Autonomous Wants
Let your Sims express more of their personalities by autonomously pursuing their Wants.
🔽 Download: CurseForge / SFS
Supported Languages: All 🌍
Patch Resilience: High ℹ️
Autonomous Wants makes Wants a meaningful part of your Sims’ personalities. Instead of remaining mere suggestions, they become impulses your Sims can act on. Every so often, Sims in your active household check their current Wants, and when the right Sim, object, or opportunity is nearby, they may get up and pursue one on their own!
How It Works
Every Sim in your played household now has a hidden Fulfillment commodity that gradually decays over time. The longer their Wants are ignored, the stronger their urge to act on one autonomously becomes.
When a Sim decides to act, the mod searches for a real way to satisfy one of their Wants. It might find the right object, a crafting station that can make the requested item, or a nearby Sim who fits the goal. If nothing suitable is available, the Sim carries on with their day as usual, and the Want stays on hold until the right opportunity turns up.
Want selection is weighted by urgency:
Reactionary Wants are most likely to be chosen while they are still relevant.
Short-term Wants receive moderate priority.
Long-term Wants remain in the background until the right opportunity arises.
Fear-related Wants are not considered at this time (future update).
📌 Any Wants you pin are excluded from autonomy, leaving them for you to complete yourself. 📌
Completing any Want, whether autonomously or with your direction, restores Fulfillment. The amount restored depends on the Want type: Reactionary Wants provide a small boost, Short-Term Wants restore more, and completing a Long-Term Want fills the meter entirely. Sims also recover gradually while making meaningful progress toward larger goals, such as writing a novel or crafting for several hours.
Custom Wants work automatically as long as they use the game’s standard goal structure. Many of MissyHissy's custom wants, for instance, work out of the box.
Additional Effects
Sims whose Wants have been neglected for a while gain Fun more slowly.
A Sim who arrives at work with a career tone Want, such as Slack Off, Work Hard, or Make Connections, has a chance to autonomously choose that tone for the day.
A Sim who Wants to listen to music will choose a genre they like and avoid any genres they dislike.
Exceptions
Autonomous Wants currently ignores the following Wants:
Fears and Confrontation Wants. A separate system for these is planned.
Buy Mode and Build Mode Wants.
Travel Wants. Wants that require visiting another lot or world are not autonomously pushed.
Career-changing Wants. Autonomous Wants will not make Sims join, change, or quit careers.
Relationship-changing Wants. Autonomous Wants will not initiate proposals, weddings, breakups, new friendships, rivalries, or similar life-changing decisions. A separate system for these is planned.
Rare or highly context-dependent Wants. This includes goals such as collecting a specific item at a specific festival.
Your Sims can still fulfill any of these themselves; Autonomous Wants simply will not do it for them.
Compatibility
This mod does not directly overwrite any game files so it will not conflict with other mods.
This mod is base game compatible
This mod was made possible by Sims 4 Studio and Tuning Builder.
Comments (29)
Hi tyjokr! I absolutely adore your work. I can’t even imagine playing without your mods, as they are truly top tier! As they say, may your pillow always be cold. I’m wondering if there’s any way to translate the script strings or put these strings in .package file? for when a Sim e.g. asks another Sim on a date, specifically (If that is of course possible): A sim {} wants to Will you allow this? Allow Not Now
Thank you for the update regarding heirlooms!
Hi, I have a question, does this mod automatically make sims create heirlooms out of the stuff around them? I was trying to find a mod to stop it happening since they seem to do this every 5 minutes and it was driving me crazy. I was getting help from Waffle Mix-Ins over the issue and they brought up that it may be this mod, though I'm not able to test it since I'm not home at the moment, but I wanted to try and gather information in the mean time and figured I'd ask if autonomous heirloom making was in fact a thing. Thank you for your time!
Could be if there’s a heirloom want. I’ll check later and may have to block it if so.
hii just asking is this mod supposed to make all of the thought bubble wants dissapear? because everytime i go in my game i cant see any wants anymore
The mod wouldn’t be able to make them disappear. Sounds like you have wants disabled in settings.
This is genius! So much love for this idea!
I'm a wants-based player primarily and this is everything! I never truly got into TS4, but it is yet another mod of yours which makes me want to come back to it and try again. Truly exceptional work. Respect 🙌.
Sorry to show up with another bug, but I've also noticed that sims with the Want to Mentor a child's homework will autonomously mentor any sim with their homework, regardless of age. So far, my sim has tried to mentor her new infant and her husband 😅 If you let the action play out fully, they even get the respective moodlets for it. Probably unintended behaviour, hopefully not a tough fix or anything! (Also ty for the mod work, even with these couple issues the mod has been really nice to play with so far!)
No worries haha. I'll fix this as well!
I'd need to do more testing to be sure, but I think this mod is ignoring the base Disable Autonomy settings (both "disable for active sim" and fully disabling it) - I tend to swap between settings a lot depending on how actively I'm managing Sims/how many I have in the current household, so it's complicating things a bit there. Not sure if it's possible to factor that in or not, but thought I'd mention it in case its fixable!
It's fixable! I will update the mod to account for the setting.
I’ve had this mod in for like an hour and it’s already been a game changer for me! My sims feel more individualized and they’re doing things that are more in line with their traits! Tyjokr you are amazing!!!
Oh the goat that you are!!🥹
Will this work with Adeepindigo’s Errant Wants mod?
I don’t see why not
Tyjokr, i just want to say i love this mod, in my experience, its actually working when sims autonomously do stuff from their wants thought bubbles, i cant wait for everything else to be added to the mod! its going to change everything!
Thank you! Yes, adding the other stuff will add a lot more fun to the mix.
Been soo fun playing with this, been interesting to see Shady sims just randomly leave the lot and go on heists lol. Thank you so much for being in this community, your mods change the game for the better every time.
Thank you. I really appreciate the kind words. I'm happy it's adding to your enjoyment of the game!
This is impressive! Can't wait to try this out 😁
This one is made me a supporter! Thank you so much for bringing your big-brain creativity to this game, truly makes all the difference with my enjoyment with my lil sims~ Just to clarify, using this mod means I do not have to use MissyHissy's Custom Wants mod with her other want-changing mods? Thank you!
No problem! And this mod works with her custom wants, but you’ll still need her custom wants if you play with her mods. My mod doesn’t add any new wants.
Goat！you are my God！
Love this! 😍
Just to clarify, even mods that alter the want system (like Bricklion's wants and reactions overhaul) will be compatible?
Yes, completely compatible!
Oooh, can't wait
Just brilliant! Thanks!