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[Poll] New idea for the Premade Furry Replacer!

Since the Patreon early access tier also includes polls and priority feedback, I figured I could kill two birds with one stone by polling you guys about the species I had as the ideas for the pre-made replacer - this would both give you some major direct influence over the mod and relief me having to come up with every one of them - considering I'm never too sure if I made the right choice and I always worry about making it all too repetitive.
How do you like the idea?

Progress Update.

Christmas is coming soon, if my mental state improves i'll try to make something special alongside the templates for the main few dlcs. I have still not yet updated to the latest patch and not yet installed the "For Rent" DLC because I know some stuff broke - I'd rather keep on working than have everything break - even if it means having to update the mods twice just so that I can fix issues as they arise. Generally I'm insanely thankful for all of the support so far, I wish I had realized ho...

If you want to stop supporting/can't afford it - cancel please!

Like the title says. I know I haven't posted anything in a while, but in general I can never tell whether someone is malicious and tries to get more early access in the future for free - or they just forgot to cancel and their special refillable card or whatever they're using just got declined.

Please! It's much better knowing my REAL patron count, i had to remove some of the declined Patrons. If you don't want to or can't that ok, i'm infinitely grateful for each singular month. Just p...

Progress update - so many sims to anthrofy yet so many of them done already.

Hey guys!

sorry for the insanely long time between updates. got caught up in the terrible hot weather, a bit of a harsh mental time and well. getting addicted to sea of thieves. and all my free time that wasn't spent time gaming to get my mind off things, i tried to burn through as many of the sims to anthrofy as possible. after fixing some issues with my game i think i'm gonna be done with the sim presets this week if not next week and hoping to hit a streak and finish the base game NP...

Pawpads addon is finally here

Hey guys!

I finally figured out my main issue with the pawpads addon, so finally I can share an early version which is not hot garbage glitching out.
Hope you enjoy.

PS. It's in the skin details and it's fully compatible with my socks compatible paws, although if you have socks where they go over the whole feetsies - pawpads won't be covered by it - that's because the texture for the pawpads is somewhere else.
Though I'll share some templates on how to make CC fingerless soc...

Very big upcoming changes to the way content is being accessed

Hey there! As I finally finished working on the custom Discord bot which will let me give access to people via Discord roles, rather than relying on the current way of things (Patreon authentication on a Wordpress site which acts like a middleman) - it will be soon required to join my Discord server to access any of the downloads.

Sorry for the inconvenience, the pros outweigh the cons here and I had to make something better than just a Wordpress site and other things which are somewhat...

Lombaxes Mod - Patreon Early Access

Content time! 

Here's the lombaxes, currently I've no guide or template for them but that's soon to quickly change. You need Berni's additions for the paws I used, although you can compose them however ya like. I haven't modelled a ratchet-like feetsies yet, but the custom ears and the texture is here.

Be sure to let me know what you think, feel free to request other Lombax color variants. 

Reminder: Download on the website as usual :3

Yet another progress update

Hey Guys!

Long time no talk!

I've made some more progress on the anthro occults mod - decided to make a "lite" version of the occult trait that doesn't apply the furry bits for you but just enables the gameplay stuff. hoping to have a very basic WIP out soon.

If you have any questions about it or suggestions for it, please do leave it here on LL or join my discord and contribute to a forum on there.

Either works, I note down all of the suggestions in one place at the e...

Progress update

Hey there! Sorry for the radio silence.

I've went overdrive mode, trying to finish as many NPC and CAS Starting sim replacements as I can. The public facing progress update video has been postponed, in favour of putting more and more time to work on the mods as opposed to editing it.

I've also put down what can be described as the foundation for the next mod in the series.

I seriously didn't think I'd be able to pull this off - but I'm going to be making Anthros a fully fled...

New things added to the Discord and info about faster mod updates

Heya!

I've finally gotten around to adding some convenience stuff for both me and you guys. There's now a Patron-only channel with info about latest changes in the mods - and I've rigged it up in a way which pushes every new change immediately to the website. Additionally I've set up Cloudflare to never cache the mods, hopefully that will make sure you always get the latest version.

Given the repetitive nature of the testing and adding new stuff plus fixing, I feel like having som...

Templates Mod - Female Fox template "Fix"

For some reason it didn't update the file on the site back when I published it and nobody gave me a heads up, publishing the new one - please redownload from https://thefurs.benjifox.gay as usual.

As always let me know if you have more problems, once I know I'll fix it ASAP.

Quick statistical poll + progress updates

hey. I been working on the preset sim replacer and the templates mod a lot recently. hoping to push out something at the end this month or the beginning next month in the worst case scenario. I'm also trying my best to keep this Trello up to date now.

https://link.benjifox.gay/furs4progress

for the poll, which mod is the one you came here for? I don't anticipate over prioritizing but I will be attendin...

Toddlers patch and the Get Together DLC Compatibility plus Origin shenanigans

Hey guys!

Took me a whopping 3 days or so to troubleshoot the heck out of my game and Origin install. It just randomly decided to corrupt itself and reinstalling macOS wasn't enough. Had to reset my user profile and when it corrupted again I figured out a smarter way to fix it that could've saved me so much time xD
Basically creating another user profile, logging in on there and stealing Origin's application support folder (AppData equivalent on Mac) from that profile.

Anyways ...

Progress update - Toddlers update and Get Together DLC compatibility

Hey!

I've monitored the situation closely over time and I've noticed that most if not all major mods have been updated to work with the current version of the game - including running them alongside the new dlc.

I'm updating my game and installing the DLC as I type this, I'll be able to test the compatibility and fix any issues that arise - alongside working on the additions.

As long as everything goes smoothly, the next version of all the mods will assume you're running at ...

