Community Phone Default Replacement
I've been hesitant about sharing this as it's a bit fiddly to use. But this default has made my co-existence with community phones a lot more painless, so maybe it'll help some fellow simmer who doesn't mind using cheats.
This default removes the cover and the stand of the community phone completely, leaving only the phone box (previewed on the middle). Handy for placing it against a wall.
The fiddly part is:
You'll need cheats to use this default efficiently. It's easiest to place the phone against a wall with moveobjects + quarter tile placement on. The box will sink into the wall a bit, but won't show from the other side and is still fully usable.
And you can only move the phone from its handle. It's annoying but afaik can't be fixed as editing the bounding mesh of this thing crashes the game.
Since not all community lots have walls to attach the phone to, I made a custom version of CrabOfDoom's community phone booth (previewed on the right) that can be used together with this default. It's repositioned to the in-game community phone booth and will pull any recolors you have for it. For the variety, I also added a recolor that has the stand only (previewed on the left).
More fiddliness: you'll first need to place the booth and only after that move the phone at its place.
Download (SFS) (alternate) - files are compressed. The booth is located under Electronic / Misc for free.
I recommend using this default together with this edit by @dramallamadingdang which removes the phone booth from the neighborhood view. The texture default shown in the preview is this pretty one by @shastakiss.
Credit to @hugelunatic whose community phone default was the inspiration and base for this one!
Update (30.6.2026): The bounding mesh now properly covers the whole phone so you can grab it and click it from anywhere, not just from the handle.
Another community lot phone default replacement! This is much more realistic than the giant blue phone that comes with the game, and is one of a few different community lot default replacement phones have reblogged here, like this one by HugeLunatic. The defaults look much closer to a pay phone, and will add realism to your β80s and β90s neighborhoods.
