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12 hours ago, JustAnotherSimsFan said:

@Twoftmama I've just checked DrChillgood's faster eating mod and it's compatible with patch 1.27.80 

Thanks for checking. Sheesh, it was one I was checking and maintaining for a while. Kinda strange now to have to wait for other reports on its health. Ah, well. He wanted it back.

Thanks for the report. I was imagining they might be too small, heads under the water. But they can. Nice one.

This mod is to stop any unnecessary delays and hold ups of our sim artists publishing and licencing their work. Default rules say Literary Digest has to wait a week per book, and the same for guitar, violin and piano music, DJ Mix tracks and lyrics. Pardon me, but which century are we in?  

So now, whether it be publishing books through Literary Digest or licencing music, DJ tracks and lyrics through other radio producers, none of them will ever hold your creative sims waiting any longer. The fans demand all your sim's latest work, and the producers know better than to stand in the way of the fans with archaic rules and delays. The world does not stop turning, your sims don't stop creating, and the publishers and producers don't get in the way of supply and demand. Welcome to the 24/7 21st Century. Go to the mailbox and publish and licence all you want, whenever you want.

Five separate mods here. All work fine together in game for their respective publishing and licencing. Literary Digest and Licence Song are base game. The DJMix mod is for Get Together EP. Only use the DJMix if you have that EP installed. Licence Lyrics is a function of City Living EP, so only use that mod if you have City Living installed. Licence Pipe Organ music is a function of Vampire GP.

New Addition - December 2018 - As like all mods here, for the Get Famous EP, releasing Mix Master tracks has no silly blocking in place. Make 'em, release 'em, you are the boss. People want your stuff, people get your stuff. Simple. WTF planet are Maxis living on to say, but hold on a minute, - or a couple of days rather in this instance - you can't??? You, famous artist person, we the publishers must stop you because we do not want more business. And Maxis are part of EA?! Really??? The irony being, for this pack, the three Special Producers will get onto your sim a few days later and threaten them to make more... or else. Or else what? You'll sack me off and lose your hot property? So that I go off and sign with another producer and make them mega money instead? Have you lost your frikken minds?!!! Daft, daft. (Perhaps Maxis are finally having a dig at their EA overlords.) Anyway, this mod also stops those totally bonkers threats from coming your sim's way. Last thing you want is to have to make your sim change their name to a symbol to undermine their silly producer's inane rules, "in the absence of security..." (R.I.P Prince & George.)  No more threats. Take as long as you want to produce your art, no frikken deadlines or release dates to make you push out the dreadful, dire dirge.

BTW, I do like that Mix Master Station. Quite fun messing around on the remixing, eh? Good job, Maxis. Bloody good job. More of that please. Or have you now changed your name to a symbol? Go rebels!!! Fuck EA!!!   

cool1_crafting_LiteraryDigest.rar  - Personal update May 2020

cool1_crafting_LicenceSong.rar  - Personal update May 2020

cool1_crafting_LicenceSong_DJMix.rar  - Personal update May 2020

cool1_crafting_LicenceLyrics.rar  - Personal update May 2020

cool1_crafting_LicenceSong_PipeOrgan.rar  - Personal update May 2020

Mix Master Tracks  - More testing needed

For patch version compatibility status, please see most recent Patch News thread for the TS4 General Mods section. 

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Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

It is my duty. For the sake of my avatar Kryten, himself named in homage after the titular butler from The Admirable Crichton, I simply must set the TS4 butlers straight and return them to the path of magnificence.

This mod is designed specifically to guarantee a Masterpiece Painting for those sims who have put in the effort to reach Masterpiece status. If a sim has maxed out all relevant skills, has all relevant traits -  including starting traits and buyable traits, has the room filled with inspiring décor, and you even took the time out to get all their motives in great shape before they stand in front of the easel, then after all that preparation - no mean feat in itself, you'll be wanting to see a Masterpiece work of art for sure. This mod will ensure it. Preparation, preparation, preparation. The key to success.

