trying to fix the scary university buildings in the sims

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  • @Witch_by_Blood_Only
    @Witch_by_Blood_Only Рік тому +701

    Last time I played University, Kyle Kyleson was the random townie that died doing robotics at this lot. My sim didn't know him but pleaded for him anyways and he was spared. He now shows up every few days to ask to be their best friend.

    • @morganunraveled
      @morganunraveled 10 місяців тому +40

      he’s like “you saved my lifeeee man 🙏🏻 anyways can i crash on your couch for a week?”

    • @rainshadows17
      @rainshadows17 7 місяців тому +12

      Kyle reminds me of those stereotypical skater dudes

  • @lauxo36
    @lauxo36 Рік тому +100

    “It’s really hard to keep up with your sim’s needs when they’re at university”
    the true uni experience

  • @MissFunilla
    @MissFunilla Рік тому +386

    a tip if your modular shelves get deleted:
    save the room or the whole build with all the placed shelves into your library and then replace the room or the lot with the one from the gallery. for whatever reason, they won't get deleted again from this version!

    • @Ashley-cr4ow
      @Ashley-cr4ow Рік тому +13

      I really hope they fix it thouhh

    • @lateoclock4281
      @lateoclock4281 Рік тому +7

      Thanks for sharing this fix! I've been avoiding modular shelves since they always get deleted, so hopefully this works for me :)

    • @Ashley-cr4ow
      @Ashley-cr4ow Рік тому +11

      @@lateoclock4281 if you play on pc there is a better build buy mod that has a selection called deletion protection. It prevents the items from being removed

    • @kaity_k1203
      @kaity_k1203 Рік тому

      you’re so smart🤦‍♀️ thanks a bunch, fr ❤

    • @ILuvAyeAye
      @ILuvAyeAye Рік тому +6

      I'm holding you to this, it better work! 😂I'm kidding, but thanks for the tip, this is huge for me. I have a Sim who is trying to get and display all the collectibles available, and the disappearing shelves is driving me insane.

  • @raneemfathy2581
    @raneemfathy2581 Рік тому +499

    The foxbury common rooms gives ME NIGHTMARES

    • @_nico_18
      @_nico_18 11 місяців тому +5

      EA makes millions gives us an empty box. EA really said Go on give us nothing. 😂.

  • @UnassumingLlama
    @UnassumingLlama Рік тому +545

    Off topic but I love this shade of purple on Kayla. It’s a pretty color on its own but it really looks good on her

  • @ERYN__
    @ERYN__ Рік тому +147

    Simsie feels uniquely qualified to build a community multi purpose lot because she built THE community center. I kind of want to create a base save file where all the lots are the fixed lots.

  • @confusedfey9192
    @confusedfey9192 Рік тому +29

    While everyone remembers the horrible builds of earlier sims 4, I remember no gallery on console. I remember staring at screenshots of people's builds trying to process how many tiles a room was and where everything was placed

    • @alissalalala
      @alissalalala 6 місяців тому

      omg i used to do that when i played the sims 3! i'd try to recreate simmers builds from the sims 4! it would take so longggg

  • @settheworldonfire94
    @settheworldonfire94 Рік тому +66

    For the graves of the randoms who die, you could make a community graveyard! That might be fun for story purposes.

    • @limiv5272
      @limiv5272 Рік тому

      That's what I thought. What kind of lot type would work best for it though? Don't parks have to have chess tables and stuff?

    • @leananicoleily
      @leananicoleily 11 місяців тому +3

      @@limiv5272se the “GENERIC” lot type. No furniture requirements. I added the spooky trait, fake headstones to fill the extra space & a small nonfunctional mausoleum that fit and looked perfect on 30x30 with enough space for 20+ sims headstones (only 21 sims have died in my save thus far) with plenty of room for more! Also, just a tip, I started this in a huge lot thinking I was going to need a lot of space & that was a really bad idea 😂 try using 30x30, or 30x20 first.

  • @mydarlinglam
    @mydarlinglam Рік тому +23

    Commercial carpet would be common on the second floor. Helps with sound carrying and muffles the sound of people walking around upstairs.

