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How to Create a Structured Navigation Page on Tumblr: A Step-by-Step Guide
Introduction
Creating a navigation page helps moots stay up today on your posts, especially stories or series on your Simblr. Below are the steps I used to help me organize and create my navigation system!
What Does "Mobile-Friendly" Mean?
A mobile-friendly navigation page keeps users within their Tumblr app while they explore your links. This ensures a smooth user experience for those primarily using Tumblr on mobile devices. To achieve this:
- Use links that are generated within the Tumblr app or dashboard viewer.
- Avoid using direct URL links from a web browser, as they may redirect mobile users from the Tumblr app.
- You can test the links yourself on the Tumblr app to make sure they open correctly without redirecting out of the app.
Step 1: Planning Your Content
Before creating your page, plan the content and sections you want to include. Think about categories like:
Household stories
Series updates
Character profiles
FAQs
Gameplay guides
Mods and CC (Custom Content)
Step 2: Pinning Your Main Navigation Post
To ensure that your navigation is the first thing visitors see, you can pin a post on your Tumblr blog. Here's the process:
Write Your Navigation Post: Create a post with all your navigation links and information. This post will serve as the main guide for visitors to your blog.
Pin the Post:
- Open your Tumblr dashboard.
- Navigate to the post you want to pin.
- On the top right of the post, click the "..." (more) button.
- From the dropdown menu, select "Pin this post to the top of your blog".
Set Pin Duration: Decide how long you want the post pinned.
Check Your Blog: Visit your Tumblr blog to ensure the post is pinned at the top.
By pinning your main navigation post, you make it easy for followers and visitors to understand how to explore and enjoy your content right from the start.
Step 3: Organize Your Tags
Establish a tagging system that works for you and be consistent. For example here are some of mine:
Use #the[lastname]household for family-specific posts.
Tag seasonal stories with #fall1, #winter1, etc.
Create special tags for FAQs, such as #askkaityb for questions.
Step 4: Create Hyperlinks
Transform tags into clickable links that lead to filtered content:
- Write out your tags in your blogs search bar
- Click a tag, the page should change to all your post with that tag. you're going to copy the URL and hyperlink that to your navigation post
(for example here what mine looks like: https://www.tumblr.com/pleasanttaleswithkaityb/tagged/pleasantview%20legacy)
- Repeat for each tag you plan to use.
Step 5: Design and Layout
Make your navigation page visually appealing:
Use headers to denote different sections.
Consider adding icons or images for visual interest.
Keep the layout clean and readable.
Step 6: Publish and Promote
Once you’re happy with the page:
Make sure to publish or reblog your new navigation page in a post to inform your followers.
Step 7: Maintenance
Regularly check your navigation page to reflect new content and ensure all links work. Now, anytime you tag a post with your hashtags, that link's thread will automatically be updated!
Tips:
Keep your audience in mind. Use clear, descriptive titles for your links.
Update your navigation page regularly as you add new content.
Encourage feedback. Ask your followers if they find the navigation page helpful.
Feel free to customize this guide to match your blog's specifics and needs. Let me know if y'all have found any of your own tips & tricks for creating your navigation system! Happy simming!
@bambiwhims - Hope this helps :3
#new simblr#simblr#simblr help#how to organize#tagging system#ask kaity b#kaity b answers#kaity b resources
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WCIF - Restoring my lost Mods Folder
I have been able to find A LOT of my lost CC but I still need some help. Does anyone recognize any of these?
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has already helped he by sending folders and links and finding creators names. I am so touched!! <3
UPDATE: Here are the remaining missing items:
fabric/chair overrides
dinning chairs
swimsuit
THANK YOU EVERYONE for the help, I feel for grateful. It's making this loss much better.
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Mods to Make School Better (High School Years + Discover University)
I really love The Sims 4, but I love The Sims 4 because I play a heavily modded game. I know that option isn’t for everyone, but for those who do... Sometimes it’s hard to know where to look. It’s like when you’re hungry and you open up your food delivery service of choice and are just overwhelmed by the options these days.
Luckily... I look around a lot.
This post is inspired by the other amazing posts here, here, here and of course here. It started as something just for High School Years but grew... very quickly...
This list was last updated 17 September 2022 / Patch 1.91.205.
More Students at High School (Ksuihuh) OR High School More Class Mates (Aramiteus)
Use one or the other here and read the descriptions because if you use Aramiteus’ version, you need to change MCCC Maximum Sims on Lot Value to about 40.
