coolspear

On ‎10‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 5:07 AM, skanning said:

Does this also work for townies?  I don't know who's abandoning their stablets and books but if I ever need one there always seems to be one on the picnic tables in the community lots  lol  I'm always tempted to have my Sim pick them up then sell them.  I  haven't tried that yet and just maybe there will no longer be these things lying around?  I hope so.

This is a good question. If you give tablets to many sims while doing rotational play, then sims from other households will continue to use tablets on community lots and put them back into their own inventory. However, they do sometimes drop them. I've yet to spot it in action, the actual moment they drop it rather than put into their inventory. So I can't verify what occurred to make them do this. I'm working on a theory that if one of these sims is using tablet, at the time you send your played sim home, then the initiation of the loading screen has those sims just drop what they're doing, literally dropping tablets. So the next time you go back to lot there's one or two going spare.

Not only this, but, when sims go to lots, they enter into a specific Job type for that lot. All visitors become employed by the lot, so to speak, even your own sim in a specific job. Every job in the game has an accompanying Role XML, which defines the dos and don'ts of the job. Venues such as libraries and cafes, the job and the Role XML has specific lines to use tablets. As such, I've witnessed with my own eyes, sims who I knew did not own a tablet five minutes beforehand, whip one out of their inventory and use it as if it was always there. So then I jump to play their home five minutes later and, yep, they don't have a tablet because they never did have a tablet! Did they too just drop that freebie when the loading screen was initiated?

Despite the game not adequately protecting clumsy sims from dropping their gear, it does have some pretty solid rules of ownership in effect. (Discovering this while doing much experiment with my storage mods on many lot types and with many stored objects and who owns what, when and where.) That if a tablet is the true property of a clumsy sim, bought for them once upon a time on their own home lot, the game will remember this and other sims will not be able to put that item into their own inventories. Sure, they'll use and abuse the crap out of it, no problem. But they'll never be allowed to take it home nor sell it off via a quick sale from their own inventory. Only the original owner can come and reclaim it, take it off lot or sell it.

This mod changes the animations to something more friendly when a sim asks another sim to leave their home. This mod is an original idea of RuebenHood. He no longer keeps his MTS account active. Subsequently, plasticbox took up maintaining it for a while, but now plasticbox no longer updates any mods. The January toddler patch broke this mod, so I shall take up the maintenance of it henceforth.

RuebenHood's original and funny description of the mod says it all, so I shall quote that here directly.

"Here's an attempt to try to tone down the overly harsh Ask to Leave interaction. It seemed to me like the Sim asking the other to leave was annoyed and the guest looked embarrassed to have overstayed their welcome. Wouldn't have been so bad if it was based on relationship or emotion but it was the same for me every time. Seemed really bi-polar. Thanks for coming over for dinner. Now get off my property! We should be BFFs, like forever! Now get off my property! I love you so much! Be my girlfriend? Now get off my property!

This is a simple XML tuning mod that replaces the Ask to Leave interaction's animation with that used for the Good-Bye interaction you get when having a conversation off of the home lot. Normally, Ask To Leave plays an animation called Soc_Generic_NT_Complain_Succeed_basic, seems very ornery. The new animation played is Soc_Greet_NT_Wave_basic, which is the one used for Good-bye. Just smile and wave."

cool1_social_FriendlierAskToLeave(RH).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:

E882D22F!00000000!00000000000032CA_ask_toLeaveLot_InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

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

All thanks and credit to ReubenHood for the original idea of this mod.

This mod allows our poet sims to bind the Book of Life to the ghost of a dead sim. This mod is an original idea of ReubenHood. He no longer keeps his MTS account active and his mod was broken with the January toddler patch. So I will take up maintaining it henceforth. I think RuebenHood's excellent and funny description of the mod cannot be topped, so I will simply quote it here directly.

"Normally to bind a Sim to the Book of Life you have to use the Capture Epic Saga interaction on them at any point before they die. Somehow you're Epic Poet can turn the life of a child in grade school into an epic tale of triumph and woe, but after a Sim has died...complete blank. They've got nothing. Your Sim is the greatest writer on earth but a legendary obituary, an exaggerated recapitulation of another Sim's life, is beyond their scope. What madness is this?

