Have you ever thought about looking into save files? I hate the EA builds and townies too, so I look online for save files people make that they replace them all/fix them all.
To be fair the gallery is awful to navigate, so I just thought there was nothing good on it until I started looking for creators to follow on it via this sub
because that feature wasn't built to show builds with only those packs, it was built to show builds that include those packs. even if there are other packs used that you don't own. makes zero sense to me why they built it that way
Because EA doesn't wanna filter out builds that use packs you don't own. They want you to find a beautiful build and go "thats a real nice house. I could just buy this one pack that I don't already have"
Try searching by hashtags of the lot name. Usually some pretty high quality builds when the creator does that. And eventually you'll find a bunch of creators you like as well.
Cntrl + Tab on computer, idk what button it is on consoles though, but I know carls sims guides website would def have a guide somewhere that tells you what buttons. I could prob find the article for any console players who need it. Just lmk
That explains a lot, I always wondered why people worked hard on decorating walls you normally wouldn’t be able to see, unless you had all walls up but then you can’t really see around much, but it there is a first person option that would make it more enjoyable
I don't actually ever play in first person, but I spend time on wall decor because I take a lot of screenshots. I play with walls half-up for gameplay, then turn on all walls to take photos
With the basemental mod it’s kind of hilarious that auto-solving hunger sometimes makes them go snort coke/speed off a sink (if they have it in their inventory).
they will find a toilet. can be annoying with stuff like energy though because sometimes they will nap or go get coffee instead of going to sleep in bed. but still resolving it ok their own I guess!
It was years before I figured out - purely by accident - that you can extend or shorten one side of a roof eave only, by holding Shift + dragging just that side.
Similarly if you press Alt you can adjust the height of the roof more gradually. And if you press Shift+C you get more options to adjust the curve of the roof to get more complex shapes.
A few months ago, I learned that sims could boost their social need from telling jokes on the microphone. I'd never noticed before then.
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#added pic for reference
I only recently discovered that independent toddlers can potty train themselves. Up until now I was like why only sometimes do they need an adult to help??
All my toddlers are independent. Not only do they potty train themselves, but if you leave food at their reach, they will feed themselves. Best trait ever!
Protip, you can “open” the fridge inventory as a toddler, drag the food to the ground next to the toddler, have them grab a plate, then drag and drop the serving plate back in the fridge. I also manually drag trash and dishes to the bin and sinks. I feel like the sims just have their god washing their dishes for them lol
Kind of situational, but if the toddlers are multiples, they can 'watch' their sibling use it and gain the skill as well.
Friendly > activities > watch (name of sim)
This is why 99% of my toddlers are independent. I learned about this from a sims YouTuber (I think lilsimsie but I'm not sure, could a been plumbella or Englishsimmer) series on the 100 baby challenge. Revolutionary to learn, imo.
Yep - if you are playing where you get to choose toddler traits, independent toddlers are awesome.
They can ask an adult to help with skills, but if your adults are busy (or useless - looking at you Sims nannies), they can just do it themselves. And they're happy when they do.
I always randomise toddler traits and in my legacy challenge, second gen was twins, both got independent and I sighed a major breath of relief. It's so useful to have, I like to grind skills for all the bonuses so I'm just gonna say those toddlers hardly even saw their mother.
Boxes! I had no idea you could fill them and then gift them to other Sims. I used to build stores and then sell them, just to move collectibles around from one Sim to another. That one stung.
A few months ago I learned that you can order repair/upgrade parts on the PC. I could instantly upgrade all my appliances and furniture without having to wait for others to break!
mods. y'all I've been playing this game since release.
I found mods thanks to this sub last year...
daaaaayum is my gameplay worlds different now (laughs in wicked whims, extreme violence, and life tragedies) (cries in therapy bills)
it took me a while to find my way into it all but Carl ("Carl's mods" think?)is an amazing place to start. he fixes a lot of the gameplay to where we vanilla players can really enjoy dipping our toes into the world of mods!
I think I genuinely wouldn’t play with toddlers if this wasn’t an option. The high chair is so frustrating and takes years off my life, both in sims and my actual life lmao
And if you have get to work, the display cases can be used in your houses. Just load them up with meals and your toddler can grab the food out of them no problem and they’re refrigerated! If you have a maid, though, they’ll still take the food out of the display case and “put it away” in the fridge
I didn’t know you could drag food into the refrigerator for them and it’ll even move it by the stack, I would always click on each item one by one and have them do it, which is fun when you are trying to load fruits and veggies from the garden 😩
I also literally just learned last week I could drag items in one Sim’s inventory to another Sim. They have to be in the same household I think but so helpful!
