Simblroonies' bits and bobs

Generation one; the inventor

After leaving home for the first time, you find yourself living on the outskirts of a desert town. You’re not there for very long before you start to notice strange things flying through the skies and the locals seem to act as if nothing is out of the ordinary especially the odd green ones. You try to make your way as an inventor, but spend most of your free time gazing at the night sky as these irregularities inspire you to question; what’s out there?

✧ Lifetime wish: The Tinkerer ✧ Required traits: Eccentric, Socially awkward, Loner, Genius, Handy. ✧ Career: self-employed inventor. ✧ Spouse: no marriage. ✧ Location: Strangetown ✧ Limit on children: you can only have alien children by abduction or through the time machine. The next-gen heir must be alien. ✧ Max skills: handiness, inventing, logic ✧ Prompts:

Buy a telescope and gaze at the stars every night.

Collect and analyze 100% of all space rocks and keep them as a collection on your lot.

Go on at least 5 online dates but never become more than friends.

Create a Simbot (or purchase the LTR if it's too hard) and have it be your only friend while it lives in your basement.

Have a hamper in your house but never do your laundry until you have a maid or a child that’ll do it for you.

Each time your sell/delete piles of clothes, you have to change one of your founder’s outfits and take a 100 simoleons from your balance.

Befriend any aliens that visit your lot.

Build a time machine and travel through time at least once.

Generation two; the alien

Your parent was always honest when they said you were different from all the other children in class, but all you really wish for is to be as normal as possible. You're always finding yourself feeling jealous of those who fit in oh so easily and know who their true authentic selves are. This pushes you to become super interested in all of the mundane things that come with a regular human life and turns you into a multi-talented artist as you try to create that perfect human picture for yourself.

✧ Lifetime wish: Renaissance Sim ✧ Required traits: Artistic, Savvy Sculptor, Art Appraiser, Bookworm, Friendly ✧ Career: self-employed painter, writer or sculptor. ✧ spouse: marriage allowed, must be human. ✧ Location: Sunset Valley ✧ Limit on children: no, but the heir must be human. ✧ Max skills: painting, sculpting, writing ✧ Prompts:

Create a private museum with your own artworks.

Make portraits and ice sculptures of your whole family (your spouse and children).

Choose whichever townie sim your alien would be most jealous of, make an ice sculpture of them and add them to your family collection, where you secretly pretend it’s you.

Have three best friends, they must be regular humans.

Send at least one of your kids to boarding school.

Become part of a bookclub.

Only ever write trashy novels.

Scan at least 5 sims to learn their traits.

Lock any alien children you have in the basement. They’re not allowed to go to school or leave the house. Kick them out the moment they age up into young adults.

Generation three; the gardener

Your parents did everything to be as normal as possible, restricting you from feeling what true freedom is like. That’s why you move to Twinbrook or Riverview, for a fresh start where you can truly taste what freedom feels like, with your feet in the dirt!

✧ Lifetime wish: the perfect garden. ✧ Required traits: green-thumb, loves the outdoors, eco-friendly, natural born cook, gatherer ✧ Career: Self-employed gardener ✧ Spouse: marriage allowed, must be a like-minded sim with an attraction score of at least 8 out of 10. ✧ Location: Twinbrook or Riverview. ✧ Limit on children: only one human child allowed. ✧ Max skills: gardening, cooking ✧ Prompts:

If you take your parents with you when you move towns, kick them out immediately.

Plant all base game plants/seeds.

If prompted, complete the Cheese, Steak, Egg and Omni Plant opportunity line.

Use apples or melons to influence the gender of your child.

Build a greenhouse in your garden.

Don’t have anything from the electronics catalogue in your house.

Grow a forbidden fruit.

Become a plant sim.

Use your own crops to make your meals.

Learn how to make Baked Angel Foodcake.

Generation four; the paranormal

Your parents love of nature and the environment has a great influence on you, but only with regards with being happy somewhere green. You find yourself living in a small gloomy town with a lot of history and oddities; two topics you find the most interesting.

