#s3 mods

εϊз NRAAS Mods

These mods are essential!

NRAAS Master Controller: This mod adds countless options that allow you to easily control and change just about anything about Sims in your town. Featuring a robust filter system to allow you to find the Sims you want to target and execute actions on. 

NRAAS Master Controller Cheats (module): This mod is an optional module of Master Controller and includes the more advanced; therefore "cheaty" aspects of Master Controller. (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Master Controller Integration (module): This mod is an optional module of Master Controller and replaces all the CAS interactions in the game with the one managed by Master Controller, including the "Create-A-Sim" button in "Edit Town". (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Master Controller Expanded Tattoo (module): This mod increases the number of tattoo locations. (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Career: This mod is used to load custom careers into the game. It is also possible to load custom book lists, custom skills, and standing social interactions.

NRAAS Careers School: This mod contains a series of high-school "trade" school careers.

NRAAS Debug Enabler: This mod exposes EA debug commands so that it is usable in game. It also adds a few useful commands to fix common problems.

NRAAS Error Trap: This is a core-mod intended to catch and correct data corruption errors that can render a save-game unloadable. Any corruption errors that can not be corrected will be trapped and logged, allowing the save-game to load regardless.

NRAAS Go Here: This mod replaces the "Go Here" interaction, with one that can be stacked in the queue, allowing the user to better direct the route of a sim. It also makes inactive Sims less likely to go home, restores haunting ghosts in the grave yard, fixes common routing errors and adds a robust set of door locking features.

NRAAS Mover: This mod removes the "greater than eight" and "requires adult" restrictions in "Edit Town" and the Phone and Computer "Move" interactions. It also retains the dreams and opportunities of Sims when switching households.

NRAAS Overwatch: The primary purpose of this mod is to act as a periodic clean up system for correcting errors and eliminating junk that accumulates over a regular play-session.

NRAAS Portrait Panel: This mod changes the Portrait Panel to display a maximum of 24 Sim portraits, useful for playing overstuffed families.

NRAAS Porter: This mod adds a custom version of the import and export system used to create Library families. With this, it is possible to transfer entire towns worth of sims, preserving relationships across households, and reducing the amount of manual intervention required afterward.

NRAAS Relativity: This mod can be tuned to change the speed at which time flows during the course of a sim-day.

NRAAS Relationship Panel: This mod changes the Relationship Panel. Changes have also been made to correct the "red box" relationship error that occurs when the window bounces while displaying certain types of sims.

NRAAS Register: This mod alters the rules governing role assignment in the game, allowing sims to maintain regular careers without losing their roles. In addition, it provides the ability to select which sim you want to perform specific roles in town. 

NRAAS Returner: This mod provides the ability to alter which interactions are autonomous and/or user-directed via an in-game interface, both ITUN and SocialData based.

NRAAS Saver: This mod prompts the user to save after a given amount of play-time.

NRAAS Story Progression: This mod is a non-core story progression replacement. The EA story progression will be disabled by this mod, and a new, hopefully better, system is started in its place.

NRAAS Story Progression Extra (module): This module contains the expanded scenarios of Story Progression which failed to fit into the scope of any of the other modules. (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Story Progression Money (module): This module contains the expanded money scenarios for use with Story Progression. (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Sims Drinks: This mod adds custom moodlets to the game when your Sims have drinks to simulate them being drunk.

NRAAS Tempest: This mod provides a more detailed approach to controlling weather on a town-by-town basis, providing the ability to adjust weather profiles on an daily basis during any particular season.

NRAAS Woohooer: This mod alters the romantic game systems allowing for more relaxed rules when compared to EA's. It also allows for teen woohoo and pregnancy along with risky woohoo.

NRAAS Woohooer Toilet Stall (module): This module for Woohooer integrates the toilet stalls, adding support for Woohoo interactions. (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Woohooer KamaSimtra (module): This is a custom skill to facilitate tracking of woohooing. It provides a series of optional challenges that can be completed for improved post woohoo moodlets. (Must have the base-mod installed for this module to work properly).

