We see the same posts every single day asking “What pack should I get?” “This pack or that pack?” “Which packs do you recommend?” “Which pack is the best pack?” The truth is the answer will be different depending on what you like to do in the game, so you’re likely to get a lot of recommendations for packs you won’t like.
I’ve compiled a pretty exhaustive guide to help players make a decision based on what THEY like and not necessarily what everyone else likes. It goes over the difference between expansions, game packs, and stuff packs (very important to know before you buy), and offers a complete list of recommended packs based on gameplay interests, build and CAS styles, and main features.
What’s the Difference Between an Expansion, Game Pack, and Stuff Pack?
Before you start looking at packs to buy, you should know the difference between the three types of packs because they vary greatly in both price and amount of content. Knowing what type of pack you’re looking for will help narrow down your search right away.
- Expansion Packs: These packs are the big, juicy, meaty packs that come with the most content. They often (but not always) come with a new full-size world, as well as a very large amount of new gameplay centered around a broad theme that appeals to a large number of people, such as tropical islands, active careers and shopping, seasons, and university. They also come with hundreds of new Build/Buy items and dozens of new CAS items. The downside is that they are the most expensive packs, at $40 USD.
- Game Packs: Game packs are like mini-expansions. They are also primarily gameplay-focused, but are typically themed around more niche interests, like supernatural-themed gameplay, vacations, and family dynamics. They usually (but not always) come with a mini-world of about 5 lots and plenty of new Build/Buy and CAS items. These packs are more moderately priced at $20 USD.
- Stuff Packs: Unlike expansions and game packs, stuff packs are pretty much what they’re called; just packs of stuff. They are more focused on bringing a small handful of new objects and CAS items to the game than gameplay, but all stuff packs do come with one or two new objects that offer some unique gameplay. Stuff packs are the smallest of all the packs and come with a dozen or so new items, and a few new CAS pieces. They do not come with new worlds or a significant amount of new gameplay. They are the cheapest packs, priced at $10 USD.
Down below you can find a list of different The Sims 4 aspects as well as their recommended Packs for each different category:
- Recommended Packs Based on Gameplay Interests
- Recommended Packs for Builders
- Recommended Packs for CAS Enthusiasts
- Recommended Packs Based on Main Features
Recommended Packs Based on Gameplay Interests
Refer here to see which packs are recommended for your unique gaming style. There are packs to suit a wide variety of interests, so have a look for one that appeals to you the most.
Family Life Gameplay
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Seasons
Cats & Dogs
Parenthood
Kids Room Stuff
Toddler Stuff
My First Pet Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Backyard Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
Supernatural Gameplay
Island Living (mermaids)
Get To Work (aliens)
Discover University (servos, a.k.a: robots)
Realm of Magic (spellcasters, a.k.a: witches)
Vampires (vampires)
Paranormal stuff (specters, non-playable)
Weird/Creepy Gameplay
Eco Lifestyle
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
StrangerVille
Realm of Magic
Vampires
Spooky Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
Party/Social Gameplay
Get Together
Get Famous
Discover University
City Living
Dine Out
Luxury Party Stuff
Vintage Glamour Stuff
Spooky Stuff
Glamorous Gameplay
Get Famous
City Living
Spa Day
Dine Out
Moschino Stuff
Vintage Glamour Stuff
Luxury Party Stuff
Casual Fun Gameplay
Snowy Escape
Island Living
Seasons
City Living
Perfect Patio Stuff
Movie Hangout Stuff
Backyard Stuff
Bowling Night Stuff
Cool Kitchen Stuff
Health & Fitness Gameplay
Snowy Escape
Discover University
Get To Work
Spa Day
Outdoor Retreat
Fitness Stuff
Bowling Night Stuff
Romance Gameplay
City Living
Seasons
Dine Out
Romantic Garden Stuff
Outdoorsy Gameplay
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Eco Lifestyle
Island Living
Seasons
Outdoor Retreat
Jungle Adventure
Backyard Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Romantic Garden Stuff
Perfect Patio Stuff
Tiny Living Stuff
Lifestyle Gameplay
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Eco Lifestyle
Island Living
Spa Day
Outdoor Retreat
Tiny Living Stuff
Fitness Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
*Career/New Business Gameplay
Discover University
Get To Work
Cats & Dogs
Dine Out
Dream Home Decorator
Moschino Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
*Many packs come with new careers but this section lists the packs that have a main focus on careers or running your own business.
