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Hello, The Sims lovers! 🥰 Any vacation plans? Because the journalist trio in the next episode of the SIMWOOD series have their hands full!

This time, the studio is investigating one of the oldest families that helped establish it. There is a dark curse hanging over the entire family, and its last remaining member seems to be hiding in a hotel with a rather familiar name, White Oleander.

This episode took me about 5 months of work and is absolutely packed with references and easter eggs for both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2: Castaway 🐒

I edited this functional tanning bed by LindaSims (originally by Numenor, and edited by @loonyjelly I think...

Customers at owned businesses will now want to use the tanning bed. It costs 75 Simoleons that will be credited to the owner. I set the autonomy quite high, but they didn't obsess over it or anything.

You don't need traits, but you do need Easy Inventory Check whether or not you use traits. You also need PicknMix's Money Globals.

If you do use traits, Snobs will be pushed more to use the tanning bed.

Since I made using the tanning bed autonomous, I also added a check:

Sims will not autonomously use the tanning bed if they are already tanned (this will start a fire via the original coding)

However, Unlucky Sims run a small chance of starting a fire even if they're not already tanned.

Sims also change into swimwear instead of naked, but I can change it back if anyone prefers the naked version.

Edit: I forgot, this works best with the ticket machine!

Hope you enjoy! Let me know about issues!

Sim File Share - Filehosting for Simmers

Requirements:

Easy Inventory Check

Traits (if you use them)

Increased cooldown time to 48 hrs

Now, when a Neurotic Sim has anxiety, their fun will also decrease by a random amount.

Minimum mood to induce anxiety is increased to 10

Fixed to actually have a chance of sending the Sim into aspiration failure.

REDOWNLOAD! Happy Simming!

Original mod description here

Hey! I don't actually use any specific religion mods, the only one I know of is the Chris Hatch one (and Hat's all ages edit of the same mod) and I didn't really care for how that mod worked (not that there's anything wrong with it, just doesn't match my vision/gameplay style).

I do have a few things I use to simulate praying/ritual:

Sending the Sims to church on Sundays! I don't actually do this currently, but am going to be switching to week long rotations next round so will start doing this :)

Invisible version of the BV shrine (so they can make coin offerings).

The Idols from the Sun&Moon metalsmithing set have prayer interactions

Functional Peteran Pulpit (I use the law career one, so sims can earn money "preaching")

Statues! These aren't really functional, mostly for flavour. I won't link all of them, but I particularly like the harvest goddess statue from TSM!

Edit of EarlyPleasantview's magic duel

This is an edit of @earlypleasantview's Magic Duel.

To my knowledge EPV's mod has never left testing stage, but I've been using it for years with only some minor issues. Thus, I decided to polish it's rough edges a bit. :) I also changed filenames to make them more distinguishable.

From EPV's description of the mod:

Dueling – how it works – Available for Witches/Warlocks. Non-autonomous. Needs at least one selectable witch/warlock. Builds Magic Skill, but does not affect alignment. Non fatal. Scoring is based on Magic skill level, Plus number of successful hits. The Sim with the highest magic skill and the most successful hits win and a random magic reagent is placed in their inventory. Successful Hits – Every Body point gives a Sim a 7% chance of dodging out of spell’s way. Every Logic point gives a Sim a 7% chance of predicting that the other Sim is going to dodge and hitting them anyway. Round ends when one Sim casts five spells or when both Sims cast three spells each.

I made changes to the dodging mechanic. Now Sims will jump forth and back, instead of only jumping back, which looked like teleporting. Moreover, I added a chance of parrying an attack instead of jumping away - chance of dodging/parrying still depends on the body skill, but now witches/wizards with high magic skill have a chance of parrying. I converted two parry animations from TS3 magic duel. :)

Additionally, I added projectiles - if a Sim dodges or parries an attack, you'll be able to see a jet of light flying in their direction. For this mechanic you need my file called "Meduza_AccObjectBending", included in the upload. However, there are no projectiles if a hit is successful, because I also like an idea of spells working remotely and it felt like a good compromise.

