Monday - 9pm Tuesday (Takeover Tuesday w/ Blortad) - 9pm Wednesday - 9pm Thursday - 9pm Friday - 9pm

Please note, the times listed are start times, and I’ll always stream for at least an hour.

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Obligatory “I did a thing...” post

Hello and welcome! I hope your having a good day! My name is Juli, but online, especially when it comes to Sims related content I create, I go by PBHiccup or Hiccup for short. I’ve recently dipped my feet into the world of Sims 4 modding, and although I’d done build challenges, streaming, and even some slight CC before, I was TOTALLY unprepared for what I had gotten myself into.

I was irritated with a particular part of the base game in Sims (who isn’t?) and I just couldn’t find a mod to fix it, so like any reasonable nerd, I decided to learn how to make it, and boy was that an adventure in and of itself, but I managed. I googled my way through using Sims 4 Studio to make a tuning mod, and lo and behold it worked! I submitted my first ever mod to ModTheSims, and updated my WCIF post on the official forums.

Little did I know, 3 days later, it would blow up fairly well, getting almost 500 downloads in the first 24 hours it was live on MTS, and 5 before that, just through the forum post. So needless to say, I’ve since asked for help and have learned that my social media usage is severely lacking for this being something I’d like to pursue (and let’s be honest, it was lacking for my streaming before too), so without further adieu, here I am back on tumblr and ready to shoot my shot.