Vacation/Destination Gameplay
Snowy Escape
Get Together
Island Living
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Jungle Adventure
Outdoor Retreat
* Not all of these worlds are destination worlds; however, we now have the ability to place rental lots in any residential world we want, so all of the worlds listed above can still be used for vacations and make for excellent travel gameplay.
Recommended Packs for Builders
The following lists all the recommended packs according to their build style. If you are primarily a builder and looking for new packs based on a particular architectural or interior design style, refer here:
Industrial/Workplace
Eco Lifestyle
Get To Work
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
StrangerVille
Cozy and Homey
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Seasons
Cats & Dogs
Parenthood
Kids Room Stuff
Toddler Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
My First Pet Stuff
Tiny Living Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
Rustic/Outdoorsy
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Eco Lifestyle
Outdoor Retreat
Jungle Adventure
Movie Hangout Stuff
Romantic Garden Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Sleek and Modern
City Living
Discover University
Spa Day
Dine Out
Dream Home Decorator
Luxury Party Stuff
Cool Kitchen Stuff
Fitness Stuff
Moschino Stuff
Gothic/Victorian
Vampires
StrangerVille
Spooky Stuff
Romantic Garden Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
The American West
StrangerVille
Whimsical and Funky
Cottage Living
City Living
Realm of Magic
Movie Hangout Stuff
Bowling Night Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
Decades
Get Famous (The Golden Age of Hollywood)
Vintage Glamour Stuff (1920s)
Bowling Night Stuff (1950s/retro)
Medieval/English Tudor
Cottage Living
Get Together
Discover University
Romantic Garden Stuff
Coastal and/or Tropical
Cats & Dogs
Island Living
East Asian Architecture/Influences
Snowy Escape
City Living
Landscaping and Backyards
Cottage Living
Seasons
Outdoor Retreat
Perfect Patio Stuff
Romantic Garden Stuff
Backyard Stuff
Toddler Stuff
Apocalyptic/Decayed or Damaged
Eco Lifestyle
Get To Work
Get Together
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
StrangerVille
Vampires
Jungle Adventure
Opulence and Grandeur
Get Famous
Spa Day
Dine Out
Luxury Party Stuff
Romantic Garden Stuff
Vintage Glamour Stuff
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Get Famous
Get To Work
Realm of Magic
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
StrangerVille
Vampires
Spooky Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
Recommended Packs for CAS Enthusiasts
The following lists all the recommended packs according to their CAS style. If you are primarily a Sim/pet creator and looking for new packs based on a particular fashion style, refer here:
Professional
Get To Work
Discover University
Dine Out
Dream Home Decorator
Comfy Casual
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Eco Lifestyle
Discover University
Seasons
Cats & Dogs
Spa Day
Parenthood
Tiny Living Stuff
My First Pet Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Backyard Stuff
Cool Kitchen Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
Cute and/or Floral
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Seasons
Dine Out
Parenthood
Romantic Garden Stuff
Movie Hangout Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Nifty Knitting
Paranormal Stuff
Boho/Funky
City Living
Movie Hangout Stuff
Bowling Night Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
Clubbing and Partying
Get Together
Luxury Party Stuff
Moschino Stuff
Glamorous and High Fashion
Get Famous
Moschino Stuff
Vintage Glamour Stuff
Luxury Party Stuff
Backyard Lounging
Seasons
Perfect Patio Stuff
Backyard Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Outdoor and Adventuring Attire
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Outdoor Retreat
