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Because a lot of people stay asking for good reaslitic clothes, no barbiedoll-shining hair etc..I decided to make a topic where EVERYONE can post links to a lot cc-sites, from furniture to hairstyles.
Just post links, I will add them to the list. (Also put a little description, like 'Maxis-match cc hair' or 'female clothes')
Of course, I already have a few links:
'Big' sites:
http://mysims3blog.blogspot.be/
http://www.thesimsresource.com/
http://modthesims.info/
http://www.sims3updates.net/
http://sunnyccfinds.tumblr.com/
http://simplykitabccfinds.tumblr.com/
http://sweetsimsccfinds.tumblr.com/
http://sssvitlans.tumblr.com/
Male clothes:
http://shokoninio.tumblr.com/
http://peacemaker-ic.tumblr.com/
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/category/clothing/male-young-adult/page/4
http://www.poppysims.com/
Female clothes:
(and some male)
http://sentate.co.uk/home.html
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/clothes
(Also hairstyles, poses, make-up and accessoires. See other categories)
Different cc-creators put their stuff on this site.
Here are some sites from those creators:
http://julianascorner.blogspot.be/
http://anubis360.blogspot.be/
http://elexissims.tumblr.com/
http://jockersims.blogspot.com.br/search/label/thesims3
Some of them also have their place on MTS. That's everything I found. Otherwise, take a look at 'downloads by creator' on ace creators.
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/(Female clothes and shoes)
http://pickypikachu.blogspot.be/search/label/clothing(also hair and poses, see other categories)
http://www.poppysims.com/index.html
http://lookbook-sims.tumblr.com/(Reblogs lookbooks, useful for finding clothes.)
http://pixicat.tumblr.com/(Particularly shoes)
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/category/clothing/female-young-adult/page/3
http://www.poppysims.com/
http://buckleysims.tumblr.com/downloads ---> mainly pregnancy clothes
http://mvenger.wix.com/walkininfected
https://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/sims2fanbg/downloads/browse/category/sims3/skipsetitems/1/
Kids' clothes:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/
http://chisamidream.wix.com/homegrown#!children/t7evn
Make-up and skins:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/makeup
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://kurasoberina.tumblr.com/tagged/downloads
http://blog.sina.com.cn/ephemera69
http://andromedasims.tumblr.com/termsofuse
http://pralinesims.blogspot.co.uk/p/skins.html
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/downloads-top
http://i-like-teh-sims.tumblr.com/tagged/download ---> gor.ge.ous. scars
http://sk-sims.tumblr.com/tagged/downloads
http://xilmakesthings.tumblr.com/tagged/skin
http://mvenger.wix.com/walkininfected
Hairstyles and retextures:
http://pickypikachu.blogspot.be/search/label/hair(also clothes and poses, see other categories)
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/hair
http://paint-stroke.blogspot.be/(only retextures)
http://lapizrazuli.blogspot.be/(male hairstyles)
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://kijiko-catfood.com/category/the-sims3/
http://traelia.blogspot.be/p/hair.html (Just a few)
http://simshairs.tumblr.com/
http://julykapo.tumblr.com/tagged/retextures
http://beaverhausenx.tumblr.com/tagged/custom-content
http://andromedasims.tumblr.com/termsofuse
http://buckleysims.tumblr.com/downloads
http://i-like-teh-sims.tumblr.com/tagged/download
http://inkwisteria.tumblr.com/ (toddler hairstyles)
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://kijiko-catfood.com/category/the-sims3/
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
http://xilmakesthings.tumblr.com/tagged/hair
http://curlysim.tumblr.com/tagged/male(Curly/afro etc. cc hair finds)
http://www.newseasims.com/
Accessoires:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/accessories
Objects:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/objects
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://aroundthesims3.com/index.html
http://thesimsresource.com/artists/Lulu265/downloads/browse/category/sims3/skipsetitems/1
http://gelinadownloads.tumblr.com/
http://www.poppysims.com/
http://lunasimslulamai.jimdo.com/fantasy-forest/
http://chisamidream.wix.com/homegrown#!blank/ullby
http://www.freshprincecreations.com/ts3vehiclespg.htm(cars)
https://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Lulu265/downloads/browse/category/sims3/skipsetitems/1
Decoration:
http://pixeljackpot.tumblr.com/
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://aroundthesims3.com/index.html
http://you-lust.tumblr.com/
http://lunasimslulamai.jimdo.com/fantasy-forest/
http://chisamidream.wix.com/homegrown#!blank/ullby
http://justsims3art.blogspot.be/
http://mvenger.wix.com/walkininfected
Patterns:
http://pixeljackpot.tumblr.com/
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://paperfriendd.tumblr.com/tagged/patterns
http://www.thesims3.com/userExchange.html?assetType=material&persona=TnT_Terry&position=0&sortField=download_count&sortOrder=desc
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/downloads-top
http://www.poppysims.com/
Build stuff:
http://pixeljackpot.tumblr.com/(Also other things, see other categories)
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://gelinadownloads.tumblr.com/
default skins/eyes
http://brntwaffles.tumblr.com/ (Also non-default skins and eyes, worlds and mods)
http://traelia.blogspot.be/p/makeup-and-genetics.html(Cats and dogs eyes defaults)
Poses
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/poses
http://pickypikachu.blogspot.be/search/label/poses
http://mysims3poses.blogspot.co.uk/(A lot of poses from different creators)
http://traelia.blogspot.be/p/poses.html
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
Worlds & houses
http://www.poppysims.com/decorativepage1.html
http://www.poppysims.com/worldspage1.html
http://brntwaffles.tumblr.com/
http://nilxisdesigns.blogspot.be/
http://gelinadownloads.tumblr.com/
http://www.mysimrealty.com/
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/downloads-top
http://thesimscatalog.com/product-category/the-sims-3/the-sims-3-worlds/
Some weird fantasy and historic stuff
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=550593&highlight=medieval+clothes
http://murfeelee.tumblr.com/
http://ninthcirclets3cc.tumblr.com/archive
http://fancifults3cc.tumblr.com/archive
http://scifits3ccblog.tumblr.com/archive
If you mean a certain creator from TSR or MTS, post a link to their page on those sites or their blog/tumblr. (just google the same name as you see on MTS/TSR)
Because a lot of people stay asking for good reaslitic clothes, no barbiedoll-shining hair etc..I decided to make a topic where EVERYONE can post links to a lot cc-sites, from furniture to hairstyles.
