Sims 4 Essential Mods 2023

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WonderfulWhims is the tamer version of Wicked Whims. Wicked Whims adds a lot of very adult content to your sims game, and Wonderful Whims allows you to keep it PG-13. It adds in attraction preferences, new personality archetypes, a menstrual cycle, birth control, condoms, and STDs.

These attraction preferences are automatically assigned, but you can alter them if you want to. Maybe you imagine your sim as bisexual, but the game has assigned them as straight. You can easily go in and change their gender preferences.

A simple, but incredibly useful mod. This mod, as the title states, allows you to cheat the entire sims UI system. Most of the time I only use it to quickly cheat the needs of my sims, but there are a ton of other uses.

Unfortunately, the sims team has basically given up on updating the whim system. I find it super weird to let an essential element of your original game fall to the wayside, but luckily there is a fix by an incredible modder!

Again, this is a big mod with a lot to it, so I highly recommend that you check out the download page to read everything that comes along with this mod. Or just install it and I discover everything for yourself along the way. (I prefer that option!)

Something I find really cool about this mod is that it features an in-game tutorial. So if you want to go ahead and download it without reading or watching anything about it, you can do that and the mod itself will show you what it does.

This mod is just an aspiration that will be added to your game, but I find it to be essential. I love for my sims to be overachievers and now they can get a head start right from childhood.

At some point, the medical examiner will call and allow you to make arrangements for either a burial or a cremation. If you complete this process properly, your sim will get peaceful closure, but if not, they will be stuck with unending grief. Wow!

The mod adds government services to the sims. This includes a custom child support and alimony system. Now if your sims are in a dire situation, you can apply for benefits to help them out. I absolutely love the attention to detail that was put into this mod. For example, if your sim remarries, your alimony is canceled.

There are other mods in this list that add miscarriage to your game, but this is the one that I find adds the most depth to the experience of having a miscarriage. It comes with the chance of death and infertility after a miscarriage. There are new buffs. And you can even add the unborn baby to the family tree. I find it super sweet that the baby will forever be remembered as a part of the family.

This mod eliminates that problem by keeping all of the celebrities in Del Sol Valley, making the sims celebrity experience much more realistic. Now, going to Del Sol Valley is an exciting tourist destination where you may see a celebrity, much like Los Angeles.

I wrote an entire post on this mod and its features, (The Sims 4 Playable Pets Mod: Controllable Pets Mod Download & Review) so be sure to check out that post for ALL the details on how this mod works.

This pick actually makes the pie menu for various objects way better. Objects like your sim, computer, TV, stereo, fridge, stove, mirror etc. Now you can have way easier menus to navigate, which saves tons of time and headaches. Honestly, these pie menu mods are a LIFESAVER!

I love how all americans are shocked about the uni costs in the game. I'm glad I live in Germany, where University costs are low. I honestly won't ever get the mod with the uni costs, just because they are realistic for me and I still hate 'em! XD

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Following the period of rest, your Sim and other Sims around them will have additional dialogue and action options based on that dream and their new feelings, including asking questions about their dream and researching what they might mean.

Made by Sacrificial mods, the zombie apocalypse mod is heavily inspired by Resident Evil, and can see your Sims become terrified or zombified. Trigger a zombie apocalypse with an incredibly cool story mechanic, then decide whether you want to survive or infect.

RoBurky returns with another mod that changes how your sim reacts to life events and personal experiences in the game. The Meaningful Stories mod ensures that your sim expresses their emotions to the people who matter or are important to them and will affect how those memories stay with them throughout their life.

For mod fans who want to get into the nitty-gritty details of playing The Sims, then check out the MC Command Center mega-mod by Deaderpool. This mod is a collection of smaller mods that give you the power to make small adjustments and tweaks to how sims live their lives.

SimCity 4 by itself is already a pretty great game, but as you probably know, you can take the game so much further by adding mods, buildings, and more to totally re-imagine the game. Maybe you've seen some YouTube videos of the game with crazy mods and you'd like to do the same. There have been other threads with the same goal, but one of the big problems is that SimCity 4 plugins are extremely overwhelming! There's always hundreds or thousands of recommendations. Which ones are the best?

If you're a new player, I would recommend not installing a million plugins right off the bat. It takes a long time, there's tons of dependencies to install, and let's be real--you want to play the game, not spend all day downloading files! So in this guide, I'm going to recommend a few must-have mods, some mods to make the game look better, and then a few recommendations for some high-quality buildings with not many dependencies. After that, the sky is the limit!

Most mods and buildings can be installed by unzipping the file you download and dragging the files to your My Documents/Simcity4/Plugins folder. Some mods (like the NAM) will have an installer that will automatically do this for you. A readme file will usually be included. Make sure to read this, as it will often contain important installation information.

You've probably heard of the NAM, or the Network Addon Mod. It's the most popular mod by far and everyone recommends it. It's basically a fix for the transportation portion of the game, as the AI by default is very simplistic due to technical limitations when the game was first released.

Besides the fixes, NAM also adds tons of great features, like smooth road curves, avenue roundabouts, new highway interchanges, and more. There's a lot of content, and it can take a while to wrap your head around it, but it's all essential content!

A popular mod that many want is more money. Maybe you like designing your city without worrying about money. The best way is to download the extra cheats plugin. Now open up the cheat menu in the game (Ctrl+X) and type in moolah 1000000 to set your money to 1,000,000. (Or more!)

By default, I'm not a big fan of the game's default grass and water textures. You can make them look much better by installing a terrain and water mod. Cori has compiled some great showcases of every possible terrain and water mod so you can choose your favorite. (But if you need help deciding, I recommend Sudden Valley Terrain, which also comes with beach and rock textures, and PEG Brigantine Water!)

You may also want a tree mod. They replace the default Maxis god-mode tree brush with some more detailed trees and more variety. But be aware, they usually require downloading a lot of dependencies, so you may want to save it for later.

By default, the in-game night looks a little unrealistic. It's a little too bright and a little too purple for many people's tastes. If you'd like to have a darker night, I'd recommend the SimFox Day and Nite Mod. Note that if you download this mod, you should select the DarkNite version (DN) when downloading buildings instead of the original Maxis Night (MN) version.

There's a million and one buildings to download. Instead of giving you a ton of different recommendations, I would recommend finding a good creator and downloading a lot of their content for a more uniform look to your custom content. Below is a list of a few of my favorites. (Hint: Sort by Most Viewed to find their most popular content!)

When you download a building, make sure to download all the dependencies listed or you may get brown boxes instead of the actual building. If you see this, it means you don't have all dependencies installed.

Want more? These creators will already cover a lot for you, but if you want the mother of all building recommendations, check out @Indiana Joe's excellent plugin recommendation thread for even more custom content recommendations in every possible category.

Have fun! There's tons of content you can download, but it's just a testament to the game's longevity that there's so much great content. My best recommendation would be to install the essential mods, download a few cool buildings, and start playing! You can always add more buildings as you go along. I've had times before when I got way too obsessed with building up the perfect plugin folder, but the whole point is to have fun with the game!

Thanks to this mod, agriculture remains desirable even for megacities and offers jobs for Sims of all wealth levels. Also, it makes farms visually appealing and diverse and an agriculture-dominant economy possible in SC4.

I would also like to suggest adding @davide1983it to the BATters list. Member with a sizeable collection of slender, art-deco themed skyscrapers which go along well with any New York-esque cityscapes.

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