#ts3 mods

[zoeoe-sims]

Pottery Mod V1.0!

This mod contains two new interactable objects: a pottery wheel and kiln.

Ceramics can be crafted on the wheel, and then fired in the kiln with a chosen glaze.

As Sims level up, they unlock more ceramics to craft.

Hope you enjoy!

Read more and download on MTS!

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[kapii]

.♡ ݁⊹ TS3 Custom Loading Screen Mod

This originally started as a personal edit for my own game. I wanted something that fit my screenshots and overall aesthetic a bit better than the default loading screen, so I tweaked it to match my style and just… never really planned on sharing it. But after posting a few screenshots, a couple of people asked about the loading screen and where it was from — so I decided to clean it up properly and turn it into my own custom version instead of keeping it as a private edit. To make it more usable for everyone, I included multiple preset options so you can choose the one that best fits your game and vibe. (1-5) If you have any feedback or notice any issues, feel free to let me know! Full credits go to the original creator @simmattically This is an edited version of the original file.

❀ Sims 3 Custom Loading Screen Some backgrounds are by @heldhram and @you-will-never-find-me-anymore

[plaidsimmer]

TW: Sim Deaths

💗I made this mod so that certain careers in The Sims 3 actually carry real risk. Cops can die in the line of duty, criminals can get taken out on the job, firefighters can lose their lives, and military Sims can be randomly deployed for several days with a risky chance of death while deployed.

💗This mod runs completely in the background. Your Sims just go to work like normal and the mod decides who’s coming back, who’s getting deployed, and who’s not making it home.

💗Examples of how you guys could use it:

✨Play a legacy where certain generations are shaped by a tragic on-the-job death. ✨Have a Criminal Sim disappear after a big score goes wrong. ✨Roleplay a Military family where mom or dad is suddenly deployed for 4–12 days, and everyone waits to see if they survive.

💗Core Features:

💗High-Risk Career Fatalities (Background Only) • Law Enforcement – When a cop Sim goes to work, there’s a tunable chance they’ll be killed “in the line of duty.” • Criminal – Criminal career Sims can be killed during dangerous jobs, with a custom notification explaining what happened. • Firefighter – Firefighters risk dying while responding to emergencies. • All career deaths use a tunable death type (kDeathType, default Electrocution)

💗Military Deployments (Not Just Instant Death) • Military Sims are treated differently, they don’t just drop dead at the work door. • In the evening (roughly 6 PM–10 PM), the mod checks active-household Military Sims who are at home. • If they pass the deployment roll (kMilitaryPercent), they’ll go on deployment for several days in the military rabbit hole instead of just living a normal routine. • A notification announces that your Sim has been deployed on an overseas tour of duty.

💗Random Deployment Length (4–12 Days) • Each deployment lasts a random amount of time between kDeploymentMinDays and kDeploymentMaxDays (by default, 4–12 sim days). • The deployment length is stored per Sim, so they won’t get “stuck away forever”

Check out my other mods which are all available for public download 💗

More info and early access download:

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[sim-novels]

I use a lot of mods to make my game look good, but also to improve my gameplay so that writing stories is even more fun. I thought some of you might enjoy knowing what's in my game. So I decided to make a Mods Masterlist.

This is not my CC collection, however I did include a lot of the default replacements I use. I have divided everything up into categories: - How I improved my game's performance - How I made my game look pretty - How I made my game more fun

Using all of these mods and tweaks obviously comes at your own risk. They can work fine in my game, but make yours laggy or unplayable. That's always a possibility with mods. I won't be able to help you with that, as these obviously work well for me.

First of all, my specs:

Why am I sharing this? Because I think it's always good to know what a person is running with before you install their entire mods list. Just in case you're wondering if your pc would be able to handle the same amount of mod load.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10850K CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3501 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s). RAM: 32 GB GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB VRAM Storage disk my game is installed on: 1TB SSD SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HBLR-000L7

Game version: Steam edition.

How I improved my game's performance:

DXVK: this has stopped *all* access violation crashes in my game since I installed it. I know I'm probably jinxing myself by typing this, but I for real haven't had my game crash to desktop since I followed these instructions.

