Thursday’s update had more bug fixes than expected, I discuss what was fixed and what of the more recent bugs wasn’t fixed. Have you updated your game? đ đ #Sims4 #Error123 #Sims4Bugs #LovestruckBugs Video link
I discuss some more information on the error 123 issue, some workarounds and mod fixes, as well as many other common bugs, and possible workarounds when available, since the Jul 23 update and a few Lovestruck bugs. đ đ Video link
Links referred to in video, including EA AHQ links:
Note that what I covered in my video, and also link below is what I’m seeing as popular issues since the July 23, 2024 updates and the later hot fix/e-patch updates that I noticed when looking through the Sims 4 bug section of EA AHQ.
Many thanks to the EA Creator Network for the code for the Lovestruck Expansion Pack.
Let’s play link TBA
Our Sims:
Cara Parker, in addition to the traits shown here, she is also creative and has a quick learner trait from choosing a knowledge aspiration.
Jefferson Parker, in addition to the traits shown here, he is a rancher and he also has a quick learner trait from choosing a knowledge aspiration. He is still romantically exploring, which is why it currently shows as romantically attracted to no one.
Iâm asking for some young adult single sims to be put on the gallery as potential love interest for these two sims, who are siblings. I will also use some in my longer Rags to Riches Lovestruck LP, but I am still avoiding that save due to the bugs in the game.
Please use #MapleLSSingles when you put them up and please let me know when you’ve done so, either here, on my video, in my Facebook group or on my discord. If you include your Gallery ID with your comment that will ensure I donât miss them.
Goals:
Look at the world.
Try and collect as many axolotls as we can.
Look at Cupidâs Corner and the new type of dates.
Explore the mystery of the ring and the blue bear âsammy bearâ aka ‘the ring bear’.
See how much of the two new aspirations we can get done.
See how the new traits affect gameplay as they both have one of the two new traits (the opposite ones).
Anything else that comes up along the way. Hopefully weâll get the 7 dates challenge!
If you have Crystal Creations, crystals have special properties when they are made into jewelry or cut gemstones and then charged on the ‘Mystical Moonlight Crystal Grid’ in the moonlight between 7 pm and 7 am, which is a live draggable object. Note that crystals charge fastest on a full moon and slowest on a new moon.
Note the ‘Mystical Moonlight Crystal Grid’ can be found under Activities & Skills, Outdoor Activities.
Common Crystals (Base Game):
Uncommon Crystals (Base Game):
Rare Crystals (Base Game):
Crystals from Crystal Creations, Get to Work & Jungle Adventures:
Crafting Jewelry & Cutting Gemstones:
Sims gain the gemology skill when crafting jewelry and cutting gemstones. They can also gain it when they dig up crystals and metals, so a good way to start is to go exploring!
Use ‘The All-in-One Gemology Table By Humphrey Inc.’ to make your jewelry and gemstones.
It can be found under under Activities & Skills, Creative, however note that the game considers this to be a ‘mental skill’, so I like to put a charged cut sapphire gemstone by the table to reduce the chances of them getting mental burnout & to keep them focuses, which is required for one part of the Crystal Crafter aspiration.
Start with nothing on an empty lot. I’ll be starting on Pebble Burrow in Oasis Springs.
Optional: No selling into personal inventory or equivalent* until you have purchased a yard sale table or street gallery.
You can make money from anything in your goal to complete the Making Money scenario.
Lifespan is up to you. Iâm using a long lifespan & aging up as certain goals are met.
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post or video.
*e.g. no selling off the plant, selling paintings to collector or similar
Crystal Creations Rags to Riches Goals:
Complete the Crystal Crafter Aspiration
Complete the Curator Aspiration.
Complete the Fortune Aspiration.
Complete the Making Money scenario.
Optional Goals I’ll be Doing:
Have all three teens complete the Overachiever aspiration.
Have all three teens complete the Admired Icon aspiration.
Have at least four character values be in a positive range before they age up (for all three teens).
If you’d like to play along with these teens, you can find them on the gallery.
24 While 24 Checklist Challenge:
My spreadsheet version of the goals with information on required packs where necessary:
Added Challenge – Remove the Lot Challenges:
Considering adding an element where I add most/all lot challenges and each one will have it’s own goal that needs to be met to remove it.