The main draw is that more students will be on the High School lot. Aramiteus’ mod also adds 2 other teachers and an extra lunch person dependent on how many whiteboards/cafeterias you have on lot. It also requires you to choose your classmates before going to school.
Ksuihuh’s version comes with a script mod to increase the numbers of sims on the lot, as well an extra mod for an extra lunch person. It does not make you pick the sims going to class--you will need Rex’s Choose High School Classmates mod to ensure the sims you want are going to show up to school!
ChippedSim’s High School Tweaks
ChippedSim calls these “tweaks” but a full Active Class experience overhaul is a bit more than that in my opinion!
Please note that updates are coming to this mod ACTIVELY - just today I saw that there were more in class interactions for the Active Classes! So keep an eye out on tumblr or twitter.
ChippedSim also overhauled the lockers so that you can keep more thing in there, as well as buy some stuff! Take a look at the full breakdown here, but I can’t recommend this enough.
ADeepIndigo’s Small High School Years Tweaks
Yes, I’m saying just download the whole lot.
More Discipline adds Parenthood compatibility--you can now discipline your kids for misbehaving/sneaking out/getting expelled. Why wasn’t that included by default? Ask EA, and thank ADeepIndigo in the meantime.
More Fun Pier Rides does what it says: raises the fun meter more!
Less Random Crushes makes it so that crushes are determined by Sims’ personalities instead of just randomly occurring.
Shop for Prom Outfit is just a really cute idea! It costs $100 to buy a prom outfit, and that can only be done once prom is announced.
My favorite has to be More Locker Notes. Don’t just let your sims cyberbully on Social Bunny. Let them passive-aggressively do it in person too.
ADeepIndigo’s Dynamic Teen Life
As of writing this, the mod is still in testing but I’ve been playing with it in my game for a few days and I’m still playing around with it, but it already adds sooo much more to my teen’s lives. More afterschool activities, popularity and cliques, new journal entries (for the Parenthood journals).... Gossip, rumors and having to actually try out to join the cheerleading squad.
Oh yes, I think this’ll become not just an essential mod for HSY users, but for most legacy players as well.
MissyHissy’s Form Groups in School
I won’t be surprised if MissyHissy comes out with some more mods but this is the one from their tweaks I’m currently using. EA didn’t let groups form in school which... you know, you’d think they’d want some cross-compatibility with previous packs to allow for literal cliquey behaviors but.
Anyway, this fixes that!
Lot51.cc’s Fashion Authority
I haven’t played much with this yet for high school but have it in my game for other reasons. This mod lets you take control of townie outfits... Including situation ones, and can restrict by regions. This is excellent if you want to have your sims wear a uniform to Copperdale, for instance, or you have a specific cheerleading uniform in mind, etc.
LittleMsSam’s HSY Bug Fixes
Hopefully we will not need these forever. Until they are patched though...
Take Exam Fix - stops sims from just getting up five minutes after the exam.
NPC Relationship Autonomy Fix - are you tired of random sims barging in, asking you to be BFFs after you added them on Social Bunny? fear not, because this should curb NPCs’ stalking you.
High School Promote Fix - helps the game promote sims from Cs to Bs if they’ve been going to school actively the whole time...
Stop Phone Change Color Obsession - I needed this one bad. Stops sims from changing their phone color every time they visited a new lot, and removed the camera focus as well
Ilkavelle’s Check Events & Sneak Out
A tiny little mod by Ilkavelle to help your sims sneak out, if they haven’t been getting invited out by their classmates!
Ilkavelle’s Teen Aspiration Bundle
I didn’t link this before as the teen aspirations hadn’t been updated to work with high school years... But now they have! This adds a few more teen-only aspirations for your sims (Prom Royalty, Overachiever, Towards Independence and Teenage Rebellion).
ADeepIndigo’s Summer Camps
We’re moving away from High School Years fixes and enhancements straight over to the joys of gameplay. This mod adds Summer Camps to the game which is... actually really super fun? Summer Camp is for children and teen sims; there are a variety of different camps to send your kids off to. This isn’t an active experience; it’s a rabbit hole “job” that replaces school, and there are both day camps and away camps. It’s also ONLY available during the summer, and camp automatically ends when summer does.
Simston Private School [originally by SHEnanigans, adopted by ADeepIndigo]
ADeepIndigo adopted this mod by SHEnanigans after she was hired by EA, and updated it for the most recent patch. There’s not a current write-up about this mod available from a modding source, but there is a review by SnootySims that you can read, or you can read this capture from the Wayback Machine.
