Off the grid and icky plumbing

So, my sim is living on an off the grid lot and has a sink that can be used off the grid. The sink is now dirty but the option to clean it is greyed out because of the off the grid lot trait. Is there a way to clean off the grid plumbing or are you eventually destined to have icky plumbing.
I like the limitations on the plumbing but I wish they would patch in a rain barrel for those who have seasons. Also a more realistic toilet option (others have mentioned this) like a bucket.

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burnished_dragon
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"Sharonia;c-17131465" wrote:
It seems unnatural to me to see a modern looking functioning toilet on an off the grid lot. I think I will just have my sims pee in bushes until they add an appropriate looking toilet. :D

You could imagine that they are composting toilets, they look very similar to actual toilets.
Beardedgeek72
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Well, it seems whoever came up with the lot trait at Maxis didn't think it thru. At all.
Or forgot that things get dirty (is that person playing with "always clean" mods?)

As it works now you have to either remove the lot trait and pretend that it's there, OR mod the game so you can actually clean your dirty sinks and toilets.

In theory you can always upgrade everything to Self Cleaning, but since you can't order any parts you have to rely on fishing to randomly find the parts you need. And if you, like me, play with the Child of The Ocean trait, there will be no fishing.
Ampbreia
Rising Novice
23 days ago
I didn't know that about off-the-grid plumbing in sims, but I do know that in real-life, a privy hole, as someone suggested, is always dirty since it's just a hole in the ground with a seat over it and you can only clean the seat. So, I was thinking of a more hybrid solution either way. You don't need electricity to connect to city sewage, much less have modern plumbing, but you do need a water source and, unless you are having a drought, a rain barrel would work great if it were big enough.
I was building a traditional style Philippine home based on YouTube instructions from Simpolcheeks and she mentioned that, while new home mostly just have showers, the older one had rain barrels and a scoop that one used in a bathtub. Ancient Romans, on the other hand, would use an impluvium placed in the center of their atriums which led the collected water through filters into a reservoir that could then be pumped out when needed. Combing these two ideas, I ran a reservoir/rain barrel all the way through the house from roof to cellar and attached a water heater to its cellar level wall, assuming all plumbing in the house could attach to the reservoir. I doubt very much that it will work in the sims except as regular plumbing, but I'm pretty sure it would work in real life... if only rain barrels were legal in my state. *SIGH*
EA_Mako
Community Manager
23 days ago
Hey there,

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