June 30 Patch Status and Mod News

Hey All,

Hope you're staying cool and dry! I've been, unfortunately, run down the last week and so I've been having to play catch up; apologies. But the good news is that the patch didn't really affect any of my mods. I have just a couple of updates for you unrelated to it, though. I have been really busy both with real life and modding. I have A LOT to share so be warned this is a looong post but I think you'll be excited you're getting what you asked for and some things you didn't even think to :)

Patrons, your new and improved Healthcare Redux just got even more additions - medical leave, work injuries, worker's comp claims, medical records, and school nurse events - for a mods folder near you next week.

The update for SimNation Travel to let you choose your geographical orientation for your sims worlds, add more options, change the way your sims travel, and more is coming this month. The design is still being tweaked as I play around with icons and the flow of the process but I'm really happy with how it's shaping up.

I am still working on SimFinancial becoming its fully realized self next month.

I'm also still chipping away at getting your sim's Post Office mechanics and underlying code and systems setup and now, with a little help from PandaSama, your Sim's postal needs will not only be met with the service layer I'm creating but a variety of objects to help them send and receive packages, get junkmail, and post those letters. This should be fun!

Can't wait to share what I've been planning this summer and getting it out to you!

Nuts and Bolts

There's been a lot of behind the scenes kinds of nuts and bolts types of modding improvements happening that are extremely tedious, time consuming, and complex and are not exciting to share at all b/c it's the kind of thing you'll notice in game over time once it rolls out but it's not hey this shiny new thing but more oh this works so much better. So hopefully you can still appreciate the improvements when they come but I know it's not thrilling to hear about.

To that end, I've created a new utility mod which will be basically required for most of my mods. It will allow some of my mods to share certain resources, injections, data, and therefore give you information about which mods you have installed, what their requirements are, what they conflict with, etc; it's a work in progress to work every mod into the system but I hope to be done with that by the end of next week.

Choose Your Own Adventure - Healthcare Redux Style

I do have a lot of work though to share regarding Healthcare Redux's revamp and I'm excited it's getting out to more people. I hope you enjoy the changes you've been asking for. You are completely able to customize so many aspects of your sim's experience now including but not limited to enabling and disabling parts of the mod in game, tuning not only the statistical chances of your sim getting sick or having medical emergencies - all modules included - but also the time between those possibilities running.

I have now made the timing for how often sims can even roll the possibility of health events to match your aging settings so now, by default, it's even more spread out and intuitive but if you want control - and I know you do - you have so never again will I hear "my sims never get sick" or "mine are always sick". The choice is now entirely up to you! Enjoy the power :) There's many more settings to be changed. Also because of the way I've setup the settings, any mods which previously did something to my mods no longer works. The settings are now the only way to control HCR. I will be making a detailed post of how to use all of the settings, how these features work, etc. There's a lot you now control and I want to make sure you understand all the changes you make when choosing the settings. A new file will appear in your folder called Healthcare Redux Settings - don't delete this if you change a setting as it will revert all of your changes.

Also not sure if your illness is from Private Practice, an ailment, GTW, GTW Overhaul, well, you no longer have to guess. The menu will tell you. These features are currently in V12.

I'll be back in a few weeks with the early access release for SimNation Travel but you can catch some sneak peeks below if you'd like.

Happy Simming!

New Mods/Featured Updates

ADI Shared Utilities - NEW V1

Release date July 10th

This will be a soft rollout. Not all of my mods use it yet; they will be migrating over the next week or two but it should be enough to get you started. You no longer need the general pie menus if this is installed; it is rolled in. It is a utility mod so that my mods can share data, resources, knowledge, and integrate better as well. You can generate a report that will give you details you can use to help you with installing and troubleshooting including which of my mods you have installed, their dependencies, their conflicts, if you're version is correct, that kind of thing. Hopefully that will help streamline things for me and you when troubleshooting.

Eyecare v3.1.3 - Public

Available Now

Major update. Updated for integration with Amethyst Lilac's Choose Accessories. Glasses worn by that mod when your sim has an active Prescription for glasses should now count as prescription eyewear when the glasses are on.Sims will automatically remove and put on their glasses during certain activities.

Instead of choosing a pair in CAS during the optometrist visit, your sim can now choose a random pair of glasses, chose a specific pair of glasses from a selection, or if they already wear glasses (either from Amethyst's mod or glasses they're wearing at their appointment) they can choose to have those lenses upgraded to prescription glasses during an appointment.

Sims can manually put on and remove their glasses and contacts in addition to the auto removal during activities like sleep, swim, or bathing and if the glasses were randomized they will be randomized again, if specific - from this mod or Amethyst's- they will remain the pair as chosen.

Your sims can also choose a new pair of glasses which will replace their old pair without going back to the Optometrist by clicking on the sim when they are not wearing glasses. It will remove all other glasses as their default prescription eyewear. Sims can also choose to alternate between contacts and glasses.