  • @ready2learn87
    @ready2learn87 Рік тому +52

    Every time Simsie says “college libraries get quieter the higher up you go” makes me question my collegiate life where the lower you were the quieter it was. 4 levels - groups on the top, individual/quiet study on the bottom (literally ONLY single seater desks) because sound rises … if you’re doofin off at the bottom of a stairwell, it rises. If you’re doofin off at the top, most of the sound goes out, not down.

    • @apollo6409
      @apollo6409 Рік тому +8

      I always thought that! One of the uni libraries near me has 5 levels, the bottom two underground, and it goes from loudest at the bottom to quietest at the top! I always figured it'd be nice and quiet underground without any sound from the street/it would absorb a lot of outside noise? The ground floor has a cafe tho so maybe they just tried to get the quiet floors as far from it as possible 🤔

    • @jlpkbrb1086
      @jlpkbrb1086 Рік тому +13

      That's because the bottom is where you come in and where the most commotion will naturally occur. Plus the staff works down there and can keep it under control. Its less anout how sound travels and more about controlling the flow into the quiet areas

    • @jenniferhelmersson570
      @jenniferhelmersson570 Рік тому

      My college had the same layout - the basement had a completely quiet study layout where you went for single study, while upper levels had more and more room for groups. So level 1 was basement, level 2 was ground floor with the main entrance and so on. It was so nice going downstairs when you really had to focus - no unmuted cellphones allowed 🥰

  • @garlicteeth
    @garlicteeth Рік тому +9

    you should add in a decor box, if your sim visits the lot during a holiday it'll automatically be decorated and tick off that holiday wish, did that in my save and now have some very happy sims :)

  • @Hi_Im_Akward
    @Hi_Im_Akward Рік тому +31

    My community collage community center had the library (seperated), book store, cafe (not cafeteria) and a main common area with tables, pin pong tables, pool tables and a stage that they used for events and raffles. It was actually really nice and pretty well designed. Had a nice outdoor area and plenty of spaces to study in a quiet area and places to socialize and relax.

  • @franciscajeffs7530
    @franciscajeffs7530 Рік тому +19

    i find giving my university sims a bike is a lifesaver for getting to class on time. it makes the trip so much shorter!

    • @nevw2004
      @nevw2004 6 місяців тому

      it’s just such a hassle to get them on it and get them to class, i really wish EA would fix that. also, once, my sim just lost her $500 bike… i couldn’t fond it in her inventory anymore. so irritating.

  • @randostuff8558
    @randostuff8558 Рік тому +17

    I’ve only had the deleting issue for module stuff for one shelf area I have built . It bugs me so much, nice to know it’s a normal glitch and not just my builds

  • @RemySetGo
    @RemySetGo Рік тому +30

    Kayla's in her university era

  • @YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah
    @YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah Рік тому +17

    I feel like the waiting for Horse Ranch hasn’t been so bad for me because I’m not buying it immediately. I learned my lesson from My Wedding Stories and just packs in general so therefore I’m not buying it until a patch 💀💀

  • @nikolanicole
    @nikolanicole Рік тому +23

    I love how happy i get watching your videos, you have like a very happy vibe idk how to explain it

  • @Arevya
    @Arevya Рік тому +7

    I like how you say you don't like to work with red that much, but end up making such a pretty place, where the red make it all seem so cohesive! :D Really well done!

  • @DeeGlassGhosts
    @DeeGlassGhosts Рік тому +5

    You build in the way I wish EA would- with the sims needs in mind. I can't stress enough how annoying it is to do anything community wise for your sim without the guarantee that there will be area's for their needs to be met. EA just kinda slaps some tables and chairs down inside a weirdly modern shaped building and call it a day. If they asked more creators to come and make these buildings for them like in the past then I'd look forward to seeing the new content builds.

  • @taylay5292
    @taylay5292 Рік тому +8

    Could we ever get an updated Brichester commons too? That would be amazing!

