Autonomy Tweaks (Re-Post)

A series of mods that tweak Sims autonomous behaviour without removing autonomy altogether, or in some cases enable autonomous actions.

Some packages have overrides. Some packages require the Core Library (*)

UPDATES: 

26/09/2025 (sort by last updated on GDrive) [^]

G-Drive Folder

Base game

• Bar : Limits the "bar make drink" autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the object.

• Chess [^] : Limits the "play chess" autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the object.

• Clean Up Toys : Limits autonomy to neat Sims and stops visitors from running the interactions.

• Coffee/Tea : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the object.

• Dance : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• Drink : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. Sims can only autonomously grab drinks from the kitchen sink if set.

• Food : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from grabbing snacks or cooking.

• Grill : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from grabbing snacks or cooking. Also limits the clean grill behaviour.

• Instruments [^] : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the objects.

• PC/Videogames [^] : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• Phone/Tablet [^] : Limits the autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the tablet.

• Reading : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• Stereo : No turning on stereos while a Sim is sleeping.

• Talk to Plants [^] : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• TV [^] : Limits the autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the object.

• View Art : There are a lot of "view" interactions in game and they're all autonomous. This mod blocks most of them and limits the "view art" and "view sculpture" autonomy to museums and art centres.

• Wash Hands [^] : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• Watch Performance [^] : I'm sure you noticed too that the moment a Sim grabs an instrument all the Sims around rush to watch the performance even if they're just practising. This mod limits the behaviour.

Expansion Packs

Get To Work

• Vending Machine (GTW Only) [^] : Limits the autonomous behaviour.

City Living

• Bubble Blower CL : Increases the cooldown between uses.

• Singing : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

Discover University

• Juice Keg DU : Increases the cooldown between uses.

• Soccer DU : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

Seasons

• Seasons Play Interactions : Limits autonomy for some seasons interactions like playing on the swing to children and teens only (autonomy only)

• Weather : this one isn't strictly autonomy, it decreases the chances to be hit by lightning by discouraging outside interactions.

Cottage Living

• Watch Animals : Stops Sims from obsessing over the bird house from cottage living and especially from running the autonomy when it's raining or at night.

• Cross Stitching : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

Horse Ranch

• Horses in the Rain : Maxis didn't bother adding a system to force horses under a roof while there is a storm outside like they did for pets. This fixes it by forcing horses to find a horse bed inside a building during storms.

Lovestruck

• Watch Sky/Starry Sky : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. This interaction is very aggressive and disrupts gameplay when you have a couple and a lovechair on the lot, they get obsessed with watching the sky. Also, the NPC interaction had no time limit so Sims don't stop even if their needs are very low. The mod stops NPCs from picking sims on roles (like bartender) or the selected sim for this autonomy. It also blocks the autonomy unless sims are flirty.

Game Packs

• Campfire [^] : Limits the light campfire autonomy to Granite Falls.

• Cooler (Merged with BG food and drink): Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• Gross Interactions (Parenthood) [^] : Limits autonomy to Bad Manners Sims or Slob Sims (if they didn't get the Good Manners trait)

• Make a Mess [^] : stop kids from making a mess in community lots

• Yoga  : Tunes down autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the objects.

• Plasma Packs : adds a restriction to only drink plasma packs autonomously when the vampire actually needs it so they don't consume them all in 5 minutes.

Stuff Packs

• Ice Cream : Limits the autonomous behaviour. Stops visitors from using the object.

• TV Workout : Enables autonomous TV workout.

• Knitting : Limits the autonomous behaviour.

• Rocking Chair : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.

• Globe Bar : Tunes down autonomous behaviour.