This mod recreates the TS2 Headmaster Visit event - if you pass, your child/teen is then enrolled in Private School. No more basic public school for your snooty rich sims!
Homework Tweaks & Subject Homework [originally by Scarlet, adopted by LittleMsSam]
I’ve had this so long, I genuinely forgot how long sims take to do homework. This mod comes in a few different flavors, but it makes sims do their homework... faster! Time is money, right?
Subject Homework also allows sims to raise skill while doing their homework. There’s a couple different options for what homework they can do, and I personally like to try to match it to what class my sims had in High School that day [maybe they write a persuasive essay after Social Studies, etc].
Zero’s University Custom Degrees & Tweaks/Fixes
Maybe you’re like me. Maybe you’ve played TS4 a lot, and you’re tired of all those regular degrees. Maybe you’re a little annoyed that completing university plays into the lie we American millennials were told that going to college is the fast track to riches. Well fear not, because not only does this mod add 15 custom degrees, it also overhauls how degrees play into careers if you want it to.
This is very modular so read the post carefully. I personally play with Zero’s tunings, because I also use University Costs More, Higher Scholarships and Harder Distinguished Degree Acceptance, as well as the Required Degree for Promotion that’s in optional folder. I know TS4 is a fantasy where I can have vampires and werewolves and also secret agents but I also like to make life hard on myself.
If you just want the Custom Degrees, good news: there’s also a file that goes by EA’s tunings so you don’t need to have everything cost an arm, leg and house or require degrees for jobs or anything.
There are other tweaks available, mostly to adjust the autonomy from roommates in dorms.
Revy’s Get Back your Presentation Board
I don’t want to talk about all the times I’ve lost my presentation board. This mod provides a way to get it back. You just have to email your professor.
LittleMsSam’s Choose your Roommate
Lets you pick your dormmates or roommates :’) Great if you have a specific storyline in mind and already have the classmates picked out. This is another mod that has steps so read the post carefully. You can also pair it with LittleMsSam’s Chores mod to set up cleaning rotations :)
Zerbu’s Go to School V5 [Builder’s Tools]
Did you think I’d leave out the child stage? I’m not EA. I’m including this one here as while its actively in development, builders can get started building elementary schools now. You can also read Zerbu’s plans for elementary school here. I would not recommend using the old mod for now, as its considered unsupported and will be replaced by the new version requiring HSY.
But until then, I’m keeping it here as I know Go to School is a long running mod. V4 is here.
Ilkavelle’s Children Aspiration Bundle
Tired of the same 4 aspirations for each kid? Me too!! This mod adds four new aspirations for your kids to complete: Little Entrepreneur, School Star, Little Explorer and Voidcritters Master.
Ilkavelle’s After School Activities Bundles
You’ve got more aspirations so get more things to do after school too! Bundle 1 adds 5 after school activites focused on creative skills, Bundle 2 is on mental skills. The second bundle also requires a few of her events mods...
Ilkavelle Event Mods
The three that are required for the after school bundles [& also usable with the children aspirations!]...
School Trip: take a trip with your class to a museum or park!
Science Fair: yes, HSY has a science fair too, but this is an active event for kids as well! Compete in a science fair against your peers, and perhaps be judged as the best
Debate Event: let your future lawyers compete against each other, starting from grade school. These events can also be attended by teens, in case you want them to go to debate club as well
Talent Contest: well if there’s a science fair, your artsy students should also get a chance to show off, right? This one isn’t required but it is a really cute idea.
Ilkavelle’s One Time Jobs for Teens & Kids
One of the childhood aspiration add-ons is about making some money as a kid. This allows kids to take up some jobs around the neighborhood (pet sitting, dog walking, lemonade stand, etc). Just a nice little add-on for your kids to do something extra.
credit and my many thanks to all the modders who enhance my gameplay exponentially, and to other simmers who have also made mod rec lists that inspired this one. If you have another category of mods you’d like me to post let me know - like I said, I have a lot of mods I play with 😊
#ts4#wcif#mod list#mod recommendations#simblr help#i love mods so much you guys#i really admire console players for loving the game without all the extras but damn#i really love mods#one day i will finally master mod constructor and make the scholarships and aspirations i dream of#until then....................