This elementary XML tuning mod allows Ghosts to be the target of the Capture Epic Saga interaction found on the Book of Life. Your Epic Poets will now have the power bind the Dead.

Only the Sim filter has been adjusted, the other requirement of having at least met the Sim still remains. Be warned, a Sim who's spirit has been released to the Netherworld no longer has a ghost and will not be available to be bound to the Book of Life."

November 2017 - Now further amended so your sims can also write epic poems and family sagas about their adorable wee toddlers, before they grow up to become scruffy kids and spotty teens where they'd sooner throw books at their heads than write books of their tales.

(Don't forget to physically remove the outdated version as this newly-named mod will not overwrite it.)

cool1_crafting_BindGhostBookOfLife_&Toddlers.rar  - Updated for 1.44

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

XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!00000000000078D4.book_Of_Life_Picker_Bind.InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

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

All thanks and credit to ReubenHood for the original idea of this mod.

This is a fun edit of the Drink_FountainOfYouth ITUN to open Leon's Fountain of Youth for sims to drink from it autonomously. Also added a medium fun motive push to it so sims will drink from fountain to have some fun, and gain an extra day of life for doing so! Only the drink from function is autonomous. I did not alter the make a wish option as that can have negative consequences.

Also, just for a giggle, I added it to be one of Bonehilda's Goofoffs. So now, after she jumps out of her coffin, she may very well go to take a swig from the fountain. Might help explain why she just keeps on going, even after she has long since died.

Leon's Fountain of Youth is a Premium Store item that comes with Hidden Springs World.

cool1_Auto_Drink_FountainOfYouth_Bonehilda.rar

Tested and working fine with game version 167-169

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, S3pe, our sims community, EA Maxis

This is a simple alteration of the Eat_CarnivalFoods ITUN to make the carnival foods from the cotton candy stall and the popcorn stall actually fill hunger motive when sims eat them. The amount the hunger motive fills is comparable to a snack. So it won't fill the hunger bar in one go, and as such leave plenty of room for the sims to keep coming back for more while having a fun day out at a Wonderland carnival.

Originally, all the cotton candy and popcorn filled was the fun motive. Now they sensibly and realistically fill hunger too.

Both objects are Store items that come with the Wonderland Lot.

cool1_CarnivalFoodFillsHunger.rar

Tested and working fine with game version 167-169

Thanks and Credit: Simsasylum, S3pe, our sims community, EA Maxis

Hi, folks. This section here will be for my TS3 mods, what little of them there are currently. Really, only three left from what was once a great many. After TS4 came out I stopped playing TS3, eventually uninstalled it, then the dumbest of all things, I got rid of all the mods I'd made for it except the ones safely uploaded elsewhere. I had all the great mods from this site, MTS, NRass, everywhere, and still found so many to make that filled the gaps for so many other things in the game. Then went and threw them all away. Idiot!

Only very recently, I woke up in a cold sweat thinking of all the money I'd spent on TS3 and all Store Stuff, and rushed to reinstall it all on my PC, just to know the money wasn't completely wasted. Even had fun playing it again. Even went round getting all of those old, great mods back again. All except my own. IDIOT!!!

Well, I will upload the ones that did survive. And, maybe, I might even get round to making a few of the ones that were lost. Then not so idiot. 

This mod stops the otherwise prolific chance for a fire happening when unskilled children use the Junior Wizard Chemistry Lab. A terrible Catch 22. The unskilled child tries to learn. The unskilled child cannot learn because a fire is almost always going to happen. Never mind having to replace the burnt objects all the time. Needs to stop. This mod does just that.

cool1_crafting_noFires_JuniorWizardChemicalTable.rar  - Updated for 1.52

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

XML Resource Used:

0C772E27!00000000!00000000000121C8_Loot_Fire_TestChildMental_ActionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

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

Once our child sims have mastered the child art skills, and have a few traits to make them better artist, then, with an inspired mood and all motives in good shape, why shouldn't they be producing masterpiece artwork like the adults can? I know it's hard for adults to judge children's painting is such terms as masterpieces, what with all the sticky glue, blobby crayon streaks and glitter all over it. But I'd put that down to an adult's narrow-mindedness, rather than a child's failing to produce such quality work. So it's time to redress the imbalance, and let those child prodigies shine through with their masterpiece art, glitter, glue and all.

