mod manager ClassicTea's Mod Manager

[Crowley445]

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ClassicTea's Mod Manager

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I was tired of manually handling mods and trying to keep track of what belonged to what, so I built this Mod Organizer. Clean, user-friendly, and designed to take the hassle out of managing even the largest setups.
 

Core Features:

• Real conflict detection: Automatically scans inside package files to find actual tuning conflicts
• Visual conflict detection: High, Medium, and Low conflicts are color-coded so you always understand at a glance what is happening.
• Manual conflict flagging: Manually flag conflicts the scanner cannot detect
• Stay in control: Dismiss harmless conflicts and restore them any time
• Fully offline: No internet connection required, everything runs locally
• One-click import: Scans and groups your entire Mods folder, turning even massive setups into something easy to manage

Organisation:

• Tags & filters: Keep mods organised and easy to navigate
• Collections: Organise mods into groups and enable or disable entire collections with one click
• Powerful search: Find anything by mod name, package name, file count, or storage usage

Ease of Use:

• Intuitive UI: Clean layout that just makes sense
• No learning curve: Open it and start using it immediately
• Everything in reach: No digging through menus
• Built for clarity: Stays easy to use even with large libraries
   

Backups & Performance:

• Effortless Backup & restore: Save and restore your Mods folder anytime
• Clean library: Remove entries for missing files
• Shared file safety: Mods that share the same .package files continue working when one is disabled or uninstalled
• Built for large setups: Handles thousands of mods without slowing down
   

Advanced Handling:

• Understands your setup: Handles Packages vs Overrides correctly
• No broken mods: Removing a mod safely reassigns shared files to others that need them
• Instant organisation: Auto-groups loose files into proper mods
• Nothing gets lost: Conflicts stay visible even when mods are disabled
   

Note: This tool currently manages .package files only. Other mod formats will need to be handled manually.

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• Submitter
  Crowley445
• Submitted
  04/20/26
• Category
  The Sims 3
• Requirements
  None, just extract the Sims3ModManager.exe, and run it.
  
  There's also an ELF executable, for Linux people too, under Optional -> Linux. Extract and execute.

 

[FreakyRufus]

Does this:

• merge mods together for faster loading
• change priority of mods to allow selecting which conflicting version gets loaded
• disable or enable mods
• manage the resource.cfg file

[Crowley445]

3 hours ago, FreakyRufus said:

Does this:

• merge mods together for faster loading
• change priority of mods to allow selecting which conflicting version gets loaded
• disable or enable mods
• manage the resource.cfg file

Hey, thanks for your interest in my manager.
 

1. No, it does not merge mods together. You still have to use another tool for that.
2. It does not change priority of mods, however you can move mods to the Overrides folder via this, which I believe has a higher priority load. (But please correct me if I'm mistaken)
3. Yes, it does enable and disable mods.
4. It creates a resource.cfg file, if there isn't one present. After that it doesn't touch it at all. 
    

Features can be added to the menu, if it makes it more useful as a manager. I don't have much experience with The Sims 3 modding in general, though hearing from people like you can always help broaden my knowledge to add cool stuff.

I hope this helps

[FreakyRufus]

You may want to take a look at a few other mod managers, to get some ideas of the type of features they have.

 

I have used:

• S3MO, the Sims 3 Mod Organizer, https://modthesims.info/d/668610/sims-3-mod-organizer.html
• CC Magic, https://modthesims.info/d/461888/cc-magic-custom-content-management-and-game-launcher-updated-07-15-2012-works-with-supernatural.html

Both of these merge mods together. And they manage the Resource.cfg file.

 

Of the two of those, S3MO is a bit newer, and a bit nicer, in terms of usable capabilities. Although it doesn't support searching, and it is a bit rigid in that all the mod packages need to be exactly one directory below its base directory. It does allow you to easily prioritize which mod will take precedence over conflicting mods.

 

CC Magic doesn't handle prioritization at all, and doesn't even warn you about conflicts. It will show thumbnails of CC items like clothes, buy/build objects, etc., but only if the source is a sims3pack file, which it does handle. S3MO only handles package files.

 

Because these both handle merging mods, they keep the source files in their own directory, and put the merged output into the game's Mods directory when merging. Managing the Resource.cfg file is necessary for this, to make sure that the game can find the merged output. They have a mechanism to additionally add lines that should show up in the file, for other tools. For example, one can use both CC Magic and S3MO at the same time, by making sure that each tool includes the correct lines for the other tool. Also, if you use something like the Tiny UI Fix tool, you need to include the config for its output too, as it generates package files that resize things like text, etc., and it needs to specify how to find those, too.

[Crowley445]

3 minutes ago, FreakyRufus said:

You may want to take a look at a few other mod managers, to get some ideas of the type of features they have.

 

I have used:

• S3MO, the Sims 3 Mod Organizer, https://modthesims.info/d/668610/sims-3-mod-organizer.html
• CC Magic, https://modthesims.info/d/461888/cc-magic-custom-content-management-and-game-launcher-updated-07-15-2012-works-with-supernatural.html

Both of these merge mods together. And they manage the Resource.cfg file.

 

Of the two of those, S3MO is a bit newer, and a bit nicer, in terms of usable capabilities. Although it doesn't support searching, and it is a bit rigid in that all the mod packages need to be exactly one directory below its base directory. It does allow you to easily prioritize which mod will take precedence over conflicting mods.

 

CC Magic doesn't handle prioritization at all, and doesn't even warn you about conflicts. It will show thumbnails of CC items like clothes, buy/build objects, etc., but only if the source is a sims3pack file, which it does handle. S3MO only handles package files.

 

Because these both handle merging mods, they keep the source files in their own directory, and put the merged output into the game's Mods directory when merging. Managing the Resource.cfg file is necessary for this, to make sure that the game can find the merged output. They have a mechanism to additionally add lines that should show up in the file, for other tools. For example, one can use both CC Magic and S3MO at the same time, by making sure that each tool includes the correct lines for the other tool. Also, if you use something like the Tiny UI Fix tool, you need to include the config for its output too, as it generates package files that resize things like text, etc., and it needs to specify how to find those, too.

Woah! That's really helpful, thank you so much for all the detail!

I'll research into these managers and see what things I can add to mine. Specifically the merging seems like a really cool idea.

You've given me a really good place to start from, and I really appreciate you sharing the knowledge you have! I hope next time you check out this manager, it can have some features that would make you, and other simmers, want to make it their main choice!

Thank you so much!

[ptsdfromhome]

You should really add merging to the app. It would be best if you added a priority system like s3mo and also the ability to disable individual package files within a group. Also, it would be extremely useful if we could see the thumbnails of our CC. By the way, how can this app backup our mods folder? As far as I can tell, it doesn't store a copy the files somewhere, it just modifies the files already present in our mod folder, right?

 

Edit: The source code to s3mo is available here.

Edit 2: Something i forgot to mention is that I think you could add the option to create collections automatically from the names of sub-folders.

Edited April 22 by ptsdfromhome

[FeenSims]

Terrible!!! I'm being forced to choose an English documents directory. But I don't play in English—so what's going on????