Sims 3 World that uses all features?

[Lyzands]

Hey guys, I'm going to start playing Sims 3 and I'm wondering what is the best world to play in (that uses the features from all expansions, like going out at night, going to university, etc). I've got all the expansions and can get a world from the shop or a custom one if needed.

Thanks for the help

[MrsFlynn]

✽ Updated August. 2023 ✽

From what I remember reading, there isn't an EA created world by default, that has everything from all the expansions in it.  However, there are some custom worlds and save files that have lots and objects added to them from the different expansion packs.

Here's a few I recommend looking into, in no particular order.:

Recommend playing with Nraas ErrorTrap, Overwatch and MasterController for smoother gameplay and have the error reports looked at via Nraas https://www.nraas.net/community/

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World Recommendations:

Union Cove (Updated to Seasons)
https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/unioncove/download.php

Naga's Sunset Valley 7.0 (Updated to Seasons)
https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=3159.0
- Will need to travel to WA destinations as well as University.

Sunset Valley 2020 (Updated to Island Paradise)
https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=31158.0
- Will need to travel to WA destinations as well as University.

Sunset Island 2 (Updated to Into the Future)
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7776648
- .Sims3Pack File. Has most community lots, except for WA lots and University lots. Has Dive lots, houseboats and hidden island. No Resort. However one can be added. Has room to add Sims 3 Store lots.

Legacy Island III (Updated to Into the Future)
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8219962

Greymont Bay (Updated to Into the Future)
https://modthesims.info/d/598530/greymont-bay.html

Barcelona (Updated to Into the Future)
https://modthesims.info/d/553749/barcelona.html

Woodshore (Updated to Into the Future)
https://modthesims.info/d/648735

Sim-Tropico (Updated to Island Paradise)
https://modthesims.info/d/654041/sim-tropico.html

City Tara V 2.0 (Updated to Island Paradise)
https://modthesims.info/d/651854/city-tara-v-2-0.html

My Sim Realty (Various custom worlds that include most if not all expansions)
http://www.mysimrealty.com/Sims3_Worlds.html

The Sims 3 Pleasantview Recreation ~ Original Map ~ Populated ~ NO CC
https://pleasantsims.com/sims-3-pleasantview/
- May not have all features, but there is room enough to add different expansion / Sims 3 Store lots.

Sunset Valley updated for EPs. [No CC, EA Match lots] - (Updated to University; No IP or ITF)
https://modthesims.info/d/669442
- Zipped Save File, Will need to travel to WA destinations as well as University, Original Sunset Valley, edited on the Original world file. All Original Townie Families in their homes. Has most expansion pack community lots, except for WA, Uni and IP. No Resort, Dive Lots, Docks or House Boats, but can be added.

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Links to Recommended Mods:

ErrorTrap
https://www.nraas.net/community/ErrorTrap

Overwatch
https://www.nraas.net/community/Overwatch

MasterController
https://www.nraas.net/community/MasterController

[dodi90]

I believe University quite hard to do without any additional mods (although don't quote me on this since It was like a year ago that I last played the Sims). You can google yourself for custom world and see for yourselves which one offered the most content that you want in the city

[WickedSimmer87]

Everyone already forgot Union cove that was made by members of our beloved website? :

Included link to the page below 

http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/unioncove/

[dodi90]

I also believed that Union Cove wasn't updated to include newer lots for island paradise, the home world university (this one I believe also require another mods active) or the new rabbit hole for into the future career at the very least. Unless it was already updated but carl didn't update the description in the main site.

[fivine]

I like playing in Sunlit Tides. Appaloosa Plains has a lot of free space too.

If you want to put all what exist as type of community lots from different EP's you run into the risk of error 12... Too much to manage for the game.
It generates a lot of NPC too which is not good for minimizing it.

[Squark]

Union Cove and Sunset Valley 7.0 are about as full as you can get, and even these are pushing it (Sv 7.0 had errortrap popping up every few seconds). Your best bet is to play multiple saves each with their Worlds customized to fit your storytelling needs for that family.

[Justwright]

I highly recommend custom worlds made by My Sim Realty.  http://www.mysimrealty.com/Sims3_Worlds.html 
Beautiful worlds with many updated to include most if not all expansions. 

[Griffon]

I've used Union Cove and while I really liked it better than any EA world it seemed kinda glitchy.  I had to replace some of the community lots with EA lots of the same type and there was one building that was completely blacked out and impossible to use so I just deleted it.  For example I was training horses and the default horse training community lot didn't work, I'd start training then the action would be canceled before they horse started running.  Also at the Seasons festival square, some items were invisible and unusable except through the sims own free will.  I'd see my sim and others bobbing for apples or sitting on air but I couldn't tell my sim to do that.  (Replacing both the lots I mentioned fixed them and I was using V3, but I also don't have World Adventures.)
My favorite part was playing with purple and green skin colored sims; that was interesting.  Not to mention it was probably the biggest world I've ever played in; tons of houses and families.

My favorite expansion was Island Paradise, but I haven't found one good map for that expansion except the default EA map with houseboats and islands (btw can pets, mostly horses travel across water?).

[Squark]

I've had dogs take taxiboats while hunting, so I imagine Horses can travel via taxiboats as well.

[Griffon]

I've had dogs take taxiboats while hunting, so I imagine Horses can travel via taxiboats as well.

Yes horses can use taxiboats (just tested), but it's still hard to get them to cross the water.  If you say "ride here" the person rides to the coast then gets in a boat then runs/walks or gets a taxi car to the final place and leaves the horse behind.  So you have to say "visit ____ with ___" and select the horse then they both ride the taxiboat.  I just used testingcheatsenabled true and teleport them across now.....