Just post links, I will add them to the list. (Also put a little description, like 'Maxis-match cc hair' or 'female clothes')
Of course, I already have a few links:
'Big' sites:
http://mysims3blog.blogspot.be/
http://www.thesimsresource.com/
http://modthesims.info/
http://www.sims3updates.net/
http://sunnyccfinds.tumblr.com/
http://simplykitabccfinds.tumblr.com/
http://sweetsimsccfinds.tumblr.com/
http://sssvitlans.tumblr.com/
Male clothes:
http://shokoninio.tumblr.com/
http://peacemaker-ic.tumblr.com/
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/category/clothing/male-young-adult/page/4
http://www.poppysims.com/
Female clothes:
(and some male)
http://sentate.co.uk/home.html
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/clothes
(Also hairstyles, poses, make-up and accessoires. See other categories)
Different cc-creators put their stuff on this site.
Here are some sites from those creators:
http://julianascorner.blogspot.be/
http://anubis360.blogspot.be/
http://elexissims.tumblr.com/
http://jockersims.blogspot.com.br/search/label/thesims3
Some of them also have their place on MTS. That's everything I found. Otherwise, take a look at 'downloads by creator' on ace creators.
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/(Female clothes and shoes)
http://pickypikachu.blogspot.be/search/label/clothing(also hair and poses, see other categories)
http://www.poppysims.com/index.html
http://lookbook-sims.tumblr.com/(Reblogs lookbooks, useful for finding clothes.)
http://pixicat.tumblr.com/(Particularly shoes)
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/category/clothing/female-young-adult/page/3
http://www.poppysims.com/
http://buckleysims.tumblr.com/downloads ---> mainly pregnancy clothes
http://mvenger.wix.com/walkininfected
https://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/sims2fanbg/downloads/browse/category/sims3/skipsetitems/1/
Kids' clothes:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/
http://chisamidream.wix.com/homegrown#!children/t7evn
Make-up and skins:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/makeup
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://kurasoberina.tumblr.com/tagged/downloads
http://blog.sina.com.cn/ephemera69
http://andromedasims.tumblr.com/termsofuse
http://pralinesims.blogspot.co.uk/p/skins.html
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/downloads-top
http://i-like-teh-sims.tumblr.com/tagged/download ---> gor.ge.ous. scars
http://sk-sims.tumblr.com/tagged/downloads
http://xilmakesthings.tumblr.com/tagged/skin
http://mvenger.wix.com/walkininfected
Hairstyles and retextures:
http://pickypikachu.blogspot.be/search/label/hair(also clothes and poses, see other categories)
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/hair
http://paint-stroke.blogspot.be/(only retextures)
http://lapizrazuli.blogspot.be/(male hairstyles)
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://kijiko-catfood.com/category/the-sims3/
http://traelia.blogspot.be/p/hair.html (Just a few)
http://simshairs.tumblr.com/
http://julykapo.tumblr.com/tagged/retextures
http://beaverhausenx.tumblr.com/tagged/custom-content
http://andromedasims.tumblr.com/termsofuse
http://buckleysims.tumblr.com/downloads
http://i-like-teh-sims.tumblr.com/tagged/download
http://inkwisteria.tumblr.com/ (toddler hairstyles)
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://kijiko-catfood.com/category/the-sims3/
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
http://xilmakesthings.tumblr.com/tagged/hair
http://curlysim.tumblr.com/tagged/male(Curly/afro etc. cc hair finds)
http://www.newseasims.com/
Accessoires:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/accessories
Objects:
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/objects
http://kewai-dou.com/the-sims-3/
http://aroundthesims3.com/index.html
http://thesimsresource.com/artists/Lulu265/downloads/browse/category/sims3/skipsetitems/1
http://gelinadownloads.tumblr.com/
http://www.poppysims.com/
http://lunasimslulamai.jimdo.com/fantasy-forest/
http://chisamidream.wix.com/homegrown#!blank/ullby
http://www.freshprincecreations.com/ts3vehiclespg.htm(cars)
https://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Lulu265/downloads/browse/category/sims3/skipsetitems/1
Decoration:
http://pixeljackpot.tumblr.com/
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://aroundthesims3.com/index.html
http://you-lust.tumblr.com/
http://lunasimslulamai.jimdo.com/fantasy-forest/
http://chisamidream.wix.com/homegrown#!blank/ullby
http://justsims3art.blogspot.be/
http://mvenger.wix.com/walkininfected
Patterns:
http://pixeljackpot.tumblr.com/
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://paperfriendd.tumblr.com/tagged/patterns
http://www.thesims3.com/userExchange.html?assetType=material&persona=TnT_Terry&position=0&sortField=download_count&sortOrder=desc
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/downloads-top
http://www.poppysims.com/
Build stuff:
http://pixeljackpot.tumblr.com/(Also other things, see other categories)
http://simplicaz.tumblr.com/
http://gelinadownloads.tumblr.com/
default skins/eyes
http://brntwaffles.tumblr.com/ (Also non-default skins and eyes, worlds and mods)
http://traelia.blogspot.be/p/makeup-and-genetics.html(Cats and dogs eyes defaults)
Poses
http://acecreators.blogspot.be/search/label/poses
http://pickypikachu.blogspot.be/search/label/poses