And won't those narrow-minded adults be happy when they see the price tag that some of those child masterpieces can fetch. That'll pay for the child's eventual college and university fees come the day, and then some!

If it is your first time using this mod, than after installing to mods folder, it is advised to replace any of the children's crafting tables in game, so the new tables can pick up the change.

cool1_crafting_ChildMasterpieceArt.rar  - No update required

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

XML Resource Used:

EB97F823!00000000!0000000000003DA6_recipe_Painting_ActivityTable_Monster_RecipeTuning.xml
EB97F823!00000000!0000000000007526_recipe_Painting_ActivityTable_People_RecipeTuning.xml
EB97F823!00000000!0000000000007527_recipe_Painting_ActivityTable_Vehicles_RecipeTuning.xml
EB97F823!00000000!0000000000007528_recipe_Painting_ActivityTable_Shapes_RecipeTuning.xml
EB97F823!00000000!0000000000007529_recipe_Painting_ActivityTable_Animal_RecipeTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

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

The mod here is to force our sims to continue walking when they're on the outside grounds of a residential venue. By default, as soon as their feet hit the outside areas, they take to running. Not my cup of tea. I prefer them to just walk. Strolling round the mansion maze and enjoying the time in the garden, very nice. Running round the maze in a panic like Keanu Reeves in a Speed movie where they'll blow up if they dare to slow down, not so good. Not such fun. No earthly need for it.

It also directly prevents house fires from happening. So sims don't even need to run about in fearful panic, as they will never experience an outbreak of destructive fire in their homes.

Update December 2022 - Now comes with a few more new features. As well as the No Running and No House Fires, residential lots also come with no Temperature Reactions, - (aka No freezing or overheating to death.) It also prevents sims changing into summer or winter wear while on a lot. Sims may very well be pushed into wearing seasonal clothing during a lot load, when going to visit friends and neighbors homes. That's fine. What this stops in an annoying glitch of sims changing into seasonal clothes when indoors, while you are playing a session. Especially noticeable if it's winter, and you send sims down into a basement, and they think they have to change into winter wear because basements can be seen as outside by the game. Akkk! This mod stops all that. They'll run walk around naked in the snow now on their home lots, with no auto clothes changing. And no Temperature Reactions to boot.

Also there is coding to lessen the chances of sims autonomously going round looking at artwork in their house all blooming day. Curb that enthusiasm. Also no autonomous tipping sims playing instruments. No drop what you're doing just to go throw a few coins at your parent who's playing the piano. STOP THAT! It has all been coded to only prevent this type of stuff on residential venues, both houses, apartments or penthouses alike, as that's where it's most annoying. But it will not stop them viewing art, gathering round and clapping musicians, tipping performers, all that jazz, when on community venues. I have no qualms with sims doing it there.  

Also a very high autonomy push added to this mod, for all sims child upwards who become randomly sick with one of the illness types, to go cure themselves using a special object. You can find that object mod here -  https://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/topic/16452-mood-manager-machines-new-for-december-2022/   

And finally, all residential homes will now come with a hidden No Privacy buff. So let them run walk around naked in the snow, no seasonal wear changes, no Temperature Reactions (aka DEATH), and nobody else in the house going bananas about your sim being butt naked. To really seal the deal and totally prevent all the annoying, prudish Victorian privacy reaction shenanigans, also use this mod - https://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/topic/13282-no-more-privacy-shooing-or-reacting-to-nude-all-ages-update-october-2024/

Update March 2025 - Needed update to bring residential living in line with Business & Hobbies coding. Also a third penthouse xml added to Penthouse mod to cover the latest penthouses in Lovestruck, because Maxis love making new penthouse xmls every time they add more penthouses to the game. (Because they make newer elevators in those EPs, ergo using old Penthouse xml will not allow access to new penthouse if it has new elevator object access. Given that a player might not have older packs that have older elevators. All logical, I guess.)