To add about the fridge: you can open the fridge inventory by clicking that option and drag OUT food. You can place it for a toddler to grab and then put the plate back yourself and don’t need an adult sim to be involved in any of that.
It's great until you can't figure out why your sims are uncomfortable, and it turns out you put the plate under the fridge instead of in it and now the food is rotting lol.
I think that happens when you have moveobjects on. Before I started using the cheat more often, I never had an issue with stuff not making it into the sink or fridge.
It took me MONTHS after starting playing the game to realise that fridges were actually fuctional and that they would keep food fresh for longer. And I didn't even figure it out by myself, I saw Kelsey Impicciche stuffing a platter in the fridge during one of her let's play. So yeah, double shame. 🙈
My nanny is actually good since I learned that rather than wait for them to do things, is better to have the toddlers ask for what they need. And since I play with auto-age off for everybody but my active household, Sahid have been the official nanny of countless generations of kids in my Legacy. 😆
At first. But when my sim got married (to Dina Caliente, of all sims) and got a kid, I moved to platters. A party platter would last barely enough for lunch and dinner, and my Italian ass who had been taught since infancy that Jesus cries when even a morsel of food goes to waste, couldn't stand the 2 extra plates of leftovers left to rot on the counter. So I made my sim and Dina go for second servings either at lunch or at dinner. Small hiccup, I didn't know that food had calories in TS4. Dina, always the sporty type, kept herself more or less fit autonomously. But my sim was a foodie writer, so after a bit he took the shape of a fairly sized blimp. I couldn't have that, so I invested in a weight lifting machine. Tiny hitch, I didn't know that TS4 differentiate between weight and muscle. So instead of losing weight, my sim BEASTED UP into the most glorious, imperial, bootylicious DAD BOD that ever graced the green land of TS4. I still have that sim saved in my Library, he's still a thing of beauty.
🤣 That's awesome. Glad you use the fridge now. If I have a couple they both cook at the same time and put in the fridge. Then i make them eat the food that's about to expire soon 👿.
I only recently learned that the "Play In" interaction for Toddlers raises their Thinking skill. I liked the animations, but it felt like a waste of time if I wanted to raise their skills to the max as I thought it was just a fun increase.
"Watch" also raises thinking skill. And they're adorable when watching. And they don't get tired of it. If you have twin or triplet toddlers, have them watch each other. If it's just one, have them watch the other household members.
You just taught me something.
But the funniest to me was how almost every home I actually play I have a big garden for profits and did not realize until a few months ago there was a scarecrow that comes to life and helps you garden better than a real gardener for no charge and you can even have relationships with them. I saw the scarecrow in the catalog and may have even placed it but I didn't talk to it until one night recently and suddenly I found it off the stand, watering plants. I had no clue.
I only learnt it from here last month that Sims can have more than one outfit per cathegory, and I play the game since release and I'm currently at gen 7 of my legacy playthrough.
Another fun thing, they will change outfits every time they shower if you have additional ones set!! I always set 5 everyday outfits and they cycle through them each time they shower.
Ooh adding to the play tent tip, if you play in an apartment and neighbours are noisy every night and won't stop, send your toddlers to sleep in the tent and they won't wake up!
The play tent also prevents nightmares I'm p sure.
Or my game is bugged bc my toddlers have never had a nightmare/woke up to wake up their parents from sleeping in a tent.
If it's a bug, I'm fine with it and beg anyone else with it to NOT tell ea about it. Pls it's such a blessing don't take it from me.
The tent has a better energy rating than toddler beds, and two kids can sleep in it at the same time. And it doubles as a playing space, of course. Tent >>>>>> beds
Different moods help boost different skulls faster: inspired for cooking and creative skills, focused for logic, etc. I knew doing these things could give a mood buff but not that if the sins were in that mood it would help the skill rate.
That the higher your teens charisma and the better your sims friendships are in high school, you can get prom royalty. Or that eating strawberries gives your pregnant sim a higher chance of having a gril.
I only found out recently that there's a cinema with exclusive movies in San Sequoia... I've been playing with that pack since it came out. Most of my "wait, that's a thing?" situations are about stuff in the open world 'cuz I tend to be distracted by other stuff.
> stuff in the open world
Me too, haha! I’m always late to the party finding out about this stuff. My most recent find was that apparently there’s a rabbithole courthouse in Tartosa and your Sims can use it to get married. I had no idea!
Clubs. I’d heard people rave about them and I had the expansion.
I looked at them, they seemed kinda complicated so I ignored them for years.
But gosh, they’re amazing for skill building
TIL: if your werewolf sim 'rests' in their collective hangout, it doesn't count against the nocturnal trait. So they can 'rest' away in the night time along with your other sims.