http://mysims3poses.blogspot.co.uk/(A lot of poses from different creators)
http://traelia.blogspot.be/p/poses.html
http://blog.naver.com/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=jinhee_a&categoryNo=77&parentCategoryNo=77&skinType=&skinId=&from=menu&userSelectMenu=true
Worlds & houses
http://www.poppysims.com/decorativepage1.html
http://www.poppysims.com/worldspage1.html
http://brntwaffles.tumblr.com/
http://nilxisdesigns.blogspot.be/
http://gelinadownloads.tumblr.com/
http://www.mysimrealty.com/
http://sakurasims.sakura.ne.jp/downloads-top
http://thesimscatalog.com/product-category/the-sims-3/the-sims-3-worlds/
Some weird fantasy and historic stuff
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=550593&highlight=medieval+clothes
http://murfeelee.tumblr.com/
http://ninthcirclets3cc.tumblr.com/archive
http://fancifults3cc.tumblr.com/archive
http://scifits3ccblog.tumblr.com/archive
If you mean a certain creator from TSR or MTS, post a link to their page on those sites or their blog/tumblr. (just google the same name as you see on MTS/TSR)
THIS GUIDE IS ALL YOU NEED TO TRANSFORM YOUR VANILLA SIMS 3 GAME FROM AVERAGE TO AMAZING.
If you want to change your game from AMAZING to RETARDEDLY ADDICTING check out our Best Sims 3 Downloads For The Picky Player , Mods For An Ultra Realistic Sim Body and Best Realistic Sims 3 Skins guide (all parts of our realism and essential Sims 3 mods series) because we did all the hard work and picked only the best Sims 3 downloads to add reality and beauty to your game without you wasting your time going through pages of crap!
Change the way you play the Sims 3 with this top ten list of up-to-date mods and add-ons provided by the great Nraas to greatly enhance your gameplay. After trying out a few of these mods you won’t know how you ever played without em! If you have just purchased a copy of the Sims 3 or had to reinstall everything this list is perfect if you want a solid set of downloads that won’t clutter or crowd your game. Even if you installed nothing after these 10 mods you are good to go. Always remember to save and back up your files before playing around with the game folders.
If you’re a fan of realistic Sims and or Doctor Who you may want to check out our latest list of the best Doctor Who sims and mods for the Sims 3.
If you do not know how to install .package files to your Sims game I strongly suggest you read this guide to installing Sims 3 .package files to ensure your downloads load correctly in game.
Read on for the most useful Sims 3 mods from Nraas to date.
Check out our take on why we believe everyone should mod The Sims.
10. ErrorTrap
This mod’s handles save-game cleanup and error reporting. A must to help prevent your Sims game from becoming bloated!
9. Sleep Freedom
This is an object mod, replacing a specific set of EA content double beds with a custom copy from Nraas that removes bed sharing restrictions. Much more realistic for inactive households, because irl people with < 70 longterm relationship are able to lay in the same bed.
8. Written Word
This mod allows you to manipulate which books are listed at the in-game bookstore. Finally, being an author has a useful and interesting purpose because you can buy, sell, and read “Sim written” books.
7. Go Here
This mod alters the routing interactions, the “Go Here” and “Visit Lot” interactions used either autonomously or via user-direction. Now you can have more flexibility when selecting either option, your sim can plan another action immediately after, etc
6. Careers
Allows you to load custom careers for your Sims. You can use this mod just for the custom careers Nraas made, because they ARE great, or you can add even more good ones from various sites.
There are useful add-ons for this mod such as:
‘Schools’ which contains custom high school careers, assigned to different rabbitholes in town
‘Part-Time’ which contains custom part-time careers that provide skills useful in later careers
‘Tones’ add an expanded set of career tones for the EA careers,
‘The Family’ which is a full-time career based on the movie “The Departed”, if that’s your thing
‘Unemployed’ is useful as a placeholder career to prevent the EA Careers system from giving your sim a job
‘Self Employed’ contains a series of self-employed careers, expanding on the Ambitions set, I’m usually a hacker
‘Homemaker’ is a useful stay-at-home career which rewards your sim for cleaning and keeping everyone happy
‘Part-Time’ which contains custom part-time careers that provide skills useful in later careers
‘Tones’ add an expanded set of career tones for the EA careers,
‘The Family’ which is a full-time career based on the movie “The Departed”, if that’s your thing
‘Unemployed’ is useful as a placeholder career to prevent the EA Careers system from giving your sim a job
‘Self Employed’ contains a series of self-employed careers, expanding on the Ambitions set, I’m usually a hacker
‘Homemaker’ is a useful stay-at-home career which rewards your sim for cleaning and keeping everyone happy
5. Woohooer
A very well designed and complex mod that alters the romance and woohoo interactions available to Sims. You can change the settings on everything from active/inactive relationship requirements, age restrictions for relationships, allow near relation romance (incest) or teen and adult love.
