Now that I am nearly done creating my world populations, I am ready to begin structuring my worlds. I would like all of the deceased in my town to be located in a single graveyard. It's my belief, a cemetery should be a beautiful, well landscaped place and not a throw-away lot for Sims who have passed on (I'm looking at you Sunset Valley). Thus, I have some questions about this special lot1- Can the graveyard be saved to the library and replaced in a world just like any other lot without issues? 2- When replacing a graveyard (such as starting a new game), what is the best way to remove the old graveyard? Or, tombstones which appear on lots like Agnes Crumplebottom's lot?3- Also, how do I go about gathering tombstones which are scattered about in the world (thinking of Barnacle Bay here) for the purpose of adding them to the cemetery? Must I always put an active household on the lot or have a klepto Sim steal the tombstone? Is there an easier way to collect scattered tombstones?4 - Just tossing this out there....Can graveyards (or the deceased) be exchanged or merged with other worlds? Such as adding Riverview's deceased to the graveyard in Lucky Palms (or something like that) without ruining the world or somehow corrupting it?5 - *NRaas' 'Bury The Dead' guidance needed. I understand it will create urns for all deceased ancestor Sims but, how do I get those Urns into my graveyard? 6 - *NRaas' 'Find Grave', will this give me the location of tombstones hidden within a world (think Barnacle Bay with this one as I have found tombstones hidden underneath bushes).That's about all I can think of (for now) :D! Thanks in advanced to all who respond.

You can have more than one graveyard,I have used graveyard lots saved from other worlds in X world.I made several of my own graveyards with a few having dead sims from various worlds placed into one cemetery.You can go on a favorite dead sim collecting spree befriending ghosts till you get the "Pick up tombstone" interaction after which save the sim to library it will keep inventory intact exit to main menu place him in a new town grab your fave dead by repeating those steps till you have a bunch of them from various worlds.Afterwards place that sim on a empty lot or in case you do not know building even one wall piece in edit town is enough to count as a house to place a sim.Anyway you build a custom cemetery placing the tombs from his or her inventory where you like then after you are done you can change it from a residential to a community lot/graveyard.Can also do the same thing if you want your own created ghosts even a cemetery of hottie ghosts.Make a bunch of pretty sims kill them in various ways have a living sim collect the tombstones keep repeating till you have amount you want and make your custom graveyard.Beautiful Banshee Resting Place :p Graves placed indoors become urns,graves outside stay tombstones

Thanks, Craven! This is my first time maneuvering the dead, for the most my focus has been on developing the living. I have plans to add a lower level to my graveyard to house the urns; I just don't know how to find them unless they are on a public property like in BB's world or LN's. I'm wayyyy too soft to kill a Sim, so building my own personal graveyard isn't likely to happen, I'll just stick with remodeling whichever 'resting place' the world came with. Good to know about the "Pick Up Tombstone" feature. As you can tell, I don't have much (any :( ) experience with the deceased of the game, beyond resurrecting the Tragic Clown for a reincarnation story-line I'm planning on doing (eventually), my hands-on experience is nil!

You have to have a high friendship level with the ghost sim,I think good friend or higher,can just cheat slide up the relation bar with testingcheats after one interaction anyway with the ghost or by normal means talking and stuff.But after relation is high enough you can pick up the tombstone anytime as long as the ghost is not out wandering but that is pretty much all daylight hours anyway and night unless you see them out.Cannot pick it up till ghost goes back in.After picking p a tomb it goes in your inventory you can even go home and plop it in your yard or in your house.Until ressurected will act same as any other ghost but will haunt you and invade your home And if you want any sim ghost anywhere in town to be a household member to marry,roomate whatever purpose use the philosopher stone LTR click on it hit bind ghost lists all ghosts in that world by name even ones in yards not just cemetery.ExampleSo say you are in SV Lolita Goth will be on the bind ghost list same as Tragic Clown even though Lolita is buried in the Goth Yard.Once the ghost is bound they are part of your household you control them can do as you wish, fall in love, resurrect them make them get a job while your lazy sim watches TV all day whatever.

"Auroraskies;c-16753384" wrote:I hope this is still relevant :smile: I have read in several places that the in-game option 'memories' should be shut off for better game performance, and that sims brought through the library from one world to another come equipped with their already made ones, if ever played. So maybe make sure that you have memories off before you transfer them, to save your game from future problems, and check the sims for any already made ones first. It was doable to save the cemetary in Aurora Skies to the library (it is very pretty), but I have not placed it in another world, I think that any problems in its original world would catch a ride (but maybe it would be fun to have a need for ghost busters :wink:). I am sure someone can correct me on this of wrong. Maybe any problems would be avoided by starting a new save only for copying lots to the library, and from worlds with less documented problems.The cemetary in AS has a lot of small grave stones without names, with the generic text 'remains', that were easily picked up/put down. Purely decorational of course. The other place I remember seeing them is in build/buy while buydebug-cheating, probably in section decorations, other.Turning off memories does improve performance yes. You can transfer sims from one world to another with no problems even if they have memories.Unless the lot itself was corrupted there should be no problems transferring lots between worlds.Other than routing issues I'm not aware of any problems with Aurora Skies and routing issues can't catch a ride from a lot. Although if the lot has items placed badly that need to be rearranged it can seem like it.*Edit*Almost forgot when you save a copy of a graveyard to the bin the game removes the ghosts in that copy.

