Petite Alsace collaboration - Open for participation!
Happy New Year and welcome to another Sims 3 community collaboration hosted by Hidehi2 , Sandraelle and soocoolsim ! Introducing Petite Alsace inspired by picturesque Strasbourg, Colmar and Ribeauville with a dual French and German blend of charming, flower-laden villages and half-timbered homes. We anticipate the completed world will be a lovely addition to your game. Experienced creators (Intermediate+) are invited to join us in creating builds to add to the base world. If you love decorating but building isn’t your forte, let us know and we'll try to build a shell for you. Everyone can experience Petite Alsace taking shape by downloading the base world and installing builds as they become available. Please keep an eye on the "News and Updates" post for milestones and links to new creations as they become available. Constructive comments throughout this event are also welcome, so don't be shy. Without further ado, onto the details below and come join in the fun! LOT LISTINGS Map A: Colmar (Medieval, half-timbered houses with flower-filled balconies) Map B: Ribeauville (Pastel, half-timbered 15th - 18th century houses) Map C: Ribeauville Outskirts (Farming area) Map D: Strasbourg (City area, mix of old and new buildings) Map E: Avenue du Rhin (Wine region) Map F: Route de Alsace (Rural area) CLAIMING OVERVIEW Download the empty Petite Alsace base world created by the talented Hidehi2. Take a look at the available lots using the Map posts as reference (see links above). Indicate you're on board and sign up for your first claim by replying on this thread with your chosen map lot reference # (eg A8). I will update the lists with claims and add download / media links when builds are completed. Every two weeks (around the 1st and 15th of the month) a new claiming period starting with a 'Claiming Day' post will begin. During this period, if you join the collaboration or have a build in progress on Claiming Day, you can claim 1 lot. For ongoing participants, if all previously claimed builds are completed and (no cc) download link(s) submitted by Claiming Day, you may claim up to 2 lots. BUILDING GUIDELINES Please stay within the theme of each map area and overall Alsace inspiration. You have creative freedom otherwise. Inspiration links at the top of this post may be helpful. All / any EA Expansion Packs, Stuff Packs and official Store Items can be used. Free EA Store Items are OK for use. Note: Some are no longer available for download so use at your discretion. NO third-party Custom Content is allowed. Please Custard Check your exported file before uploading to double check. We highly recommend play-testing your build before uploading to ensure no routing concerns and users can enjoy as intended. Do test placement of your final build. This helps identify any potential issues (e.g. windows / floor tiles out of place). To do this... export your build, save your game, delete the existing build, then replace with the exported version from your library. Take a careful look around and fix as needed. It will be useful for players if the Petite Alsace lot address is included in your build description on the Exchange, albeit optional. Do take the time to put your best foot forward to make your build(s) shine inside and out. Just be cautious about using a ton of clutter since that can add to lag when playing. Each build will be showcased with credit in video walkthroughs on YouTube once the world is completed. Once your build is available on the Sims 3 Exchange, please post a reply on this thread including: name of build / map reference and/or address / download link / cover picture / custard screenshot confirming no 3rd party custom content included. Optional! Link to additional picture site / thread. SIMS / HOUSEHOLDS This collaboration focuses on builds since the final world save file will be unpopulated, however we are happy to link to Sims / Households created for Petite Alsace. Petite Alsace builders can submit Sims / Households for their completed claims as well as Townie use. All / any EA Expansion Packs, Stuff Packs and official Store Items can be used. Free EA Store Items are OK for use. Note: Some are no longer available for download so use at your discretion. NO third-party Custom Content is allowed. Please Custard Check your exported file before uploading to double check. Once your Sim / Household is available on the Exchange, please post a reply on this thread including: name / map reference or address (or identify as Townie) / download link / 1 cover picture / custard screenshot confirming no 3rd party custom content included. Optional! Link to additional picture site / showcase thread. Looking forward to participation by the Sims 3 community! 😀 STORIES / VIDEOS Players may wish to enjoy this world as it evolves and we welcome links to any Petite Alsace story threads / blogs / media. Just post a reply advising us. Click this link for submissions including interior tours by JudiAlbert . NEWS & UPDATES Click this link for the list of completed builds and other updates as released. Build links are also included within their related map post (see above). CREATORS ON BOARD (sign-ups open) Chojrak75321 , Hidehi2 , JudiAlbert (cheeseweasel), KarilynMonroe2 , Kcity74 ,Merrieann , puzzlezaddict , Sandraelle , soocoolsim , whatsociallife , ZeeGee1 (ZeeGee966) PREVIOUS WORLD COLLABORATIONS Bayou Bijou / YouTube showcase video playlist Cape Albacore Coastal World / YouTube showcase video playlist Disney's Magic Kingdom / YouTube showcase video playlist The Orient Express (London, Paris, Venice, Alps) / YouTube showcase video playlist Ackney-Upon-Sherne English Village (hosted by suzses) TIP! When first viewing this thread, you might want to sort replies by "Oldest" to view all the related posts in order and get up-to-date to a certain point. However, for future visits you may wish to sort replies by "Newest" to reduce the amount of scrolling. But of course, it's your choice on what works best for you.
