#Kookablarn Save File

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Version 5.1!

Hey, y’all! Got a new update to the Kookablarn Save File for ya!

The file was done pretty soon after the release of High School Years, but the game’s glitches and issues are what held me back. Then, I started having personal doubts. But I was finally able to push through and finish it all!

There’s a lot of changes in this one because I also went through with removing all ghosts from the family trees except for select important family members, which means there’s no more need for a Ghost-less Version. However, you can find a list of the ghosts still in the file here! Most of the ghost’s graves can be found in a family member’s inventory.

Since I did a pretty big reset on the file, all of the minor build/buy changes I made have been erased. My plan is to slowly go through and do small renovations to the lots to make them fit the family. For now, all lots are untouched.

Version 5.1 includes My Wedding Stores, Werewolves, and High School Years. Also includes the Infants update. I also went around and added body hair, sexual preferences, and pronouns to various sims and made the usual CAS changes wherever I saw fit. 

As always, changes are detailed under the cut. Let me know if you find any issues and I hope you enjoy~! Thanks for your patience!

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v5.1 Changes:

✨Changed Mateo Alto’s name to Carlos. (Okay, I know! I keep changing this kid’s name! I think I’m settled on this!) ✨Changed various teen’s outfits with ones from High School Years. ✨Changed Sapphire Roadie’s trait from Outgoing to Party Animal. (It was made for her!) ✨Changed Tima Nikovitch’s last name to Hastings! (Thanks to Eliza having a canon maiden name.) ✨Enrolled various teens in after school clubs. ✨Gave Brad Hawkins, Stephen Scott, and Wes Feng the Overachiever trait. ✨Gave Carmen Richards the Party Animal trait. ✨Gave Wes Feng and Klaus Munch the Socially Awkward trait. ✨Changed Blake McFreely, Sammy Scott, Wren Bell, and Carmen Richard’s aspiration to Live Fast. ✨Changed Giselle Munch and Lara Randle’s aspiration to Admired Icon. ✨Changed Hailey Scott’s aspiration to Drama Llama. ✨Changed Brad Hawkins, Sanjay Rasoya, Stephen Scott, Nani Kealoha, and Wes Feng’s aspiration to Goal Oriented. ✨Changed Yui Kibo, Melanie Munch, and Gretchen Le Chien to Infants. ✨Changed teh Blair family to the Renwick family. Changed Marisol’s name to Minerva. Changed Yasmin’s name to Freya. Changed Ray’s name to Asher. (I’ll make a post explaining why!) ✨Gave Beau Broke a new aspiration and career. ✨Gave the Kahananui family a son! ✨Made Tabitha Astralgarden a highschool dropout.

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Version 4.1!

Hello, hello! Today I bring you Version 4.1! It’s not a very big update, I only really changed Neighborhood Story Configurations for Every. Household. 

I’ll have a guide detailing it soon, but basically I just went through and turned off certain changes for certain families. For example, the Goth Family is not allowed to move out of their iconic home. Families where the parents are already Adults aren’t allowed to have babies. Lily and Victor Feng aren’t allowed to change careers. These are just some examples!

I’ve played around with the update a little. So far (with my changes) I had almost every homeless sim move in to a house on the second night, multiple unfortunate deaths (R.I.P. Mary-Sue 😔) and the Dreamer family adopted 2 kids. I also noticed Sims in relationships may get pregnant even if they aren’t living with their partner (Ilia Lobo got pregnant with Salim Benali). If some things seem too much, I may change them again.

And as always, let me know if you run into any issues or have any suggestions! It’s really hard to keep track of so many Sims now, haha. Thank you and I hope you enjoy!

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V4.1 Changes

✨Added Neighborhood Story Configurations for every household.

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Version 4.0!

It’s finally done!!!

This update was incredibly difficult! I ran into so many problems with the Henford-on-Bagley NPCs and faced many setbacks, but here’s hoping everything’s fixed and good to go!

Version 4.0 includes Paranormal, Dream Home Decorator, and Cottage Living! I’ve also made a few CAS changes to various sims to play around with the Spa Day Refresh!

As always, the changes will be detailed under the cut. Let me know if you find any issues and I hope you enjoy~!

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V4.0 Changes:

✨Changed Robin Randle’s trait from Active to High Maintenance ✨Changed Dina Alto’s trait from Lazy to High Maintenance ✨Changed Shawn Alto’s name to Mateo. (I know, it’s a strange change haha) ✨Gave various Sims nails with the Spa Day Refresh. ✨Changed a few of Ilia Lobo’s outfits. ✨Added Agnes Crumplebottom (and Agatha, by extension) to the Goth Family Tree. (She replaced the old Agnes) ✨Gave Evelyn Huntley a new hairstyle. (One from Dream Home Decorator) ✨Re-enrolled Max Villareal, Lucas Munch, and Elsa Bjergsen into University! (There shouldn’t be anyone on probation or suspension anymore!)

