#ts4 bookstore

[beansbuilds]

Book Store & Café

Built on a 40x30 café lot, this build is a fully functional coffee shop and bookstore. Thank you to all the cc creators. Enjoy!

Download here 📚

[pixelstrudel]

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[elderwisp]

black madonna, my black flower

[cinamun]

Thanks mom | Next

Heavy inspo from this super dope post by my friend @simsadilla

Lot Credit goes to the fabulous @jakkkuu

Guest starring Tre McCoy by the imcomparable @ceeproductions

Finally, consider this a mini-update. We'll be back into the chaos shortly.

[plunni]

buried on the bottom shelf of your local bookstores backroom ...

[omgkayplays]

Just your average everyday bookstore that is totally NOT a cover for an underground nightclub. Nope, not at all.

[sunflowerik]

cute activities are better than working on the new house

[thesimfulbuilder]

Hoorah! It is finally complete! I am super excited to share with everyone this new build that replaces that wierd bar lot in Glimmerbook. It is now a much larger full English tavern and has a small kitchen in the basement. The kitchen is kind of important to me simply because it makes the lot much more useful for hosting catered events and such. Also included is a full bookstore next door, the lot is marked as a bar so your sim can't actually buy books, but it makes for a cute little library for sims to stop in at. I figured it would make a nice edition considering how small the neighborhood is! This bookstore even includes a few secret rooms for the magically inclined to hypothetically restock on things they may need.

This build uses two of my absolute favorite CC sets: Chateau and Orjanic by Felixandre and Harrie (thank you so much guys!) Those sets became instant repeat uses in almost all my builds. I also needed a bit of a challenge and wanted to make it simpler and easier for anyone to use this build as well. I'm very proud of it at the moment and I hope you all love it as much as I do. I really wanted to make it a comfortable and realistic addition to pretty much anyone's game and EA really needs to work on their public lot skills lol.

One thing I noticed though in one of the secret rooms the wands disappeared when I play tested it, I'm assuming because the wands don't have an owner and the game doesn't quite know what to do with them. If anyone has a suggestion or solution let me know! But for now I'm loading it into the gallery with the wands in place but that may not be how it ports in. If you have any CC decorative wands, you may be able to snap those in but I honestly don't know.

You can find this lot on my gallery at TheSimfulBuilder, just make sure you have downloaded and installed both the Orjanic and Chateau CC sets from Felixandre and Harrie first.

[salemssimblr]

Feeling creative burnout on renders lately.

Maybe not burnout. I have a billion ideas, just no motivation?

Anyway that means I'm actually in the game for once????? 😱

Idk what I'm doing but I'm doing it.

[socianll]

LOOK BOOK 💗💗💗 Elaine and angle

Don’t know the names of the ccs I used but if wanna know a certain item I’ll try and find it for u!! (::

[chillxsimmer]

Sul Sul:) I introduce to you, my very own bookstore! ~ Desiree 💙

[somedaythesun]

Maxis Match TS2 CD Sales Rack

Hello, happy 2023!

Today I have a non-3t2 gift: a Maxis-match CD store set for your neighborhood music shop. I have three objects for you: a standing CD floor rack, a hanging wall rack, and a section nameplate. Plus recolors!

I was feeling nostalgic for the mid-aughts when CDs ruled the world, and in particular I was remembering the music section of the deceased Borders bookstore chain (RIP) when I made this set.

The display cases are repo'd to the Zecutine commercial counter (you must have H&M for this to work in your game) so they will pick up any recolors you might already have. The wall shelf and the border around the section sign are also repo'd to the H&M counter.

For the CD textures, the standing floor rack is the parent and the hanging rack is the child. I've made you six different CD shelf types:

Classical

2. Jazz

3. World music (this was such a staple in every CD store, and there was always a collection of Paris cafe music?)

4. Punk/rock (lots of parental advisory stickers in this section! You can't see it in the final product, but I did make them Simlish...)

5. Pop music #1

6. Pop music #2

There are five sign recolors included. They say (in Simlish): Classical, Jazz/Blues, New Releases, Pop/Rock, and World.