Sims with low skills, unrelated traits, no inspiring décor and a full, bright red, ready to burst bladder? You're on your own with that...

Update September 2023 - Remade mod with most latest recipe xmls. Yep, did not update older ones, just fetched out latest set from most recent patched game files, did the needed edits - which is nothing intensive really - and here it is, all good for the next decade of TS4. Yep, another decade of it. Great. It's gonna outlive me. Oh, one little difference added. For the mathematical paintings, it's not just set for Focused mood to help with masterpiece, now Inspired mood will work equally as well (As Inspired mood does for all other painting styles). Just in case your top artist sim is in the groove, pumping out a batch of paintings, and you don't want to have to stop and switch up the mood while in the conveyor belt zone. 

cool1_crafting_MasterpiecePainting.rar  - Updated for Patch 1.100 (September 2023)

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Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

Hi, folks. Maxis may well add new painting genres and types over time, as they did with the Grilled Cheese paintings a few months ago. If you spot any new types before I do, please let me know. Then I can incorporate them into this mod.

This mod is designed specifically to guarantee a Bestseller book for those sims who have put in the effort to reach Bestseller status. If a sim has maxed out all relevant skills, has all relevant traits -  including starting traits and buyable traits, has the room filled with inspiring décor, and you even took the time out to get all their motives in great shape before they sit down to write, then after all that preparation - no mean feat in itself, you'll be wanting to see a Bestseller for sure. This mod will ensure it. Preparation, preparation, preparation. The key to success.

Sims with low skills, unrelated traits, no inspiring décor and a full, bright red, ready to burst bladder? You're on your own with that...

Update September 2023 - Remade mod anew with latest book recipe files. This mod contains two new xml files. One I missed a while back, for writing Knitting manuals. Now your top knot Knitting Writers get those guaranteed bestsellers. Also with latest Equestrian file. Those experienced equestrian aficionados, the Writing Riders, can knock out their How To Horsie books happy with the guaranteed galloping bestseller results.

cool1_crafting_BestsellerWriting.rar  - Updated for 1.100 (September 2023)

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Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

Hi, folks. Over time, Maxis may well include new book genres and types into the game. So if you spot any new ones before I do, please let me know. Then I can incorporate them into this mod.

I'll be looking into the Butler Role XML soon. Stripping out most pushes for silliness and injecting stuff from other Roles, making the butlers something special perhaps. Certainly less of a pain in the butt-ler.   

3 hours ago, Rosebine said:

The only time I saw a sim napping in the tub was on a picture someone posted as a.funny thing. :)

Since, I am hoping one of my sim try.but no luck. So thank you!

Is this available to children as well? By default, I mean.

I'm not sure about children. I don't think I've ever tried! I won't be in the game playing for a couple more days, so if you find out before I do, please let me know.

If a sim has earned the Handy Trait, or you give it to them via a debug cheat, then they are given the extra choice to perform and Instant Upgrade on most upgradable objects in the game. Getting all an object's numerous single upgrades done in one, quick hit and not needing any upgrade parts to do it. Marvellous! However, under default rules, there is a punishing 24hr cooldown period in effect between each Instant Upgrade. This slows the game to a snail's pace, and sims just don't live that long to be made to suffer this pointless blocking. This mod removes that cooldown period completely, so that a sim can get on with doing as many Instant Upgrades as you see fit to tell them. Then they might actually get to enjoy the rest of their comparatively short lives having fun with their upgraded objects.

cool1_upgrades_NoInstantUpgradeDelay(RH).rar  - No update required

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339BC5BD!00000000!0000000000018601_Commodity_Trait_TheKnack_UpgradeTimer_StatisticTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis, ReubenHood

This mod was an original idea from ReubenHood. He has not kept his MTS account active in some time, and a patch at the end of 2016 made his version outdated. So I have taken over the maintenance of it. All thanks and credit to ReubenHood.

