Rabbithole Daycare by Twinsimming 🧸🍼
This mod adds rabbithole daycare for babies and toddlers!
This is a script mod that can be placed in your Packages folder. It was built and tested on 1.69 but should work fine on 1.67.
Requirements
This mod requires The Sims 3: Ambitions to function.
Overview
Rabbithole Daycare
New Moodlets
Rabbithole Daycare
Babies and toddlers in their cribs have the option of sending themselves away for daycare.
All daycare options are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - including holidays!
Attending daycare will decrease a baby or toddler’s Hygiene and Energy motives, but increase their Fun motive (unless they have the Loner trait).
Hygiene will also decrease faster or slower if a baby or toddler has the Slob or Neat trait, respectively.
Babies have one option for daycare called Little Sprouts Infant Care (§10/per hour) and will have their motives taken care of as needed.
Toddlers can go to basic daycare, where they will learn foundational skills like walking, talking, and potty training, or they can attend one of the specialized daycares that build hidden skills like painting and logic.
Specialized daycares require certain foundational skills before toddlers can enroll. They will also cost more per hour than basic daycare.
The household will be charged an initial fee, and then by the hour.
The full amount will be deducted from the household funds once the baby or toddler is finished with daycare.
Tiny Tots Daycare (§10/per hour)
Requirements: None
Skills Taught: Walking, Talking, and Potty Training
Imagination Station (§30/per hour)
Requirements: Must be potty trained and able to walk
Skills Taught: Painting, Sandbox (sculpting), and Xylophone (musical instruments)
Early Erudite Learning Center (§30/per hour)
Requirements: Must be potty trained and able to talk
Skills Taught: Charisma, Pegbox (logic), and Writing
Regardless of which option you choose, toddlers will have their motives taken care of as needed, and they will have a chance to meet other toddlers in the world.
After meeting other toddlers at daycare, toddlers can play with them to increase their Social motive and build friendships (unless they have the Loner trait).
Each time a toddler leaves daycare, they have a chance of getting either the positive Happy About Home buff or the negative Upset About Leaving buff about going home.
New Moodlets
Happy About Home: Given when a toddler sim is happy after leaving daycare, lasts 4 hours, +20 mood
Upset About Leaving: Given when a toddler sim is upset after leaving daycare, lasts 4 hours, -20 mood
Tuning
All of the tunable values can be found on the mod download page under the header “Tuning.”
Mod Recommendations
I would recommend the leave the baby home mod by climbingsideways to prevent the babysitter pop up if sims try to leave the lot while the baby or toddler is away at daycare.
Conflicts & Known Issues
This is a new script mod so there shouldn’t be any conflicts.
Credits
EA/Maxis for The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, Visual Studio 2019, ILSpy, s3pe, Notepad++, Script Mod Template Creator, and deathbypufferfish on Tumblr for extracting the TS4 icons.
Thank You
Thank you to @thesweetsimmer111!
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