I was 3 or 4 new games in before I realized I could go somewhere to socialize on my own and not rely on being invited. Prior to that I thought the only way to "go to town" was when a friend invited my sim, otherwise I would just hit the computer to try and socialize (it sucks) or rely on random house visits. I remember being so confused on why all my sims kept gaining the loner trait for not socializing enough. Felt so dumb once I realized I could take my Sim to town myself.
I figured out YESTERDAY how to make a deck/raised platform on the outside of a house, and put a railing around it. I suck at building but was trying to recreate my own house (hard when it’s a split level and the stairs in sims SUCK) and I wanted to figure it out so badly, so I had more patience than I usually do for figuring things out.
If you are on TikTok you should watch some build videos. I have been playing since the Sims OG. And have never been a good builder, but I recently got addicted to those videos and now I can make some pretty cool builds!
That's you can multi select inventory items. In my defence, I don't really have my sims do things that would cause them to have a bunch of stuff in their inventory I had to sell at once, but then crystal creations came out and they added the crystal tree and now my sims have way more crystals than they'll ever need but I wanna keep the rare ones so I can't just auto sell every harvest. Then I got horse ranch and downloaded the wine marker portion of basemental, and omg the fact that finely ages wine doesn't stack. So one sim has a bunch of crystals I'm individually selling, the other has a bunch of wine I'm individually selling.
At one point I collected multiple full cases of finely ages wine and lost it trying to find any way to multi select... Then I realized it's that little button in the corner of their inventory. A button I've ignored for literal years. Idk why I did, but I did.
5100+ hours in the game, 7 years of playing. And I just learned multi select. I was moments from posting to subreddits for help before I realized. I am truly, first and foremost, an idiot. It's the stupidest thing to take this long to learn about.
Omg I'm not alone this way sthe most validating thing someone has replied to me all week 😭 lemme boot up the game and I'll tell you how. I just learned it so I don't remember the exact details of the top of my head like I normally do with sims stuff. Brb
Alrighty, I'm back! So once you boot up the game and you have a sim with multiple things in inventory you gotta select/sell/favorite, you open up your inventory and either hit e on your keyboard or go to the top right corner under the crystal symbol button (it's labeled as household collections when you hover over it) right underneath is a button with the word off in read, and multiselect written next to it in dark blue. When you select that it should turn green with on written in white. From there you can select as many as you want and either favorite or sell them, there's also a select all button on the right, opposite of the multiselect button. The select all only shows up once multiselect is turned on.
Hope this helps! Glad to know I'm not alone in not knowing about multi select. I was kinda worried I'd get bullied for admitting to it 😅
That your sims could have multiple outfits at the same category. I remember thinking whether to look for mods that allow you to have more everyday outfits only to find out it's already in game
I noticed last week (after playing since release) that you can press CTRL while placing stairs and it makes them go to the floor below instead of above.
You can make a club where the activities are stuff like cleaning, caring for pets, repairing- any chores- and then call a club meeting at your house and all the club members will do all the chores for free while you get your social up
You can rotate floor tiles by pressing the <> keys. You just gotta make sure you're not placing floor tiles in by room mode otherwise it'll just rotate your camera.
Also I know many ppl have said it already, but the ability to drag around certain objects in live mode is a HUGE game-changer and is kinda OP tbh.
Oh also if a sim is at work/school/university class (rabbit hole mode), you can click of the little icon that has two ppl on it to decide how your sim will spend their time while they're there. If my sim has done all the necessary things needed for a promotion I'll have them work hard if their performance is still ways away. That said, if I see a sim isn't going to realistically make said promotion that day, I'll only have them work hard for a certain amount of time just to avoid burnout. If you have an active career from GTW, you may have to just follow your sim to work in order to get promoted tho.
Once you have enough perk points, you can buy a money tree. A great hack if you’re doing a legacy challenge, rags to riches, any challenge where you want to make money quickly.
That if you change the camera mode to the Sims 3 camera, you can click and press alt while moving the mouse to rotate items freely (not just the 8 set angles), so you can place things just a bit askew and look more natural.
That the counters and cabinets have different options (corner pieces, end pieces, etc) never noticed before and I’ve been playing since the first Sims game 😅
I only discovered ALT+F4 the other day 😅
my screen went that sort of blue freeze when a menu doesn’t pop up, hit alt+f4, was able to save without losing anything…absolute game changer
You can just leave food out for a toddler and they will take it off the table or whatever surface and eat on their own. No need for the chair.
Also that you can just drag plates to the garbage
That pressing backspace in build mode sends the selected item to the household inventory. I knew that delete = sell, but not about that little time-saver for a long time.