Lot Challenge (or equivalent) and required goal to remove it, draft version (I will leave this as an FYI, but if I do go ahead and finalize it, I will also show the final version):
See my separate post with an overview of the rules and optional goals that apply for all generations. Note you will be starting this generation with two sims, the oldest (i.e. heir, primary sim) and their next younger sibling (secondary sim) from the previous generation.
Bars/Nightclubs/Lounges/Karaoke Bars Note many of these unlocks access to Most CL Festivals
Note if doing this in the suggested order, the following lots would already be unlocked: Parks/National Parks/Myshuno Center, Wedding Venues, Beaches, and Gyms/Spas (unlocked in Generation One).
Generation Lot:
The Summery Home, (40×30, 3,000), Windslar neighbourhood of Windenburg (requires Get Together) or Garden Essence lot (40×30, 2,000 price) in the Foundry Cove neighbourhood of Willow Creek.
Get Together Trait (FYI Only):
Dance Machine. This is optional to give to any of your sims.
Skills:
Primary Skills to Focus on for the Primary Sim (older sibling): Cooking, Gourmet Cooking & Mixology. Optional, max Baking Skill (requires Get to Work).
Primary Skills to focus on for Secondary Sim (younger sibling): Violin, Piano, Guitar, DJ Mixing (Get Together) & if you have City Living, Singing Skill.
Careers & Aspirations:
Primary Sim (older sibling):
Career: Max Mixologist Branch of the cooking career.
Required Aspirations: Complete both base game cooking aspirations (Master Chef and Master Mixologist). Once you’ve completed both base game cooking aspirations, you can place/access bars/nightclubs in WC/OS/other worlds.
Optional Aspirations: Complete any/all other food aspirations. The other three food aspirations are the hidden Grilled Cheese Aspiration (base game), Expert Nectar Maker (Horse Ranch) and Appliance Whiz (Home Chef Hustle).
Secondary Sim (younger sibling):
Career: Max Musician Branch of the entertainer career.
Required Aspiration: Musical Genius
Optional Aspiration: : World-Famous Celerity
Once the younger sibling has completed their goals for their career, aspiration and maxed their required skills, you can place/access lounges and karaoke bars (this requires singing to be maxed) & access to most City Living festivals (Humor & Hijinks Festival needs the Art Center unlocked which gets unlocked in Generation Three).
Collection to Focus on for This Generation:
My Sims Trophies: minimum 16 of 20 unique trophies.
Developer livestream is scheduled for 11 am Pacific on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. It will be on their Twitch and their YouTube. Time Zone Converter for when the livestream will start in your own time zone: http://tinyurl.com/bdf94mcv
Base game update will be Tuesday, February 27, 2024 and the usual time for updates is 10 am Pacific. Time Zone Converter for when base game update will happen in your own time zone: http://tinyurl.com/4ztb8vwy
I also cover what I noticed was coming in the Base Game Update and some information from some tweets from after the Livestream.
Create a Sim
Showed the CAS for males and females, teen and up. Showed CAS for infants through children (female sim used)
They also mentioned the four new aspirations & five new traits, these were also mentioned in the blog post
Four New Aspirations:
Location: Fount of Tomarani Knowledge (all about wanting to explore the world & immerse themselves in this culture)
Deviance: Seeker of Secrets (all about snooping & having a ravenous appetite to know about your neighbours and the hot gossip)
Popularity: Discerning Dweller (all about wanting to be a great tenant & great neighbour too)
Fortune: Five-Star Property Owner (This Sim wants to be the best Property Owner the world has ever seen!)
Five New Traits:
Cringe,
Generous,
Nosey,
Child of the Village,
& Elder specific, Wise. You can assign wise if you create an elder sim or it maybe earned when a sim ages up to elder if they had level 10 logic or genius trait (but didnât seem to be guaranteed). Elders can also get it through the Growing Together self discovery system.
Build Mode
New hot tub has faux rock facades.
New grill, which is a reward for one of the two new events (reward for a good potluck)
New mailboxes â for single home, for duplex and for apartment
Marbles and hopscotch (only children can play with marbles, but anyone can collect. Hopscotch primarily for children, but teens and up can use).
