Various Tweaks

I just cleaned up my page of the old Tweaks posts, they will all be collected here from now on. I'm adding them back little by little to che

I just cleaned up my page of the old Tweaks posts, they will all be collected here from now on. I'm adding them back little by little to check them, so for now I'm only going to post the ones that have been tested.

UPDATES:

• 04/10/2025 Added back some Get Famous tweaks

• 27/09/2025 Patch Update
  
  Some of these mods require the Core Library (*)
  Click on the category to open the file folder on Drive.

Basegame

• Faster Autonomy and Less Idles [ VIDEO ]: Makes autonomy faster by reducing the likelihood of them choosing to run an idle instead of a target interaction. Makes them less likely to stand by without running an interaction for long times. Basically autonomy in The Sims 4 is slow not because of the lag but because Maxis made it this way on purpose, likely to give players the time to catch sims before they do something stupid and to give them time to stop interactions before the relationship goes downhill. This mod makes the game far more challenging and unpredictable so you've been warned, this is especially true if you use the tropes from Growing Together and Lovestruck.

• Gameplay Socials (*) : I think I never posted this before. These are a couple of social interactions with gameplay effect that I think are missing in vanilla game.

  • "Discuss Hurt Feelings" with sims that have a negative sentiment towards another sim. The interaction is under "Friendly" -> "Deep Thoughts" and, if successful, reduces the duration of said negative sentiments by a small amount.

  • "Leave me Alone!" is a mean interaction (under "Mean", no subcategory) that once ran on a sim, makes them leave the other sim alone for 6h (only works if you have autonomy on, the other sim will not pick the active sim for conversations). I made this one when For Rent came out, Maxis changed something and sims now socialise way more to the point of being annoying especially when another sim is doing something else like cooking.

  • "Request Alone Time" is the nice version of the interaction above, under "Friendly", same effect but it won't make your sim lose relationship point with the other sim if successful (the interaction fails if the sims don't know each other enough, it will still have the gameplay effect but the other sim will see the request as rude). Children will never take well this request.

  Effect of both these interactions can be stopped earlier by running "Announce Being Open to Chat" under "Friendly".

• No House Fires : prevents fires in residential and rental lots.

• No Motives Distress Autonomy : Stop sims from autonomously solve motives when they get to red.

• No WooHoo Dance : removes the silly dance sims do when the request to woohoo is accepted.

• Replace Burnt Hood  (*) : the stove hoods don't have the option to replace them when they catch fire and are by far the most likely to burn when there is a fire. This adds the option to replace them without having to enter Build and Buy.

• Selective Auto Chat [^] : prevents unknown NPCs from randomly joining conversations while your sims are out and about. Only NPCs yor sims already know can join a conversation.

• Watch Tutorials on Sim.TV (*)  - Autonomy Add-on : Adds a new category on the computers under "Research" to have Sims watch a bunch of tutorials to increase most of the skills in game. Autonomy Add-on makes the interactions autonomous.

• Sleepwear Outside [NEW] : Back from the grave, allows Sims to go out of their house wearing sleepwear

EXPANSION PACKS

University

• Classes Cost More  : Increases the cost of classes.

• Change Outfit for Classes : Sims will change into a weather based outfit before leaving for classes

• Higher Scholarships : Increases the money you get when applying for scholarships.

• Less Auto Bike : Increases the distance at which Sims will autonomously choose to use the bike when it’s in their inventory. Additionally, prevents controlled Sims from placing the bike in their inventory, although NPC Sims will still do so.

• Longer Terms : Makes University terms longer (2 weeks). Don't install this mid-game, once installed in a save it cannot be removed while sims are enrolled.

• Choose Bike Helmet (*)  : allows for setting a specific helmet for the bike.

Snowy Escape

• Self Sustaining Lifestyles : lifestyles will not decay once the Sim gets them.

Seasons

• Change Outfit When Inside (*) : Sims autonomously change out of cold weather when inside a building, and change to cold and hot weather when outside in cold or hot climate. There are other mods doing this but they didn't work the way I wanted. This one is not extremely aggressive to allow for going in and out of a building without the Sims changing instantly (it takes about 30 minutes in a building for the autonomy to kick in), also the controlled Sim is not affected.

• Random Umbrella for NPCs  : Does what it says. There are other mods doing this but they didn't work the way I wanted.

• Sync all Radiators from Thermostat (*) : I love the radiators from For Rent but I'm not going to go one by one to sync them with the thermostat so I added the function to sync them all at once:
  
  
  Also inconsistencies piss me off: with the heater from Snowy Escape, cats have a nice little interaction where they seek heating from the thing. The interaction also works on Vampires' radiator but these ones aren't tagged properly for it to work. NOTICE: this flags the objects as CC because it overrides the object catalogue to add in the tag.

  

Get to Work

• Alien Abduction Chance from the Small Telescope (*) : I shouldn't have asked my wife to give the game another chance cause now she has too many requests. This is another one of her requests: reintroducing the chance of alien abduction from the small telescope because there is none. This mod adds the same chance the big telescope has to trigger the abduction on the same interaction (Search for Truth, lev7+ logic skill) that maxis left out, Sims 2 syle. It's not boosted. No overrides, just a buff. Here is a picture because testing was hilarious.

Get Famous [NEW]

• No Reactions To Less Famous Sims : Old small tweak I've been asked to update. Stops celebrity Sims from getting excited about Sims that are less famous than they are.

• Celebrity Tweaks (*) : This goes to replace "Dancing is not Performing", because that mod wasn't mine and it required too many overrides while offering too little control. This new mod gives you full control over when you want the celebrity to be performing by adding a toggle "Perform for Crowd" (it can be used on NPC celebrities too), the Sim will shine while the option to perform is enabled. The option doesn't persist, it will be set back to off on changing area (including entering CAS). It also adds their own pie menu to celebrities and moves some hard to find interactions (fame shine, walk style toggle, disguise) into such pie menu, and adds an interaction to wear the disguise directly from the Sim without using a mirror.

GAME PACKS

Realm of Magic

• No Magic Sages Outfits : requested. This is already included in Expanded Realm of Magic, don't use it together with that mod.

• Remove Post Casting Animation : Removes the confident/smug animation spellcasters run after casting spells.

• Don't Turn NPCs into Spellcaster not needed anymore, the filter disappeared from the files.

Vampires

• No Pyjamas for Coffins  : I don't like vampires changing to sleep inside coffins.

Outdoor Retreat

• Create Campfire and Bonfire Everywhere (*) : allows creating a campfire everywhere on and off lot (natural ground only) by clicking on the terrain. Updated and moved from its own post.

STUFF PACKS

• No Hamster Costume for Rodent Ghosts  (My First Pet) : I hate the fucking obsession with these stupid costumes.

• Customisable Dust (Bust the Dust) (*): remade of a series of old mods to remove dust bunnies, the audio on dust state change and the dust piles. This time, you get to set it in game
  
  
  because I change my mind too often. By default:

  

  • Dust bunnies only spawn in Glimmerbrook and the fairy world.

  • Audio doesn't play.

  • Dust piles are allowed to spawn.

  You can choose your preferred settings from the front door.

• Mop The Dust  (Bust the Dust) (*) : Allows for getting rid of the dust with a mop or broom instead of the vacuum.