My Mods on The Sims 2 (Updated Frequently)
These are the mods i used on my game from various creators of Sims 2 community.
Essential Mods:
Bat Box as Vase (FFS Lot Debugger) - This has a lot of similar features to the Sim Blender, but also has a lot of helpful debug options.
ChristianLov’s Gussy-Up - This mod allows you to buy, change, and plan outfits from a pie menu in-game. Allows you to change townie clothing and change appearance of any Sim directly by clicking on them.
Sim Blender – The ultimate Sim management “God” mod.
Always Use Bookshelf - Sims will always put books away on bookshelves rather than putting them on tables.
Always Flush Toilet/Wash Hands - Sims will now always flush the toilet when finished using it.
Flush Puke - Sims who throw up for any reason will flush the toilet after.
No Wash Clean Hands - Designed specifically to fix an annoyance when using both Bathroom Uses You from MATY and Always Flush Toilet/Wash Hands from Simbology. Sims no longer wash their hands after a shower.
Eat More, Talk Less While Dining – This hack will completely bypass the conversation if the sims is in desperation for energy, hunger, fun or bladder, or is in a bad mood. Sims with maxed social will talk less.
Grilled Cheese Love Cooking Channel - The favorite channel for grilled cheese sims will be the Yummy Channel regardless of age.
Simply Leftovers – Allows you to store leftovers as single plates so Sims don’t have to take out the group-sized plate every time they want leftovers.
Extended Family Treated as Family – Allows the game to recognize second cousins, first cousins once removed, great grandparents, great grandchildren, and great aunts and uncles as family members. No more dating distant relatives!
Children Can Throw Parties - A simple mod that allows children to throw their own parties for themselves.
Dress Me Correctly – Sims will put on the correct clothing when changing depending on time of day and their schedule.
Faster Zits - Teens develop acne in half the time.
Less Coughing - Halves the duration of coughing fits caused by pneumonia or other illnesses. Created when I had a pregnant sim nearly die of starvation because of two coughing fits in a row.
Just Leave Already - Eliminates the “feature” of AL which caused guests pester your playable sims to say goodbye. Guests will now just leave.
Get Off Your Ass - Sims are much less likely to just sit around doing nothing.
Self Preservation - Sims will be less stupid about taking care of needs, emphasizing hunger over bladder or energy.
Bigger Families - Allows an unlimited number of sims on the lot.
Smart Beds – Forces the bed ownership system in the game to actually work. Sims will autonomously use the bed they have the most ownership of.
Smarter Privacy - Sims are smarter about bathroom and woohoo privacy, ignoring unshooable or irrelevant sims.
Fire Mod – Fixes a lot of issues with how Sims interact with fire. Sims who study fire safety will now behave as intended by attempting to put out fires.
No Death Type Loss when Moving Tombstones – Fixes a bug that causes Sims to lose their death type when you move the tombstone to a community lot. Ghosts will now be the correct color based on their death type after moving.
Smarter Parent Choice for College Cinematics – Makes the game choose who drops your Sim off at college based on relationship with the parent.
Want Related Mods – Fixes a bunch of the awful wants by removing or reducing their occurrence. Includes buy gadgets, buy instruments, sports party, resurrection, etc.
Macrotastics – Adds options to automate tedious and repetitive gameplay, including motive-maintenance, businesses, socializing, and skilling.
Woohoo Count Fix – Fixes a problem with woohoo count. If a Sim has woohooed with the same sim multiple times in different types of woohoo, the game will now consider that as having woohooed with only one sim.
LTW Reduced - The mod reduces the lifetime want requirements.
Creativity Gain Enabled For Blogging & Diary - This mod allows sims to gain creativity skill while blogging/writting in their diary.
Anti-redundancy - Eliminates spawning of unnecessary redundant NPCs.
All Walkbys - Makes it more likely that a walkby will be a sim you know.
Local Walkbys – Sim residential walkbys now will only be people who actually live in your ‘hood or sub-‘hood.
Become an Author Without a Computer – This mod allows you to write a novel without using a computer using a notepad. Great for your historic hoods, or generally poor authors who can’t yet afford to buy a computer.
Random Radio Station – Sims will now turn on the radio to a random station instead of always Salsa.
Sleepwear by Personality – Changes the logic for sims choosing what to wear when going to bed autonomously.
Select Your Cemetery – Sims dying on apartment lots are no longer sent to a random cemetery. You can now choose the cemetery to send them to.
Watch TV from All Chairs – Allows your Sims to watch TV from chairs facing any direction at least 10 squares back from the TV – even if they’re facing sideways or at 45-degree angles.