NRAAS Business As Unusual Bistro: This mod modifies EA's store content bistro oven splitting the chef and waiter roles in two and allows you to set shifts for them.

εϊз CAS & Genetics Mods

These are mods that affect Create-A-Sim and the Sims genetics.

CAS Lighting Mod: This mod enhances the lighting in CAS.

CAS Room Recolored: A custom/recolored CAS background instead of the original one.

Pearly Whites Default Teeth: A realistic default teeth replacement.

Stand Still in CAS: This mod gives Sims more of a gender-neutral, natural-looking, standstill animation in CAS.

Ultimate UI Overhaul: This mod changes the UI color in Create-A-Sim. 

Sliders: This mod realistically enhances Sims facial and body features in CAS.

Teen Neck Edit: This mod allows Teen males to wear Adult male clothing without a neck glitch.

Skintone Panel Expanded: This mod expands the skin picker grid from 5x5 to 10x10.

εϊз Environment Mods

These are mods that affect the environment.

BrntWaffles Frozen Lighting Mod: A default replacement lighting mod that overrides the lighting in all worlds. It makes the environment look so much prettier, and not dark or gloomy.

Realistic Clouds: More realistic and improved clouds. This mod is compatible with all lightning mods.

Enchanted Environment: This mod replaces the sun, moon, clouds, rainbow, stars, and snow.

Snow But Better: An override filled with textures to make your game more frosty looking and even more realistic if you're into those sorts of things!

Improved Environmental Shadows: This mod enhances the shadows in-game.

Shadow Extender: This mod increases the draw distance of shadows and in addition improves the look of map view by making trees and other miscellaneous deco cast shadows, when they previously did not.

Project renaissance: This mod can adds a little realism to your game, the vegetation will look much more realistic.

Dive Lots Ocean Floor Image Sharpened: This mod sharpens the ocean floor.

εϊз Gameplay Mods

These are mods to help enhance gameplay.

Better Greets: This mod aims to solve that and expand upon the possibilities by making Sims’ greetings also take into account things like personality traits, social group and relationship status.

Smoking + (Mild Teenage Delinquency) Mod: This mod allows Sims to smoke/purchase cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine gum. And, it allows delinquency options for teenagers.

Deep Conversations Mod: This mod gives you some insight on what your Sims are talking about and often lets you choose what your sim will say, which may affect their relationship positively or negatively.

More Complex Recipes: This mod makes existing recipes more complex by changing or adding ingredients.

No Fridge Shopping: This mod replaces the meal-making interactions on the fridge with custom ones that check whether the Sim has the required ingredients to make the meal or snack.

Online Center: This mod adds a set of new interactions to computers and smartphones, such as eShopping, reading eBooks, checking the PlumbBook.

Retuned Attraction System: This mod revises a bunch of the parameters that control the attraction system; changing it to be more selective in-game.

Sim State: This mod focuses on adding ownable stores to the game. (LINK DELETED)

Taxi Charge: This mod will charge sims for Taxi rides.

Violence and Aggression: This mod adds a list of violence social interactions.

Attend University Online: This mod allows sims to work towards completing a university degree on the computer.

Snowflake Day Tree + Activities: This mod adds a Snowflake Day tree to decorate and add gifts to open on Snowflake Day.

Auto Pay Bills: This mod checks every day at 9 AM for any bills and attempts to pay them.

More Romantic Interactions: This mod adds 17 new romantic interactions to the game.

Acne & Skincare: This mod to add an acne system to the game.

Baddie Socials: This mod adds a sassy new social pie and a stack of custom buffs, so your Sims can live their most dramatic lives.

Elder Socials: This mod adds draft a will, pass down heirlooms, give grandkids money + more.

Engagement Ring: This mod adds a "buy engagement ring" option to computers in the game.

Gym Membership: This mod makes it a requirement for sims to have a gym membership before working out on a community lot. The mod adds a "fitness app" to every phone where sims can sign up for a gym membership, hire a personal trainer, and get an Ozempic prescription.

Food Affects Weight: This mod integrates a sort of "calorie system", which categorizes most foods within the game into 3 different calorie types: Low calorie, medium calorie and high calorie. Additionally, specific high calorie foods such as cakes, hot dogs and fair food are in a non filling subcategory, making sims hungry again sooner after eating them.

