I think Bienchens might be one of my favorite mod creators for how useful all their mods are. I have a folder called "Bienchen for my sanity" in my mods folder lol. Do you have a favorite creator for small, useful mods like these?
@@sarahthurgood ahh thanks for letting me know, I wasn't sure! I think the mod might add more specificity to the unlocking then, with non-household sims and animals, and some more advanced locking options too
As for the small mods that I really love I have Small Vegetarian Overhaul - your sim can become or stop being a vegetarian without taking up one trait slot Choose Leftover - your sims won't pick up any random leftovers from the fridge, you can actually select which one they'll take, it's great for eating leftovers that will spoil soon No Sad Holiday Moodlet - one of my absolute musts, your sims won't get sad if they don't care for every holiday and forget to buy that silly lottery ticket Turn on TV: it lets your sims just turn on or off the tv and leave it like that, great for saving time with toddlers since a parent can just turn the tv on for them and leave it like that without the toddlers having to ask every morning Motive Fail Energy Animation Replacement: replaces the passing out animation for the less silly one (from realm of magic if I'm not mistaken)
@@brightea oooh thanks for these, I have the Choose Leftover one but not the other ones! Would love the tv one especially for toddlers. I also need to get a mod for watching TV together that lets sims watch a specific channel together as a group action lol. The holiday one will be really useful too, there are some of the smaller holidays that I just want to get rid of but I always forget to check for them on the calendar and delete them before they come up again 😅
@starstruck_sims I wish I could permanently delete some holidays in a easier way hahaha opening the calendar is something I do only when I need to go to an event or schedule a birthday or a stay over, I'm too lazy to remember holidays to delete them hahaha
I went through the same thought process with the romantic satisfaction decay rate, I just wanted a mod to slow it down considerably but also ended up with the no time decay because it was the next best thing :'') The original setting feels so teenage-like for me, and that being the case it would be great for teenagers only, maybe single young adults at best, but it's absolutely ludicrous for married sims working full time while also raising a toddler and two infants. Unmanageable.
@@brightea that's a really great idea about it possibly working better for teen sims!! And yes completely unmanageable for anyone older. They start threatening divorce after a day or 2 of not being romantic 😵💫 Hopefully, in the case of no update, we can at least find a mod to slow it down better in the future :/. I could see like a week of no romantic interactions start lowering their romance meter and then maybe one of them says they're feeling insecure and wants to try to work on things...instead of immediate divorce threat lol!
@@taigaeller703 I feel so overwhelmed by mccc, it's a great mod but I'm such a noob with its tweaks, I feel like if I actually put in the time to learn how to use it properly I could have such a better gameplay experience but most of the time I just cry that I don't even know if I have to use an ingame computer or click on a sim to do something with it :'') lame I know
I think most of my mods folder consists of tweeks and fixes 😅 Will definitely be adding some of these to my game. I really love the cookbooks by LilMsSam, might have to try that one too. Thank you for sharing 💕
I forget who the creator is- I'd have to check my mods folder- but I have a slowed infant needs mod. It doesn't super nerf infants' needs decay, but I also have the version of it that just lowers their energy decay. My favorite little mods creator is LittleMsSam and Bienchen. They have their own dedicated folders. I'd seen the cookbook one from LittleMsSam, but I actually hadn't gotten it. I might've changed my mind about it now just because of the locked cultural recipes. I'm gonna have to snag that Zero Mod for the no greetings while eating nonsense. Also live for Smarter Pie Menu. It's one that I can't just not have in my game. I was actually looking for a mod that kept sims in their towel right after a shower for the laundry reason. Noting that one down. I dunno how I missed these Zero mods because I have quite a few of theirs- mostly occult-related. There is another small TwistedMexi that I like, which is a run-don't-walk or run-don't-jog. Basically, you get the option to have your sim run somewhere or jog when they normally wouldn't jog to the location. I have it paired with a Walk Faster mod (by either Kuttoe or Lotharihoe- I'm thinking the ladder)- cuz sims just move so heckin' slow.
i actually forgot another from LittleMsSam--- Auto-Employee. Basically, have a door on a public venue lot, and depending on what items are there (the Get Together coffee bar, maybe you've got a guitar or some instrument, busking station, maybe infant/toddler area with toys, food stall of some kind, etc), if you click on the door you'll have an Auto-Employee category on the pie menu. What options show depend on the items there, and you can enable or disable as you please. I swear by it for the food stall vendors alone, but I have a library/cafe lot in Windenburg that auto-staffs courtesy of that mod. During the summer, I enable a busker for the busking station that's outside. But yeah- no more paying for a vendor at a food stall just to pay more money for the food from said stall. lmao
@@kattastrophe7240 Ooh I definitely need that walking faster one, they are soooo slow lol! I will say for the shower towel change thing, it doesn't work on residential rentals (houses and regular apartments are fine) and they stay in the towel for a very short time. Maybe 10 sim minutes. So I always have them walk to their room to change into night clothes right after their shower, but if they get stuck doing something else, then they'll just change back into their every day after a short time. I didn't mention it in the video 'cause I'm not sure if I have the most updated version of the mod or if one of my other mods conflicts somehow. I do need to check out more of Zero's small mods. I use bienchen and littlemssan a lot like you mentioned, but not that many from zero Thinking of the cookbook mod again, I really gotta get mods to tune the spicy food and chopsticks skill. It's ridiculous to me that so many of the non-western foods are considered spicy in the game, even when a lot of them aren't at all in real life lol. My mom shouldn't be dying of spice 'cause they ate some pho 🤦🏻♀️
Thank you so much for the video! There were a couple I decided to put in my game, but it also reminded me of a few that I need to get rid of… So thank you so much! 😂😂😂
@@walabang437 same!! Shoe removal being such a small feature in the game but somehow needing multiple mods to make it un-annoying is saying something 😭
The game doesn’t make you start over when writing a song. The song is in your inventory - you have to continue writing it from your inventory, not the instrument. It took me awhile and loads of frustration to figure that out.
