Mirai's Medieval Activities Add-On

14 December 2025 edit: unfortunately, it looks like Mirai's mod is currently badly broken, so same applies to my add-on. Please don't download until further notice!

08 January 2025 edit: the files have been updated, please redownload!

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Would you like to make your game a bit harder? Constantly worry that your sims might starve themselves to death? Or just add another touch of realism? If yes, look no further! Those add-ons are guaranteed to turn your TS4 into a survival simulator and give you a decent amount of frustration and stress :P

Here come two little add-ons for MiraiM's Medieval Activities mod. In case you haven't heard of it: it adds a new option under 'Travel' cellphone menu, called - you guessed it - Medieval Activities, which lets your sims pick from a list of rabbithole... well... medieval(ish) activities. While most of them are indeed distinctly medieval, some can be used also in other eras - especially the first one, which makes your sim go to the woods and collect logs. Your sim returns from this rabbithole activity with a bunch of logs in their inventory (plus a tense moodlet and tragic hygiene stats), which can later be sold for a decent amount of money. Unless... You download add-ons which make those logs necessary for using certain objects.

I fell in love with this mod the moment I found it, but was a bit disappointed to see the logs being (optionally) required only for otg stoves and fireplaces - both of which I'm not allowed to use in the iron age. I tried asking the creator if she could make an add-on for campfires as well, only to realise that the last post on her page was written half a year ago, not even by her, and it states that she's in a very bad health condition... And so, after overcoming the initial 'feeling like a total insensitive idiot' phase, I decided to give it a go myself.

There are two add-ons: one combined for campfires, bonfires and grills, and another one for the woodworking table. As for the amount of logs required, I totally made those numbers up, trying to adhere to some basic logic and Mirai's og stove & fireplace requirements:

• lighting a campfire: 3 logs

• lighting a bonfire: 5 logs (cause bonfires are bigger, right? And the fire seems to last much longer)

• adding a log: 1 log

• grilling anything: 2 logs

• woodworking: requirements vary depending on the size of the craftable; anywhere from 1 log (knifeblock) to 5 logs (bathtub, table)

All has been tested in game, of course, especially the campfire, and oh boy, let me just tell you: this combined with the off the grid and simple living challenges makes every simday a fight for survival. Which sounds pretty darn accurate for pre/protohistorical times, so... Hurray?

Anyway. Have, ehmmm... fun with it and... ehmmm... enjoy.

ABSOLUTELY, 100% requires Mirai's original mod to work. Don't put it in your mods folder if you don't have her Medieval Activities!

A hundred thanks to Mirai for creating such a cool mod in the first place. Sending you all my love and best wishes <3

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Altered resources (aka potential conflicts): 

• recipe tuning files for all the woodworking craftables

• campfire_AddLog (102352)

• campfire_Light (101940)

• grill_StartCrafting (35026)

• grill_StartCrafting_RequiredIngredients (261962)

• herbalism_BrewPotion_Grill (103875)

• bonfire_light (121477)

• bonfire_add_fuel (121485)