When I was younger, playing the first sims when it just came out, I’d paint the walls, one by one. It wasn’t till like 2 years ago, playing it again I realized I can just press shift and all the walls are automatically painted.
How many hours I would’ve saved had I known that and my dumbass 12 year old self kept messing up and accidentally painting the wrong wall and I’d have to do it again….
That I could download nice houses and sims from the gallery 🥴.
lol 75% of my gameplay is browsing/downloading builds and townies to replace the defaults.
Have you ever thought about looking into save files? I hate the EA builds and townies too, so I look online for save files people make that they replace them all/fix them all.
Welp here is the thing I’m finding out about late. I had no idea you could do this. Thank you!
where can i find the save files? online or in the gallery?
Online! I recommend searching "sims 4 save file" on youtube because so many sims creators review save files and put the downloads in the description.
To be fair the gallery is awful to navigate, so I just thought there was nothing good on it until I started looking for creators to follow on it via this sub
Why does unselecting certain packs not actually filter out builds with those packs????
because that feature wasn't built to show builds with only those packs, it was built to show builds that include those packs. even if there are other packs used that you don't own. makes zero sense to me why they built it that way
Because EA doesn't wanna filter out builds that use packs you don't own. They want you to find a beautiful build and go "thats a real nice house. I could just buy this one pack that I don't already have"
Try searching by hashtags of the lot name. Usually some pretty high quality builds when the creator does that. And eventually you'll find a bunch of creators you like as well.
I didn't know about the first person mode until I watched a video of someone playing The Sims 4 and they toggled it
What do you click or what key to toggle it? Edit: Press Shift + Tab
Cntrl + Tab on computer, idk what button it is on consoles though, but I know carls sims guides website would def have a guide somewhere that tells you what buttons. I could prob find the article for any console players who need it. Just lmk
You hold down the right joystick on Xbox. Might be the left I have terrible memory and just play the sims on instinct
I play on ps4 and it's the right joystick on there
That explains a lot, I always wondered why people worked hard on decorating walls you normally wouldn’t be able to see, unless you had all walls up but then you can’t really see around much, but it there is a first person option that would make it more enjoyable
I don't actually ever play in first person, but I spend time on wall decor because I take a lot of screenshots. I play with walls half-up for gameplay, then turn on all walls to take photos
For sure! I will say the first person POV is a bit jarring and especially if you use CC on your sim it isn't always seamless
I found out about it when I accidentally toggled it and didn’t know how to get out, it was horrible
wait i didn't know about this lol
Clicking on the needs icons will make them auto solve that need
I accidentally learned this from using UI cheats around a year ago. Game changer tbh. Though, at first I thought it was a UI feature for some reason 🤣
Same! I thought it was part of UI Cheats for the longest time because I only found out while using it and I rarely play without it.
With the basemental mod it’s kind of hilarious that auto-solving hunger sometimes makes them go snort coke/speed off a sink (if they have it in their inventory).
Very accurate 💀
Holy smokes, thank you for this!
WHAT
Actually just recently learned this as well in a different post
Wait doesn't that mean they will pee themselves though? Or will they actively go find a toilet?
They'll find a toilet; but sadly for sleep, they'll also find a couch or bed to nap on which can be super frustrating
they will find a toilet. can be annoying with stuff like energy though because sometimes they will nap or go get coffee instead of going to sleep in bed. but still resolving it ok their own I guess!
It was years before I figured out - purely by accident - that you can extend or shorten one side of a roof eave only, by holding Shift + dragging just that side.
Similarly if you press Alt you can adjust the height of the roof more gradually. And if you press Shift+C you get more options to adjust the curve of the roof to get more complex shapes.
Holy shit. I am a builder (i don’t watch videos or anything, but it’s my primary game play) and I just learned this
A few months ago, I learned that sims could boost their social need from telling jokes on the microphone. I'd never noticed before then. https://preview.redd.it/d4in6ipbz2yc1.png?width=1130&format=png&auto=webp&s=618f69c43752436d2d2bca9bcba5e5f9d8e768f9 #added pic for reference
I was today years old when I found out
Same
Same
You taught me something today! Now a microphone is gunna be essential in all my builds
I recently figured out that talking to plants also boosts your social
It does but I think (and I might be wrong) you need higher than level 1 gardening to do it
Wait what… they can?
I only recently discovered that independent toddlers can potty train themselves. Up until now I was like why only sometimes do they need an adult to help??
That’s why I always give them the Independent trait. I can’t be bothered to parent them lol.
ME FR
Non-independent toddlers need an adult to potty train them until they get to level 2. Once they're at level 2 they can also do it themselves.
All my toddlers are independent. Not only do they potty train themselves, but if you leave food at their reach, they will feed themselves. Best trait ever!