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Hello there! I’ve been working on this save file for a while now and it’s finally done! The goal of the file is to add a little more life to the premade sims! It’s set 15 years into the future, so it still has all the familiar faces, they’re just a little older (many now married with children!) Features: ✨Every family has a unique description and storyline, relationships, skills, jobs/promotions, sentiments & lifestyles (where applicable), likes & dislikes, and configured Neighborhood Stories. ✨Every family has been aged to the appropriate life stage, including how many days old they are. ✨Every sim has 1 reward trait added and some even have Parenthood traits! ✨Fixed relationships such as Johnny Zest being a Landgraab and Morgan and Siobhan Fyres being step-sisters. ✨Altered some sims to resemble their Sims 2 counterparts. ✨Brought in sims from past games like The Sims 2, The Sims 3, and MySims. ✨Plenty of pack integration, so all packs are required. (MFPS, JtB, and the Kits are not required, because I don’t have those packs and won’t be getting them.) ✨Custom holidays and clubs. ✨No lots have been rebuilt or added. Everything’s the same. Newcrest is still empty. The focus of the file was the sims and their relationships (also, I’m not a builder). ✨No CC required! You can read about the families, clubs, and other fun little notes and development on the blog! Feel free to shoot any questions, concerns or suggestions my way! This is my first time doing something like this and I had to fight with the game a bunch to make it work, so if there are any issues or typos or anything, let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it! ————————— Known Issues: *Because of the way the game is built, the culling will sometimes wipe all relationships except family members. *The Henford-on-Bagley NPCs (Creature Keeper, Mayor, etc.) like to respawn, despite me setting them to specific sims. My latest test play was fine, but Agnes and Agatha Crumplebottom may still do this. *Every Elder keeps rerolling the Fear of Death. No matter how many times I delete it, it keeps coming back. 😭 ————————— Download

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Version 3.1!

It’s here! The Kookablarn Save File v3.1 is complete! This version adds Likes & Dislikes to every sim and some other CAS changes like taking advantage of the new hair colors, etc. The changes are detailed under the cut, but the Likes & Dislikes will be added to the profile pages!

I used at least 4 L&D points for everyone. I didn’t want to use too many, but a few sims did reach up to 16 points (they dislike a lot of things...). It made me really want hobbies that weren’t skill-based, like reading and watching TV, and also favorite food. Hopefully, the system will be expanded more in the future!

Looks like we’ll have a new Expansion pack coming very soon. Not sure if I’ll get it right away, but I’ll probably combine Paranormal, Dream Home Decorator, and the new Expansion for the 4.0 update. I still don’t have Paranormal or DHD. (Throwback Fit Kit is still up in the air).

As always, let me know if you run into any issues or have any suggestions! There’s a lot of sims in the file now and it’s starting to get a little hard to manage, haha! Thanks, everyone, hope you enjoy!

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V3.1 Changes:

✨Gave every sim (except ghosts, Father Winter, Tutorial Alex, and Baby Ariel) Likes and Dislikes. ✨Changed various sims’ outfits to match their favorite colors. Now everyone predominantly wears their favorite colors. The only exceptions are Diego Lobo (because he has a very...interesting style) and Anne Lee (just because). ✨Changed Hair Colors for various sims. It’s too many to list, but if anyone wants me to, I can do it! ✨Changed Voices for various sims. This is what I get for playing the game muted, some voices didn’t match at all! ✨Changed Luka Broke’s trait from Romantic to Outgoing. ✨Changed Siobhan Romeo’s hair style. ✨Gave tattoos to Morgan and Wolfgang Munch. ✨Gave Morgan Munch a nose ring.

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Version 3.0!

See? That didn’t take long at all! Yep, the next update for the Kookablarn Save File is ready! This version adds the Snowy Escape Expansion Pack, some very small changes like giving pets last names, and also the addition of Sentiments & Lifestyles! As always, the changes are detailed under the cut.

Now that I’m all caught up, I can finally take a break! I’ll still be sharing random trivia and working on the blog, but I don’t have any major updates planned unless we get new DLC, game-changing patches, or if there are any glaring issues.