There’s two main add-ons for this mod:
‘Scoring’ adds an “attraction” scoring system that adds a new layer of depth to your sims’ relationships
‘Kama Simtra’ adds an optional woohoo skill to keep track how good your sim is in bed. Now THAT’S real.
‘Kama Simtra’ adds an optional woohoo skill to keep track how good your sim is in bed. Now THAT’S real.
4. Register
A mod to manipulate the service and role sims in your town. The mod replaces the EA Role Manager with a custom version that corrects several bugs and allows for greater flexibility. Put whoever you want on the register, you’re the god of that town.
3. Decensor
Programmatic control of the censor grid. Much better than the NoMosaic tuning mods because this mod allows the user to choose under which conditions the censor is displayed. Because big censor blocks covering Barbie/Ken bodies sitting on a toilet is just ridulous. If you’re looking for a sim skin realistic enough to fit your newly enhance Sim universe than I suggest you check out our list of the Best Realistic Sims 3 Skins ( default and nondefault ).
2. Story Progression
This mod performs the automated maintenance and control of the inactive population in your town, ensuring your inactive sims will progress on with their lives when you are not playing them. THIS IS A NEEDED ADDITION TO THE GAME THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE WITHOUT.
I highly recommend these add-ons as they enrich the game in ways you can only fully realize once you start playing:
‘Expanded’ contains the Interaction Injection portion of this mod, and other parts not specifically required for progression.
‘Extra’ contains the Map Tags system, Motive control, Inheritance, and other good stuff.
‘NameList Tuning’ is a tuning file you can add seperately with this mod to load custom name lists for use by the base-mod. Especially useful if you have a sim town of a specific ethnicity.
‘Extra’ contains the Map Tags system, Motive control, Inheritance, and other good stuff.
‘NameList Tuning’ is a tuning file you can add seperately with this mod to load custom name lists for use by the base-mod. Especially useful if you have a sim town of a specific ethnicity.
Nraas has also included some add ons for this mod that add certain personality elements to your sims story, you may want to read the information on the site for those (and all these mods) as there is a ton of information about these personalities and how they work. I personally find that blazing while playing Sims 3 eliminates the need for artificial storylines in this way but I may try them again in the near future to see if my experience changes. Add-on with the personality types added in parenthesis below:
‘Cops And Robbers’ (Robin, Cat, Vigilante, and Kingpin)
‘Lovers’ (Bike, Casanova, Gigolo, and Tart)
‘Meanies’ (Brat, Bully, Thug, and Harpy)
‘Others’ (Loon, Mooch, Nerd, and Magnate)
‘Vampires And Slayers’ (Dracul, Lestat, Nosferatu, Helsing, and Slayer)
‘Lovers’ (Bike, Casanova, Gigolo, and Tart)
‘Meanies’ (Brat, Bully, Thug, and Harpy)
‘Others’ (Loon, Mooch, Nerd, and Magnate)
‘Vampires And Slayers’ (Dracul, Lestat, Nosferatu, Helsing, and Slayer)
1. Master Controller
An extremely useful mod that adds functionality to manage the population of your town. The mod provides manual interactions for altering sims either individually or by whatever criteria you can think of.
This mod has a few useful add-ons as well:
‘Cheats’ adds a series of more advanced or “cheaty” interactions to the MasterController base-mod menu.
‘Expanded Tattoo’ expands the number of locations provided in Tattoo CAS.
‘Integration’ replaces in-game interactions with custom versions that call MasterController functionality.
‘Progression’ adds interactions specifically related to StoryProgression, you must have that base-mod installed as well.
‘Expanded Tattoo’ expands the number of locations provided in Tattoo CAS.
‘Integration’ replaces in-game interactions with custom versions that call MasterController functionality.
‘Progression’ adds interactions specifically related to StoryProgression, you must have that base-mod installed as well.
Honorable Mention goes to:
AntiMagicScroll:
This mod replaces all recipes and compositions that are destroyed after a sim uses them. Because we all know how annoying and unrealistic it is when that 30 dollar recipe book vanishes in a cloud of smoke after a single sim reads it.
Now you can watch The Sims 24/7 on our new Hxegamer.tv TV channel, The Sims Station. Click below!
This mod replaces all recipes and compositions that are destroyed after a sim uses them. Because we all know how annoying and unrealistic it is when that 30 dollar recipe book vanishes in a cloud of smoke after a single sim reads it.
Now you can watch The Sims 24/7 on our new Hxegamer.tv TV channel, The Sims Station. Click below!
Best Sims 3 Mods For Realism
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THIS GUIDE IS ALL YOU NEED TO TRANSFORM YOUR VANILLA SIMS 3 GAME FROM AVERAGE TO AMAZING.