Death Type Mod: This mod adds 11 new death types.

School Delinquency: This mod adds serious consequences for rebellious teens and their delinquent behavior at school.

New Parents Mod: This mod adds more realistic pregnancy family-planning gameplay to The Sims 3. Sims can talk about starting a family, react emotionally to pregnancy news, discuss baby names, plan baby showers, ask loved ones to be godparents, involve children in the pregnancy, and host gender reveals. Fathers and partners can react positively or negatively to pregnancy news. Some Sims may be excited to become parents, while others may feel overwhelmed, unsure, or scared. Prior family-planning conversations can affect how Sims react later if pregnancy happen.

εϊз Gameplay Fix Mods

These are mods to help fix any gameplay errors/mistakes from EA.

The Smooth Patch 2.0: This mod alters the speed at which the game's processing runs, which improves the overall performance of the game and some loading times. Most noticeably in Create- A-Sim, Create-A-Style and Buy/Build.

Thumbnail Camera Edits: This mod contains some edits to the INI files that control the camera positioning the game uses for generating thumbnails.

No More Zombies: This mod disables Zombies during the Full moon.

Random Sim Fixes: This mod attempts to fix issues with and improve randomly generated and aging up Sims (such as pudding face) in a non-intrusive, non-core way.

Route Fix: This mod reduces the amount of time sims will stand around  trying to figure out how to get where they are going, checking for obstacles, and waiting on other sims to move before going around them.

Shimrod’s Autonomy Fixer: This mod makes the autonomy run more frequently, such that auto-Sims will not stand around as long before deciding what to do next, they choose the next action quicker. 

No (or fewer) Automatic Memories: This mod stops the memory scrapbook from filling up with useless memories that then have to be manually deleted to make room for custom memories or to keep save files small.

No Social Groups: This mod disables all Social Group Influence gain and removes any existing Influence from all Sims unless their in University.

No Mutant Hair or Eyes: This mod forces all newborn sims to have their parents' or (if they exist) grandparents' eye and hair color. There is no chance of a mutated color being chosen.

All Traits for All Ages: This mod unlocks all visible traits for all ages, baby through elder.

Annoyances Disabler: This mod turn off paperboys for every family or if you don't like the free ingredients that the game adds to your fridge. 

Spring Cleaning - An Assortment of Vaguely Spring-Related Tweaks: This is a collection of four pure script mods that make a variety of tweaks with the aim of providing a bit more fun and realism to springtime activities.

Spicy Animation Fix: This mod fixes the fire breathing animation error when a sim gets the Spicy or Too Spicy moodlet that forces them into the sitting animation, rather than playing the proper standing animation.

User-Directed Scolding + Other Punishment Tweaks: This mod tweaks parts of the punishment system from Generations. It will warn you with a pop-up whenever the game tries to force a sim to scold a misbehaving child/teen so you can stop them if you wish.

Home Video Camera Fix: This mod changes the speed of the home video from Generations to a slower, more efficient speed.

University Life Visual Fixes: This mod includes fixes for a few visual mess-ups EA made with University Life.

No Camera Fade: No fade in camera view or first person.

Less Or No Laundry On The Floor: This mod can either reduce the amount of laundry piles that appear on the floor in a 24 hour period once a Sim gets changed to complete a particular task, or can eliminate laundry piles appearing on the floor forever.

Faster Gardening: This mod reduces the time needed for weeding, watering and harvesting plants, and therefore makes gardening much faster. 

Pigtails Glitch fix: This is a core mod that fixes the infamous 'pigtails glitch' caused by CC hairstyles.

Pick up Toddler fix: This mod does in detail, is a simple fix that now sims will always route to the toddler to pick them up no matter where they are, while the toddler waits and stays in place. They can also pick up them up at whichever angle, which doesn't always look the best but I've also replaced the animations so the transition between the toddler sitting on the floor and being picked up is smoother.

Cross Eye Fix: This mod is an experimental fix for Sims going cross eyed.