The duel will work without the projectiles object, but you won't get cool effects.

Credits: @earlypleasantview

Download at SFS | alt

Wandless magic

This is an edit of @midgethetree's Pick Your Wand.

I edited @gryning's version, so it includes their TS4 wands.

Replace original files with my edit.

With this edit, your witches and wizards can cast spells without a wand. You need to buy "Magic Hands" trait, found in General/Misc for $0. This trait is different from other traits - placing it in Sim's inventory won't do anything.

You NEED to click on it as select "Set As Wand" option. After that you can place the trait in Sim's inventory, but that's not necessary.

Alternatively, buy one of wand stands and choose "Change Wand…/Magic Hands".

Credits: @midgethetree, @gryning

Download at SFS | alt

@teaaddictyt and I are back again with another (HUGE) update that changes basically everything. It is recommended to delete vehicle maintenance 1.2 and start from scratch here since here have been lots of fixes, changes, and additions.

Fixes / Updates / Improvements:

Some files have been renamed for better organization (Me)

Fixed motor oil's category, the "Function - Init" wasn't setting it properly (Tea)

Fixed & Updated Code for Maintenance Checks and Decay. Added new checks and organized (Me)

Fixed animation strings for the fuel pump, bhavs were calling on the wrong animations (Me)

Fixed a coding mistake in the "add fuel from jerry can" interaction, this is working now (Me)

Updated all objects "keep buying" when holding shift in buy mode (Tea)

Updated the parking block object footprint and reduced to one OBJD (Tea)

Recategorized Dee's parking meter to driveway category to match with parking block (Tea)

Updated deviance interactions (Steal battery, Slash Tire, Siphon Fuel) available to any sim who meets criteria: Sims in criminal career or with evil trait, now uses "Easy Inventory Check", added availability for sims with <= 2 nice personality points, removed limitation on family members being deviant on family car and replaced with relationship checks (Tea & I)

Updated the quality of oil depend on sim's mechanical skill during an at home oil change (Tea)

Added motive changes for Deviant interactions, depending on niceness personality points and/or traits (Tea)

Added maintenance interactions edited to check 1) is it a community lot? 2) is it a business lot? 3) is it a service station? 4) am I staff / family / employee? (Tea)

Added motives gain & loss for vehicle maintenance will differ slightly if sim has "Vehicle Enthusiast" trait or not (Tea)

Merged Interactions into one and removed unnecessary/bugged code, saving space and instance numbers (Me)

New BCONS! Maintenance is now tunable, as well as all maintenance objects in their individual files (Me)

New motor oil mesh and texture (Me)

New animation for the "Add fuel from jerry can" interaction (Me)

New animation for the "Change Oil" Interaction (Me)

Updated Fuel Pumps, Each pump had been split in half to allow access on both sides (meaning a double-sided pump is now two tiled) (Me)

Updated Tires, you now have 4 separate tires to deal with (Me)

Updated CAPS to check if the driveway is empty before linking to it, fixing problems with new updates (Me)

Updated "Check Fuel Gauge" interaction. Sims no longer need to be sitting in the car to check the fuel level (Me)

Updated Tire meshes and textures (Extracted from DeeDee's Tire Pile) Two versions, one with a rim and one without, all three of these objects can exist in your downloads folder simultaneously (Me)

Updated Car Wash mesh, slightly moved over to accommodate additions (Me)

Maintenance interactions are now available if the object is on the lot or in sims inventory (Tea & I)

New custom semiglobal dialog strings. This will help avoid conflict with other mods, as well as having nicer, neater code (Tea & I)

The "Go To Casino" addon/interaction has been removed since I stumbled upon These

Additions:

Edited all driveways with a new routing slot, this should make working on engine look more realistic (Tea)

Storage Tire Rack. Store Tires @ Home / OFB Tire Rack. Sims can now buy/sell tires on business lots (Tea & I)

