lazarusinashes mods

Sometimes modders make extremely stupid mods, things that change basically nothing and only exist for our own amusement. Today, in honor of the finals, I am releasing one such mod.

This mod changes this text:

To instead say "BANG! BANG!!!" Mike Breen would be proud.

That's it. That's literally all the mod does. It changes a string table, not tuning, so it won't break between patches.

Who's looking for this mod? Who's the market? Who even cares?

lazarusinashes is who.

Custom Family Relationships just needs some tidying up and it'll be ready to go!

go spurs go

This mod is almost ready to release. The main thing preventing me from releasing it was that I couldn't figure out how to get the relpanel interactions to work, but with the help of plumlace, I was able to get it working.

I'll add another pie menu so that add and remove are separate. Right now there are three new relationship bits:

Considered Family. This one is by far what I get the most use out of. Consider this scenario: in my legacies, I always have gen 3 (sisters) onward always raise their kids under the same household. Then, they marry, and their spouses are able to romance each other and are smitten with each other attraction-wise. Add Considered Family, and boom, problem solved.

Distant Cousin: This was why I made this, because eventually my heirs can romance each other. After five gens since the last sibling relationship, Distant Relative is no longer tracked. But they know they're related, so I added this that way once Distant Relative runs out, romance can still be blocked and dynasties can still add these Sims.

Distant Relative: This one just adds the Maxis bit. It'll be removed if they aren't actually distant relatives.

So my question to you is this, before I finish wrapping it up and getting it ready for release:

Are there any other family relationships that aren't tracked by the game that you think would be useful that isn't covered by Considered Family? For example, Distant Relative-in-Law stops tracking way before Distant Relative does (and unlike that bit, cannot be manually added), but Considered Family can cover that.

So I'm (slowly) working on this mod to add family relationships. This mod will add all new family relationships so that they can be freely added to Sims.

Distant Relative is kind of buggy, in that it's only added in my experience if the following conditions are met:

The Sim is not born but added through CAS (haven't trialed this enough so this may be wrong)

The Sim who would be their distant relative is in the household (this I know is the case)

Now this doesn't matter much unless you're using my No Romance for Extended Family mod. With this mod, these two Sims can't romance each other, but without it, they could (they're second cousins).

That brings us to my question:

I'm thinking about making an interaction to manually add Distant Relative to Sims through the relpanel and in person. Already did the strings and everything. The problem is this: If they aren't techncially distant relatives by the family tree, the bit will be removed. No other bit in the mod will work this way because they're all new.

Do you want this interaction?

I'm pretty happy with this, the only thing is that this will conflict with any other mod that adds new bits to this panel. As a result I'll have a flavor that doesn't do this.

This is a spoiler, of course, since my "vision" for the mod is for the interactions to appear and surprise you. But I've been meaning to do this for a while, so here's a list of them all:

This is my attempt to replace No Romance for Family from Set Family Relationships. This mod blacklists all romance interactions between extended family.

This mod blocks romance between the following relbits:

Distant Relative

All step-family members

All In-Laws

Note that this version of the mod is quite strict, and depending on your playstyle can cause issues. Consider this situation: two Sims marry. Then their parents marry each other. They're now step-siblings and cannot romance. Distant relatives also track for five generations.

This isn't a problem for my playstyle, but as a result I've also made a LessStrict version. This version only blocks:

Step-Child/Step-Parent

Parent/Child-in-Law

Only use one version.

The following relationships are already blocked for romance:

Ancestor/Descendant

Grand-niece/nephew and Grand-aunt/uncle

Great-grandparents and great-grandchildren

Big Mods

Storytelling Socials is functional. I still haven't updated the dark addon though. Sorry.

Better Autonomy appears functional. I wish it was easier to test this mod but it is what it is.

Small Mods

No Constant Phone is functional.

I haven't noticed any problems with any other small mods, but as always, report any issues with them.

Hug Lovingly for Best Friends and More has been updated to include extended family. Note that this also includes Distant Relative. As result it does not replace the default package; the original still works, but I figured some people wouldn't want that added. So it's just an extra flavor. I also just added niblings to the original file.

currently making a no romance for step-family mod.

Storytelling Socials and No Constant Phone both often get false reports.

Storytelling Socials is simple beneath the surface. It is all new code, in other words, it doesn't modify anything in game. It simply adds interactions to Sims, and all ofthe interactions are new. LEs are either the result of user error or harmless 99% of the time.

No Constant Phone doesn't actually modify the phone. I've had a user report, for example, that with only that mod installed they can't use their phone. To be clear, it's pretty much impossible for that mod to be the cause of a bug like that. Bugs often occur when a mod has outdated code modifying a resource. But NCP doesn't actually touch phone interactions; it just modifies a buff and an animation overlay.

I do have a lot of small mods, so if you're using one of those and it breaks, please do report it and I'll investigate!