Sims need less Space: This mod allows your sims to need half of the space for all interactions, which vastly improves routing in small spaces.

Keep Your Hair: This mod allows NPCs to keep their own hair.

Toddler Routing Fix: This mod makes it so toddlers won't "fall down" anymore while routing, which would cause them to continuously sit down or start crying and cancel their interaction.

Auto Lights Overhaul: This mod completely alters the way auto lights work.

Don’t Put Baby On The Floor: This mod replaces the ‘give bath’ and ‘change clothes’ interactions on the dirty no More changing and bathing station with versions of the interactions that do not put the baby on the floor when the interaction is finished. After using the ‘give bath’ or ‘change clothes’ interactions, your sim will continue holding the baby or toddler and will not place the baby/toddler on the floor.

Better Ingredient Thumbnails: This mod replaces the autogenerated thumbnails for ingredients with custom ones that more closely match the produce.

Better Bartending: This mod increases the speed in which the player and NPCs make drinks, increases the CHANCES of getting higher quality drinks.

No Inappropriate Visiting: This mod disables the inappropriate visiting messages.

No Foot Tapping: This mod removes the foot tapping animation.

No Bad Photos: This mod removes the possibility of a sim taking a bad photo regardless of their photography skill.

Sims Need Less Space: This mod, your sims need half of the space for all interactions, which vastly improves routing in small spaces.

Pets Need Less Space: This mod, your pets (cats, dogs, horses) need half of the space for all interactions.

University Degree Tweaks: This mod adds and modifies the careers, skills, and traits tied to the degrees and aptitude test in The Sims 3: University Life.

Kitchen Tweaks: This a script mod that modifies and replaces existing interactions within the game. For example, cleaning up dishes, eating leftovers, and preparing food.

Child Activity Fix: This is a small scripting mod that replaces the child activities that came with Generations with custom ones that now require a costume chest on your lot.

Mourning Fix: This mod allows active household members mourn inactive households.

More Space In Hampers: This mod expands the space in all hampers/laundry baskets.

Read Toddler to Sleep - Fixed Interaction: This mod fixes the read toddler to sleep interaction from Generations.

Sims 3 Settings Setter (S3SS): Performance patcher and setting editor for The Sims 3.

More Favorites: This mod adds more foods, music genres, and colors to the list of selectable favorites.

Sims 3 Performance Patch:  A beta bundle of patches that makes The Sims 3 load faster, use less memory and stutter less badly. Could give minor or substantial improvements, depending on your setup.

εϊз Pregnancy Mods

These are mods that affect pregnancies in the game.

Pregnancy Controller: This mod adds a set of pie menu pregnancy options to all sims teen and above, both human and pets.

Pregnancy Ups & Downs: This mod intensifies the emotional rollercoaster of pregnancy by introducing first‑trimester nausea, backaches, anxiously or eagerly expecting moodlets.

More Pregnancy Interactions: This mod adds new social interactions between pregnant sims and sims of all ages. Another part is an overhaul of the pregnancy announcement interaction.

More Seasons Interactions For Pregnant Sims: This mod enables various seasonal interactions for pregnant sims.

No Pregnancy Chime: This mod disables the sound that occurs after a successful impregnation.

Pregnancy Test: This mod enables Sims to take pregnancy tests.

εϊз Baby & Toddler-Children Mods

These mods impact babies and toddlers in the game.

No Stretch Children Can Series: These mods convert adult motion to child one. Children can use objects with no stretch

Blush Baby: A default skin blend for babies. (LINK DELETED)

Newborns Get Zodiac Signs that Match the Current Season: Based on the days elapsed of the current season, this mod will calculate the zodiac sign a newborn should get. Additionally, twins and triplets will get the same zodiac sign.

Beetle Eyes: Accessory contacts for babies. 

Little Baby Wisps: Little hair wisps for babies that will show the baby’s real hair color at birth.

Sleeper Footies: Babies are now born with cute onesies and legs. No more burrito babies!

Better Playdates: This mod allows toddler-children to have playdates.

Breastfeeding Mod: This mod adds a breastfeeding interaction to the game.

