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Update - File Name Change

🚨UPDATE - 2/20/23 🚨

I added the one recipe for the press to this list as well. Please re-download.

I know it's a tiny thing but the name was incorrect, both on the object itself and the file name. It's been updated to be consistent so please delete the following files:

• brazenlotus_MOD_appliance_BG_JuiceOilPress
• brazenlotus_BG_recipe_JuiceOilPress_Oil_Olive

And replace it with...

Cucumber • Harvestable

Adds a new vegetable harvestable and gardening plant.

A crisp veggie with a hard rind that is mostly water. Will go dormant if exposed to freezing temperatures. This plant is low maintenance and will evolve quickly. It also needs to be watered more often and will dry out quickly.

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Artichoke • Harvestable

Adds a new vegetable harvestable and gardening plant.

A tightly packed rosette of thick, tough leaves. This plant adds nutrients to soil helping nearby plants evolve faster. It needs more water than other plants and will dry out quickly. This plant attracts Jewel Beetles.

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Walnuts • Harvestable

Adds a new nut harvestable and gardening plant.

A wrinkled seed that has been freed from it's hard outer shell. This plant attracts birds which eat the bugs from nearby plants and beeboxes. There's also a small chance they may eat your harvest!

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Dill • Harvestable

Adds a new herb harvestable and gardening plant.

A bright flavored herb with feathery green leaves. This plant is low maintenance and will evolve quickly. The fragrant leaves of this plant may provide inspiration to Sims with the gourmet cooking skill and a focused boost to Sims with the gardening skill.  It's fragrance repels bugs from nearby plants and beeboxes.

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Chives • Harvestable

Adds a new herb harvestable and gardening plant.

Long green stems that have a mild onion/garlic flavor. This plant will go dormant if exposed to freezing temperatures. The fragrant leaves of this plant may provide inspiration to Sims with the gourmet cooking skill and a focused boost to Sims with the gardening skill. It's fragrance repels bugs from nearby plants and beeboxes.

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Salt Crystal • Raw Materials

Adds a new crystal ingredient that can be used as ambience or as an ingredient in other recipes.

These soft crystals are often for cooking and preserving. They will also purify the air in the area surrounding them and sims will increase their wellness skill faster with one of these near them.

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Fig • Harvestable

Adds a new fruit harvestable and gardening plant.

A fleshy fruit with thin purple skin. This plant won't dry out as quickly in extreme heat. It will also attract bees that you can collect!

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Apricot • Harvestable

Adds a new fruit harvestable and gardening plant.

A small, crisp fruit that resembles a peach. This heat-loving tree will yield an extra crop during heat waves. Apricot Trees are also more prone to bug infestations.

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NEW CONTENT UPDATES:

This update was to prepare for upcoming content and includes some bug fixes. You can view the CHANGELOG for details.

Updated Content:

• Core Mod
• Core Harvestables

Be sure to clear your caches, re-download, and re-install any content listed above.

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Patron Creation - Woodworking Recipes Discussion

I'd like to get some suggestions for specific items you all would like to be able to craft on the woodworking bench. Items already in-game that I could re-texture and 'wood-ify' would be the best so that it doesn't interfere (timewise) with whatever I'm currently working on. The goal is to drop some extra woodworking recipes in-between sets that I'm working on 😉

Please leave your suggestions in the comments section below!

This is a 2023-02-12 22:25:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Valentine Food & Drink + Woodworking Recipe

I'll make some formal posts for these next week when I release the first part of the next set. For now you can just think of this as a Beta version 😉

What's included: 

• Red Velvet Heart Cake - Homestyle Lvl. 7
• Red Cocoa Powder
• Cupid's Arrow Drink - Mixology Lvl. 3
• Any Updated Core Files
• Woodworking Recipe for Preserving Shelves

Both the food and drink recipes will give you a flirty buff after eating them. The cocoa powde...

Tartosa Terrains • Build Objects

A group of terrains that were used in the Tartosa world liberated for all to use!

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Tartosa Floors • Build Objects

I found these while I was looking for terrain textures and decided to just go ahead and turn them into some new floors.

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Tartosa Market Stalls • Objects

I found these and debug but they didn't seem to be available in live edit mode so I liberated them and added them to the catalog.

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CC Dump - Baia dell'amore Beach • Objects

Just a few objects I made when I remodeled the Baia dell'amore Beach in Tartosa. 

