🌩️ WILD WEATHER — Frozen Pipes & Heat Waves Update
🌩️ WILD WEATHER — Frozen Pipes & Heat Waves Update
Winter and summer just got a lot more dangerous. This drop adds two brand-new survival systems to Wild Weather — one for the coldest nights, one for the hottest days — plus the usual round of polish. Read on. ⛄🔥
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❄️ NEW: FROZEN & BURST PIPES
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When a blizzard rolls in, your pipes are on the clock.
• 🧊 HARD FREEZE WATCH — the storm hits and you get a heads-up notification. You've got a little while before the cold sinks in.
• 🚱 PIPES FREEZE — leave them unprotected and every toilet, sink, tub and shower on the lot freezes solid. Nobody's flushing, washing, or showering until they thaw.
• 💥 A PIPE BURSTS — ignore frozen pipes for too long and one bursts. Now you've got a real mess, and there's no waiting it out — it needs a repair.
• 🔧 GET IT FIXED — call the in-game repair service, or fix it yourself if your Sim is handy. (Repairing a frozen pipe before it bursts saves you the disaster.)
• ☀️ NATURAL THAW — pipes that only froze (and didn't burst) thaw on their own once the blizzard passes and it warms back up.
🚰 HOW TO PREVENT IT:
Before a hard freeze, click any Sim → Wild Weather → "Drip the Sinks." They'll walk to a sink, leave the tap trickling, and that running water keeps the whole house's pipes from freezing overnight — completely free. Just remember to do it again for the next cold snap!
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🔥 NEW: HEAT WAVES
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Summer can now turn deadly.
• 🌡️ A heat wave cranks the temperature to blazing — this is REAL heat danger, not just an uncomfortable moodlet. Sims left out in it can overheat and, yes, even suffer heatstroke.
• 🏃 Caught-outside Sims automatically flee for the safety of indoors.
• ❄️ Inside, they'll crank the AC (if you have the Seasons cooling options) and grab cold drinks to cool down.
• 🥵 Reaction moodlets: Sims who tough it out get "Sweltering," and those who make it through earn "Braved the Heat."
• 📢 A "Heat Advisory" warning fires so you're never caught off guard.
Heat waves roll in on their own during summer, or summon one any time with a cheat.
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✅ EVERYTHING ELSE IN WILD WEATHER
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(all previously released — still here, still improving)
• 🌪️ Tornadoes — warnings, sirens, shelter, storm damage & cleanup
• 🌨️ Blizzards & Snow Days — whiteouts, school closures, power outages
• 🌑 Solar Eclipses — midday darkness + a "Watch the Eclipse" moment
• 🤧 Seasonal Allergies — only some Sims are pollen-prone; medicine helps
• 📺 Meteorologist Career — full 10 levels, branches into TV Personality or Storm Chaser
• 😱 Fear & reaction moodlets, storm insurance, forecasts, and more
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📥 INSTALL
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1. Requires The Sims 4: SEASONS.
2. Unzip and drop BOTH files (WildWeather.package + WildWeather.ts4script) into your Mods folder.
3. Make sure Script Mods are enabled in Game Options → Other.
4. Fully restart the game.
⚙️ Don't want a feature? Every weather type can be toggled off — e.g. type `weather.disable plumbing` in the cheat console (shift+ctrl+c) to skip frozen pipes, or `weather.enable plumbing` to bring it back. Same for tornado, blizzard, snowday, eclipse, allergy, and heatwave.
Thank you so much for supporting Wild Weather 💙 Stay warm, stay cool, and keep those sinks dripping!