No, that push is a separate thing. For as long as snaitf did this mod and I took over recently, it's always been a big, wet sob-fest in my game when the Reaper comes a' calling.

This mod has been through a big change after Seasons. The older version just did not fit the bill any longer. (Didn't frikken work any longer!) It's no longer about how long a puddle lasts - those days are over. It's about certain sims bitching about puddles! When I first made this mod (Posted on MTS yonks ago.) sims instinctively moaned about puddles, yet never-frikken-ever mopped them up.  Hence the birth of this mod. Now, however, they do actually tend to autonomously mop up puddles, (On Residential lots.) if they have the Neat trait. But, of course, not before having a good, long bitch about them first. And on community lots, it's still just the same, old bitching and still no frikken mopping. (Because their visitor "Role XML" and its hidden buffs disallows them to "clean." Maybe it should also disallow them to bitch, too, in a perfect world. But that's a whole other type of mod...)

Since Seasons, puddles can be a fun thing to play in for the kids and the weird-er adults. And to be honest, why the heck not? Knock yourselves out. Enjoy life and all its... wetness. Until it drowns everyone in a Biblical flood scenario... again... But until then, puddles - and how long the game says they last - is no longer the focus of this mod. Sim puddle-bitching is. (As it always has been.)

Two mods here to mix and match.

1 - The first mod leaves all puddles to sit there as long as Maxis say they should sit there. Though a new interaction when clicking on the puddle to "Instantly Evaporate" the puddle if you're sick of looking at it - or sims bitching about it. 

Note - Works on all puddle types, water, oil, green goo & vomit.

2 - Which directly leads to the second mod, that water puddles no longer give off a negative room score. So no sims bitching about them EVER AGAIN, no matter how long you let the little wet pools of wonder sit there till Maxis laws finally evaporate the blighters.

Note - Vomit puddles, Oil and Green Goo puddles still have sims complaining. Because I would complain, too, if a puddle of oily, green-goo vomit was on my floor! What am I, totally detached from reality?! But when it comes to just plain, simple water puddles? STFU about it already...

So now the player gets to choose when to disappear the fuc.. ahem... puddles, and to also stop all that annoying sim moaning about them if you want the fuc... ahem... puddles to stay.

How good is that?! Modders that give you so much puddle choices! My, how I spend my days... 

Important Note - As of the massive Seasons patch, Maxis decided after four years to remove access to many debug cheats. This means that mods such as this one, that rely on those cheats being in place, will probably not work correctly. There is a solution. TwistedMexi has a mod that restores debug cheats back the way they were, the way they have been for the past four years. Find it here - https://www.patreon.com/TwistedMexi/overview - I also use this mod and recommend that you do too, to restore debug cheats and get my mods, like the one here, working again.

Mod 1- Instant Puddle Evaporation - Player's Choice

cool1_puddles_InstantEvaporationCommand.rar  - New for August

Mod 2 - Water Puddles No Negative Room Score (Sims No Moaning About Water Puddles)

cool1_puddles_WaterPuddlesNoNegativeRoomScore.rar - New for August

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B61DE6B4!00000000!0000000000003AA6_puddle_Black_Small_ObjectTuning.xml
B61DE6B4!00000000!0000000000003AA7_Puddle_Large_ObjectTuning.xml
B61DE6B4!00000000!0000000000003AA8_Puddle_Medium_ObjectTuning.xml
B61DE6B4!00000000!0000000000003AA9_Puddle_Small_ObjectTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

If, like me, you are not a fan of your sims lives being randomly, suddenly and brutally ended, - at least not without your say so first - then this mod is designed to make our Cowplants a worthwhile, peaceful addition to the home, garden and community lots. And also prolonging the life of a Cowplant by extending the very short window between feedings that oftentimes is neglected, resulting in the poor Cowplant's sudden death. Any wonder they are so vicious?! 

Under default times, once a Cowplant reveals its cake of death, indicating it's hungry, the time is ticking to feed it within 24 hours before it turns into a dead, skeleton Cowplant. That short window is so easily missed. So I have extended the countdown to now last a week, giving players ample time to remember to feed the thing.

