Fireplace Tuning

Finally this mod gets an official post!

The are two versions in the download - Pick only one!:

The one called "no_fire" will remove all chances of random fires.

The one called "no_objfire" leaves a chance of fire on the floor, if no Sim is in the room, but objects placed near the fireplace will no longer catch fire.

Chances of fires through playing with fire or any other accidents are untouched.

Diaper-Fix for Bathing

Just a little mod I thought of while working on the bathtub. It always bugged me that toddlers don’t have a lower body in the bath. This is because there’s no item of clothing enabled both for “Naked” and “Valid for Random” that the game could choose from. So I enabled the diaper for these categories.

This mod will only directly affect toddlers who were created or aged up after you installed it. To fix the bug on existing Sims, see below.

Disclaimer: The seeming skintone-change on the toddler in the preview is because they’re two different Sims: One I had in game before and one aged up after installing the mod.

There are two versions included:

Default version: Categorizes the diaper that is already in game for male and female toddlers and makes it available in the categories: Sleepwear, Swimwear, Naked and Valid for Random. This way you won't get random diapers in Everyday and Formal, but you'll also not be able to use the diaper in these two categories at all. If you sometimes use the diaper as everyday or formalwear, install the Nondefault Verson!

Nondefault Version: Adds a hidden additional diaper to the game, which is categorized for male/female, Naked and Valid for Random. Won't affect the ingame diaper. Is a bit larger a file than the default, but with 62 KB still very small.

Download: SimFileShare | Dropbox

Other Useful Links:

https://www.nraas.net/community/Decensor -> for removing the mosaic filter, so you can see the bathing animations properly. Can be set by age, if you're uncomfortable with too much nudity. For toddlers and babies the censor mostly hides that they don't undress anyway, and with this mod they'll always wear at least a diaper.

https://www.nraas.net/community/MasterController -> allows you to edit the toddler in Stylist, while in the bath. That way you can set a lower body for pre-existing toddlers or pick a different bathing outfit altogether.

This mod doesn’t affect babies, but a few tips for changing their clothing for bathing can be found below the cut

Read Toddler to Sleep - Fixed Interaction

Great news! After @hypersims ran into this interaction, which was broken in a patch, I started thinking if I couldn’t undo the faulty changes. And I succeeded! What I did was simply to extract the original animation files from Generations and make them an override.

This package should work in Mods, but it’s even safer in Overrides. Generations is required for the interaction to be there at all.

Note that reading a toddler to sleep has always been a bit tricky:

The toddler must be tired

A parent with a toddlerbook in their inventory must hold the toddler.

Now, without pausing the game, make the parent active, click on the toddler, select “read to sleep” and then select the toddlerbook in the dialogue box. Make sure a crib is within reach.

Even like this I had to try at least twice until it worked.

Buydebug Collections

This is a bit of an experimental download:

@chillimps reminded me of that annoying issue where using buydebug causes endless saving. When I had the same problem a few years ago, I made a workaround and I thought some of you might find it useful.

Basically I organized the whole of buydebug into collections that can be accessed without using any cheats. Another advantage is that I split the huge “Misc” category into the single EPs.

I think I only used ingame collection icons (patch 1.67)

These were made for personal use and over a long time, so they clearly mirror my preferences. I may have left out a few items that I felt I’d never use. Most spawners are included, but they’ll be invisible with buydebug deactivated. These collections were not made with tomb- or apartment building in mind; you’ll need testingcheats/buydebug for that anyway.

Some of the collections include store content or items that were unlocked / added by mods. You don’t need to have those installed and this download won’t add them, they are just listed.

Installation: Extract the files to  C:/ Username/ Documents/ Electronic Arts/ The Sims 3/ Collections/ User. You don’t need to put in the collections for EPs you don’t have installed. Content that isn’t there will just not show up in the collection.

This is the first time I’m sharing collection files, so let me know if anything goes wrong.