All three objects will be in Electronics > Audio for §350.

Download

And as a bonus, I've got the PSD file if you want to make your own CD covers! All you need are many small square images and you're set to go. It's a grid so it's pretty easy to customize yourself.

Download PSD file

I can claim no credit for any of the images used. I pulled these from a variety of TS2, TS3, and TS4 creators as well as some EA creations. If you're interested to know where a specific image came from, message me and I'll direct you to the original!

[servegrilledcheese]

today was such a wonderful day barbie. i got news from my dad that all my ts4 files can still be backed up from my broken ass ragedy bitch laptop, i got a text from the bookstore that all of the three titles i reserved had arrived and are being held for me, and i got an email from my school telling me that i am going to receive an academic excellence award. wild.

[bioniczombie]

4t3: Shell Copperdale Clutter (High School Years EP)

These were separated by @sforzcc, which you can find here for TS4.

Since these were extracted from a shell (building in debug), the texture area for the clutter is fairly small, which reduces the quality. It also means the file size is kinda large for 1 or 2 textures as it uses the entire shell texture.

I made a recolorable swatch for the awning, and it is less pixelated than the EA one in the preview (still not perfect, but better).

Compressed. 1 zip file (all included, unmerged), and individual files available.

➨ Download ➨ Alt Download

Info under the cut:

Copperdale Bookstore Awning:

2 swatches. 1 is recolorable. 1 is EAs.

Found Under Decor>Curtains for $25.

The recolorable swatch is less pixelated!

Copperdale Bookstore Sign:

1 swatch. Not recolorable.

Found Under Decor>Misc for $5.

Copperdale Cafe Sign:

1 swatch. Not recolorable.

Found Under Decor>Misc for $5.

@katsujiiccfinds @xto3conversionsfinds @matchsim

Thank you! ❤️

[simsreaper]

Introduction:

Hi everyone! I decided to take it upon myself to make a sims 3 BACC that I felt satisfied with the rules and restrictions and done similar to BACCs that I've seen done for the sims 2 and 4. This is a living tumblr post and will continuously be updated as I play the challenge myself and see what fits for each restriction I have set. I am very much open to any feedback/opinions on anything regarding this challenge since I want it to be enjoyable to the simblr community and for those who have played the sims 2 BACC and were missing it for the sims 3. This challenge has mods in mind but if anyone would like, I am open to adjusting rules for a non-modded gameplay if needed.

Credit goes to these simmers for giving me inspiration for this challenge, viewing their own challenges and rules helped shape what I personally would like for a sims 3 BACC seeing as I have played some of these challenges myself: @melsie-sims2(Sims 2 BACC), Original Sims 2 BACC, @ts4-bacc(Sims 4 BACC), and finally the Nothing is Free Challenge on MTS by Avalikia

Table of Contents:

Rules

Starting Out

Unlocking Restrictions(Careers, Services, & Community Lots)

Earning CAS Sims

University

Travel

Taxes

Additional Notes

-Last updated: 5/2/2024

Rules:

1. This challenge is meant to be played rotationally and every sim must be played. That also means that the households must be played the same amount of days to keep aging consistent across each household. Aging is also up to you. 2. Mods are recommended especially for having an easier way to do businesses, Ani’s Merchant mod is a great place to start. If desired I can provide alternate rules & restrictions for no mods gameplay. 3. Services may not be used until you’ve unlocked them, a smoke alarm isn’t allowed until you’ve unlocked the first position for the Firefighter career and the burglar alarm isn’t allowed until a branch has been unlocked in the Law Enforcement career. 4. Sims can own rabbit-hole lots and that can count towards a business, provided the sim has money for it. Though they can’t own a rabbit-hole and a sim-owned business at the same time, it has to be one or the other. 5. Skill-building items aren’t allowed to start off with until your sims earn the simoleons for it. 6. Sims aren’t allowed cars until there’s a car business in the town. Taxis aren’t allowed either until there’s a City Hall established. 7. Electricity isn’t unlocked until a sim has maxed the handiness skill. From there, one computer is allowed per household until an electronics business has been established. 8. When a computer has been unlocked, there are limitations to the build/buy category until the Architect career or a Furniture store has been established or that specific object has a business/rabbit-hole for it, like pet items needing a pet store or no bookshelf until there’s a bookstore, etc. Each household is only allowed to buy 2 items per rotation. However, it’s up to you how realistic and difficult you want your gameplay to be. 9. Boarding schools aren’t allowed until level 5 of the Education career has been unlocked. 10. Sims are allowed to sell items from their inventory. Rocks, gems, and metals can’t be sold in their inventory until the first two positions of the science career have been unlocked. 11. Custom careers are allowed, it's up to you how you want those restrictions set.