Update May 2025 - New alternative addition added. Ever since Turbodriver gave us the news last year that the Social Bunny phone app is yet another shameless contributor to game lag, - and a mod to help reduce the lag potential- https://www.patreon.com/posts/116065084 - I thought wouldn't it also be better for all sims to have their Social Bunny deactivated, too? So with Turbo's mod and Social Bunny deactivated on a global scale, that's gotta be better right? But how does a player go about deactivating Social Bunny on a global scale? One by one, sim by sim? Errr... no. With over six hundred sims in my world, I did attempt doing this, but that was at the end of last year and we're in May 2025 now and I'm still not halfway done. The thing is, to do it properly, every sim in the world has to be given the hidden trait, that also has a hidden buff, to officially recognize their Social Bunny app is properly turned Off.  Giving them the hidden buff on its own is not enough. It will be removed without the hidden trait constantly enforcing it. So to speed things up in my quest to deactivate app for ALL sims in my universe, first I built it into all residential type homes to instantly deactivate app for all residents, tenants and/or roommates and even temporary lot visitors (I think) associated with that lot. With this alternative mod, just load up lot and all sims relevant to lot will instantly be given official trait and its buff and have their Social Bunny app officially and properly deactivated forevermore. As usual, do not use this mod with original version. These versions have "SBD" added to their name to indicate "Social Bunny Deactivation." I will also be uploading a new mod in a new thread that makes sims autonomously deactivate the Social Bunny app themselves because it is an extremely fun thing to do, with extremely high static commodities to push even harder, - to a sim that is the equivalent of the voice of God in your head commanding you DO IT NOW! Of course, they only need do this the one time. To work alongside this mod to eventually and quickly catch all sims, homeless and worker NPCs, who are not residential sims, and the player does not have to do the wretched sim by sim grind. Social Bunny BE GONE!!!  If you too have six hundred sims or thereabouts, I know you'll appreciate this.

That other mod can be found here - https://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/topic/16801-autonomous-social-bunny-deactivation-with-extreme-prejudice-new-for-may-2025/

Download

Venues Residential.rar  -  Update March 2025

Venues Residential SBD.rar - New Addition May 2025

Happy carefree home simming, folks.

The Jedi Dish Trick is my pet name for something that has been going on in both TS3 and TS4 when our sims are on community lots. (Pre-Dine Out GP.) When sitting and eating or drinking, once finished they do a little wave of the hand (Very Jedi-like as I see it.) and the empty plate, glass or cup instantly vanishes! All through TS3 I would've loved a mod for sims to do that same trick in their own homes, not just on community lots.

For TS4 I decided to make it, not just because it's quaint and a great time-saver for sims at home, but equally out of a need to end some dish cleaning annoyances.

The Yoda Supreme

Firstly a Fun Motive added as an incentive to push resident sims to clean dirty dishers more often. This coupled with the Neat Trait has sims vanishing away their single dishes almost 100% of the time.

Also, as well as the Jedi hand wave, there is another unique feature included, for collecting many dishes quickly. Many visitors at a house party can leave so many empty plates, glasses and cups all over the lot, as visitors do not use any Jedi tricks in your home, only sims who live on the lot. This next trick will allow our resident sims to walk to the nearest dish, pick it up, then instead of the slow process of walking one-by-one to all other dishes, they just stand there and summon all others to them, no matter where those dishes are on the lot. A skill comparable to Master Yoda himself! The dishes very quickly pile up in the standing sim's palm, then can quickly be shoved into a sink or dishwasher for cleaning. Okay, Marry Poppins probably did that trick long before Yoda, but we're sticking to a Jedi theme here. Unless it can be reasonably argued that Mary Poppins is, in fact, a Jedi. Hmmm???

The Yoda Supreme cuts down on two major game annoyances. The first being that while a sim is walking through every room in the house collecting dishes the traditional way, if they encounter décor that will cause a massive mood change, they will instantly drop all dishes they were carrying to the ground. Not having to walk room to room stops that annoyance.

Secondly, for Dine Out GP users, especially those like myself who have mods for larger visitor numbers to community lots, the dishes at restaurants very quickly become a nightmare. The waiters just cannot collect the fast build up of dishes quick enough, and soon all hell breaks loose. With this mod, the waiters also use the supreme Jedi method to summon all dishes straight to their hands, giving them much more time to take food orders and deliver food to tables.

Dine Out GP is not a required install for the Yoda Supreme version. It is safe for all TS4 players.

