Rabbithole Row Grocery & Bookstore now playable - For Boroughsburg [DOWNLOAD]
If there is one thing I hate in the Sims 3 its rabbit holes! I love to follow my sims wherever they go and watch them doing everyday things… like browsing through the aisles of their local grocer or bookstore :)
Built on 33 Feinbild Ave 40 x 20 lot in Boroughsburg by @potato-ballad-sims
I have all expansions except ITF, no stuff packs. Any objects used are however replaceable except if using WA registers.
If you just want the lot for STORYTELLING will have to place decor grocery items on your shelves which you can get here. Nothing needed for the bookstore although I still placed a rabbit hole rug. However, the WA books register sells ALL the books that the rabbit hole does so feel free to delete it. Get more custom WA registers here. Your work is done and you can skip the rest of this post.
If you want a FUNCTIONAL grocery store where your sims buy their grocery from the shelves and not the rabbit hole keep reading **long post alert**
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Setting up your functional grocery store using Ani’s Savvier Seller mod
@anitmb has a great video on how to set up a functional store using her savvier seller mod, NB: Needs EA Savvy Sellers Collection to work.
Getting great custom shelves and registers for savvier seller
OPTION 1: Download ready-made savvier seller shelves and registers such as these ones.
OPTION 2: Use ANY shelves or registers as savvier seller (my preferred method)
Download The Transmogrifier (aka Object Script Changer) by icarus_allsorts. Hands down the best mod ever made for the sims 3!
Go into buy mode and select one of the savvier seller shelves and place on your lot. Also place any shelves you want to use in your store on your lot.
CTRL+Shift and click on the original savvier seller shelf and select copy script.
CTRL+Shift and click on any other shelf and select paste script.
Congrats! Your shelves are now considered as savvier seller shelves with all their functionality.
Can use the same method to turn WA or custom registers into savvier seller registers as well as to turn EA Bakers Bazaar store shelves into savvier seller.
PRO TIP: Change the shelves to savvier seller BEFORE placing items on them as changing the script will remove all items from the shelves.
All the shelves on the lot are regular shelves ready to use OPTION 2 to change into savvier seller or you can replace with savvier seller using OPTION 1.
The shelves on the lot are however empty as I don’t use deco food/grocery in my game (I prefer to actually play, not stage pictures), so all the items are from various mods. I’ve however curated a list below of places you can get functional items (meaning your sims can use them from their inventory if they purchase them) to stock your shelves with to your heart’s content.
Suggested functional food items for your Grocery store
Custom Content Loader - CCLoader by douglasveiga. Needed to load all the below inderellimod_GreekRecipesPlantsIngredients_FullVersion.zip
Cooking and Ingredients Overhaul + More Nectar Ingredients by Cinderellimouse. This is essential to get the buyable ingredients from the rabbit hole grocery store and all the other custom recipe mods. Read her instructions carefully and only install the options that best suits you. I chose to use the below ones:
Cinderellimod_GreekRecipesPlantsIngredients_FullVersion.zip
Cinderellimod_Edited_CookingAndIngredientsOverhaul.zip
Unused EA Meshes as Custom Food by SimMatthew
Hot Chili Plants, Ingredients and Recipes by @icy-spicy-scalpel
Baker’s Basket Plants, Ingredients and Recipes by @icy-spicy-scalpel
Green Vegetable Plants, Ingredients and Recipes
Spring Harvest And CookBook by @icy-spicy-scalpel
Arsil custom beverages - Sandy has a bunch of items that use this mod script. See links here, here and here. In my gameplay, I place them in the fridges to the back of the store.
Drinkable custom wine bottles (Gin, Vodka, Martini, Porto, Baileys etc.) by @aroundthesims. I place them in my alcohol/beverage section.
Arsil bag of chips mod. PS - @mspoodle1 made some amazing chips using this script. Sandy also made edible pringles using the script. All can be placed on your grocery shelves in the snack section.
Arsil Ketchup and Co. mod - adds functional ketchup, mustard and mayo to your game that changes the taste of food. Can be placed on shelves and sold.
Arsil chewing gum. - adds edible chewing gum! Sandy also has a fancier looking gum based on this mod. Get it here.
Candy from @aroundthesims - tictac here and candy tin with candy here.
Suggested Non-food functional items for your Grocery Store
Arsil Cooler Mod and @aroundthesims coolers - to create your own picnic, carry lunch to work/school that won’t spoil. I also place the coolers on the grocery shelves along with regular picnic baskets.
Child2Toddler2Baby v0.6 mod by Arsil - among its many features, also has an option for diaper and bottle to be needed in sims inventory to change and feed baby. Therefore, these can also be sold on your grocery store shelves in a baby care section.
Toddlers Extra Activities by Arsil - among its many features, also has a crayon box that toddlers can use to draw on walls. Can add these to your children’s toy section along with other portable toys such as dolls, bears and anything that can interact with from their inventory.
Toy Bench (Titanic Toy Machine) by Sandy - adds a bunch of other toys to the game such as a drum, kites, jack in the box etc. (all accessible from buydebug) that can be added to your children’s toy section
Cigarette smoking mod by cmomoney - don’t endorse smoking IRL but great mod for adding realism to the game. Cigarette packs can be placed on shelves and sold.
How to stock shelves with the above items.
For ingredients from custom recipes and other grocery rabbit hole items:
Have your sim visit the rabbit hole grocery (click on the rabbit hole rug in front of the main door).
Purchase all the items you want to have on your shelves.
All of the purchased items should be in your sims inventory. You can now manually drag and drop them from the inventory unto the shelves.
Open the cheat console (CTRL + Shift + C) and type in testingcheatsenabled true. Press enter.
Shift + Click on the ground of the grocery store lot. Select buy on this lot.
Purchase and manually place all the items you need such as the custom drinks, wines, chips, ketchup, chewing gum, cooler, picnic basket, toddler toys, crayon, diapers, bottle etc. Most found in the kitchen appliance category or the baby category.
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Whew! Hope you got all that! Hopefully one day my home will be quiet enough where I can record a couple videos to show how I use all those mods together. For now, my 8-month baby boy will have none of it.
CC credits (without which the realism of the download would not be achieved)
Grocery Store Items by @aroundthesims
Hastings build set by Estatica
Bookshop shelves by @danjaley
All other CC creators which I fully give credit for their awesome work.
If you are here to the end, you’re awesome! I pray you have a God blessed day.