New to mods, seriously need tips and some help here

Hero+

6 years ago

Welcome to the mod club!

Safety info:

Only download mods from the original creator, especially if it's a folder of mods.
Some Simmers avoid sites that go via Adfly or that include a lot of sponsor advertising.
Keep backups of your saves. This is always a good thing anyway. Backup before you add new mods and before the game updates. You can set Origin to *not* update automatically, so it will wait till you tell it to! Then you have time to backup your save.
Don't add a whole lot at once. That makes it easier to tell *what* messed it up.

Installing mods:

You install mods by putting them in the folder the game has made called Mods. If the mod comes with a file ending .ts4script, it's a script mod. Script mods can only go "one deep". So, inside Mods you can have subfolders. If it's just a .package file, it can go a few subfolders deep, but script mods can go only one folder deep.

Keeping up:

Mods often need updating after game updates (patches). Most patches disable your mods *for* you, just in case. You can re-enable them after you've checked that they're okay. Make save backups before checking them yourself!
Mods get updated by their creators (or another modder who's taken them over). I keep lists in this forum area to help people know what's broken by an update and what's gotten updated. I also post some of that info on my Twitter feed.
CC (custom content - build items, clothes, and the like) doesn't need updating as often, but it does end up incompatible. Usually that turns up in the form of Sims who suddenly look very broken.
You can get help with using mods from their creators, and Deaderpool's Discord server provides general mod/CC support.

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