If you want to change your game from AMAZING to RETARDEDLY ADDICTING check out our Best Sims 3 Downloads For The Picky Player , Mods For An Ultra Realistic Sim Body and Best Realistic Sims 3 Skins guide (all parts of our realism and essential Sims 3 mods series) because we did all the hard work and picked only the best Sims 3 downloads to add reality and beauty to your game without you wasting your time going through pages of crap!
Sims 4 autonomy mods free. It uses a script, so the mod cannot be installed more than one sub-folder deep. This mod was written and tested on Windows for The Sims 4 version 1.51.75 (April 16, 2019). It should be compatible with any stuff or game packs and other mods (even other No Autonomy mods).
Change the way you play the Sims 3 with this top ten list of up-to-date mods and add-ons provided by the great Nraas to greatly enhance your gameplay. After trying out a few of these mods you won’t know how you ever played without em! If you have just purchased a copy of the Sims 3 or had to reinstall everything this list is perfect if you want a solid set of downloads that won’t clutter or crowd your game. Even if you installed nothing after these 10 mods you are good to go. Always remember to save and back up your files before playing around with the game folders.
If you’re a fan of realistic Sims and or Doctor Who you may want to check out our latest list of the best Doctor Who sims and mods for the Sims 3.
If you do not know how to install .package files to your Sims game I strongly suggest you read this guide to installing Sims 3 .package files to ensure your downloads load correctly in game.
Read on for the most useful Sims 3 mods from Nraas to date.
Check out our take on why we believe everyone should mod The Sims.
10. ErrorTrap
This mod’s handles save-game cleanup and error reporting. A must to help prevent your Sims game from becoming bloated!
9. Sleep Freedom
This is an object mod, replacing a specific set of EA content double beds with a custom copy from Nraas that removes bed sharing restrictions. Much more realistic for inactive households, because irl people with < 70 longterm relationship are able to lay in the same bed.
8. Written Word
This mod allows you to manipulate which books are listed at the in-game bookstore. Finally, being an author has a useful and interesting purpose because you can buy, sell, and read “Sim written” books.
7. Go Here
This mod alters the routing interactions, the “Go Here” and “Visit Lot” interactions used either autonomously or via user-direction. Now you can have more flexibility when selecting either option, your sim can plan another action immediately after, etc
6. Careers
Allows you to load custom careers for your Sims. You can use this mod just for the custom careers Nraas made, because they ARE great, or you can add even more good ones from various sites.
There are useful add-ons for this mod such as:
‘Schools’ which contains custom high school careers, assigned to different rabbitholes in town
‘Part-Time’ which contains custom part-time careers that provide skills useful in later careers
‘Tones’ add an expanded set of career tones for the EA careers,
‘The Family’ which is a full-time career based on the movie “The Departed”, if that’s your thing
‘Unemployed’ is useful as a placeholder career to prevent the EA Careers system from giving your sim a job
‘Self Employed’ contains a series of self-employed careers, expanding on the Ambitions set, I’m usually a hacker
‘Homemaker’ is a useful stay-at-home career which rewards your sim for cleaning and keeping everyone happy
‘Part-Time’ which contains custom part-time careers that provide skills useful in later careers
‘Tones’ add an expanded set of career tones for the EA careers,
‘The Family’ which is a full-time career based on the movie “The Departed”, if that’s your thing
‘Unemployed’ is useful as a placeholder career to prevent the EA Careers system from giving your sim a job
‘Self Employed’ contains a series of self-employed careers, expanding on the Ambitions set, I’m usually a hacker
‘Homemaker’ is a useful stay-at-home career which rewards your sim for cleaning and keeping everyone happy
5. Woohooer
A very well designed and complex mod that alters the romance and woohoo interactions available to Sims. You can change the settings on everything from active/inactive relationship requirements, age restrictions for relationships, allow near relation romance (incest) or teen and adult love.
There’s two main add-ons for this mod:
‘Scoring’ adds an “attraction” scoring system that adds a new layer of depth to your sims’ relationships
‘Kama Simtra’ adds an optional woohoo skill to keep track how good your sim is in bed. Now THAT’S real.
‘Kama Simtra’ adds an optional woohoo skill to keep track how good your sim is in bed. Now THAT’S real.
4. Register
A mod to manipulate the service and role sims in your town. The mod replaces the EA Role Manager with a custom version that corrects several bugs and allows for greater flexibility. Put whoever you want on the register, you’re the god of that town.
3. Decensor
Programmatic control of the censor grid. Much better than the NoMosaic tuning mods because this mod allows the user to choose under which conditions the censor is displayed. Because big censor blocks covering Barbie/Ken bodies sitting on a toilet is just ridulous. If you’re looking for a sim skin realistic enough to fit your newly enhance Sim universe than I suggest you check out our list of the Best Realistic Sims 3 Skins ( default and nondefault ).
2. Story Progression
This mod performs the automated maintenance and control of the inactive population in your town, ensuring your inactive sims will progress on with their lives when you are not playing them. THIS IS A NEEDED ADDITION TO THE GAME THAT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE WITHOUT.
I highly recommend these add-ons as they enrich the game in ways you can only fully realize once you start playing:
‘Expanded’ contains the Interaction Injection portion of this mod, and other parts not specifically required for progression.