  • @niki_0107
    @niki_0107 Рік тому +15

    kayak calling university an old pack gave me whiplash 💀

    • @nevw2004
      @nevw2004 6 місяців тому

      kayak 😭

  • @FirebladesSong
    @FirebladesSong Рік тому +2

    The trick on the modular deletion is "more than one build session". If you leave build mode in any way, THAT is when it deletes. If I have to break up my building session, I save the lot and place it new every time I start building so it's all "one build session"

  • @kizzykat9120
    @kizzykat9120 Рік тому

    The Soft Landing Playground Cover, in the gray swatch, make a great flooring for gyms, work out rooms,... If I have just a treadmill I'll put two tiles of the flooring down so it looks like the treadmill is on a mat.

  • @Kosmokeith
    @Kosmokeith Рік тому +122

    I like how there is so many people saying first 💀

    • @Chickenvearshha
      @Chickenvearshha Рік тому +1

      Cos i was

    • @DesiderioPace
      @DesiderioPace Рік тому +10

      It's meaningless though cuz nobody cares

    • @sarah_jayne07
      @sarah_jayne07 Рік тому +5

      The shade is unreal 💀

    • @eileentemple2694
      @eileentemple2694 Рік тому +4

      When you get there it doesn’t reload the firsts for everyone else like you go in thinking you’re first even though a thousand people have already typed “first”

    • @Kosmokeith
      @Kosmokeith Рік тому

      @@Chickenvearshha don't think you were mate

  • @julesauburn8713
    @julesauburn8713 Рік тому

    Thank you for redoing the university lots! ❤ I haven’t really played them but watching your let’s play made me start. I’ve only been playing Sims4 since they base game was free so don’t know much but you are one of my favorite creators. Have a great day!

  • @DustyOhara
    @DustyOhara Рік тому

    I appreciate that you post speed builds from your streams! I'm usually working or commuting while I listen and dont get to see/watch as much as I'd like.

  • @maplepainttube8158
    @maplepainttube8158 Рік тому

    It’s comforting to see you do these builds as I feel like I’m in a constant state of finding old builds I need to redo in this game. I still haven’t done this one, though I did adjust the interior of it ages ago so the cafeteria had more tables and looked less pathetic on top of adding way more items for students to use. The only benefit to that dumb roof was it allowed for a rock climbing wall to be fit in next to the other gym stuff. I’ve redone more of brightchester since I am more comfortable building in that style, though my latest project has been redoing the museum in del sol valley, which is very modern. Maybe I need to do this one next.

  • @amyward8861
    @amyward8861 Рік тому +17

    Maybe all your sims need bikes to get around the campus so they aren't late to classes

    • @georgie-4402
      @georgie-4402 Рік тому +6

      The bikes are great, but on campus there are so many stairs that they seem sort of pointless, and make them so much later because they keep getting off them because of the stairs - Sims team did not plan that one properly haha

    • @TuWay1
      @TuWay1 Рік тому

      Yea the bike works better at Britechester U

  • @thesourpatchkidd579
    @thesourpatchkidd579 Рік тому +1

    Yes the modular closet pieces and the bookshelves used to drive me crazy because I love building closets but it would always send some of them to the household inventory. I found that it does this way less if you have moveobjects on before you load into the lot, but it's not a total fix.

  • @bumblewyn
    @bumblewyn Рік тому +1

    i'm gonna get so much use out of this build, thank you so much for sharing!

  • @meganwright3589
    @meganwright3589 Рік тому

    OMG this is SO MUCH better!!! I wish they had been having simmers make builds back in the days of university!

  • @ccctttooo
    @ccctttooo Рік тому +3

    Love your vids

  • @Kualinar
    @Kualinar Рік тому

    That building embrace the concept of «open area» to the extreme. It embraces it all the way to absurdity.
    Make sure that you have your robotics skill to at least 5 BEFORE doing anything on the robotics bench. Better robotics skill = Less chance of getting electrocuted.

  • @vicious.vixen_178
    @vicious.vixen_178 Рік тому

    I haven't rushed to the gallery to snap up a build so fast in my life! This is amazing :) I wish I had your skills!!

  • @Maritwotwin
    @Maritwotwin Рік тому +3

    You make wonderful videos I love how you build in the house and everything 🩷💖

  • @blair.whitfield
    @blair.whitfield Рік тому +3

    KAYLA pls do each room is a different era!!! since you went to the eras tour twice!