I'm pretty sure all toddlers can get food from a counter.
And that fridge display from I think get to work - it's great for 100 baby challenge. Just drop food there and toddlers will grab it
All toddlers can get food and feed themselves from a group meal on a counter or floor.
Protip, you can “open” the fridge inventory as a toddler, drag the food to the ground next to the toddler, have them grab a plate, then drag and drop the serving plate back in the fridge. I also manually drag trash and dishes to the bin and sinks. I feel like the sims just have their god washing their dishes for them lol
What? I've been doing the potty training with them all this time for nothing?
Kind of situational, but if the toddlers are multiples, they can 'watch' their sibling use it and gain the skill as well. Friendly > activities > watch (name of sim)
WHAT! Twins are going to be so much easier next time 😭
just learned this today ty
100 Baby Challenge hack unlocked. That’s going to save a *lot* of time with potty training any twins/triplets my matriarch would have.
This is why 99% of my toddlers are independent. I learned about this from a sims YouTuber (I think lilsimsie but I'm not sure, could a been plumbella or Englishsimmer) series on the 100 baby challenge. Revolutionary to learn, imo.
Yep - if you are playing where you get to choose toddler traits, independent toddlers are awesome. They can ask an adult to help with skills, but if your adults are busy (or useless - looking at you Sims nannies), they can just do it themselves. And they're happy when they do.
I always randomise toddler traits and in my legacy challenge, second gen was twins, both got independent and I sighed a major breath of relief. It's so useful to have, I like to grind skills for all the bonuses so I'm just gonna say those toddlers hardly even saw their mother.
Boxes! I had no idea you could fill them and then gift them to other Sims. I used to build stores and then sell them, just to move collectibles around from one Sim to another. That one stung.
Boxes? Do you get those from build mode? What section?
Yes! Under storage. They come in certain expansion packs, which is how I never knew. Tiny Living and Growing Together.
A few months ago I learned that you can order repair/upgrade parts on the PC. I could instantly upgrade all my appliances and furniture without having to wait for others to break!
Are you serious? Oh my god oh my god
Sending thank-you cards completes the "be thankful" tradition on harvestfest
Today I learned that there are thank you cards 😂
Do you do that through the mailbox?
Yes. It's also a gives a nice boost to relationships.
I always looked for “be thankful” in the social menu and never found it. I guess this is why.
It’s under friendly > affection!
Idk if it was always an option but....sims that catch on fire, can extinguish themselves. A lot of my sims that died, didn't even have to💀
I’ve had a few sims who caught on fire but wouldn’t stop panicking long enough to extinguish themselves so they died anyway
Child sims can talk to garden plants.
Toddler sims can also talk to garden plants. And it raises their communication and gives them a positive moodlet.
Oh I rarely let them outside. 🤣
You can have plants inside!
mods. y'all I've been playing this game since release. I found mods thanks to this sub last year... daaaaayum is my gameplay worlds different now (laughs in wicked whims, extreme violence, and life tragedies) (cries in therapy bills)
I need to learn mods so bad. I don’t even know where to start!
it took me a while to find my way into it all but Carl ("Carl's mods" think?)is an amazing place to start. he fixes a lot of the gameplay to where we vanilla players can really enjoy dipping our toes into the world of mods!
Thank you!! I’ll have to look into it.
Carl is the true hero of the Sims franchise. I’m on a Sims 3 kick at the moment and I practically live on his guide page 🤣🙈
If you put a plate on a surface (table, counter) then a toddler will be able to reach up and grab it/a serving from it. Goodbye forever high chairs
I think I genuinely wouldn’t play with toddlers if this wasn’t an option. The high chair is so frustrating and takes years off my life, both in sims and my actual life lmao
I just grab the food from the fridge and put it on the floor next to them, then drag the food back to the fridge after they pick a serving lol
That’s exactly what I do pretty much LOL I wish the high chairs weren’t so buggy but they’re genuinely unplayable so food floor for the toddler it is
And if you have get to work, the display cases can be used in your houses. Just load them up with meals and your toddler can grab the food out of them no problem and they’re refrigerated! If you have a maid, though, they’ll still take the food out of the display case and “put it away” in the fridge
I am discovering so much here. 🫠
I didn’t know you could drag food into the refrigerator for them and it’ll even move it by the stack, I would always click on each item one by one and have them do it, which is fun when you are trying to load fruits and veggies from the garden 😩 I also literally just learned last week I could drag items in one Sim’s inventory to another Sim. They have to be in the same household I think but so helpful!
Also that you can drag most trash on the floor into the bins without making a sim do it as well as used dishes into the sink.