@@Madninja657 yes, I always go to the one in the inventory, but it always gets stuck at the very beginning for me for hours (like the progress bar never moves from the very beginning even after like 5 or 6 straight hours on normal game speed), or still starts over :/ Possibly a glitch for some people! Does yours go normally after that? (They could also definitely make it more obvious that it's in the inventory for people who don't know 😅)
@@briannacarver3580 that was the UI cheats mod! You right click on the needs to change them to whatever level you want. It has lots of other uses too, you basically right click on anything in the UI to unlock cheats for it. I didn't include it here since it's a pretty big mod! Extremely useful though
@@adekoyatolulope8848 OH interesting!! Maybe I just kept the mod in and it works along with the game update. The mod does add some more features, I'm not sure if those are in the game or not, but thanks for letting me know!
I think Bienchens might be one of my favorite mod creators for how useful all their mods are. I have a folder called "Bienchen for my sanity" in my mods folder lol. Do you have a favorite creator for small, useful mods like these?
The one about them talking while eating instead of greeting each other is a MUST
@@mullerlira4391 seriously!! I still can't get them to stay seated or standing (even with mods lol), but at least this cuts out the greeting haha
The doorlock options are in the game, I think, they are the same as my game and I don’t have any mods.
@@sarahthurgood ahh thanks for letting me know, I wasn't sure! I think the mod might add more specificity to the unlocking then, with non-household sims and animals, and some more advanced locking options too
@@starstruck_simsthe mod does have some extra to it, I honestly find the mod more effective at working consistently as well.
@@TheDawnofVanlife good to know!! Thanks for your input, I've had the mod for so long I'm not sure what it's like without lol!
As for the small mods that I really love I have
Small Vegetarian Overhaul - your sim can become or stop being a vegetarian without taking up one trait slot
Choose Leftover - your sims won't pick up any random leftovers from the fridge, you can actually select which one they'll take, it's great for eating leftovers that will spoil soon
No Sad Holiday Moodlet - one of my absolute musts, your sims won't get sad if they don't care for every holiday and forget to buy that silly lottery ticket
Turn on TV: it lets your sims just turn on or off the tv and leave it like that, great for saving time with toddlers since a parent can just turn the tv on for them and leave it like that without the toddlers having to ask every morning
Motive Fail Energy Animation Replacement: replaces the passing out animation for the less silly one (from realm of magic if I'm not mistaken)
@@brightea oooh thanks for these, I have the Choose Leftover one but not the other ones! Would love the tv one especially for toddlers. I also need to get a mod for watching TV together that lets sims watch a specific channel together as a group action lol. The holiday one will be really useful too, there are some of the smaller holidays that I just want to get rid of but I always forget to check for them on the calendar and delete them before they come up again 😅
@starstruck_sims I wish I could permanently delete some holidays in a easier way hahaha opening the calendar is something I do only when I need to go to an event or schedule a birthday or a stay over, I'm too lazy to remember holidays to delete them hahaha
@brightea right! Exactly the same, I never remember to go back and delete them lol
I went through the same thought process with the romantic satisfaction decay rate, I just wanted a mod to slow it down considerably but also ended up with the no time decay because it was the next best thing :'') The original setting feels so teenage-like for me, and that being the case it would be great for teenagers only, maybe single young adults at best, but it's absolutely ludicrous for married sims working full time while also raising a toddler and two infants. Unmanageable.
@@brightea that's a really great idea about it possibly working better for teen sims!! And yes completely unmanageable for anyone older. They start threatening divorce after a day or 2 of not being romantic 😵💫 Hopefully, in the case of no update, we can at least find a mod to slow it down better in the future :/. I could see like a week of no romantic interactions start lowering their romance meter and then maybe one of them says they're feeling insecure and wants to try to work on things...instead of immediate divorce threat lol!
@@starstruck_simsIt’s definitely not a small mod, but I’m pretty sure MCCC has a setting for romance decay!
@taigaeller703 oh thank you so much, I'll look into it!!
