Summer Camp
📦 packing up the trailer - sierra wants a fresh new start, and a new environment for her (alien) baby to be born into after the chaos of the strangerville mystery. luckily, the strangerville residents pooled enough money for sierra to put a down payment on a small home in oasis springs as a thank-you gift!
More pics of the Ordonez's residence.
Inspiration
LOVESTRUCK WORN PLASTER WALL RECOLOR
Today I decided to share this mediocre recolor but it still looks pretty nice so I hope you guys like it!!
LoveStruck and BGC Version **
23 swatches ***
If you have any issue, please let me know!
** I tried to do a base game version for everyone who doesn't own LS, however the textures look a little weird. If you own LoveStruck I highly recommend you downloading that version.
DOWNLOAD - Patreon (Free, you need to join for free to get it).
*** I'm using the sunblind mod in my game; the colors may look different in your game if not installed.
Reshade: Warm Reshade by awingedllama
Oh??? My GOD??? I just discovered the no discovery quests mod (by Frank / Frankk) and it actually!!! works for the bug!! that’s been keeping me away from my original legacy save/family for almost half a year!!
(This was the bug where the discovery quests don’t stop popping up even if you turn them off, which cropped up after the Reaper’s Rewards nonsense last fall. Idk why it took me so long to find this fix but here we are!)
THE STONES ARE BACK! (Except for June, RIP June; would that you could have lived until Life & Death so I wouldn’t have had to yeet you back to the Netherworld. Beloved Wife and Mother. World’s Most Obnoxious Ghost.)
This is the farthest I’ve ever gotten with a legacy play (she said, on gen 2 💀) and I’m so ridiculously excited to finally get to play these sims again oh my gOD
download on patreon (early access) (public release - 02/28/25)
this mod adds two new interactions with infants:
sim reads a book to an infant sitting on their lap;
sim reads books and boosts skills while an infant naps on their lap.
requires the xml injector base game compatible
male sims have the same animation, with a slight adjustment in leg position. both actions require a nearby couch, bench or living chair. I didn't make the page-turning animation. i hope you don't mind — it would have made the process 10 times harder...
the books appear automatically. this is what a children's book looks like inside:
the adult book features cover art by illustrator daniel stolle. the children's book's exterior texture is artwork by ekatamandalIllustration. the children's book's inner texture features artwork by e. bauman and a. arinushkin.
to start "lap reading", go to the "friendly..." -> "activities".
after the activity, both the adult and the baby gains increases in their "social" and "fun" stats, plus the following buffs:
for this interaction, head over to the "baby care" menu -> "give baby a nap while reading...". you'll find several options here.
the "give a nap while reading fiction book" option only adds 'fun'. the other options add a smaller 'fun', but they help develop various skills (skills are only from the base game). the baby gains increases in "social" and "energy" stats.
after the action, both the adult and the child receive the following buffs:
note that if an infant has the 'hates being carried' trait, they will not receive the buff. similarly, an adult sim with the 'hates children' trait will not receive the buff.
i tried to make the action work for toddlers too, but i haven't figured out how yet. these interactions, like my previous mod "take a nap with infant", are based on the "give infant a nap" action. adapting them for toddlers requires deeper modding knowledge. i hope that either i or someone else in the modding community will figure out how to make it work in the future.
please let me know if you run into any issues while using the mod. i'm always happy to help, and your feedback is incredibly useful for fine-tuning it 🤍
i'm really proud of this mod! it's not perfect, but i'm happy with how it turned out, and i hope you find it both useful and fun.