Nraas Errortrap, Overwatch, Mastercontroller, Saver: Errortrap catches in-game bugs and glitches and fixes them by resetting the sim automatically for you. Overwatch cleans up the game overnight. Mastercontroller (+ cheats and integration modules) gives you compact mode in CAS and allows you to fully reset the town which is recommended to do once every sims week or after you had a big party event with many sims. Saver prompts you to save your game every 30 minutes as 'Save as...' and this will save your life from losing your game to a crash after hours of gameplay.

Sims 3 Settings Setter: Sims 3 Settings Setter is a collection of patches that improve your game's performance. You can enable them by opening a save game and pressing insert. Make sure to save your settings by clicking 'file -> save settings' at the very top of the UI, so you don't have to redo them each time you open your save. Here are my enabled patches, but please see for yourself what feels good for your game. Don't enable uncompressed textures UNLESS you have DXVK installed and plenty of VRAM.

GPU Patch: I have a very new GPU and need this for my game to recognize my graphicscard. It is basically mandatory to do this unless your pc is over a decade old.

Intel Extreme Tuning Utility: I overclock my CPU with this program. I sincerely advice against you doing this unless you are 100% sure you know what overclocking is, whether your CPU is capable of overclocking, and what a healthy overclock speed is for your CPU. I use IETU to do this, but your computer might have a built-in tool that lets you overclocks safely.

Tweaking my GraphicsRules.sgr: I honestly only do this because other guides told me to. I have no clue if it actually does something. But change these settings to these numbers. They're at the top of the file: seti cpuLevelUber 4 seti cpuLevelHigh 3 seti cpuLevelMedium 3 seti cpuLevelLow 3

CC Magic: USE THIS FOR YOUR CC. Like, for real, USE IT. It is a life saver. I feel like an idiot for spending over a decade playing this game without CC Magic. Follow this video for easy instructions.

Regul Save Cleaner: I use this every other session to keep my game clean.

Turn off memories, lessons, online features, interactive loading screen: yes, these all cause lag in your game. If you still want to keep some of the memories, use this mod instead.

Set the max amount of fully active/rendered lots to 2 or 4. This will reduce camera lag. I recommend setting it to the amount of houses in the direct vicinity of your sim's house. So if there's only 2 neighbors set it to 3, if there's 3, set it to 4. Don't go any higher than this and don't set it to 1.

Tip: Do not throw the entire Sim 3 store in your game. Handpick what you want to use and only download/buy those. The sims 3 store is 5gb worth of content and having it all in your game severely lags out your CAS and build mode, making it take way longer to load everything.

Just a rule: don't use Sims3Packs. Don't install CC through the Sims launcher period. You can use Delphy's Sims 3 Pack Multi-extractor to turn Sims3packs into .package files. Installing through the launcher works alright, but uninstalling stuff through the launcher is not clean. It leaves behind a lot of bloat. Keep your CC organized and clean, otherwise you'll regret it when you're years into playing Sims 3 and everything is an unsolvable mess.

How I make my game look pretty:

Some of these things work smoothly in my game because I have a very good graphics card. Not everyone can run all the stuff below and still have good game performance. I recommend trying these things one by one and seeing how your game handles it. If something makes your game an unplayable mess, just uninstall and forget about it.

Uncompressed textures patch from Sims 3 Settings Setter: This highly improves the quality of your sims in-game. They will look more like their CAS model and are a lot less blotchy/pixelated. This honestly replaced my need to increase the simrendertexture through the Graphicsrules.sgr, because sims look really good with this patch turned on! Only do this if you have DXVK installed!

Reshade 6.4.1 (with add-on support): Allows you to use Reshade presets that will change the look of your game entirely and make it look a lot better (depending on the preset you choose). Here's a full guide on how to install Reshade 6.4.1.

Shadowmapsize tweak: In my Graphicsrules.sgr, I have set the Shadowmapsize to 8k. That way the shadows in game will look less pixelated and more real.