‘Extra’ contains the Map Tags system, Motive control, Inheritance, and other good stuff.
‘NameList Tuning’ is a tuning file you can add seperately with this mod to load custom name lists for use by the base-mod. Especially useful if you have a sim town of a specific ethnicity.
‘Extra’ contains the Map Tags system, Motive control, Inheritance, and other good stuff.
‘NameList Tuning’ is a tuning file you can add seperately with this mod to load custom name lists for use by the base-mod. Especially useful if you have a sim town of a specific ethnicity.
Nraas has also included some add ons for this mod that add certain personality elements to your sims story, you may want to read the information on the site for those (and all these mods) as there is a ton of information about these personalities and how they work. I personally find that blazing while playing Sims 3 eliminates the need for artificial storylines in this way but I may try them again in the near future to see if my experience changes. Add-on with the personality types added in parenthesis below:
‘Cops And Robbers’ (Robin, Cat, Vigilante, and Kingpin)
‘Lovers’ (Bike, Casanova, Gigolo, and Tart)
‘Meanies’ (Brat, Bully, Thug, and Harpy)
‘Others’ (Loon, Mooch, Nerd, and Magnate)
‘Vampires And Slayers’ (Dracul, Lestat, Nosferatu, Helsing, and Slayer)
‘Lovers’ (Bike, Casanova, Gigolo, and Tart)
‘Meanies’ (Brat, Bully, Thug, and Harpy)
‘Others’ (Loon, Mooch, Nerd, and Magnate)
‘Vampires And Slayers’ (Dracul, Lestat, Nosferatu, Helsing, and Slayer)
1. Master Controller
An extremely useful mod that adds functionality to manage the population of your town. The mod provides manual interactions for altering sims either individually or by whatever criteria you can think of.
This mod has a few useful add-ons as well:
‘Cheats’ adds a series of more advanced or “cheaty” interactions to the MasterController base-mod menu.
‘Expanded Tattoo’ expands the number of locations provided in Tattoo CAS.
‘Integration’ replaces in-game interactions with custom versions that call MasterController functionality.
‘Progression’ adds interactions specifically related to StoryProgression, you must have that base-mod installed as well.
‘Expanded Tattoo’ expands the number of locations provided in Tattoo CAS.
‘Integration’ replaces in-game interactions with custom versions that call MasterController functionality.
‘Progression’ adds interactions specifically related to StoryProgression, you must have that base-mod installed as well.
Honorable Mention goes to:
AntiMagicScroll:
This mod replaces all recipes and compositions that are destroyed after a sim uses them. Because we all know how annoying and unrealistic it is when that 30 dollar recipe book vanishes in a cloud of smoke after a single sim reads it.
Now you can watch The Sims 24/7 on our new Hxegamer.tv TV channel, The Sims Station. Click below!
This mod replaces all recipes and compositions that are destroyed after a sim uses them. Because we all know how annoying and unrealistic it is when that 30 dollar recipe book vanishes in a cloud of smoke after a single sim reads it.
Now you can watch The Sims 24/7 on our new Hxegamer.tv TV channel, The Sims Station. Click below!
Written by Puff, a.k.a. Jean
A lifelong gamer, master healer, and freelance writer that’s currently making a home of Florida. Follow her on Instagram @onlyjeanbean, and click here to find her articles on Zootgamer.
The best Sims 4 mods can completely change and expand your game. New ones appear all the time on ModTheSims—which has long been the go-to hub for creators—every week. There, you’ll find everything from minor tweaks (like making medicine cabinets actually dispense medicines) to complete reworks of major systems.
It can be hard to keep track of which of the best Sims 4 mods are working because some of the best mods haven’t been tended to in years, and official game updates can break them or add features that make them obsolete.
With that in mind, here’s a collection of the best up-to-date mods for the Sims 4, from the tiny to the virtual life-changing. Make sure you read the installation instructions for each one, and check for any conflicts to make sure you’re not running two that will clash.
To get even more out of the game check out our round-up of the best Sims 4 expansions and game packs. If you want immortal Sims, free houses, and infinite money, check out our list of Sims 4 cheats.
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Players are adding new careers to ModTheSims every week, so if you’re ever looking for inspiration on which direction to steer your Sim in, give it a browse. The imagination behind them is impressive, and most of them give you a fully-fleshed out path to follow. Whether you want to become a bowling champ, game developer, professional hacker or private investigator, you can now follow your dreams. We especially like transforming our sim from a basketball draft pick to league MVP in the SBA Baller career.
A word of warning: these custom careers won’t work with most career overhaul mods, such as Turbo Careers—but don’t let that put you off.
Emotional Inertia
Sims are an emotional bunch, and their moods flip like a light switch. Just doing the simplest of activities—having an good meal in a well-decorated room—will fill them with joy for a few hours, but then the feeling will vanish. If that’s not to your taste, or if you think the system is just too easy to control, then you might want to download Emotional Inertia.
It makes emotions more meaningful: they’ll last longer, it’ll be harder to override them, and it will take more effort to reach the upper ranks of each one. You’ll no longer have an iron grip over whether your Sims are up or down, which makes them feel a bit more like real people.
Custom food interactions
If you want more culinary creativity, then Custom Food Interactions is the only place you should start. It doesn’t add any ingredients or recipes to the game—it just adds new possible interactions to cooking equipment along with a menu framework that lets you craft a fridge-full of custom meals from other modders’ kitchens.