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Guys, i need help :(
Everytime i try to invite someone to my lot, the sim come completely invisible. I only know they are there because I click in the relationship panel to "focus on sim" and because props like cellphone starts floating up and my sim hugs the air :(
I tried inviting Blue's sister and later their friends to a baby shower but all the guests were invisible i had to exit the game
Also i ve been having saving issues where my game will just save forever until i force it to close :( ive lost some gp bc of that :(
Anybody know how to fix it or is having the same issue? I didnt updated my game yet so it wasnt the patch or outdated mods :(
Reblogs are appreciated too :(
#simblr help#i tried looking by the webs#but the foruns are all years old and seens to be another issue with male sims disappearing bc of a slider or something like that#but mine is happening to all the sims i invite over :(#help
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Townie Makeover WIP: Mystery Adami
Actually, I was playing with another Sim, Drago. Who met a young woman at the Gnome's Arms. They chatted for a bit. Unfortunately, Mystery's Simlish isn't the best yet, so there were a lot of misunderstandings. Ultimately, Drago finds out Mystery is an Alien. And, erm, yeah… I looked her up on the household screen, went to CAS, and got distracted.
In CAS, I ran into a new problem. I can't change Mystery's eye color or skin color. Not a single swatch is showing up in her Alien form. Her human disguise has access to everything. Currently, I'm 50/50ing anyway since one of the mods I use wrecks the UI. If anyone has an idea what to look for in case of the missing eye color and skin color swatches, let me know, please.
#TiallusSims#TiallusTownies#townie makeover#ts4 townie makeover#ts4 premade#ts4 premades#ts4 premade makeover#ts4 alien#ts4 occult sims#ts4 occult sim#occult sim#occult sims#Mystery Adami#simblr help#simblrs helping simblrs
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I feel so embarrassed to even ask this but I want to buy a gaming laptop for the sims 4 that can run with tons of cc and doesn't take hours to load the game. Currently have a Lenovo IdeaPad L340 15 with AMD RYZEN 5-3500U, 16GB, 512 GB SSD. I have 200 GB of CC and moved it to my external drive and run it from there (yes it's possible) and it doesn't matter, it still plays like shit.
Anyone willing to tell me what kind of laptop you guys use? How the sims runs and how many cc you have? If you're just a pc nerd (BLESS YOU) what would you suggest? My limit is around 1500. Keep in mind I'm European but I will glady take any advice!
#sims 4#sims 4 community#simblr#ts4#ts4 simblr#sims 4 cc#sims 4 help#help#laptop#laptop help#ts4 help#simblr help#pc#pc games#gaming#help me lmao#personal
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Um so I'm having an issue with the restaurants in my game where there's basically no staff when I take my sims there, no host, no chef and no waiters, at first I thought it could be bc I forgot to update the dine out reloaded mod but then I updated it and nothing, I deleted it and still nothing! Anyone know what could be happening?
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Probably whispering into the void here, but does anyone know what is causing this lil gap/seam just under the chin here? All of my male sims have it now, and it's worse on some than others.
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help a girl out yall what is wrong with my game??? the other trees render fine?????
i installed ambient lighting earlier which i took out bc the trees in san sequoia render blocky like that, but when i reopened my game it was fixed for that area...i thought it would be fixed on this lot too but????? what the hell man...
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If you download a bunch of CC from a creator who packs their mods inside a folder, this is the easiest way to extract the files without doing it manually.
If you want to move the contents of a source directory and all of its sub-directories to a single destination directory (i.e. flatten the folder structure), it's very easy and you don't even need to bother with the command line.
Just go to the top-level source folder (whose contents you want to copy), and in the Windows Explorer search box type * (just a star or asterisk). This will display every file and sub-folder under the source folder. Now just sort by Type to group all files together, select them all, then cut/copy and paste in the destination folder.
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Friends, please help.
I want to turn my Acres Family landing page into something like this; obviously replacing my excellent art with actual heir pictures. I could either have the faces be links to their stories, or have them underneath thats fine.
My issue is I don't know how to do this, or what tutorial name I'm looking for! I've looked for ages today and come up with nothing, pls help.
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Question: What constitutes CC as maxis match vs. alpha? And what does maxis mix mean?
I’ve been apart of the sims franchise for years. And I started modding my game when I was young. I’ve realized that I actually lack understanding around some of the communities common language around CC and mods.
The following are how I define what the difference is between alpha and maxis match. I’m hoping y’all can help me expand on my definitions and understanding so when I’m downloading content I better understand what I’m looking for and what I like.
Maxis Match - the custom content (cc) looks as though maxis’ art team or game designers would have created something similar. It matches the overall aesthetics of what’s already in the games. To me there appears to be more a cartoon feel and look to the designs. For example, clay hair (which I’ve come to understand is the style of hair art the game uses) would considered maxis match.