Lazyduchess Shadow Extender (8k preset): this makes it so that the shadow draw distance in game reaches a lot further.

S-club's 3D lashes: Gives your sims nice 3D eyelashes, available in the eye-liner make-up category and in accessories. Don't forget to download the sliders. And also, I recommend downloading the mod that removes EA's eyelashes. Apologies for the TSR link, they're not available elsewhere.

Mango-smoothie default skin replacement: Nice, smooth HD skin replacement. there is also a link for non-defaults if you prefer it. I also use a bunch of other non-default skins but these are the main ones.

Yumedust's Eye love set conversion by Brntwaffles: my default replacement for the eyes. I use V2.

Agnelid's default hair replacements: these are proper low-med poly and give me the least render issues out of all those default hair replacements out there, so I highly recommend them.

Angelsimoleon's make-up default replacements: These are really good, because now default make up doesn't look like your sim is trying to be a clown anymore. I also recommend the color presets default replacement.

Default replacement for eyebrows: ugly EA eyebrows begone.

Default beard replacements: ugly beards BE GONEE. Also, more beards here. Can't have enough beards.

Muted Maxis Cloud UI: really pretty UI that looks light blue in my game with my reshade preset which I find very pleasing on the eyes.

Plants default replacement: Omedapixel made a lot of default replacements for plantable crops. They only work for newly planted crops. Please read their instructions carefully, it requires some set-up.

The Sims 3 Project Renaissance: replaces a bunch of textures from trees and plants, making them more HD.

Sims 3 HD Textures terrain: I use the 1k version because I was too scared of overloading my game with HD textures. Still makes a nice difference though.

Uranesia Lighting mod PLUS: I use the version with darker nights and intense blue water. Makes your game look very pretty with better shadows and pretty sunsets.

Milky Way Night Sky: For the amazing startfield you see in my nighttime screenshots.

Realistic Clouds: For some pretty clouds.

Simsi45 Improved EA Lights: For better indoor lighting.

Sims 3 Medieval facial expressions override: I've been playing with these for so long I don't even remember what the normal facial expressions used to look like.

Pigtails glitch fix: Ugly pigtails on every random sim, begone.

LazyDuchess Random Sim fixes 2.0: Fixes the puddingface syndrome and the ugly green-blonde haircolor some sims were born with. Also comes with some other minor fixes. This also makes male sims gain body hair on age up, which is tuneable.

Sliders: for better sim creation.

How I make my game more fun:

Nraas Storyprogression: I also have the modules Career, Extra, Money, Population, Relationship and Skill. This mod is absolutely essential to me. I can't play this game without it. However, it is a heavy mod. It will cause some lag in your game. To me it's absolutely worth it. I highly recommend setting the speed to 'snail pace' to make the lag problem minimal (except maybe pregnancy, I have that one manually edited to speed 500, because I need people to make lots of babies, okay.) and to turn off notifications for anyone who's not related or romanced with your sim, it'll save you some hassle.

Nraas Retuner: essential for more autonomy control. It requires a bit of practice to be able to use it properly. I highly recommend you go into the settings of this mod (City hall -> Nraas -> Retuner) and turn on the retuner menu for objects. That way you can, for example, click on the computer, go to the retuner menu, and turn off autonomy for playing computer games. Or click on the radio and turn off autonomy for sims to turn it on.

All other Nraas mods I have: Consigner, DebugEnabler, Dreamer, Gohere, Hybrid, OnceRead, Porter, PortraitPanel, Register, RelationshipPanel, Tagger, Tempest, Traveler, Woohooer, WrittenWord. Just check out their respective pages to see what they do. They're all useful because they either help you control your game more (Register can turn off paparazzi!!), or they add other handy gameplay things. There's even more Nraas mods that I currently don't use (yet), feel free to check them all out.