✧ Lifetime wish: paranormal profiteer or master of mysticism. ✧ Required traits: eccentric, perceptive, genius, supernatural fan, charismatic. ✧ Career: ghost hunter or fortune teller (mystic path). ✧ Spouse: marriage allowed. ✧ Location: Midnight Hollow ✧ Limit on children: two, but the heir must be a ghost. ✧ Max skills: charisma, logic (if ghost hunter), alchemy (if fortune teller) ✧ Prompts:

Become friends with a ghost.

Get at least one of your kids (the heir) killed and resurrect them as a ghost.

Get Bonehilda as a maid.

Try to become friends with the Grim Reaper.

Own the graveyard (purchase property).

Open up a shop in town selling occult memorabilia (creepy toys/decorations).

Generation five; the spirit

Your parent's love of the paranormal lead to your accidental death and resurrection. You seem to be a spirit now, but you age just like everyone else. You don't stay long in your hometown before you start jetsetting across the globe to adventure.

✧ Lifetime wish: seasoned traveler or bottomless nectar cellar. ✧ Required traits: adventurous, commitment issues, disciplined, athletic, brave. ✧ Career: self-employed nectar maker, or 'relic hunter' (make your money selling relics at the consignment store back home.) ✧ Spouse: no marriage. ✧ Location: players-choice. ✧ limit on children: at least three, and the heir must become a vampire. ✧ max skills: martial arts, nectar making ✧ Prompts:

Don’t make any friends in your hometown, only abroad.

Learn all the songs from across the world.

Have a child from a local in each of the three vacation worlds.

Have a private museum with all of the unique relics you find during your adventures.

Gain visa level 3 in each vacation world.

Own a vacation home in each vacation world.

Grow plasma fruit and have a collection of plasma fruit nectar.

Generation six; the vampire

Born (or turned into) a creature of the night you struggled to maintain relationships with non-occults which lead to a dislike to anyone who wasn't like you. You end up finding yourself in a city that never sleeps with a thirst for something other than plasma.

✧ Lifetime wish: turn the town or heartbreaker ✧ Required traits: evil, flirty, star quality, charismatic, irresistible ✧ Career: Criminal, Emperor of Evil branch ✧ Spouse: unlimited. ✧ Location: Bridgeport ✧ Limit on children: no, but the heir must become a werewolf. ✧ Max skills: mixology, piano, Athletic ✧ Prompts:

Steal your parent’s plasma fruit nectar collection and take it with you to Bridgeport.

Reach level five celebrity status.

Kill each spouse after they have given you a child and then move on to a new spouse for the next one. (recommended mod)

Lure in your dates by making them romantic drinks and using ‘Make sim think about me’ and ‘hypnotic gaze’ interactions.

Raid the hospital and grocery store

Sleep on a Vampire Altar in your basement when you’re alone, but keep a normal bed upstairs for you and your (living) spouses.

Keep all of your spouses graves in your backyard.

Generation seven; the hound

After growing up in the big city, surrounded by odd looks and flashing lights; you want nothing more than a bit of peace and quiet. Oh, and some normality. You move to a hidden town in the mountains, away from all the hustle and bustle where you start your own life and maybe a family.

✧ Lifetime wish: Leader of the pack or Surrounded by family. ✧ Required traits: friendly, family-orientated, good, dog person, born salesperson. ✧ Career: part-time jobs, opportunities and consignments only. ✧ Spouse: marriage allowed. ✧ Location: Hidden Springs ✧ Limit on children: five, but the heir must become a witch. ✧ Max skills: photography ✧ Prompts:

Have a best friend and turn them into a werewolf.

Reach the max career level of all part time jobs.

Own two dogs and breed them to have a litter of puppies (that you can give up for adoption if you like).

Document your family life with your own personal camera and place your photo’s all over the house.

Have at least three small creatures as pets (bird, turtle, snake, lizard, or rodent).

Collect all (basegame) butterflies and keep them in jars.

Cure yourself with your heir’s elixir when you turn into an elder so you can live out your last days as a human.

Generation eight; the spellcaster

With such peculiar ancestors, magic brews within you. After growing up in Hidden Springs and noticing the slight magical occurrences around, you decide you need to be somewhere where magic has deep roots which is why you find yourself in Moonlight falls. You want to prove that you're just as much a witch as anyone else here, will you succeed in this venture?