Jungle Adventure
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Gothic
Vampires
Spooky Stuff
Tattered/Stained/Worn
Eco Lifestyle
Get Famous
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Realm of Magic
Spooky Stuff
Laundry Day Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
Athletics
Snowy Escape
Discover University
Spa Day
Fitness Stuff
Warm Winter Attire
Snowy Escape
Eco Lifestyle
Seasons
Cats & Dogs
Tiny Living Stuff
Cool Kitchen Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
Tropical and/or Fun in the Sun
Island Living
Seasons
Backyard Stuff
Perfect Patio Stuff
Paranormal Stuff
Historical/Decades
Get Famous (Victorian, Medieval, Wild West, English & French Renaissances, Golden Age of Hollywood)
Get Together (Medieval suit of armour)
Vampires (1800s/Victorian)
Parenthood (1990s)
Bowling Night Stuff (1950s/retro)
Vintage Glamour Stuff (1920s)
Spooky Stuff (Roman Gladiator)
Paranormal Stuff (1920s attire)
Multicultural
Snowy Escape (Traditional & Contemporary Japanese)
Island Living (Pacific Islands)
City Living (Asia, Middle East)
Jungle Adventure (South America)
Tiny Living Stuff (Contemporary Japanese/One Mile Wear)
Costumes
Snowy Escape
Discover University
Get Famous
Seasons
City Living
Get Together
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Parenthood
Outdoor Retreat
My First Pet Stuff
Spooky Stuff
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Get Famous
Get To Work
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Realm of Magic
StrangerVille
Vampires
Spooky Stuff
Clothes for Pets
Cottage Living (for livestock animals)
Cats & Dogs
My First Pet Stuff
Clothes for Babies
Nifty Knitting Stuff
*Clothes for Toddlers
Cottage Living
Snowy Escape
Eco Lifestyle
Cats & Dogs
Get Famous
Island Living
Seasons
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Jungle Adventure
Parenthood
Toddler Stuff
My First Pet Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
* Because clothing and hair for toddlers is so sparse, I have listed every pack that comes with at least one CAS item for toddlers to give you the widest range of toddler stuff possible
*Clothes for Kids
Cats & Dogs
Island Living
Seasons
City Living
Get Together
Dine Out
Outdoor Retreat
Parenthood
Vampires
Kids Room Stuff
Backyard Stuff
My First Pet Stuff
Romantic Garden Stuff
Spooky Stuff
Vintage Glamour Stuff
Nifty Knitting Stuff
* Many of the packs come with at least one or two CAS pieces for kids, but I have listed the ones that either have a main focus on kids or offer a decent number of kids clothes/hair
*Clothes for Teens
Eco Lifestyle
Discover University
Get Together
Parenthood
Backyard Stuff
Cool Kitchen Stuff
* Teens can wear any of the clothes adults can, but I have listed the ones that work particularly well for making teenagers look more like teens and less like adults
New Tattoos
Discover University
Island Living
City Living
Get To Work
Jungle Adventure
*New Piercings
Eco Lifestyle
Discover University
* Many packs come with new earrings, but facial piercings are unique to Discover University
New Makeup
Get Famous
Get Together
Get To Work
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
Realm of Magic
Spooky Stuff
Luxury Party Stuff
New Teeth
Vampires
Get Famous
Scars and Blemishes
Get Famous
Vampires
Parenthood
Recommended Packs Based on Main Features
The following section lists all the main features of every pack for the game to date. Many of these packs will have more features than what is listed, but this will give you an idea of some of the main components of every pack.
Expansions
Cottage Living
🐮 A new full-size residential world based on the English countryside
🐮 New lot challenges that can be used alongside lot traits, like Simple Living, which requires your Sims to have the ingredients on-hand in order to cook a meal.
🐮 New livestock animals; cows, llamas, and chickens. Animals require care and socialization and produce milk, wool, and eggs.