@Auroraskies - Yes, this is still relevant, I haven't worked with my cemeteries beyond beautification of the lot. I'm still trying to 'round-up' the hidden dead of some worlds. I already play with memories disabled, but thank you for the suggestion. @ScottDemon - Correct me if I've gotten this wrong. Let's use the cemetery in Sunset Valley as an example. Are you saying if I take the cemetery as-is and save it to the bin with the ghost still on the lot, when I reinstall the lot the information for the ghosts will be removed and the headstones replaced with the 'remains' ones? If so, how does one transfer or preserve the deceased? Do I have to designate a sim to collect all of the headstones prior to saving the lot? If so, then I am about to introduce a new job into my worlds.

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DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
@mw1525

You're welcome :smile:
I had already made part two when I read this, so if you want I will post it.
mw1525
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
@Auroraskies - Of course, please post the second part.
DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
@mw1525

Great! Okey, so this is what I did:

By way of friendship and placing graves in inventory took two from Barnacle Bay Boneyard and placed in the Sunset Valley one (SV nr 2) in Barnacle Bay: Vera Inkbeard and Jin Lai.

Had Günther buy the BBB, went into build/buy mode on it, tried to pick up graves, not possible. Befriended Val McKellar and Ophelia Piaster. Chose option 'pick up' on Val's grave but took it out of G. personal inventory and put it down again in same spot. (Did not pick up Ophelia's). Went into build/buy mode, could pick up Val's grave and place it in G. family inventory. Could not pick up Ophelia's. Repeated the precedure with her grave and placed them both in SV nr 2.

Met Jin Lai at cemetary SV nr 2, were still friends! The other ghosts showed up too.

Made all the ghosts at grave yard: "Dead men don't tell tales" come up for air with fireworks (sims wiki says there's 5 of them), befriended, picked up, placed at SV nr 2, bulldozed the lot. They show up at the SV nr 2.

Decorated the SV nr 2 from Edit Town (rave place). All the graves that at some point had been in G. pockets (inventory), 'belong' to him according to the game, and are returned to him (family inventory) when entering Edit Town.

Saved BBB and SVnr 2: "pre" to library. Graves returned. Placed out again.
Had G. buy SV nr 2, placed out graves again, saved SV nr 2: "post" to library. Same thing, graves back in family inventory.

Same aging settings in BB as SV but only one grave in the mausoleum in SV nr 2, can't find the person in sims wiki about the families in BB, and my game is in swedish and the names are sometimes altered: Calle Philipsson (maybe he is a NPC, there is a post on that matter here in this forum).

Started brand new save in Sunset Valley, Edit Town before playing, placed out BBB, "SV pre" and "SV post". Chose household Jamie Jolina, went to the grave yards.

BBB is the same as original saved version with 6 graves (out of original 10 according to sims wiki, the ones I moved are gone). Ghosts show up at night.

SV pre and post show no internal difference, all the graves are there, with their names, all the objects I placed there - except for all the graves that at some point had been in G. personal inventory, they are not there in either of them. Ghosts show up at night, including the Calle from BB, after his grave have been placed in the grass. Mortimer' grave and the three others transported through the library inside the mausoleum, can be picked up before any encounter with its inhabitant.
Befriended some ghosts, had the option to pick up their graves.

Gave Jolina the cleptomaniac trait, went to Agnes Crumplebuttom's house. First tried to attract Erik Darling with fireworks, unsuccessfully. Instead swiped the grave (by sim positioning :wink: , right in front of the grave). Placed in SV post.

Problems:
Same age settings in SV the second round as the first, and some sims get old but other's won't age (aging on). Can only use birthday cake once per sim, even if part of Jolina household, only 'room mate' though. (Too many ghosts?)

Fun things:
Günther quit his job before the Edit Town birthday tour, when back in his household he had climbed to level 8 in the stylist career, in one night. :lol:
Found Ginger Lai in grave yard "Dead men...", placed next to Jin Lai :heart:
In Jolina household there where fires all the time, that she quickly put out. Too fast, it did not recognize as a fire and made the fire man angry: "should not call wolf" and fined 500 simoleans - 3 times! :joy:

Thanks for an interesting question, it was fun trying to answer it :smile:

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