@@taigaeller703 I feel so overwhelmed by mccc, it's a great mod but I'm such a noob with its tweaks, I feel like if I actually put in the time to learn how to use it properly I could have such a better gameplay experience but most of the time I just cry that I don't even know if I have to use an ingame computer or click on a sim to do something with it :'') lame I know
@ Not lame at all! Honestly I don’t even bother memorizing it. I just look up “(what i want to change) MCCC” and itll usually tell me
I think most of my mods folder consists of tweeks and fixes 😅 Will definitely be adding some of these to my game.
I really love the cookbooks by LilMsSam, might have to try that one too.
Thank you for sharing 💕
@@SamJones-qx9hz they are so necessary lol! And yay I love the cookbooks, they're very useful! Thank you for watching as always!
I forget who the creator is- I'd have to check my mods folder- but I have a slowed infant needs mod. It doesn't super nerf infants' needs decay, but I also have the version of it that just lowers their energy decay.
My favorite little mods creator is LittleMsSam and Bienchen. They have their own dedicated folders.
I'd seen the cookbook one from LittleMsSam, but I actually hadn't gotten it. I might've changed my mind about it now just because of the locked cultural recipes.
I'm gonna have to snag that Zero Mod for the no greetings while eating nonsense.
Also live for Smarter Pie Menu. It's one that I can't just not have in my game. I was actually looking for a mod that kept sims in their towel right after a shower for the laundry reason. Noting that one down. I dunno how I missed these Zero mods because I have quite a few of theirs- mostly occult-related.
There is another small TwistedMexi that I like, which is a run-don't-walk or run-don't-jog. Basically, you get the option to have your sim run somewhere or jog when they normally wouldn't jog to the location. I have it paired with a Walk Faster mod (by either Kuttoe or Lotharihoe- I'm thinking the ladder)- cuz sims just move so heckin' slow.
i actually forgot another from LittleMsSam--- Auto-Employee.
Basically, have a door on a public venue lot, and depending on what items are there (the Get Together coffee bar, maybe you've got a guitar or some instrument, busking station, maybe infant/toddler area with toys, food stall of some kind, etc), if you click on the door you'll have an Auto-Employee category on the pie menu. What options show depend on the items there, and you can enable or disable as you please.
I swear by it for the food stall vendors alone, but I have a library/cafe lot in Windenburg that auto-staffs courtesy of that mod. During the summer, I enable a busker for the busking station that's outside. But yeah- no more paying for a vendor at a food stall just to pay more money for the food from said stall. lmao
@@kattastrophe7240 Ooh I definitely need that walking faster one, they are soooo slow lol! I will say for the shower towel change thing, it doesn't work on residential rentals (houses and regular apartments are fine) and they stay in the towel for a very short time. Maybe 10 sim minutes. So I always have them walk to their room to change into night clothes right after their shower, but if they get stuck doing something else, then they'll just change back into their every day after a short time. I didn't mention it in the video 'cause I'm not sure if I have the most updated version of the mod or if one of my other mods conflicts somehow. I do need to check out more of Zero's small mods. I use bienchen and littlemssan a lot like you mentioned, but not that many from zero
Thinking of the cookbook mod again, I really gotta get mods to tune the spicy food and chopsticks skill. It's ridiculous to me that so many of the non-western foods are considered spicy in the game, even when a lot of them aren't at all in real life lol. My mom shouldn't be dying of spice 'cause they ate some pho 🤦🏻♀️
@@kattastrophe7240 oooh that's a great one! Thank you!! I'll get that one for sure
So many of these mods the sims team could just put in the game. It would be called quality of life update lol
@@Bambilinooo LOL I wish 😅😅 That would be amazing lol
Thank you so much for the video! There were a couple I decided to put in my game, but it also reminded me of a few that I need to get rid of… So thank you so much! 😂😂😂
@@debradavis3935 haha no problem!! I need to clean out my CC at some point, I have several broken ones 😅
That shoe removal mod is a lifesaver, needed it so bad 😭😭😭
@@walabang437 same!! Shoe removal being such a small feature in the game but somehow needing multiple mods to make it un-annoying is saying something 😭
The game doesn’t make you start over when writing a song. The song is in your inventory - you have to continue writing it from your inventory, not the instrument. It took me awhile and loads of frustration to figure that out.
@@Madninja657 yes, I always go to the one in the inventory, but it always gets stuck at the very beginning for me for hours (like the progress bar never moves from the very beginning even after like 5 or 6 straight hours on normal game speed), or still starts over :/ Possibly a glitch for some people! Does yours go normally after that? (They could also definitely make it more obvious that it's in the inventory for people who don't know 😅)
How did you just decay her bladder need??
@@briannacarver3580 that was the UI cheats mod! You right click on the needs to change them to whatever level you want. It has lots of other uses too, you basically right click on anything in the UI to unlock cheats for it. I didn't include it here since it's a pretty big mod! Extremely useful though
The unlock for specific sim mod IS a mod but they added it to the game in an update i think
@@adekoyatolulope8848 OH interesting!! Maybe I just kept the mod in and it works along with the game update. The mod does add some more features, I'm not sure if those are in the game or not, but thanks for letting me know!
You are beautiful. :)