Let me know if you find any issues and I hope you enjoy! :D

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V3.0 Changes:

✨Gave last names pets that were missing them. ✨Renamed the Randle’s cat to Stella. (Catarina has a cat named Brook and we can’t have 2 cats with the same name!) ✨Changed Bobo and Duke Hick to males. (Somehow that slipped by me...) ✨The Patel family had another kitten without me looking. I updated their family description to match that. ✨Placed the urn in Maximus Lobo’s house into his family inventory. (Missed another one...) ✨Changed the Trash Delights club name to Dumpster Divers. ✨Removed that awful eyeball ring from one of Miko Kibo’s outfits ✨Fixed typos in the descriptions for a few families. ✨Added descriptions for: Mayor Whiskers, Captain Whitaker, Felix Psyded, Father Winter, Alcorn Shallot (who for some reason were named Ngata). ✨Changed Bianca Villareal’s ghost to be an Adult rather than Young Adult ✨Changed Chaz McFreely’s aspiration to Extreme Sports Enthusiast. ✨Changed Tabitha Astralgarden’s Cold Wear to one from Snowy Escape. ✨Bess Sterling and Jules Rico are now in an actual relationship. ✨Added Sentiments and Lifestyles wherever they seemed fit. It’s way too much to list here, so follow those links to see it in detail. They’ll also be added to the profile pages.                    

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Version 2.0 is Out!

Hello, everyone! The next update to the Kookablarn Save File is out! In this version, I’ve added the Nifty Knitting Stuff Pack and Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack and made other various changes including a few CAS changes, relationship changes, and gave some families pets! The changes will be detailed under the cut.

Heads up, I’m planning on getting Snowy Escape within the next two weeks, so if you want to wait for that update it shouldn’t be long. I was going to wait and do one big update, but I decided to go ahead and release this one for those who don’t have Snowy Escape yet.

Hope you all enjoy!

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V2.0 Changes:

✨Gave Duane Talla tattoos. (You know, so he better fits the Maui allusion!) ✨Gave Mary-Sue Pleasant a higher-pitched voice and Daniel Pleasant and Darren Dreamer deeper voices. (This is what I get for playing the game muted...) ✨Changed Mary-Sue Pleasant’s hairstyle to one from Eco Lifestyle. ✨Changed Devon Huntley’s hair. (I wanted a long, textured masculine style that wasn’t dreads...we don’t have many.) ✨Changed a swatch on Samantha O’Duff’s hot wear. ✨Altered skin tones (with the new update) for: Daniel Pleasant, Dina and Shawn Alto, Carmen and Nina Richards, John and Jennifer Burb, Bella Goth, Cassandra Blair. (I didn’t want to change too many skin tones, so I altered mostly sims from previous games to match those and their children if affected.) ✨Changed Nina Richard’s aspiration to Serial Romantic. (It should’ve been this from the start. Whoops.) ✨Changed Jahnu Bheeda’s aspiration to Academic. (Wes is the only musical teen around these parts.) ✨Changed Sanjay Rasoya’s aspiration to World-Famous Celebrity. (He’s not very friendly. He shouldn’t want to be a Friend of the World. However, he does want to be famous like his parents...) ✨Made Beau and Luka Broke dislike Don Lothario. (I seriously thought I did this already. They don’t trust him around their mother!) ✨Made Zoe Zest dislike Dina and Nina -Caliente. ✨Fixed typos in the description for: Izzy Fabulous, Thomas Jabari, Paka’a Uha, and The Romeo Family (Marcel’s name used to be Elliott!) ✨Increased Devon Huntley’s fitness skill. ✨Added Pets for: Cat: The Blair Family, Lilith Pleasant, Artistic Couple, The O’Duff Family, Yuki & Hugo Villareal Small Dog: The Fletcher Family, Salim Benali Large Dog: The Zest Family, Darling Walsh, Christie Sigworth, The Romeo Family, The Burb Family (I’ll be updating the family portraits for the addition of pets as well. Maybe I’ll give the pets profiles, too!)

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Version 1.1 and The Ghost-less Version are now live!

Version 1.1 is full of minor fixes, so feel free to skip it if you have the first version and it doesn’t affect your gameplay! These changes include moving urns into the family inventory, tweaking a few Sims in CAS, 1 club change, and a few other things. I’ll detail it under the cut if you’re interested.

The Ghostless Version:

(Why, yes, that is Jocasta Bachelor she’s yelling at!)

One of the goals for the project was to give everyone family trees. However, I realized a little late that The Sims 4 handles family trees and ghosts in a strange way. Ghosts stay in your relationship panel and if you try to delete them, they’ll be deleted from your family tree. Not ideal. But neither is having a bunch of dead family members clutter up your relationships. That’s why I decided to make a second version of the save file that removes the ghosts. Unfortunately, it also takes them out of the family trees. The graves and urns will still exist, but the ghosts will not appear.

