Excuse This Blog its a working Progress so it looks crappy! I'm a Simmer 4 life This is a Simblr blog, i have been apart of the simblr community for 3 years now! I’m a 32 year old mom of a teen girl and I Play The Sims 4 I follow other Simblr Blogs and a few model and fashion Tumblrs for inspiration and ideas for my game I don't expect non Simblrs to follow i rather them not because i don't want you to get surprised by seeing game stuff soo thats that I play TheSims4
The Sims 4 has grown into a sprawling, beloved world; but it could be so much more. Opportunity Awaits is a player-led initiative imagining what TS4 could be if it truly belonged to everyone: richer, deeper and more connected across all playstyles. We’re advocating for improvements that address long-standing bugs, expand gameplay and embed meaningful cultural representation. This isn’t just dreaming, it’s showing EA and the community that organized voices can guide the future of the game.
Here’s what the initiative argues for at the foundation:
If EA could implement only one of these improvements first, which would you choose?
while working on my geography & region logic masterpost, i kept running into something that’s been obvious for a while: there is no sims 4 world that represents any culture below the northern hemisphere. at least not without exoticizing, flattening, or othering it, that is.
selvadorada, sulani, tomarang: they’re beautiful. but they’re not ours. they weren’t built for those of us who live, love, grieve, and dream in the global south or descend from it. they’re not living, breathing homes. they’re postcards and backdrops to someone else’s adventure.
i see simmers building entire saves around resistance, diaspora, reparation. i admire them. i want to be one of them. but i also want more than what the game hands me. more than vacation-only worlds, mystified jungles, lootable temples, or ‘spice festivals’ stripped of language and lineage.
my mother is from a region directly referenced in selvadorada. i’d love to place my abuela and primes there, let them grow crops, fall in love, age into legacy. but selvadorada wasn’t built to hold them. only to be visited, looted, photographed, and left behind.
i’m not asking for perfection. i’m asking for possibility; isn’t that the point of the sims? for culture to be more than aesthetic. for queerness to exist as resistance, community, and context, not just a neutral sandbox function. for our stories to be written in. not added as selling points.
this isn’t a takedown. and i hope it doesn’t come off as whiny or brainrotted by identity politics.
it’s a longing.
that we build worlds where our people don’t just appear, but belong.
now… do y’all want me to talk about how our only african world (north african at that) in the whole franchise, al simhara, is the perfect example of a world you don’t get to live in or love, rather explore, exoticize, and loot? as if africa weren’t cities, villages, families, and futures?
because as a granddaughter of diaspora, mixed, white passing and all, i want to and will. and yeah, extractivist and all, it was fun. maybe even a product of its time. but it’s been over a decade, and there’s still no sign of moving past that kind of rep.
when do we get a sub-saharan world instead of another rich white california and yet six more simfluencer career variants?
⚙️ EUREKA! I figured it out! I can now create custom filters in CAS for just about anything. This is going to ruin my life… but maybe it'll make The Sims 4 a little more tolerable for you.
🦄 Re-blog this post. Share it around. @ your favorite creators. Tell your friends and your anemones. This is happening even if I have to do it myself.
📸 I will take better screenshots when I get the chance. I literally figured out how to do this in the middle of doing my BASE GAME CAS Overrides, CAS Add-Ons, and CAS De-Bloating™. In other words, figuring this out completely derailed my modding life.
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🌸 WE CAN DO THIS. YOU AND ME. TOGETHER:
For all intents and purposes, this is a "community project". I am willing and able to create and maintain the required override, the hundreds upon hundreds of unique 9-digit "IDs" for the "TagValueNumber", and the unique Strings, etc., but I can't possibly override every custom CAS item in existence.
Help me make this a reality, and also, keep your fingers crossed that the override doesn't break under the weight of the hundreds upon hundreds of entries I'm adding to it.
Oh hai, @sims4studioofficial. Can you add a BATCH FIX that <LOOKS THROUGH MY WISH LIST> allows us to add a "SpecialContent" TAG with a custom "TagValueNumber" to a whole folder of CAS mods? Even if you can't get the "CategoryNumber" to copy properly, a BATCH FIX will at least eliminate half the busywork.
🎓 HOW IT DO, PIKACHU:
If you're well-versed in creating or modifying CAS content, all you need to do is add a new TAG to your swatches - you can do just the first swatch, but you should do all swatches - and change the "CategoryNumber" to "127" (without the quotes), and change the "TagValueNumber" to the desired 9-digit "ID".
For everyone else who is new to this, instructional screenshots have been provided under the spreadsheet. Don't forget to grab the JSON files and toss them into "Documents\Sims 4 Studio\Custom Tags"to make life easier.
