[Released]Final Notice: The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion is coming! What you need to know.
Waaaa! Waaahhh! Waaaagghhh!
You hear that?! It’s not the sound of infants, it’s the sound of countless mod authors crying into the long night before the brand new The Sims 4 Growing Together Expansion releases!
With the brand new expansion just around the corner, there are a few things you should know so that you are best prepared. First, every pack release comes with a ‘pre-patch.’ The pre-patch tends to break the most mods by applying the core changes needed for the game to support the new pack. This means that even if you aren’t planning to buy the new Growing Together Expansion Pack, your mod folder can still join in on the fun carnage. The Pre-Patch is releasing tomorrow (March 14th) with the expansion releasing later on March 16th.
But, as always, your favorite modders are all working to pick apart the many changes the pre-patch and later the expansion will bring to the game. While it can be difficult to predict how long your favorite mods will be out of commission, it typically takes us (TURBO, Basemental, and me) few hours to about 2 days to release a patch depending on how many fundamental systems are altered! I’ll be in discord while patching tomorrow for those who want a more up to the moment prediction for how the patch is going, but for those who don’t use discord, I’ll be silently updating this post here with progress to keep you informed with how the patch is coming.
If you plan to play your modded sims 4 while we are working on the patch then I highly recommend you disable updates. There are now two ways to go about this. If you have Origin installed then click Origin in the upper left -> application settings -> disable automatic game updates, then origin tab again and hit ‘go offline.’ If you have the new EA app installed then hit the 3 horizontal bars in the upper left corner -> Settings -> hit the download tab just below settings (It’s not immediately obvious it’s a tab) then click off update games automatically, I’d probably disable Enable Background downloads just to be safe too. Then hit the 3 horizontal bars again and hit ‘go offline.’ This should prevent the sims 4 from auto-updating while your Mod Authors work on patches for you.
Growing Together Pre-Patch Status[Released]:
EA App is fighting with me! Don't worry, it gave me a very informative error messages about a 'network thing' being broken. lol, lmao even. Just keep trying guys, if you login but you see your library is missing, then exit the app and keep trying again! You'll get in eventually!
Pre-Patch released, downloaded, decompiling and analyzing now.
Patching in Progress.
Growing Together Pack Status[Released]:
Pack released, downloaded, decompiled and analyzing now!
WW Patch decompiled and Analyzed.
WW Patching finished.
Patch released for Patrons, unless serious errors are found, expect the Public patch out shortly. If there is something found causing delays, I'll post about it here.
Patrons can find the hotpatch here.
The public patch is now live too! Thank you for your support!
As always, thank you for your patience and understanding while your modders work to get patches out asap!
Comments (14)
where are the download links?
please how do i remove the red band from my sim
You can disable them on the settings menu (found on the tam explorer on any computer) under the beauty settings, or you can try using `nisa.removetatts` in the command console while the tatted (tattooed) sim is your active sim.
Please let the striptease prostitute Make the dancers prostitute in the strip club
Have there been any content updates to this mod since succubus?
Please see the post above. Nisa K is resting. She is sick and cannot update.
Hey, as soon as I started my gameplay, I got this message Ver 2.2.6j at Time: Sat Mar 18 10:40:29 2023 on Windows with WW v177.1 and Basemental 7.17.199 on 1.96.365.1030 Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\\Python3_7_0\\version_vault\\patreon\2_2_6j\NisaK\utilities\hazard_detector.py", line 84, in wrapper File "E:\\Python3_7_0\\version_vault\\patreon\2_2_6j\NisaK\wickedmermaids\tuning_injection.py", line 53, in mermaid_injections File "E:\\Python3_7_0\\version_vault\\patreon\2_2_6j\NisaK\wickedmermaids\injection_library\weather.py", line 176, in edit_reaction_loot_actions_late File "E:\\Python3_7_0\\version_vault\\patreon\2_2_6j\NisaK\wickedmermaids\injection_library\weather.py", line 176, in AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'guid64'
Thank you for the LE Trayona! This is saying a trait on a loot action related to weather detection which should be there, isn't there. My guess is that I'm injecting into a resource which another mod author also edited but not updated yet. Think of anything else you may have installed related to weather or mermaids. To verify it isn't a problem with WP, try doing a minimal install. Rename your mods folder to like mods2, create a new mods folder. Then copy BMD WW, WP, and the resource.cfg file. Load into your game, but don't save (saving will cause your cc missing sims to remain nude), if no LE then it's from a mod conflict and you'll need to do the 50/50 method to figure out which mod is broken. Let me know what you find out as it can help others!
Only took a small peak of the new update. New social branches must be a pain to update the mod with
It wasn't so bad for me, the real troubles for me was reading the massive amounts of changes this pack brought to the base game and fixing occults (idk why they had to change anything related to occults with this pack, omg!) and prostitution situations. The patch should be out shortly!
Good luck with the patch. I look forward to it - my girl is stuck just doing stripper work until it's done! LOL
Take your time please, we can wait we don't have a choice. Good luck with the patch
got but now I keep getting error messages about exceptions, now i cant play at all
Yes, new game patch broke a lot of mods today. It looks like this game patch will take a while to fully patch for. I wouldn't expect a hotpatch tonight. I don't think it'll take more than another day or two but we'll see. Lots of changes to interactions, pathing, routing, carry restraints, not to mention a new age state. I'm still going over everything.