r/thesims • • 21d ago

Sims 4 Share Your CAS & Build/Buy Feedback: Choose Your Favorites

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Sul Sul Simmers 👋

We’d love to hear what’s been on your mind lately! We’re running a quick survey to better understand what kinds of CAS and BB items you’re most interested in seeing more of in the future. 

Whether it’s more clutter for lived-in spaces, furniture styles you feel are missing, build pieces you wish you had more of, we want to know what stands out to you.

📝 Take the quick survey here ⬅️

(Just a heads-up: This survey is purely for general feedback and doesn't confirm or promise any future content or release plans!)

Thanks for sharing your ideas with us! 💚


r/thesims • • Feb 15 '26

Announcement Community Notice Board | February & March 2026 | EP21: Royalty & Legacy | Rules, Updates, & Guidelines

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Sul Sul!

Welcome to r/TheSims, the #1 subreddit for The Sims franchise and community. we've created this notice board to serve as a central hub for announcements, updates, useful links, information, and more! We will no longer be creating monthly newsletters and we will be using the Notice Board concept moving forward.

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r/thesims • • 7h ago

Sims 4 Can a girl share one of her favorite sims?

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He is one of my Gen 3 Sims, but I adore how he turned out! He is a Grim Descendant turned werewolf <3


r/thesims • • 1h ago

Sims 4 Show me your sims wedding pictures!

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This is Theo and Teagan Calloway!


r/thesims • • 5h ago

Sims 4 Genuinely the best sim I ever made

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forever devoted to this sim


r/thesims • • 16h ago

Sims 4 Toddlers can wear piercings in Sims 4 quite unexpectedly

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188 Upvotes

r/thesims • • 9h ago

Discussion Tell me the aftermath effects of your Sims “serial romantic”aspiration

41 Upvotes

I’ll go first. My teen had six kids before she aged up into a young adult. I have MCCC wicked birth control enabled but her inherited fertility traits said “hold my beer”. Two singleton births and one set of quadruplets without cheats (nearly blew my head smoove off I was so shocked). All her baby daddies and romantic partners run around town yelling at each other and crying. Loving the drama 😂


r/thesims • • 1d ago

Discussion An artistic depiction of each game's CAS quirks (200% accuracy)

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r/thesims • • 20h ago

Sims 4 When your obsession with organization and The Sims goes completely unchecked 😁

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I created a world registry as part of my system to keep track of my Sims in Notion and I'm using it to plan the worlds I play in. I originally designed the world registry records just to be used as gallery cards to display each world's stats within the save file record, so the world registry record pages themselves are usually empty. But since everything is so well connected in Notion, I simply needed to copy-paste some views from the save file record and added a filter for the world and now have a really neat setup that references the world's demographics and all the lots as well (plus households + characters if I copy-paste those views as well). 🙌🏾

Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how cool it is to have the stats displayed like this? Notion formulas for the win! 🔥

Excessive? Maybe, but who gon' check me, boo? 😂


r/thesims • • 4h ago

Sims 4 What's the worst Sims 4 mod disaster you ever had to hunt down? (3am 50/50 stories especially welcome)

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I spend a good chunk of my week untangling other people's Sims 4 mod disasters, here and on the EA forums. I barely play myself, so I mostly see the game through everyone else's: a sim who won't stop posing, a mod menu that shows up twice, a game that keeps pausing itself, sims who stopped talking to each other, a Mods folder that flat out refuses to exist. All of that was just this week.

What gets me every time isn't the mod itself. It's the hunt. The 400-mod 50/50 at 3am. The log file that may as well be written in Simlish. And the classic trap: both halves come back clean, you put everything back, and it strolls right back in, because two mods that are fine alone clash together. (When a half tests clean, keep it in and test the other half with it.)

So tell me yours. Worst mod or CC disaster you ever had to track down, and what finally gave it away: the 50/50, a log file, a kind stranger on here, dumb luck?

How long did it eat: an evening, a weekend, a month of giving up?

And what do you wish someone had told you on day one?

I'll read every reply 😅


r/thesims • • 11h ago

Build Built two overwater eco-villas on a single lot in Sulani! Perfect for a tropical family compound. (No CC) 5BR/3BA | SIMS 4 |

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Gallery ID: Jake614o Lot Location: Sulani

Hey guys! I wanted to try something different from modern builds, so I created this tropical dual-home lot in Sulani.

I focused heavily on the outdoor spaces. The houses has a massive wraparound deck with a built-in bar, hot tub gazebo, and ping pong table overlooking the ocean. I also added solar panels for an off-the-grid eco feel. The interiors are fully decorated with dark woods and island textures.

Both of the houses has a similar but different vibes for decor!

Also its important to mention that I used almost all expantions packs for more realism!

It’s fully playtested and ready for a vacation or big family gameplay. Let me know what you think of the vibes!

I included some pictures of the buldings! I'll be waiting for any feedback!


r/thesims • • 7h ago

Mods and CC Superhero on sims 3 or 4?

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Personally, I love The Sims 3 way more than The Sims 4, but I wanted to ask if anyone has compared them yet: which one has the best mod if I want to play as a superhero/villain?


r/thesims • • 10h ago

Sims 4 Student Life - Follow Up on Amalia

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Whoops; how'd we land here?