Alpha - the CC is designed to look more realistic using real life as inspiration. There’s more a crispness- and this where my definition falls short. What is Alpha content? How can I tell difference? I can usually tell the difference between hairs, as they feel most obvious to me but I don’t even know how I would describe what’s different.
Maxis Mix - Uh, I honestly don’t know what this means. My best guess would be someone who uses both styles of content maxis match and alpha.
Thanks for taking the time to read through this and share your thoughts with me!
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WCIF - For the Villarreal-Bridges this time.
If you recognize any of these items that I am having trouble finding again, please let me know. <3
UPDATE: still looking for
octopus arm lamp
Black lamp
Credenza
af hair
toddler hairy
chair
thank you for everyone for the help!!!! <3 <3 <3
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Kit’s Essential Mods to Enhance your Overall Gameplay
I really love The Sims 4, but I love The Sims 4 because I play a heavily modded game. This is a list of all the major mods I currently use to ✨ elevate ✨ my TS4 gameplay.
This does not really include anything for family gameplay or occults -- I tried to stick to “core” gameplay overhauls. You can find my list of recommended mods for school years here.
This list was last updated 19 February 2023 / 1.95.207.1030
Preface
I wanted to put this at the top because it’s a really important step but so many people don’t know or forget about it:
Whenever you are changing out mods, adding new ones, or updating, always remember to clear your caches. So many miscellaneous problems are solved by deleting two little files in your TS4 folders: avatarcache and localthumbcache.
Also always, always read what the modder has said!!!
MC Command Center
MCCC is such a far-reaching mod that I honestly believe it should be in everyone’s mod folder by default. It added Story Progression before we had Neighborhood Stories. It allows editing of career outfits without an extra mod. It has a teleport sim option so you can pose sims together off lot. It’s more of a what CAN’T it do sort of utility mod. It even makes cheating in game easier!
TwistedMexi’s Better Exceptions
This is another “utility” mod, which is why it’s at the top before we start building a mod folder that is disgustingly huge. Better Exceptions finds those Last Exceptions, pinpoints their cause, and helps you fix the problem. It also runs a report after each patch to check for mod compatibility. Another “must have” to make your modding experience simpler.
The latest public release also helps you track down bad outfit CC so you can finally find that item that keeps attaching itself to each sim walking by or while they’re in the shower. See what I mean? Immensely useful, must have mod.
Wicked Whims OR Wonderful Whims
I’m not here to kink shame you. I’ve used both, depending on what sort of gameplay I’m in the mood for. Both WWs add an attraction system based on appearance, ‘reward’ personality types that are automatically assigned to sims based on their CAS traits and menstrual cycles. One adds NSFW animations, some of which are weirder than others. Use at your age-appropriate discretion.
If you do get Wicked Whims, I advise you also immediately grab the CAS Default Underwear add on so you aren’t surprised by your Sim’s Bits and Bobs while you’re dressing them.
Kuttoe’s Keep Sims in Home Region
I hate walkbys. Like. I hate random walkbys. There is nothing in my game worse than a sim in Oasis Springs just strolling on by in Windenburg. Stay in your freakin lane, Nancy Landgraab.
This is great because 1) it keeps sims designated in certain areas for walkbys, 2) it allows you to assign the world homeless sims should be in and 3) you can allow some worlds to have some crossover. Like, in my mind, Oasis Springs, Del Sol Valley and Strangerville are all pretty close to one another. I allow them to have some overlap. I do not allow Henford on Bagley and Windenburg sims to randomly show up in Strangerville, because in my mind, they are overseas.
There’s also a custom lot trait to allow sims from all over to show up, so tourism can still boom in your worlds.
Language Barriers by Frankk
But now that you’re keeping their sims in their area of the sim globe....
After all, it’s sort of silly that every single sim speaks the same language from the suburbs of Newcrest to the jungles of Selvadorada to the peaks of Mt. Komorebi. Oh no. We have to make this harder on ourselves.
This mod adds 7 languages to the sims universe: Simlish, Windenburgish, Selvadoradian, Toki Sulani, Komorebigo, Tartosiano and Sixami. Your native language is based on the world you live in, family, occult, etc. It limits communication between sims who don’t speak the same language. But! You can learn new languages by studying them... If you have High School Years, you can even pick what language you learn in class? Like? Why wouldn’t you want this??