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Starting Out:

You must start in an empty world or bulldoze the lots in a world. You’re only allowed residential homes for your sim and a small park as a free starting Community lot. You are free to start with a singular sim or roll a die and start with however many sims you roll and divide them into households or one singular household. There are different ways to start out your sim/sims: 

Start your sims with an empty lot and no simoleons

Start them with 10,000 simoleons to build small homes for them or you may start them with already built houses with the bare necessities and no skill building objects:

A fridge, counters, and a stove

Enough beds for all the sims

A couch and small table

A toilet, sink, and shower/tub

After a home has been established, set the household simoleons down to 100 to get started.

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Unlocking Restrictions:

Each unlock, only gets 1 position open in a career. To keep advancing in a career and unlock all the positions, multiple sims need to max out the specific skill required for a career. Though there are different requirements for each career.

A few of the careers have different requirements for their branches, you may use the previous sims that had unlocked the earlier positions of the careers to unlock the next positions in the branches or use new sims to unlock the different branch positions depending on the requirement. This is the only exception to the previous rule.

Self-employed careers have different restrictions, those careers are unlocked fully when the requirements have been met. Active careers have the same requirements as Full-time careers.

Part-time careers get fully unlocked when the required building is achieved.

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Full-time Careers

Business: Unlock the Political career and the first position of the Journalism career to unlock the first position of the Business career. Afterward, every time a sim-owned business is placed in the town, a new position is unlocked Criminal: The first position is unlocked at the start, for every 2 Law Enforcement positions, a new position in the Criminal career opens and if a household gets robbed, two new positions in the Criminal career open. Once you get to the branches, you must unlock one branch fully before starting the other branch Culinary: Max the cooking skill and complete one of the Culinary skill challenges Education: Every 5th sim born, a new position is unlocked Film: Have 5 rich households and have at least one sim with a 5-star celebrity status. After the first position is unlocked, every sim with 3 stars unlocks the next position --Acting Branch: Reach level 3 celebrity status and max the charisma skill --Directing branch: Reach level 3 celebrity status and max the writing skill Fortune Teller: The first position opens up when there’s a witch in the town. Every new witch, opens up a new position(can be an offspring or a new sim) --Mystic Branch: Must be a witch and max the alchemy skill --Scam Artist Branch: Must be a witch and max the charisma skill Journalism: Max the writing skill and charisma skill Law Enforcement: The first 2 positions are unlocked at the start, every 10 sims a new position is unlocked. Once you get to the branches, you must unlock one branch fully before starting the other branch Medical: Have at least 16 sims in the town and max the logic skill. After the first position has been unlocked, sims must continue to max the logic skill to unlock the other positions Military: Max the athletic skill and handiness skill Music: A new position opens up when the first music store business is created and a sim maxes out any instrument After the first position is unlocked, sims need to max out any instrument to continue unlocking additional positions --Rock Star Branch: Max out the guitar and drums skill --Symphonic Branch: Max out the piano and charisma skill Political: Max the charisma skill to unlock all positions - only 1 sim is allowed in this career Professional Sports: Max the athletic skill Science: Max the gardening, handiness, and fishing skill

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Self-Employed & Active Careers

