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
Improving Sims 4: 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.
People loved my sitemap for The Sims 3, because it helped them to discover content found throughout that huge site. Because this has been requested a few times in the past year, I'm making the same thing for The Sims 4. This list of guides will also give me a place to share miscellaneous content I write, such as the guide about the talking toilet from City Living. I'd really like to do more content like that, but it's difficult to give it a place within the site structure. So while this will help some readers, it'll also help yours truly to get a bit more creative with content.
The list is a hierarchy of directories, much like the main site. If you're looking for the skills list, you'd head toward S based off the top level. If I haven't written a guide yet, it's unlinked but listed in order to help people see what is available with various expansions and stuff packs. Miscellaneous help articles are found at the bottom.
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
Readers who use adblock or those who'd like to thank me for my efforts can now pledge $1/$5 monthly via Patreon. This helps a lot with server costs and provides some stability for my business.
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:
New Lot Traits: Study Spot and University Student Hang Out
New: Discover University FAQ: Gameplay Features
New Video The Sims 4 Discover University Gameplay Tips Video
More videos coming soon!
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sims 4 admirals wreckage, any idea what's in the chest and how to, if there is a quest for it ?
It's just a decoration piece.
There is so much in this game compared to Sims 1 through 3. I love playing and have been playing for 20 years, when the original came out. Now that my printer is broken, my question is do you have a printed version off all this, cheats game play etc, for purchase? Thanks
No all Carl's guides are free and not locked behind any paywall, unlike other 'fan' sites. No PDF versions as this is an online guide.
What you can do, is pause, tab out, and come here at any time!
I know it's possible to disable DLC packs, but I don't know how, or where I saw the how-to article. Any idea?
I'd like to do a legacy game where the first generation has just the original release, and as new generations come of age I re-enable more packs, in order that they were released, depending on how big they were.
Crinricts Blog Guide Or perhaps easier to use James Turners Disable Packs tool
Awesome, thanks! Now to decide exactly what to disable, probably leaving the stuff packs on and 4 of the first 5 game packs. Devoting a generation to hunting vampires? Probably. A new generation to... go to the spa? Not so much...
Where are the Discover University guides?
(unless I'm blind and just can't find them??)
Uni Guides
I need to know more about the laundry day stuff pack. Where do I put the freshly washed an dried clothes. In my game the clothes just keep piling up. I want to keep my sims houses neat and tidy.
Click on them to 'Put Away' and your Sim will auto magic them into thin air aka their wardrobe.
Have been using your guides for years!
Would love a guide on policies on voting in Eco Living. For example right now the water is shut off, and I have no idea how to keep my sims clean (besides traveling to another world and using a waterfall).
You could also take your Sim to a gym and use the showers there. If your Sim has the Always Welcome reward store trait then they can also bathe, shower and cook and even sleep in other sims houses too.
My solution to that was to add solar panels and a water generator to the lot. Just make sure you have some kind of “sustainable” energy/water on the lot and all your water and power should turn right back on!!
Also check your bills if you have anything unpaid “they” shut it all off and eventually repo-men come to take your stuff.
Hope this helps!!
Hey Carl, I have the full list of the City Living Poster Collection. Happy to share.
We have a board on our forum just for ideas and tips like this. Feel free to post there: Guide Suggestions Forum Board
Or you can simply post the information in the City Living section of the forum: City Living Forum Board
Carl could you do a Roommate guide, I can't seem to keep mine happy, and I think I have a nice house.
So I have EVERYTHING available for the game. But I want to do a throwback game with just the Base Game. Without uninstalling everything, is there a way in build mode/cas to only seen base game items/clothing? Also is there a guid for the base game? Such as which lots and aspersions/traits etc... are base game vs and expansion/game/stuff pack?!
You can disable the packs in the Origin settings. James Turner has a website to make this quick and easy. Disabling Packs Made Easy - James Turner Most of the base game guides are easily found on Carl's Guides as the more pack specific information is on that packs particular guide pages. So a base game guide is the more general info.
I'm 65 and need a place where an example of the whole ps4 skill cheat line is, for reference. I cant remember where there should be a space, for example. Your site used to have this. I can't seem to find it. Pretty site now though. Tough finding a hot link to the ps4 section. Cheers mate! Great work through the years! -mike g
Hi Mike, hopefully you'll find what you need on the forum console board. I've added the direct link for you below. If you can't find it leave a post on the forum and I am sure someone will answer you there.
Console Help
why I can't make sim teen pregnancy when I see pregnant teen in the gallery
It takes a mod for that kind of game play