Lumpinou’s Mod Suite
Lumpinou’s mods are at this point so essential to my game that I don’t know how much farther I could go on this list without naming them.
Mood Pack & Custom Moods for some Moodlets: tons of new moods in game. The Mood Pack is required for some of the other mods on this list [not just Lumpinou’s!]; Custom Moods changes some of the in-game moodlets to match the custom moods.
First Impressions: This nifty mod adds First Impressions to the game--sentiments the second sims meet based on traits. First Impression sentiments can be positive or negative... and maybe for some sims, it’s even Love at First Sight 👀 I’ve recommended it before for Bachelor/ette Challenges, but it’s honestly a mainstay in my regular gameplay. I love when sims are tense around each other because their first meeting went so poorly.
Talents & Weaknesses: Traits can affect how fast sims learn certain skills but isn’t it boring that all creative sims are going to be good at every creative skill? This mod adds innate talents and weaknesses to your sims. It reminds me a lot of Freetime’s One True Hobby, giving a boost to the things they’re naturally talented at doing, but it also does a bonus of giving you skills that they’re just not good out
Road to Romance: This mod overhauls the romance system, adding a romance skill that unlocks more and more interactions the better your sim gets at romancing. It also adds rabbit hole dates for sims to go on together, as well as Couples Counseling!
Open Love Life & No Strings Attached: Open Love Life adds a preference for relationship types (exclusive, non-exclusive or indifference). You can even have a throuple if you like (there’s also basically a ‘hall pass’ option which I think is hilarious but I digress)! No Strings Attached added FWBs before EA added Woohoo Buddies, but it works better... And sims can even eventually catch feelings. Another really really fun storytelling mod.
✨ Relationship & Pregnancy Overhaul: This is one of the crown jewels in Lumpinou’s collection. A whole wide-reaching overhaul of the relationship system. Plays exceptionally well with the above romance-related mods but can be used alone. It adds pretty much everything you could think: preferences on having kids, pregnancy interactions, fertility, woohoo transmitted diseases, fights over unplanned pregnancies, an overhaul of cheating, options for breaking up, custody battles... I’m absolutely missing stuff here. It adds SO MUCH.
✨ LGBTQIA+ Gender & Orientation Overhaul: The other crown jewel imo. This is a complete overhaul of EA’s current system that works alongside the EA one. It allows your sims to fully identify as non-binary sims (as well as agender, genderfluid and transgender). It allows them to question their sexuality and gender. If you want to tell the story of a closeted sim, you can. Sims can come out to one another. There’s queerplatonic relationships. Sims can get unexpected crushes when they thought they were straight and maybe aren’t! It’s INTENSE. Especially as a legacy player, I don’t always go into my saves saying “yes today I think my heir will be nonbinary”... I roll with the punches. This punches me right back.
LittleMsSam’s Mods
Another modder whose wide array of mods are so widely used... It’s hard to imagine my game without them. These are the big ones I use, but I also use a few of her smaller mods (Brush Teeth After Puking and the Wake Up Overhaul are SUPER recommended. Especially the Wake Up Overhaul! It’s so small but adds so much ok moving on)
Pregnancy Overhaul: changes the size of belly, walkstyle when pregnant, and unlocks some interactions -- I usually go for the smaller belly in the 1st trimester only, allowing it to grow larger over time, as well as all the “pregnant sims can do more”... I also add the chance of death. What can I say, I like to live on the edge. Also goes perfectly with Advanced Birth Certificate, if you’re like me and likes that there’s special birth certificates for special occult babies.
SimDa: a dating app for your sims! Find the love of your life, your next one night stand, or just get a blind date.
First Love: for your child sims to have little childhood crushes 🥺
Sul Sul Weather App: don’t you hate when you travel to Sulani for a beach day in game and there’s a full on monsoon happening? This app lets you check the weather before going.
21 Day Seasons: why did EA go from 14 to 28.... why....
Calm Bees: if you’ve ever given in to your sims’ desires and bought them that fucking bee box in spring... you know why this is essential
I also use the following mods for holidays: more holiday icons, holiday traditions, no school tradition, no work tradition, wellness traditions.
MissyHissy’s Hopes & Fears Mod
This is a complete freaking overhaul of wants and fears. In addition to adding whimsets for the later packs that didn’t have them because EA was busy working on the new wants/fears system... It actually upgraded the whims Maxis forgot into wants and made sure there’s sets for children, toddlers and elders. Because y’know. EA “kinda forgot” about those life stages.
