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Venezia

This is a world that I've been working on for years now. I've posted this project on other forums before and have been asked recently whether it's still being worked on. Well here it is, slowly coming to life.

I love this floating city on the Adriatic so much, I try to replicate it as faithfully as possible in the Sims 3.

Roof Beams  - by Federico

Internet Archive Historical House Catalogues

If anyone’s ever interested in old American house designs, the Internet Archive has an excellent (and free!) collection of historical house catalogues from the 19th-20th centuries, complete with plans and some interesting insight to be gleaned on the evolution of houses & their construction. The site is a substantial source for digitalized catalogues and print- lots to discover there!

You can find them here.

I always release worlds for free, but help me pay for medical and educational expenses! Every little amount is always greatly appreciated, with the large amount of time I put into these worlds in a busy schedule! - Potato Ballad Sims

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“Boroughsburg is an up-and-coming neighborhood in New York City that straddles the delicate line between working-class grittiness and rarefied hipsterdom. Enjoy spectacular views of Manhattan from the waterfront while live music, outdoor markets, and art shows brighten atmospheric cobblestone streets lined with old brick warehouses and trendy lofts.

Not your stuff? You could always go for gyros, pierogies or matzo ball soup at the local diners, get to know the old-timers, or just dance the night away.”

Boroughsburg has been updated with a wonderful curation of residential and community lots, and improvements have been made to nearly every aspects of the world!

But in addition to these improvements, a customized populated savegame has also been created—this is Boroughsburg’s Story Mode—and with more than 80 diverse sims (and many more townies), this savegame allows you to immediately jump right into Boroughsburg—right into the tangle and drama of these sims’ lives!

To see more images, Click Here.

For more information on Boroughsburg’s inhabitants, Click Here.

Boroughsburg is a mashup of DUMBO, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Long Island City, and Astoria- but is open enough that you can build whatever bit of New York City you want in it. 

Boroughsburg is a medium city world, with a total of 73 lots.

Nearly all lots are filled in, but some lots are left unbuilt at your discretion to fill in.

The world also contains two dive lots, three docks, a base camp, and a homeworld university! Perfect for travellers!

Lot assignment has been carefully selected to ensure that nearly all community lots are regularly populated.

Uninhabited base world, but includes an inhabited & customized savegame. I highly recommend playing in the savegame first.

Should run relatively smoothly on mid-high-tier computers. Created on Windows 7 | Processor Intel® Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz | Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | RAM 32 GB

Built on Patch level 1.67.

Installation instructions are included in the download folder. Please follow them carefully.

CC Notes

All custom-made CC is included in several packages. You must install them or else all you’ll get is an empty black world!

Essential CC Required: Buzzler’s Shell Emitter  |  S3Legacy’s Resort Rabbithole Rug  |  Buckley’s AMB Wall Fixes  |  JaneSamborski’s DR Wood Textures  |  simsi45′s Half-Wall Fixes

NRAAS is highly suggested for the savegame: Mastercontroller + Cheats Modules  |   StoryProgression + Career + Population + Extra Modules  |   Career + CareerDataTones Modules  |   Errortrap  |   Overwatch  |   Tagger  |   Register  |   Decensor (optional- use as default decensor mod if you have one)

Includes recolors & replacements of the hot air balloon, train, police car, firetruck, taxis, flags, moon, clouds and weather made specifically for a New York environment- if you want to see these in action, you will need to remove other default replacement mods first.

Further CC notes & recommended mod lists are located in the readme. Please consult them carefully.

Expansions & Store Content

EP Requirements: World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise, and Into the Future.

No Stuff Packs were used.

Requires Riverview, the Rim Rockin’ Basketball Hoop & the Barrier to Entry System from the TS3 Store.

Download Links

Download here.

Mirror here.

Terms of Use

PLEASE don’t redistribute this content or convert it without permission, as some of it was sourced with permission from other creators. So I hope you respect this simple request! It’s perfectly fine to reuse Boroughsburg’s objects in your worlds, but please link back to the original download page instead of including the objects in your download. I hope to release a separate download with some of the objects later on.

Acknowledgements

Thank you @mwthesims3​ for the immeasurable contribution you have made to this world, in its lots and its sims—I would not be joking if I said this world would not have been finished without your effort, and I greatly appreciate it!

Thank you @simshai91​ for your work on the salon and the hostel, @talesgh​ for your work on the Cleveland Building, 2-38 Landgraab, and 65 Badford Ave, and @simful-thoughts​ and @Fourtendots for your help in contributing sims for the world. Further thanks must be extended to @simsmidgen​ for your inspirations for the gym and the Rutherford Arms, Kylaaab for your inspirations for the Baldwin Suites, @galadrielhs-simblr for the inspirations for the East Tradewinds Corp. lot, and @nornities​ for the The Real McKenzie Hobby Store!

I am grateful to @mspoodle1​ and @nornities​ for helping me troubleshoot all the innumerable problems that popped up, as well to all the testers who helped me fix problems in the world! Additional thanks to @alverdinesims, who let me use images for billboards, @dew-of-the-sea-customworlds​, who helped me with the map, @mspoodle1​, again for your awesome items, and Feindbild, who let me convert his wonderful buildings for the world. Also thanks to igazor​, who helped me with NRAAS and all its infinite minutae.

And a final thank you to the sims community to standing by my side during this four-year on-and-off process of worldbuilding!