#llamafone

Your sims' phone, finally interesting.

Every call and text reads what's actually happening in your save — who lives in the household, their traits, mood, relationships, where they are — and sends it to the AI as context. Nobody calls about a job they don't have. Nobody texts about a sim who doesn't exist. The phone writes for the people in front of it.

A flirty teen texts in lowercase with dramatic slang. An elder writes long, warm paragraphs. A grandparent dotes; an enemy sneers. A Goofball cracks jokes mid-call. The voice fits.

What makes it different

There are other AI mods for The Sims 4. Llamafone is mine — three opinions baked in:

📞 Phone-first, not AI-everywhere

AI everywhere in The Sims 4 gets overwhelming fast — every NPC turning into a chatbot, every interaction generated. Llamafone keeps the AI on the phone, where it actually makes sense. Your sims still act like sims. Their calls and texts just stop being canned.

⚡ Lightweight — zero extra installs

Drop three files into your Mods folder and you're done. No Python install, no pip dependencies, no helper apps, no Discord bots, no second mod required. The script weighs ~120 KB — same vibe as every other Sims 4 script mod you've used.

🌳 Built for (and by) legacy players

I'm a legacy player. This is the mod I wanted for my own save — and I'm building it to be the best version of that for people who play the way I do.

It knows what's actually going on.

Geography aware

If a sim lives in your world, they'll suggest grabbing coffee. If they live in San Myshuno and you're in Willow Creek, they keep it long-distance — no "come over" from across the map.

Picks up real events

Sim quit a job, got promoted, had a baby, got married, aged up? The mod catches it automatically and your friends bring it up — "heard you quit, you good?" — within days of it happening.

Family roles override traits

Your Outgoing Adventurous dad doesn't text you like a frat bro — he texts like your dad. Parents sound parental, siblings tease, spouses get intimate, grandparents ramble warmly.

Plausible contacts only

Sims on the lot don't randomly call you from the next room. A teen acquaintance doesn't suddenly text an elder unless they're family or close friends — cross-generational pairings stay grounded.

Friendship tone is law

Friends are warm. Acquaintances are polite. Enemies are openly hostile — no "rooting for you 💕" from someone who hates your guts. The current relationship beats anything from old chat history.

Realistic reply delays

v3.4.0 — Group texts, per-relationship contact preferences, and better error messages

Two big features and a lot of polish.

🎉 New features

Group texts

Send Text now uses a multi-select picker — pick 1 for a normal 1:1 text, 2–4 for a group thread. Each recipient replies in their own voice with staggered delays, and every reply sees what the others just said (so responses stay distinct instead of a chorus of "same"). The thread persists per save. A one-time briefing call (using the default model) synthesizes each participant's voice and cross-relationships, cached for every subsequent reply so per-turn cost stays sane.

Dialog titles and reply prompts list the full roster: "Group text with Sarah, Bob, Alice, and Kate"

Reply button fans out to the whole group — every active participant may respond

Configurable size (default 4, hard-cap 8) and optional gentle "someone got busy" drop-off in later rounds

Group thread history flows into 1:1 prompts between shared participants as a SHARED GROUP TEXT excerpt block

Restarting a group with the same people resumes the existing thread (with cached briefing intact) instead of spawning a duplicate

Per-relationship contact preferences

Mute, "asked for space" (paused), or favorite (priority), plus a freeform note field — all scoped to a specific (household sim, contact sim) pair. Alice muting her ex doesn't affect Bob's phone activity with the same sim.

Accessible from Phone → Social → Llamafone Settings → Manage contacts (no cheat console needed) or via llama.contact First Last muted|paused|priority|clear|note <text>

The paused state is the interesting one: instead of blocking the contact, it drops their auto-event rate to 20% and injects a boundary note into every AI prompt for that pair. A love-heavy ex ignores it and keeps calling; a decent friend apologizes; a mean one guilt-trips. The drama plays out based on who they are.

The mod auto-detects distance signals ("leave me alone", "we're done", "need space", "back off") in both incoming and outgoing messages and applies the matching state automatically

🧠 Sim-world time everywhere

Contact preferences, in-person interactions, and journal entries all now use in-game ticks (from services.time_service().sim_now) alongside real timestamps. Shelving the game for real weeks no longer rots the state — the AI sees "you asked for space 3 in-game days ago", not "3 real weeks ago".

🛠️ Better error messages for Ollama users

The most common non-technical user issue was a raw Network error: curl exited with code 7 when Ollama wasn't running. Replaced with step-by-step guidance:

Can't reach Ollama at http://localhost:11434. Is Ollama running? On Windows, look for the llama icon in your system tray. If it's not there, open Ollama from the Start menu and wait ~10 seconds…

Plus a new llama.testconnection command that walks through the whole setup: confirms Ollama is reachable, lists installed models, verifies your configured models are downloaded (with exact ollama pull commands if not), then runs a tiny end-to-end generation to prove the pipeline works.

🐛 Notable bug fixes

Reply crossover fixed. _conversations is now keyed by (anchor, contact) tuple. A second contact texting the same household member no longer clobbers the first thread — replying to Daniel stays with Daniel even if Adelheid texted after.

Group text picker fix. Initial group text implementation had a picker that wouldn't accept multi-select. Fixed by matching MCCC's min_selectable = 0 pattern.