Perfect Genetics Challenge
My new video series - Perfect Genetics Challenge - is now available for viewing on YouTube. https://youtu.be/iQUhw5SbutM This video is a little over 16 minutes. It is an introduction to my founder, Olivia. We first meet her in Create a Household. We see her first home and job. She meets her man and they start getting to know each other. This challenge ought to be colourful. Not only does Olivia have blue, purple, pink and yellow hair but she has a very pale blue skin and pinkish purple eyes. The challenge requires her to produce an heir, male or female, who has the exact same hair and eye colour. Once the heir is confirmed, the mother will concentrate on living her life until the heir is old enough to take on the challenge. There is no upper limit to the number of babies she might have to produce before the heir arrives. Consequently I've set the age spans to be reasonably long but will use cake to age the family up as required. I plan to stop the mother from having more babies once it is confirmed the heir has been born. The heir will age up from toddler to child when they have done all of their toddler skills. And from Child to Teen after completing all of the child skills and getting onto the honour roll at school. The teen will age up to young adult after they have been to a prom and have learned fishing and cooking skills and read all of the fishing and recipe books. This means they'll need to get to level 7 in fishing and level 10 in cooking before I will let them age up to Young Adult. They may learn other skills along the way and need to be at least A Grade students. If they haven't learned the required skills and done the required reading within 105 days they'll age up automatically. When the heir is about the age up to Young Adult, hopefully the day before the teen is ready to age up to young adult, I'll age the parents up to Adult. The Adult life stage is also quite long just in case the mother automatically ages up to adult before she has produced the heir. The Elder life stage is also long. Babies will need grandparents around for a while. I may reduce the length of the Elder life stage at some point if the elders are accumulating. Moonlit Falls is full of supernaturals and I won't worry about when that population ages up. I'll be using EA Story Progression so if the town population ages up very slowly maybe there will still be sims around town by the time my founder's descendants start moving into the general townie population. All babies born to the founder and her heirs will have randomised traits with the one exception that each heir must have the dislikes children trait. There are no restrictions on how the main household earns their income. They can go out collecting, or gardening or whatever they choose. I will be getting them the no bills ever lifetime reward asap because I have a bad habit of forgetting about the bills and have difficulty working out what the repo man has taken. Due to the lack of restrictions on how they earn/come by their money the game will have many and varied activities in it throughout this challenge. One of the first wishes my founder got is to travel to Egypt to buy a recipe book. I do plan to grant that wish soon. Perhaps she can go there on her honeymoon. She has already met her man. I made him specially for her. She's blue with purple and blue hair, he's green with green hair and eyes. But their skin colouring is subtle. I think that about covers it. I hope you decide to watch. I'm keeping the length of these episodes to around 10 to 15 minutes each. Please consider subscribing if you are going to watch the videos as that way you'll know whenever a new episode is posted.