🐮 New wild animals; bunnies, birds, and foxes. Wild animals can be befriended. Birds and bunnies will help in the garden. Foxes will attack and kill chickens and bunnies, steal eggs, and steal from the garden. Befriending them allows you to ask them to stop being a nuisance.
🐮 Both livestock and wild animals (except wild birds) can be dressed in a variety of cute outfits which can be purchased or crafted using different types of llama wool
🐮 New animal treats that can be purchased or prepared at home with the proper ingredients. Many treats change the appearance of your animals and encourage them to produce more valuable types of byproducts, like rainbow wool and golden eggs.
🐮 New English inspired cuisine
🐮 A new festival called the Finchwick Fair. The fair takes place every Saturday and cycles through five different themes. Sims can enter chickens, cows, llamas, pies, eggs, wool, milk, grown produce, and oversized crops into weekly competitions for ribbons and prizes.
🐮 New village NPCs that play specific roles in town, many of them with rich backstories and lore attached to them.
🐮 A village errand system that allows your Sim to get to know the people of the town by helping them with various tasks and chores. Completing these errands build relationships, rewards your Sim with simoleons and new items, and offers you a glimpse into the lives of the people in the town.
🐮 Canning is a new activity that’s tied into the Cooking skill
🐮 Sims can cross-stitch many different patterns and stitch from reference, which is a new minor 5 level skill
🐮 Premade Sims that ship with this pack have pre-existing sentiments and histories with other Sims in the town. There is more drama in Henford-on-Bagley than meets the eye.
🐮 Sims can pack food into draggable picnic baskets and take them with them anywhere to have a picnic outdoors
🐮 New oversized crops that require special care and fertilizers to reach their largest size.
🐮 Disgruntled chickens and bunnies can attack and kill Sims, which are new death types
🐮 New Aspiration: Country Caretaker
🐮 New Traits: Animal Enthusiast, Lactose Intolerant
🐮 New Skill: Cross-Stitch (Minor Skill)
🐮 New Death Types: Bunny Attack, Chicken Attack
🐮 New Collection: Finchwick Fair Ribbons
🐮 New Objects: Animal sheds, chicken coops, oversized garden plots, cross-stitch basket, picnic basket, wild bunny home, wild bird home
Snowy Escape
🏯 A new full-size world with a blend of traditional and contemporary Japanese influences
🏯 A new Lifestyles system that offers benefits to Sims who pursue specific interests and hobbies
🏯 Three new festivals celebrating different aspects of Japanese culture
🏯 New Japanese cuisine
🏯 New vending machines that dispense a wide variety of objects, from collectibles to clothing to temperature-controlled food and beverages, and more.
🏯 Vending machines can fall on Sims and kill them, which is a new death type
🏯 Natural and man-made hot springs
🏯 Bath house etiquette rules that will result in negative reactions from other Sims if broken
🏯 Doing relaxing/meditative activities can make Sims Emotionally Mindful; allowing them to put themselves into any emotional state they want
🏯 Skiing and snowboarding slopes, which can be enjoyed by both adults and children
🏯 Sledding, which can be enjoyed by all ages, including children and toddlers
🏯 Rock walls of varying difficulty; climbing rock walls can only be done by adults
🏯 Sims can fall to their deaths from tall rock walls, which is a new death type
🏯 New indoor footwear rules; Sims can take their shoes off when indoors or switch to wearing house slippers when indoors
🏯 New utensil preference setting; Sims can use western cutlery or a variety of different chopstick styles
🏯 Kotatsu tables that can seat 4 or 6 Sims and can be upgraded to improve temperature controls
🏯 Hot pot meals which are a more social type of meal than other meals; Sims will gather around the hot pot to socialize while the meal cooks
🏯 New hiking activity that can be enjoyed alone or as a group. This activity is not a rabbithole. Sims can hike to a variety of scenic locations around Mt. Komorebi and will interact with each other and build relationship with the other hike members. If Cats & Dogs is installed, Sims can take their pets on hikes with them
🏯 Mountain caves that can be explored or used as shelter. They are also a new WooHoo location. The caves are rabbitholes.
