sims4 Vanilla+ Save File

[Mannaten]

On 4/25/2025 at 4:27 PM, TriggerBlade said:

The Goth family has been associated with magic and the occult since Sims 1. I thought it fitting.

I guess that's true, it just felt kind of odd since while they have been associated with magic I don't think they've ever actually been magic users.

In any case I can just change them to regular sims in my personal save file.

[Mannaten]

Why is Sofia so big?

[TriggerBlade]

16 minutes ago, Mannaten said:

Why is Sofia so big?

🤔 I may have included a slider not supposed to be there.

Look for heightslider2.package and delete it. If it isn't there then I have no idea.

[Mannaten]

It's not there.
I do have a different height slider mod installed though, which I guess could be it.
It seems kind of odd though, that the mod would go to random pre-made Sims and randomly alter their height though.

In any case I can just use the height slider to make her smaller.
I just wanted to post this here, because I didn't think that the mod would just randomly alter Sim's heights and because I found it kind of funny.

Edited April 28, 2025 by Mannaten

[Swayzeexpress]

Link for Haunted Locations is dead, anyone find it?

[valorant.player993]

Are there any Sims/Households that don't have any assigned roles and are therefore "safe" to delete?

 

I mean, the households with Landlord and NPC in their name are probably not to be removed, and I'm also not looking to remove any household in My Households category.

But for example squashed together households like "Bouquet Squat" / "Chill Out with Friends", or maybe delete or thin out some households with " Townies" at the end of there name?

 

 

Just saw that 2/6 Sims in "Bouquet Squat" have a Career assigned, both as Vendors, maybe that's "crucial" for assigned roles? Would removing them break some aspects of the save?

[TriggerBlade]

5 hours ago, valorant.player993 said:

Are there any Sims/Households that don't have any assigned roles and are therefore "safe" to delete?

 

I mean, the households with Landlord and NPC in their name are probably not to be removed, and I'm also not looking to remove any household in My Households category.

But for example squashed together households like "Bouquet Squat" / "Chill Out with Friends", or maybe delete or thin out some households with " Townies" at the end of there name?

 

 

Just saw that 2/6 Sims in "Bouquet Squat" have a Career assigned, both as Vendors, maybe that's "crucial" for assigned roles? Would removing them break some aspects of the save?

A bunch of the townies and stuff do have NPC jobs but unless I specifically label them as NPC, they're not filling anything super important.

Like in Copperdale, one family is the janitor and the principal.

[Lando_88]

@TriggerBlade Can you share any new updates on the Simematic Universe file, chief?

[TriggerBlade]

3 hours ago, Lando_88 said:

@TriggerBlade Can you share any new updates on the Simematic Universe file, chief?

Indefinite hiatus. People got burnt out. So I'm working solo on an update to Vanila+

[kavvanshrike]

On 6/16/2025 at 3:32 PM, TriggerBlade said:

Indefinite hiatus. People got burnt out. So I'm working solo on an update to Vanila+

Was wondering what that teasing "good things come to those who wait" was all about on the other save. Damn shame all the work that must've been done on your end didn't see it to the end.

[TriggerBlade]

On 7/5/2025 at 7:38 PM, kavvanshrike said:

Was wondering what that teasing "good things come to those who wait" was all about on the other save. Damn shame all the work that must've been done on your end didn't see it to the end.

Sorry for the delay. I did a detailed response but my PC crashed. 😩

 

The short version is that the new update structure was going to be one neighborhood at a time completely overhauled from the previous two iterations. There were gonna be new faces and familiar faces. The project grew too ambitious for the Sims 4 due to its limitations.

 

The long version.

 

We had like 8 sim creators on it so there was a lot... which was part of the problem. The Sims 4 is a buggy mess and while there are mods that can help to an extent, our ambitions were a bit much.

 

We made liberal use of the For Rent units and used the cheat to add more than what is normally permitted.

 

So that led to some slow down and odd gameplay behavior.

 

Ultimately some people just... stopped having fun with the project. There's no sore feelings and we're all still buds as far as I'm aware. Part of it is that half of our team are genuine "artists" and when you turn someone's passion into a job with specific expectations instead of letting their creativity flow naturally it can be stifling.

 

We made a wiki that has a butt ton of lore information we can't fit in the game since EA dropped personal character bios.* 

 

We were using a modded version of the Life or Death bucket list to essentially create a "story mode" for each Sim. Using cheats to let us choose items manually that matched up with their goals in their backstories.

 

I even got in on it with making my own sims. I'm not the absolute best at making sims aesthetically because of my preference for minimal CC but the team appreciates my writing and feedback on their writing.

 

I'm devoting my time to Vanilla+ now. There's a lot of new lore and a lot of new items and features that make a lot of mods on the front of this thread redundant.

I'm gonna do my best to keep the mods I use to exclusively be enhancements but I can get ambitious so I'll be asking y'all to let me know if something ends up going beyond Vanilla+.

 

*I don't know if we're gonna make it public. I'll ask.

[Déshonorée]

On 7/7/2025 at 9:10 PM, TriggerBlade said:

Sorry for the delay. I did a detailed response but my PC crashed. 😩

 

The short version is that the new update structure was going to be one neighborhood at a time completely overhauled from the previous two iterations. There were gonna be new faces and familiar faces. The project grew too ambitious for the Sims 4 due to its limitations.

 

The long version.

 

We had like 8 sim creators on it so there was a lot... which was part of the problem. The Sims 4 is a buggy mess and while there are mods that can help to an extent, our ambitions were a bit much.

 

We made liberal use of the For Rent units and used the cheat to add more than what is normally permitted.

 

So that led to some slow down and odd gameplay behavior.