OMSPs – One more slot please. Allows you to place more decorative objects in more places. Also useful for posing Sims for screenshots.
More Deco-slots - This mod adds decorative slots on top of many Maxis furniture, like dressers or vanity tables.
Monique’s Hacked Computer – I use this mod to manage bank accounts for my Sims, get jobs, study skills, shop online, and a lot more!
Brighter Computer Screens – Brightens the screens of in-game computers so you can see what your Sims are doing.
Default Replacement Computer Screens – Replaces the in-game PC screens with much better looking ones.
Faster Homework – Finish homework in 15 minutes instead of an hour.
Desk Locator AKA Put Your Homework Away Properly – Place the desk locator on a desk or table and have your Sim claim the desk via the menu on the object. They will put their homework on their own desk.
Partial Homework Credit – This mod gives kids credit for partially completed homework.
School Mods – This mod fixes problems with the way a sim determines which friend to bring home from school, makes it so that private school students leave school earlier than usual, and makes it so that your household needs to pay 100 simoleons per each child/teen studying in private school.
College Tuition and Student Loans - With this mod, the game will charge tuition and track loans for you.
Work & Bring Home Friend Dialogue – A dialog box (Yes/No) will pop up that will ask you if it’s okay to bring a friend home from work.
Level Numbers Added to Job Titles – Adds the job level next to the job title in menu screens. Very handy for quickly seeing what level your Sim is at in their career.
Loan Jar – Allows your Sims to take out loans and you can set the interest rate.
More Realistic Payment for Maxis Careers – All salaries have been cut in half, which is much more realistic imo.
Professional Blogger – Sims who have maxed out enthusiasm in a hobby will earn money during the time they blog (also listed in Hobby section).
Salary Bonus – Rewards Sims for long service, in addition to pay increases from being promoted. Sims who remain at their current career level (pay grade) will receive pay rises as their days worked at that level increase.
Enthusiasm Overhaul – The mods improves the hobby enthusiasm system, better matching hobbies to interests, makes the One True hobby more important than others, decay is dependent on interests, stops annoying hobby messages and more. Also includes a mod that prevents sims gaining cuisine enthusiasm for every meal they eat.
Fewer Hobby Wants – Reduces the number of hobby wants by stopping certain wants from being triggered.
Professional Blogger – Sims who have maxed out enthusiasm in a hobby will earn money during the time they blog (also listed in Finance section).
Townie Body Diversity – Any spawned townies have a chance of being either fat or fit. Every Sim is no longer thin.
Townie Move-In No Memory Loss – Townies will keep all their memories when moving into a playable household.
Seletable NPC – Allows you to choose which maid, gardener, nanny, etc. to hire from the ones available in your ‘hood.
Engagement Memory Fix – Fixes a very annoying bug that causes some Sims to have a negative memory of getting engaged when it should be positive.
Met New Great Grandchild Memory – This mod gives the memory of meeting a new great grandchild.
No Memory Uneducated & No Want Satisfy Uneducated – Prevents Sims from getting a negative memory for not going to college and prevents them from crying about it. (I downloaded Mega college pack and changed College Interactions On Any Lot to V1.1)
Baby Last Name Chooser – Allows you to choose the baby’s last name upon birth. Useful for babies born out of wedlock.
Last Name Copier – Allows you to copy last names between Sims. Good for changing the last name of your children to the father’s last name when unmarried couples procreate.
Marriage Last Name Chooser – Allows you to choose the last name of two Sims getting married.
Life Span = 1 year old - The new lifespan lets you see how old your Sims are, compared to real life age, and fixes the disproportion between teens and adults. One day is one year.
Merola’s Time Control Clock - Changes time slower or faster.
Programmable Sleep Clock - Clock will automatically compute the hour at which your Sim should go to go to sleep based on your desired waking hour and many more!
Elders Sleep Through the Night – self-explanatory.
Community Time Project – Enables the passing of time on community lots to be spent on the home lot. When a Sim leaves a community lot at 5:00 PM, it will be 5:00 PM when they get back home, but you’ll still be able to play the family left behind in the meantime.
Evie’s Equal Genetics - This mod changes genetic rules for eyes and hair in your game and it’s perfect for the simmers who like to have full control over their new sims born in-game.
Male Body Hair Controller - Inky-Fish’s Male Bodyhair Overlays based on AlienBBQ’s body hair textures, these are linked to the hair color of the sim, just apply one of five hair patterns and it will automatically pick the right color. (Located at Miscellaneous > Miscellaneous)
Baby Bottle Replacement – Replaces the green baby bottles with clear bottles filled with milk.
Crib Get Out – Allows your toddlers to get out of the crib by themselves.
