#aph pirates

This one is about as old as the home I created for Arthur. Boats are NOT A THING in the Sims 4 so this is my attempt at a rigged pirate ship. Of course this is located in the Sulani area... Naturally. There isn’t as much to cover in this one. The two main areas are the boat (Two levels) and the island.

First I’ll focus on the boat. I tricked the ‘walls’ underneath it into disappearing though it leaves a strange blue hue from its transparency. It’s believable enough. The ladder is rigged there as well to board it- That’s not a normal feature and has to be forced in. ‘Rounded’ features are also hard to do. The stage props helped a great DEAL in this to make it a reality. The anchor is previously a monument that I’ve just pretended they’ve dropped on a ‘rock’ next to it. There is no way of putting the boat out further because of the small map size but I liked this one in particular for its isolated island.

Upper-deck

Mid-deck. To the left goes to the ‘brig’ and to the right in the bigger doors is the Captain’s quarters.

Upper-deck with a steering wheel. I just now realized that the wallpaper is messed up on the Captain’s Quarter’s windows bu that is an easy fix with the eyedropper tool on the rest of the boat onto that section.

We’ll go to the left room first... The Captain’s Quarters. I originally had a neat table with a spread-out map here but the custom content got removed with an update so I settled to throw in some regular items instead. I think the sink won’t work and that’s on purpose. I really tried to hide that ‘fridge’. Just pretend it is storage for food and not a normal fridge. The lighting for both the Captain’s Quarters and the Brig wasn’t working or ‘coming on’ for some reason so I threw in some quick small ceiling lighting so you could see the details.

Alright- The other room. The Brig. I REALLY wanted something like this in there and it was hard to figure out how to put it in there. Things like ‘They’ll just try to break out of the window and jump out’ came to my mind and had me settling on putting it in the middle with a chair for someone to watch/talk to them. I relented and put on a toilet, bath, sink, and etc in this area too. Those should be off-grid and work.

The ‘bottom’ layer of the ship isn’t much and I never utilized it at all. If you really feel like it you can figure it out and put a crew’s cabins and storage or something down there but I kept this all rather simple, actually. Let’s move onto the island portion of this! I wanted to pretend that they’re stuck on this island and started to build a life on it. There are a few activities to do, places to prep food, old ruins, etc.

‘Gazebos’ aren’t really a thing on the Sims 4 much either. I man made this one with a lot of effort and raising objects. I’m actually unhappy with the bed because I wanted it to look ‘made’ and not manufactured. Again, the Sims doesn’t have ‘castaway’ objects and I needed somewhere else to sleep on the island so I settled for that one.