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Freelance Entertainer Career, Patreon Preview (updated)

The Freelance Entertainer mod adds an active-gig type Freelance career to the Sims 4. All active gigs are actually gigs — you perform shows at Lounges, wedding receptions, music festivals and more.

The jobs available are based somewhat on performance skills and largely on your sim’s fame. Unknown performers have to pull morning shifts, while famous players headline on the weekends. In addit...

Taking Your Horse Into Space

This was kind of fun, and made it easier to get around Sixam.

How to be a Space Cowboy

1. Install the Hitchhiker's Guide to Sixam mod, available on this website.
2. Select 'Hitch a Ride With...', and select ...

QuickFixes for "Horse Ranch" Patch 1.9.9

I haven't dug into and tested all of the functionality of all of my mods after the patch, but these updates fix the 'aventure_moment' => 'adventure_moment' tuning change from that patch. I will repost these on their respective pages, but wanted to get them here as soon as possible. 

If you're using the Tuning Error Notifier mod, you've see warnings about these since the patch. Otherwise, only Mine Crafting's functionality was affected by it (the Explore interactions, Gnome city,...

Game Patch Today!

I have a few new downloads nearly ready, but I'm waiting to check them out after the patch today before releasing them.

The Lounge Entertainer freelance career is nearly ready for preview, finally. I added another Music Festival for high level entertainers, The Newcrest Jazz Festival. This is in addition to Burning Sim in Oasis Springs.

I have another one that I worked on for most of my v...

Mine Crafting Public Release

Mine Crafting enables your sim to build mines and extract either metals or crystals from them. It adds the Mineralogy skill that allows your sim to smelt valuable purified metal ingots from several pieces of metal at the Mineral Smelting Station, as well as cut gems from crystals on the Archaeology table.

The Mineralogy Skill provides levels 1 - 5, so it'...

No Patch Problems Found

I couldn't get yesterday's patch downloaded until this morning, but I took a spin through as many of my mods as I could, and everything seemed to work. From what I've seen it was a fairly non-disruptive patch. 

Otherwise, I have a small pile of updates to get posted here. It's been a difficult month around here, but I have managed to get some things polished up, some bugs fixed and some ad...

Some Updates

I posted some updates to two public releases, and one that is still a Patreon work in progress.

Public

Perfumery 1.0.3

• Increased length of focused buff from focused perfume to match the other perfume buffs (4 hrs).
• Enabled Servos to make perfume.
• Enabled making perfume off-the-grid.

2023-05-12 02:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Apothecary Kit Public Release

The Apothecary Kit adds the Pharmacology Skill, which enables your Sim to make packages of herbal gummies and bottles of serum tablets based on Herbalism Potions from Outdoor Living, and Chemistry Lab Serums from Get To Work (so you need both packs for this mod to work).

You can make herbal gummies and serum tablets on the Pha...

Better Bars 1.0b3 Preview, Nectar and Kegs Update!

Finally fixed my grapes! Also fully integrated with the Simsco Canning Factory Mod.

Check out the initial post about this mod to get an overview , and 2023-05-09 02:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post

No Problems Found From Today's Patch!

No tuning errors in any of my mods have come up from today's Sims 4 patch, and from what I've been able to test so far, everything seems to work as it did before the patch. 

That being said...

Current Bug List

I've been a bit busy with my day job lately, and only recently got a chance to roam the interwebs for any bugs that have been reported for my mods. There...

Wild Bug Ranch 1.0.0b, Patreon Preview

The Wild Bug Ranch enables you to breed wild bugs that you find, such as Butterflies and Ladybugs, so that you can have more of them available for recipes for Magical and Herbalism Potions and Serums.

To 'grow bugs', place the wild bugs you've found inside the inventory of the Wild Bug Ranch, either by dragging and dropping them on top of it or into the open Inventory window, or using the 2023-04-01 23:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Now I keep running out of bugs!

Working on a Wild Insect Farm to fix that. 

The idea is that you find wild bugs and put them inside the farm (like an aquarium), then every so often (TBD...) it clones some of the bugs inside to 'breed' them. 

I like the fact that you still have to find the bugs. I'm not sure how many bugs it should create, but probably at least daily. They aren't worth much on their own, but th...

Apothecary Kit 1.0.3b Patreon Preview Release

Update for the nearly-ready-to-release Apothecary Kit that includes a number of bug fixes, and fancy new labels on the serum tablet bottles!

Also, I gave the tablet bottles the same footprint as the bags of herbal gummies, so you can put far more of them on retail shelves and other surfaces.

For a more complete description of the Apothecary Kit, please refer to the first  Work-In-Pro...

Checking out San Sequoia

So, I'm taking a look around the new pack, looking at the climate, the surroundings, architecture, etc. I'm trying to figure out where on the sims 'map' this would go? What regions is it near? It's theoretically 'San Francisco', which in my head canon (and the Archaeology Kit) would place it north of Del Sol Valley. 

What sort of Archaeology Kit artifacts should be found in San Sequoia? De...

Patch Status

Good news! I have not found any problems yet in any of my mods after the Growing Together patch. Just finished a mission as an archaeologist in a new save, and have a spellcasting crafter making perfume and canned vegetables, cabinets with inventory works, found some Pirate Treasure, etc.

If anyone finds a problem, please let me know, and include as much detail as you can remember regarding wha...

About the Upcoming Patch!

A side note: Did you know that the Stable Diffusion AI sort of knows how to generate Sims 4-like Screenshots? The picture is what it thinks a "house in flames, fully engulfed, panicking, as sims 4 screenshot" looks like. I didn't boost the quality, etc, but it's not too bad.

In any case, the Patch to Add Infan...

Status Updates!

I've been working all month on an update for Better Bars and Liquor Stores that I want to add before it's ready to release. I almost had it ready this weekend, but then I broke Cranerlet Nuala grapes, and noticed that basement aging wasn't working correctly. Yet.

New features that I've added (and am trying to get working correctly) are all about Crafting! (of course...lol).

Instead of add...

Better Bars & Liquor Stores, 1.0.0b Patreon Preview

I've been irritated at how hard it is to incorporate Juice Fizzes and Seltzers into game play. Like, why can't you order one at a bar? 

If you want to run a retail store that sells Juice Fizzes, it's pretty hard to manage unless you craft everything yourself. If you place them out of Build/Buy, the packages are empty, etc, since they need the crafting process to make them usable. 

Who Wants Ice Cream? 1.0.0b Patreon Preview

If you have the Sims 4: Cool Kitchen Stuff pack, you've probably used the Ice Cream Maker (it's kind of the main point of the pack, I suppose). There are 30 flavors of ice cream in that pack, in both bowls and cones. And aside from making it at home, and being able to add some of them to restaurant menus, there's no other way to get ...

Two WIP Updates Available

I have two Work In Progress releases for you this evening! Since they're both ready for review at the same time, and have sort of grown up together, I'll just combine them in this post.

Mine Crafting 1.0.2b Preview Release

First, Mine Crafting gets an update to 1.0.2b. Changes include adding a separate Explore adventure for mines ...