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Cream Cheese • Cheese Ingredient

A soft, mild tasting cheese. Sims can measure a serving to use as an ingredient in food recipes or they can eat it as-is. Sims who have mastered the Cheesemaking skill will get an additional buff from eating this.

This ingredient can be purchased via my Brazen Delivery service. If you'd like to craft this you'll also need to install the Cheesemaking Skill.

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Lemon Juice • Juice Ingredient

This is a juice drink and ingredient that can be used in my food and crafting recipes. Sims can purchase this item or they can craft it on my Press appliance. Each bottle of juice can be separated into 8 small bottles that can be drank or used as an ingredient.

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Low Quality Woodworks • Woodworking Recipes

This makes those low quality versions of woodworking recipes available to craft at a lower Handiness level. This is a great option for those playing rags-to-riches or survival who want to be able to craft stuff they can use and furnish their house fairly early in the skill. They won't look great, but they'll do the job!

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Early Access Mods

These are updates to mods that are publicly available. Because there were some significant updates I'm releasing them for Early Access. You will need to replace the files you have with the updated versions below.

Construction Supplies Woodwork Recipes

I've added wood and craft glue recipes to these. The recipes are accessible via the woodworking bench ...

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Cheesemaking Skill • Crafting Mod

This mod will be in Beta Access for about a week to make sure there's no issues and then it will be moved to Early Access.

Please delete any Beta versions you have installed before installing this file.

This adds a new Cheesemaking skill to the game along with a bunch of new ingredients and ingredient recipes. Sims will learn how to curdle milk, make fresh cheeses, and make and cure cheese wheels. Maxxing out this skill will give sims a buff when...

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NEW CONTENT UPDATES:

This update prepares for upcoming content and includes some fixes and improvements.

Also, the Brazen Delivery service has been fixed to show up properly if you don't have Seasons installed.

You can view the entire CHANGELOG for more details.

Updated Content:

  • Core Mod
  • Core Crafting Mod
  • Core Food & Drink Mod
  • Cayenne, Chi...

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WIP Pics

Just a quick update: 

  • Cheesemaking is nearly ready
  • There are new food recipes to use the new cheese ingredients with
  • I've made a new mod that will create sawdust when crafting a woodworking object if you have one of several lot traits active. That sawdust can be composted or used as an ingredient to make wood glue.
  • I've added wood and crafting glue recipes so sims can make them from scratch now.
  • I've also added several recipes to make the l...

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Woven Whims Bed Set • Objects

A matching set of separated beds from the Growing Together pack. I've separated the frames from the mattresses so they can be used to mix and match with other separated beds.

The frames for these beds will actually slot to the mattresses, allowing you to grab the mattress and take the frame along with it when redecorating. The exception is the crib, you will need to place and move the frame and mattress separately.

There is also an optional 'HIDER' file that will hide the origin...

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Cheesemaking Beta Ver.2

For right now cheesemaking can be learned/started from the Homestead Craftbooks but I will be adding skill books for this. 

Sims can start working on this skill by making cheese curds. When the cheese curds are done they'll need to drain for several hours before you can use them. Once they're ready you can collect them as an ingredient or as an edible food. 

When you collect the cheese curds you will also get a bottle of whey. That whey can be drank to provide a small fi...

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WIP - Cheesemaking Beta v.2

Cheesemaking is coming along! 

So the previous version of this mod/skill included the option to collect ingredients from artichokes and figs for rennet, and to collect cultures from spoiled food and certain types of harvestables for use in cheesemaking recipes. 

There are several stages of crafting, some can be bypassed if you like because unless you're using Simple Living then all ingredients are optional. 

The overall process is sims will make cheese curds, ...

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Checking In

I just wanted to let you all know that I've been sick (yes, again 🙄) and that's why it's been quiet here. I'm feeling better so I'll have some new uploads soon and a little info about the next big recipe project later this week. 

I'll be following up on messages in the next day or so please be patient, I'll get back to you all asap. 

Thank you!

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Ingredients Poll

This is a follow up poll about 'Any...' ingredients and where they will be used up in recipes.

I know I've released a similar poll before but I'm going to throw it out there one more time since there were some issues raised in the last poll and I want to make sure that I'm using the right ingredients where you all want them. 

Option #1 - Use 'Any' ingredients mostly for Simple Living recipes

  • Example: optional 'Wheat Flour' for Normal recipe and wh...

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Game Update Today

I'll be checking out compatibility later tonight when I get home but I don't anticipate there being issues with anything except for maybe a few of my objects that will need updates to their slots. 

As always if you run into any issues let me know!

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Harvestables & Recipes Poll

I'd like to know how you guys feel about having different harvestable variations. I'm going to use Chives as an example although this would apply to any harvestables moving forward... 