You may think that's worse, seeing as the cake of death will be exposed to lure unsuspecting sims for much longer.

Never fear, that's where the second part of this mod comes in. If any sim is foolish enough to grab the cake, then after the Cowplant swallows them it will always spit them back out again. The sim covered in nasty, stinky green slime, but very much alive! And, as a bonus for you cooks, chefs and pie-makers extraordinaire, the udders will always be full of that sim's emotional juices to be milked and mixed into those delicious Essence of Cowplant Pies. Or just straight-out gulp down the glass and feel the tingling mood milk joy. Mmm... Mood Juice... Yummy...

The push and chance of a gullible sim grabbing the cake is exactly as Maxis intended. I have not altered those default parameters.

Personally, I simply would not have Cowplants in my game without this mod. Now that I do have them, they are another bit of harmless fun.

cool1_garden_CowplantTweaks.rar  - Updated for 1.44

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5B02819E!00000000!0000000000003B7F.Hunger_3_Hungry.ObjectStateTuning.xml
5B02819E!00000000!0000000000003B80.Hunger_4_Withered.ObjectStateTuning.xml
339BC5BD!00000000!00000000000040FB.commodity_Object_Cowplant_Hunger.StatisticTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!00000000000037A6.si_Cowplant_Eat_And_Drain.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!00000000000037A7.si_Cowplant_Eat_And_Spit.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!00000000000184D2.si_Cowplant_Eat_And_Spit_While_Empty.InteractionTuning.xml
5B02819E!00000000!0000000000003B7C.Hunger_00_Default.ObjectStateTuning.xml
5B02819E!00000000!0000000000003B7D.Hunger_1_Bloated.ObjectStateTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

There are a few interactive objects that I would prefer sims to fetch out and put back into their own inventory when using. To prevent the sims plonking them just about anywhere when done and, more often that not, have me pulling my hair out trying to locate them again. Never knowing if they just thoughtlessly dropped it somewhere obscure and silly, or has a glitch just deleted the object for good. This ends those concerns, as they just pop it back into inventory when done using it.

The current four object types I have applied this rule to are  1. Tablets (Slablets)  2. Clay Blob  3. Future Cube  4. Toddler Wabbit Tablets

18th September 2017  - New Feature Added -  Now for both Slablets & Wabbits, sims of all ages, including toddlers, can personalize their tablets by naming them. Up to thirty characters allowed in the naming window, so it should fit most sim names, even those with double-barrelled hyphenated names. Though maybe not the Spencer-Kim-Lewis' of the sim world. But certainly enough characters to make it uniquely their own. I know under most normal circumstances sims put these tablets back into their inventories due to the help of these mods. But certain game conditions cause them to drop the tablets on the floor if they were using one. The odd sim reset can occur and make them drop one. But the biggest offender is going through a loading screen, as it causes all sims using one to drop it on the floor. I got fed up of seeing mystery tablets lying around at venues wondering who they belong to. And just today, my scientist sim was about to leave home for work at the labs, and the teen was on their tablet. He came home after work and tablet was on the floor where the teen had been sitting that morning. Easy enough to know whose it is during those scenarios, but what about when at the park or libraries, with other sims from other families who are forced to drop theirs? That's it, I had enough, and finally added this feature that I've been thinking of for a while. Now if you spot a tablet abandoned down at the park, you can call the owner sim to come join your sim there, and Live Drag the tablet onto the sim so it goes back into their inventory as their reclaimed rightful property. No more abandoned mystery tablets. Name it and keep it. (Though the Get Together EP introduced a hidden "Auto Use Tablet" buff on the visitor roles for libraries and cafés, so it generates free ones for visitors to use when in those roles, so you may find some of those freebies also laying around after a loading screen when leaving then returning to a Windenburg venue.) 