The Ember Legacy: A Pimlico Challenge by Lizzielilyy
Hi! Welcome to my brand new legacy story: The Ember Legacy, based on my original Sims legacy challenge; the Pimlico Challenge. Winnie Ember inherits her family's estate in Twinbrook, only to learn that all is not as it seems. Can a new renovation project in a new town far from home prove to be the challenge she needs? Or will it uncover more than she bargained for about the true Ember legacy? Generation 1: Winnie Ember (Kitchen)The Evergreen Legacy: A Sims Through The Ages Challenge by Lizzielilyy
Hi! Welcome to The Evergreen Legacy. Based on my Sims Through The Ages Challenge, each generation is dedicated to a pack. Update 3rd October 2025: The Evergreen Legacy is officially a complete legacy story. There will be no new updates. Over time you will spot additions like summaries of the Generations for catching up/refreshing potential celebrations for anniversaries but the story has come to an end. Thank you for your support and to new readers, enjoy! Aurora Evergreen moved to Sunset Valley on her 18th birthday by order of her mother. She was reared with one goal in mind: The Mission. Follow her story as she infiltrates the media and the great families of Sunset Valley with a view to exposing the scandal that exiled her family. Will she reclaim her family’s name and the wealth they are owed? Or will she unearth secrets that put her at odds with the very people who set her on this path? Generation One: Aurora Evergreen (Base Game) Generation Two: Blair Evergreen (World Adventures) Generation Three: Francesca Evergreen (Ambitions) Generation Four: Hattie Evergreen (Late Night) Generation Five: Kressida Evergreen (Generations) Generation Six: Persephone Evergreen (Pets) Generation Seven: Winnie Evergreen (Showtime) Generation Eight: Andromeda Evergreen (Supernatural) Generation Nine: Quinn Evergreen (Seasons) Generation Ten: Hunter Evergreen (University Life)
Tiberium
My sim in the Science career got an opportunity to collect some tiberium and take it to work. The task is called "What is this ... Tiberium?" This is a gemstone found in Al Simhara. My sim successfully collected one and one spare and brought them back, but now I have been reading online that it can be poisonous if kept in the inventory, grows if placed on the lot ... What happens if it is stored in a chest? Is the poisoning and growing true? Should my sim get rid of the spare? The description on it when hovering over it says something about the 'potentially dangerous side effects', however my sim who carried it home didn't experience anything or any moodlet from it.
Looking for friends
hello everyone! I'm writing this hoping to find people who still plays ts3! i play The Sims since I was a kid and most of the time it was ts3 but I've never had any friends on my profile, so I decided to check on here if anyone is interested in becoming friends in the game :) thank youuu
Rebuilding Appaloosa Plains - UPDATED Feb 4 2026
Hello fellow Simmers :smile: I'm taking on the Build A City Challenge, using Appaloosa Plains and very few mods. As the town grows, you'll see different Sims' stories emerge. From the town's first community lot to each household and unlocked rabbit hole, watch the drama unfold as I rebuild Appaloosa Plains. I'll be posting previews of each chapter in this thread, with links to the full versions on my website. You can also follow along on Blogger and Archive of Our Own. Chapter List: Prologue Part One Part One begins with a community garden founded by Bridget Tevellyn -- a young Sim hoping to build a family away from the bustle of the city and the catty small towns she grew up in -- and shares the stories that arise as each new home and community lot are built. Chapter 1: Community Garden Chapter 2: Bridget's Cabin Chapter 3: The Tevellyn House Chapter 4: Cinnamon Crest Falls Chapter 5: The Boarding House / Community Garden Chapter 6: The Tevellyn House Chapter 7: Cinnamon Crest Falls / Rukiya's Lot Chapter 8: The Tevellyn House Chapter 9: Cinnamon Crest Falls Chapter 10: Rukiya's House Chapter 11: The Tevellyn House / Emery's Lot Chapter 12: Sims in Arms Training Outpost Chapter 13: The Tevellyn House Chapter 14: Emery's Studio Chapter 15: Cinnamon Crest Falls / Matthew's Lot Chapter 16: The Tevellyn House / Button Ranch Chapter 17: Champs Les Sims - Part One: Bienvenue - Part Two: L'amour Chapter 18: Rukiya's House Chapter 19: Cinnamon Crest Falls Chapter 20: The Tevellyn House Chapter 21: Button Ranch Chapter 22: The Tevellyn House Chapter 23: Emery's Studio Chapter 24: Button Ranch - coming soon Chapter 25: Harley House - coming soon Chapter 26: Rukiya's House - coming soon Chapter 27: The Tevellyn House / Ryker's Lot - coming soon Chapter 28: Champs Les Sims - coming soon Chapter 29: Ryker's House - coming soon Chapter 30: Button Ranch - coming soon Part Two The town will continue to grow alongside Bridget's grandchildren in Part Two, as new faces move in and more venues pop up.The Perfect Genetics Challenge