White Formula Default Replacement Bottle: This mod replaces the green milk bottle with a white milk bottle.

More Toddler Interactions: This mod adds new interactions for toddlers, so now you can do a lot more with them, such as bathing them, talking to them, literally tossing them in the air and more.

More Play, Playmat:  An interaction where babies can actually play on the mat.

Toddler Foods and Snacks: This mod adds two interactions to the high chair to feed toddlers meals or snacks. There are 11 meals and 5 snacks. Similar to Growing Together, toddlers will love, like or hate certain foods.

Toddlers Can Learn To Walk Alone: In this mod, toddlers will finally be able to learn to walk by themselves, no adults or store walker required!

Toddlers Can Sit With Sims: This mod allows toddlers spend even more quality time with their parents and/or siblings!

Functional Baby Carrier:  An actual functional baby carrier inspired from the Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion Pack.

Tooth Fairy Mod: This mod gives child-aged sims the chance to lose their teeth and get money from the Tooth Fairy.

Sims Can Hand Over Babies & Toddlers: This mod allows sims to pass babies and toddlers to other sims.

Growing Pains: This mod aims to make younger sims’ personalities more dynamic.

Children Can Repair Base Game Objects: This mod allows children to repair objects.

School Additions: This mod allows child/teen sims to call in sick or ask for school sick day and manually attend after school activities.

Baby & Toddler Changing Overhaul: This mod forces Sims now need a diaper in order to change a baby or toddler. Diapers packs can be bought from the grocery store, you can get cheap ones that don't give a very good hygiene boost and have more chances of giving diaper rashes or you can get expensive ones that give a better hygiene score and have more diapers. If you have the store changing table, diaper changes will provide more hygiene when using it. This mod also fixes many issues that come with it.

Spend Weekend: This mod adds fully functional weekend stays for any Sim from babies to elders. Now your Sims can spend the weekend at a friend or family member’s house, or invite them over to stay.

Adults can Play Peek-A-Boo & Hug Toddlers: This is a mod to let teens through elders play peek-a-boo with toddlers, as well as hug them!

Toddler Bed REDUX: This mod allows toddlers to have beds.

Toddlers Can Ask For Things: This mod allows toddlers to ask Sims for whatever it is that they want, a bottle, socialization or a change, and they won't stop until they get it!

εϊз Pet Mods

These are mods for pets.

Pet Bowl Requires Food: Instead of watching your money disappear into thin air when you fill the pet bowl, now watch your money disappear into the grocery store void (or your supermarket owner’s pockets, if you please).

No Annoying Pet Reactions: This mod stops pets from reacting negatively on their own (like freaking out over plates) and from waking up sims.

"Pee Here" Always Available: This mod enables these options always for the Cats, Dogs, and Horses; just as the litter box and the human sims using the toilet are always available.

εϊз Miscellaneous Mods

Extra mods, not essential to have at all.

No Intro With Maxis Logo: This mod disables the intro videos.

No Build Sparkles: This mod removes the annoying sparkles.

Build/Buy Catalog Search: This mod simply adds a search button to Buy and Build mode.

Better Cooking Menu: This mod is a replacement for the EA cooking interaction(s) (they are actually one interaction made to look like many) to have them under one interaction which displays a dialogue window rather than the pie menu.

One More Slot Please: This mod allows you to place objects anywhere in your sims house. 

Add Any Lot Size: This mod will allow you to add any size (from 1x1 to 64x64) to the World Editor.

Facial Expressions Converted From The Sims Medieval: This is a replacement mod that swaps out The Sims 3's facial idle animations with their The Sims Medieval equivalents, plus some additional tweaks.

Clean UI: This mod changes the UI color from Blue to White.

Modern Map Tags: This mod changes the map tags with clean, simple, minimalistic design.

Fast Camera Change: This mod makes the camera move faster when switching between sims/lots.

High Resolution Speech and Thought Bubbles: A default replacement for headline effects. It is more clean and sharp, graphic wise!

High Quality Headline Effects: This mod enhances speech and thought bubble icons, relationship gain/lose icons, memory icons, musical notes, and sleep effect icons.