Yet another progress update - ..YAPU? haha

Hey! I'm not dead! Working on making a polished public simplified early version of the templates mod along with important additions and improvements in regards to what was shared here as a Patreon exclusive early access beta. Including but not limited to: The first version of the CAS Preset/Starter Sim Replacer mod! :D

I'm also working on a YouTube video that will serve people new to the project just as well as it will serve my Patrons. Huge Patron credit roll in the end included. Chapt...

Patch Status update - 14th March 2023 Patch (PC: 1.96.365.1030 / Mac: 1.96.365.1230)

just in case my fellow simmers aren’t in the know, yesterday the infant patch dropped and broke nearly every mod

if you have autoupdates on, i’m sorry for you 

the offending game version is as follows; PC: 1.96.365.1030 / Mac: 1.96.365.1230

if you’re on a version lower, you’re good. avoid updating. 

my mods are tested against Mac: 1.95.207.1230 as of today (equivalent of PC: 1.95.207.1030) - the 2023-03-15 13:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon update

I paused the billing and refunded anyone who’s been charged in march. I’ll keep on working, this is just because of the big update that’ll drop - please check the previous post for context. And yeah huge thanks for supporting me again, I’ll have updates for all of the content soon ^^

Important info about my Patreon for the new patch that will drop

Hey

The big patch that will most likely break most stuff was supposedly planned for 14th of March. Because there are many what ifs and things the sims 4 modding community is not quite certain about, I'm going to act as if the patch never dropped - focusing on making all my stuff for versions pre-patch until most major mods get fixed and some of the bigger moders give us insight on how much has changed so that I can adapt - but because I can't give a sure time frame when stuff will be co...

More info on all "components" of The Furs 4 and the future of the project.

Hi!

The project has reached a stage where the current version of the templates mod, will drop to everyone. So if you see it floating around, yes it's me uploading it nobody is leaking anything. That's because it seems like all is working as expected and the future additions will arrive for you guys at the same time.

I'll probably release a teaser versions of both replacers, to show that it works and help people imagine how it will be when finished.

I'll also put the socks co...

The Furs 4 - important info about hats

Hey

So as you probably know already, hats glitch out tails in the Furry mod.
That's because of the UVs intersecting/colliding.
(You'd know if you ever played with the Furry Mod before).

I don't have a magic solve-everything solution for you unfortunately, but I can tell you it's solvable in at least 3 ways. One of them is to create patched versions of these hats. And that's usually the route I'm going, IMO it's the best one to take.

So I have two things to mention;...

CAS Preset Sim Replacer - update

Added the three new female anthrofied presets

Hope you enjoy!

Note: It's part of a separate file - [Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer-F.package

also please remove the old file [Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer.package with this and/or any future updates if you don't wanna update it now - for the alpha/beta phase the mod will now consist of two files;

[Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer-F.package

[Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer-M.pac...

CAS Preset Sim Replacer - update

Added the first female anthrofied preset

Hope you enjoy!

Note: It's part of a separate file - [Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer-F.package

also please remove the old file [Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer.package with this and/or any future updates if you don't wanna update it now - for the alpha/beta phase the mod will now consist of two files;

[Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer-F.package

[Benji]CASPresetStartingSimAnthroReplacer-M.package&...

Pre-emptive and cautious announcement of plans for the future

Hey!

As I add more and more ambitious things to the The Furs 4 project, the higher the likelihood of the more advanced things to enter the break, fix, break cycle on updates. 

That means because of the upcoming HUGE changes to the whole game's engine (introduction of another age state/level/stage - however you wanna call it) - around the time the update+DLC combo for Infants drops - I'll take a break from releasing mods and/or maybe even working on them. Because it will affec...

The Furs 4 - Lombaxes (Preview)

here's a sneak peak of how lombaxes will look in The Furs 4

what do you think?

(these are my OCs I won't share, but I'll make two characters later that will serve as templates)

CAS Preset Sim Replacer - update

I've added one more sim to the CAS preset sim replacer and fixed a few things on 3 of the previous templates

you can just redownload from the site and replace the existing file to update, if there's any issues you can always let me know and I'll fix it asap

hope you enjoy, I've been working daily to push that forward and push the pre-made household replacer forward ^^

ps. if you forgot where to download, go to the main site. the mods for patrons only redirect you through a g...

Early version of the CAS Preset Replacer Mod available

hey!

I've been hard at work to keep some of the things parallel, in a way that makes sense. I've uploaded another part of the whole mod project, in an early state similar to the Premade Household Replacer - if you'd like to try it out and tell me what you think it's available now. Remember if you find any issues, please let me know. It's not feasible to test with every single DLC combination so if I forgot to make something base game compatible it might cause smaller issues like missing...

Maxis premade replacer mod progress update + little poll on one thing about it

Hey guys!

Because of the goal of the pre-made replacer - anthrofying all of the sims that aren't randomly generated and show up on new saves - I'm trying my best to make the world of sims diverse and actually fun.

That means implementing new things to the furry mod itself, like an improved version of my previously unreleased lombaxes and maybe minor additions which would open up more possibilities. Ear fluff for lynxes/caracals anyone?

But I try to balance my own creative vi...

About the templates mod

If something doesn't work quite right, that's because on the new page I forgot to mention that it still requires the socks compatible paws. I've added it to the page as well. Sorry for the mistake and hope you enjoy

Patreon downloads site fixed

Hey!

I've had some technical issues with the page, well I've fixed it now :)

Sorry for the delay and hope you enjoy ^^

Reminder; you can download the stuff here 

life update

Hey there!

My hiatus got a bit extended. I planned to get back on the 27, right till my birthday (30) and then to be back on the 2nd-3rd at most - but my fiancé got sick and I’m just spending time - together and on my own too - checking up on him. Sorry and hope you understand.