  • @dnister_nymph
    @dnister_nymph 11 місяців тому

    I really love your version, it looks much better and is really easy to play in

  • @TG-sh8ys
    @TG-sh8ys Рік тому

    I love this build!! My sim is also currently going to foxbury so i placed it down, and literally within like, 5 minutes her uncle died using the robotics station even though he was supposedly the LEADER of the robotics club hahaha

  • @BFIrrera
    @BFIrrera Рік тому +1

    I was thinking that when we make University commons buildings, we should FIRST set the lot to Community rec center and add those required items. It might help to make the building a little more useful.

  • @kireu4588
    @kireu4588 Рік тому +4

    I’m kind of hoping that in the new expansion pack you can die if you get kicked off your horse too many times in a row

  • @zupergurkan
    @zupergurkan Рік тому

    This turned out so good! I love it! I'm really impressed

  • @Kosmokeith
    @Kosmokeith Рік тому +3

    Love your videos sm lilsimsie! ❤️

  • @Shell05231
    @Shell05231 Рік тому +1

    Lol to the teachers graves, I've turned your legacy graveyard into an all sims graveyard and I've slowly been depositing graves into it, so I'd add the teachers there, but so far they all have stayed alive while I play, mainly cos I only turn aging on in my main household lol!
    Loving the Uni Lets Play - I've been waiting for this vid so I can see the building process, and I cannot wait to use them in my game, as I need the robotics stuff too (mainly as I've never tried it) and I did notice all the old buildings from previous expansions are just too big!
    Playing before the update of infants and babies was difficult, I did have one infant after update and before GT and it kind of auto learned everything which was strange, but I got to play with them both ways that time. But with the Horse Ranch pack arriving I do just want to play it now and nothing else!
    Oh wow I forgot about that in Sims 3 Uni! I will admit there is a lot to do, but doing the course stuff and socialising is hard if you give your sim more than 2 or three total classes, I've always struggled doing it all!
    I really love this build! 😍😍🥰 Looks a million times better than the previous one!! 😊 I cannot wait to play in it with my Uni Sims! 🎉🎉🥰

  • @arielgonzales9676
    @arielgonzales9676 11 місяців тому

    hiiii! love your vids! quick question, is there a cute little series with you fixing the EA builds? i love them but wish they were all in one spot lol

  • @daphnemalikx
    @daphnemalikx Рік тому +2

    I’m also rebuilding the university builds at the moment. Love to see your version!

  • @t64.
    @t64. Рік тому

    It looks A LOT like a mash of a bunch of buildings at my university! Really Coooll!!

  • @minako25
    @minako25 11 місяців тому

    I always want to make it more like the UWM commons. From as much as I can remember. The cafeteria/resteraunts were more homey.
    They also had a dedicated game room... with BOWLING!

  • @Stayville_Clown
    @Stayville_Clown Рік тому +3

    Love your videos Simsie ❤

  • @AWayfaringFrog
    @AWayfaringFrog 11 місяців тому

    I read about a fix for the modular furniture disappearing somewhere a while back: essentially you need to save the room with the modular pieces in to your tray file and then just place the room again from there. I’ve tried it a couple of times now and stuff stopped disappearing when I reloaded the lot!

  • @SimsLegacy5083
    @SimsLegacy5083 Рік тому

    Whew - you scared me! The E-Sports team meets here too and you never mentioned a spot for them until the very end. I'd probably have lower desks so they can see each other and talk but 6 PCs is a good number for the club.

  • @qwerty_zstsa0351
    @qwerty_zstsa0351 Рік тому +3

    I'm seeing this just as my sim graduated from foxbury, crying😭

  • @TaylaClydesdale2010
    @TaylaClydesdale2010 Рік тому +2

    Love the build❤❤

  • @vikkitoria97
    @vikkitoria97 Рік тому +2

    You're amazing at modern builds, Kayla!

  • @angelwatson2228
    @angelwatson2228 Рік тому +1

    Build challenge idea!!!
    pick the furniture but hold the plus key to change the swatch and what you land on you have to use❤️

  • @landonlee5629
    @landonlee5629 Рік тому

    I cant express my face when you whipped out the Disney springs parking garage image- I used to live behind springs

  • @ShadoeLandman
    @ShadoeLandman Рік тому +1

    I quit playing with laundry partly because stacked washers and dryers would randomly delete nearby items. I even had one that kept deleting a door. Or I'd look in and the clutter from the top of the stack would still be there, but one of the machines it was sitting on would be gone.