New Feature Added January 2019 -  Added new option on the slablet to change in and out of celebrity disguise. Doesn't seem like much of a deal, but if you've sent your celebrity sim to a venue, and suddenly realised all other sims are gong to start crowding round them, and you just want some peace and quiet and you need them to change into their disguise pronto, (And to get to the nearest mirror you'll have to pass 50 excitable sims en route.) then you'll be glad this feature is on their slablet. Can be selected from slablet while still in the inventory and sim will immediately change into disguise. Peace and quiet coming right up, and no mirrors even needed. Mainly did it as a proof of concept, with the idea to get sims to do many other things with a simple click on the slablet while still in their inventory. So expect more helpful options like this to pop up on those little gadgets of wonder.

cool1_inventory_PutTabletInInvertory&NameSlablet.rar  - Updated for 1.55

cool1_inventory_PutTabletInInvertoryToddler&NameWabbit.rar  -   No Update Required

cool1_inventory_PutFutureCubeInInventory.rar  -   No Update Required

cool1_inventory_PutClayBlobInInventory.rar -  No Update Required

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Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

Footnote - July 2018 -  The Put Toys In Inventory mod will no longer be supported. Children with toys in their inventory can and do cause Last Exceptions when trying to multitask playing with toys while doing something else, like sitting in hottub. No toys in inventory = no random multitasking LEs. 

This mod first makes the choice to Nap as an available pie menu option when clicking on all bathtubs. It has always been a hidden autonomous function, and remains just as autonomous. But no longer hidden. So you can now command sims to do it for yourself.

Also, following the lead from MadameButterfly's Power Nap mod, I too increased the bath nap to match the energy boost potency. So napping in the tub really is a great time saver on getting your sims cleansed and refreshed and ready to start doing other things. Bathtub napping by default has an energy boost, I've just made it three times more potent and more worthwhile.

cool1_sim_NapBathPieMenu.rar  - Updated for 1.61

For patch version compatibility status, please see most recent Patch News thread for the TS4 General Mods section. 

XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!0000000000003311_bathtub_Nap_InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

This mod is to stop our sims from Trolling the Forums autonomously on both computers and tablets.

This mod is an original idea of MadameButterfly's in her section here at this site. I took over maintaining it after MB retired from modding. Please follow link if you wish to read more details from the original creator -  http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

cool1_sim_NoAutoTrollForumsComp&Tab(MB).rar  - Updated for 1.52

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XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!00000000000033B8.computer_TrollForum.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!000000000000381B.tablet_TrollForum.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000007BA6.Computer_Use_Troll_Forums.InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis, MadameButterfly

All thanks and credit to our wonderful MadameButterfly for the original idea.

This mod is to stop our sims from playing games on their tablets (Slablets) autonomously.

This mod is an original idea of MadameButterfly's in her section here at this site. I took over maintaining it after MB retired from modding. Please follow link if you wish to read more details from the original creator -  http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

cool1_sim_NoAutoPlayTabletGames(MB).rar  - Updated for 1.44

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XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!0000000000003818.tablet_Play_Family.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000003819.tablet_Play_Sports.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000003817.tablet_Play_Adventure.InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis, MadameButterfly

All thanks and credit to our wonderful MadameButterfly for the original idea.

This mod is to stop our sims from playing computer games on their PCs autonomously. (Has no effect on Gaming Consoles that come with City Living EP.)

This mod is an original idea of MadameButterfly's in her section here at this site. I took over maintaining it after MB retired from modding. Please follow link if you wish to read more details from the original creator - http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

cool1_sim_NoAutoPlayComputerGames(MB).rar  - Updated for 1.61

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Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis, MadameButterfly

All thanks and credit to our wonderful MadameButterfly for the original idea.

This mod is to stop our sims autonomously making drinks on the traditional bars in their homes.

This mod is an original idea of MadameButterfly's in her section here at this site. I took over maintaining it after MB retired from modding. Please follow link if you wish to read more details from the original creator - http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

cool1_sim_NoAutoMakeBarDrinks(MB).rar  - Updated for 1.44

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XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!0000000000003304_bar_StartCraftingAutonomously_InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis, MadameButterfly

All thanks and credit to our wonderful MadameButterfly for the original idea.

