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Finally, I’m ready to release my first career pack. This has  been an ongoing project for many months and is part of a collab by the Historical Sims discord. I’ve done a fair bit of the actual writing and have permission to upload the careers so here goes.

You may have seen some of these careers before. I’ll leave those versions up but they have some typos/errors that have been fixed here, and this is a career pack so the pay scale and some of the “lore” I included is consistent across all of them. I tried to make the pay realistic and challenging as appropriate for the era. Mostly the lower levels start out between $15-95 simoleans, the middle levels are $150-400 simoleans, and the higher levels cap out at about $750-900 simoleans. There are some outliers like the Pauper career (to be released) the Politics career (also to be released, and the idea is that only wealthy landowning males run for office so the pay reflects that) and the Courtier career which is based off of the royal titles in the Victorian Challenge by @victoriansimmer and uses the pay outlined in the challenge rules. Generally the writing style is a bit “goofy” and maxis match. I don’t know how to change the icons or LTW text so I’m sorry, that won’t match the defaults. They’re meant for the regency era but I tried to make the careers flexible enough to fit in the Victorian era as well if needed.

This pack includes the uni careers. I’ll be releasing my careers by ep in a zip file. Everything will be clearly labeled in case you only want certain careers replaced.

Credits to @victoriansimmer of course for her victorian challenge, lovely personality, and the Historical Sims discord where this collab took place, @simbury for resources, knowledge, helpful ideas for the Natural Science and Paranormal defaults which were really hard for me to come up with, and just generally being the high queen of everything and anything regency related. Credit also to @kidinthenight who I’m pretty sure started the whole idea of this career pack and made some of the original files as well as a document that I used, @morgaine2005 who made a lot of the original medieval career replacements and inspired many of my ideas, aysarth who allowed us to use a lot of their ideas and custom regency careers (I don’t know if they have a tumblr. Let me know if they do and I’ll tag them.)

TLDR these replace the four uni careers, they have a consistent style and payscale and a bunch of amazing people helped to create them.

 Spoilers under the cut, and here is the link to the files!

http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3870331/

Well, it’s about that time again.

My rent went up and I’ve been doing everything I can to slash my budget. I’m still behind this month and I need to make rent and have enough for groceries the week after next. In short, I need $175-200 by Monday, 03/06, or I will be in arears and at risk of being evicted (late payments are an additional $100 and I would like to avoid that).

Proof etc is under the cut at the bottom of the post.

If you like what I do and can pitch in anything, you can DM me for my Paypal, or you can donate or subscribe to:

- My KoFi / My Patreon

If you would like to commission something, here’s what I’m willing and able to do this weekend:

(THIS IS ALL FOR TS4)

((ALL PRICES ARE IN $ USD))

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LOTS (COMMUNITY & RESIDENTIAL)

Small lots (max. 30x30) are $12 Large lots (35x35 - 64x) are $20 You can choose to let me include CC or you can choose to have me avoid CC. The price is the same either way since CC is not what is being commissioned in this instance.

SIMS

Sim Household (2-4 Sim family) - $6 Large Household (5-8 Sim family) - $8 (These numbers include cats and/or dogs.) You can choose to let me include CC or you can choose to have me avoid CC. The price is the same either way since CC is not what is being commissioned in this instance.

PORTRAITS

1 Sim - 4 portraits on 1 mesh of your choice! - $7 (One frame color for all four, or 4 of the same in different color swatches.) (Additional frame colors cost $2 each per set.) (That means if you want the same portraits in gold AND black frames, just tack on $2 USD) 2 Sims - 2 portraits of each sim, totalling 4 - $12- For couples, there will be 1 portrait of each sim, and 2 of them as a couple, equalling 4 - $13

OBJECT RECOLORS

RUGS:  15 swatches, basegame mesh - $6 25 swatches - $12 30 swatches - $15 FURNITURE/DECOR/ETC (EA MESHES) $5 per object, you’ll get 8 swatches for each one $20 for 5-6 objects

POSES

5 CUSTOM POSES - $10 10 CUSTOM POSES - $20 15-20 CUSTOM POSES - $25 NOTE: I do not know how to do poses with accessories as of yet so I will not be doing those for commissions at this time.

HOW TO SIGN UP FOR COMMISSIONS:

If one or more of these interest you, PLEASE send me a direct message with the item name, and specifics on what you’d like.

