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1. Evil Sims Laugh At Death

Evil Sims laugh at death is a relatively simple trait mod that makes sims with the evil trait find death funny.

When a sim dies and others gather around to mourn, no matter how close they were with the deceased, they'll laugh. If you direct them to "mourn" at the gravestone, they'll laugh.

While everyone is sobbing, they're thinking the whole thing is rather hilarious.

Why did I make this mod? Because I was tired of my "Black Widow" evil witch Louise Aire crying over the sims she had literally killed lol. Silly woman.

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2. "How did they die?"

This mod was made upon request by someone on Discord who was playing a newly downloaded hood and wanted to know how all of the dead sims had met their grizzly ends.

If you have "boolProp testingcheatsenabled true" turned on, you can shift-click on a gravestone and select "how did they die?"

Which will give you a popup informing you of the details of their untimely (or perhaps timely) demise -

And, well, yeah. That's it, that's the mod. Shouldn't conflict with anything, hopefully.

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3. Tea's Mortality Roller

Okay, this one is the most complicated and will take the longest to explain so bear with me.

In many "historical sims challenges", mortality rolls are a feature of the challenge rules. Basically, you're rolling to see if your sim will die at a given age in their lives.

Previously you'd maybe use a spreadsheet and dice or RNG for this, like what I had here -

But no more!

I have coded a mod object that will move all of these shenanigans in-game, interjecting itself at key moments and rolling mortality for sims, including infant mortality, with the power of tuning BCONs and BHAVs and maths. Yay, maths...

The Mortality Roller works mostly based on Medieval Caste Traits, for example here, here and here. If you don't have these in your game this will have less functionality, and/or not end well for you because if the mod can't find a caste trait, it assumes "middle class".

Everything about this mod is tuneable. Firstly, the in-game options:

Here you can select whether you want to roll "all ages at birth" or "per birthday". Rolling all ages at birth will tell you right off the bat at what age this sim might be "destined" to die. Alternatively, you can choose to "roll at each birthday" which will give you a popup after the sim ages up to tell you how near or far Grim is...

This mortality roll has zero practical effect. Your sim isn't gonna immediately drop dead - it just tells you the result of the random roll and it's up to you to interpret it, and build it into the gameplay and the sim's story.

The "Toggle Infant Mortality" option should be fairly self-explanatory. All detailed tuning for infant mortality is is BCONs that you can edit with SimPE, which we will get to later.

If infant mortality is enabled, a baby has a chance of death at birth. These chances are influenced by:

The Mother / Father / Family's social caste trait

The presence of a midwife on the lot (recognised by the Midwife trait or career)

The number of expected babies (death odds increase significantly for multiples)

If the baby rolls to perish, you will get a pop-up after you name the baby asking if you would like to accept or fight fate. If you accept, that baby will be put down on the floor and perish. If you fight fate, baby will live, simple as that.

If baby rolls to live, you'll just get a text notification letting you know that the Watcher is smiling upon the new bundle of joy with favour instead.

If baby perishes, they will fade out and a gravestone will appear. Grim does not spawn, cos that got put into the "too hard" basket. The model of the gravestone will vary depending on mum's social caste trait. These are NOT the same as a Maxis Gravestone, which are super complicated. So you can't, for example, "move gravestone to another lot" in the same way you can move Maxis gravestones. I am not sure what would happen if you moved it via sim inventory to an owned business lot - it could work? Needs testing.

I did code a custom "mourn" interaction, which gives a pop-up to let you know who rests there. The message differs slightly on caste trait again, or "literacy levels" as you might put it.

Peasants can't write or read much so that one's pretty basic 😂

Baby will remain in the family tree, greyed out, and sims will get a memory of them perishing. I do not believe that "baby ghosts" are a thing, nor should they ever spawn.

If you want / need a baby to perish for "story purposes", there is also a debug option on the mortality roller called *Infant Perish - you won't see this unless you shift-click with testing cheats on, but if you need to, you can choose an infant to perish with this debug option.

WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS MOD, TEA??? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU??

Okay, look, these things are a part of life, and historically happened often. And also because the only other mod options were either a custom NPC Ogre mod (which I had been using but was rather clunky), or a certain ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE WTF BABY BBQ that should NOT be mentioned. Seriously, I "borrowed" small parts of the code for my mod which meant I looked inside that mod in SimPE, and I did not like it in there, at all. I wanted something tasteful, done respectfully and sensitively.

For mortality to occur, the roller object has to be on the lot (each lot) . If you delete it, mortality rolls will not take place. The object is taken from and repo'd to Sunni's market pottery set, which I have included the master for in the download.

I tried very hard to make this mod sensitively and considerately, and everything is optional. So please don't yell at me 🙏🏻🙈

Now, onto the tuning BCONs, starting with caste traits:

For simplicity's sake I have broken trait castes up into 3 broad categories of low, middle, and high class. You enter a "0" if you want a trait to be considered low class, "1" for middle class, and "2" for high class.

These castes affect mortality rolls for infant mortality and also for birthday mortality rolls.

Infant mortality is highly tuneable:

The first 3 lines are the base % chance for sims belonging to those social classes. "Midwife Presence % Decrease" controls how much better off your sims will be for having a midwife on the lot when baby is born. The last 3 lines affect % chances for multiples.

You can ignore when I say "set all to 0 for no infant mortality" - this is an older screenshot and I deleted that after I added the in-game on/off toggle, but technically setting them all to 0 would also still work.

For "life stage" mortality (toddler, child, teen and adult), there are tuning BCONs for all:

Simply, you enter a % chance of mortality occurring within that life stage, for each overarching class. The mod does the maths.

Buuuut then I went a step extra and also incorporated some traits that will add or subtract from a sim's mortality risk, as seen here. This was a fun extra I am glad I added 😂 Always enter a "positive" number - the BHAV does the work to interpret "helpful" versus "unhelpful" traits.

Next up: COMPATIBILITY PATCHES (oh boy).

This. Was. Gnarly.

And I recently discovered a whole new mod I gotta try and patch (William's age up messages mod). This is currently incompatible with my mod, sorry.

However, here is what's currently included for compatibility:

If you have any of these mods, please put in the required comp patch in your Z_LoadLast folder. I think they should all work as intended, but if not, please do reach out to me.

As with all comp patches, you only need them if you have the mod.

The zip also contains:

You've gotta have my TA_MortalityRoller file, that's like, the mod. Then you have to have the gravestones and the Market Pottery Master (unless you already have it).

I hope some historical players will enjoy this mod. I put a lot of work into this one.

I would like to give a HUGE shout-out and thank you to @niamh-sims who was instrumental in the inspiration, development and testing on this mod. It wouldn't have happened without her.

And if you want it, you can

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