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Your Familiar Default Replacements are adorable! I had a question, though - have you thought about making a version that works with Familiar Additions by MAL22? The mod is older, but still seems to work. If you don't want to or if it is too much work I of course understand, but I just wanted to ask.

That mod has been broken and causing errors since Cottage Living was released, so I'm sorry, but I won't be making my familiars compatible.

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Bugfix: Let Scouts Donate on Computers

There's a current bug with the Donate Gift to Charity interaction on computers for Scouts. If the Scout doesn't have Level 3+ Charisma or the Idealist trait, they can click the interaction, but they can't pick anything to donate.

It's because of tests added in the 1.113.297 (March 30, 2025) patch, which don't include a test to allow Scouts to donate.

This file fixes that. It requires Seasons and overrides 'computer_Scouting_DonateCraftedItemToCharity,' so it will conflict with anything that also overrides that (but they should also include this fix in their mod, since they're overriding it anyway).

If you have this bug, please vote for the bug report here.

This is unrelated to the other Scouts bug, which Kuttoe made a fix for.

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bugfix-let-on-131614553

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Updated May 31, 2025: Changed the tuning used so that it no longer says it can be converted when it can't.

Alien Crib

Getting ready for the 100 Alien Baby Challenge? Just been abducted and your tummy feels funny? Stranded far from home and want your offspring to feel comfy? Do you just know that there's something out there and want your baby to be prepared?

If you, like me, loaded into the Curious brothers household in TS2 and fell in love with the crib, this is for you.

A recolor of @awingedllama's TS3 Kinder Kontainer conversion (you NEED the mesh https://awingedllama.tumblr.com/post/712793222699696128/random-conversions-for-infants-i-stayed-up-all -- yes, they're fine with including it, but it didn't work right, and I don't have the time to figure it out.) I made the recolour, because why re-convert something, then realized that theirs was converted from TS3, not TS2.

It's not exactly like the original (the aliens are supposed to be between the lace ruffle and the main part, they just don't fit) but it's close enough in my opinion.

17 space and/or alien themed colours, some with a space print and lace, some white with a alien ruffle, some with a space print and alien ruffle. TS4 aliens are more colourful than TS2 ones. Some are vibrant, some are more pastel or faded.

Base Game Compatible, same as the original. Tagged the same as the original, except for the colour tags. 150 simoleons.

You NEED the mesh!

Updates:

May 31, 2025: Changed the tuning used so that it no longer says it can be converted when it can't. Thanks for reporting that, Pemberton!

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alien-crib-104500010

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Renowned Photographer Aspiration has been updated:

Small Business Venues from Businesses & Hobbies now counts for owning a Photo Studio.

You need to buy a new venue of either type. It can't be one you already own.

It has to be a dedicated business lot. A small business at your own home doesn't count. I tried, but it got buggy, and only worked if you did it the right way, so that was too confusing.

Removed unintentional requirement for Discover University for one goal

Added a whimset. I didn't do it before because I only made minor updates, but this wasn't a minor update, so it's now done. They'll really want to take photos, which seems realistic based on the photographers I know.

Assorted minor fixes

For translators: 5 new strings, and the strings referencing Retail Lots have been changed ('Buy a Photo Studio (Retail Lot)' and 'Purchase a Retail Lot through the Owned Businesses menu on your active sim').

Because I had to remake it, if your sim had the aspiration, they'll lose it. You can cheat them back to where they were with no consequences though. If a sim has already completed the aspiration and got the reward trait, they'll lose that too. Sorry, but mods made in mod constructor are hard for anyone but the original creator to update, so I had to do it this way.

Download here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/renowned-by-120431451

Patch 1.115

Today's patch broke Renowned Photographer Aspiration. It will be updated soon, but I think I have to remake it.

Extra Funeral Activities has been updated for tuning changes. Download that here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119314939

Other mods should be fine with the patch.