Child/Teen Good Manners Dish Fix

This is a mod to stop children and teens rushing off to a sink to clean dishes that don't even exist. An interaction that came with Parenthood GP, it is meant to serve as a means for kids and teens to earn points for good manners. More like earn devious points in deception, or just plain stupidity for doing something so meaningless, futile and fake. This mod stops them attempting this fakery. 

Yoda Supreme

cool1_jedidishes_YodaSupreme.rar  - Updated for 1.47

Child/Teen Good Manners Dish Fix

cool1_sim_Child&TeenGoodMannersCleanDishesFix.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, Yoda

1 - Precision Fishing

(Moved from General Mods section to Specialized Mods section due to the nature of the files I needed to create, making this mod now far from typical, general Maxis "easy" stuff.)

New mods which consist of nine newly cloned, standalone fishing objects and one Alpha mod that governs them all. The objects are one Pond and eight Fishing Spots. Together they cover every fish in the game to date, including the 14 new fish of the Island Living EP. These objects have no effect on any of the default Maxis fishing locations around the world and are designed to allow players a much more accurate overview of what fish they intend to catch, and to do that catching much more hassle free and quicker.

The new objects here are now doing their own thing, doing it the way I prefer fishing. In a few of the lots where I create fishing areas, such as the Science Career Lot and the Hook, Line and Sinker Café, I place these objects so you can really know what your sim is fishing for, "precision fishing." Click on any of the nine objects, and it tells you in the interaction option exactly which fish are available at the spot or pond. Each has about five or six fish that do not get repeated in other precision fishing objects. Nothing else but fish will be caught. No "treasures,"  - all of which can be bought or found elsewhere anyway. No rotten gunk, slime or trash. Just fish. Because geez, Maxis, I just came here to fish.

So you click on an object, see exactly which fish are available, and start fishing to randomly catch one of the types on offer. All objects also include the Equal Chance All Fish reworking. So you will eventually catch all five or six fish available to each object before too long at a balanced rate. Move on to the next object, then the next, and soon you'll catch every fish available in game, all in one area - if using my lot venues or setting up the nine objects on your own venues in a similar way seen in the pictures here - eight spots surrounding the pond.

As I say, no fish are repeated between objects, all fish unique to each object, and you'll only catch fish, no other crap. Also I've tried to keep them grouped into themes, for tropical fish types, those fish used in food recipes, so on and so forth.

These objects and the XMLs that governs them had to go through a massive rework after the 1.52 patch. Major changes, just to keep that easy-going fishing element in action. Such as no sudden fishing bans because the game randomly decides a certain species of fish is now on the endangered list. No do-gooder conservationists coming to give you an earful for fishing. (With Storage Galorage Ltd behind these products, then as sure as heck fire they're cloning every fish right before you catch 'em, like the V.A.T of Life object, so no dwindling numbers of endangered fish are ever threatened.  Storage Galorage Ltd are all about saving the planet too, you know. One empty space at a time.)

And lastly avoiding the cockamamie bait system, specifically that rotten Notebook mechanic and all the lies it will be telling you about fish bait. For instance, a minnow does not need bait. You could catch them all day without bait. But if a minnow snags the apple you were using to try and catch a catfish, the Notebook makes the entry and advises you from there on in to use apples to catch minnow - until the next minnow is caught with a banana, or crystal, or trash FFS. I don't mind that a cheeky, klepto chancer fish snags the bait, that's just life, and you still get to catch the bothersome little rogue for your troubles. But what I detest is the Notebook and its FUCKING LIES. Because it makes it look like Maxis did a fully realised, fleshed-out bait system as like the worthwhile systems seen in previous iterations of the franchise. They did no such thing for TS4 and I will not even look at the useless Notebook, nor read the popup lies. End the piss-poor, lying, misleading Bait Notification system completely.

In fact I recoded it so that fish caught from these object will never be entered in the Notebook, and no poxy Notebook popup messages every other minute. And I do mean every other minute, as fishing speeds for these objects are extremely fast now. So many fish to catch! Need to get on with it. It is even faster than my Faster Fishing mod which only deals with default Maxis fishing spots and ponds and has no effect on these objects. They've got their own lightning speed system now, baby! So much so, that sometimes when you catch an electric eel, the frikken things explodes in the intensity! Nah, I just made that up. Better lies than that no-good Notebook, though.