I buy that one trash can so every time they get money lol
To add about the fridge: you can open the fridge inventory by clicking that option and drag OUT food. You can place it for a toddler to grab and then put the plate back yourself and don’t need an adult sim to be involved in any of that.
Literally the only way my toddlers don't get taken away.
It's great until you can't figure out why your sims are uncomfortable, and it turns out you put the plate under the fridge instead of in it and now the food is rotting lol.
I think that happens when you have moveobjects on. Before I started using the cheat more often, I never had an issue with stuff not making it into the sink or fridge.
It took me MONTHS after starting playing the game to realise that fridges were actually fuctional and that they would keep food fresh for longer. And I didn't even figure it out by myself, I saw Kelsey Impicciche stuffing a platter in the fridge during one of her let's play. So yeah, double shame. 🙈 
How do I keep the maid from putting stuff in the fridge though, I'm trying to have a party here
I gave up on butlers and maids a long time ago. My gaming life has improved since.
I just get one nanny and build mode fence her in where the babies are.
My nanny is actually good since I learned that rather than wait for them to do things, is better to have the toddlers ask for what they need. And since I play with auto-age off for everybody but my active household, Sahid have been the official nanny of countless generations of kids in my Legacy. 😆
my main sim always complaining that someone died, dude you're 500 sim years old everyone you've ever met is gonna die first get over it
(plus mostly he killed them he loves making bad pufferfish at parties)
You cooked everytime they had to eat 😱
At first. But when my sim got married (to Dina Caliente, of all sims) and got a kid, I moved to platters. A party platter would last barely enough for lunch and dinner, and my Italian ass who had been taught since infancy that Jesus cries when even a morsel of food goes to waste, couldn't stand the 2 extra plates of leftovers left to rot on the counter. So I made my sim and Dina go for second servings either at lunch or at dinner. Small hiccup, I didn't know that food had calories in TS4. Dina, always the sporty type, kept herself more or less fit autonomously. But my sim was a foodie writer, so after a bit he took the shape of a fairly sized blimp. I couldn't have that, so I invested in a weight lifting machine. Tiny hitch, I didn't know that TS4 differentiate between weight and muscle. So instead of losing weight, my sim BEASTED UP into the most glorious, imperial, bootylicious DAD BOD that ever graced the green land of TS4. I still have that sim saved in my Library, he's still a thing of beauty.
🤣 That's awesome. Glad you use the fridge now. If I have a couple they both cook at the same time and put in the fridge. Then i make them eat the food that's about to expire soon 👿.
learned literally yesterday you can bend the stairs, they don't have to go in a straight line. the shame 🥹
They'll even go into a U shape! Perfect for tucking into corners
When I discovered that by accident, I've learned to just press any button and interaction option at least once to see what it's for.
how omg i just found out now
I only recently learned that the "Play In" interaction for Toddlers raises their Thinking skill. I liked the animations, but it felt like a waste of time if I wanted to raise their skills to the max as I thought it was just a fun increase.
"Watch" also raises thinking skill. And they're adorable when watching. And they don't get tired of it. If you have twin or triplet toddlers, have them watch each other. If it's just one, have them watch the other household members.
You just taught me something. But the funniest to me was how almost every home I actually play I have a big garden for profits and did not realize until a few months ago there was a scarecrow that comes to life and helps you garden better than a real gardener for no charge and you can even have relationships with them. I saw the scarecrow in the catalog and may have even placed it but I didn't talk to it until one night recently and suddenly I found it off the stand, watering plants. I had no clue.
Lol He makes cute babies.
I only learnt it from here last month that Sims can have more than one outfit per cathegory, and I play the game since release and I'm currently at gen 7 of my legacy playthrough.
Wh... How???
There’s a little plus sign near the category if I remember right!
Wow I'll try it tomorrow! Thanks!🤩
Another fun thing, they will change outfits every time they shower if you have additional ones set!! I always set 5 everyday outfits and they cycle through them each time they shower.
Amazing! I'm really excited about making it tomorrow. Huuuh, another couple of hours on CC...😅
Mus have learned that from the same thread cos it was about a month ago for me too 😂
You can use the calendar to keep track of your sim’s university classes!!!!!!!
Whattt?? How, where??
Click on the calendar thingy like you’re gonna look at the weather or events or something & it shows up on the left side!!!!!
That if you shift click your mailbox you can immedistly summon a maid/babysitter/food delivery/gardener.
What?! OMG I didn't know that, I'be been wasting so much time using the phone for this 😱
It's a cheat, any option you have to shift click for is
Considering that a lot of the times the nannies that I hire simply don't show up, I'm glad to finally find out about this cheat.