✧ Lifetime wish: alchemy artisan or mystic healer. ✧ Required traits: bookworm, perfectionist, neurotic, virtuoso, cat person ✧ Career: self-employed alchemist ✧ Spouse: no marriage. ✧ Location: Moonlight Falls ✧ Limit on children: no, but the heir must become a fairy. ✧ Max skills: alchemy, violin. ✧ Prompts:

Create a werewolf cure for your parent once they’ve turned into an elder.

Win a spellcasting duel from another witch.

Turn your dresser into a magic portal.

Own the elixir consignment store as a property.

Use the Toadification Curse on your enemies.

Use the Thirst Curse on a vampire, killing them.

Bring back a vampire your killed as a zombie with the Reanimation Ritual.

Have a cat or small creature as your familiar.

When your kids get married, play the violin at their wedding.

Generation nine; the fae

After living in a town with such deep magical roots and pecularities all around, you feel like you blend in a little too much which drove you a little crazy - you dream of a life in the spotlight which provokes your move to a dazzling city that's all about stardom.

✧ Lifetime wish: Vocal legend or Magic Make over ✧ Required traits: social butterfly, insane, diva, party animal, natural born performer. ✧ Career: Singing profession ✧ Spouse: yes, two marriages; first with a human and last with a genie. ✧ Location: Starlight Shores ✧ Limit on children: no limit, but the heir must be a female genie. ✧ Max skills: guitar, charisma. ✧ Prompts:

As a teen, pull a bunch of fairy pranks on your classmates and/or siblings.

Obtain a genie lamp and free the genie.

Cheat on your spouse with the genie and then divorce your human spouse to marry the genie.

Keep up a garden/greenhouse with your bloom ability.

Use Aura of Creativity on yourself whenever you perform your music.

Throw a party for your fellow fairies in town inside a fairy house.

If you haven't chosen Magic Make over as your LTW, use inner bloom on at least five sims.

Generation ten; the wishgiver

Born from a fairy and a genie, you've always been told you were magical but after growing up near the beaches of Starlight Shores the only thing that seemed magical in your life was the sea, this inspired you to move somewhere that seems like it was created from your very own wishful love of the ocean.

✧ Lifetime wish: deepsea diver. ✧ Required traits: loves to swim, athletic, angler, loves the outdoors, loves the cold. ✧ Career: self employed diver. ✧ Spouse: no marriages. ✧ Location: Isla Paradiso (use the fixes!). ✧ Limit on children: three, but the heir must be a mermaid. ✧ Max skills: scuba diving, athletic ✧ Prompts:

Find all treasure chests on all diving lots.

Meet a mermaid/man, have at least one child with them and do not see the mermaid/man again after their birth.

Banish any sim that has a negative interaction with you.

Ensorcel your enemies and make them do your household chores.

Move into a houseboat.

Discover all uncharted islands.

Own a resort and upgrade it to the max level.

Teach your heir how to fish.

Generation eleven; the merchild

Your mother loved the sea so dearly which shines through you as you are a child of the ocean; a merchild. You never knew you merparent growing up but that never stopped you from seeking them out later in life. Your story and ancestry seems to hold so many mysterys, what will you uncover? As a natural swimmer with a love for humans, it’s only natural you become a life guard, using your skills to save lives on a daily basis, while in your free time you like to fish up your dinner.

✧ Lifetime wish: Presenting the perfect private aquarium ✧ Required traits: Loves the outdoors, loves the heat, charismatic, athletic, angler. ✧ Career: Life guard ✧ Spouse: someone you rescued ✧ Location: stay in Isla Paradiso ✧ Limit on children: none. ✧ Max skills: Fishing, athletic, charisma ✧ Prompts:

Don't meet your parent until young adulthood, befriend them to the max relationship.

Build a large swimming pool in your garden.

Create a private fishing pond on your lot and stock it with fish.

Only eat (raw or cooked) fish and kelp to satisfy your hunger.

Marry one of the sims you rescue during your job.