No Baby Harassment – Sims will no longer constantly harass babies a million times an hour for no reason.
Self-Exploding Bottles - Baby bottles (regular and smart) that are spoiled or empty will simply go poof.
Toddler Potty Fixes - Maid can now clean potty. Adults can now potty train even if potty is dirty. Toddlers will not stop going if another interaction is queued. Fixing annoying delay at the end of potty training.
Teach Toddler Nursery Rhyme Fun– This mod boosts the Sims’ (both Sim teaching and toddler learning) Fun and Social motives while the Sim is teaching the nursery rhyme to the toddler.
Baby Toddler Mod - This mod fixes a large number of issues with babies and toddlers, and also finishes and adds Maxis’ unfinished Breastfeeding interaction to the game.
Parenting Mod - This mod makes it so that sims who have studied Parenting teach all toddler skills at twice the regular speed. In addition, when they encourage a sim, the personality change effect is higher.
Baby Pet Creator – Create puppies and kittens for your Sims to adopt.
Cats Hunt Roaches – This mod will allow your cats to hunt those pesky roaches that hang around causing disease and frustration among your sims. The action is autonomous and appeals to the cat’s fun motive. It raises fun and lowers hygiene (for playing with filthy roaches).
Pets and Children share Bed – This is a mod that allows Pets and Children to use the bed at the same time. Pets can sleep or relax at the foot of the bed whilst the child sleeps or relaxes at the head of the bed.
Pregnancy & Adoption Mods:
24 Hour Pregnancy – Sims will give birth 24 hours from conception instead of in 3 days.
Pregnancy Relationship Change – For when a sim’s pregnancy first shows and those around her realize she’s pregnant. Allows a Sim to figure out a baby is not “his” if he has high enough logic skill points.
Adopt Teen Gender Preference – Allows you to adopt teens and choose the gender and skin tone of the adopted baby, toddler, child, or teen.
Same Day Adoption – The social worker will bring your child on the same day you call the adoption agency.
Romance & Relationship Mods:
Autonomous Casual Romance (ACR) – Allows your Sims to autonomously woohoo, try for baby, make booty calls, and perform a whole host of romantic interactions. Gives your Sims more freedom to make their own romantic decisions and creates a lot of drama and fun in your neighborhood. Highly recommended!
More Realistic Relationship Decay – Self-explanatory; relationship decay is now more realistic. (I downloaded the FT version)
Bisexual Influence Fix - Stops influence system from forcing bisexual sims to choose a gender preference.
First Kiss Enabled – This mod enables first kiss to be used any time you wish as long as the relationship score is high enough. See the “first kiss” cutscene with any two Sims.
Same Sex Marriage - Replaces Joined Unions with Marriage for same sex couples. Includes relevant wants, fears, and memories.
Adult (18+) Mods:
(more from sexysims.info)
No Censor Blur - self explanatory.
Skaarjy’s Crammyboy Penis Redux - Give your male sims genitals.
Underwear Bulge - The Underwear Bulge changes the standard adult male (and teens in University) to show a big bulge, narrow waist, wide shoulders, bigger biceps, and nicely rounded buns.
Joker’s Wild - Adds Wild Sex option on pie-menu.
Neighborhood Mods:
(Tutorial from Pleasant Sims - Watch here!)
The Great Sky of Totalitarianism – Beautiful animated skies for your hoods and lots. You’ll need the sky box mesh, sky fix, full archive of lot skies, and full archive of hood skies (all available in this link) to make your skies look like mine in game.
Realistic Sun and Moon – I use the normal Sun and Real Moon for my hood skies. You can also download the invisible versions if you don’t like the sun, moon, and/or stars showing.
Seasons-ready Skylines – Gorgeous skylines that work beautifully with the above animated skies. I use Green Hills for Pleasantview but they are all gorgeous.
Curious B’s Neighborhood Terrain and Road Replacements – Greener grass and better looking dirt/desert terrains, and nicer roads that work with the terrains. If this link isn’t working, you can also get the replacements on Sim File Share here.
Criquette’s Linden Trees as Default Replacements – Less blurry, more beautiful trees for your hoods.
Voeille’s Texture Replacements – Less blurry textures for beaches, cliffs, and snow.
Gunmod’s Camera Mod – Necessary to view your skies and skylines. Allows you to view the far edges of your hood and have a top-down view, plus many more camera angles.
Force 12Hr Clock 64bit - Updated Beef682’s file for 64bit systems. This hack literally forces your game clock to 12Hr, so you don’t have to change it everytime. Just run the 12 Hour Clock64.reg on the folder and don’t worry as it only affects the Sims 2.