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.
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.
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
runwalk 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
runwalk 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.