New Player Questions
Hi Guys, So, I´m pretty much a new player to the Sims4 and I´m still trying to figure out a lot of the game-mechanics, how to make beautiful builds, getting set up for making my first Legacy (no che...
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Here’s a few quick tips that I wished I knew when I started out:
1) don’t use high chairs for toddlers when they are mega hungry and you are trying to stop them being taken away. They are glitchy and I have heard of toddlers being taken away because people’s sims keep putting them in and out of the chair rather than just feeding him them. They can throw a tantrum in high chairs as well. I always just put food on counters or coffee tables for my toddlers now and then get them to grab a serving.
2) money fruit is awesome. Buy it from the aspiration rewards store. Once you have 4 money trees it becomes way easier for all future generations to deal with money.
3) having other sims mentor you makes skills go up super fast. Also be sure to make use of mood bonus when it comes to skill building (ie. be inspired when building the writing skill). Also parents helping kids build skills makes it faster too. Try do your homework with a parent too to get it done faster.
4) showers, the tea life personal brewer and incense are powerful for helping override moodlets that you don’t want and good at helping put your sim in an appropriate mood.
5) research snaglefluster drink and how to make it because it’s very good.
6) pay attention to your starting aspiration when you make a sim because it will give you a bonus trait for that sim. You can change the aspiration later but you can’t change the bonus trait.
7) their are several cool hidden worlds inside the main ones (willow creek has sylvan glade, oasis springs has the forgotten grotto, glimmerbrook has the magic realm and granite falls has the deep woods. Plus if you have get to work you can access an alien planet called sixam in a few different ways) where you can find cool stuff.
8) watching tv while you eat is great as it boosts fun and you can also learn skills at the same time (ie watching comedy channel will give you comedy skill and watching cooking channel can up your cooking skill)
9) singing or playing instruments in public can get you tips and be a good way to get extra cash if you have the right packs (I think you need either get famous or city living or both). You can also passively build singing skill everytime you shower by using the sing in the shower option.
10) keep babies in an area the kids and toddlers can’t get to because the kids and toddlers can start cooing or interacting with the baby and get in the way of the parent feeing it. I had a baby boy taken away because I couldn’t get the kids out of the way and their mum couldn’t feed him.
11) have your kids listen to music when doing homework because it stops them from losing fun and gets their fun up which avoids the tense moodlets
12) cheats are awesome for building. My favorites are bb.moveobjects on (which lets you really clutter up a build), bb.showhiddenobjects (which lets you find extra debug items to build with) and bb.showliveeditobjects (which lets you build with objects that were decorations made for the background enviorment in the world etc) look up a video on build cheats. James turner did a super good one:
13) watch sims content creators because they can help inspire you to build or help inspire gameplay. (lilsimsie, dicee, fake gamer girl and James turner are some of my favourites). I also have a YouTube channel you could watch if you wanna see my garbage video editing lol. I often do lots of building. XD
14.) there is an icon on your sims profile image that you can click when they are at work/school to make them work differently (there are options like “work hard”, “socialize with coworkers”, “take notes” and leave early which can affect your work performance, mood and needs)
15.) sims can be resurrected with a bunch of different methods
If you're into collectibles and different wall art (because I personally can never have enough different art) I usually add an observatory, a microscope and a rocket ship to an empty lot. I usually make it into a science park kind of affair. I know some players are having issues with rocket ship building but that's one bug I don't have. (It's a miracle, yay).
The benefit of having them on their own lot is that, well firstly they are enormous and only really fit in at the science lab otherwise. They look a bit weird in the back garden. Secondly you can spend as much time as you want using them to get collectibles. They all have items you can't get elsewhere, wall prints, creatures (dead or alive), rocks and even very rare plants. Plus if you have Get to Work it means you can visit Sixam with no time limit on how long you can stay there. If you don't have GTW you just take trips to space and complete different missions to get rewards. They can repeat, so try different options each time.
I usually take a tent or add everything I need to my science park for my Sim to get food, etc. If you've taken plant/fossil samples and have them in your inventory you can get beautiful prints with the microscope. I think it's all in the base game (except Sixam) and you need a good logic level to analyse samples. Using the Observatory builds your logic skill pretty fast without needing to do anything but sit there. As the day goes on, keep exiting and re-entering the Observatory as the options change depending on the time of day and some prints are only available from different times and viewing options.
It's one of my favourite parts of the gane and I use the collectibles for a lot of my retail lots. I created a poster shop with all of them and the city living posters based on the Athena shops I loved as a kid.
When I first started playing TS4 years ago and I'd add gallery builds to renovate, I'd see these prints on the wall and wonder where they came from till I figured out the Observatory.
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