Simler90's Gameplay core mod: This fixes a lot of annoying stuff in the game. However, if you want to use it alongside Nraas Overwatch and LazyDuchess Random Sim Fixes, it requires a small bit of tuning. To make it compatible with Overwatch: change the Overwatch clean up hour to 5AM (default is 3AM). You can do this in the game by clicking City Hall/any computer -> Nraas -> Overwatch -> Settings. To make sure Lazyduchess puddingface fix takes priority over the one in Simler's core mod (I did this because the one by LD is better), you need to open Simler90's tuning file in S3PE and set the puddingface fix to false. If you don't know how to do this, here you go. There's more things to tune in this mod, so learning this is a good idea regardless. Put it in your overrides and keep Nraas in packages.

More interactions mods: There's a bunch of them. I highly recommend the following: - Moar Interactions - More Pregnancy Interactions - More Baby Interactions - More Toddler Interactions - More Romantic Interactions - Outdoor activities for Toddlers - Toddlers Can Ride Rocking Rider - Children Can

No Mutant Hair or Eyes: No more mutations in haircolor or eyecolor, because these were way too common in the Sims 3. Your sims will now always inherit their eye and haircolor from a relative (parent or grandparent etc.).

Expanded Genealogy: adds a lot more family relations to your family tree, so your game will recognize more sims as family members. Like 2nd cousin and such.

Neuroblazer's Random Genetics: overhauls the genetics system so your sim babies become more of a blend between the two parents instead of copy-pasting 100% of their slider values. I only recommend using this if you move town often and keep the gene pool fresh, because if you stay in the same town for a bunch of generations this mod will cause everyone to slowly crawl towards the 0 slider value puddingface. This mod will lag your game a little bit at the start of your save while it loads.

Painting Replacements: Makes the painting skill a ton more fun because it adds so many painting variations to the game!

Routing fixes and less whiny sims: Sims 3 is a lot more fun when your sims aren't constantly suffering from routing errors or blocks. Here's a whole list of them: - Ohrudi's routing fixes - Twoftmama's routing fixes (need a free Sims Asylum account) - No whining about motives - No whining about route fails - Better routing for game objects (need a free Sims Asylum account) - No foot tapping - More Entry Points: This one makes it so sims don't wait in line forever to go into the school building and such!

Human Lifespan for Supernatural Sims: If you're like me and you avoid occults like vampires or fairies because they tend to live forever, this mod makes it a lot more fun to play around with occults. It gives them a regular lifespan, like any other sim.

Traits enabled for all ages: Tired of your born sims all having the same traits because the choices are so limited at a young age? This mod enables all traits for all ages.

Autonomous toddler skilling: makes teaching toddlers their skills fun, so sims will do it autonomously. Requires a free Sims Asylum account to download.

Faster Gardening: I have picked the 50% option. Now my gardening sims can finally have a life again since weeding and harvesting doesn't take them all day.

No Social Groups (Uni only): Your sims won't instantly turn into nerds just because they like to play games or browse the web. I picked the one that does enable the groups in the university world.

CrossEye Fix: No more crossed eyes when Sims age up.

Be Productive: sims will clean up after themselves more often.

Opportunity Phone Call Fix: If you have into the future installed, this fixes the bug where you'd not get any opportunity phone calls anymore.

New Lifetime Goals: Normally, when your sims complete their LTW, the Midlife Crisis LTR to pick a new one will disappear. Your sim can therefore only complete one LTW by EA's default settings. This mod prompts your sim to pick a new LTW once they have completed theirs, so they always have a new goal to strive for.

Famous Artists: changes the celebrity system so you earn celebrity points for skills and jobs that actually make sense.

No Autonomous Pranks: Because pranks suck unless you actually want them to happen and then you can just do it yourself. You can also just do this with Nraas Retuner of course, but it'll be a bit of a hassle.

Scolding mod: will prompt you to ask you whether you actually want to scold your child instead of it becoming an interaction you can't cancel.

Baking mod: adds a baking skill to the game

Flower Arranging: adds a flower arrangement skill to the game.

Medical career reworked: adds all sorts of extra stuff for the medical career.

Writing is fun! Makes it so the writing skill adds fun instead of depleting it, also extends the royalties to 12 weeks instead of 6 and decreases the amount of books you have to read to get a (hidden) writing speed bonus. Writing is a big hobby of mine and it never made sense to me that it'd deplete the fun bar.