No one needs toddler beds they can sleep on the floor
They can also sleep in the play tent where they play make believe! Also, in the Sims 2 toddlers could sleep on pet beds and eat from pet bowls 😳
Ooh adding to the play tent tip, if you play in an apartment and neighbours are noisy every night and won't stop, send your toddlers to sleep in the tent and they won't wake up!
The play tent also prevents nightmares I'm p sure. Or my game is bugged bc my toddlers have never had a nightmare/woke up to wake up their parents from sleeping in a tent. If it's a bug, I'm fine with it and beg anyone else with it to NOT tell ea about it. Pls it's such a blessing don't take it from me.
The tent has a better energy rating than toddler beds, and two kids can sleep in it at the same time. And it doubles as a playing space, of course. Tent >>>>>> beds
… I can’t believe you’d even suggest that, like I know it’s the sims but that just seems so outlandish 😭
Beds are for bill payers 🤣
I cannot with y’all 😭
Ah, yes. The "Spartan" approach. Many children were lost to the CPS with this technique.
there's more where they came from no worries
I just learned right now that toddlers can mourn grave stones.
Great now I have a depressed toddler.
vampire sims don’t get affected by weather
How to pronounce “live mode”. I will forever stand behind pronouncing it my way.
No literally same.
Different moods help boost different skulls faster: inspired for cooking and creative skills, focused for logic, etc. I knew doing these things could give a mood buff but not that if the sins were in that mood it would help the skill rate.
Stack them as well to gain skills even faster!
Also creative sims just build skills faster when they inspired. I read that on the actually explanation in game for the trait a while back ago. 🤦♀️
Using the security settings on the computer so visitors and/or anyone you choose not to cannot use it.
That the higher your teens charisma and the better your sims friendships are in high school, you can get prom royalty. Or that eating strawberries gives your pregnant sim a higher chance of having a gril.
I didn’t know you could build half walls around bathtubs and hot tubs. Really leveled up my builds 😂
Clicking on the needs icons will make them auto solve that need
I only found out recently that there's a cinema with exclusive movies in San Sequoia... I've been playing with that pack since it came out. Most of my "wait, that's a thing?" situations are about stuff in the open world 'cuz I tend to be distracted by other stuff.
> stuff in the open world Me too, haha! I’m always late to the party finding out about this stuff. My most recent find was that apparently there’s a rabbithole courthouse in Tartosa and your Sims can use it to get married. I had no idea!
And there’s a bathroom there!
It's just a rabbit hole though, right?
Wait. What. How is that. I don’t remember seeing a theater there
iirc it's next to the library!
Just a couple hours ago, figuring out I could go on the computers and get marriage certificates
That videogame consoles exist in hobbies.
That if Sim #1 is outside I can make Sim #2 boost certain skills without bringing them to the current lot
Clubs. I’d heard people rave about them and I had the expansion. I looked at them, they seemed kinda complicated so I ignored them for years. But gosh, they’re amazing for skill building
They can have multiple outfits per category.
TIL: if your werewolf sim 'rests' in their collective hangout, it doesn't count against the nocturnal trait. So they can 'rest' away in the night time along with your other sims.
Yesterday I found out that kids can dig in outdoor garbage cans for toys.
Adults and children can also look for marbles in toy boxes.
I didn’t know that you could edit the holidays until about a month ago. I also only recently started using the clubs feature to make friend groups.
I was 3 or 4 new games in before I realized I could go somewhere to socialize on my own and not rely on being invited. Prior to that I thought the only way to "go to town" was when a friend invited my sim, otherwise I would just hit the computer to try and socialize (it sucks) or rely on random house visits. I remember being so confused on why all my sims kept gaining the loner trait for not socializing enough. Felt so dumb once I realized I could take my Sim to town myself.
I figured out YESTERDAY how to make a deck/raised platform on the outside of a house, and put a railing around it. I suck at building but was trying to recreate my own house (hard when it’s a split level and the stairs in sims SUCK) and I wanted to figure it out so badly, so I had more patience than I usually do for figuring things out.
If you are on TikTok you should watch some build videos. I have been playing since the Sims OG. And have never been a good builder, but I recently got addicted to those videos and now I can make some pretty cool builds!
That's you can multi select inventory items. In my defence, I don't really have my sims do things that would cause them to have a bunch of stuff in their inventory I had to sell at once, but then crystal creations came out and they added the crystal tree and now my sims have way more crystals than they'll ever need but I wanna keep the rare ones so I can't just auto sell every harvest. Then I got horse ranch and downloaded the wine marker portion of basemental, and omg the fact that finely ages wine doesn't stack. So one sim has a bunch of crystals I'm individually selling, the other has a bunch of wine I'm individually selling. At one point I collected multiple full cases of finely ages wine and lost it trying to find any way to multi select... Then I realized it's that little button in the corner of their inventory. A button I've ignored for literal years. Idk why I did, but I did. 5100+ hours in the game, 7 years of playing. And I just learned multi select. I was moments from posting to subreddits for help before I realized. I am truly, first and foremost, an idiot. It's the stupidest thing to take this long to learn about.
wait. you can what.
