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Starbucks Frappuccino Vending Machine Functional for The Sims 2

As suggested, I took one of the ATS Vending Machines I converted some time ago and added the Frappucino Drinks. Your sims can now use this machine to buy 12 type of frappuccino. Coffee, Vanilla, Caramel and Mocha are the same of THIS POST (you need to download the drinks to be able to use them with the machine). The other types are new and will show up only for the machine and not in the fridge (these ones are included in the download below). I added some simlish recolors too. The machine is medium poly (5k). Found in Electronics - Miscellaneous. Children can use it too. Drinks cost 5 simoleon.

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Flyable TS4 rocket for TS2

Flyable TS4 rocket for TS2. It’s cloned from Kate’s Hot Air Balloon and uses converted mesh by Early Pleasantview. Now your adult and teen Sims can fly into the space. They will change into astronaut clothes before getting in. There are two versions: Meduza_flying_rocket_bring_stuff and Meduza_flying_rocket_no_bring_stuff. Choose only one! If you choose Meduza_flying_rocket_bring_stuff, Sims with 3 or 4 logic points have 25% chance of bringing with them some aliens, Sims with 5 or more logic points have 50% chance. They can bring live or dead aliens converted by misty-fluff, which are included in required_for_bringing_stuff folder. If you choose Meduza_flying_rocket_no_bring_stuff, you don’t need misty-fluff’s files, because Sims won’t bring anything back.

Your Sims can also tinker their rocket. Based on coin flip, they will do it inside or outside the rocket. They will gain mechanical skill and tinkering enthusiasm from doing it.

Rocket can be found in hobbies/recreation. It costs $8000.

Important information: Meduza_tu_astronaut_MESH, Meduza_tu_astronaut_white and Meduza_uu_astronaut_GUID files are required. I converted astronaut clothes for teens. It’s unisex and binned as everyday. Nightlife is required and Free Time is needed for gaining enthusiasm. I would like to ask you not to include this rocket in shared lots - it needs some other files which won’t be included in Sims2Pack file. It could cause harm to somebody’s game.

Flying is looped, so you have to cancel action during flight if you want your Sim to get out. Flight takes about an hour.

Tiny edit: Now Sims will gain science enthusiasm from flying the rocket. Thank you, @sims-influence, for an idea. Also sorry everyone who downloaded earlier. Please don’t be mad at me. :(

ETA: you can add more collectibles to the rocket - follow this tutorial.

Credits:

Kate, Rebeccah, Inge Jones, Pi for hot air balloon

@earlypleasantview  for converting the rocket

@funphumph for converting aliens

@deedee-sims for suggesting taking a look at NixedSims’ anvil

@nixedsims for the anvil - it gave me ideas how to deal with tools and how to make Sims bring aliens from space trip

@fracturedmoonlight for automatic sliding barn doors. Thanks to it, I managed to make open and close states.

Download at SFS 

Download at GoS 

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Update 9th of September 2019: turned off flight autonomy, now flight doesn’t loop.

Update 13th of January 2020: Fixed mistake where I put an object into Sim’s right hand and tried to delete it from left hand. This mistake is not noticeable, because when action ends, the object is deleted anyway, but I got rid of it in the name of tidiness.

Update 24th of March 2020: dialogs will display correct Sim

Update 1st of August 2020: removed extra OBJDs, now there is only 1 OBJD resource. I also updated footprint to be 5x5. Unfortunately, as a result before putting this updated version in your downloads you have to delete any rockets you have on your lots and rebuy them later. Another thing I edited is changing clothes - after flight Sims will change back in the clothes they wore before their space journey.

Update 29th of June 2021: added WooHoo and Try For Baby actions and the chance of alien pregnancy (which can be turned off). You can read more about this update here.

Update 17th of February 2022: added animations - rocket will jump during WooHoo

Update 15th of September 2022: reworked the way souvenirs from the trip are chosen, because it was old and poorly done. Now there are equal chances of getting any object. Additionally, chances of bringing something are more dependable on logic skill level - every skill level has different percentage threshold. Moreover, Sims with gatherer trait from Hexagonal-Bipyramid’s Trait Project have higher chance of bringing a souvenir from their trip.

Update 29th of November 2022: added code from @episims​‘ ‘Aliens Ask About Pollination’. To enable this option set possibility of random alien pregnancy in Functionality Options BCON to 2. Your Sim will only be asked if aliens find them suitable - e.g. if you have YA pregnancy disabled in Functionality Options BCON, aliens won’t ask YAs, because they are not their target. Aliens will only ask about pollination if chances of alien abduction are met (by default 0.5%). To make aliens always ask about pollination, set chances of alien pregnancy in Functionality Options BCON to 1000.