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Patch 1.115

Today's patch broke Renowned Photographer Aspiration. It will be updated soon, but I think I have to remake it.

Extra Funeral Activities has been updated for tuning changes. Download that here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/119314939

Other mods should be fine with the patch.

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My followers know I hate talking about politics and current events, and generally refuse to do so, but this is important.

A bill has been introduced in the US that would make all pornography a federal crime. Owning it. Creating it. Distributing it.

Under this law, fanart of nude characters would be a federal crime.

Under this law, depictions of homosexuality or simply being transgender, would be considered pornography and a federal crime.

This bill is not going to pass.

However, the reason for this bill is to continue to push the "overton window". The reason for this bill is to make banning pornography seem more and more normal to everyone until they can actually do that.

And remember, they consider depictions of gay characters and transgenders characters "pornography" in any context, including platonic.

They have been working on this for a decade now and it has been working.

If you are one of the people in fandom who thinks that "nasty" porn on AO3 should be banned because it's "icky" or "immoral", then this mental scam is working on you.

Censorship is never about protecting people.

Censorship is always about control.

Do not let the rising moral panic affect your mind and make you weak to propaganda that lets others control you and control what you watch and read.

Do not fall for the scam.

When they say they are going to ban "pornography" it means they're going to ban anything they don't like by calling it "pornography" and they don't like you!!

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Updated to switch from injecting to humans to injecting to young adult/adult/elder directly, because EA didn't use an age test on computers. If you have a teen that already had specific goals unlocked, they'll stay unlocked on computers, but it should be restricted to young adults and older in future.

Unlock Specific Bucket List Goals for All

A tiny mod to unlock 'Write the Perfect Goal' for all sims young adult and older, normally restricted to sims with the Chased by Death trait or after certain life experiences. Available on the Life & Death journal and the journal from Parenthood (but does not require Parenthood), and on computers.

Quick and suspiciously easy, so as always, let me know if you find anything wrong.

Should not conflict with anything, since it's overriding nothing.

Recommended to use with this: No/Less Autonomous Bucket List Goals

Updates:

Jan 20, 2025: PlumbBuddy manifest updated

May 19, 2025: switched from injecting to humans to injecting to young adult/adult/elder directly, because EA didn't use an age test on computers. If you have a teen that already had specific goals unlocked, they'll stay unlocked on computers, but it should be restricted to young adults and older in future.

Requires Life and Death and Lot 51's Core Library.

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/unlock-specific-116203902

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PSA: Mermaids, Crashing, & Tattoos

There's a current crashing issue that Crin has narrowed down to saves with mermaids with tattoos (either on just their mermaid form or on BOTH the mermaid & human form--human form ONLY is not impacted).

You may experiencing crashing on any of the following situations:

Mermaids with cc tattoos, then removing your cc tattoos from your mods folder.

Mermaids with game tattoos, then disabling the pack it comes from.

Mermaids with game tattoos from packs you don't own (aka placing a mermaid from the gallery in game)

What you can do:

If you're testing for something, test on a save that doesn't have mermaids with cc tattoos.

Or remove the cc tattoos from the mermaid, save, and then test.

Don't disable packs before ensuring mermaids in your save don't have a tattoo from that pack on.

Don't download mermaids off the gallery that use packs you don't own.

If this applies to you, please Up Vote and comment on this EA Forum Thread: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/crashes-on-mainmenu/12139111

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1903

1903 began with a wedding. Laurence gave a lovely speech for the new couple, the whole town was happy for them, and there was a new Mr. and Mrs. Samuels.

Lydia has decided to take Era under her wing, whether Era wants it or not. The poor girl was all alone in the world before she came to them. She must need a mother's guiding hand.

Ethel continues to be absolutely adorable.

The first meal Era cooked for the family.

Veronica's mother passed away. She seemed to be doing fine with her 'father,' brother, sister, and 'aunt,' from what Laurence could tell.