  • @yueillustration
    @yueillustration Рік тому +3

    You always say you suck at modern builds but honestly I like your modern/experimental builds the best hahah

  • @Avy-kp9ej
    @Avy-kp9ej Рік тому

    This looks great, love the build.

  • @TheMikZino
    @TheMikZino Рік тому

    I love it, and saw it being used in the new LP. LOVE IT!

  • @foranzo1582
    @foranzo1582 11 місяців тому

    I was afraid you'd make a build that's too small for the type of the lot but this turned out to be amazing!! I absolutely love it

  • @leenthegirl
    @leenthegirl Рік тому

    This turned out great!

  • @leslielara4445
    @leslielara4445 Рік тому +1

    You need to find the modular item that is bugged. Usually, is one of the items that go to your household inventory. You need to delete that one and buy it again. You can find thw one that is bugged by placing each one od the items at a time, go to manage worlds and go back to the household, of the item is still placed in the world, its good, but if it foes back to the household inventory, then delte that one. That should fix it

  • @Itsnothellokitty20
    @Itsnothellokitty20 Рік тому +4

    I love watching your UA-cam videos.

  • @charleylouise3900
    @charleylouise3900 Рік тому

    Bikes are so helpful for uni in the sims! It defo saves time!

  • @gamerxandy1701
    @gamerxandy1701 Рік тому

    I love your videos you never disappoint keep them coming

  • @chibiwolf2472
    @chibiwolf2472 Рік тому +1

    I love ur vids so much

  • @fahimredwan
    @fahimredwan Рік тому

    Love your sims videos❤❤❤

  • @weebdead5775
    @weebdead5775 Рік тому +2

    BRK I LOVE YOUR VIDEOSSS

  • @user-lx5jb6ot2o
    @user-lx5jb6ot2o Рік тому +1

    this is so much better than the og build

  • @CeceSamara
    @CeceSamara Рік тому +2

    so true bestie that lot is scary

  • @yndrelbosch3678
    @yndrelbosch3678 Рік тому +1

    For sims who die on rando lots, I build a generic lot and decorate it as a community graveyard, and anyone who dies that I don't want to keep, goes there. (by keep, I mean any 'played' sims, or just someone who's ghost I want around to haunt places XD

  • @misterdinkleberg
    @misterdinkleberg Рік тому +1

    I redid the commons too! I actually added food stalls too but i had to use ‘lms auto employees mod’ so it had workers 😭

  • @lunarblacksoul5661
    @lunarblacksoul5661 Рік тому

    I so needed this :D I've been playing in university A Lot while waiting on horses xD so glad Im not the only one lolz

  • @net_has
    @net_has Рік тому

    to be fair, there wouldn’t be wood floors in a place like that irl but there absolutely would be that faux-wood patterned vinyl flooring, so putting wood down in game could always be fine if you just imagine that’s what it really is

  • @josieblue
    @josieblue Рік тому +5

    why is this game so glitchy…it’s unbelievable, it’s like fnaf security breach but it’s been out for like 10 years and no one cares to fix it😭😭😭💀

  • @pansysutton4689
    @pansysutton4689 Рік тому

    It's a very nice build. Thanks for sharing.

  • @smallworld_sims
    @smallworld_sims 11 місяців тому

    I love the random urn shelves

  • @eling8577
    @eling8577 Рік тому

    Amazing build, a million times better than the original one 🙌

  • @onemouldylime6931
    @onemouldylime6931 Рік тому +5

    Simsie- the dedicated place to put urns you mentioned is called a graveyard, not a table or shelf in the school!

  • @emmahunter888
    @emmahunter888 11 місяців тому

    Oh my gosh I KNOW! These builds are horrifying. Like students had better dorms, houses (for upper years often or those who wanted to live off campus but closer to campus), and the STUDENT CENTRES are so much better in real life LOL I remodelled the student community centres to look similar to my own university campus.

