Smarter Self-Care V22

✅ Check this mod's status for current patch on this Spreadsheet

⏩  This mod allows your household Sims and NPCs to take better care of their needs and hobbies before getting uncomfortable from their motives going too low.

• ✔ So now you may focus on playing a story or doing other challenges without seeing your Sims starving or exhausting themselves.

• ✔ Saved sims would have less need loss and higher need gain when you see them again.

• 🆗 Compatible with all my other mods

• 👌 Base-Game Compatible 

• 🧩 But you need to remove any packages tagged with a pack you don't own!!! EP? GP? SP? List of Sims 4 Pack Codes

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📝 Changelog July 3, 2025:

• V22:

• Updated affected self-care (addon_MoreBedSleep; Energy, FunNeed, Gardening, Hygiene, LessRiskyWoohoo, SmallAnimalANDLivestockNeeds, SocialNeed, NPCCare) for patch 1.116

Check Past Changelogs

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👑 Mod Details and Edited Game Resources

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✨ Now consisting of (You can pick and choose what to install) :

• Baby Care (Base Game): More attentive to nearby babies' needs;  less need loss/ higher need gain when you reload the household again.

• Bladder (Base Game)

• Chat (Base Game Compatible): Higher priority of other socials; Lower priority of vampire socials

• Cook And Grab Food (Base Game Compatible): Higher priority of grabbing food instead of making new dishes; Lower priority of making dessert or baking

• Energy (Base Game)

• Fun Need (Base Game)

• Gardening (Base Game): Slightly higher autonomy for gardening

• Hobby (Base Game Compatible): Slightly higher autonomy for various activities

• Horse Needs (Horse Ranch)

• Hunger (Base Game)

• Hygiene (Base Game) Also works for Mermaid because Mermaid's hydration relies on Hygiene

• Less Risky Woohoo (Base Game Compatible): Lower priority of risky locations

• Minor Needs (Base Game): Thirst, Hands Hygiene, Oral Hygiene

• Nausea (Base Game)

• NPC Care (Base Game Compatible): Higher romantic autonomy for dates, better need care for invited sims

• Pet Needs (Cats and Dogs)

• Plant Sim Water (Base Game)

• Servo Needs (University)

• SmallAnimalANDLivestockNeeds (Base Game Compatible): Works for any minor pets and animals from My First Pet Pack, and Livestock from Cottage Living Pack

• Social Need (Base Game)

• Spellcaster Need (Realm of Magic)

• Toddler and Infant Care (Base Game)

• Vampire Needs (Vampire)

• Werewolf Needs  (Werewolf)

• Wild Fox Needs (Cottage Living)

Addons:

• addon_MoreBedSleep (Base Game): Choosing beds to sleep more often

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🔎 Not Required but Recommended Mods:

• My Life Satisfaction measures a Sim's well-being and gives satisfaction points, buffs, & effects on Fun or Energy Needs based on previous mood experiences

• My In-depth Emotions to give all EA in-game emotions four intensity stages for storytelling.

• My Balanced Life is a well-rounded mod to generally give Sims of different ages a more realistic Metabolism, Moods, Skills, Relationships with other age groups, Need Decays, Autonomy to clean, romance, be friendly, etc. It also supports Lumpinou_MoodPackMod.

• My Stay Fine is a simple one-package mod to add a hidden "fine" buff to push Sims to stay in a fine mood unless with multiple buffs of other emotions.

• My Lock Motives Decay When Asleep locks energy/ all other motives decay when sleeping.

• My Less Obsession is a mod fixing the Sims' obsession with several objects. It does NOT completely disable the autonomy, but lowers it at a more realistic rate.

• My Walk Normally disables all emotional walks in lower levels of emotions but allows emotional walks in extreme emotions or has selected CAS walk styles; disables sleepy walks when being tired while allowing having the sleepy walk when being exhausted; enables Outdoor Running for Sims that are having an emotional walk.

• My Uncomfortable & Negative Moods Do More allows your Sim to do sports/ other activities when they are in a bad mood.

• My No Mopping in Bad Weather / Outdoor is a small tuning edit to stop mopping in bad weather/outdoors.

• My No Trait Idles disables the autonomy of doing trait idles.

• My Ignore Privacy disables all privacy invasion reactions towards other sims taking a bath/shower/poop.

• My Faster/Slower Relationship Progress injects a buff to all Sims to reduce or enlarge the relationship's gain/loss by multiplying a value. Unlike my other Slower Relationship Change, it doesn't edit any game tunings and is compatible with any other mods.

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• Extract the downloaded zip and PUT any package you want into less than FIVE folders deep in your Mod Folder.  Do NOT keep the zip in your Mod folder!

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