Andrew graduated university with an honours, and with a new wife and a child on the way, he went straight down to the recruiting office to join the army.

Era always tries to look her best for Andrew.

Stop here if you don't want sadness.

In October, Andrew came home from work to a new son. Russell was a perfect baby, but his mother wasn't. Before the night was over, Andrew was a widower.

In the following days, Laurence heard that Mr. Rockwell had remarried, to the widow of the town's founder, and had left behind Veronica and her older brother with his sister to move into town with the former Mrs. Brindleton. Her brother had just married and moved his new wife in. He decided to check in on them, as an old family friend. He found them struggling a bit, and offered to employ Veronica as a nanny for Russell.

He hoped no one at home objected. Surely Andrew wouldn't mind? Veronica needed help and so did they.

Ethel aged up with a birth mark. Since you can develop them later, I left it.

Andrew is up at 4:30 every single morning for no reason and has been since he was a teen. He doesn't have any traits that would cause that. It's just how he is. Good for a sim destined for the military, I guess.

He's wearing waxesnostalgic's British Army Officer Uniform, which is not accurtate for this decade, but I don't see one that is accurate for this decade. The hat's wrong and the colour's wrong, but it's the closest there is. (Linzlu's Colonel Mustard is pretty much the right colour, but doesn't look military at all.)

Era was not supposed to die. And when she did, according to the rules, I was supposed to hire a wet nurse. But Veronica's mother died, and then her 'father' remarried and moved out, leaving her behind. She's around the right age to have gone into service then too. So the story lead me there, and they got a goat for milk instead.

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Hello :) I was wondering if you could please upload your "Sheep and Llama shear overrides" to patreon? I'm doing an 1890s save and i was so excited til i saw the broken link.

They're attached to the bottom of the patreon post here https://www.patreon.com/posts/sheep-and-llama-110747278 I'm going through and updating links on tumblr, but it's slow going. You can find a link to my Mod Status and CC List sheet in my pinned post (also here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qqaDNmDPBpjz4xGTstA-xmK4vUpqfMfEyVYF-N0iwbY/edit?gid=0#gid=0) and it has links to all of the patreon posts.

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Functional Victorian Washstand

This is a washstand by Kerrigan House Designs, and since released, I dreamed of it being a functional wash basin. I imagined how I could do it, but I lacked the know-how.

NOT ANYMORE!

With the help of Serinion's "Ablution Chamber Basin", I have managed to make this function as a proper bedroom basin, for your sims to do their daily wash!

There's a misconception that Victorians and previous generations didn't bathe at all - the truth is that they didn't sit in a bath, or a stand in a shower on a regular basis; what they did do, is WASH. This is where they would have a basin and jug in their bedroom, and they would use this to wash their smelly parts - or any other part of their body they wished to clean.

This basin functions as a sink - you can brush your teeth, wash your hands, shave your face; as well as take a "sponge bath" OFF THE GRID.

I have added the "Sponge Bath" interaction by connecting the basin with Cepzid's "Sponge Bath at Sink" Mod - so it is required in order for this to work.

Another feature is the mirror; it's impossible for the functioning sink to be in the same file as a mirror; and KHD's washstand did not feature a real mirror. So, I have created a separate mirror that just slots into place. Once placed, it will move with the stand, so you don't have to move things separately.

In Build/Buy, I have put the washstand and the mirror in the plumbing category, right next to each-other, so that you don't have to search around, and go different places to put it all together:

There's six different swatches, which will hopefully fit nicely in whichever room you want to place it!

I have also put lots of slots by the water jug, so you can place soaps and towels or other knick-knacks as you please.

To use this wash stand, you will need:

The file included in this post - Download from my Patreon Here XML Injector Sponge Bath Mod

You can also download the whole "Linen" set by Kerrigan House Designs, which the basin is a part of, here~ (but, not required for this item)

Enjoy!!

