Favorite Mods?

MC Command Center by Deaderpool: Like this one is an absolute must for any Sim modder out there. Everyone who wants to mod their Sims 4 should have this installed, no questions asked. It's extremely powerful and it controls almost every facet of the game. Want to copy and paste your appearance and outfits onto another Sim? Want to play an 8+ member household? Want to play with testingcheatstrue right off the bat? Want to revive a Sim? Want to summon a Sim to your lot? Want to disable relationship decay? Want to slow down time? Want to add/remove moodlets from your Sims? Want to add traits? Want to disable certain autonomous actions for your Sims? Want multiple best friends? MC Command Center can do all of this, plus more.
Meaningful Stories by roburky: I always play with this on because this is just a much better emotion system in every way. It turns uncomfortable moodlets into boosters for negative emotions and its emotional inertia system stops Sims acting like light switches or liking a decoration even while they are mourning. Your Sims will actually get pretty furious and depressed for once.
Color Sliders by thepancake1 and MizoreYukii: This is the closest you will get to a color wheel for the Sims 4 in CAS and I strongly recommend it.
EcoDisc 52X Mini Weather Controller by lot51: If the current weather control machine is a bit too limited for your tastes and you're looking for something to control the weather (hard to get by and cumbersome to use cheats), then this is the mod for you. This comes with Thundersnow, Sun Showers, Dry Lightning, and more!
Torture & Chaos by Dramatic-Gamer: I like using this to lightning strike, stink up, and deprive needs of the paparazzi in my lot and this one comes in handy for me.
Pose Player by Andrew: Extremely handy to use if you're looking for a specific animation and sound and you don't feel like manually activating them to get them in that pose throughout the game. Only downside is that animation lists aren't updated so you're sorta forced to extract their names with Sims 4 Studio by parsing through like the GP, EP, etc files in your installation.

UI Cheats is all I need. ♥️

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ui-cheats-v1-16-26240068

"texxx78;c-17896372" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17896241" wrote:
Meaningful Stories by roBurky - Better emotions.
NPC Control by Paulson - No random townies.
Whim Overhaul by Bienchen - Better whims.
First Impressions by Lumpinou - Adds first impression sentiments.
More traits in CAS by thepancake1 - Allows five traits for sims instead of three.
Walk Normal by Scarlet - Stops all the silly walk styles from different moods.
Lifetime Aspirations by Ky-e - Changes the aspirations into one big lifetime goal instead of the checklist tasks.
Weather app by LittleMsSam - Allows us to check weather in all the worlds via the phone.
Personality Mod by MissyHissy - Adds whims relating to the Sims 2 personality types.

Those are my must haves, I also have a ton of autonomy mods and minor fixes but they are to many to list.

@Sharonia is Meaningful Stories working after the latest patch?

Oh yeah. It's working perfectly fine.

I use half of @83bienchen 's mods. They mostly do tuning stuff to make the game a more enjoyable experience. I think my favorite of their mods is the auto wedding ring when sims get married like in sims 2. Other enjoyable ones are plants only go dormant in winter, more children and toddlers at parks, acne as an actual system and not just case detail etc.

They also have a whim overhaul mod that I can't recommend enough.

I also use littlemsams mods a lot.

I also can't live without my shorter teens mod.

A whole host of most from LittleMsSam - There's 191 files in the folder in my Mods for that modder. They just do all kinds of little tweaks that are vital. The ones I interact with the most would be the more visitors and auto professionals - but that's only because others are more 'behind the scenes but still vital.

MCCC - this is vital for me to disable things like aging, pregnancy, attempted limits on numbers of aliens, remove situational outfits, and just like with LittleMsSam - all kinds of little tweaks that make the experience more to preference.

- Key in both of the above two is each have a huge stack of choices, and almost everyone can find something they want for their game. Even if what we want is the exact opposite of each other.

LittleMsSam does it right though - everything is an individual module so no code bloat. Things should never be bundled together unless they're related to the same purpose / use case. LittleMsSim often even divides aspects of the same thing into individual modules so you 'disable' an extra feature by just not downloading that package file - proper modern coding there.