More serving suggestions

My island mermaid gals, just fishing for fun. The pic below was supposed to capture the UI effects, and show you the reworked pie menu options on the objects. Shame, too, as three of the Island Spirits gathered around the pond just as I took the snapshot. (But the UI effects capture is currently broken. Not switched off, I checked, On, but not functioning. Maxis, did you break that shit too, FFS?!) Anyway, the pic was meant to demonstrate that the pie options no longer say "PF... whatever." That didn't mean anything, confusing even. Now it just says "Spot1" (through to 8), next the number of fish available, anywhere between 5 to 7, such as "(FishX6)" and then the names of those fish. "Spot1(FishX6) Fish Name, Fish Name,  Fish Name,  Fish Name, Fish Name, Fish Name" Amazing how much text fits on a pie menu string. All much better and more informative at a glance. (Hey, coolspear, why didn't you just put an easy object tooltip on each of these things? Much simpler! Ha! Like the cowplant object, putting an easy tooltip on certain objects causes major global tooltip fubar. Been there, done that, T-shirt had a fucked up tooltip as did the rest of the world! Had to rethink it.)

The only option is to fish after this recent big rework. There's no "Fish With Bait" option, simply no need for it on these objects. No "Examine Water," again not needed. The merfolk do still have their "Lure" option, and the pond object also has its own, unique "Search For Frogs" option. Unlike the default Maxis frog options, here I remade that element also, so your sims will catch many more frogs each time and available more often. In for a penny, in for a pound, eh. The whole kit and caboodle.

Here we see the two new Island Living fish spots added to the set. A residential home, the objects placed on the deck overlooking the beautiful bay. The two Island Living décor fish objects enlarged and placed over the fishing spots, as the original spot objects are not exactly the stuff of elegant home design. I think it works rather well as a concealing camouflage. And hey look, you eager-beaver conservationists. I'm doing this in the privacy of my own home, and Storage Galorage Ltd are keeping the ecological and biological balance in harmony, so you don't get to come lecture, warn or threaten me like I'm the uninformed idiot in that scenario.

All nine new objects can be found in Activities/Misc and Activities/Outdoors in build mode.

The objects themselves are all base game, but the various fish come from quite a few packs. If those packs are not installed, the fish will not be available, even if the text string on the object lists them as available, - them's just words - the fish simply will not be there if you don't have their respective origin packs installed. (And I do mean origin as in the pack they originate from, not that Origin. Same difference, some might say. )

2 - No Bait Required

This mod is designed to end the bait system for all the default Maxis fishing spots and ponds around the world. As such, I have not tested it as thoroughly as I would normally do before a mod is released. Too busy checking and tweaking the Precision Fishing objects, I'm plum tuckered out when it comes to fishing. I'm gone fishing when it comes to fishing, taking a break from it now these mods are ready for upload, so I can get on with other non-fishing projects. So feedback on the success, or failure, of the default fishing no bait system would be appreciated. Jut keep in mind the Precision Fishing objects have their own no bait system, so this mod does not effect them. Only the default global world of Maxis fishing,  which I don't ever really do - that frikken, lying, no-good Notebook, grrr!!!

Text Update - Though I have heard tell that the bait system is actually quite okay now. Is it? Could it be? But me, I'm one of those folks who's and advocate of an old saying, especially when it comes to Maxis. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." There's never a third fooling, don't care if the bait system is now fucking immaculate. You had your chance, Maxis.

Precision Fishing - Nine Object Clones & One All-Important ALPHA mod.

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingAll_ALPHA.rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingPond1(Clone).rar  - Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot1(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot2(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot3(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot4(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot5(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot6(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot7(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

cool1_object_PrecisionFishingSpot8(Clone).rar  -  Reworked for July 2019

No Bait Required

cool1_fish_NoBaitRequired.rar  - Reworked for July 2019

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

XML Resource Used:

Objects and Alpha mod are cloned object files and majority of XMLs built by me so should not conflict. However, five Maxis fish object files are in the No Bait and Alpha mods, so mod conflict detectors will highlight this. Though it is a false positive, as all files are edited identically in both mods so there is no true conflict with each other, but will conflict with any mods out there that also alter same fish object files.