Expanded Active Households/homes+: Really awesome mod by TheSweetSimmer that ads a ton of gameplay to your game in regards to sleepovers, house visits, owning multiple active residential lots and dividing your sims across them, custom babysitters and even a new interactive daycare system.

[arro-now]

MCR 2.1 Update (Beta)

Changelog:

New animations

Better filter panel

CASt button is back (only when more than 1 column)

Optional SmoothPatch compatibility

Installation guide: 1. Download Arro_MCR_2.1_Beta.package and place it in your mods folder (make sure to delete v2.0) 2. Go to https://arro-mods.cc/MCRGenerator

3. Type in your desired rows and columns count and press "Generate". 4. Place "Arro_MCR_Clothes(R)x(C).package" in your mods folder. If you use "ld_SmoothPatch.package" then also download Arro_MCRSP_2.1_Beta.package (this requires MonoPatcher) 5. Enjoy

My display is 1920x1080 and I like 6x2 grid

Please remember, this is a testing version!

If you find any bugs please DM me here or on discord.

[lifefruitz]

TS3: More Frequent NPC Ask to Move In

In the vanilla game, there's a tiny 1% chance per day an NPC will ask your Sim to move into their household. I've only seen this a handful of times in years of playing the game because the chances are so low!

I made this tuning mod to increase the odds. Now, friends and partners will take the initiative to ask your sim to move in to their place more often!

Tuning Changes

Relationship Requirement: 50 -> 60 (have to be at least Good Friends)

Base Chance of NPC Asking Per Day: 1% -> 10%

Additional Chance if in Romantic Relationship: 2% -> 20%

If your sim says no, the NPC has to wait 7 days (instead of 2) before they can ask again to avoid unwanted repeated requests

Conflicts

This is a tuning mod and will conflict with any other mods that edit the MovingSituation XML

DOWNLOAD: Mod The Sims / Sim File Share

[mercury101]

Work as a Film Extra (A New Rabbit Hole Interaction)

This mod adds a new interaction to the film studio, allowing your sims to work as film extras to earn some extra cash. Various events will also occur during the process.

Requirements

This mod requires Late Night and Showtime.

Main Features

Sims aged teen and older can work as film extras at any time of the day. Sims who already work in the Film Career or are celebrities cannot work as extras, but those working part-time at the film studio are allowed to.

The interaction lasts for 4 hours. Similar to prom, a pop-up triggering a random event will appear every half hour. Below are the details and probabilities of each event (rounded to two decimal places):

Praised by the director: Gets a positive moodlet (16.67%)

Meet a celebrity: Increases relationship (8.33%). The celebrity must meet one of the following two conditions: 1️⃣Celebrity level is at least 3. OR 2️⃣Works in one of the following careers: Film, Music, Professional Sports, Singer, Magician, or Acrobat. This means you might meet Matthew Hamming, Pauline Wan, or even a 5-star celebrity cashier. If there are no sims in the current world meeting these conditions, this event will not trigger.

Obtain a Magic Gnome (12.5%)

Make a fool of themselves: Gets a negative moodlet (12.5%)

Get injured during filming: Gets a negative moodlet (8.33%)

Gain a little bit of the charisma skill (16.67%)

Conflict with another actor: Decreases relationship (8.33%). Preference will be given to sims in the following careers: Film, Music, Professional Sports, Singer, Magician, or Acrobat. If there are no sims meeting these conditions, your sim will randomly become enemies with a teen or older sim in the current world.

3 random filming work events: Purely text-based events (16.67%)

After the work is finished, your sim will receive payment (the amount is not fixed and fluctuates randomly based on traits and skills). There is a 24-hour cooldown before they can work as a film extra again.

Each event has a base trigger weight, which is further modified by the sim's traits. Sims with the Natural Born Performer, Star Quality, or Charismatic traits are more likely to trigger good events (being praised, meeting celebrities, etc.). Sims with the Clumsy, Loser, or Unlucky traits are more likely to encounter bad situations (making a fool of themselves, getting injured, etc.).