Overview

Campground Map

Hiking Skill

Collectibles

Foraging

Ailments, Injuries, Fear, and Insects

Chance of Death

Campground Map

Price: §1690 Category: Sporting Goods 2 CASt channels Poly Count: 650 poly Created by Around The Sims 3

Hiking Skill

Hiking is a 6 level skill, and is primarily gained by sims going on hikes under the new “Hiking…” pie menu option on the Campground Map.

There is also a new hiking skill class available at the Stadium rabbithole for §300.

As your sim increases their hiking skill, they will unlock longer hikes and the ability to hike at night.

Going on hikes also raises a sim’s athletic skill, albeit slower than a traditional workout.

Sims who get hungry while hiking will automatically eat, though there is a chance that what they eat may make them Nauseous or fall into a Dark Slumber (poisoned).

Sims with low bladder need will “go in nature,” but they also have a chance of getting the Itchy or Poisoned moodlet after the fact.

If a sim becomes too tired, too hot, or too cold, they will abandon the hike early.

Hiking cooldowns vary depending on how long the sim’s hike took to complete and give sims the Fatigued moodlet.

Sims with the Athletic or Adventurous traits, or with a high Athletic skill will have their hiking cooldown cut in half.

Child sims with the Scouting skill (if The Sims 3: Generations is installed) will get a boost in the hiking skill when they age into teens.

Day hikes can take place between 8:00am and 8:00pm, and night hikes can take place between 8:00pm and 4:00am.

Sims can only hike in sunny weather or during a reviving sprinkle (if The Sims 3: Supernatural is installed), unless they have completed the Seasoned Hiker skill challenge.

Sims cannot hike when it is actively snowing or when there is snow on the ground.

By completing the Expert Hiker skill challenge can lead Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced hikes during the day to earn extra simoleons.

Upon successfully completing a hike, sims will have a 2% chance of finding a gnome and a 1% chance of finding a genie lamp.

Hiking Skill Unlock Levels

Level 1: Beginner Hike

Level 2: Beginner Night Hike

Level 3: Intermediate Hike

Level 4: Intermediate Night Hike

Level 5: Advanced Hike

Level 6: Advanced Night Hike

Collectibles

While out hiking, sims have a 30% chance of finding collectibles of varying rarities like gems, metals, space rocks, insects, and wildflowers.

Certain traits or occult states can either increase or decrease your chance of finding collectibles by 5% (note: this value stacks the more traits or occult states your sim has):

Increased Chance - Lucky, Gatherer, and Loves The Outdoors

Decreased Chance - Unlucky, Loser, and Hates The Outdoors

Night Owls, Vampires, and Werewolves also have a 5% higher chance of finding collectibles on night hikes.

Day hikes and night hikes each have their own set of collectibles that can be found.

Additionally, the longer the hike, the higher the chance of your sim finding rarer collectibles.

All wildflowers can only be found during the day, and the same space rocks can be found both during the day and at night.

A full list of collectibles can be found on the download page under the header “Collectibles.”

Foraging

Sims can go foraging using the “Forage” interaction on the Campground Map. 

Going foraging will give sims a 30% chance to find harvestables, seeds, and honey/beeswax. 

Certain traits, skills, or occult states can either increase or decrease your chance of successfully foraging by 5% (note: this value stacks the more traits, skills, or occult states your sim has):

Increased Chance Traits - Lucky, Gatherer, Loves The Outdoors, Green Thumb (or Gardening skill level 5 or higher), and Super Green Thumb (lifetime reward)

Decreased Chance Traits - Unlucky, Loser, and Hates The Outdoors

Night Owls, Vampires, and Werewolves also have a 5% higher chance of finding harvestables while foraging at night.

Sims can forage during the day or at night for 2, 4 or 6 hours at a time, with day foraging and night foraging yielding different harvestables/seeds.

Sims who get hungry while foraging will automatically eat, though there is a chance that what they eat may make them Nauseous or fall into a Dark Slumber (poisoned).

Sims with low bladder need will “go in nature,” but they also have a chance of getting the Itchy or Poisoned moodlet after the fact.