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

The mod here is to speed up the time it takes for our sims to catch a fish. The default time is an average of 40 sim minutes depending on skills and traits. CatchFishFaster(Super) makes it an average of 10 sim minutes. These averages will vary if you use any time speed modifications in your game.

Update - July 15th 2019 - While working on the Precision Fishing mod set, I came across the new XML for a new form of spear fishing sims can do from a boat. It has exactly the same data and times as the default rod fishing XML. So I've changed this new tropical island angling activity to match those faster speeds of rod fishing this mod provides. 

cool1_fish_CatchFishFaster(Super).rar  - Personal update July 2019

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

XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!000000000001238B_FishingLocation_Catch_InteractionTuning.xml

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

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

Thought it might do that. I'll have it fall in line with the others soon. Thanks for the report.

Update: I've included lyrics with the others. Should have them all the same now.

Yep, I can certainly look into that.

Update - Those ones are uploaded now, with a new flavor for the chance cards only

This mod is to stop the horrendously frequent outbreak of house fires after igniting the hearth of a fireplace. The chance of it has been set to zero, so that a lit hearth can become a nice, safe and enjoyable thing to have again. This mod is an original idea of MadameButterfly first posted in her section of this site here -  http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

I took over maintaining it after MB retired from modding TS4. Subsequently, with City Living EP came Fireworks, and Maxis felt it important to make them as horrifically nightmarish at burning the house down, at the same rate as the default hearths. So I have altered that to match the zero chance of flaming the house to rubble and ashes just to have fun with a firework. Otherwise it could be a third of the times where your sim lit up a mortar, their home may burn down with it. No thanks! We sensible folks here know how to implement safety first, Maxis. So no burnt down homes for us, thank you very much.

Although Fireworks are objects from City Living EP, it is not a required install to use this mod. The data for firework fires is simply put on the XML by Maxis in everyone's game, whether they have City Living EP or not. 

cool1_fire_SafeFireplace(MB)_SafeFireworks.rar - No update required

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

XML Resource Used:

DEBAFB73!00000000!00000000000125A5_Broadcaster_Fireplace_CauseFire_BroadcasterTuning.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 for this mod.

With City Living EP came Fireworks. They can be seen in displays by visiting some of the new festival types in the city area. Some can be purchased at the festival stalls or from the computer. There are cheats that can be entered into the console, followed with entering certain search words, to finally reveal them in buy mode. All things considered, that is a big, old rigmarole, one way or another, to purchase and see them all. How about they just be opened and categorized for purchase in build mode directly? Okay then. There are quite a few of them. But okay then. Let's do it.

There are seven main sets, most with five special types. Not all sets have five types, some have less. All can be found in Activities&Skills/Misc. City Living EP is a required install for these mods to be of any use in your game.

1. Geek Con Festival Set - Spinner, Sparks Fountain, Roman Candle, Mortar, Battery

2. Humour & Hijinks Festival Set - Spinner, Sparks Fountain, Roman Candle, Mortar, Battery

3. Romance Festival Set - Spinner, Sparks Fountain, Roman Candle, Mortar, Battery

4. Spice Festival Set - Spinner, Sparks Fountain, Roman Candle, Mortar, Battery

5. White Wedding Set - Spinner, Sparks Fountain, Roman Candle, Mortar, Battery

6. Non Event Set (Generic) - Spinner, Sparks Fountain, Roman Candle, Mortar, (No Battery)

7. Winners Set (Specials) - Jokesters Winning Battery, Pranksters Winning Battery

The ones named as Battery are the main display pyrotechnics in each set and will be the ones with the most diverse and unique displays from each other. All others in each set are single shot fireworks, and the only real difference they have from others of the same type in each set are the colour of the effects. Green for Geeks, Red for Romance and so on.

Once a firework is finished, the casing will have either exploded away, or a burnt husk will remain on the ground. To remove the burnt husk, go into build mode and sell it. There are no options for our sims to throw it away as trash. Or, with default cheat activated, hold down shift key and left click on the object to either bring it back to life as unused, and have fun with it all over again, or default delete it.