Acrobat: Have 3 sims in the town with the “Natural Born Performer” trait to unlock the first position, afterward sims must have the “Natural Born Performer” trait and max out the athletic skill to unlock the following positions Alchemist: Have 5 different occults in the town Angler: Have a sim complete the “Presenting the Perfect Aquarium” LTW Architectural Designer: Have sims max the handiness and painting skill Band: Unlock the first position of the Music career and have a sim complete the “One Sim Band” LTW Daycare: Every 2 positions of the Education career unlocked, unlocks a position of the Daycare career Firefighter: Every 3 fires unlocks 2 positions Gardener: Complete a Gardening skill challenge Ghost Hunter: Unlock the first position of the Science career. There must be at least one sim in the town with the eccentric trait and have at least 10 sims in the graveyard. After the previous requirements have been met, every time a sim maxes out the logic skill, a new position is unlocked Horseman/woman: Unlock the Pet Adoption service and have a sim adopt a foal and raise it to an adult to unlock this career Inventor: Max out the inventing skill and complete one of the skill challenges Investigator: Every 2 positions of the Journalism career unlocks a position of the Investigator career. Once the Journalism career is fully unlocked, then the Investigator career is also fully unlocked Lifeguard: Have 2 beaches and unlock the first 5 levels of the Athletic career Magician: Have a sim have a 2-star celebrity status and have 8 friends to unlock the first position. Afterward, every sim with a 2-star celebrity status unlocks the next position Nectar Maker: Max the visa level in France and the gardening skill Painter: Max the painting skill and gift 10 masterpieces to sims Photographer: Max the photography skill and have a sim-owned art gallery in the town Scuba Diver: Unlock the Lifeguard career and Angler career Sculptor: Max the sculpting skill and have the Architect career unlocked Singer: Have 3 sims in the town with the “Diva” trait to unlock the first position, afterward only sims with the “Diva” trait can unlock the following positions Stylist: Have sims max the painting and charisma skill Writer: Max the writing skill and write 2 autobiographies of any sims in the town

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Part-Time Careers

Alien Test Subject: Unlock the Science Career and have 3 alien abductions Bookstore Clerk: Complete the “Specialist Writer” skill challenge Grocery Store Clerk: Have a gardening household with 10 different crops to unlock the Grocery Store Film Part-time: Unlock the first 3 positions of the Film Career to unlock this career for teens Mausoleum Clerk: Unlock the Graveyard Receptionist & Spa Specialist: Have 13 households in the town

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Services

Acrobat: Have a sim in level 2 of the Acrobat career Adoption: Have a City hall and 5 new births in the town Babysitter: Unlock the School and have 5 teens in the town Butler: Have 18 sims in the town DJ: Have a club in the town Firefighter: Unlock the Firefighter career Magician: Have a sim in level 2 of the Magician career Maid: Have 18 sims in the town Mixologist: Have a bar in the town and a sim max the mixology skill Pet Adoption: Have a city hall  Pizza Delivery: Unlock the first 2 positions of the Culinary career Police: Have at least one sim in the Law Enforcement career Repairman: Have a sim max the handiness skill and complete one of the skill challenges Singer: Have a sim in level 2 of the Singer career

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Community Lots

Once the requirement has been unlocked, you’re free to place down additional community lots.