If a sim becomes too tired, too hot, or too cold, they will abandon foraging early.

Foraging cooldowns vary depending on how long the sim’s foraging took to complete and give sims the Fatigued moodlet.

Foraging also carries a 2% risk of contracting Botinitus Minorous, which will turn your sim into a PlantSim.

Upon successfully completing foraging, sims will have a 2% chance of finding a gnome and a 1% chance of finding a genie lamp.

A full list of foraging harvestables/seeds can be found on the download page under the header “Foraging.”

Ailments, Injuries, Fear, and Insects

Both hiking and foraging have a chance of giving your sims different ailments or injuries, scaring them, or giving them encounters with insects.

When hiking, there is a 25% chance of a sim developing an ailment, a 40% chance of injury, a 35% chance of fear, and a 25% chance they encounter insects.

When foraging, there is a 40% chance of a sim developing an ailment, a 25% chance of injury, a 35% chance of fear, and a 25% chance they encounter insects.

All of the possible ailment, injury, fear, and insect moodlets are listed below:

Ailments: Allergy Haze, Nauseous, Itchy, Poisoned, Soaked

Decreased Chance - Lucky, Athletic (or Athletic skill level 5 or higher), and Hiking Skill (level 4 or higher)

Increased Chance - Unlucky, Loser, and Hates the Outdoors sims have a higher chance.

Injuries: Ouch My Face, Hurt Hand, Hurt Foot, Singed, Tortured Soles, Hydrophobic, Bitten, and On Fire

Decreased Chance - Lucky, Athletic (or Athletic skill level 5 or higher), Adventurous, Brave, and Hiking Skill (level 4 or higher)

Increased Chance - Unlucky, Clumsy, Absent Minded, Loser, Coward, Daredevil, Hates the Outdoors, Tired moodlet, and Sore moodlet

Night hikes also have an increased risk of causing injuries.

Fear: Scared, Horrified, and Terrified

Decreased Chance - Lucky, Brave, Adventurous, and Hiking Skill (level 4 or higher)

Increased Chance - Unlucky, Loser, Childish, Coward, Dramatic, Over Emotional, Neurotic, and Hates the Outdoors

Insects: Mosquito Bite Low, Mosquito Bite Mid, Mosquito Bite High, Bee Sting, Bee Attack, and Got Fleas (Human)

Decreased Chance - Lucky and Athletic (or Athletic skill level 5 or higher)

Increased Chance - Unlucky, Loser, Childish, Clumsy, Coward, Absent Minded, and Hates the Outdoors sims have a higher chance.

Note: If a sim is wearing mosquito repellent (from The Sims 3: Island Paradise), they will not get bitten by mosquitos while hiking or foraging.

Certain moodlets like Bee Attack, On Fire, and Terrified will end a sim’s hike early.

Chance of Death

There is also a 5% chance of a sim dying while hiking via drowning, burning to death, or blunt force trauma.

Certain traits, skills, and moodlets can either increase or decrease your chance of death by 5% (note: this value stacks):

Increased Chance - Unlucky, Clumsy, Absent Minded, Loser, Daredevil, Hates the Outdoors, and Tired moodlet 

Decreased Chance - Lucky, Athletic (or Athletic skill level 5 or higher), Adventurous, Brave, and Hiking Skill (level 4 or higher)

Note: There is no chance of death while foraging.

Tuning

All of the tunable values can be found on the mod download page under the header “Tuning.”

Conflicts & Known Issues

This is a new script mod so there shouldn’t be any conflicts.

Uninstallation

Same as with other custom skills, removing the hiking skill may cause issues in saves where the skill has been used. I have created a new cheat called “uninstallHikingMod” to remove the hiking skill from any sims in the world and cancel all hiking interactions that may be active, but use this mod with caution.

Credits

EA/Maxis for The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, Around The Sims for meshes and textures, Visual Studio 2019, ILSpy, s3pe, and Notepad++

Thank You

Thank you to @aroundthesims, @flotheory, @puffkins2000, @nectar-cellar, @omedapixel, @zoeoe-sims, Mihaia10 on ModTheSims, and plumblossom on Discord!

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