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Change Outfit in Mirror • Mod

This is just a small mod that lets you click on any mirror in-game to change your sim's outfit.

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Update - Rock Add-Ons

These have been updated to add more swatches that match most of the worlds in-game. The non-override versions needed to be remade making the old versions of these files are obsolete so please remove all the old versions and install the new ones instead. 

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WIP Process

I've been DYING to make this heart cake for the game for like 2 years and I finally was able to get it done in time for Valentines - it came out so gorgeous!💗 I also made a tangy, strawberry-filled drink to go with it. It's even got some colored sugar around the rim of the glass 😉

I couldn't have a red velvet cake without the right ingredients so I also added a new mill recipe for 'Red Cocoa Powder'. I thought of using red dye but when I researched how this cake was made original...

Website & Downloads Folder Update

I just wanted to let you all know I've moved a couple of things around to prepare for upcoming content.

Website

• Added/Changed ↪ updated and added new filters to main category pages
• Changed ↪ 'Harvestables' section of the site has been edited to include gatherable ingredients like fish
• Changed ↪ moved custom fish from the 'Crafting' page to 'Harvestables' page
• Changed ↪ removed all archived mods from the site that are over...
  2023-02-03 05:36:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Project Goals

I've started working on the next set and if all goes well it looks like it's going to have around 30 pieces of content! There's not much of a theme to this set because most of what I'm making is in preparation for the sets that will follow. That being said, all harvestables/ingredients will have a recipe in this set that you can use them in 😉

Golden Lotus patrons will have access to a Beta version of a small part of the Cheesemaking skill mod. I'll have more on what's included with t...

Patch Update

It looks like my mods are all compatible with the last patch.

NEW CONTENT UPDATES:

I fixed a pre-patch issue with the insect jars that prevented you from using beetles for the Roast Beetles interaction on the campfire for those of you with GP01 installed. 

Updated Content:

• Core Mod

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Game Update & News

It doesn't look like the update today should affect my content but I'll have a look at it after I'm done re-installing the game. I HATE this new EA launcher. It's saying I don't own some of the packs I own so I'm going to try a full uninstall/re-install and see if that fixes it 😒

Today during the livestream they've confirmed that infants will arrive March 14th and omg they're so freakin adorable! I would expect that update to break a lot of stuff so you may want to mark it on your ca...

Discussion

Topic: Harvestables 🌾

I have a few updates to make for harvestables and I have a larger set of harvestables coming with the next project so I wanted to start a discussion before the next set of updates. 

I'd like to know what you think of my harvestables in general. How do you like the garden effects and special seasonality of them? Do you enjoy using them in your garden? What do you think of the (long but informational) descriptions? Do you like the int...

Baia dell'amore Beach

This is a remodel of the lot in Tartosa to make it feel more like a rocky, Italian beach made for lounging.

Note: The Rock Add-on's I used in this lot are an overhauled version of my originals. Make sure you remove the previous version from your game before installing this. I'll have a proper update and download for those next week.

Also, the XmlInjector is required for the included 'Change Outfit in Mirrors' mod to work. 

2023-01-26 21:44:02 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP Updates

Beach Lot

I have a few changes to make before releasing it but the Beach Lot should be available for Golden Lotus patrons tomorrow. 

I had an issue trying to make this a functional beach because the requirements for this venue type really want there to be ocean on the lot. After some messing around with it I just decided to hide the stuff that wasn't going to work in an inaccessible basement 😉

The big rocks I used here are world objects and don't h...

Italian Caffè • Hot Drink Recipes

Adds a set of Hot Drink recipes to my Coffee Set appliance and the Coffeemaker.

This is a set of 9 cc drink recipes based on hot Italian coffees, 3 of which are lactose-free! Each cup will have a bit of steam coming off them and sims will hold them from the handle while they drink from them. These coffees can be made on a Coffee Serving Set or from the base game coffeemaker. You can pay simoleons to make these or you can use my custom ingredients to reduce the simoleon cost significantl...

Vintage Coffee Serving Set • Crafting Appliance

Adds a crafting object that sims can serve my custom coffee recipes from.

This object functions like a tea set but for coffee! When the coffee is poured the cups on the tray will give off a bit of steam and sims will hold them by the handle when drinking them. Coffee recipes will be served in cups matching the pattern from their respective coffee set.

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