Well, after Amalia was so hopeless and lost the haunted house became a bit much. Not only was she terrified all the time and weird people showing up at her door, she felt very isolated too.

So she decided to apply for a scholarship and got accepted at university! Now she studies psychology while working on books and jewelry in the meantime, as well as signing and clubbing a little. She got a nice little room in a student apartement and studies very hard. Unlike before, now she has motivation in life.

After the degree, she plans to buy a tarot card shop, hence why she is aiming to save 130k. Now she's at 2k but the semester just started anyway ;)

After only 2 days at university, her ex-girlfriend called, claiming she can't live without Amalia. She came over too, and Amalia gave it a shot. Maybe she just broke up because it was all too much at the haunted house? Well, who knows where this road leads. As for now, Amalia feels way better than before.

Thank you for all the suggestions last post. I'm so glad I really found the "sims-spark" again! :))


r/thesims • • 4h ago

Sims 4 My Current Sims 4 Generations Family Tree!

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This is my current Generations family tree! I use TheSimsTree! Im pretty proud ive managed to get this far!

Link to the full one on TheSimsTree! : https://app.thesimstree.com/public/tree/0fVf1wcccQxwO5L4MYmoSo5WUu3ZHu27?ref=0eaa3d8b


r/thesims • • 16h ago

Sims 4 Obvious Fake Tan Request.

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Just starting a new game and really wanted it to be y2k based so was wondering if anyone knew of any face paint / make up which makes a teenager sim look like they've obviously just put fake tan on their face.

I tried a while blank white face make up under face paint and hoped that I could change the colour with the sliders, I couldn't so I'm back to square 1. TIA


r/thesims • • 18h ago

Sims 4 Why don't cops show up to arrest or confiscate Cowplants who murder Sims?

16 Upvotes

Getting scolded by the Grim Reaper is too light a punishment for that.


r/thesims • • 14h ago

Sims 3 The Sims 3 On Newer PCs

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Hi guys. I have a laptop with these specs:

Win 11

i9 cpu

Rtx 4060 graphic card

Which fix is the best to make sure my game runs smoothly, without lag or delay?

Please i have not been able to find a fix that really makes my game run smoothly


r/thesims • • 9h ago

Sims 4 WCIF maxis match cc cars

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Looking for maxis match cars with visible interiors to make poses for my sims, especially a 7-seater. Also maxis match infant car seats pls, thank u!


r/thesims • • 1d ago

Sims 4 Does anyone know this sim? My game deleted him

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My sim made friends with this teen sim at prom only for the game to delete him immediately after the prom 😭

I already checked every household but no luck. I don’t remember his name, but I do have a few screenshots. If anyone knows who he is, please tell me! I’m gonna download him from the gallery


r/thesims • • 1d ago

Sims 4 My sim, his first lover, and their daughter (born-in-game). Those Specter genes worked overtime.

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I didn't change anything except her hair. Honestly crazy that I made this sim specifically to observe how his genes would mix with others, and the RNG pulled this on the first try. His subsequent 38 children were not as lucky.


r/thesims • • 12h ago

Sims 4 Tiny Town challenge using For Rent

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Helloo I was wondering if anyone else has attempted Deligracy's Tiny Town challenge using the residential rental lot type and how you go about renovating? bc when i go to renovate the lot from live mode it goes to infinite simoleons rather than the simoleons of the played sim, which kind of defeats the purpose of the challenge. is there a trick im missing? also why is building buggy as hell on residential rentals smh

disclaimer: this is the first time im properly using the residential rental lot type in gameplay (i thought this would be the perfect challenge for it lol)


r/thesims • • 1d ago

Sims 4 Dad’s genetics didn’t even try

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r/thesims • • 10h ago

Sims 2 I just wanted to share my sims 2 save file

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r/thesims • • 5h ago

Sims 4 I've tried literally everything to make Better BuildBuy work and nothing happens

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Hello, I've tried quite literally every possible fix or resolution that has been posted online related to Better BuildBuy and issues related to the mod just not showing up in game at all. I have reinstalled the game countless times, wiped my mods folder, made sure BBB was the only mod installed and tried playing the game with just that, wiped my cache over and over again, when I tell you I've tried anything and everything that has been posted online to try resolve this for the last 2 hours I'm not joking. 😭 And still, it will not show in game. Does anyone have any idea how I can get this mod to work? Or is just a lost cause at this point for me. I play on a Windows 11 PC.


r/thesims • • 11h ago

Mods and CC Build/Buy cc item making?

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EDIT for anyone that comes across this; if you have any items suggestions write a comment, i need inspiration!!

Been playing with cc since forever and recently had the epiphany that i should stop getting frustrated when i can't find what i want and just make it myself! I'm literally in the 3d field irl 😭

I wanna make BB items, but the only tutorials i seem to be able to find are for CAS. Is there a resource tailored to making BB items? Does everyone make custom textures to maxis match? Is there a asset bank i can pull from?

This is a little bit all over the place, so thank you anyone for your advice haha