They can also choose prescription sunglasses which will can be auto worn outside or while wearing swimwear or can be taken off.

General Mod Updates

All of my mods not updated below do not need to be updated and are working with the current version of the game.

If you are having an issue with any of my mods, please refer to the Troubleshooting pages here and here. If after utilizing those resources, your issue still exists, please report it on Discord. Thanks!

I will be updating every single one of my mods next week to utilize the Shared Utilities so expect another post from me in a week with new updates and early access mod(s).

Dynamic Teen Life (v2.9.78) - Fixed an issue with Live Fast Aspiration override.

Object Deterioration (v1.3) - Fix an issue with a stuck neutral maintenance state.

Early Access

Patrons, thanks so much for your support. As you play with the updates, please remember to let me know how it's going if you encounter an issue. Your feedback is helpful to make sure the mods are working their best before they go public b/c as much as I try I can't test every scenario or combination of mods out there. Thank you!

Also I completely forgot to do the ping for the mods being available. I made a new collection - Early Access mods - so you don't have to click on a million links on release days. I will also do my best to remember to do the pings when I update! Sorry about that.

Healthcare Redux v12.2

Sapphire: ~ July 10th
Midnight: ~ July 17th

V12.2 Another major update again. Added medical leave processing, work injuries, work injury evaluation, worker's comp processing, additional setting to control Health Event Timing, and school health events. Sims can now deal with work injuries, request paid or unpaid medical leave when eligible, and file workers’ comp claims for qualifying workplace injuries. There are also new Health Event Settings so you have more control over how often major health events have the chance to potentially happen (this is an important distinction between the statistical chance of something happening which is controlled by Frequency/Rate settings).

This update also adds early Health History support, so the mod can better track and summarize important things that happen to Sims over time, including illnesses, injuries, medications, hospital stays, work injuries, and school nurse visits. You can receive detailed health summary and medical records (I'm playing around with the visuals).

You can also contact a Care Coordinator who will tell your sim about any outstanding care actions needed.

Children and teens can now have more detailed school nurse events too, like getting first aid or medication, being sent home sick or injured, or being told to follow up with a doctor and parents can have to make medical decisions during the school day- maybe Timmy cut his hand in wood shop or Suzie came down with something in the middle of the day. Oh and little menu update request - your menu will no longer close if you click away. You need to manually close it.

All Early Access Tiers

Available now

V12.0.1 Major update. Added follow up appointments for remission patients. Added a brand new settings menu which includes settings so that you can modify the rate at which your sims contract or get diseases, medical emergencies, and all modules. So all the current modifiers for fitness level, risk factors, age, immunity traits, and immune system will still prevail but you can set for each module if you want the rate to increase or reduce chances. There is also a new setting for opt-in the optional modules to toggle them off and on. If you have them installed, it will notify you they are and you can tweak it if you didn't mean for those features to be opted-in. So the mod not only checks if they are installed but also if the setting is set to true. This is to mitigate, among other things, people installing the Global Death disabler and not realizing it while their sims don't die when they should. Updated to fix an issue with a missing test in hospital appointments. Added integration with Amethyst Lilac's Choose Accessories hearing aids. Added integration with Kemzima's Responsible Pregnancy, My Dietary Life, and Osimpic mods.

SimNation Travel v8

Sapphire: ~ Mid/Late July
Midnight: ~ 1 Week after Sapphire

Major update. Updated for patch fix when traveling with toddlers. The mod offers a completely revamped travel system different from the previous iterations. Travel has been completely revamped. Your sim no longer immediately have to go on vacation as soon as they choose a destination and pay for their vacation. They can choose to go within a specified time period giving everyone in the travel party ample time to get those passports if going to foreign locals.

Speaking of domestic and international, I have also updated so that you can now choose which destinations are International. Destinations not chosen will be treated as Domestic. The defaults are the same as before. When traveling domestically, your sim will treat any domestic region as one they only need a car or subway pass for. When traveling international, they will need their passport.

While on vacation, they can only travel within the region they're vacationing in even if it's a residential region. What region means, depending on how your regional settings are set, can mean either just the world or places you consider regionally close. When sims move between worlds they can only choose transportation options available in both regions so they can't take a train from Sulani to Tomarang if Sulani doesn't have trains but they could do planes or ferries if those worlds are regional to each other. Added additional transportation modes including walking, bus, taxis, rideshare, trains, and ferry so sims have more varied ways to get around when they travel and don't have to own a car. Rental Cars and Shuttles are only available when the world is a world your sim is vacationing in, though; they are not normal daily travel modes.

I have also, for those who want it, added the option to create custom geography for travel for advanced settings just beyond designating worlds as international. So you could create a travel group and all worlds in that group would be local to each other. You can then create a different group and then decide the relationship between them. Are those two world groups regional to each other, long distance, or intercontinental/overseas. Are they domestically linked or is group 2 considered international travel? So you could have worlds that are considered long distance but still domestic travel or border towns where they're regional or local but international. This will in turn allow for much more nuanced travel than before.

