Have you ever had a cemetery?

I've got one in Newcrest for my Brooks family. I set it to a community space so there is someone to work the coffee cart and a BBQ area for family to gather.
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I have one save with aging turned on, and I have a cemetery in the back of Willow Creek. When a Sim passes away, I'll have another Sim go into their house, collect their urn, and take it to the cemetery (where it turns into a headstone once they set it down).

Sometimes it's pretty sad. With my original couple, the wife passed away, and the hubby took her urn to the cemetery---a day later, he was gone too (old age)

I have several cemeteries, not one for every world, but for the bigger ones yes. I've got a building on the lot and then a small cemetery. I only move there urns/tombstones of my played sims. I've tried some different lot types. I think museum, arts center, café and community space all work nicely, depends on the build what I would go for.

These cemeteries are all WIP. Some lots have urns inside as well.


I have a trick for keeping the ghosts around. If I want to keep one I befriend them and move them in, then put them in their separate household and favourite. I'm not sure if they'll show up haunting on community lots, but some tombstones I keep on residential lots and ghost "saved" this way will haunt. The tombstone works as a teleporter for them. You could also have a club of ghosts gather on the lot.

I don't really have many dead sims But I have Mausoleums and cemeteries ready and waiting.

But the Von Haunt Estate was converted into a Cemetery, Forgotten Hollow Has a residential Lot, with a Grave Keeper/Spellcaster focused on Necromancy. and My Sims keep a Crypt under their Castle.
The Crypt seems to be working. I still need to work on the Dungeons and Vault.
But the Crypt Lies under the throne room, Basement Level: 4. I was trying to create a legacy, for all the Kings and Queens that ruled before my current King and Queen. I don't often see them roaming around so It's nice when they do haunt the halls.

Yup. Just like a people garden.

"simgirl1010;c-17930575" wrote:
@susannesims I added them to my household and drained their needs with UI Cheats.

If that's in reference to how to do we avoid having them get culled by the game over time - sims only seem to get culled if they're lacking strong enough relationships.

I made a whole household full of the ancestors of one of my played sims (I made her whole massive family, then killed them all off save for her, and then moved her out on her own).

She keeps an urn of two different ancestors on top of a bookshelf in her apartment, and have given those two ghosts 'apartment keys' so they're constantly around bugging her. That seems to have kept the entire household from being culled.

So I'm thinking the trick to have permanent ghosts is to just make sure someone in the ghost household has a near maxed out relationship with one of your played sims.

That noted, whole the entire household remains, I've never seen any of the rest of the family show up in game, and her two relatives have only showed up on lots if she was around, that I know of.


To the main topic, I don't keep any graveyards but because I have aging turned off I've yet to have more than 1 sim 'die' in my game outside of that family. A murphy bed caught the sim I was playing through Strangerville with on my first save. At the time I just backed out and started up again from a save an hour earlier, and removed all murphy beds I knew about from my game (have since found a downloaded house has one, but I've also since added a mod that keeps murphy beds from being deathtraps - I didn't know they could do that when I was originally using them).


I don't think I would add a graveyard if I was playing with aging on or otherwise had a pile of dead sims. There just aren't enough lots for me to be willing to give one up for it.

I haven't made a cemetery for my game yet, but I plan to. I have aging off for my game at the moment, but I may turn it back on later on again.
I will most likely download a cemetery from the gallery, or I may convert my Sims property into a family cemetery.
I plan to have at least one cemetery for all the worlds that will allow it, and I plan to include Sims and their pets.
My plan for lots is that I will have family lots, and add their pets as well, either around them, or next to them.

I have quite a number of mausoleums and cemeteries. For the former I prefer larger, communal chambers with some private alcoves for the upper crust of society. For the latter, I like more open and shady places. Overall my preference is for simple, open designs with fountains for classy places, and more rustic and neglected looks for lower class and cursed locations. Examples follow.

@OEII1001 , all look great , but I love that last one! Fits there well!

Yup! Back in the fall I made one with a spooky occult manor. I used Spooky, Seasons & Vampires for it. It was so fun. I even put it in the fall spark challenge & made a weird occult family of a Wolfish Vampire his wife a Mermaid/Grim Reaper,
a SW Blue Alien & his wife a Spellcaster that looks like a Fairy. The guys were brothers & the gals were sisters. :p