The Acme Catalog

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Boosting a GoFundMe to support our creator community and help cover operating expenses for the next year.

If you’ve ever enjoyed the builds, mods, stories, or general content from Plumb Bob Keep, please consider checking it out or reblogging to help spread the word.

Secret Santa 2025

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

It's once again time for Secret Santa! Our summer event was a great success, and now it's time for the real thing! Sign up to be someone's Santa, and get some great personalized gifts in return. We'll need a minimum of 10 people to go forward with the event, but the more, the merrier.

Who says the afterlife can’t have style? This Halloween, grab your gravestones and get ready to plot something spectacular. The Tomb with a View challenge is here — design a graveyard lot that’s frighteningly good!

Your task:

Build and design a graveyard lot — spooky, elegant, campy, overgrown, or glamorous, whatever your ghoulish heart desires.

Show off your creativity with landscaping, tombstones, crypts, mausoleums, or any other eerie details you can dream up.

Post your screenshots and let’s see who can make their resting place the envy of every ghost!

Rules:

This is a challenge, there are no winners, just fun!

Use a 3x3 lot for your design (residential, community, or other, does not matter)

You must post a minimum of 3 photos of your lot, including one overhead shot, here in this thread so we can see your creation!

You may also include a brief description, backstory or title for your lot - no more than a paragraph.

Photos can include sims and/or sim ghosts, or be landscape-only, your choice.

The lot should function clearly as a graveyard, with at least one area set aside for burials, tombs, or memorials of your choice.

Custom content, naturally, is welcomed, or try a vanilla lot!

Reshade and similar programs can be used.

Light editing is allowed, but keep it looking like the Sims, please.

Please post your entries by Oct. 31st!

Sometimes, the best projects aren’t the ones that begin with a bang, but the ones we quietly return to — the ideas and creations patiently waiting for a second chance. For the next two months, let’s take a breath and look back at those unfinished pieces, those paused builds and half-done recolors.

This is your invitation to pick up your tools again, to breathe life into what was once paused, and to move forward with steady hands and renewed purpose. No pressure, no rush—just the simple satisfaction of progress, one small step at a time.

This Mortal Coil

In The Sims 2, death isn’t just the end — it’s a dramatic performance, complete with ghosts who stick around to haunt your toilet. Whether it's drowning in a ladder-less pool or starving because you locked them in a room with only a flamingo, one thing’s for sure: the afterlife in Pleasantview is just as weird as the life that came before it. Here are some death-themed downloads to enjoy.

Grim Reaper Defaults by VampireKiss6661

Choir of Angels - Hula Zombie Defaults by rugrat0ne and CelestialSpider

Eterna-Rest Sarcophagi by Sunni

A Gravely Serious Default Replacement - Cairn & Urn by terrydy

kativip's Decorative Coffin Recolours by Michelle

Worked To The Bone - Skeleton Spectral Assistant by Fractured Moonlight and DavinaOjeda

Offerings for Our Pint-Sized Overlords

heget's Rocking Horse by heget

Medieval High Chair for Toddlers by Lama

19 Animated Medieval Mobiles by FracturedMoonlight

Apple Cider Stand by mortia

Medieval Activity Table by terrydy

Skill Building Milk Bucket by Michelle

Medieval Muffin Maker by motherof70

Summer Secret Santa 2025

Welcome to Summer Secret Santa 2025!!! We all could use an event to distract ourselves from the hectic things in life.

Do you want a chance to dust off your old skills, or maybe try your hand at new ones, this is the perfect opportunity.

Sign up to make a gift for someone, and receive a gift, yourself. Sign ups are from May 8th - May 31st at the Keep. Gift Exchanges will be between July 24th - July 28th.

Wayback Machine is a GREAT tool. It just has a few issues. The number one issue is that it isn't great at crawling. Normal HTML sites are no problem but more complex sites like forums and especially blogs are hard for it to navigate. It tends to get only very small pieces of LiveJournal for example. The entire official Sims 3 forum from 2009-2017(?) is just gone because Wayback wasn't able to access it.