Update 7th of July 2023: added fairy houses to custom WooHoo spots recognised by Meduza_AskToWooHoo_social mod included with the rocket

Update 24th of October 2023: updated Meduza_flying_rocket and Meduza_AskToWooHoo_social to support public woohoo wants and memories. Social plug-in also recognises new woohoo spot (WIP).

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Hiya! May I kindly ask what are your favourite cc cribs? (And where can we find them)

Well I really wish that this could be a little more comprehensive than it is! But this ask has shown me that I pretty much use the same three cribs on rotation. I do have a few others, all of which I like, but I seem to go back to these over and over.

So this is my personal reminder to throw a few more options into the rotation sometimes! But here are these three beauties:

Graham Crib by @beautifulnerdkitty

MALM Crib by @klaartjesimblr

1-tile MALM Crib by @deedee-sims

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Nasi Goreng, Rendang and Sate - Indonesian Food for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from TheBleedingWoodland, low poly. Available at lunch and dinner time (Sate only if you have a Grill). You need the invisible plate, included.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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TS2 Mod - Children can get cereal from fridges

A small little mod that lets children get cereal from Maxis fridges, instead of having to resort to snacks all the time.

Download: SFS

Might require Apartment Life.

Thanks to It’sMike64#6730 from the PleasantSims Discord for the original idea!

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Better "Clean Up" of trash items

Dispose Junk Food Together and  Dispose Newspapers Together

Dispose Junk Food Together changes the “Clean Up” action for pizza slices, Chinese take-away cartons, crisp packets, cookie bags, juice cans, protein shake cans and instant meal cans such that disposing of any one item will dispose of all items in the same room. The Sim will go to the selected item, pick it up, place it in a bin bag, and then in proximity order, go to every other trash item in the same room, add that to the bin bag, before finally making one trip to the waste bin.

Dispose Newspapers Together changes the “Clean Up” action for a newspaper, making the Sim pick it up and place it in a bin bag before heading to every other newspaper on the lot (in proximity order) and adding those to the bag, finally making a single trip to the compost/rubbish bin.

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ShortSleeveCollar(CM) replaced with @kestrelteens The Kids Are Alright CU T-Shirts

I saw these shirts and had to do them immediately! Available for CF as well. Enjoy!

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An older conversion, but I like it! I don't have any male hairs in my game that are shaped quite like this.

This would be @platinumaspiration's 4t2 conversion of @clumsyalienn's Petra.

Aged toddler to elder.

Polycount: 8k

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Mustluvcats' "Under the Stairs Storage" and More in Cluedo Colors!

I love using modular stairs that are open underneath and I love to put this shelf/cubby,loveseat/desk/dresser/armoire under them, but I could not find them done in Cluedo colors, so here we are! I may have a problem! HA!

Everything is slaved to the master mesh shelf, so lucky me only had to recolor 2 things, the master shelf and the cushion for the loveseat! I also changed the knob colors from black to Cluedo Smooth Metal in Nickel, because I personally liked it.

I tried to take a screenshot of everything included, but there is honestly so many options for these, it's possible I missed one or two. Meshes aren't included but you can get Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.

Thank you to @mustluvcatz-reloaded for such amazing items and @shastakiss for the Cluedo palette, you know it's my fave!

Everything has been compressed and files are clearly labeled.

Download SFS

Shasta also recolored these in Pirate Woods, you can download those here!

Enjoy!

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Glassware

Here’s a bunch of glassy stuff, because why not. 11 objects in varying amount of swatches. Custom thumbnails. I make all my CC with S4S.

✓ Basegame compatible

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Info: Please check out my ToU page. Feel free to tag me (#jools simming, #jools-simming or #joolssimming) if you use my creations, I’d love to see what you’ve done with them. <3

Do you like my stuff? Perhaps you’ll consider buying me a coffee.

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I just spent a stupid amount of time doing this and I thought maybe someone else may get use out of it as well.. These are over a thousand extracted icons from the sims 2 originally extracted by SaraMK and Richief over at moreawesomethanyou. I take no credit for extracting these, which must have been extremely tedious to do. I just organised them into neatish little folders. :3

DOWNLOAD <- Filesize 8mb in a compressed zip.

Credits: SaraMK, Richief, and Maxis/Ea.

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Pregnancy While Visiting

Pregnancy While Visiting

This global mod removes the restriction that only family members can get pregnant on a lot and replaces it such that any eligible playable Sim can get pregnant on any lot - no more "safe sex" in the changing room / photobooth at the mall or when asked out on a date!