With it installed, you’ll want to head over to the ModTheSims custom food section and pick from the menu. You’ll find recipes for everything from Chinese dumplings to beignets, blueberry cheesecake to biriyani. Grab an optional bib to make sure you don’t accidentally salivate on your keyboard.
Have Some Personality Please!
This is one of our favourites on the best Sims 4 mods list. It's a huge overhaul of—as you can probably guess—the way Sims’ personalities work. It changes lots in the background (read the description on the mod page for an exhaustive list) but the best thing about it is that it eliminates all idle conversations. Never again will two Sims blab aimlessly to each other about nothing in particular: instead, they’ll be forced to choose an interaction, which is far more interesting.
Those interactions aren’t random, either: the mod will select them based on traits, moods and the existing relationships between the two Sims in question, which will give them a greater sense of autonomy than ever before. Expect more kisses from love interests—and more sucker punches from your enemies.
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Become a Sorceror
Do you miss the magic of previous Sims games? Become a Sorcerer adds a hearty serving of the supernatural, letting your Sims sling magic spells that can either suck the sadness out of a friend or strike down an enemy with a bolt of lightning.
You just need to touch lump of clay, choose one of three rituals—they’ll determine which Needs are replaced with new magical ones—and get to casting. Using magic strengthens your powers and unlocks new spells, but it also depletes your “Magical Connection” (a mana bar, basically), and you’ll have to drain either yourself or another Sim to replenish it.
Depending on your choices, you’ll lean towards good or evil, which changes the type of spells you can cast. Do-gooders can eventually bring ghosts back to life, but if that doesn’t sound like fun, just set fire to a table instead. If you’re bored of your current playthrough, then this is bound to liven it up.
New personality traits
Many of the best Sims 4 mods affect the ways Sims interact with each other. The Sims 4 has a long list of traits that change the way a Sim behaves, and because they’re relatively easy for modders to create you can quickly expand that list through custom content. The Gamer trait, for example, lets Sims improve their gaming and programming skills faster, while the Functional Robots group of traits lets you spawn human-machine hybrid Sims, or just full-on robots who must visit a recharging station every few hours.
Sims 3 Woohoo Mod
There are tonnes of individual traits available on ModTheSims, or you can grab pre-made packages of traits, like this one from modder KawaiiStacie. It will make your Sims natural salespeople, born artists, or slick dancers. Get ready to bust a move.
Want to try out several new traits at once? This mod lets you add more than three traits at a time: you just need to type a quick cheat code including the name of the desired trait to add it to your Sim. It’s all explained on the mod page.
Build your own houseboat
If you’re tired on living on land then this mod lets you take to the water, transforming the game’s decorative boat models into full-on houseboats. They look pretty, and the limited space means you’ll have to get creative with what furniture you try to pack into them. It’s a good choice for a minimalist designer. Click here for a download link alongside instructions on building your first boat.
If you’re feeling particularly outdoorsy, then this separate mod will let you add a custom fishing location off of the side of your new home.
True Happiness
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The idea behind this mod from roBurky is to make your Sims’ happiness “fleeting, meaningful, and personal”. In the normal game, ‘happy’ is the default state, but with this mod your Sims will have to make do with simply being ‘fine’ most of the time. They’ll only be truly happy when something special happens to them such as meeting a new partner, ripping through a good workout or eating a tasty meal. These events, of which there are many, will boost their mood considerably for a short period of time, which feels a bit more realistic.
Don’t worry, the ‘fine’ change doesn’t mean they’ll be grumpy by default—it still counts as a positive mood state.
Old French Village
Bring the Alsace to the Sims 4 with this charming village of old-fashioned cottages. There are ten houses to choose from of varying grandeur (the mansion at the top of the hill is particularly spacious) as well as a pub and café for when your Sims feel peckish.
Somehow, modder catdenny has made the village only using default assets from the game, which is impressive. It does mean that there are slight variations in style, but unless you’re a stickler for European architecture then it probably won’t bug you. It just looks like a nice place to live.
You can add the village in ‘Manage Worlds’, but it will only fit in a vacant 64x64 lot. Sadly, there are no lots big enough in the base game, so you’ll have to travel to Brindleton Bay (part of the Cats & Dogs expansion) or Windenburg (from Get Together) to find a viable plot.
Get to college
We’ve mentioned simmythesim’s Get to College mod before because it fills a gap that those who played The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 will keenly feel. The mod hasn’t been updated in many years, but luckily another modder has come along and patched it up. Grab it here.
Maybe one day we’ll get an official university expansion for The Sims 4, but for now this addition to the best Sims 4 mod list will let you pick one of three majors, carry out related activities and attend lectures, and study to get a good grade.
If the mod doesn’t work for you, then this University Career mod is a decent alternative, although it won’t actually let you visit the classroom. Those interested in the academic lives of their younger Sims may also want to check out Zerbu’s Go to School mod—just make sure you add a new Elementary School or High School to the neighbourhood for it to work.
Less 'Musical Chairs'
This sounds boring, but Sims’ seating habits are so weird that Chris mentioned them in our Sims 4 review. Particularly annoying is the way they move around mid-conversation; when there are several Sims involved normal conversation can look like an elaborate game of Musical Chairs. Shimrod101 has built a mod that fixes that, making it far more likely that Sims will just stay put.