 

Ultimately some people just... stopped having fun with the project. There's no sore feelings and we're all still buds as far as I'm aware. Part of it is that half of our team are genuine "artists" and when you turn someone's passion into a job with specific expectations instead of letting their creativity flow naturally it can be stifling.

 

We made a wiki that has a butt ton of lore information we can't fit in the game since EA dropped personal character bios.* 

 

We were using a modded version of the Life or Death bucket list to essentially create a "story mode" for each Sim. Using cheats to let us choose items manually that matched up with their goals in their backstories.

 

I even got in on it with making my own sims. I'm not the absolute best at making sims aesthetically because of my preference for minimal CC but the team appreciates my writing and feedback on their writing.

 

I'm devoting my time to Vanilla+ now. There's a lot of new lore and a lot of new items and features that make a lot of mods on the front of this thread redundant.

I'm gonna do my best to keep the mods I use to exclusively be enhancements but I can get ambitious so I'll be asking y'all to let me know if something ends up going beyond Vanilla+.

 

*I don't know if we're gonna make it public. I'll ask.

Hey there @TriggerBlade , is there any news on the save?

[TriggerBlade]

On 8/22/2025 at 9:30 PM, Déshonorée said:

Hey there @TriggerBlade , is there any news on the save?

EA's updates keep breaking things so I've lost some motivation. 

It's not canceled or anything it's just very tiring.

[Déshonorée]

On 8/24/2025 at 7:42 PM, TriggerBlade said:

EA's updates keep breaking things so I've lost some motivation. 

It's not canceled or anything it's just very tiring.

Isn't it possible to play an older version? Or you just want to create something playable for any version?

[TriggerBlade]

On 8/26/2025 at 10:54 AM, Déshonorée said:

Isn't it possible to play an older version? Or you just want to create something playable for any version?

I mean if you just want something to plug and play The Maxis Fixed Lore Save File is my biggest suggestion.

 

Though it won't come with stripclubs or anything.

[Lando_88]

@Déshonorée The Next Gen Save File might be worth checking out. 

[asszudemi]

is the club improvements mod no invite limit broken again? I doesn't seem to work anymore

[TriggerBlade]

19 minutes ago, asszudemi said:

is the club improvements mod no invite limit broken again? I doesn't seem to work anymore

It tends to do that.

 

Other than that...

 

 

I got two things.

 

1. A lot of stuff has been happening IRL and unlike the previous saves where there were 3-7 of us working together, this one is just me. So if I got busy with family or an injury of some sort everything went to a full stop.

 

That on top of the second point.

 

2. With EA pumping out update after, update after update, after expansion, after expansion, after pack, after pack... it's been hell just trying to play the game without any mods because something is always breaking and community fixes can only do so much.

 

I've tried working on saves with half functioning tools and I can assure y'all it's not fun.

 

Conclusion: Am I stopping? No. Am I getting increasingly frustrated at saves breaking? Yes. 

 

This save is basically Vanilla+ without the stripclub.

[asszudemi]

4 hours ago, TriggerBlade said:

It tends to do that.

Never mind it still works i just did not realize that i have to unlock all member slots first in order for it to take effect

 

4 hours ago, TriggerBlade said:

2. With EA pumping out update after, update after update, after expansion, after expansion, after pack, after pack... it's been hell just trying to play the game without any mods because something is always breaking and community fixes can only do so much.

 

I've tried working on saves with half functioning tools and I can assure y'all it's not fun.

 

Conclusion: Am I stopping? No. Am I getting increasingly frustrated at saves breaking? Yes. 

I wish they't abandon this game already and work on a sequel or something these frequent updates and and expansions annoy the fuck out of everyone honestly

[Lando_88]

Any updates @TriggerBlade?

[TriggerBlade]

6 hours ago, Lando_88 said:

Any updates @TriggerBlade?

Took the holidays off and now they're releasing a monarchy expansion.

God only knows how fucked the game will be with that.

 

On 11/2/2025 at 1:27 AM, asszudemi said:

I wish they't abandon this game already and work on a sequel or something these frequent updates and and expansions annoy the fuck out of everyone honestly

You and me both buddy.

 

There's been talk about a new game coming out and a slow down on Sims 4 so hopefully things will chill.

[Lando_88]

35 minutes ago, TriggerBlade said:

There's been talk about a new game coming out and a slow down on Sims 4 so hopefully things will chill.

 

Good hearing from you and yeah taking the holidays off is a must nowadays. Hopefully EA does stop updating Sims 4 and let all the modders really go to town with Sims 4 like Skyrim.

[Chernodrev]

On 1/21/2026 at 9:31 AM, TriggerBlade said:

Took the holidays off and now they're releasing a monarchy expansion.

God only knows how fucked the game will be with that.

 

You and me both buddy.

 

There's been talk about a new game coming out and a slow down on Sims 4 so hopefully things will chill.

 

On 1/21/2026 at 9:31 AM, TriggerBlade said:

Took the holidays off and now they're releasing a monarchy expansion.

God only knows how fucked the game will be with that.

 

You and me both buddy.

 

There's been talk about a new game coming out and a slow down on Sims 4 so hopefully things will chill.

The reports about The Sims 4 development slowing down are more like rumors. I doubt EA will abandon it; no matter how much resources development takes, they'll keep milking it as long as it's profitable

[Faolon]

45 minutes ago, Chernodrev said:

 

The reports about The Sims 4 development slowing down are more like rumors. I doubt EA will abandon it; no matter how much resources development takes, they'll keep milking it as long as it's profitable

 

They wont abandon it, but they wont devote tons of money into it. They'll put it into maintenance mode, have a small team of people keeping it going, and mostly have them focus on ways of monetizing things without having to create anything new themselves.