For Rent signs (one for ground and one for wall)
No shoes from SE moved to Base Game. Can set it on shoe rack and there is a new sign for the For Rent pack.
Also showed new awnings, doors, rugs, curtains, curtain ârodâ
Pressure cookers and kettles.
Note new colours are being added to some base game appliances (so there are more colours to match the new pressure cookers and kettles & ice cream maker/popcorn maker)
Will also be able to boil water in microwave in addition to using the kettle.
Also showed new foods.
Mini fridge
Another narrow dishwasher (but needs full counter)
Squat toilets
Toddler potty
New plants
Water heater, air conditioner, electrical fuse box, solar water heater & radiator.
Water heater &electrical fuse box have gameplay associated with them for any lot.
Air conditioner and radiator have some functionality if you own seasons.
If you donât want functional ones, they have decorative versions.
Pool floatie (reward for the other social event, pool party).
Also showed the furniture, which was based around some different woods and some plastic chairs, new kitchen counters and more.
Dingy decals to make things look grungy and lived in.
Residential Rentals
Showed from map view some existing residential rentals.
Note they arenât just apartments, you can have duplexes, townhomes, in law suites and single room rentals.
They then showed how the tool worked using Pique Hearth (Pancakesâ home but placed in Newcrest).
They did who what it looked like with the cheat that removed the unit limits (cheat is: bb.increaserentalunitcap on/off )
They also stated that there is a save limit, which was already mentioned in the blog post (they said 100, but the blog post says 99 per save). Note Rebecca said she tried the limit, and she didnât recommend it. đ
Rating depends on whatâs in the unit, but thereâs nothing required.
They also mentioned the limitations. You canât build them on Sulani water lots, penthouses or in vacation worlds (also mentioned in the blog post).
Note if you want to start over, you can essentially assign all rooms to one unit and then start over.
World of Tomarang:
They showed the world, two neighbourhoods.
Morensong â bustling downtown/busy city with four lots including one that starts empty (40×30, they had their livestream family on it), a national park, a residential rental lot (has one premade family who owns the lot and one empty âapartmentâ) and regular residential starter home. This is also where the night market is, which seemed to start at 6 pm. There is a rabbit hole temple.
Koh Sahpa â more relaxed neighbourhood with two empty lots, a lounge (with the new hot tub), a regular residential lot with a premade family & another residential rental with three units, one of which is empty, the other two are occupied by the premade family from the gameplay trailer. This has the tiger sanctuary, which is a rabbit hole.
I heard third hand that the lots were built by EA.
Gameplay:
They showed their livestream family.
There are few things that will pull things out of their units into the common space. Theyâve tweaked autonomy so that sims are more likely to use exercise equipment, grills, do gardening, use laundry (if you have Laundry Day and use laundry). They also mentioned that the mold ghost has some interesting interactions for gardening but that they hadnât had any luck getting a mold ghost during their practice runs.
The lot they had built had the main home and two rental units which both had a bedroom and bathroom, and the living room and kitchen were shared space.
Coming to base game is the ability to switch to a household by selecting the door/lot, vs having to go to manage worlds (though you can still go to manage worlds).
They showed renting out the third unit (the second unit was rented by the male simâs father). They showed the âFill Vacancyâ screen. Maintenance starts as âpoorâ.
They showed some of the rules you can activate. No Noise, No Loud Noises, Maximum Occupancy (infants donât count towards it), No Trash Overload, No Ghosts and they thought there was also a No Pets rule but they were only playing with base game and For Rent.
There have been some sims added who will be available to rent out to. You can rent to sims who arenât already living in the world.
Note they show the option to âunjustly evictâ which can change to be âjustly evictâ if the tenants have broken rules/not paid rent, etc. But if you unjustly evict you may be subject to fines.
They show the rabbit hole temple thatâs in the Morensong neighbourhood. Thereâs a childrenâs play area in the neighbourhood area. They also showed the night market area. They show a rabbit hole building thatâs a Fish Market where you can buy food.
Night Market:
Lights up at night, seemed to start at 6 pm.
Craft Stall: Thereâs a craft stall where you can buy various things, including two different tassels, which are collectibles you can find throughout the world through various means and as you discover them you unlock lore and when you complete the collection you unlock an item. You can also get marbles, which is the second collection that comes with the pack.