As I've talked about over the past few years, I'm trying to archive a lot of CC with Archive.org. This works well for most older sites but not so well with newer ones. Plus, I'm focusing on custom content more than webpages and stories.

Stories, that people put hours and hours into, legacies, forum posts, pictures, blog posts, all things that are just TOO numerous for me to even make a dent in on my own.

Buuuut, if I could get a bunch of simmers who were actively viewing blogs and downloading content and reading forum posts to archive every post they viewed that could do something!

Wayback Machine Auto-Archiver is a bot that archives all PUBLIC webpages that you visit to the wayback machine. Think of it as a bot that follows you around taking a shot of every blog you visit. Obviously, this isn't just for Sims content but it would certainly help the community who may go looking for the content that you archived after it's LONG gone from the internet.

The auto-archiver is a simple extension. If you're running Chrome or Edge you simply install it like any other extension and then you surf the web like always.

The more simmers who use it, the more content gets archived. Also, it's entirely anonymous. If you're a lurker and you've never made or posted anyway, think of this as a way to give back!

Download it here and please reblog!

As it turns out, Mediafire content CAN be archived by this so if you visit a Mediafire page it will grab what's there, but Mediafire uses hundreds of subdomains. It seems hit or miss. If you want to mirror content you can use the direct crawler available through Internet Archive. On the bottom right of this page, enter your URL if you're unsure if a page you're viewing will be grabbed by autoarchiver.

April 21 to May 4th 2025

TS4 Romanian Folk Vest by Meduza

Victorian Default Replacements by Alix of Bretagne

April 1 - April 20th 2025

[Sims 2] Sunni's Skyrim Cauldron Stove Recoloured by NathanialRoyale

Default Teddy Bear, Xylophone and ... by Alix of Bretagne

February & March 2025

Sunni's NPC's Remastered - "Private School and University" by Sonikku3

TS4 European Folk Scarf by Meduza

The Sunken Vale: A Concrete Terrain Replacement by ClstlDrmr83

Orléans De La Mer: Chair de la Mer DR by ES_Sims

Greener Shores: A Lush Terrain Replacement by ClstlDrmr83

All Roads Lead to Cyrodiil - A Dirt Road Default by Spellbloom

The Sims Medieval Loading Screen Music by yeoldecrybaby

Potions Aplenty by Sun&Moon

Sunni's Skyrim Cauldron Stove Recoloured by NathanialRoyale

Potions A Plenty - Potion Brewing Set

Pulling from most every other set of Sun&Moon for potion ingredients, this set gives the sims the ability to brew various potions that affect moods, skills, life states, aging, pregnancy, health, and a variety of other mostly harmless effects.

The Quick Feature Review/Set Breakdown below the cut.

Download - SFS

View Use/Instruction Manual

Here's a look back at a sampling of our content over the years, between Mar. 22-Apr. 4!

2011

Castle Ellesmere by Darkraven

2012

Grocer's Delivery Cart by Sunni

2013

Silmarillion Sigils: heget's Heraldry Sets by heget

2014

A Small Middle Eastern Village by Red Sonja

2015

"You, O Queen..." A OUAT-inspired Regina/Evil Queen Set by Amelie Montmartre

2016

Vikings Be Raiding, Aprons Be Separate by Fire_flower

2017

Game of thrones theme: Queen Cersei wardrobe by maya40

2018

Water Required For Baths/Showers - Semiglobal Mod by Laura

2019

ACME Starter Kit - Maxis size by The ACME Catalog

2020

Tartan on Tiggerypum's layered dress by Meduza

2021

Default Community Lot Phone - TSM Sign by VampireKiss6661

2022

Two Basegame Double Door Defaults by ES_Sims

2023

4 Women's Hairs in Pooklet Io and Digitalangels Colors by NathanialRoyale

2024

"A Rose by any other Name" Flower Arranging Station by Sonikku3