🏯 Forest spirits that can be interacted with by Sims; they can either bless or punish your Sims depending on whether your Sim is respectful towards them or not
🏯 A special spirit called a kodama that can be spotted on hiking trails around Mt. Komorebi and either bless or curse your Sim with different emotions
🏯 New respectful greeting where Sims will bow to each other instead of wave
🏯 New Skills: Skiing, Snowboarding, Rock Climbing
🏯 New Aspirations: Mt. Komorebi Sightseer, Extreme Sports Enthusiast
🏯 New Traits: Proper, Adventurous, Middling Mountaineer (Reward), Capable Mountaineer (Reward), Expert Mountaineer (Reward), Legendary Stamina (Career), Charismatic Crooner (Career), Worldly Knowledge (Aspiration), Survival Instinct (Aspiration)
🏯 New Career: Salaryperson
🏯 New Social Event: Mountain Climb Excursion
🏯 New Lot Type: Onsen Bathhouse
🏯 New Hidden Areas: Mt. Komorebi Base Camp, The Croft Icefall, Mt. Komorebi Peak
🏯 New Death Types: Vending Machine, Fall to Death
🏯 New Collection: Simmi Capsules
Eco Lifestyle
🌱 A new full-size world with a run-down industrial theme
🌱 A new eco footprint system applied to all worlds across all packs; industrial, neutral, and green. The eco footprint can be disabled in the settings.
🌱 Building materials (walls, floors, objects) have an impact on the eco footprint of the surrounding area. This can be disabled in the settings.
🌱 Two apartment buildings come with the world in this pack. Each building has two playable units and are more suited to smaller industrial cities as opposed to metropolis skyscrapers
🌱 Neighbourhood action plans that affect the way the residents of a particular neighbourhood live and interact with each other
🌱 Community space projects that can be voted on. Community space lots can be placed in any residential world across all packs. Community spaces can be turned into community gardens, maker spaces, or marketplaces.
🌱 New influence system that allows your Sims to vote on new community space projects and neighbourhood action plans in their home neighbourhood.
🌱 Solar panels, wind turbines, and dew collectors that can produce green power and water for the household
🌱 Excess power and water produced for the household can be sold back to the energy and water companies
🌱 Insect farms that can be harvested for both food and bio fuel
🌱 Vertical and hydroponic gardens
🌱 Dumpster diving for food, furnishings, recyclables, and compostables.
🌱 Water and power generators that can produce power and water for the household, but aren’t eco-friendly and push the eco footprint into an industrial state. These objects can be made eco-friendly by using bio-fuel from insect farms to power them.
🌱 New fabricator to make your own furnishings with different dyes to customise the colour, candlemaking station, and a fizzy drink brewing machine. All new craftable stations require materials/ingredients to make different items.
🌱 Recycle anything you don’t need in your inventory to use in fabrication recipes.