The other reason is because of the culling. When you have too many sims, the game will start clearing them out from relationships to make space for more. It doesn’t help that the game is constantly spawning townies, either. Since I created so many ghosts to make family trees interesting, the game would delete friendships. Again, not ideal. I’m hoping the ghost-less version will combat that.

I didn’t remove every ghost! Some are too important to some families. You can see which ones are still around under the cut, if you’re interested.

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Ghosts You Can Still Find in the Ghost-less Version:

*Dianna Murphy (Timothy Murphy’s Wife) *Dennis Kim (Alice Spencer-Kim’s Father) *Lydia Spencer (Alice Spencer-Kim’s Mother) *Skip Broke (Brandi Broke’s Husband) *Bianca Villareal (Jacques Villareal’s Wife) *Prisca Lobo (Diego Lobo’s Mother) *Darleen Dreamer (Darren Dreamer’s Wife) *Rosie Hecking (Brent & Brant Hecking’s Dog) *Ted Roswell (Meredith Roswell’s Husband) *Keala Hoapili (Lia Hauata’s Grandmother) *Minerva Charm (Darrel & Gemma Charm’s Mother) *Ekram Elderberry (Eleanor Elderberry’s Husband) *Francine Spencer (Cletus Harris’ Mother) *Blossom Greenburg (Mary Greenburg’s Wife) *Kristopher Volkov (Jacob Volkov & Rory Oaklow’s Adoptive Father) *Tai Lum (Mei Prescott’s Father) 

V1.1 Changes:

✨ Placed urns in the family inventory for: Diego Lobo, Marcus Flex, the Murphy Family, the Hecking Family. (Somehow skipped them during my run throughs!) ✨ Upped Brandi Broke’s Parenting Skill to 7. (I feel like it’s more fitting.) ✨ Made Tabitha Astralgarden’s eyebrows brown. (She dyed her hair, so her eyebrows should reflect her natural hair color.) ✨ Disbanded the Renegades (Max has outgrown it.) ✨ Changed Mary-Sue and Daniel Pleasant’s Family Description. (Just altered some awkward wording, it’s still mostly the same.) ✨ Changed Sera Duke’s Party Outfit makeup. (She’s going for a specific look.) ✨ Changed Geeta Rasoya’s Hot Weather Outfit. (I somehow missed that one, it was still random generated!)

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Hello, Hello~!

Hey, everyone!

I know it’s been a terribly long time since the last update! Sorry about that! I’ve been waiting for a nice, substantial base game update or an expansion pack and wouldn’t ya know it, we’re about to get both! Looks like I’m about to have a lot of work for the file, haha.

I do have My Wedding Stories and Werewolves and I will probably be getting High School Years very soon after release, so an update to Kookablarn would probably be within a month or two (gotta give myself time to get to know these characters and packs!)

In addition to that, it looks like we’re getting a crazy amount of stuff in the base game, so I will be giving pronouns, romantic/sexual preferences, and body hair to every sim. I’ve also been playing and noticed I need to make a few more changes to the Neighborhood Stories settings (there are too many adoptions x__x)

And yes, I still have to make a chart for the Neighborhood Stories settings, sorry that’s not out yet! I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to do it, lol.

I think that’s all I have for now! Thank you all for the support and I hope you’re all still enjoying the save! As always, if you have any suggestions or problems or anything, let me know and I’ll see what I can do!

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I Made A Twitter?

Hey, did you know? I have a twitter account for The Sims/Kookablarn! I never really said anything about it because I’m shy 👉👈. At the moment, I’m only using it to keep up with sims news, but I’ve also been posting some trivia about the save file there. It’s mostly the same stuff from here. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do with the twitter account, so it’s a little bare and boring right now, but feel free to follow if you want! 

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The May 27th Patch

Hellooo everyone! We have a very exciting game update today! They’ve patched in new hair colors AND Likes & Dislikes! I’m mostly excited to play around with the likes and dislikes. Of course, I’ll be updating the Kookablarn Save File to give everyone a few preferences. I’ve already started planning them out, but whew it might take a while. There’s a lot of sims to go through! My goal is to give everyone at least 1-2 preferences of each category (Hobbies, Music, Color) wherever appropriate. And of course, they’ll all be added to the profile pages after the next version update. 

I’m also going to mess around with the new hair colors and see where I can use them.

Also, can’t forget to bring this up, but the blog hit 100 followers! And the save file (v3) hit over 1K downloads! That’s amazing!! Thank you all so much, I hope you’re enjoying it!

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An Eliza Pancakes and Bella Goth Rivalry!