PLEASE SEND THE MESSAGE ON PATREON.  FILL OUT THE FOLLOWING FORM AND SEND IT TO ME VIA PATREON:

YOUR NAME OR ONLINE HANDLE:

YOUR EMAIL: (optional)

YOUR BLOG: (optional but preferred)

COMMISSION TYPE WANTED: Portrait/Poses/Lot/Etc

DETAILS: Include the lot size, architectural style, or number of sims for portraits and what kind of color of frame you want, if you want it on an EA mesh or a CC mesh, quantities, etc. PLEASE fill this out, as it really helps my workflow. The more details you provide, the better! Though please try to remain concise.

INTENDED PAYMENT METHOD: Please tell me whether you want to pay via Paypal, Patreon custom donation, or KoFi. I do NOT need your payment information, I only want it on record which site you want to pay through and what name it will be under to make keeping track of things easier. I will NEVER give out your personal information to anyone. (In fact, you can use an online handle via Paypal or KoFi. That’s fine! I just need to keep track of who paid where, when, etc.)

All commissions will be uploaded and available to the public after 2 weeks of early access.

For examples of my work, please see the ts4cc & “my cc” tags, @anachrosims​ or on Patreon.

I have tried to make my prices fair. I am open to feedback regarding this issue, from both the public and my patrons. x

Sun&Moon Discord Server + Beta Testers Needed

HEY YOU! YES YOU!

DO YOU LIKE SUN&MOON SETS?

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP US MAKE MORE????? RELEASE THEM FASTER???

DO YOU HAVE THE TIME AND DEDICATION TO BECOME A SUN&MOON BETA TESTER????

APPLY NOW USING THE FORM BELOW

*Note that we are completely serious about this. We expect a certain minimal level of commitment. If you sign up for a beta, we expect you to put in the work. If chosen, you can select which beta(s) you’d like to participate in.

Beta Tester Application Form:

 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfeVLqnPR1fZ5kV_n23EgwrZpB9AABEPme07cych3OYQYSebw/viewform?usp=share_link

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/VVTWAwdCwn

Please note that if you join the discord without doing a beta application, you are limited to what channels you can view.

1400 Follower’s Gift!

A bit delayed, but due to the issues with my eyes it has been slow going :)

Pottery Party - Functional Pottery Making

Sims with proper creativity skill can transform raw clay into useful and functional glazed pottery objects. This set consists of two main crafting stations, time-sensitive products, and new functional objects. Traits are supported but not required. See under the cut for more info and make sure to read the manual for specifics and details of use.

Download - SFS

View Use/Instruction Manual

Barnyard Bash - Ultimate Livestock and Poultry Collection

This set is a combination of the Cash Cows, Horsin’ Around, Got Your Goat, Counting Sheep, The Whole Hog, Counting Your Chickens, and Duck Duck Goose sets. All of their bonus content such as Highland Cattle, Unicorns, Animated Horse Wings, and Halla have all also been updated and included. 

Read below for what’s new; additionally a information and use doc has been included in the .rar to detail everything needed to be known about the animals including use instructions, products, feeding, etc. as it is otherwise just a giant wall of text on tumblr.

Please REMOVE all old livestock and poultry files before adding these into your download folders as filenames have been changed.

Download Direct - SFS Download/View - The Keep

Requirements:

Easy Lot Check ( @fireflowersims )

Easy Inventory Check ( @hexagonal-bipyramid )

Makin’ Hay

Fetch Water

Not Required, But Recommend:

Farmhand Trait ( @fireflowersims )

Medieval Caste Traits ( @mortia , @cedanyblee )

Poultry Conflicts

Squine’s No More Roaches Universal Mod; Filename “ NoMoreRoaches “

SimNopke’s Insect Insanity

TheNinethWave’s No Roaches; No_Roaches_TNW - DOES CONFLICT, BUT CAN BE USED TO PREVENT ACTUAL ROACH SPAWNING

What’s new?

New Trait and Trait Support

Farmhand - This trait is meant to help sims do the jobs around the farm that need doing such as filling troughs and raking dung. 

Other items also make use of various Traits made by others, detailed in the sections that follow.

Troughs Consolidated

Now any animal can use 1 of 4 Troughs (High,Low, BBNiche, or Bathtub). Low Trough spawns slop, High/Bathtub Trough spawns Hay, BBNiche spawns Meat. All of these also spawn water.