SimFinancial Credit Union v3

Sapphire: ~ Late August
Midnight: ~ 1 Week after Sapphire

These dates are best guestimates!

I am have to stop adding things to this mod so I can actually put out this update lol. I have added so many features I can't wait to show you. I have added the ability for your accounts to be used as payment methods for all purchase/payment paths including bills, restaurants, and more. You will be able to opt-in to bill pay, get custom debit cards you can choose a design for, use your credit cards as payment along with fees as well as earn credit card rewards when you do so, create prenuptial agreements which have financial consequences depending on the terms set during the agreement upon termination/separation, account history, settings menus to customize how you play, income direct deposit, deeper investment and trust fund and DAF integration, expense tracking and budgeting, improved loans and insurance, better estate handling for your accounts, more robust account management, custom funds, and more. It's been an enormous undertaking, probably more so than any mod I've made besides HCR and SimNation Travel. I also plan to add as much compatibility as I can with SNBank and to also allow for migration from SNBank accounts to SimFinancial Credit Union Accounts for those whose Sims which to switch banks.

Coming Soon

These are the next mods scheduled/planned for release. WIP mods could also come alongside or, less likely, before them.

Post Office

This Summer

I have also started working on the Post and Parcel Service. I didn't expect it to be, but somehow, the Post and Parcel Service mod is actually quite an undertaking. There's a reason there's not really a bunch of mods out there that consists of pack this box or write this letter and send it to a specific sim with contents in tact but I'm determined to get this one working. It's been so fun trying!

This has actually been really run to try to figure out. I'm trying to make it as full feature as I can with you being able to pack up boxes and send packages to other sims and if you play as that household and rotate that the delivery is actually delivered to the sim and shows up in their mailbox with all of the contents in tact. Same with letters and cards. The hardest part has been keeping contents in tact when switching to the recipient household but I'm still working on it. I also want their to be a way for the postal system to work unexpectedly - like sometimes lost packages or returned mail. Maybe sometimes you get pranked mail. They'll be flyers and junk mail and coupons. You can choose to send either personalized or prepackaged gifts like care packages or have things shipped to you like furniture or shopping. I'm excited for the possibilities of what kind of packages and post I can make for this mod!

Meaningful Motives

The mod attempts to make it so that motives aren't flat but rather contextual and are meaningfully affected by a sim's preferences, habits, intentions, and choices not just simple actions to fulfill them. How they fill their motive bars should actually matter to their quality of life as it informs and is also affected by their habits and lifestyle.

For example, skipping meals now only makes sims hungry but it should affect them mentally, physically, and emotionally. Eating full meals regularly or better yet habitually should affect Sims and fulfill hunger differently than constant snacking or skipping lunch every day. Playing video games could be super fun for some sims but not fun at all for others. Right now, even if a Sim dislikes an activity, it still fills up their fun meter. Fun should be more than just entertainment but should also measure engagement based on preference/traits and the type of fun it provides (tv-passive fun, horseback riding -active fun, etc). Energy levels should not be just based how tired a sim is. It should be informed by the source and quality of that energy as well. Couch surfed all day? Sure, not a lot of energy was spent, but it also wasn't productive. Choices like that affect a Sim's quality of life and over time can inform habits and lifestyle.

The idea is that motives are not simply task fulfilled but impactfully fulfilled by the types of tasks you or your sim choose and those inform your sim's habits and quality of life.

Other Works in Progress

I know. I keep releasing new mods not in my WIP. I am working on them but like I say - creativity sometimes flows in different directions and this hobby has to keep being fun for me. So those more laborious ones take longer but they are coming. But after this and next month's mod (I think, but don't hold me to it) I am going to try to get that growing list of WIP down.

Mindful Practice

I am finishing up a completely revamped, expanded mod (Mindful Practice) with small business interactive therapy sessions for individuals, couples, groups, and families, mental health centered custom venue activities, and an actively playable mental health professional career where sims can come to your sim for psychiatric treatment including medication and therapy sessions. This will most likely be the next release.

Active Medical Clinics

Once the above is complete, I will be turning my attention back to the doctor's visits and the medical clinic custom venue components. The plan is to have this integrated with my health related mods as well as GTW for a more seamless experience when your sim runs their clinic or visits one. I promise I will get to this one - but it looks more like a summer or fall project.

Bug Reports

Please send me any bug reports you have for the mods! Patrons, I have been getting your messages both here on patreon and reading your threads on Discord. If you are not a Patron, use the form on Discord; I do read them!

Remember if you are trying to get mod support on Discord, Patrons, start a thread in Patron-Mod-Support. The instructions on how to do so are inside of the channel itself.