Disabling Seasions But Keeping its Stuff - Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
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Dr. June's Weather Control Device lets you change the current or seasonal weather, and even advance to another season entirely. Skip the holidays if you like!
The Sims 4 Seasons includes a weather machine, and with minimal effort on the part of your Sims, you can alter the current weather or even change the likelihood of precipitation throughout the entire current season. With a high level in handiness, a Sim can even change the season entirely. This guide to using the weather controller is meant to give you an overview on using it and what the individual handiness upgrades can be used to do. Click here if you'd like a cheat to change the weather.
Making it really cold and snowy while everyone is in warm weather clothing could be used to interesting effect.
You don't need to build anything to begin using the weather machine. Find Dr. June's Weather Control Device in buy mode under outdoor activities for $1,500 Simoleons. This is clearly meant for wealthier Sims, as it does give a lot of power but a poor Sim couldn't afford to dish out so much to avoid some mild inconvenience. You won't be able to make money with it, though if you have outdoor activities that generate income for you (such as fishing) it will make the experience much more enjoyable. This is also incredibly helpful for gardening, but not for that reason.
The weather control device can change the day's forecast immediately.
When you start, you can only change the weather for the current day. Assuming the Sim is successful the weather control device will fire into the sky, changing the weather for the current day. . You'll be notified if the attempt was unsuccessful for some reason. Success rates are dictated by the handiness skill along with upgrades to the machine. Being focused does help with success rates at low handiness. Note that while you can make a blizzard in the current season, snow doesn't seem to accumulate unless it's winter. Failure to use the weather control device means being zapped, and we all know what happens if you're zapped twice in a row (death).
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If you wonder how to change the season in the Expansion, this weather machine upgrade is the answer.
Sims who upgrade the weather machine get a significant improvement in functionality. With just level 3 Handiness, a Sim can upgrade the device with "Capacitive Efficiency" which allows them to change the weather in general for the remainder of the current season. Each selection only increases the odds of the selected event, so some days will be whatever you selected - rainy, sunny - and others will use the default weather.
With level 8 handiness, you can upgrade to the "Temporal Modifier Unit", which lets the Sim advance to a different season. It doesn't have to be the next season! Helpful if you're a gardener and don't have much of anything available for the current season. You can do this twice if you'd like to start the current season over. The full list of upgrades is:
If you find some uses for the weather machine that you think are pretty great, share them below!
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.
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You can also find handy Cottage Living Cheats
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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.
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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.
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Comments (1)
Lol mine is set to four weeks because I grow lots of dragon fruit and death flower.
I have Seasons disabled these days, hate the way the plants and grass etc goes brown and ugly in Winter. Either that I or have it set to Summer and then cheat the other seasons away to get back to the beginning of summer again.