I use a few NSFW mods that are critical for me - even though some of them seriously annoy me because I'll want one feature, and have to spend a lot of effort working to disable the other features... (like... why does someone put a 'vanilla NSFW' item together with a tweak that makes sim pregnancy work through laying eggs... good code design is to keep things modular. Super bundles of 1000 features is so pre-1990)


ShowSimInfo - this is a dead mod, last updated I think 2 years ago. But it still works unless you have Island Living (or so I've read), which I have yet to buy so I can still use this. It seems to be the only mod out there that lets you do something like search your entire game for every sim with 'trait X'. So I can quickly find things like 'all aliens', 'all spellcasters', or 'all sims with that aspiration to become an egg layer'... and edit them.
- It can also search a specific sim - as in tell you everything about your active sim or a sim you select. So it's not just a sim finder, but also sim detail extractor.
- very useful for fixing things when you let some bad CC in by accident and don't notice it soon enough, as you can also find hidden traits.

If somebody's got a more modern mod that does what that mod did, I'd love to know. Eventually I will get the Island EP, or some future EP - and it will break on me.


I use a lot of autonomous mods from Polarbearsims, that can get me in some trouble sometimes. Like an Autonomous Proposal mod so I'm often looking at a popup where some townie is asking to move in with another townie. I imagine that would drive some people nuts but it's exactly what I wanted - for my townies to start moving around and forming their own households. Once again, like LittleMsSam, many of Polarbearsims' mods are in individual mods so I can get 'this kind of autonomy that I want' and not have to struggle to disable that other one that I didn't want. Good principles there - keep it modular as you can.

I've got a huge stack of new traits from Chingyu. Some of them are great, some I had to delete because they would make a sim into a superhuman. All of them give errors for improper tuning setup, but still work...


Beyond this I have a huge stack of clothing and furniture CC, and I've used Sim4Studio to make most of the clothing random possible so my townies use it. If it looks bad when I do that I 'usually but not always' just delete it.

Lastly, Sims 4 Tray Importer is vital when you start using a lot of CC because you will invariably download something that looks horrendous in game either because it's badly made, it's badly flagged (like wrong gender or wrong age so it wrecks the mesh), or it just doesn't look right next to your other CC (like something 'realistic' when most of your CC is cartoony).
- and I use this often to find what file is causing an issue and deal with it. Just yesterday I noticed all my new townies and any new sim in CAS had no head, so I had to export one to the library and open both it and an older library entry that was good - and compare them in Tray Importer to find out that a 'batch fix' I'd done with Sims 4 Studio had ruined a 'default lashes' replacement I had... so I had to go get an 'unfixed' copy as the 'fixed' one was bad... Without Sims 4 Tray, figuring that out would have taken me hours and hopeless attempts to beg people for help on forums... Instead it was a 5 minute fix.

"Sharonia;c-17896491" wrote:

"texxx78;c-17896372" wrote:

"Sharonia;c-17896241" wrote:
Meaningful Stories by roBurky - Better emotions.
NPC Control by Paulson - No random townies.
Whim Overhaul by Bienchen - Better whims.
First Impressions by Lumpinou - Adds first impression sentiments.
More traits in CAS by thepancake1 - Allows five traits for sims instead of three.
Walk Normal by Scarlet - Stops all the silly walk styles from different moods.
Lifetime Aspirations by Ky-e - Changes the aspirations into one big lifetime goal instead of the checklist tasks.
Weather app by LittleMsSam - Allows us to check weather in all the worlds via the phone.
Personality Mod by MissyHissy - Adds whims relating to the Sims 2 personality types.

Those are my must haves, I also have a ton of autonomy mods and minor fixes but they are to many to list.

@Sharonia is Meaningful Stories working after the latest patch?

Oh yeah. It's working perfectly fine.

Great! Thank you :)

MC Command Center is the only mod I refuse to play without.

I use LittleMsSam's mods pretty often. I love her "Personal Objects" mod especially. Personal objects lets you set certain objects as just belonging to 1 specific sim. I always have 1 sim who paints and 1 who plays music, and I always hate when everyone else in the household who I don't even particularly want gaining those skills randomly decide to start painting or playing an instrument. Guest sims to the house also randomly decide to start playing instruments sometimes. Her mod also lets sims claim computers, video game consoles, tv's, toilets, sinks, tubs and showers, tablets, stereos, among other things as belonging to them.

I also love chingyu's More CAS Traits for Sims Mod (& For Pets!) mod.

Oh that personal objects mod is interesting. I don't like when my sims have their suite rooms with private bathroom and others go and use their bath... and i see a lot of more opportunities... i think i'll try it.

Oh and the more cas traits mod also looks very appealing... @Violetta when you first added this mod did the game randomly applied new traits to each of your sims and npcs or did you have to go through all of them, one by one...?

The two main ones have already been said: MCCC and UI Cheats Extension. However, Zero makes some great stuff. Also does not lock their content behind a Patreon paywall.