🌱 New green inventions that can be crafted with the fabricator through the Civil Designer career
🌱 All appliances and plumbing can be given eco-upgrades to function off the grid, as well as reduce their power and water consumption
🌱 New Skills: Fabrication, Juice Fizzing
🌱 New Careers: Civil Designer, Freelance Crafter
🌱 New Aspirations: Eco Innovator and Master Maker
🌱 New Traits: Green Fiend, Recycle Disciple, Freegan, Maker, Influential Individual (aspiration reward), Muse of the Maker (aspiration reward), Champion of the People (career reward), Eco-Engineer (career reward), Eco Master (hidden), Entrepreneur (hidden), Master Crafter (hidden)
🌱 New Lot Type: Community Space
🌱 New Lot Traits: Eco Lot, Geothermal, Natural Well, Reduce and Recycle, Landfill Lot
🌱 New Death Type: Flies
🌱 New Collections: Gardening additions
Discover University
🎓 A new full-size world with an urban English theme
🎓 Two new universities to attend; Foxbury & UBrite
🎓 Inter-school rivalries and sports competitions
🎓 School Activities: E-Sports and Soccer
🎓 University Organizations and Events
🎓 Dorm Life
🎓 Ability to attend uni while on campus or living at home
🎓 Roommates
🎓 Servos, a new occult life state
🎓 Robotics table
🎓 Debate podium
🎓 Sims can die from being electrocuted by the robotics table, but this is not a new death type
🎓 New Skills: Research & Debate, Robotics
🎓 New Careers: Education, Law, Engineer
🎓 New Social Event: Keg Party
🎓 New Aspiration: Academic
🎓 New Lot Types: UBrite Student Housing, Foxbury Student Housing, UBrite Commons, Foxbury Commons
🎓 New Lot Traits: Study Spot, Student Hangout
Island Living
🏖 A new full-size world with a tropical Hawaiian theme
🏖 Beach activities, such as sunbathing, combing for seashells, and building sand sculptures
🏖 Suntans and sunburns
🏖 Friendly locals who will help you out by bringing you food and putting out fires
🏖 Water activities, such a snorkeling, diving, playing with dolphins, riding aquazips, and lounging on water floaties
🏖 Ability to help take care of the islands to restore their natural beauty and unlock new events around the island, like turtle hatchings
🏖 Island Events
🏖 A new odd jobs system
🏖 Mermaids, a new occult life state
🏖 Sims can die from shark attacks and being drowned by mermaids, but these are not new death types
🏖 New Careers: Conservationist, Lifeguard (part-time), Diver (part-time), Fisherman (part-time), various odd jobs
🏖 New Social Event: Kava Party
🏖 New Aspiration: Beach Life
🏖 New Traits: Child of the Ocean, Child of the Islands
🏖 New Lot Type: Beach
🏖 New Lot Traits: Oceanic Paradise, Island Spirits, Volcanic Activity
🏖 New Collections: Buried Treasure, Fish additions, Gardening additions, Underwater Photos (not an official collection but still an item Sims can gather and collect)
Get Famous
⭐️ A new full-size world with a Hollywood theme
⭐️ New five star celebrity system
⭐️ New reputation system
⭐️ Celebrity “skill tree” with perks that can be purchased using fame points
⭐️ Ability to become famous in all skills and careers
⭐️ Award ceremonies for celebrities
⭐️ Star tile/walk of fame ceremonies for celebrities
⭐️ Children inherit fame from parents
⭐️ Paparazzi and crazed/obsessed fans
⭐️ Music Mixing Station and Video Recording Station
⭐️ Koi pond with the ability to add and feed different types of fish
⭐️ Sims can die from falling into the koi pond, but this is not a new death type
⭐️ New Skills: Acting, Media Production
⭐️ New Career: Acting
⭐️ New After-School Activity: Drama Club
⭐️ New Social Events: Celebrity Meet-and-Greet, Charity Benefit, Lampoon Party
⭐️ New Aspirations: World Famous Celebrity, Master Actor
⭐️ New Trait: Self-Absorbed
⭐️ New Lot Type: Acting Studio (hidden)
⭐️ New Lot Traits: Hottest Spot in Town, Up-and-Coming Hotspot, Celebrity Home
Seasons
☔️ A four-season calendar with the ability to make seasons longer if desired
☔️ Calendar also keeps track of scheduled birthdays and social events
☔️ Ability to create your own customized holidays with their own traditions and decor themes
☔️ Weather in all worlds, including vacation worlds
☔️ Each world has its own unique climate