InTeen compatible (but doesn't need it), requires InTeen Check 2

There are several other mods out there that do the same, but also come with a lot of extra functionality/baggage.

Changes only global BHAV 0x0139 "Pregnancy - Can We Get Pregnant?" for the main functionality and fixes an InTeen related issue in 0x0378 "Pregnancy - Is Sim Young Enough?"

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Pointless keyboard shortcut in The Sims 2

If you hold Control and Alt while placing objects on walls, you can place many objects in the same tile. It's like a moveobjects on but only for objects on walls and with no cheats. I haven't used it in years, but just saying, it is an option.

I don't think it's advertised in the game, only in the apartment life readme.

Edit: i meant Control and Alt, not Control and Shift.

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Ok, I went overboard again. For someone who mostly wears black, I have a hard time resisting tons of colors. I knew I was going to struggle to narrow down Standardheld's 156 bear suit recolors in her Infantastic Pack for TS4. I wound up with...oops...76, including the six EAxis textures. Yeah, that's probably still too many. I tried. I tried really hard.

If you're thinking "wait a second, didn't Skittles convert this?" She did. I reconverted it from the TS4 mesh, partly to reduce the poly count and partly to change the shape of the tail. No more weird round bunny tail! My mesh conversion has a little bear tail. Like bears have. Because what even was that, EAxis? My mesh and textures are completely separate from Skittles' bear suit conversion.

My bear suits are set as Everyday, PJ, and Outerwear. The textures are 512x512...which maybe takes some of the sting out of there being 76 of them? All colors are unisex.

You need Chris Hatch’s mod.

EAxis:

Standardheld Multi:

Standardheld Solids:

Download: SFS or MediaFIre

Credits: Standardheld/Ladyfu for the TS4 recolors

There are, somehow, even more bear suits coming later this week. Bigger ones though.

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🎸 August 16th — Remembering Elvis Presley 🎤

Today marks the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s passing. While the King of Rock ’n’ Roll left the world decades ago, his influence keeps echoing — even in The Sims 2. 🎶👑

Over the years, I’ve put together quite a collection of Elvis-themed creations for fans who want to bring a bit of his legacy into the game. Here’s a quick look at what I’ve made:

The 10lvlSecretAgentElvis career mod (2024) 🕵️‍♂️🎩 — because who wouldn’t want to be Elvis as a secret agent?

Various Elvis-inspired cupcakes 🧁🎸 — yes, even Sims deserve a sweet tribute.

A whole set of Elvis-themed clocks ⏰🎤 with vintage colors (2018) — keep time with the King.

Baby outfits with classic Elvis looks 👶🎤 — from Jailhouse Rock blues to TCB black and white.

Clothing inspired by Elvis’s style 👗✨ — from gold lame dresses to leather looks.

Neighborhoods like Memphis Williams Park and Old Hickory Hills 🏡🎶 — to set the perfect backdrop.

And some quirky touches like a Teen and Elder career "BeingAnElvisfan" and Uni major "Elvisology" 🤓🎵 for true fans.

Find everything here: https://s2idownloads.blogspot.com/search/label/SFS%20-%20Projects%20%26%20Themes%20Elvis%20Project?m=0

Download here: http://simfileshare.net/folder/101323/

And that’s just a selection — there’s much more to download if you want to dive deeper into my Elvis-themed Sims 2 creations. 💾🎉

No sugarcoating it: Elvis’s impact is undeniable, and for those who care, I’ve tried to keep it real with these custom mods and items. 🤘🖤

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If this can be used together with Story Progression... I can just not explain how happy I am with this!

Go Out (for Tea) 🫖

I made a mod.

With lots of help, lol.

After years of SimPE dabbling I finally became brave (and desperate) enough to learn how to read and edit Sims 2 BHAVs.

"Go Out (for Tea)" is a mod to help handle the Vanilla Sims 2 "quirk" wherein a sim will return home from a community lot at the same time they left. It is designed as an alternative to Community Lot Time, but you can absolutely use both together as there are no conflicts.

All information below this cut 😊 And warning... there's a lot. Sorry. My "simple" mod turned out to be quite complicated but hey ho!

I made this mod because I wasn't happy with CLT's limitation wherein if one sim (or group of sims) is waiting to come home, no other sims can leave the lot. As I play a lot of Open For Business, this was becoming increasingly limiting.

Teenager: "I want to go out with my friends after school!!" - Too bad son, Mum's still trying to come home from work so you're stuck here mate!