Added new code parking blocks and parking meters to spawn in and out cars every so often (random intervals) to simulate cars arriving and leaving the lot. This means all parking meters and parking blocks will now try to find an empty, unused driveway to "link to" Intervals are shorter on a "servo" lot, longer on any other lot (uses Mog's original code). These spawned in cars have a new limited tree table with maintenance & deviant options only, along with having a 50% chance of having an alarm installed (Tea)

Added & edited a new modded object: Engine Hoist by Oce / Blue Heaven Sims. This object can spawn in cars needing maintenance so a sim can work on the car and be paid for a service. They are paid $50 x their mechanical skill (Tea)

Added New Feature - Engine. Driving a vehicle with low oil and/or fuel will decrease the condition of the vehicles engine, which can lead to engine failure (Me)

Added new modded objects: Fuel Maintenance Hole, Fuel Maintenance System. The Maintenance Hole will restock nearby fuel pumps. When empty, owners and employees unlock the interaction "Order Fuel Delivery" on the Fuel Maintenance System. I did it this way, so each pump doesn't have to be restocked individually. It's also more realistic in my experience from working at a gas station. Fuel price is based on the BCON in the main vehicle maintenance file, the "set price" interaction will go off of that and do maths :) (Me)

New Compatibility Patches (Tea & I)

Vehicle Maintenance & Taxi's Charge Money

Burglars And Alarms & Visit Other Sims

Taxi's Charge Money & Visit Other Sims

Institution Sign & Visit Other Sims

Added Fuel/Car Wash Simulations (With Traits). Sims from the neighborhood who own a car and have a driver's license will now arrive under conditions (spawn in if their schedule is cleared, with weather checks and Traits: Hydrophobic, Loves The Rain, Loves The Cold, Night Owl) at gas stations to get a random amount of fuel or wash their vehicle, which is paid to the business, but not actually taken from the sim. Passengers can spawn in if their schedule is cleared and they meet various criteria: spouses, children, friends, along with weather checks and traits (Hydrophobic, loves the rain, loves the cold, night owl, loner, social butterfly, family oriented). Basically, we made actual functional gas stations/car washes. Yes, you read that correctly! :)))) (You can ban sims with visitor blocker) When recoloring a vehicle after a sim takes ownership, you can click the "Update Vehicle Token" which will update the token to be the correct color for when they spawn in (Tea & I)

Known Issues:

during fuel/car wash simulations, some vehicles will not let sims snap to slots. to combat this, they just disappear and leave until I can figure out a better solution (slots will be the death us)

Almost every vehicle has a different length, so animations for getting to the hood can be goofy, or spot on! like i said, the slots will take us out. some pics for comparison (i stole these from Tea lol):

The OFB tire rack gives back the business a small percentage of the tires price, instead of a larger amount and I don't know how to combat this (if anyone wants to help, OFB code is a nightmare lol)

Requirements:

The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection OR Disc Version, All Expansions & Stuff Packs (Either recommended)

HB_easyInventoryCheck

FireFlower_EasyLotCheck

MT_MaxisCategoriesBCONOverride

maxis-ownable-cars-Mog-20090327

Siknoy336_EasyObjChecksAndGrabs

Installation:

All wanted files go into This PC > Documents > The Sims 2 > Downloads This is designed to be as compatible as possible with all other car mods. You can choose which ones you want to have, just make sure to load them before any vehicle maintenance content. If you were playing with all car mods (that I know of) the setup would look something like this:

DOWNLOAD: SFS

Happy Simming :)

Made this for myself, but figured someone would want to use it as well. This edit is for the Regular Version, though I have no issues on making an edit for the Pay Version too. Added Pay Version.

With this edit, children can now throw parties (BHAVs "borrowed" from @belladovah's mod) in general and those parties can be hosted in community lots (thanks to Midge's tutorial here) as well. As for children, besides Maxis parties, Pool Parties (I think they were enabled for all ages actually) and Slumber Parties have also been made available for them.

Of course, my edit will conflict with Simler's original mod AND BellaDovah's children can throw parties - remove their packages and replace them with mine.

