Events Overhaul - Invite Anyone
It's a small overhaul that enables to invite any Sim to almost all in-game events. Most events use the same filter for guests so those events are covered in 1 file. Other events are using specific filter for specific events so for these I made a separate package for each event, you can choose which to leave or delete.
I did this small change, cause it drived me crazy that my Sim can't invite for example partner's parents when they are not friends... I mean, you don't need to love everyone, sometimes you invite aunt never seen in your life, sometimes you invite your husband family to meet them. Sometimes you want to throw a party and invite everyone from your school even without knowing them ;) Now it's possible. I created this for myself, but I though, why not share, maybe it will be useful for you too :) I changed only that, cause I didn't need any other changes for these events. I just wanted to invite more Sims :D
Family Reunion - I added new category for invitees: Guests - you can invite anyone from the save, even unknown Sims. Family category will enable inviting family and friends, as before, but now it will apply to entire household, not only the Sim creating an event.
Toddler Hangout - it makes possible to invite any toddler existing in the save, you don't need to know this toddler. When invited, their parents/caregivers also automatically come. It drived me crazy that my adult Sim needed to know toddlers to invite them. Now making friends between toddlers is easier.
For below events, you can now also invite any Sim from the save, without knowing them, but you still can filter by friends, family, cooworkers etc.:
Baby Shower
Dance Party
Slumber Party
Funeral
Wedding (Personalized, from My Wedding Stories)
Other Events - this includes: Birthday party, Wedding (simple one), Kava party, Keg party and almost all other events that you can find in the game, as they all use the same filter for guest.
Ballroom - for Grand Ball from Royalty & Legacy EP, don't ask me why I named it Ballroom instead of Grand Ball or simply Ball, I already uploaded it everywhere so I won't change it :/
Additionally I overwrriten this interaction to also invite not known Sims:
Phone interaction Invite Over
Inviting to Dynasty - with addition for dynasty you can add to dynasty any family member, even the ones that dislike you or hate you. I didn't like the fact that some more distant relatives couldn't be added unless higher friendship level was reached.
Events I did not include and I don't plan to: Charity Benefit Event and Lampoon Party - because I think current filter is actually good, you can invite Sims that you don't know but they need to have specific level of reputation, which I find understandable.
Overwritten files, so you can check for conflicts with other mods:
Toddler Hangout:
filter_Toddler_HasMet_NotBusy_NotInHousehold
Family Reunion
Situation_FamilyReunion
job_guest_FamilyReunion
filter_PartyGuest_FamilyReunion
Baby Shower
filter_PartyGuest_HasMetHousehold
Dance Party
filter_ages_tyae_hasMet_notBusy_allowGhosts
Slumber Party
filter_HasMet_PCTYAE_AllowedInDay_HasMetHousehold
Funeral
filter_Funeral_Guest
Wedding (Personalized, from My Wedding Stories)
filter_PartyGuest_HasMetHousehold
filter_HasMet_IPCTYAE_AllowedInDay_HasMetHousehold
Other Events
filter_PartyGuest
Phone interaction Invite Over
phone_Picker_Invite_Over
Ballroom
filter_PartyGuest_TYAE_HasMetHousehold
Dynasty
filter_Dynasty_HasMetNotMember
testSet_Dynasty_Membership_JoinWillingness_PickedSim
testSet_Dynasty_Membership_JoinWillingness_TargetSim
Files are separated after the unzipping, you can choose if you want to keep all, or only one of them.
Conflicts
It will conflict with mods overriding the same files.
LMS mod - Small Invite to Hang Out Overhaul - unfortunately I can't make my mod compatible with this mod. If you prefer LMS version, you need to remove my file - "ilkavelle_EventsOverhaul_InviteAnyone_InviteOverAnyone.package". Both mods simply have different aims, so work slightly differently. The difference is not big, especially after the patch with more family relationships. Thanks to this patch, while using my mod you can also now filter by family and see more family members, also these unknown.
Change log:
05/07/2026:
- updated for the last patch 30th of June
- added option for Grand Ball (from Royalty & Legacy EP)
- added option for Dynasties (with this file you don't need to be friend with a family member to add tchem to the dynasty).
28/02/2026 - updated for all February patches
05/11/2025 - updated for Patch 4th of November (1.119.109)
21/09/2025 - added override of the phone interaction Invite Over - now you can invite anyone. If you don't want to have this part, just delete the correspoinding package file.
20/09/2025 - fixed for Patch 18th September (1.118.242)
15.08.2025 - extended to almost all EA events, changed the name
Comments (29)
having trouble with the invite to hangout at current lot using this, the UI is not working
I didn't really change anything big there to cause UI issues. Do you get any error with this? If yes, send me to ilkavelle@gmail.com for investigation, it might be some conflict.
I have Frequently Basic's Invite anyone to Dynasty. I'm not seeing a problem, but I'm no expert. It just gives you ability to pick any sim. It has nothing to do with if they know them or are willing to join. It just nabs who ever you pick. When you have the time, could you do a quick peek? I really don't want to choose, and you're old version of this is still seeming fine.
Hi, so it seems this mod is overriding completely different files, so you can use both. But since Frequently Basic's mod gives the possibility to pick ANY Sim, it will have overriding effect :) So you can use both, no issue here, but you will only see their effect, I hope it's clear :)
Hi does this work for getaways too?
I always forget to check if that's my mod (the existing already parts) or just how gataways are made but what I noticed is that you can invite to getaways unknown sims, but the pool of Sims to be chosen depends on the filters you set. I didn't make any specific changes to gataways because I got lost in this system (there's too many files and I couldn't figure out which one is responsible for this particular function) and I decided to leave it as it is.
Hello, does this mod have a built in add on to invite more than 15 ppl ? And if not so, will it conflict with mods allowing that ? tysm in advance 4 the reply
Hi, only family reunion part might conflict with this mod, because I alter there a file where it's precised. In general no, I don't have in this mod the add on to invite more than 15 ppl. I simply recommend you to try both mods and see if the other one is working fine.
Is this updated to the lost legacies update? I can invite anyone to parties but I don't have all the additional party options like baby shower etc..
All files were updated. But what do you mean you don't have all additional party options? You can have baby shower party if you buy Growing Together Ep. Don't you have this option with this pack?
is this mod work for grand ball invite?
No, I checked today. I will need to add it.
Does this work with club invites? I'd love to be able to add strangers to my clubs! If not, no big deal, I'll keep looking. I love your work, thank you for what you do!
I don't remember. I need to check, also I need to check for invitees for gateaways from Adventure Awaits pack.
Hello, im having issues inviting people to a dance party. I held countless dance parties before the patch with 40-50 invited. However now i can only invite a handful with the same save game. I know they added a lot of relations things to this patch so im thinking the filter might need a update? Thank you for all the hard work and mods 馃樈
Hi, I updated this mod, yes, but it has nothing to do with number of invitees. It's changed in other file that I do not touch in this mod. Maybe you had another mod that was altering this, and now you don't have it anymore? Or some settings of another mod, that was changing this, got reset?
Thank you so much for this mod! It's EXACTLY what I was looking for! Do you plan to add compatibility for events from other mods? (like lazyneiph's Royalty Mod)
Thank you <3 Sorry, but I can't modify other people's mods :) If they use "guest job" from the game, there is chance my mod will work with their events as well. In other cases, I think you might just ask them to enable all Sims to come :) they can easily modify it on their own :)
Thank you for this mod <3
I deleted some that I had other mods for like baby shower (pandasama) just in case it would conflict and Plumbuddy is not happy about it and says the ones I deleted are hard required. But I read it again and you said delete what you don鈥檛 want. Is Plumbuddy wrong or am I? 馃檲 I deleted Baby Shower, Wedding, Funeral
Of course it could be wrong, because it was me that had to manually set this settings and I was doing it for the first time for all my mods. I will have to review what I did wrong. Settings requirements for some of my mods was not an easy cake!
YES! Perfect! Thank you!
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This is amazing 鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍 It always bugged me that when inviting friends, I couldn鈥檛 invite their Plus-One that my sim didn鈥檛 meet yet.
Yay! I love to create useful mods :D happy that it will be useful for you!
OMG I've been doing the 100 baby challenge and have been so frustrated trying to host a toddler party. Thank you for this, I'm excited to try it!
omg, 100 baby challenge, never tried it hahaha :D good luck with it!
"Family Reunion - I added new category for invitees: Guests - you can invite anyone from the save, even unknown Sims. Family category will enable inviting family and friends, as before. I did this small change, cause again, it drived me crazy that my Sim can't ivnvite partner's parents when they are not friends... I mean, it's family, you don't need to love everyone, sometimes you invite aunt never seen in your life, sometimes you invite your husband family to meet them. Now it's possible. Unfortunately this was the only way cause the game does not specify relationships like mother-in-law etc, or anyone more distant." I wish all events had this option. I mean, consider WEDDINGS. You can't invite your fiance's *best friend* or family unless you know them yourself. If you bought Wedding Stories you can each separately ask someone to be your sim of honour, ring bearer, and flower pal, but those are the only people that the sim who is not the one who schedules the social event can invite to the party, just like any other event. It always breaks my immersion that I have to have children "plan a social event" to plan their own birthday parties in order to have their friends be able to attend.
You are so right. When I'm back, I'll add here this for weddings and birthdays.