This mod is to stop our sim ghosts from the repeat, autonomous actions of possessing furniture and breaking electrical and plumbing objects. It will still be a unique object interaction that you can command your sim ghosts to do, but they can no longer do it willy-nilly, every five minutes by themselves. I only ever had one group gathering of ghosts for a "friendly" party prior to this mod, and boy did I regret it. There was nothing friendly in the ensuing carnage and wrecked home in the aftermath. Pop stars trashing hotel rooms have got nothing on sim ghosts. With this mod harmony and peace are restored, so that their persistent possessing of your positioned possessions is positively put to an end. (eh?) Ain't gonna happen no more.

Update - March 17th 2018 - Now also bans pet ghosts from possessing objects autonomously and a unique one I missed that came with the Vampires GP, where ghosts can "Possess AND Play" the pipe organ. Didn't even know about that one till I played with a ghost for the first time in ages, and they would not leave the blooming pipe organ alone - seeing as it was the only thing the ghost could possess - AND play. Ain't gonna happen no more, neither.

cool1_sim_NoAutoPossess&NoAutoBreakStuff_Ghosts.rar  - Updated for 1.61

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XML Resource Used:

DEBAFB73!00000000!0000000000018FE7_broadcaster_Ghost_Possess_BroadcasterTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000018F72_Ghost_Possess_InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000019021_Ghost_Possess_Break_Electrocution_InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000019176_Ghost_Possess_Break_Plumbing_InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

This mod is aimed at stopping our sims from autonomously activating music on the floor and table stereos, and the radio music function on the DJ Booth. I originally liked the idea that a sim can turn on the music to listen, while sitting in the kitchen eating their breakfast. It felt real and good and... and... and then the rest of the family comes rushing in to dance, and the original operator ups and leaves for work leaving stereo still active. Then the rest of the dance troupe family likewise leaves for work and school, and the stereo is still active. Then you hear that five other stereos in the home are all still active, and there's nobody there but you painfully listening to the unholy cacophony. Has to stop! With this mod a quiet calm is restored as the home stereos are left alone until you feel like a nice bit of music is appropriate.

Although the DJ Booths are objects that come with Get Together EP, it is not a requirement that you have it installed to use this mod. It's good for all game usage no matter your combination of EPs, GPs or SPs.

cool1_sim_NoAutoStereo.rar  - Updated for 1.61

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Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

This mod is to stop our sims from autonomously smelling the contents of the Fruit Punch Fountain. The mechanics of this action are different from the other actions to smell food. This one can be even more annoying, as it forces sims to stand to do the smelling action. Really odd when a bunch of sims have sat down to eat a group meal, then they all get the push to smell the punch in the nearby fountain, and so stop eating to stand and do it, then pick up their meal to continue eating while standing. Too odd for my tastes. So this mod stops the push to smell the punch fountain.

You will need to have Glamour Life SP installed for the Fruit Punch Fountain object.

cool1_sim_NoAutoSmellFriutPunch.rar  - Updated for 1.44

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XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000001!000000000001CB48_fruitPunchFountain_Smell_InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

Not a problem, I can get that sorted for you. It'll be good to hear if it does work 100% on butlers, because that's the element I'm not totally sure is halted outright.

Update -  It's up now. Let me know if it does the trick.

Hi, Alamain. I'll not be maintaining that one any longer. That mod is now back in the hands of the original creator, DrChillgood on MTS.