I finally got Episode 18 of Generation 2 of the Perfect Genetics Challenge loaded to YouTube and it is now available for you to watch. It loaded really fast too. My new internet connection has changed the load time for a 30 minute video from about 8 hours to about 10 minutes. https://youtu.be/77Vh65mSSPI The sims are in Vice City for the whole of this episode. We get to look around the world and into a few houses. I have bulldozed some lots in the world and placed some of my preferred venues in their place. I added a roller coaster that is available in my studio, the Porter Party Mini Warehouse from Showtime, The Elixir Consignment Store from Supernatural, Vaarg's Tavern from Supernatural, the Stones Throw Greenhouse from the Sims 3 Store and a wedding venue I built and it is not in my studio as it contains custom content. Olivia is the founder of this Perfect Genetics Challenge. Her husband, Don, has taken some of their grandchildren to Mountain Lake to visit their cousins. The cousins needed training, and they needed to turn their imaginary friends real, and they needed to age up. Four of the cousins aged up to Young Adult and there is no room in Mountain Lake for them to have their own homes so they need to move to a different world. Don took them to Vice City in the previous episode. In this episode we have a look around the world, see where I placed the venues and have a look inside some of the homes. Max is Don's alien son and he visits the roller coaster and throws a party at the Porter Party Mini Warehouse. The party is somewhat eventful as it is supposed to be a costume party but everyone got into the pool and had a great time swimming. A drowning was narrowly avoided and some of the guests became zombies during the party. But everyone went home happy and the party was awesome according to the majority of the guests. I popped into Paul's new house to see his new basement that contains his sculpting equipment. Paul is Max's imaginary friend made real. Paul has the Bot Fan trait. I found him sitting reading while in his Bot Form. I told him to change into his organic form. He turned into his Doll Form. After several attempts to use his menu to get him into his human form I finally told him to change into his everyday outfit and that fixed him. He was back into his human form. Then we go and have a look at Patricia's basement and this visit was uneventful. Then Don dialed up his travel provider and headed back to Mountain Lake. We will see him there is in the next episode. I hope you enjoy this video. Happy Simming
A new Challenge: the Fusion Challenge
I had posted something similiar to carlsims3guide a way back and now i think there could be something similiar but with more rules. 1) go on Random.org and put the names of all 18 EA hoods on there, and randomize them. 2) Look at the randomized list. Take the first 5 neighborhoods in the randomized list. Use random.org again 5 times, to pick a sim from each of the first 5 neighborhoods. Move them together in the 6th neighborhood. This by saving them to the bin and moving them in an empty lot in the 6th neighborhood, and building a similiar house from there. If you want to keep past family or relationship ties to their former hoods you use nraas travelers or also move them in as observer households that are technically related to the fusion baby. You can still only randomize the hoods but pick specific sims from those hoods, or chose your hoods but pick randomized sims from there. 3) make a toddler or baby with similiarities to all 5 sims. Have the 5 sims raise said baby or toddler together until the baby or toddler turns into young adult. In the same chaotic house which will be a mix of the 5 original houses of the 5 original sims. 4) the sims are called sim1, sim2, sim3, sim4, sim5, based on how their original neighborhoods ended up in the randomized list. And from each sim they take specific traits: from sim1 they take their hair root color, eye shape, and one trait, and their voice type, and zodiac sign from sim2 they take their hair main color, nose shape, favorite food, second trait from sim3 they take their hair high light color, mouth shape, and third trait from sim4 they take their hair tips color, chin + ear shape, favorite music, and Fourth trait from sim5 they take their eye color, skin slider theyre in, and favorite color and fifth trait, and LTW place on the skin, fatness, muscle, muscle definition, eyelash, and voice slider are based on average, while supernatural status is based if any of the sim parents were one. Same for any hidden traits. Or skin details like freckles or moles. And the sim also wears the patterns of their parents’ clothing. You can even have the age be an average instead of having them raise the kid from toddler on. Gender is based on: if its all female Sims, 4 females and 1 male sim, you have the fusion be female. if its all male sims or 4 male and 1 female, you have the fusion be male. but if its 3 male 2 female the fusion is female, and if its 2 male 3 female the fusion is male. if more than one of the parents share a trait, favorite, LTW, or zodiac sign, that Wins. And if more than one parents is in the same skin slider or voice type that Wins too. And for the name of the fusion, the lenght of first and last names are the same as sim 3, but the letters of the first name comes from sim 1 and 2s names (can be from both their first and/or last names) and the letters of the last name come from sim 4 and 5s names (can be from both their first and/or last names) but you can technically put any names even ones that don’t really have anything to do with the previous sims, and you can even give everyone the same surname, which can be a fusion surname of the five surnames.