The two Battery displays from the Winners set, (Jokester and Prankster) were not given ignite functions by Maxis, as they were never meant to be buyable. There is also a mod included here to give them the needed ignite function, so our sims can enjoy them at home.

There are a good few, and I did keep them all as separate, rather than meld into a single package file. The primary reasons for this is, over time, once you've experimented and found your favourite displays and colours, you'll probably want to get rid of the rest to cut down on too many unneeded build mode objects. Then you'll be glad I did not merge them all into one package file.

Sets

coolspear1_Fireworks_GeekConSet.rar  - No Update Required

coolspear1_Fireworks_Humor&HijinksSet.rar - No Update Required

coolspear1_Fireworks_RomanceFestivalSet.rar - No Update Required

coolspear1_Fireworks_SpiceFestivalSet.rar - No Update Required

coolspear1_Fireworks_WhiteWeddingSet.rar - No Update Required

coolspear1_Fireworks_NonEventSet.rar - No Update Required

coolspear1_Fireworks_WinnersSet.rar - No Update Required

Ignite Mod

cool1_fireworksLarge_Jokester&PranksterIgniteOption.rar  - Updated for 1.44

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

Logically, it would probably be best if you were to do it and have it right there with your one, for the combo effect of halting the silliness completely.

This mod is to speed up our sims when writing programmes on the computer. It is an original idea by MadameButterfly and first posted in MB's
section of this site found here - http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

I took up maintaining this mod after MB retired from modding TS4. Its function has been kept exactly as MB first intended and, as such, I will quote her original description of the mod.

Okay, will do. Your mod and that one did the job, so may as well have them together again.

1 hour ago, aparkison said:

@Alamain If you use Master Control Command Center, the no smashing dollhouses is included if you turn off autonomous mean interactions. I don't know if you use Master Control Command Center, but he's adding in a lot of no autonomy functions that really helps in cutting down on tuning mods.

Yeah, I use it. I was using the No Autos on them and they're great. Although I found the No Auto Push Ups wasn't quite as successful as the JASF/Shimrod combo I was using previously. I still spotted the odd, defiant sim drop down and give twenty under MC. I never took the JASF mod out, but I did remove Shimrod's to see what MC was doing. I've since updated the Shimrod one for myself to work with JASF's mod to go back to no more silly push ups and sit ups anywhere. Has anyone updated and released the Shimrod one? I know Catalina updated a few of his recently. I've got an updated one sitting here.

This mod is to make our sims write faster. It is an original idea by MadameButterfly and first posted in MB's section of this site found here - http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

I took up maintaining this mod after MB retired from modding TS4. Its function has been kept exactly as MB first intended and, as such, I will quote her original description of the mod.

"When sims aren't goofing off they can actually get a lot of work done. In this mod, goof off time has been reduced, allowing a mid-level sim to whip out a book in about an hour. Of course, that hour can fluctuate due to a sim's skill level or mood."

cool1_crafting_FasterWriting(MB).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:

E882D22F!00000000!0000000000002557.Computer_Write_Mouse.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000002559.Computer_Write_Read.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!00000000000033C0.computer_WriteBook_Staging.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 of this mod.

This mod is to make our sims paint faster. It is an original idea by MadameButterfly and first posted in MB's section of this site found here - http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/forum/305-madamebutterflys-garden-of-mods/

I took up maintaining this mod after MB retired from modding TS4. Its function has been kept exactly as MB first intended and, as such, I will quote her original description of the mod.

"In this mod, goof off time has been reduced. Your mid-level sim will not mess around as they whip out a painting in about an hour. Of course, that hour can fluctuate due to a sim's skill level or mood."

cool1_crafting_FasterPainting(MB).rar  - Updated for 1.44

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

XML Resource Used:

E882D22F!00000000!00000000000097E6.Easel_Canvas_Paint_Small.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!00000000000097E7.Easel_Canvas_Paint_Large.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!000000000000342C.Easel_Canvas_Paint_Medium.InteractionTuning.xml
E882D22F!00000000!0000000000007BCB.Easel_Canvas_Paint_Passive.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 of this mod.

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.

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. 

XML Resource Used:

This will conflict with any other mod using same resources.

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

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)

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

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.