Food Stalls:
There are three food stalls, Vegetarian, Drinks & Desserts, and Non-Vegetarian.
They then travelled to the Hoh Sahpa neighbourhood.
The Tiger Sanctuary (rabbit hole), is close to the lounge. Itâs not open at night, but you can sneak in, but if you get caught you may get banned (they didnât get caught but had gotten caught on previous attempts while doing trial runs for the livestream). During the day you can Visit or Support the sanctuary. You can experience fun and interesting stories, and if you support the sanctuary, you may be able to bring home âsomething adorableâ (I expect the toy tiger). They got a pop up for sneaking in and had a choice of two options and got some animal crackers. You can see glowing eyes at night (the tigers).
They also show some nosy interactions (spying on sims).
Thereâs a âcaveâ in this neighbourhood that you can explore and learn more lore.
They then show âbreaking inâ (not the same as burglars). If youâre successful, there will be a timed event and your sim can snoop and may learn a secret about the sim who lives on the lot. If you donât leave before the break in event ends, your sim may (will?) get caught. They showed an example of a secret you can learn. You can break in on a regular residential lot too. Also note that this is something you can initiate, this is not burglars, itâs really for snooping. Note that you need to be a kleptomaniac to be able to steal. Note that you can blackmail them (this will hit the relationship, but you can earn money) or you can keep the secret, which can help boost the relationship.
They then returned home before the break in event ended.
They showed the pressure cooker and kettle. The pressure cooker is something that they put the food in and then leave it to cook. The kettle you turn on to boil and you can leave. Once itâs boiled, you can choose from the various options (different teas, which they showed, coffee and hot chocolate).
They also showed the mold. They were allergenic mold piles. They cleaned up the ones in the kidsâ bedroom. Mold can form if you have the lot challenge on, which can be on any lot, and you need to leave plumbing dirty for it to spawn. The sims seemed to be dazed from the mold.
Note that there is a second lot challenge that is available for regular residential lots âmaintenance troublesâ. This is a default âchallengeâ for residential rentals (so itâs not available to turn on or off). For the mold piles, you can clean them, destroy them with fire or you can deploy a âMold-B-Gone Bomb for 750 simoleons. The latter gets rid of all the mold, they showed it at the end). Your sim will dress in a bio hazard suit when cleaning/deploying the Mold-B-Gone Bomb, so there doesnât appear to be an exterminator you hire.
They showed a maintenance event. You can hire someone to look after it (two options, cheap contractor and expensive contractor) or your sim as the landlord can look after it themselves or they can leave the tenant to deal with it. Thereâs a water leak, haunting event, they mentioned insects too. So, there are different types of maintenance events.
After the maintenance event, they used dev cheats to put down a toxic mold pile (which made me think it takes some time for it to get that bad). They then demonstrated getting rid of the mold with fire (which gave them the fear of fire). They let the fire go for long enough to get rid of the mold pile, and then they put the fire out. They then got rid of the rest using the Mold-B-Gone Bomb. That got rid of the rest of the mold.
Some Early Access Content went live after the walkthrough. This was only Base Game and For Rent and was an early version, so there could be difference from what comes out next week.
Base Game Update:
Bug fixes from Laundry List (see my separate video).
In addition to the noted bug fixes, it seemed like there are some small âquality of sim lifeâ changes coming in the base game update:
Sinks can be assigned as being bathroom, kitchen, or all (see tweet)
You can switch to a different household from live mode (on the apartment or lot).
More swatches for the expensive base game fridge, stove, microwave, and coffee maker so they will match the new appliances and existing ice cream maker/popcorn maker (the latter two require Cool Kitchen or Movie Stuff packs respectively).
Snowy Escape ‘remove shoes’ option coming to base game.
SimGuruNova Tweets re the Pack from After the Gameplay Walkthrough:
A lot more gameplay, it couldnât all be shown in one short play through as they happen naturally over time (i.e. more time in game was required).
Answer re where landlords can live/how many properties they can own:
Number of secrets:
Blackmailing vs keeping secrets:
Tomarang âTruthsâ that can be learned from premade Tomarani Sims:
If you have any questions, need troubleshooting help or want to share your own Sims game play with other friendly Simmers please head over to my Facebook group, Sims Sanctuary or my Discord
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