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The Sims 4 Seasons released June 22, 2018. This new pack incorporates weather and seasonal changes to all existing worlds. With that, you also get holidays and a functional calendar year. In this guide to the features in the Expansion, we'll link you to more detailed guides and summarize the new additions and changes to gardening.
You'll find a rundown of the major content in seasons below. Development is moving slowly, as I have to do skill gains the old fashioned way due to broken cheats. Here is what's released so far:
Seasons Cheats (Weather Control and More)
Beekeeping & Honey
Beekeeping (Bee Box/Honey) Video
Scouts (Child/Teen "Career")
Scouting Video
Gardening Updated for Seasons
Rewards Updated
Careers Updated
Skills Updated
Gardening Career
Flower Arranging Skill
Weather in Seasons
Weather Machine - Change Seasons and Weather Forecasts
Patchy the Straw Man (Scarecrow)
Click to Enlarge. Holiday lights are in the Expansion, with decorations for spring, summer, fall, and winter.
Seasons comes with the expected Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Seasons does not ship with a new world, but rather impacts all existing Sims 4 worlds, including places like Granite Falls and Salvadorada. Each world has its own weather patterns. It may thunderstorm or rain in the spring, summer and fall, and snow in the winter or early spring. Worlds like Oasis Springs are warm and mild in the winter, while scorching in the Summer. As time passes, the world gradually transitions into each season, weather growing cooler as mid fall phases into winter. Players are able to choose the duration of seasons through the game options menu. You can select 7, 14, or 28 days seasons.
With seasons, naturally you get temperature changes. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter just as you'd expect, and those things will effect Sims to a large degree.
Click to Enlarge. All four seasons have their own weather, so Sims will want to bundle up or chill out.
Temperature matters in The Sims 4 Seasons. To help with preparing for what awaits them outside that day, Sims can check the weather channel or simply mouse over the temperature and weather interface at the bottom of the screen. The calendar located in the bottom left will show you a forecast for the next seven days.
While exposed to uncomfortable temperatures, Sims can overheat or get too cold. Proper clothing can help a lot with this, but there's also temperature control inside the home and ways to cool off or warm up. Yes, the Expansion comes with a thermostat, and it's possible to mishandle it (like by cranking the heat in the Summer). A Sim getting too hot can have deadly consequences, so this system is also realistic and extreme situations can result in a Sim's demise. Preparedness is key!
Players can choose whether the worlds generate strong thunderstorms and blizzards occasionally, or if these never develop leaving Sims with tame rain and snow. Via the options menu, you can also select whether or not temperature makes an impact on Sims. Do this if you find it too annoying not being able to leave the house in a world with a more extreme summer or winter. Learn more about the weather in Seasons.
-->The Expansion, of course, comes with a weather machine that lets you do just about anything to the weather for a day. Look to the Weather Machine Guide for more detailed information. Rain coming on your Saturday party when everyone's ready to have fun? Change it to a sunny mild day. It can also be used for diabolical purposes, like bringing in a blizzard in the middle of the summer when no one is prepared. More powerful options like changing the current season are also available. While you purchase the weather machine from buy mode (and don't build it yourself) there are over half a dozen upgrades available that improve its reliability and functionality.
The Sims 4 Seasons features a Scarecrow named Patchy who you can buy and place on your lot. Befriend him, and he'll come to life and work in your garden. If you check his pockets, he may have some useful seeds. Check the guide to learn about all of his abilities and cooldowns. View the video guide above or visit the text guide to learn more.
From yard work to water balloon fights, the Expansion's trailer showed a busy world filled with building snowmen, playing in sprinklers, and dodging lightning bolts. With a fully functional calendar for event planning, there are several premade holidays - Lovefest (Valentine's Day), Harvestfest (Thanksgiving/Halloween), Winterfest (Christmas/Hanukkah) and New Year's. The Expansion's seasonal cycle and calendar produce a simulated year for Sims. What is more, Sim families can also make up their own holidays that repeat every year. Get together and do a polar bear dip or even play video games. You choose the activities that take place at the celebration and can invite others. The calendar also shows who is available when, so you can select a time to celebrate when a dear friend isn't going to be at work.