Option #1. You prefer to have a generic 'Chives' harvestable that can be used for all recipes that normally require a variation of that ingredient. This would mean that real life recipes that would normally call for 'Garlic Chives' would use 'Chives' in-game instead. 

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Required File Hierarchy for my Content

I get a lot of questions about which files are required for my content so I thought I'd throw together an infographic showing what files are generally required for what types of content I create.

The content groupings correspond to the different pages on my site and the arrows point to the file required in order to use that content.

This is meant to give you an idea of how things are organized. Some downloads may have different/additional requirements so please check the 'Required...

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Cheesemaking Beta Ver.1

This is the first part of what I've made for the cheesemaking mod. There's not a lot here but it lays the foundation to collect items needed for cheesemaking from items in-game. 

The Core Mod and Xml Injector are required for this to work properly.

You can collect the following items: 

  • White Mold Cu...

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Ocean Water • Mixology Recipe

Adds a new Mixology drink recipe that can be crafted via my Brazen Homestead Cookbook.

This cool drink is loaded with island flavor! A lemon-lime juice base is flavored with coconut and blueberries, which give it it's unique ocean color.

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Whalebert Cupcakes • Baking Recipe

Adds a new Baking food recipe that can be crafted via my Brazen Homestead Cookbook.

These adorable cupcakes can be baked easily at home in the oven. Sims will lightly frost these after removing them from the oven, but will require decorating to get a proper buttercream topping and whale topper. Decorating has a chance to give you one of 3 different color combinations of frosting and fondant.

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Whale Cookies • Baking Recipe

Adds a new Baking food recipe that can be crafted via my Brazen Homestead Cookbook.

These cute sugar cookies are iced and perfect for your your next whale themed party! These will come with a thin layer of icing. Sims will need to decorate them to get either of the versions you see here.

*I'm not super in love with the whale texture on these so they may get a texture adjustment later

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Whale Cakes • Homestyle Recipe

Adds a new homestyle cooking food recipe that can be crafted via my Brazen Homestead Cookbook.

These happy little whale cakes were inspired by Whalebert from the new Growing Together pack! This set comes with a single and a 2-tier cake with lots of colorful cake layers.

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Whale Table Settings • Gameplay Mod

This is a set of 6 table settings I made to match all of my whale themed foods. There are 3 colors in both a wave and border style plate. Unlike EA table settings, these do not come with placemats and instead come with a charger plate.

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Whalebert Toy • Objects

I just thought that we should have a little Whalebert for kids to play with so I made this. It's also a cute decoration for kids parties!

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Whale Party Decorations • Objects

A set of base game wall decorations that have been recolored to match my all of my whale themed food! Comes with 2 wall balloons and a set of streamers.

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Content Updates

This update was to prepare for upcoming content and includes some fixes and improvements.

Drink menus in the Cookbook have been re-organized along with the Drink Tray menus. If you're having trouble with the drink trays after this update then delete them and re-place them.

The Cowplant Cake recipe has been updated and should no longer produce an LE. I've also added a new feature that will remove any debuffs from being eaten by normal cowplants as well as hybrid cowplants.

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Almost Done...

I just wanted to let you all know that these are almost ready. Sorry it's taking a little longer to get them uploaded but I wanted to get a few fixes/updates posted alongside of this. I also added another download to the list - it's a little Whalebert toy for the kiddos😁

The first of several beta versions of the Cheesemaking mod will be available for Golden Lotus patrons tomorrow.

I'm working on the download pages now and should have all these up later tonight! 

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Whale WIP Pics

I accidentally deleted the 'Next Project' poll post so for those of you who didn't see it Whales won! Rainbows came in second and Stegosaurus was last. 

I know this as a ton of screenshots but I wanted to show all the variations that there are in the Whale set that's coming later this week 🙂

I couldn't settle on if I wanted a single or double cake so I just made both lol. The cupcakes and cookies are baking recipes and will require your sim to decorate them if you want the...

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Next Project

I've decided to take a detour before I wrap up cheesemaking. After the last set of releases I feel like I need to take a quick break from tuning mods before I burn out and the infants update has me excited to make some new recipes and objects. Golden Lotus will still get beta access to a small part of cheesemaking in the next set of releases.

Since Growing Together came out I thought it would be the perfect time to put together a few birthday party foods and object sets. There's a bunch...

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Personal Notice

I didn't feel well yesterday and I'm feeling even worse today so if I'm not active on here over the next few days that's why. I'm going to postpone uploads until I'm feeling better, likely later next week. 

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Harvest for Supplies • Crafting Mod

This mod will allow your sim to collect supplies from in-game harvestables. Sims can collect wood from harvestable trees and that wood can be used as an ingredient in my other crafting and woodworking recipes. More types of supplies will be added soon!

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Content Updates

I had to make a few small additions/changes for new content.

You can view the CHANGELOG for details.

Updated Content:

  • Core Food & Drink
  • Olive Oil

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

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