Simming Tips, Tricks, and Curiosities

Simming Tips #6: Fun with Voodoo Dolls

So you've fished up, fabricated (Level 3 Mischief and Eco Lifestyle), dug up (dirt patches from Cats & Dogs), or ordered (Level 3 Mischief) a voodoo doll...now what?

Well, there's the default stuff:

• Summon bound sim to lot (they will bypass knocking and barge into your home if used from there).
  
• Add a +2 moodlet to a bound sim:
  
  
  
  • -Playful for "frolic".
    
  • -Angry for "poke".
    
  • -Flirty for "cuddle" (level 2 Charisma).
    
  • -Dazed for "soak" (level 5 Mischief).
    
  • -Uncomfortable for "tickle" (level 3 Mischief)
    
  
  
• Unbind it after the bound sim dies.
  
• Bind another sim with the now unbound doll.
  

"Cool, but is that it?"
"Actually, no."

• Vampires can turn voodoo into a free "Uber-Eats" by binding at least two sims, then summoning them whenever the thirst bar is low. Since there's a cooldown per sim regarding feedings, this means your vampire can rotate between victims, and have one for breakfast and one for dinner/supper. I recommend finding a sim that gives your vampire the "Divine Drink" moodlet (which is both rare and random), that way your vampire gets two happy buffs per feeding.
  I always give my delivery-people tips...the tips of my fangs.
  
• Speaking of vampires and voodoo: After using a 3rd-ranked 'Influence Emotion' burst of playfulness on a sim, why not give them a good "frolic" with the voodoo doll? (This works with a burst of anger and "poke", as well). If that doesn't do the trick, it'll at least get them so close to the edge--
  --all it'll take is just one extra chuckle.
  
• If a sim is about to be reaped by Grim (and your sim has level 5 Mischief) your sim can save them by "toying with death". This requires an unbound voodoo doll to be in your sim's inventory, and the interaction (found on the doll itself) needs to be spammed before Grim is about to reap the sim's soul (don't stop until he stops looking at his tablet and queues into the next animation). If successful, he will bring the sim back to life.
  Can't let death put away my toys...I'm not done playing with them.
  
• If you're done toying with a sim, and it's time to let them go, you don't have to wait for their death if you have 'Get Together' or 'Island Living'. Simply light the bonfire from either pack, then click "Burn Voodoo Doll..." (on the fire itself) and select the one bound to the target sim (hover over the dolls in the picker menu to see which sim is bound to which). This will destroy the doll, and free the relative sim. If the sim is in the same area, they'll also spontaneously combust for a few seconds, but won't die from it. You're free! Free I say! ...free to burn. But seriously, get lost before I change my mind *Readies Zazatototl Death Totem with uncommon refined gem* (Jungle Adventure).
  
  Spoiler

  
  https://i.imgur.com/2YIDxDM.png
  The word "yeet" comes to mind.
  https://i.imgur.com/aF39K5X.png
  Burning sensation? There's a cream for that.
  
  
  Notes:
  
  
  
  • Bound dolls only work for the specific sims that bound them in the first place. If gifted or transferred, they won't work for the recipients (even if the initial sim dies).
    
  • Related to the above, gifted dolls will cease to work for any sim (even the initial sim). The only way to return them to working order is to gift them back to the initial sim.
    
  • Cloned (unbound) dolls work just like normal, from binding to voodoo.
    
  • Cloned (bound) dolls work just like their original, being bound to the same sims.
    
  • Ghosts cannot be bound.
    
  • Servos can be bound.