It was also irritating me that CLT would occasionally just randomly fail to initiate, and there was nothing I could do about it.

My mod adds a custom menu to the sim when you click on them. You can tell them to "Go Out" for [x] amount of hours, and they will disappear from the lot and idle off world with needs frozen until it is time for them to come back.

In a household with multiple sims and/or pets, a pop-up window will also appear asking you if you'd like to send sims out as a group.

The options for hours are set to 1-12 by default, but in the TA_GoOut_Action file, there is a configurable BCON where if you want to, you can enable larger amounts of time to appear in the menu, for example up to 24 hours.

Thank you to @picknmixsims for this nice feature 😊

There is also a "Go Out.../ Indefinitely" option where the sim will be gone until you cancel their interaction. Other set amounts of time are not cancellable, so if you make a mistake with how long you send your sim out for, you will need to use the batbox or similar to "force error" on the sim to get them back.

This mod is based off the Maxis Jogging interaction, with many tweaks. The interaction is available for toddlers+, and toddlers+ are able to go off lot. Dogs and cats may too, but unfortunately I couldn't work out how to enable this for kittens and puppies. I will try to revisit this in the future if I learn something that might help!

When a sim leaves the lot, you will get a notification pop-up telling you what time to expect them home, which will remain on screen unless you close it. This is displayed in 24-hour format because the Sims 2 stores time in 24-hour format, and when I tried to tweak it to appear in 12-hour format, the game would get confused about when the sim should return, sometimes returning at 3am instead of 3pm.

When they return home, another notification will appear letting you know they are back. This one will self-close after a few seconds.

It is less automatic than CLT, and requires you to keep a rough track on how long your sim was gone for so that you can send them out for roughly the same amount of time.

However, they payoff is that it is much more flexible than CLT, as you can use your own discretion, and of course, send multiple sims or groups of sims out at once! If your sim was Downtown for 10 hours but really you feel like it would have been more like 2 hours IRL, that's fine, just send them out for 2 hours. Your call!

Groups & Dates:

When a sim is on a Date or Group Outing, the amount of hours you select for the sims to Go Out will be added back onto their event timer so it is voided once they return home. For example, 1 hour in game = 1 minute on their event timer, so if you go out for 3 hours, 3 minutes will be added to their event timer.

Young Adults:

When a sim is a Young Adult / University student, you are prompted to choose if you would like to freeze their college clock or not when they "Go Out".

This is because if a Young Adult visits a community lot in a University subhood, their college clock continues to progress (unless you have a mod). They may go to class from a community lot, take exams, etc. Therefore when they return home after say 5 hours, you would want to freeze their clock while they "Go Out" for 5 hours, instead of repeating that time again and potentially missing class.

However, if a Young Adult visits a community lot in a main neighbourhood or Downtown, their college clock automatically freezes. Therefore when they return home after say 5 hours and you send them to "go out", you would want their college clock to continue ticking down.

The code for freezing University time was borrowed from Inge Jones's University Break Object mod. I did have to tweak this code slightly, so I have re-uploaded my edit of this mod, and have re-meshed it from a bust to an alarm clock converted by @jacky93sims which a University sim may keep in their dorm room.

This is optional, you do not need the clock for my "Go Out" mod to work.

The University Break mod (if you download it) now affects sims individually, rather than all sims on the lot. A sim must claim a clock as theirs, and may take a break from University independently of everyone else in the dorm. If you'd like ALL sims in the dorm to take a Uni break, you'll need lots of clocks! - Or just send everyone to a lot in a Downtown or Main hood for Spring Break 😂

When a Young Adult is "gone out" (or on break) with their semester clock "paused", they should not get any notifications to go to class, or a push from the game to go to class. However, there is a KNOWN ISSUE from testing where some testers have reported still getting these pop-ups, so there seems to be a hidden mod conflict somewhere! If you have this issue, please run a HCDU+ on your mods folders and let me know if anything is reported, or if you can figure out which mod is conflicting, let me know and I'll see if I can sort it!

From testing, this feature appears to be fully compatible with Squinge's College Mega Pack to have YA's attend University in your main hood, bearing in mind that rule with Community Lots.

Pregnancies:

From my testing, pregnancy always freezes when a sim visits a community lot of any kind. Therefore, pregnancy will continue to tick down in time while a sim is "Gone Out".

However, if you play with Chris Hatch's "Visit Sims" mod which enables sims to visit other residential lots, a pregnant sim's pregnancy timer WILL continue to progress while they are visiting. When they return home and you send them to "Go Out", you may want to pause their Pregnancy. I have therefore made an alternative version of the mod which gives you a pop-up similar to the Young Adult's popup, asking if you'd like to pause the pregnancy or not.