☔️ Seasonal activities, such as water balloon fights in the summer and snowball fights in the winter
☔️ Pop-up activities and stalls in the common space that change with the seasons, like ice skating and rollerblading rinks, and vendors serving seasonal foods and drinks
☔️ Bee boxes
☔️ Flower arranging table
☔️ Swingsets
☔️ New Skill: Flower Arranging
☔️ New Career: Gardener
☔️ New After-School Activity: Scouts
☔️ New Reward Traits: Heat Acclimation, Cold Acclimation, Ice Proof, Water Proof, Storm Chaser
☔️ New Death Types: Flowers, Freezing, Lightning, Overheating
☔️ New Collection: Gardening additions
Cats & Dogs
🐱 A new full-size world with a coastal America theme
🐱 New animals to join your Sims family: cats, dogs, foxes, and raccoons
🐱 Foxes are classed as a breed of dog in CAS
🐱 Raccoons are classed as a breed of cat in CAS
🐱 In-depth CAS tools for pets, including a colour wheel for fur colours, patterned stencils, and multiple paint brush types, tools, and stamps to paint colours and patterns directly on your pet
🐱 Clothes and accessories for pets
🐱 Obstacle course that can be used by both cats and dogs
🐱 Dogs can be taught to play fetch and do tricks
🐱 Both cats and dogs can be trained not to do certain behaviours, like scratching the furniture or peeing in the house
🐱 Pet Fears/Obsessions
🐱 Pet breeding/spaying and neutering
🐱 Pet illnesses that require trips to the vet to cure
🐱 Own and manage a vet clinic
🐱 New Skills: Veterinarian, Pet Training
🐱 New Traits: Cat Lover, Dog Lover
🐱 New Aspiration: Friend of the Animals
🐱 New Lot Type: Vet Clinic
🐱 New Lot Traits: Breeding Grounds, Cat Friendly, Dog Friendly, Cat Hangout, Dog Hangout, Training Ground
🐱 New Collection: Bird Feathers
City Living
🏙 A new full-size, multicultural, urban world with a modern theme
🏙 Ability to live in apartments
🏙 Different districts within the city representing different cultural interests and socio-economic groups
🏙 Cultural festivals that happen throughout the city celebrating the different cultures and interests of the Sims who live there
🏙 Apartments with unique lot traits, some good, some not so good
🏙 Penthouse apartments
🏙 New multi-cultural food vendors
🏙 Ability to learn new multicultural cooking recipes
🏙 New spices to use in cooking recipes
🏙 Apartment neighbours and landlords
🏙 Basketball courts, bubble blowers (hookahs), fireworks, karaoke machines, keyboard, game consoles, street vendor tables, and street art galleries
🏙 New Skill: Singing
🏙 New Careers: Politician, Critic, Social Media
🏙 New Traits: Unflirty, Vegetarian
🏙 New Aspiration: City Native
🏙 New Lot Types: Karaoke Bar, Arts Centre, City Park (special)
🏙 New Lot Traits: Chef’s Kitchen, Quake Zone, Good Schools, Mean Vibe, Home Studio, Sunny Aspect, Cursed, Grody, Gremlins, Penny Pixies, Party Place, Filthy, Haunted, Romantic Aura, Great Soil, Child’s Play, On Ley Line, Gnomes
🏙 New Death Type: Pufferfish Poisoning
🏙 New Collections: City Posters, Snow Globes, Fish additions
Get Together
🍺 A new full-size world with a European theme
🍺 Ability to create and customize your own social clubs and purchase perks for your clubs
🍺 Cafes
🍺 Walk-in closets
🍺 DJ booths and dance floors
🍺 Synchronized group dancing
🍺 An arcade gaming system
🍺 New bar drinks, new types of coffee, and new pastries and bar foods
🍺 Natural pools and diving platforms
🍺 Raves and bonfires
🍺 New Skills: Dancing, DJ Mixing
🍺 New Trait: Dance Machine
🍺 New Social Event: Dance Party
🍺 New Aspiration: Leader of the Pack
🍺 New Lot Types: Cafe, Von Haunt Estate (special), Ancient Ruins (special), The Bluffs (special)
Get To Work
💼 A new mini-world with a shopping district theme in the aesthetic style of Willow Creek
💼 Three new fully active careers where you can follow your Sim to work at a career venue
💼 Purchase, manage, and shop at your own retail stores
💼 Purchase retail perks for your business and become a 5 star retail establishment
💼 Almost all items in the game can be sold in retail stores, including crafted items
💼 Retail Objects: Mannequins, cash registers, display shelves, photo studio, vending machine
