I have an entire set of posts explaining what Venues do.
Now that we have custom venues, we can remake venues with more detai...
2025-11-30 15:18:21 +0000 UTC View PostUnder-reported news relating to modding and the future of the game!
First off, EA_Cade soft-deconfirmed that The Sims 4 is ending, by noting that they are making changes to "continue delivering content for years to come".
Death By Flies ghosts learn the Adventure Awaits Entomology skill faster.
This is a cross-pack feature with an obscure ghost/death from a pack released 5 years prior!
It's also the only feature specific to these gho...
Did you see my post Modding Sucks and is Hard? It tells the tale of how this mod broke at some point, and in several hours of trying to fix it, nothing was going right. It was going so bad I cried for real lol
Well, I redid the whole thing a...
2025-11-23 19:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostALL the info, and I mean ALL the info, found here!
Requires Eco Lifestyle and Lot51 Core Library!
Updates:
8PM EST (Day of Posting)
Resolved issue where secret scary warning motive wa...
2025-11-23 19:55:06 +0000 UTC View PostREV UP THOSE CRIERS BECAUSE I AM ONE ANGRY-
This was going to be paired with a mod update post but the mod is not getting updated at the moment because of all the stuff I'm about to complain about so get ready
I have a mod. It is called "Death by Flies". It is pretty simple all things considered. Every single Si...
Changes the Secret Admirer phone call from Lovestruck.
By default, if you agree to meeting your admirer, you get a pretty strong immediate romantic relationship with them (pictured above). This makes it a much lower value- still higher than meeting them on the street, but not "We're dating" levels of romance. It also st...
2025-11-16 21:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostThey are dangerous, they will create confusion for you and anyone you get support from, they are HARDER to keep updated than mods you know you downloaded because you chose to download them, and they are against pretty much all modders' TOUs. Support channels hate them! And not in a "Doctors hate this one trick" way! They legi...
2025-11-16 18:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Updated to cover the latest 3 kits and Adventure Awaits. Removes icons from pack content across all menus. Old versions should be removed, and will have the name Waffle_PackIconHider_blahblahblah!
I posted this in the Paralives Discord. I was genuinely surprised by the intimately detailed responses that followed, and I thought it'd be nice to save it here, too.
It is thoughts on what makes The Sims a genre in its own right, and how/why it works, and what imitat...
2025-11-14 23:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The two examples pictured took...20 minutes to make, because I have to browse through stuff to figure out what specific special features a trait has, and it's essentially impossible to weed out irrelevant things. For instance, every single trait is accounted for in zillions of social interactions. I'm not going to check each ...
2025-11-12 23:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I celebrate every 1k milestone, but I have nothing specific to offer for this one. I saw it coming and am surprised it happened so fast from when I first noticed it was close.
I'm not currently playing Sims 4 even though The Sims is my entire thing, and I'm sorry that I'm not posting anything lately. :( With the curren...
DEPRECATED: Lightning Root Fix is no longer necessary, as EA fixed it.
BROKEN: Meet Coworkers Automatically. Not sure what I need to do to fix it, but my first attempt created an error and I'm now a bit lost, so remove it for now. I'll probably throw it back together f...
2025-11-06 00:19:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I post updates here all the time but I feel bad sending emails to people (even if they do have them enabled) so sometimes I'll post news there too.
Todays news is that there will be no news until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest. I just spent 2 hours ...
2025-11-04 20:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostLumpinou has been working on Law and Disorder for a long time and it's now public!
This mod makes many things in the game count as "misbehavior" that can be punishable by law! Including th...
2025-11-04 17:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostI am at the point where I don't want to do it myself because I despise blender.
It took me like 2 hours to even get my extracted model to look right and even then it's not right (the antlers should have a shader of some kind, but im not sure if that's even compatible with vtuber software).
And neither do many other modders- but they may not feel comfortable saying it out loud. But what I have to say about it may help you understand some reasons others may feel the same.
As I approach 6000 patreon followers (wow!!!!) I don't really want to make a post about this, but as others do so, a pressure b...
Didn't follow me for a post about making a cake? Too bad!
First my ceramic ice cream cone fell off the fridge and a chunk of ceramic got into my wet ingredients, so that was great
(I dumped them and started over dont ...
2025-10-18 17:41:52 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, that's not how any of this works.
I don't take requests, I take suggestions (and even then not really), and only those that make sense for what I do already. We don't update other people's mods unless the creator is wildly inactive, and even then, it can be questionable. I made the mistake of updating someon...
2025-10-18 15:13:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Update: EA has released a post explaining things that can contribute to performance issues, and functional objects with lots of interactions- like Fridges and Stoves- is one of them! You ever notice when you click on a fridge or a stove, the game might take a second before the click feel...
2025-10-18 01:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostAdded "Occult:" to 3 missing Occult activities!
2025-10-15 23:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you finish a Getaway you can get a "Still Vibing" buff. It's pretty overpowered and adds a strange VFX to your plumbob for up to an entire week. There's two versions- a normal one and a better one you get for a better getaway experience.
This mod makes these buffs shorter and less powerful and features 3 o...
2025-10-14 23:35:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhen a fox is stalking your house there's a notification. It has a joke in it that's a reference to something really bad. I don't like that it's there. This replaces it with something silly.
2025-10-14 22:53:52 +0000 UTC View PostLowers the money reward for completing a challenge getaway from 10,000 to 5,000. That's it!
All challenges have the same money reward. Note that challenges have chances of random other rewards depending on the challenge, those are unchanged.
Because Challenges can be completed on Getaways with v...
If you're not sure what this is, click here to view previous posts about it. TLDR- A custom save that aims to bring premade households up to modern standards, give them more details, reno ...
2025-10-08 22:16:58 +0000 UTC View PostI had an anxiety attack at work over this event today and left to go to the bank with my dad for support because i was so freaking out. Bank told us to file a police report which i couldn't believe I hadn't done. I was still getting emails from Paypal insisting the transaction was mine due to the IP address used and ignoring ...
2025-10-07 19:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday I woke up to a 4,000 dollar charge from Paypal. It used my balance, and then the rest came from my bank.
PayPal is not being helpful. They immediately rejected my dispute automatically. I replied to the dispute email as instructed and they tell me to click appeal on the site. There is no appeal button on the ...
Playing around with Venues and Getaways I've found some important information that I'm gonna throw out there.
No modding spree just yet, I'm still not even in live mode...but I'm gathering intel.
Let's just say, it'll happen. Pictured: A premade role, found in the Role Library, that was made outside of the game with no in-game editing whatsoever, added via a .package file in the mods folder.
And yes, we'll be able to provide premade schedule sets, too.
