Essential overhauls
Mods that improve and add content that’s essential to every save.
Education Overhaul by adeepindigo
A huge overhaul of not just your Sim’s school life, but also the education career.
This mod adds:
- Preschool for toddlers where they can develop skills off the home lot,
- New schools for your child Sim’s schooling (boarding schools and military schools are back!)
- Virtual schools for Sims who want to learn from home
- Online homework
- Expanded homework options for your Sims to boost chosen skills
- More school projects
- Detention, School Holidays, and Snow Days
Career Overhaul Suite by Kuttoe
Sick of making a heap of cash just starting out in any career? Maybe you want your university diploma to mean more for those sweet promotions? The Career Overhaul is what you need.
This mod adds:
- New, more relevant promotion goals
- Pay rates that make more sense with lower job levels earning less and receiving a steady climb, while more advanced careers earning more than the vanilla career
- Fame means better pay
- Passively meet coworkers
Hopes & Fears by MissyHissy
A broad overhaul of the game’s wants and fears system.
The hopes & fears mod:
- Adds missing whims for newer game packs
- Improves situational whim selections
- Adds new fears that may be developed after events
- Improves the Life Fulfillment function
Dynamic Teen Life by Adeepindigo
Teen life phase getting boring? Dyanic teen life’s got your back.
The Dynamic Teen Life mod includes:
- More after school activities
- A robust popularity system
- Social groups based on your Sim’s traits, interests, activities, popularity and more.
- Invites to teen activities (that don’t require the HSY window!)
- A better tryout system for HSY expansion
Meaningful Stories by Roburky
A redesign and rebalance of the whole mood and emotion system.
The Meaningful Stories mod:
- Forces Sims to move between emotions instead of flipping from extremes
- Makes happiness more significant—it’s not just your Sim’s default mood
- Environmental effects and auras are more subtle
- Makes emotional moodlets more variable in intensity
- Improves Sims reactions to events, so that meaningful moments have an interesting impact.
Small Mods & Improvements
Not complete overhauls, but mods that fix small problems, add interest, and more.
Home Regions by Kuttoe
The Home Regions mod:
- Tags Sims as locals to certain worlds, so NPC appearances will make more sense
- Improves spawning of Sims (e.g. no/less elders at college parties, and sims in the magic realm will be magical)
- Fixes a problem where NPCs mostly live in a handful of worlds; now they will generate across ALL worlds
- Allows you to assign townies to certain worlds
- Gives you control over which worlds, and the Sims within them, are connected
Map replacements by 20th Century Plumbob
Realised that the world maps are sparse and don’t reflect the bustling world? 20th Century Plumbob has it covered. This mod replaces the neighbourhood screens with beautiful new pictures.
Expanded Milestones by Lumpinou
The Milestones Expanded mod adds over 50 new milestones, making it easier to keep track of your Sim’s life events.
More traits in CAS by MizoreYukii
Add more personality to your Sims with extra traits using the More Traits in CAS mod.
Immersive Social Bunny by Plumlace
Pillow fight post get out of here. The Immersive Social Bunny mod adds over 3000 new posts!! You can also post about relevant life events.
LittleMsSam Mods
Littlemssam is the queen of mini mods and bug fixes. If you’ve got a problem with your game, or a setting you aren’t happy with, you can probably find a fix here.