Trait Support; Animal Lover, farmhand and Servant trait autonomously fill troughs without a tool

Trait Support; Royals, Nobility and Gentry need an inventory tool to fill troughs or scoop poop

Poultry Consolidated/Updated

Chicken/Duck/Geese no longer have individual coops. A base coop will use Easy Lot Check to see if there are any female fowl on the lot and offer eggs. Much like the Rabbit Hutch, the coops act as the chicken feeding station itself. If male fowl are present on the lot, Eggs for Hatching of the appropriate species of birds will appear.

Poultry Market Vendor added. Will spawn one random female per purchase, or the selected male.

All female fowl are now huntable/edible for pets.

Female birds have a 5% chance every 24 hours to lay eggs in a place other than a coop/nesting box.

-Poultry Spawners; will spawn any female bird of their respective species.

Livestock Dung

Trait Support; Servants and neat sims automatically clean dung

Trait Support; Eco-friendly, farmhand and green thumb sims automatically collect poop

If sim has a “clean poop trait” and a “collect poop” trait, the collect poop trait takes priority (eco-friendly servants collect autonomously, for example)

Livestock Animals

All share the new troughs.

Goats may now also eat slop from the low trough.

New Rooting Spot for hogs. Hogs may also use the Gone Fishin’ Bait Rock for a food source.

Collection

Everything Catalog Unlocked

Reference Tome

Barnyard Bash 2.0

Barnyard Bash 2.0 has arrived and with it you get more bang for your buck! Not only has the set been greatly optimized resulting in about a 100 MB decrease in total set size, but there are also a couple of new (much requested) features. These include trough reservation and pregnancy tuning. A couple of bugs have been squished as well.

This new update REQUIRES the Timeout Controller (from September 4 or later)

Bug fixes:

Pets will no longer murder poultry for fun. They actually have to be hungry to do so

Coops no longer throw animation errors

Service NPC’s will no longer steal eggs

you will get 6 random poultry birds upon growing up instead of hens 1-6 or ducks/geese 1-4 (this includes male birds!)

Talking to poultry now raises social need.

Many objects have been community and quartertile enabled

Functionality:

Animals will now recognize new types of water sources from Fetch Water 4.0

All livestock (excl. sheep) now have BCON-tuneable pregnancy and lifespan

Sims are less likely to steal livestock and will do it less often (REQUIRES Timeout Controller v2). This is of course BCON-tuneable

Troughs can now be reserved for water or food

A can of milk will now give 6 bottles of milk and 6 jars of cream instead of 1 of each

Live birds can now be picked up by sims

Live bird eggs are now purchasable at the vendor

Egg-laying chances are now bcon-tuneable

Optimisation:

Texture sizes have been reduced for a number of items. Among others: fences, eggs, cream jar, milk can and milk pitchers

All milk cans have been repositoried to the cattle milk can

The pig shelter walls have been repositoried to the BB Niche

The wooden troughs, manure barrows, the brooder box and everything repositoried to it have now been repositoried to the winery cask shelf

Hog, cattle and horse recolors have been greatly optimized by texture-referencing the carcasses/reference horse to their living equivalent. This means the carcasses need the living animal for their texture.

Each horse recolor now works for both the live and reference horse. This means 50% of the files and disk space for the same amount of recolors.

Pressing Matters - Oil Production

The Sunflowers: The backbone and starting point of oil production begins with grown and harvesting sunflowers. This is an industrial style season crop that needs to be fertilized. Come fall, harvest those seeds for oil, or food if times are pressing.

The Botanicals Book: This serves as an inventory tool for sims to posses to either do autonomous actions or to bypass trait restrictions.

The Oil Press: This crafting station is mainly used to process Sunflower Seeds into All Purpose Oil. However it can also process Animal Lard, Olives, Grapes, and Coconuts into all purpose oil.

If sims have access to Lavender, Lemons, Oranges, or Peppermint they can also press Raw Essential oils. These raw oils have no value until they’re processed further.

The Oil Distiller: This crafting station can take those Raw Oils, and turn them into Pure Essential Oils. If sims have access to Rosemary or Wild Roses, they can also distill additional Essential Oils of Rose and Rosemary.

The Essential Oil Burner: Makes rooms smell good and boosts different motives. Requires Essential Oils and Natural Tealight Candles to function though.

The Oil Lamps: Aside from cooking, all the All Purpose oil can be used to light up sims homes. With the Functional Oil Lamps, sims will put oil into the light and then turn it on. It will burn for eight hours. If sims have an oil bottle in inventory and it’s night, they may autonomously light oil lamps. For those who don’t want to worry about fueling their oil lamps, and identical set of No Fuel Lamps has been included.