Disabling Seasions But Keeping its Stuff - Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
Improving Sims 4: The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
Finding work is an important part of the game, unless you plan to make money with skills alone. Here's a step by step guide to getting a job and what you need to know in order to do well at work.
Getting a Job in The Sims 4 and its Expansion Packs.
Using the phone in the bottom left, navigate to the 'Work' tab, which is in the middle. Alternatively, press the 'J' key or go to the careers tab manually in the bottom right (the symbol is a briefcase).
Depending on the Expansions and Game Packs installed, you may find a few types of careers. Freelancer is a new, unique career track.
A long list of potential jobs will appear. You can select between normal and active careers. The active careers are only available if you have the Get to Work or Get Famous Expansions. Those without these special symbols are typical rabbit-hole careers, where your Sim heads to work for several hours and you do not see them. Pay attention to the schedule and description, though these will change as you get promotions.
In addition to the Rabbit-hole careers, at time of writing, players can also choose to be a Style Influencer who can work from home, or a Freelance Artist, Writer, or Programmer. This last type lives on gigs, as in they are paid by the job. Finding gigs and completing them is the path to success.
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Sims will go to work automatically when it's time. You can see how many hours until work on the Careers tab ('J' hotkey).
Look to the careers panel to learn a lot about your Sim's job. There is a Career Performance meter, which will show you how far you have to go until your Sim is promoted. You'll also see the hourly wage and what days you go in. Note the work in x hours portion, which is always going to tell you how soon the next shift will come up.
If you took one of the active careers, such as Doctor or Actor, then when the time comes you can choose if you will go to work with your Sim. Otherwise, your Sim will head off on their own (assuming they are not locked up in a task) as soon as it's time for work. You can also click the 'Go to Work' button on this panel if they are late and not going on their own.
A few careers, like Style Influencer, the three careers from City Living (Politician, Social Media, and Critic) along with the Seasons Gardener, can choose to work from home. This will give them tasks which appear on the careers panel.
Freelancers are the exception, and must use the careers panel or phone to pick gigs based around their chosen skill. You can survive off your Painting, Programming, or Writing skills. Completing the gig will earn you pay and job performance. If you finish soon, you can pick another gig allowing you to make more money. There are no limits to how many gigs you can complete each week, so your Sim can work hard and make tons of money.
Going to Work in a good mood will give you a performance boost of about 20%, so it's very much worth it. In order to maintain that, you will want to top off your Sim's needs before work. Have fun and socialize before sleeping, then deal with hunger, bladder, and hygiene in the morning is a general rule of thumb to follow. If you click the briefcase icon on your Sim's portrait, you can choose to 'work hard' while your Sim's in a rabbit hole career. This gives another boost on top of that, but drains fun faster and Sims will often come home stressed.
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The Sims 4 Seasons expansion now has options! Want to disable weather or make plants in season year-round? You can do so with my new Seasons Tuner Mod
The past month, I've spent every day tinkering The Sims 4, making quality of life improvements, gameplay changes, and new difficulty settings for the game. If you'd like to learn more about my project, visit the post on Patreon where you can download it now.
Cottage Living Guide! Here is my guide to new features in the Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion
You can also find handy Cottage Living Cheats
I have much more to come, since you can actually write a few guides about this pack!
Blender has been incredibly useful in video production, so I made my own Physics and Simulation Improvement Addon that lumps a ton of unique tools into one compact interface.
Snowy Escape Cheats
Lifestyles in Snowy Escape
Climb Mt. Komorebi
Sentiments in Snowy Escape
Rock Climbing
Skiing Skill
Snowboarding Skill
I've released a guide to Sentiments in The Sims 4 & Snowy Escape.
There is a new platform tool in The Sims 4. There's also a new Sentiments system, but it'll take some time to create a guide to that. Players can also use rental lots in any world now by changing lot types of builds in manage worlds.
I've created a massive List of The Best Mods in The Sims 4 that should be very helpful to new players and those who have not yet explored modding and how much it can do for your gameplay.
New - Secrets I have a new guide to secrets in the game. If you prefer, you can also watch a video about secrets in Sims 4.
Nifty Knitting is now available. Learn all about the stuff pack on my guide page here.
NEW - Nifty Knitting CheatsNew features in the Sims 4 June 2020
The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Guide
Eco Footprint: How it Works
Neighborhood Action Plans
How to Cheat in Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle
Civil Designer Career
Insect Farms & Bio Fuel
Fabrication Skill in Eco Lifestyle
Juice Fizzing NEW
Traits and Aspirations in DLC
Gameplay Ideas for Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle
Updated
Trait Cheats Updated
Traits List Updated
Aspirations List Updated
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This is inspired by a new series in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to the full playlist!
I now have a guide page to Tiny Living Stuff where you can learn about Murphy Beds, the new death, as well as the lot bonuses you'll receive if you manage to keep the size of your lot down with this new pack's Tiny Home Lot Type.
New I now have a guide to Making Super Sims in The Sims 4. Look for a text version within the next 72h. It won't have THAT much more info but it will help out as a checklist.
This was inspired by a series, "Let's Play a Super Sim" in which I start at toddler and gradually take on the major bonuses. Here's a link to each part for people who are interested. You can also see the Let's Play as a Playlist on Youtube.
The Sims 4 Discover University has been announced for November 15 for PC/Mac and December 17 for Xbox and Playstation 4 consoles. Click to learn more about the pack, see my summary of the livestream or read our FAQs below.
Other Guides to Discover University:
New Lot Traits: Study Spot and University Student Hang Out
New: Discover University FAQ: Gameplay Features
New Video The Sims 4 Discover University Gameplay Tips Video
More videos coming soon!
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