Kids:

If children or younger are going to be left home alone, the Go Out mod will not allow your chosen sims to leave the lot unless a Nanny is present. If a child comes home from school and your adults are off-lot for too long, a social worker will come to collect them after a number of hours as in vanilla gameplay. If you would like this not to happen, I suggest playing with a no social worker mod.

I have also made a version that is compatible with the "Playable Nannies" mod by LazyDuchess, so my code will recognise when a custom Nanny is on the lot. Please only use this version if you have Playable Nannies in your game.

By request from @anibats I have also made a version of the mod which doesn't care at all about whether there is a Nanny or not, so if you'd like to abandon your younglings, you can use that version instead! 😂 This one pairs nicely with the no social worker mod.

Aging:

Aging does not currently freeze when a sim is "Gone Out", so if they are gone at 6pm when age transition triggers, they will age up a day as normal. This could also be changed, or made optional. I have left it this way for now as I believe sims do not age up on Community Lots without a mod.

Bon Voyage:

Bon Voyage / Holidays / Vacation time is currently not addressed by my mod. If your sims visit a community lot while on Vacation, you would want to use the "setHour" cheat when they return to their hotel to have their travel time make sense. This is because Bon Voyage code is very different, and to "freeze" holiday time would be a difficult and potentially game-breaking task. I may revisit this in the future when I know more about modding.

Time Speed Mods:

My mod is compatible with Chris Hatch's Time Controller mod, and with Merola's Time Control Clock. Sims should "Go Out" and idle until their expected return time.

I did notice an issue with Merola's Time Control Clock while I was exploring compatibility. I looked into the code and found an error with the way Merola's clock slowed down time, so I have re-uploaded a fixed version of this mod with a new mesh converted from TS4 and 50 recolours (because why not!!)

The only other main time speed mod that I am aware of is the Lazy Duchess Relativity mod, which is reported by LD to be broken and is unsupported, so I have not checked compatibility with that mod.

Can I break it?

The mod has been tested fairly rigorously (thank you to @anibats, @ch4rmsing @doubledash7, @joplayingthesims, @katieraecreates) and should be fairly sturdy, but I'm sure things will come up that don't work as expected 😂 Please let me know if you find bugs, and send an error log if possible, and let me know which version of the mod you're using.

If you use the "set hour" cheat while your sim is gone out, they will still return at the time the pop-up told you they'd be back. So if they're supposed to be back at 8pm and you set hour til after 8pm, they won't be back til 8pm the next day. That's on you, sorry 😘😂

I am a baby modder, I have been doing this for approximately 3.5 weeks, please be patient with me as I'm sure I've messed something up somewhere, despite trying to catch and fix all of my mistakes 😂

Conflicts:

Pescado's AptHack will conflict with the University Sims going out. Here is an edited version of AptHack to work with my mod: Download and then you can delete my file called "TA_ijUniversityBreakPatch"

None else are currently known other than something else potentially hiding and messing with young adults, as previously mentioned. Please do let me know if you find any conflicts in your games and I will try to resolve them.

DOWNLOADS:

Okay, this is more complicated than I would have liked. But bear with me:

Go Out For Tea - Main Mod Download. Use this version by default. Yes you need all files.

Go Out For Tea - Playable Nannies Compatible. Use this version if you have LD's Playable Nannies Mod. Yes you need all files.

If you want to be able to pause your sims' pregnancies, e.g. if you play with Visit Sims or another mod that lets you travel to residential lots, get the base mod and then download this ZIP and use one of the files inside to replace the TA_GoOut_Controller file, either the base version or the playable nannies compatible version.

If you don't want the mod to care at all about nannies, get the base mod and then download this ZIP and use one of the files inside to replace the TA_GoOut_Controller file.

Simlogical's University Break object tweaked and re-meshed as a clock - Download

Merola's Time Control Clock with simplified code, re-meshed as a cute clock and with 50 recolours because I have no chill - Download

Credits and Thank-You's:

@picknmixsims William my Sensei, you are a wonderful human being. Thank you for your "suggestion" to start again after a week of messy coding to make a better mod and for all of the help along the way 😂💗

@gummilutt my teacher and friend, thank you so much, you know this mod would never have happened without your help!

@morepopcorn my soul-twin, can't wait to do more modding with you 😘 Thank you for sitting down with me for 3 hours and teaching me how to really read code line-by-line, helping troubleshooting, making so many changes and tweaks and all the things!

And as already mentioned, thank you to my wonderful Beta testers!

Enjoy! xo