I'm happy to report that there is integration with other Expansion Packs and DLC. For example - and as we had hoped - shoveling snow and raking leaves can help Teens develop responsibility from the Parenthood Game Pack. Players who own The Sims 4 Pets will find their furry friends are also effected by the temperature and weather, with new interactions with snow and rain puddles. So far the team has been good about incorporating Get Together's Clubs into each Expansion, and Seasons is no exception. Furthermore, the Get to Work businesses can be used with our next major feature: The gardening career.
A guide to spring in Seasons. Includes information on The Sims 4's version of Easter with the Flower Bunny and Love Day (Valentine's Day). Covers springtime activities and the making of custom holidays.
Click to Enlarge. Sims players will also have some control over the weather if they choose to make the weather machine! This will allow us to make sure our picnic isn't interrupted and maybe even water the garden with the power of science.
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Click to Enlarge. Sims can make money with the new Gardening Career Expansion feature
At long last, there is a gardening-related career, and one that allows you to choose when you'd like to work from home (similar to those brought about by City Living. The Career branches at around halfway, allowing you to choose whether you'll be a Florist or Botanist. You can create a floral shop by incorporating with Get to Work, and sell your arrangements for a living. This is a fairly interesting idea, though of course it is no different from selling paintings as an artist. The Botanist branch is more focused on gardening itself, and a nice addition padding to your gardening income though there's nothing particularly special about it.
Sims can also do beekeeping, which allows them access to special interactions provided by bees, along with honey. Beekeeping acts as a passive money maker that also provides a boost to Gardening. Bees pollinate plants nearby, providing a passive fertilizer effect that stacks with regular fertilizer. See the above video to learn all about this new feature - I'll write a text-based guide to it soon, now that I know everything.
Sims don't need to take the floral designer branch of the new gardening career in order to benefit from the new violets are blue flower arranging table, available for $250 in Buy Mode. They're able to begin leveling this skill regardless of that track though it's possible they may miss out on some nice unlocks from Career progress. The jury is still out on that one. Here's a guide to the new Flower Arranging skill.
Scouting is a new activity for Children and Teens in The Sims 4 Seasons. This new after school job is unpaid, but offers a ton of skill experience via the Scouting Aptitude reward trait you receive should you max out the 'career'.
There are multiple new deaths associated with Seasons. Sims can, of course, be struck by lightning if they are outside during a powerful thunderstorm. You can also overheat if there's a heat wave and your Sim isn't wearing cool weather clothing, while the opposite is also true. We're still looking to report on the last death which may be related to the gardening career, though it may simply be aging up prematurely via a scent the florist can create.
While I covered this on the weather page, it's worth noting here because a lot of people will have trouble figuring out how to find an umbrella. Umbrellas are categorized under Appliances > Misc. You can also do a text search for it and look for the 'Umbri Umbrella Rack'. Have each of your Sims claim an umbrella and they'll keep it, so long as you don't put it back. The umbrella doesn't appear in your inventory at all. The Sim is just flagged as having one. They'll use them automatically any time there's precipitation, though the umbrella can be broken in strong thunderstorms they seem to automatically replace them. Even doing something like gardening in the rain is possible with an umbrella, as the Sim will whip it out between animations without actually getting wet.
One of the special characters in Sesons is Father Winter. It's possible to Woohoo with him and even Try for Baby! Go to the Try for Baby with Father Winter Watch Page on Youtube, or find it on My Sims 4 Guide Channel to view it. A text guide to Father Winter is also available.
A guide to decorating friezes, spandrels, and other parts of the house in The Sims 4 Seasons Expansion Pack.
Click to Enlarge. Lightning can strike Sims, but they can evidently discharge the power in some way.
