Are your serial daters running the risk of drowning in flowers? Does it not seem quite right to just sell them? Do you question why there's even a market for second hand date roses in the sims world? Well boy does my sim Maja Sernman have the solution for you! The Sernman Group is opening a florist near you where you too can procure 100% authentic flowers that actually age! Insect-proof, compost friendly, bio-degradable flowers for you, and you, and all of you!
Inspired by @kashmiresims, and with a little help from some friends, I bring you my first mod of 2026.
- After 7 days flowers will go old, using a new texture by Epi. By default a dialogue pops up, and camera will zoom to show to the rose.
- A new interaction to throw away flowers, that routes to the nearest trash can. By default the sim will think about who sent the rose, and roses can be thrown away anytime.
- Storytelling debug interactions for setting recipient/sender, make fresh/expire, pick text option (see below)
- Buyable date rewards, which thanks to debug interactions can be set up correctly. Now your sim can give extra, if they want to! You'll find them in deco/misc, prices are 5, 5, 15 and 55 simoleons (unchanged from original).
- Optional text default! Maxis intended date rewards to have 4 possible writings, but then they just duplicated the same text. I restored this to the intended mechanic and spruced up the writing. To give you a variety in style and personality, @kashmiresims @episims @nikkasimms and I have all written one entry for each of the four different date rewards with writing (bouquet, single flower, love letter, hate letter). Edit friendly, you can add more text options if you want to.
- Highly BCON tunable. Features can be turned on or off, some are active by default, some are not. See read me for more info.
NOTE!!! This requires Date Rewards by Color Traits by Episims and PForestsims. It uses their base texture, and will look extremely weird without their mesh default. Must load after!! Roses will error on expiration if load order is wrong, which erases sender/recipient info, so please make sure you get load order right if you care about your existing roses. Debug interactions can restore if error did happen, if you know who sender/recipient were.
Download from simfileshare (Update: If you were among the 10 first to download, please grab again! I had missed love letters use a different BCON than the rest, which resulted in an error when a new reward is delivered. I have fixed it now.)
Conflicts: Must load after color trait date rewards. Will conflict with anything that alters pie menu and dialogues of date rewards. Adds new code to date reward semi global. Use HCDU+ to verify if you have other mods that alter date rewards.
Credits: Kashmiresims for the wonderful idea to have roses go old, @pforestsims for their beautiful mesh and base texture that @episims did a great job turning aged. I am aware red roses don't look like this when dried out, but I wanted them to still look nice if a sentimental sim wants to keep them anyway and Epi was kind enough to do what I asked :3 Charmful, Nikka and Epi for helping me write new text. @lamare-sims and @tvickiesims for brainstorming with me at the start and helping me decide on dried out rather than rotten flowers :3