Past interactions / Conversation-so-far duplication. Reply-chain prompts no longer show the current conversation's turns in both blocks.

In-person interaction "3 hours ago" when they're literally standing next to each other. New same-lot-right-now detection swaps the wording. Timestamps refresh while sims are co-present on a lot, so post-parting recency is accurate.

Today's holiday now surfaces. Holidays that started earlier today (e.g. Talk Like A Pirate Day) are surfaced as HAPPENING TODAY instead of being filtered as "past."

UI title wrapping. Contact prefs dialogs no longer collide with the close button on non-ultrawide displays.

Timer + runtime state cleanup on save switch. Group text mid-round state clears alongside the reply-delay Timer cancellation when you load a different save.

In-game interactions detected properly. Expanded the relationship-bit filter to include modern Sims 4 patch signals (Sentiment Bit, Short Term Bits) so ongoing social exchanges are captured, not just the initial Greeted.

Llamafone v3.1.2 just shipped. Update recommended, but read this first because the data location changed.

What moved

Your journal, milestones, and sim snapshots are no longer one shared file in your Mods folder. They now live per save file, in:

Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Llamafone/Slot_NNNNNNNN__<your save name>/

The folder for each save is created automatically the moment its loading screen finishes — nothing for you to do up front.

Why

If you played multiple saves, they were sharing one journal. The Bella Goth in your legacy save was crossing histories with the Bella Goth in your dynasty save. The mod also looked up sims by name, which meant two sims with the same name (Maxis premades, your own duplicates) bled into each other's stories. Both fixed in this release — separate folders per save, and lookups now use the sim's unique ID with name only for display.

Do I have to migrate?

No. If you don't, each save just starts fresh. Nothing breaks.

If you want to keep your existing journal/milestones on a save you're actively playing:

Update and launch Sims 4. Load the save and let the loading screen finish.

Quit. Open Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Llamafone/.

Copy these four files from your Mods folder into the new save folder, dropping the Llamafone_ prefix:

Llamafone_Journal.json → Journal.json

Llamafone_Milestones.json → Milestones.json

Llamafone_SimSnapshots.json → SimSnapshots.json

Llamafone_MilestoneRefs.json → MilestoneRefs.json Repeat per save.

Your llamafone.cfg and Llamafone_Settings.json stay put — those are global (your API key, model choice, etc.), not per-save.

Also in this release

Replies got smarter. When sims reply to your messages, they now follow the same rules they do when initiating calls and texts. Geography, calendar events, banned filler phrases, "don't name-drop aspirations" — the reply path was missing several of these and they're all in now. You should notice fewer off-character responses.

Outgoing calls/texts know who's calling. Before, when YOU texted someone, the AI only saw the recipient's data. Now your sim's mood, career, aspiration, and top skills are in the prompt too. The AI actually knows who's on the other end.

Elder sims actually text like elders again. A weirdly common bug was the AI making elder Geeks/Bookworms text in lowercase like a 20-year-old. Hardened the age rule so traits can't override it.

"Been ages since we caught up" filler killed. Even when you cleared your journal, sims kept opening with "it's been forever since we talked" filler. Banned the whole frame, not just the literal phrase.

Clubs don't transfer between mutuals anymore. The AI was mixing up which sim was in which club ("you and Daniel doing that Board stuff" — when only Daniel was in Board). Fixed.

Phantom divorces fixed. Some sims were getting flagged as divorced + remarried in their milestones because of a timing bug on relationship reads for non-active-household sims. They were never actually divorced.

Download

Latest release on GitHub — grab Llamafone.ts4script + Llamafone.package, drop both in your Mods folder.

Full changelog if you want all the gory technical details.

Mostly a polish + bug fix release, but the bugs were noticeable. If you're playing actively you'll want this one.

What's fixed:

Sims actually know what your sim does for a living. The AI now sees your sim's career, current mood, aspiration, and top skills on both sides of the conversation. Your dad finally asks how the doctor track is going. Your mom asks how the painting's coming along. Your sister teases you about the promotion she heard about.

Skill names show up clean. No more Statistic Skill AdultMajor Charisma 10 cluttering the prompt — just Charisma 10. CC-mod skills are filtered out so they don't crowd the real ones.

No more sims "running into" each other from different worlds. And cohabiting sims / romantic partners stop saying "ran into you at the store" when they literally live together.

No more "Sim X moved out of the household" out of nowhere. Old detector fired phantom move events every time you switched which family you were playing. Fixed.

"It's been forever since we talked" finally banned along with all its sibling phrases ("long time no talk", "been a minute", etc). Sims now open with the actual reason they're calling.

Aspirations don't get name-dropped anymore. No more sims saying "I've been working on my Track Knowledge aspiration" — they talk about the actual underlying goal naturally.

Calendar events stop being delivered as news. Sims who live in the same world as you stop saying "just heard Summer is coming up in 4 days" — they obviously already know.

Under the hood:

The journal (memory across sessions) no longer has a silent cap. Used to quietly drop history past 150 entries — now grows freely.

Atomic writes + corrupt-file backup mean the journal can never accidentally lose data on a crash. Your save's history is safe.

To update:

Grab the new files from github.com/morganparadis/llamafone/releases/latest and drop them in your Mods folder, replacing the old ones. Your llamafone.cfg is untouched (your API key stays put), your journal is preserved.