Final Note: A huge thank you to my friends on the Sims History discord for all their help and support!

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Update: added three more options, to place paintings at a deeper angle. Make your studio even messier!

Leaning Painting Slots

A set of painting slots to lean paintings against walls. They're meant to go on the floor, and are distanced for that, but you can also put them on any surface that has slots. They're visible in build mode, but in live mode they vanish (thanks to @meat-ice-cream for making a base for that). If you have hover over them, you can see the outline in live mode. You can also drag them in live mode.

You'll need to turn on quarter tile placement (F5 on windows, control F on mac) or use free placement (hold alt on windows, option on mac) to get them close enough to the wall to have them touch. You can also use free placement or move objects to move them closer together.

There are six versions:

Large, medium, and small, each at slightly different distances from the wall, so that all three size paintings will reach at a quarter tile out.

Deep, deeper, and deepest, further out. If you're placing a large painting, deep works somewhere between a quarter tile and a half tile out, deeper works at a half tile, and deepest works at three quarters of a tile out. Deeper and Deepest will need move objects on when placing the painting indoors, because the angle means that the painting's footprint is in the floor.

Since slots on objects are variable, I can't say which (if any) will look best if you place them on something.

Base game compatible. Find them under Surfaces > Displays for 5 Simoleons.

Updates:

May 1, 2025: Added three more options--deep, deeper, and deepest--to place paintings at more of an angle. Deeper and deepest need move objects on to place a painting indoors.

Download on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/leaning-painting-127829871

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Leaning Painting Slots

A set of painting slots to lean paintings against walls. They're meant to go on the floor, and are distanced for that, but you can also put them on any surface that has slots. They're visible in build mode, but in live mode they vanish (thanks to @meat-ice-cream for making a base for that). If you have hover over them, you can see the outline in live mode. You can also drag them in live mode.

You'll need to turn on quarter tile placement (F5 on windows, control F on mac) or use free placement (hold alt on windows, option on mac) to get them close enough to the wall to have them touch. You can also use free placement or move objects to move them closer together.

There are six versions:

Large, medium, and small, each at slightly different distances from the wall, so that all three size paintings will reach at a quarter tile out.

Deep, deeper, and deepest, further out. If you're placing a large painting, deep works somewhere between a quarter tile and a half tile out, deeper works at a half tile, and deepest works at three quarters of a tile out. Deeper and Deepest will need move objects on when placing the painting indoors, because the angle means that the painting's footprint is in the floor.

Since slots on objects are variable, I can't say which (if any) will look best if you place them on something.

Base game compatible. Find them under Surfaces > Displays for 5 Simoleons.

Updates:

May 1, 2025: Added three more options--deep, deeper, and deepest--to place paintings at more of an angle. Deeper and deepest need move objects on to place a painting indoors.

Download on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/leaning-painting-127829871

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Hex Doll Familiar Monkey Default Replacement

After I made my fairy replacement, someone requested a hex doll replacement too. So here it is. It's an edit of the boba tea monkey from high school years, made into a familiar.

The icon used in game doesn't change. That's true for the fairy too, but it's more noticeable here, since I changed the whole thing. There's nothing I can do about that--I tried, and it turned into a llama.

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hex-doll-monkey-127485387

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Please, I love my snowflake override, but I've seen it FAR too often

Help Request from Sims QA

The Sims 4 Laundry List out April 24, 2025. includes feedback and/or save requests for these issues:

save corruption

weather occurring indoors

fishing-spot routing in Sulani

Plea from me: Please help with detailed indoor weather feedback. I'm so tired of indoor snow 😢

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Fairy Familiar Bird Default Replacement

A fairy default replacement, because I found the orb with wings annoying. They keep the fairy wings, but get a bird's body -- specifically a European robin recoloured to match the wings.

They're a bit silly when flying, as you can see in the video, but they're cute.

Download on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fairy-familiar-127376914

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor