Nerdy Birdie Aspiration

To be set to public on 25th of November.

Story behind 

I can't release this aspiration without sharing with you some story behind it ;)

I started working on this one, having in mind my current legacy heir. And at first it was supposed to be focused only on learning aspect. But then I felt that I should add also some nerdish and geekish characteristics (which would fit perfectly my Sim). So I created another aspiration for only learning direction (and it's already released under Brainy Trainee name) and this one was rebranded ;)

But my Sim became a teen, before I managed to finish this aspiration. And while he was a great testing subject, he didn't officially complete this aspiration as a child. So I decided to make a teen version as well, with some small differences, to give him a chance. And voila!

Aspiration description

Summing up, this aspiration focuses on learning aspect as well as some activities stereotypically associated with nerds and geeks, like playing games, collecting stuff, watching and reading sci-fi and fantasy, being into mental skills. I didn't specify any particular collection to complete to give at least some small freedom of interests.

• Child version can be found under Mental aspirations category.

• Teens version can be found under Teenagers aspirations category from High School Years EP or my custom Teens category for base game version.

Reward Trait: Clever Spark - Sims with this trait learn mental skills faster, can get “Eureka!” moments from time to time and have some new discussions topics (8 new interactions are tied to this trait).

You can keep both - child and teen version of this mod in your game, but of course if your child Sim completes the child version, there is no need to complete teen one - as the reward is the same, and objectives differ only slightly.

Teen version is actually available in 2 forms - install only 1 of teen versions!

• [BG] - if you don't have High School Years EP

• [HSY] - if you have High School Years EP

Languages

*Note for translators: all 3 packages have exactly the same strings used. It's enough to translate 1.

• English - default, by me

• Polish - by me (I had issues with translating name of his aspiration ^^ if you come up with something better - please let me know ^^)

• French - by Kimikosoma, to download from here: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/mod-nerdy-birdie-par-ilkavelle-trad-fr

• Russian - by Origamika group (integrated)

• Dutch - by Kimberley (integrated)

Compatibility

It's base game compatible. If you have High School Years EP, you can choose teen version for [HSY] to have this aspiration under Teenagers aspiration category.

It doesn't override any files.

It requires my event mod: Science Fair

Change log:

28/02/2026 - updated for all February patches

7/12/2025 - not patch related, this update included some fixes, improvements and changes, also PlumbBuddy manifest was added. Details what exactly was changed for this mod can be found in this post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mods-update-145212977

24.01.2025 - fixed objective for reading fantasy or sci-fi books (at least I hope so I fixed it fully)