Regular Version

Pay Version

Had a bug report regarding my recent patch for "Go Out With Cars" and "Taxis Cost Money". If you're using Z_Z_TA_GoOutWithCars_ONLYTaxisCostMoney Please redownload :)

ALSO FYI: Taxis Cost Money is sadly not working alongside the full Vehicles Maintenance Suite of mods right now, due to a BHAV conflict. I am working on resolving that conflict, but I had to take a break this week while I've been sick. Will hopefully have a full compatibility patch for that at some point soon.

Cheers,

Hi! I haven't been active on here in a while. I'm still alive and making cool stuff for TS2.

I'm pleased to show off my own site. I think it's turning out pretty cute!

https://maxismatchmodding.com/

✩ EP Required: Apartment Life or Higher ✩

✩ This is a Default Replacement for Chris Hatch's Community Bus Mod (Chris Hatch's Community Buses). If you are using the original version of this mod, you could replace it with this version, as both would use the same GUID. ✩

✩ This mod contains Bus Stop and Bus Stop Sign that both work at the same time ✩

✩Next, the bus was replaced with Vovillia Corp. 2002 Renault Agora L and I recolor it ✩

✩ Instructions from Chris Hatch would be in the download (This is a preview of the mod) ✩

✩ All credits to Vovillia Corp, Ssiat, Natatanec for Meshes and textures and for Recolor Bus Ads Simsinvogue and Themintsimmer ✩

✩ I would like to credits @jacky93sims for (bus replacement) and @cityof2morrow (bus stop final edits), Thank you✩

✩ Original T4 ✩

Bus Stop: early)street set | Patreon

Bus Stop Sign: Corporation "SimsStroy": The Sims 4. Decor design stopping.

Recolor Bus Ads :SAN MYSHUNO BILLBOARD | OVERRIDES | Patreon & Del Sol Valley Billboard Override | themintsimmer | Patreon

✩ Original T2✩

Bus : VoVillia 2002 Renault Agora L

✩ Mods Compatible ✩

Dick Hurt's Taxi charges money - If you want sims to paid for the bus

✩ The items for the mod would be located in the vehicles tab ✩

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✩Issue✩

**You could still use the taxi, but I would recommend sticking to one transportation for your sims when traveling, since the bus use the same coding system as the taxi.***

Ex: You select taxi going to the community lot, leave on the bus and come back in a taxi if you select traveling with taxi first and vice versa ( if you like playing like that)

Next, The original bus is in the thumbnail when the bus arrives or going home

Ex:

✩ Trigger Warming ✩

Many of y'all know that unfortunately Chris Hatch could add very weird or uncomfortable features and recolors to his mods, as amazing as his work is, I have to call it out. Even though, this feature is not "weird" in itself, which is allowing sims to lounge on benches/couches, but the lounge feature is only available for teen-adult female sims when they're wearing a swimsuit

If you are a coder, you are welcome to edit this part of the mod ( lets me know and I will reupload it with your edit and give credit), even though this feature is not inherently problematic (I actually love the lounge features for lazy sims, I think this feature would be great for homeless sims or tried sims coming from work etc.…), but the intentions behind it is creepy and his note about it are creepy too, just warming people when downloading.

Lighting Mod Ultimate Collection

(yes it's a reference to the ultimate collection because...it is indeed an ultimate collection)

The Lighting Mod Ultimate Collection is a lighting mod/framework that allows players to switch lighting configurations on a lot-level basis.

Now, the game itself already utilizes lot-level lighting as far back as Nightlife for Downtown lots, and some lighting mods have combined this with the usage of cheat aliases to use different lighting configurations that potentially suit different lots of neighborhoods, or using different lighting color definitions (as in Cinema Secrets's implementation of World Lit by Fire), or the lighting direction changes in Maxis Match Lighting Mod.

However, Lighting Mod Ultimate Collection takes this a step further and features five lighting mods in one setup. This means one installation and you can switch from one config to another on the fly.