  • @anxiousemofairy4469
    @anxiousemofairy4469 11 місяців тому

    Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only one who got bored playing the sims when a new pack that I really care about is gonna come out 😭 I’ve started a generations save recently and my next heir is practically perfect for the horses pack and they’re about to age up so I’m just stalling on playing with them until we have horses in the game 😭

  • @williamharris3409
    @williamharris3409 9 місяців тому

    I made a graveyard that I’ll bring graves to. Makes for spooky lot for around Halloween and a great house for vampires as well

  • @rydiahbarron7810
    @rydiahbarron7810 Рік тому +2

    I didn't know that was a thing. The roommates always bring servings of food to the dorm room

  • @hiversoul6726
    @hiversoul6726 Рік тому +2

    no way you don't like red when it's one of the best albums out there 😅

  • @honeyflower2782
    @honeyflower2782 Рік тому

    In the dorm rooms o usually give my students one of those hot pots from Snowy Escape, and they eat fancy noodles every day lol!

  • @amystrickland7162
    @amystrickland7162 Рік тому +1

    Missing the meal time to use your meal plan is the real college experience.

  • @morganunraveled
    @morganunraveled 10 місяців тому

    you saying you can eat breakfast lunch & dinner for free by just taking your sim to the commons cafeteria and my brain saying i’d rather my sims eat cereal/chips from a mini fridge for every meal than me have to sit through a loading screen 3 times in one day

  • @starrlily1933
    @starrlily1933 11 місяців тому

    If you save your lot, then re-download any lot while using modular shelving/bookcases it won't disappear when you load in and out.

  • @woodybaby543
    @woodybaby543 Рік тому +1

    I still have kaylas Old foxbury common's building in my save file. My save file is very old from 2018. But I will probably update it with this one now.

  • @L_inore
    @L_inore Рік тому

    ok but missing the university cafeteria lunch hours is so relatable

  • @ssummerzz
    @ssummerzz Рік тому +1

    I still use kaylas first version of this build when the pack first came out!!

  • @emmaoneil2048
    @emmaoneil2048 Рік тому

    My sim just graduated from Foxbury, and now your rebuilding all of the Foxbury lots 😭

  • @gwynnethweinrich2612
    @gwynnethweinrich2612 Рік тому +11

    I'm thinking of getting the university pack. What do you guys think?👀

    • @Chickenvearshha
      @Chickenvearshha Рік тому +8

      Get a cracked version

    • @aa4aaaaaaaaa4
      @aa4aaaaaaaaa4 Рік тому +3

      absolutely not worth it

    • @UnassumingLlama
      @UnassumingLlama Рік тому +9

      It’s cute but it’s better to wait for a sale, preferably half off

    • @WooffzTheCoon
      @WooffzTheCoon Рік тому +8

      I say, if you REALLY want it, wait until it’s on a 50% off sale

    • @kat_kitty_kat
      @kat_kitty_kat Рік тому +6

      I agree. Get it on sale. The last pack I paid full price for was Cottage Living, now I just wait to save some money.

  • @binubeaniebaby
    @binubeaniebaby Рік тому

    Literally yesterday I went here with a toddler who was starving to feed it to stop it from being taken away and then it walked from the cafeteria to the sofas to eat and I was so worried it would get snatched on the way!

  • @lizzymudford1259
    @lizzymudford1259 Рік тому

    Please do the Ubrite common area! This one turned out so good

  • @himynameishelen
    @himynameishelen Рік тому

    LittleMsSam has a mod that makes the chance for being electrocuted from robotics lower as you get better, and also take slightly less time which is a lifesaver

  • @creatinotionchannel2680
    @creatinotionchannel2680 Рік тому

    It is a great improvement

  • @strxberryswirl
    @strxberryswirl Рік тому +1

    Yass New Vid

  • @kissthefrog9179
    @kissthefrog9179 10 місяців тому

    Love it!

  • @Wiggles12.22
    @Wiggles12.22 Рік тому

    So, on the realism stuff... My college has metal chairs outside under pergola things, not even umbrellas, and we have tile on the ground floors and the second floor of the main building, but carpet everywhere else. Colleges don't care about being useful and helpful and practical.