Three Years Later...

Did you read the title of this post like the spongebob time passed thing? I did lol. 

I know it's been a while (a long while) since I've last posted here. But I don't claim to be one to remember I have a website/blog. Honestly, I don't even know what I do all day. Where does my time go? Huh. 

But after massively rehauling the bland design my 13 year old self left for me to rework (idk if I was lazy or if I was into the whole default blog kind of thing) I am (hopefully) returning to posting. 

I don't think my hiatus was much of an issue, because I have approximately 0 followers thus far. Sounds like a good start. 

So what am I going to post here? 

• Links to cool sims stuff
• Downloads of my own creations
• Screenshots from my game
• Sims videos I've made/will make
• Links to custom content sites
• Links to mod sites
• Links to my favorite sims blogs
• How to install mods 
• How to install dance animations and poses
• How to install .sims3pack content
• Where to find animations and poses
• How to use Google Chrome to translate webpages 
• Other things I'm interested in   

It might take me a while to get some up, but I'll do my best. Also, I already have a post about installing mod framework and basic mods, but some are different than others, and some things that go in the Packages folder, aren't mods at all so that's something I can talk about in that post.

I also want to do a post about how to use Chrome to translate webpages, because I found that some of the best custom content sites I came across were in a foreign language, so they were hard to navigate and some might not know that you can translate pages with Chrome.

TSR is now F R E E

I was shocked when I discovered that one of the most popular Custom Content sites for the Sims that had previously been a paysite where the best quality of downloads were ''subscriber only''where you had to buy a subscription to download them. It was an okay site with fast downloads but now that the whole thing is free, it's an ad littered mayhem. The downloads are soooo slow. You have to wait 10 seconds for it to download now its no longer a click and download. It redirects you to a whole new page that takes forever to load because of ADS ADS ADS.

Overall, it is ok to get that stuff for free I guess but site navigation gets a -10000.

Notice

I've been building lots, but my launcher has not been kind and has not been letting me export anything to the launcher. So when I do fix this issue, I'll link the lots I build in a new section of the site. 

Baby Sims Can Display Feet and Hands by Quizicalgin

From quizicalgin.tumblr: The Sleeper Footies for your baby sims. Now your sim babies can wiggle about and look adorable. There are two sets, one for girls and one for boys. Both have one preset and have two recolorable channels. This is not a default replacement. You can switch to these by putting them into CAS via Master Controller/Stylist.

You can download this mod here.

Food Replicator XT by Olipro

This mod adds a new, buyable Food Replicator that allows you to replicate any food you want. Just press a button and it's yours!

You can download this mod here.

BUYABLE Lifetime Reward Objects!! by VoiceIHear

''Okay, so being the incredibly impatient person I am, I really don't have the time or patience to wait till I get so many points to get the rewards. So I decided I would make them buyable ... and seeing as i'm always looking for new things to make my sims as poor as possible, I decided this would be a perfect way to do it '' - VoiceIHear

You can download this mod here.

Evening School by Cherry92

Adults missed school life a lot! Finally the town is going to open new classes for adults! So, here's come the Evening School. This mod adds the functionality of evening school for young adults or above.

You can download this mod here.

Royal Palace by Astorina (from Parsimonious.org)

This house is fit for a royal family.
Requires WA, LN, GEN, PETS, SN, and SEASONS
You can download this lot here

Buy Takeout and Order Food at Restaurants by Buzzler

This mod enables you to call into the bistro or diner and have food delivered straight to your fridge or you can go and pick it up yourself.                                                                                                                                                                                You can download this mod here

.Package files framework info and how to put them in your game

For those of you who don't know, to put package files in your game which is how ALL mods are and mostly everything on modthesims, you have to set up the framework first.

First go to your Windows File Explorer. (Search ''File Explorer'')

Then go to Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3

Add a folder and name it ''Mods'' like I have here 

After you do this, add a folder inside of your Mods folder and name it ''Packages''. Make another one inside your MODS folder. NOT your packages folder. Name it ''Overrides''. You might never actually use this folder. 

Now you need the resource.cfg file like you see in the image. Without this file, none of your mods will work. You MUST have this. You can find it here. You'll need to download WinRar to extract it which you can get here. (To extract it, once you have WinRar, place the file that looks like a stack of books named resource.cfg in your mods folder. Right click it and click extract here. )

Here's an image for extracting files:

Once you extract resource.cfg, delete the one that looks like a stack of books. You don't have to, but it helps keep your folders clean and less disorganized.

Okay so now your folders should look like this:

Now to add mods!

Most mods are in .package file form. I'm probably right if I say they all are. Also, other things can be .package file. Lots, Clothes, anything can be .package file.  So you download say, the nointro mod which automatically skips the video that plays upon loading. I already have it, but I redownloaded it to show you. Depending on what browser you use, sometimes it's just a matter of drag and drop.

Drag it to your Packages folder

Right click and ''Extract Here''

You should end up with this:

Delete the one that looks like a stack of books which leaves the one that looks like a sheet of paper which is called nointro.package

Leave this where it is. It is in the correct place.

So this is the final product:

Now when you play the game, your mod should work! In this case, if you followed the guide and installed the same mod I did, there should be no intro upon loading the game. If not, you can always come back to this article to try to fix your mistakes or just ask me! It took me a long time to figure out too so if you don't get it at first, don't feel bad!

:)

Party Rock Contemporary Crib by simsgal2227

This is a big house for your Sims that was built for partying!

 You can download this lot here

Carpool Disabler Mod by Buzzler

This mod allows you to stop the honking lunatics at least in TS3.

You can find this mod here ----> http://classic.modthesims.info/d/410296

(see framework info on my blog if you don't know how to install mods or CC)

MavixSims

This blog is for me (MavixLayne) to post findings for free custom content for The Sims 3. I know of many places to get good content for your game...so yeah! :) I'll start tomorrow.