🌸 A UNIQUE 9-DIGIT "ID" FOR EVERYONE:
I wanted to @ everyone in this post, but Tumblr appears to have @ limits, so I'm doing multiple posts instead.
TagValueNumbers - Part 1: https://../781101093269749760
TagValueNumbers - Part 2: https://../781133788117942272
TagValueNumbers - Part 3: https://../781165285574131712
TagValueNumbers - Part 4: https://../781274185632727040
TagValueNumbers - Part 5: https://../781314537665298432
TagValueNumbers - Part 6: https://../781413445403820032
TagValueNumbers - Part 8: https://../781766647579115520
TagValueNumbers - Part 9: https://../781772569760169985
TagValueNumbers - Part 10: https://../782039895383375873
TagValueNumbers - Part 11: https://../782614845473390592
TagValueNumbers - Part 12: https://../782672108557893632
TagValueNumbers - Part 13: https://../783433389583843328
TagValueNumbers - Part 14: https://../784160883600474112
TagValueNumbers - Part 15: https://../784165978829357056
TagValueNumbers - Part 16: https://../784173226147332096
TagValueNumbers - Part 17: https://../784178235638448129
TagValueNumbers - Part 18: https://../784184141895909376
TagValueNumbers - Part 19: https://../784188133361221632
TagValueNumbers - Part 20: https://../784202170246610944
TagValueNumbers - Part 21: https://../784217965143932928
TagValueNumbers - Part 22: https://../784268469561606145
TagValueNumbers - Part 23: PENDING™
⚠️ BE ADVISED - I CHANGED A FEW "IDS":
My pinky promises that I will not make this a regular thing. The "IDs" in red have been replaced by those in white. In the spreadsheet, the changed "IDs" are highlighted in GREEN.
@cazhan -- 203294262 ⚠️ 203294260
CCBriekel (Patreon) -- 203274353 ⚠️ 203227435
@eunosims -- 304866746 ⚠️ 305866746
@j3lly-fish -- 510355934 ⚠️ 510055934
@oito-cc -- 615486220 ⚠️ 615486000
P.peng (Patreon) -- 716736400 ⚠️ 716073640
@s-club-tbr (TSR) -- 719258200 ⚠️ 719025820
@sims3melancholic -- 719467363 ⚠️ 719467863
@strangestorytellersims -- 719872643 ⚠️ 719872678
@zx-ta -- 929908200 ⚠️ 926908200
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🎓 HOW TO - THE "PROPER" METHOD:
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🎓 HOW TO - THE "QUIK N' DIRRTY" METHOD:
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⚠️ THIS POST IS STILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE:
Everything you need to know should be covered in this Tumblr OP and the Patreon OP, but I might do some spring cleaning when I'm done with the Patreon OP.
DELETE THE OLD VERSION IF YOU USE MY INCLUDED "#Sej" FOLDER! I AM NOW ADDING SUB-FOLDERS TO MY "#Sej" FOLDER FOR BETTER ORGANIZATION, SO THIS NEW VERSION WON'T PROMPT TO OVERRIDE THE OLD VERSION!
This third update increases the number of filters from 525 to 760 - 630 creator filters, 100 generic filters, and 30 fashion era / time period filters.
Keep in mind that these filters are only visible in CAS when custom content using my custom TAGS are present in your Mods folder.
The Patreon post and the Tumblr post are still "under construction", but all of the information you need is there. I just need to refine it, condense it, expand it, etc.
That it for this update.
Cheers!
P.S. I'm always on hiatus from this mod. I'm trying to finish some of the other projects I was working on that I paused work on when I figured out how to do this and subjected the world to it, but we're not nearly done yet. There are hundreds (plural) of creator filters missing. I intend to do this for "everyone" if the override permits.
... in the Sims 4, after patch 1.113 (Feb. 25, 2025)
EA has identified the issue and posted a temporary workaround.
We have identified the cause of an issue with Child Sims experiencing body distortion, and we are working to release an update which will resolve this issue in existing saves. Child Sims in brand new saves will not be affected by this bug. In the meantime, you can manually restore your Sims by using the following workaround...
In case you didn't notice yet (like me) but wonder about floating plates and not clickable objects in your world, your save might became broken. Iron Seagull did an informative video. Watch it and please, click "me too" in the bug report on AHQ to let EA/Maxis know this needs a fix as soon as possible.
Oh well ... these kind of bugs are the most hated by me. I guess I'll stop playing to save my saves until it's fixed. This is a sad day :(
Unrelated to the patch, I updated the following mod, nothing should change with this update, just removed unnecessary files that apparently were doing nothing.
Mod Fix for Household Thumbnails after Patch 1.99
As usual, feel free to reach out if you notice any issues.
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