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Functional Butterfly (& Firefly) Habitat + Caterpillar Incubator

I fell in love with these 4t2 conversions by @tvickiesims at first sight and just had to make functional versions.

When your sim manages to catch butterflies or fireflies, they can be moved from the jar to this habitat. Insects housed in the habitat will stay alive; if the habitat is outdoors, they will hibernate if the temperature drops below freezing.

Each habitat can house 3 batches of butterflies and 3 batches of fireflies, counted separately. You can make space for new batches by releasing the insects from the habitat.

The caterpillar incubator provides an alternate way to get butterflies. Stocking the incubator costs §18, after which you can watch the caterpillars evolve into adult butterflies over the following days.

Be cautious about leaving adult butterflies in the incubator, as they won't survive there forever. The butterflies can be either moved to a habitat or released into the wild.

If an incubator is outdoors and the temperature drops below freezing, the metamorphosis will stop progressing, unless it's already finished, in which case the adult butterflies will die.

Sims can view occupied incubators and habitats, autonomously too. Cats might find them interesting as well. About everything gives nature enthusiasm, and all interactions are available children up.

🦋 Download (SFS) (alternate)

The files are compressed. Requires Pets and Seasons. The incubator won't work if you don't have the habitat in your downloads as well.

The habitat is a global mod that includes overrides for the bug jar and will conflict with other mods that alter the same resources, so please run HCDU. These can be used alongside Vickie's original conversions.

Known conflicts: - Cleaning autonomy tweaks by @ashtonlc3. The habitat will only work if it loads after the autonomy tweaks.

Many thanks to Vickie for letting me use her gorgeous conversions, and to @gummilutt for the help with testing!

Well, that's a long-ass title, but that's what the mod does 😆

Story time: Once upon a time, I got annoyed of sims rolling wants about pets that were in other households, so they basically clogged up their want panel (especially kids), so I was like, I could mod this, fine. But since I didn't really have a good way to test this, I thought I just leave it in my game, and see if it causes any problems. Well, that happened more than 4 years ago 😅, since then, I managed to forget about the existence of this mod multiple times. So, well... You could say it was thoroughly tested lol! (I didn't notice any issues, though).

So yeah, here it is! It edits the 'CT - Generic Test - Pet Is Eligible?' BHAV, so if there are any mods that edit this, it'll conflict with them (I'm not aware of any).

Hi! Long time no see. I have something for you :) These are six TS2 Maxis desktops with the Hacked Monique's computer functions.

LyfeBgon Computer

PearShiny Station XTR Computer

Alienware Computer

Mr Humble's Computer

Sims 2 Life Stories Reward Computer

GlowStation 90XD Computer

Russian translation included.

Some little additions from me:

More loan's options added - $2500, $5000, $25'000, $50'000, $500'000

Playing video games now builds a Logic skill.

Download SFS | MF

Download non-logic skill version SFS | MF

Get the controller files HERE

Credits:

Huge thanks to @episims for helping me learn how to edit mods! You were a very patient teacher :)

TubShower Enabler

A block that you can put any one tile shower on and the shower will remain functional when placed above a bathtub.

Works on either side of the tub, with custom showers and tubs too. The side of the tub where the block is can be walked through by sims, but since this is most likely used next to a wall, it's not very noticeable.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

Located under plumbing / showers & tubs for free. The enabler automatically turns invisible in live mode. Pro tip: if the sim's feet clipping with the bottom of the tub bothers you, you can use an OMSP or shiftable anything mod to raise the enabler by one step.

Better Argue Anims

For an unknown reason, Maxis used 'agree' talk anims for the argue interaction. Especially weird as it always causes a relationship hit. In my book, that's the opposite of agreeing.

This mod replaces the argue anims with ones that look, well, arguing. No more enthusiastic smiling while being rampaged at.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

Should be base game compatible. I don't know anything this conflicts with, but run HCDU to be sure.

Custom Communal Showers

A tiny mod that makes all custom showers cloned from the University communal shower work as a, well, communal shower.

Download (SFS) (alternate)

University EP is required. This mod is compatible with Cyjon's communal shower mod and probably with anything similar, but run HCDU to be sure.

What We Need Is... More Books

After long last I realized that instead of battling with the constant urge to swap my book defaults, I could just give my sims more books to read.

This mod combines both of mine + iSimChi's book defaults and makes the game randomize between those for each genre. So instead of 7 books, there are 21 ✨

I made my older covers use the pages of my newer ones since they have more details.

The mod also fixes the following book behavior:

Books placed outside of bookshelves will no longer turn upwards when a lot is loaded

The 'read to sleep' interaction (that was added in Apartment Life and appears on minors who are in bed but haven't yet fallen asleep) will use children's books instead of the skilling one

This mod consists of two files. In addition to the mod file, there's a texture file that includes the needed book defaults.

If you want to use the mod with some other defaults, simply replace the textures from the texture file. You can also use that file as a base for making your own default set of 21 books.

📚 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Free Time is required. Conflicts with other book cover default replacements, remove those before using these. Also conflicts with ftminifixes by Pescado, if you want to use both make my mod load last (you'll lose the golden book that ftminifixes brings back to the reward bookcase since this mod randomizes textures for that bookcase too).

⚠️ A replacement for novel icons isn't included. You'll probably want to get the one from my newer defaults, as those covers will be used for the novels with the included texture file.

Many thanks to @isimchi for the permission to use their awesome textures 💜 for full credits, please see the original posts.

Update (11.11.2024): The covers are now also randomized for the bed/hammock reading interactions and for the film & literature reading while walking hobby idle. For all of these, sims can now also pick books other than skilling and will show an individual taste in books based on the sim's interests, hobbies, and aspirations, as well as on 3t2 traits* if those are used.

*Includes trait checks for bookworm, computer whiz, dramatic, hopeless romantic, natural cook, and perceptive.

No Rotating Pet Bowls

This mod stops pet food bowls from changing direction nearly every time a pet eats from them or a sim fills/cleans them.

With the fill/clean interactions some rotating still happens during the animations, but the bowl will return to the position it was before getting picked up.

The mod affects all pet bowls, including custom ones (unless they're done in some uncommon way). The rotating isn't as irritating with the in-game bowls but is annoying with custom bowls that have an asymmetric mesh and/or are large enough to clip with walls.

🐾 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Pets EP is obviously required. I don't know anything this conflicts with but run HCDU to be sure.