Helaene’s Preferences Plus + Preference Bomb
First of all, shout out to Helaene for truly being a real one in terms of sims community longevity. I remember being a kid and downloading their TS2 stuff.
Preferences Plus adds TONS of new likes/dislikes for your sims, some with their own custom interactions--things like which outfit they prefer, favorite flavors and drinks, and more. Preference Bomb then rolls them for all sims in your game--with actual logic applied. Really cool!
Have Some Personality Please! by PolarBearSims
The main draw of this mod is that it completely removed the goofy idle chitchat of nothingness that sims do, along with the increased autonomy to do stuff that makes sense. I love when my sims do things of their own accord! It makes it more fun, more exciting! Otherwise, what is the point of traits anyway.
ChippedSim’s Graveyard, Paws & Claws & Lively Towns
Three mods that add some life to your town.... Well, sort of life....
The Happy Haunts Graveyard mod adds the graveyard lot type, along with appropriate NPCs, moodlets, and some new interactions related to tombstone... But because it’s modular, it also adds some additional paranormal gameplay if you have that stuff pack, some grieving interactions and more. I really like having graveyards in game [especially for my vampire slayers to lurk in].
Paws & Claws is based around animals, naturally--stuff for your pets, preferences for animals besides the cat/dog person traits... But the module I’m really keen on though is the Animal Shelter part! You can build and run your own Animal Shelter in game 🥺
Lively Towns is actually an object based script mod--it allows you to build multi-purpose lots. There are three shops so far (flower store, arts and crafts, and bookstore) but for those lots you see on the gallery that have multiple stores in one... imo it’s invaluable.
Kuttoe’s Random Calls & Texts and Lotharihoe’s Phone Call Overhaul
These two mods add some better... phone usage to your sims. The Phone Call overhaul makes the stupid phone calls you receive way less intrusive and just smarter in general. The additional “delayed invitations” add on is ALSO great for when your sim is invited on a date and you can... you know... get ready for it.
Kuttoe’s Random Texts adds a bunch of new calls and texts messages for your sims (one of my favorites is a call from a parent and they give you some extra money 😭 like how sweet is that?). I’ve had both in my game for a while and they play nicely together from my experience.
ADeepIndigo’s Healthcare Redux & Family Therapy
“Kit if you like traditional The Sims style silly gameplay why do you get these realistic mods” ............. because I like to make the gameplay harder, ok. I like to make my sims suffer. I like the chance of death around every corner for these goobers.
Healthcare Redux does... well... overhaul healthcare in the game. It adds a bunch of more realistic diseases, as well as allergies and injuries, and even medical emergencies. There are also a few new deaths (yay new deaths!).
Family Therapy adds an option that pops up when sims in the same family have negative sentiments towards each other... They can try to work through them and repair relationships with the help of a trained professional. I think that’s super cool tbh??? Like Lumpinou’s mod has couples counseling as a rabbit hole but this also adds a therapist that can make house calls. And it has some functionality for Basemental so..............
ADeepIndigo also has Dental Care and Eye Care mods which I have been... eyeing, but have not played with extensively yet, as well as some mods like Simulation is not Free and SimNation Travel that add to difficulty!
There is also now a Self Image mod, but it comes with the warning that yes, it does delve into EDs. I played with it a bit, and it can make gameplay a lot harder.
Custom Traits
I know not everyone enjoys custom traits--right now, I still use the regular three traits per sim--but sometimes I get a little bored of the same ones, and EA really dropped the ball on traits this game so...
New Emotional Traits by Kuttoe: adds emotional based traits--some are just additional new traits to match the emotions that don’t have them (like Coward) but some are extreme versions of the ones we already have.
New Hobby Traits by Kuttoe: We add movies, we don’t add a Movie Buff Trait. Make it make sense, EA.... There are way more than that though. It also adds a Technophobe trait which I also really missed from TS3.
New Spa Day Traits by Kuttoe: two new traits that play nicely with Spa Day.
Traits by Scarlet: Photographer’s Eye and Socially Anxious! Again! Traits we probably should have but alas!
More Traits by Maplebell: even MORE traits for your sims--these are also very maxismatchy--there is some overlap with some of Kuttoe’s, so ymmv. I use all of them because I like chaos.