In the Kookablarn save file, Eliza and Bella’s relationship is in the red. Why? It’s a little bit of a joke on how in the fandom, everyone loves Bella and dislikes Eliza. However, let’s take a look at Eliza. She’s a materialistic perfectionist, she’s probably a bit snobbish as well. She enjoys the finer things in life, yet she’s average at her job at best and her husband is boring. Now, let’s look at Bella. She’s rich, beautiful, popular, has a successful family and her husband is Mortimer Goth! Eliza is jealous of Bella!

If there were one-sided relationships, I’d make it so that Eliza despises Bella, but Bella barely knows who she is. Since there’s no way to do that, the feeling is mutual between them.

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We Hit 50 Followers!

We had been hovering pretty close to it for a long time, but I suddenly started getting followers over the past week and it surprised me! Thank you all so much for being here, I hope you’re enjoying the save! I’ve started feeling unsure about the file because it’s hard to tell if people really like it since I don’t get much activity or feedback, but I’ve fallen in love with these sims so much I can’t give up on them!

Welcome new followers! The blog is Kookablarn-focused, so feel free to do some exploring if you want to learn about the families and what they’ve been up to for the last 15 years, the Navigation page is growing! I’ll soon have Mod Recommendations to liven up gameplay and Tutorials for stuff like transferring sims between saves!

My ask and submission boxes are open, so if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, issues, anything, let me know! You can send me any stories or makeovers or your own families or anything you like; I’d love to see how you’re playing! I’ll add it to the Story Time tag!

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Random Notes

Starting Funds: The way I handled starting funds was by taking the totals that everyone makes in a week and adding them together. In some cases, I doubled their amount depending on whether they’re canonically rich or if they’re retired.

Days Until Age: This is just useless trivia, but I have a chart with ages from 1-90 split into the life stages and days that I used to set everyone’s days until aging up (on normal life span). For example, a Sim is a Toddler for 7 days which I calculated as 1-4 years old. 1yr is 1-2 days, 2yrs is 3-4 days, 3yrs is 5-6 days and 4yrs is 7 days. Then I just came up with a base age from the start and added 15 years for the save file. Teenage Cassandra starts at 14 years old making her 29 (Young Adult) in Kookablarn and putting her at 6 days until she becomes an Adult.

Extra Traits: Parenthood traits could add some to personalities and Reward Store traits could just be fun to have. Not everyone gets a Parenthood trait, but I threw them in where I saw fit. For example, I gave Malcolm Landgraab the Insensitive trait because let’s be real. I did, however, give everyone at least one Reward Store trait. These extra traits are marked with stars(⭐) on the profile pages.

Friends: To keep things simple, I am only giving Sims two extra relationships that aren’t family. That is, it could be 2 friends or 2 enemies or a friend and an enemy. Of course, they could have more through proximity (like a spouse’s parents), but I didn’t feel the need to mention every relationship on the profile pages. That would be too much.

Parenthood Relationships: You know how Parenthood added extra relationships based on how close a Sim is to their family? Stuff like Super Siblings or World’s Best Grandpa, stuff like that. Well, I wanted to incorporate that, but it doesn’t seem like it’ll be easy. I’ll keep trying to find ways to get it to work, though!

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Welcome!

What is Kookablarn? It’s the name of a song on the Spooky radio station in the game. Now that we got that out of the way:

What is this Save File? There are many things lacking in The Sims 4, but one big thing that sticks out is lore. The background, the story, the reason why you should care about these premade characters! Sure, they try to use words to implement a story (such as telling us two sisters are fighting), but when you get into the game, their relationship is just fine. This, coupled with the fact that it can get a little dull starting a new save file with the same premade sims wandering around, inspired me to make this save file.  

 In the Kookablarn Save File, I’m aiming to create something that will make the world a little more lively and make the sims a little more interesting. This will be The Sims 4 around 15 years into the future.

Some Things to Note: *This save file takes place 15 years into the future, so while you’ll still see premade sims like Bella Goth and Bob Pancakes, they’ll be aged up to the appropriate life stage.

*Every sim will have at least 1 previous generation in their family tree. You’ll get to see premade sims’ parents and maybe even play with them (if they’re still alive).

*Every family has a little storyline, relationships, skills and jobs/promotions.

*The only mods I used are MCCC and UI Cheats Extension to make things easier to set up. No CC required.

*I currently have all packs except for Journey to Batuu and My First Pet Stuff, but I won’t be purchasing those. So, all packs are required, except for those two!

 *I am not a builder, so don’t expect any nice homes. At most, I’m going through and making sure everyone has a bedroom.