Tuning

You can adjust values for event weights, work hours, trigger intervals, celebrity relationships, etc. in the mod's XML file.

Conflicts & Known Issues

This is a pure script mod, so there shouldn't be any conflicts.

If a sim goes to work as an extra during their regular work or school hours, they might leave early or be reset by Overwatch, but they will still receive the corresponding payment. If your teen works as an extra during curfew, they will still be forcibly escorted home by the police.

If you place a new film studio in the world, you will need to save and reload the game for the interaction option to appear on the building.

Plumbots will not receive moodlets when triggering certain events, though it might depend on the chips they have.

Installation

Just place the package file in your Mods/Packages folder.

Available Languages

English, Chinese, Russian (by @murkoose)

If you wish to translate this mod into other languages, please download the Strings file and send me a pm with your translated file. I will include it in future updates.

Credits

Thank you to the various tutorials on MTS and other sites, as well as Visual Studio 2022, ILSpy, s3pe and my computer wizzes friends Cici & Gu for help with coding issues, @murkoose for the Russian translation, cc creators for the preview picture, and sims who acted as my lab rats🫶🫶

If you encounter any problems, please let me know. Have fun!

If you like my work, you can support me on Ko-Fi🫶🫶

🔗: (Package / Strings)

[phoebejaysims]

Better Restaurants Mod - DOWNLOAD

New and shiny restaurants have made their way to TS3! Taking your sim out to eat (or ordering in) is now much more exciting!

Get Started

Buy a restaurant oven and set up shop.

Create shifts, choose working days, wages, uniforms, and hire employees from around town.

Employee Roles

Hire employees and choose any combination of roles for them to fulfil. You can run a restaurant, or a bar, or both!

Choose from:

Chef,

Waiter,

Greeter,

Bartender

Don't worry if you can't fill all the roles. Where there is a sim missing, the existing employees will pick up the slack depending on their own assigned jobs. For example: chefs will take on waiter jobs when there are no waiters or greeters. Greeters will take on waiter jobs when there are no waiters.

Dine In

Take your sim out solo or in groups.

If there's a worker at the podium, you can be seated according to availability (you can also ask about the menu and see how expensive things are if you want).

You'll also see NPCs dining. They'll join the podium queue, just like your active sim. If they have friends on the lot, they may automatically eat together.

If there's no podium, or greeter, sims can order direct from the menu.

Delivery Options

Sims can order delivery from any open restaurant in town. The restaurant owner will receive all the money for this (except for delivery fees).

Or, if there's nothing open yet, order a Chinese takeaway instead.

Restaurant Management

The level of restaurant management is up to you. The more restaurant items you add to the lot, the more you'll have to account for the business finances.

Keep track of your costs and pray you can make a profit!

There are some optional features when it comes to financial management.

Buy a restaurant fridge: then it will cost your sim money to make food unless you keep the fridge stocked.

Buy a bar and hire a bartender: then it will cost your sim money to make drinks, but the restaurant will also keep the earnings.

Pay for advertising: hopefully the extra foot traffic makes up for the fee.

Thanks:

Sandy from ATS3 for generously allowing me to use her objects in my mods as always.

Ani Business as Unusual Oven which paved the way for this mod.

Sims 4 for some animations that I converted

EA Business and Usual oven, of course!

Compatibility:

Made on version 1.67

Shouldn't conflict with anything, not even other restaurant mods

Required:

Business as Usual Oven Store Content - most animations and props depend on this.

Island Paradise EP for some strings in the expenses dialog.

World Adventures - for Chinese delivery food & drinks while waiting for restaurant order

Optional:

My Taxes and Benefits mod - Restaurant owners will pay higher business tax (once I update that mod).

My Boutique mod - used a couple of non-important animations.

Showtime - For snacking at oven interaction.

Seasons - For better 'call off work (sick)' functionality.

Late Night - for bartender stuff

DOWNLOAD HERE : Mod The Sims

If you would like to tip as thanks, you can donate to my kofi: Buy PhoebeJaySims a Coffee. As always, I don't take it for granted!

Thank you all and enjoy,

Phoebe