The mod’s download links are outdated, but thanks to another helpful player you can grab an updated version from here (scroll down to LittleMsSam’s comments). By default, it’ll also disable the occasionally infuriating group conversations Sims have around the table, which can override any one-on-one chats you’re trying to have. If you prefer, you can grab a version that keeps group conversations intact.
Turbo Careers
Another one from Zerbu, the Turbo Careers mod makes all adult (and two teen) careers function like the active careers from the Get to Work expansion. You can download work venues from the Gallery, including ones with a combined function, or make your own—just make sure they have the right objects for Sims to do their job.
The necessary activities for career progression are naturally related to the career—programming, cooking, exercising—and sometimes Sims will receive fieldwork. An athlete might have to go to the gym and show off her muscles, while a Sim who works in business might have to offer career advice to those running retail venues.
You can browseall available careers here and the venue requirements for every job here.
MC Command Center
MCCC is a mega-mod that lets you tweak virtually aspect of your Sims’ lives, giving you godlike control over them and others in their world. You can blacklist certain clothing items, even on Sims you aren’t controlling. You can set employment rates for Sims of different ages, scan Sims to find out if they’re pregnant, or even terminate the pregnancy.
There are also lots of automatic settings geared towards letting non-controlled Sims live full lives without you, getting married and having babies of their own volition, and you can also use the mod to adjust the in-game time settings so your Sims don’t take half a day to shower and have breakfast.
Heights
With the new Create-a-Sim tool in The Sims 4, you can spawn Sims of many different widths, but you can't alter how tall they are. This height slider from GODJUL1 lets you adjust the height of your Sims so that the world looks more naturally varied: just click and drag their feet in Create-a-Sim to stretch or shrink them.
Replacement paintings
Once your artist Sim has churned out five paintings a day for a week you start to see the same images coming up again and again. This mod, from DaisyTighfield, replaces those default paintings across all categories with images from around the web, featuring lots of fanart from popular movies and video games.
If you like what you see, you can follow the links provided to find the original images on Deviantart or other sites. You can even create your own masterpieces for your Sims to paint in-game—the instructions are on the mod page.
Gender Preference mod
The Gender Preference mod lets you change the preferences Sims have for romantic partners of particular genders (in The Sims 4 currently that’s just two, female and male). You can adjust the numbers to set your Sims to prefer one gender to the exclusion of the other, to prefer one but also like the other, or to like both equally. Romance away.
Risky WooHoo
Another mod bringing The Sims closer to real life is one from PolarBearSims. It introduces a chance that female Sims who WooHoo rather than explicitly Try for Baby will still fall pregnant. The mod comes with a variety of different percentage risks and adjusts the chances based on where your Sims are getting it on as well as the traits they possess. It also reworks aspects of pregnancy, introducing complications and possible infertility for some Sims.
It should be noted that you can also manually adjust the chances of getting pregnant in MCCC. Risky WooHoo is compatible with that mod, but MCCC will overwrite the percentage chances.
If you’re looking to change the game even more, have a proper dig into the Create a Sim ‘custom gender settings’ in the base game. They were updated a while back and now provide you with more options, such as the ability to allow same-sex couples to fall pregnant.
And for even more control, check out artulwww’s Pregnancy Mega Mod, which lets you do things like give birth to quintuplets.
For more on the Sims, check out our Sims 4 review and our account of the Sims 4's terrifying first-person mode.
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http://anubis360.blogspot.com/
http://www.thesimsresource.com/ (be sure to have an ad-blocker on this one)
http://www.lorandiasims3.com/index.php
http://modthesims.info/ (you need to register to download)
http://www.beocreations.com/ (you need to register to download)
http://lianasims3.net/index.php
http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/
http://khaleesi-cc.tumblr.com/
http://lapizrazuli.blogspot.com/
http://m1ssduo.tumblr.com/
http://liahxcc.tumblr.com/
http://www.aroundthesims3.com/index.html
http://eternila.tumblr.com/
http://www.spring4sims.com/
http://www.parsimonious.org/furniture3/pages/all_1.html
http://masims3.blogspot.cz/
http://lovesims3stuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Accessories
http://beaverhausenx.tumblr.com/
http://www.freshprincecreations.com/
http://julianascorner.blogspot.com/
http://sclub.mktm.co.uk/en/
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http://anubis360.blogspot.com/
http://www.thesimsresource.com/ (be sure to have an ad-blocker on this one)
http://www.lorandiasims3.com/index.php
http://modthesims.info/ (you need to register to download)
http://www.beocreations.com/ (you need to register to download)
http://lianasims3.net/index.php
http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/
http://khaleesi-cc.tumblr.com/
http://lapizrazuli.blogspot.com/
http://m1ssduo.tumblr.com/
http://liahxcc.tumblr.com/
http://www.aroundthesims3.com/index.html
http://eternila.tumblr.com/
http://www.spring4sims.com/
http://www.parsimonious.org/furniture3/pages/all_1.html
http://masims3.blogspot.cz/
http://lovesims3stuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Accessories
http://beaverhausenx.tumblr.com/
http://www.freshprincecreations.com/
http://julianascorner.blogspot.com/
http://sclub.mktm.co.uk/en/
Hope this helps!