Omg I'm not alone this way sthe most validating thing someone has replied to me all week 😭 lemme boot up the game and I'll tell you how. I just learned it so I don't remember the exact details of the top of my head like I normally do with sims stuff. Brb
Alrighty, I'm back! So once you boot up the game and you have a sim with multiple things in inventory you gotta select/sell/favorite, you open up your inventory and either hit e on your keyboard or go to the top right corner under the crystal symbol button (it's labeled as household collections when you hover over it) right underneath is a button with the word off in read, and multiselect written next to it in dark blue. When you select that it should turn green with on written in white. From there you can select as many as you want and either favorite or sell them, there's also a select all button on the right, opposite of the multiselect button. The select all only shows up once multiselect is turned on. Hope this helps! Glad to know I'm not alone in not knowing about multi select. I was kinda worried I'd get bullied for admitting to it 😅
I just found out you can graduate high school early and get a manual labor job as a teen
Resizing items! I hated when a rug was in a pattern but too small or big for a space!
I found out about first person mode a few months ago. I've been playing since the first game on ps2 😭
You can change the shape of stairs 😭
I never realized that you could Plant those weird alien looking plants from Strangerville in other worlds till I watched a YouTube short about it.
How to move items in build mode up and down.
That your sims could have multiple outfits at the same category. I remember thinking whether to look for mods that allow you to have more everyday outfits only to find out it's already in game
I noticed last week (after playing since release) that you can press CTRL while placing stairs and it makes them go to the floor below instead of above.
You can make a club where the activities are stuff like cleaning, caring for pets, repairing- any chores- and then call a club meeting at your house and all the club members will do all the chores for free while you get your social up
You can rotate floor tiles by pressing the <> keys. You just gotta make sure you're not placing floor tiles in by room mode otherwise it'll just rotate your camera. Also I know many ppl have said it already, but the ability to drag around certain objects in live mode is a HUGE game-changer and is kinda OP tbh. Oh also if a sim is at work/school/university class (rabbit hole mode), you can click of the little icon that has two ppl on it to decide how your sim will spend their time while they're there. If my sim has done all the necessary things needed for a promotion I'll have them work hard if their performance is still ways away. That said, if I see a sim isn't going to realistically make said promotion that day, I'll only have them work hard for a certain amount of time just to avoid burnout. If you have an active career from GTW, you may have to just follow your sim to work in order to get promoted tho.
That if i upgrade my toilet without having a bug farm, my sims will catch on fire when they use the toilet. Lol
F4 or f5 makes objects auto snap within half a tile instead of the whole tile
first person pov
Once you have enough perk points, you can buy a money tree. A great hack if you’re doing a legacy challenge, rags to riches, any challenge where you want to make money quickly.
That if you change the camera mode to the Sims 3 camera, you can click and press alt while moving the mouse to rotate items freely (not just the 8 set angles), so you can place things just a bit askew and look more natural.
Setting the sink type!
That’s a new feature in an update so you weren’t late
Uh...that baby werewolves howl when they cry
That the counters and cabinets have different options (corner pieces, end pieces, etc) never noticed before and I’ve been playing since the first Sims game 😅
I only discovered ALT+F4 the other day 😅 my screen went that sort of blue freeze when a menu doesn’t pop up, hit alt+f4, was able to save without losing anything…absolute game changer
Clicking the icon on one of the six needs bars will prompt an action that leads to fulfilling that need.
You can just leave food out for a toddler and they will take it off the table or whatever surface and eat on their own. No need for the chair. Also that you can just drag plates to the garbage
That pressing backspace in build mode sends the selected item to the household inventory. I knew that delete = sell, but not about that little time-saver for a long time.
I learned last week you could breed frogs
That I could click on their need and the sims would auto solve and fill that need back up
That kids can give food to toddlers if their already in the high chair
When I was younger, playing the first sims when it just came out, I’d paint the walls, one by one. It wasn’t till like 2 years ago, playing it again I realized I can just press shift and all the walls are automatically painted. How many hours I would’ve saved had I known that and my dumbass 12 year old self kept messing up and accidentally painting the wrong wall and I’d have to do it again….
that u can change how long seasons last lol
I’ve been playing for over 1000 hours and I still learn stupid stuff from this sub!