This mod is to heavily reduce our sims autonomously peeing - fertilizing - in the WooHoo Bush that came with Get Together EP. It was considered by the devs to be just as much a fun thing to do as the age old bladder emptying requirement, with a very high attraction score to use much more than traditional toilets. So our sims were rushing off to do it, not unlike a pet dog, just out to mark it's territory, rather than answering the call of nature. Although for a dog, both are answering the call of nature. But for a sim, not so much. I don't recall the last time I peed all over my friend's houseplants because I liked going to his home, and I don't suppose he'd invite me back too often if I did. But I've used his toilet plenty. And so should our sims continue to use toilets, when on residential lots. Sims will continue to pee on community WooHoo Bushes, because, what the hey? But WooHoo Bushes at home should be left alone if they are not the only toilet facility on the lot. Get Together EP is a required install for this mod to be of any use in your game.

cool1_garden_bushFertilize_LowAttraction_LessTimeStink.rar  - Updated for 1.47

For patch version compatibility status, please see most recent Patch News thread for the TS4 General Mods section. 

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This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis

Hi, folks. This one was a wee bit tricky to get the balance right. Faced with the outright global banning of bush peeing, or just keeping residential usage to an absolute minimal, I opted for the latter. So if you set up your residential homes with a single toilet in the middle of a crazy maze, with an abundance of WooHoo Bushes at every turn en route, then the outcome will be stinky, green-foggy bushes every time and a squeaky-clean unused toilet. Though not may people outside of Alice's Wonderland hide toilets away like that. At least I hope not...

Footnote: Update October 2017 - A few little tweaks done to this mod, and a renaming to better suit it. Since this mod never fully stopped sims peeing in the bush, I thought the "No Auto" prefix was always a bit of a misnomer. Now that's been corrected. (I will remove the old name from the mod thread title in due course. Just giving folks a few weeks to spot the new change first.)  I never wanted to end the chance of sims peeing in the bush completely, given the bush may be the only access to a toilet on some community lots. (The Windenburg Haunted Mansion and its massive maze being one such location, as too the Ruins.) What I did want is to stop sims using it even if they did not need to pee. That has been done more efficiently now buy removing the silly, reckless high bladder attraction Maxis put on the interaction. Now the bush is no more attractive than using a bog-standard toilet (if you'll pardon the pun.) Also, I believe equally as annoying as sims using it pointlessly, is how long the bush will stink after being used as a toilet. Many horrid, agonising hours in default play. This mod now jolts that to be a massive twenty times faster, so now the bush only stinks for an average of ten sim minutes, till it stops making your pretty garden look like a nasty swamp. Please remove older No Auto version if you are going to use this new renamed version. I will no longer be supporting the No Auto version as this new mod is an improvement on usage balance in every way.   

This mod will stop our sims from the repetitive, autonomous mourning of tombstones and urns. Showing your continual love and respect for the dearly departed is a natural and beautiful thing. And I know the deceased fully appreciate it - under normal circumstances. Because I also know when the deceased have had enough of the overzealousness. They holler aloud from the beyond, "you still have a life, so go do something more useful with it than coming back here every five minutes!" And this mod is here to bring a more happier balance to that. "I see dead people..." No, I don't, but I do hear them, kinda. And they say to sims, "just go away and leave me alone for five minutes already, sheesh..." This mod will make sims stay away until you choose when it is the fit and proper time to mourn.

As of November 1.36, Maxis have expanded on their crazy, random culling system to now delete the ghosts/graves of departed family members who have not been mourned within a certain time period. Don't you just love it when game devs play the game for you, because they deem you incapable of playing it properly yourself? Cheers, Maxis. Though you should really make the game fully online, so when I boot it up you can just jump straight in, take over and start playing it directly for me there and then. Don't do it in half measures. Now who's the incapable ones?

So be warned, and occasionally mourn the mourned, lest they soon be forlorn and gone.

cool1_sim_NoAutoMourn.rar  - Updated for 1.47

For patch version compatibility status, please see most recent Patch News thread for the TS4 General Mods section.

XML Resource Used:

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, Sims4Studio, our sims community, EA Maxis, Snaitf

This mod was an original idea of Snaitif, who no longer keeps their MTS account active. The original mod was rendered outdated by a patch at the end of 2016, so I took over the maintenance of it. All thanks and credit to Snaitf.