Offspring of NPC Traits by Baniduhaine: this one is a little different than the others, as they aren’t CAS traits at all. If you’ve ever played TS3 you might know that offspring of NPC sims would have hidden traits... And if you’ve ever had a kid with Father Winter, you know his kids have a special trait in TS4. This adds inheritable gameplay traits for lots of different NPCs! It adds a little something extra to gameplay, it’s pretty cool 🤓
The Personality Mod and The Hobby Mod by MissyHissy: these are two trait packs that add reward traits inspired by TS2. The Personality Mod adds ones inspired by the 6 TS2 Aspirations, the Hobby Mod by TS2 Freetime. Another one that just... adds a little something more for whim-driven gameplay. I know they aren’t called whims anymore but I’m pretty sure the game strings still call them whims so.
Vegetarian and Lactose Intolerant Overhaul Mods by Robin: another reward trait change--these don’t take away the traits and hide them in CAS, but they make it so that you can simply... choose to be vegetarian. And while your sim probably wouldn’t choose to be lactose intolerant, you can, of course exercise your Watcher-given powers to MAKE them be lactose intolerant. I mean... Why waste a trait slot on either when you could simple be?
Custom Aspirations
I used to use Ky-E’s Aspiration Overhaul, which was fun--it’s now being updated by NC4T and you can find it here--which did what it suggests. It completely overhauls the Aspiration system, making them more lifetime worthy, instead of “extended tutorials” as Ky-E eloquently put it. There were also 38 new aspirations added by the mod.
That said, because I do like to make and share sims with my friends, it’s just been easier on me to switch away from the overhaul to custom aspirations. These are what my game currently has. Ilkavelle made the bulk of these, so I specifically marked other creators.
Applied Animal Behaviorist
Certified Breeder
Dr. Doolittle
Simternet Conquerer
The Mother Plant Resurrection [more Strangerville gameplay? sign me tf up]
UFO Investigator & Art of Flower Arranging
Music Producer
Dedicated Environmentalist
My Own Business
Ultimate Stan - so you can experience the allure of celebrity but not be a celebrity
Voice Virtuoso
Perfectly Balanced
ADeepIndigo’s Platinum Artist
ADeepIndigo’s Blog Star (and blogging hobby!)
MissBee’s Self-Sufficient
Child Aspirations
Teen Aspirations
KiaraSims4′s Twilight Years - this requires a custom event but honestly... worth it just to have something for elders
Mods I am not currently using but still recommend:
Slice of Life: Kawaiistacie’s Big Ass Mod that overhauls... so much. Like. So much. I do really recommend trying it out to see if it works for you, but it’s a bit too much for my games on top of everything else I have--I don’t need two menstrual systems, you know? One is enough.
Lifetime Aspirations: As I said before, it’s easier to pick and choose custom aspirations at the moment than overhaul everything completely. But I do eye it up occasionally and I enjoyed my time playing with it.
ADeepIndigo’s Education Overhaul: the main reason I don’t play with this one is because it’s a bit too much of an overhaul for me--every big overhaul mod runs the risk of incompatibility of other mods, and Zer0′s Required Degrees for Promotions is my preferred mod of choice here.
Kuttoe’s Career Overhaul: ...see above. It’s incompatible with Zer0′s so I don’t have it in my game, but I’ve tried it before and liked it a lot. If you aren’t using Zer0′s Custom Degrees/Required Degrees for Promotions I absolutely recommend it.
Reshade and Gshade: actually I AM using ReShade but I don’t want to call it an essential... Making your game “prettier” isn’t an essential but I do like to have a “brighter” game and I hate editing so I play with ReShade. But I’m not calling it essential so it’s sneaking into the bottom of the list down here.
Basemental Drugs: use at your age-appropriate discretion. I’m still in the “testing it out” phase which is why it hasn’t been bumped to Essential Mod, but I am enjoying it. I am also Very Much An Adult.
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is someone also having issues with alien eyes?
everytime i try to play with genetics (i didnt have a full alien baby in game yet, only "hybrids"), or even just switching between male and female frame or ages, my aliens get a default orange eye color and wont let me change it. When i click on the eyes the game only let me pick eye presets, not colors :/
I dont know how to fix that, pls help
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Ladies, Gentlemen and our fine Enby friends, it's time for Clueless Elder Millennial Has a Tech Question!
Usually when my posts are touching on real world issues that could be triggering to others, I do something like cw: death by killer invisible bunnies and then hide the content beneath a "read more" link. However I've seen that lots of people add cw: death by killer invisible bunnies (okay not that exact thing) to their tags. Which I greatly appreciate, don't get me wrong, but now I'm concerned that my posts may be showing up on others' dashboards without the "read more" option?
Please help this old (well, by fandom standards anyway) lady.
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