Here's a list of things we see in the trailer. I'll add to it over the next month, so check back weekly to see if there's any new info!
Seasons Cheats
Expansion Features
Weather Machine
Patchy the Straw Man
Beekeeping
Father Winter
Scouting (Children/Teens)
Flower Arranging Skill
Gardener Career
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The Sims 4 Seasons expansion now has options! Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
Cottage Living Guide! Here is my guide to new features in the Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion
You can also find handy Cottage Living Cheats
I have much more to come, since you can actually write a few guides about this pack!
Blender has been incredibly useful in video production, so I made my own Physics and Simulation Improvement Addon that lumps a ton of unique tools into one compact interface.
Snowy Escape Cheats
Lifestyles in Snowy Escape
Climb Mt. Komorebi
Sentiments in Snowy Escape
Rock Climbing
Skiing Skill
Snowboarding Skill
I've released a guide to Sentiments in The Sims 4 & Snowy Escape.
There is a new platform tool in The Sims 4. There's also a new Sentiments system, but it'll take some time to create a guide to that. Players can also use rental lots in any world now by changing lot types of builds in manage worlds.
I've created a massive List of The Best Mods in The Sims 4 that should be very helpful to new players and those who have not yet explored modding and how much it can do for your gameplay.
New - Secrets I have a new guide to secrets in the game. If you prefer, you can also watch a video about secrets in Sims 4.
Nifty Knitting is now available. Learn all about the stuff pack on my guide page here.
NEW - Nifty Knitting CheatsNew features in the Sims 4 June 2020
The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Guide
Eco Footprint: How it Works
Neighborhood Action Plans
How to Cheat in Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle
Civil Designer Career
Insect Farms & Bio Fuel
Fabrication Skill in Eco Lifestyle
Juice Fizzing NEW
Traits and Aspirations in DLC
Gameplay Ideas for Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle
Updated
Trait Cheats Updated
Traits List Updated
Aspirations List Updated
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This is inspired by a new series in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to the full playlist!
I now have a guide page to Tiny Living Stuff where you can learn about Murphy Beds, the new death, as well as the lot bonuses you'll receive if you manage to keep the size of your lot down with this new pack's Tiny Home Lot Type.
New I now have a guide to Making Super Sims in The Sims 4. Look for a text version within the next 72h. It won't have THAT much more info but it will help out as a checklist.
This was inspired by a series, "Let's Play a Super Sim" in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to each part for people who are interested. You can also see the Let's Play as a Playlist on Youtube.
The Sims 4 Discover University has been announced for November 15 for PC/Mac and December 17 for Xbox and Playstation 4 consoles. Click to learn more about the pack, see my summary of the livestream or read our FAQs below.
Other Guides to Discover University:
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New Video The Sims 4 Discover University Gameplay Tips Video
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Comments (30)
Just wanted to thank you for this guide! It’s been really helpful to me.
I have a question about Father winter's children: Is it supposed to only be girls? I've had three different families that had children with father winter, and ALL children were girls except one (and he was made after I moved father winter into that household. He had the trait and everything though). Currently I have a family with a lady that got a child with Father winter every year, creating 8 (!!!) girls in total and no boys (with two different father winters as well). It does not bother me at all but imo it's a bit... odd?
I have not tried to influence the gender in any way (since it didn't really matter to me, I just wanted to create some superchildren), that's just how it ended up naturally.
If you are not influencing gender then the game will simply calculate which gender has the least amount of sim in the world and pick that gender for your baby. Father Winters babies can be any gender so I'd start influencing them if you want a particular one.
Is there a new world included
No, there is no new world.
So I installed a Summer Stall at the community pool I built. It turns out, much to my surprise, I have to hire a vendor to man it?! Is the a way on the PS4 to make it work like other game placed stalls?
Also, does this mean if I make a bar, nightclub, lounge, that the bar staff won’t populate either?
It’s a cool expansion pack