Arboretum: Have a fairy household and one sim from that household with a maxed level in gardening Art Gallery: Max 2 art skills Bar: Max the mixology skill and have 16 sims Beach: Have 7 households Big Park: Have 2 sims in the town with a maxed charisma skill Big Show Venue: Have a private show venue and have at least 5 sims max out one of the Performance careers  Cat Jungle: Unlock the Pet Adoption Service and have at least 6 cats in your town Club: Have 6 households and 5 sims in the town with a maxed charisma skill Coffeehouse: Have a sim in any of the Performance careers Consignment Shop: Have a sim max out an art skill and have 9 households Diving Area: Unlock the Scuba Diver and Lifeguard career Dog Park: Unlock the Pet Adoption Service and have at least 6 dogs in your town Elixir Consignment Shop: Unlock the Alchemist career and Fortune Teller career Festival Grounds: Have 20 households Fishing Spot: Max the fishing skill Graveyard: Have 4 deceased sims Gym: Unlock the first 2 levels of the Professional Sports career and have a sim complete one of the athletic skill challenges Hangout: Have 8 households and a sim max the charisma skill Horse Ranch: Unlock the Pet Adoption service and have 4 horses in your town Junkyard: Have a sim max the handiness skill and have 6 households Laundromat: Have 12 households Library: Have 3 sims max the writing skill Live Show Venue: Have a Coffeehouse venue and a sim reach level 3 of any of the Performance careers Lounge: Have 3 clubs in the town and 8 households Pool: Have 14 sims Private Venue: Have a Live Show Venue and have at least 3 sims in one of the Performance careers Resort: Have a beach in the town, unlock the Lifeguard career, and have 15 sims with a maxed charisma skill in the town Small Park: Have a sim max out the gardening skill or charisma skill Supernatural Hangout: Have 2 occult households Vampire Lounge: Have a vampire household Vault of Antiquity: Unlock the Alchemy career and max the alchemy skill

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Earning CAS Sims:

There are different ways that you can earn sims to grow your population. You are free to save the CAS points to use to make a big household or use them as you go:

First Community lot unlocked: +1 sim

Each time you reach a multiple of 3 Community lots: +3 sims

Each time a Community lot is unlocked: +1 sim

First Business opened: +2 sims

Each time you reach a multiple of 5 maxed out skills: +1 sim

Every multiple of 10 households: +3 sims

Have 10 sim-owned businesses: +4 sims

Open up the first position for all the Base Game careers: 8+ sims

Other ways to grow your households:

Having babies the traditional way

Moving in an NPC service sim once you have it unlocked

Moving in a sim from a World Adventures world once you have it unlocked

Using the imaginary friend and turning it real

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University:

To unlock University for your town, completely unlock the Education career and have at least 25 sims earn an A and get on the honor roll for both their child and teenage state. Additionally, you must collect taxes to unlock University. University costs 1,000,000 simoleons to unlock. The careers that come with University will be unlocked once the University also gets unlocked.

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Travel:

For sims to be able to travel, you must collect 500,000 in taxes to unlock travel, unlock 7 services, and have at least 15 households. After traveling has been unlocked, your sims are free to travel anywhere without any further restrictions.

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Taxes:

Taxes aren’t established until you have a City Hall in your town and a sim is in the Political career. Taxes will help contribute costs to unlocking the University and Travel for your town. You are also free to use mods to help with taxes as well and set them to your liking. Sims must get taxed on the last day of their household being played in a rotation. Sims that have 100 simoleons or lower are exempt from paying taxes.

Taxing households:

10% for regular households(households that don’t have any sims owning a business or rabbit-hole)

12% if sims in a household own a sim-owned business/rabbit-hole

15% for rich households

Taxing benefits:

If a household has only unemployed sims, they are given 130 simoleons

Single sims with children are given 150 simoleons

Parents with only toddlers are given 150 simoleons                       

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Additional Notes:

I didn't set Into the Future restrictions since I personally don't send my sims into the future, so it's up to the player on how they want to set restrictions on that.

There's no proper/formal goal for this challenge compared to other BACC challenges. The only main goal is unlocking everything and there's no population multiplier besides the sim CAS points.

This challenge isn't meant to be hard or super difficult besides it being a long challenge. Your game is your game and you're allowed to change things to your liking to make it easy and fun for you to play. Like previously stated I am open to changing things to make them more fun and feedback is always appreciated!

[faeriefrolic]

Sims Tag Meme

Thank you so much @cactusblossom for tagging me!!! This was really fun to do. I tag anyone who sees this if they want to do it too!

What’s your favorite sims death? The ranting about death is hilarious, Grim basically says fuck around and find out for that one lmao. I haven't personally seen it in game but it would be wild. But I have to go with the classic delete the pool ladder from ts1 and locking sims in a room with fireworks :)

Alpha CC or Maxis Match? Maxis match! I like my game to be colorful and cartoony.

Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? Nope! I like body diversity and it's a part of their life. The only times I would cheat their weight is if it was glitched (like Madeline and Tabby at one point with the gain weight from pregnancy mod. My sliders weren't playing nice and their animations/arms were messed up)

Do you use move objects? I do, for deco objects. I don't like using it for functional objects though because sims are dumb and can't route/interact with them if they're not placed normally. I like having playable homes/lots than just aesthetically pretty ones

Favorite mod?

First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? I started playing sims with ts1 when I borrowed it and the Livin Large EP from my brother. I still have all the ts1 cds in my room (but sadly no disc drive to put them in lol rip) For ts2 I *think* it was Open for Business, I remember making bookstores with it. For ts3 I bought base game + seasons bundled at Gamestop randomly one day and uhhh oops lol. I don't play ts4, but I have the base game + cats & dogs.

Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? I pronounce it like aLive

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? Crystal Leblanc, my little kitty faerie doll! She's an oc of mine and I love watching her get excited over tiny things and her cute faces. I also really love Pewter Dusk, he started as just a random sim request from @shuckleberrysims but I started a save with him and he's so adorable and fun. I love awkward fish genie.

Have you made a simself? I did long ago, but I don't think I even have their sim file anymore lmao

What sim traits did you give yourself? Cat Person, Bookworm, Shy, Supernatural Fan, Natural Cook

What is your favorite EA hair color? I don't think I really have one? I despise the gross green-brown preset in ts3 though, it's SO UGLY... especially when random generated sims had it, uuugh. So glad there's a fix for that now.

Favorite EA hair? A few Uni Life hairs are cute but my recent favorite is one that Mignonette has as a teen/ya. It's a rly cute messy updo hair with a bandana bow. She aged up into it as a teen and it looked really cute on her so I kept it! It's from Master Suite stuff!

Favorite life stage? I think you can guess lmao

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? Gameplay, I cannot build to save my life, I make ugly boxes

Are you a CC creator? No, but I'm interested in learning more about it, I've been fiddling with ITUNs in s3pe and such. I've made mods for Skyrim but I'd like to make more sim downloads (I need to put the Dusks up for download if I track down their cc...)

Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? 2016 switter gang hi!!! It's been a long time and a few of them are no longer on simblr. but I like to think I have some friends on here, though I'm very shy and go on hiatuses a lot

What’s your favorite game? TS3! I wish I could play ts1 again though :(

Do you have any Sims merch? No but I should get some...

Do you have a YouTube for sims? No, I'm pretty self conscious of my voice and I'm afraid of my game error 12'ving or crashing while recording lol. I do stream in discord though

How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? When I started playing I had very minimal cc and was very vanilla. Then I got into berries after discovering simblr, and I really like all the different colors and fun designs. I just think they're neat.

What’s your Origin ID? Honestly I don't know and I don't wanna open origin lol

Who’s your favorite CC creator? Oh gosh too many... too many slkdfjlf but to name a few off the top of my head, @sim-songs, @nectar-cellar, @poisonfireleafs hair, @xiasimla, @teekapoa

How long have you had a simblr? Since 2013! All of my older posts are gone now though when I deleted them years ago :( I wish I could look back on them. Wayback machine doesn't load the pictures and only has a few pages of my old blog.

How do you edit your pictures? I used edit with actions in photoshop before I got reshade. Now I just use @erasabledinosaur's wonderful presets 💗 I'm currently using Papercut and sometimes Strawberry Rhubarb!

What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? Honestly, University Life will always have a place in my heart as it was the first EP I bought after base game + seasons. I have really fond memories of my simself running around the uni world exploring everything about ts3, everything was so new and exciting to me. and I love the uni townies! Especially Cid and Shea. I made ocs that are loosely based on them. (Very loosely since my Cid is nothing like EA Cid lmao)

What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? Well since EA abandoned ts3 all I can ask for is the game magically becoming 64 bit 🙃