💼 Doctor Objects: X-ray machine, surgical station, chemical analyzer
💼 Scientist Objects: Chemistry lab, cloning machine, SimRay, invention constructor, satellite dish, wormhole generator
💼 Detective Objects: Fingerprint scanner, chemical analyzer, jail cells
💼 Aliens, a new occult life state
💼 Visit the planet Sixam, a hidden alien world only reachable by rocket ship or through the new scientist career
💼 Alien abductions
💼 Male Sims can return home from alien abductions pregnant with an alien baby
💼 Give birth at the new hospital venue and receive a birth certificate for your new baby
💼 A new illness system
💼 A wide variety of new baked goods that can be decorated and enjoyed at home or sold at the new retail venues
💼 New Skill: Baking
💼 New Careers: Doctor, Scientist, Detective
💼 New Lot Types: Retail, Hospital (hidden), Police Station (hidden), Science Lab (hidden)
💼 New Collectibles: Geodes, Gardening additions, Crystal additions, Metal additions, Element additions
Game Packs
My Wedding Stories
Even though we created this guide to offer an unbiased perspective to players, we feel it would be cruelly biased to bother listing features of a pack that is completely unfinished, unstable, and unplayable in every sense of the word. We would be doing a huge disservice to our fellow Simmers by even pretending this pack has any working features at all. It should not have been released in this state.
Until all major gameplay features are deemed stable and functional by the community without needing to rely on mods, this section will remain empty.
We cannot in good conscience recommend this pack to anyone at this point in time.
Dream Home Decorator
🛠️ One new active career as an Interior Decorator. Sims will take on gigs and travel to other lots to interview clients and redecorate portions of their home.
🛠️ Clients’ likes and dislikes will influence their reaction to your renovations and determine how well you do on your gigs.
🛠️ Four types of gigs: Room Renovation, Room Addition, Level Addition, and Level Renovation
🛠️ Each gig has different restrictions and requirements. You may be allowed to knock out and build walls in some renovations but not others, for example.
🛠️ Interior Decorators have a reputation bar as well as a performance bar. They carry their reputation with them throughout their career. Doing well on gigs and promoting yourself on social media (ie: uploading your renovation photos to simstagram) will boost reputation. Doing poorly on gigs or acting inappropriately with clients will decrease reputation and can get you fired from a gig.
🛠️ Decorators with high reputation will land better gigs and may be contacted by brands and be featured on the Dream Home Decorator Network.
🛠️ If Get Famous is installed, Interior Decorators can become celebrity designers. They can also land high profile celebrity clients with high reputation.
🛠️ Interior Decorators must take before and after photos of their renovations. When the reno is revealed to the client, a cinematic before and after montage will play.
🛠️ New Career: Interior Decorator
🛠️ New Objects: Countertop stove, countertop oven, built-in oven, sectional seating, modular wall-mounted and floor shelving with detachable clothes, wall-mounted TV stand, play tent for toddlers and children.
Star Wars: Journey to Batuu
🛰️ One new vacation world in the theme of Star Wars; the world does not have any buildable lots. All locations within the world are uneditable shells and rabbitholes.
🛰️ Three factions your Sim can join; First Order, Resistance, and Scoundrels.
🛰️ Complete missions for each faction to earn rewards and rise in their ranks.
🛰️ New currency, Galactic Credits, which are used to purchase things on Batuu and can be earned by completing missions for any of the three factions.
🛰️ Purchase and customize a droid companion that can play music, follow your Sim around, and help your Sim on missions. Droids can be upgraded with chips that will help them serve specific factions.
🛰️ A variety of puzzle-like activities to do on missions, like slicing into control panels, tampering with cargo boxes, breaking into forbidden areas, avoiding enemy factions, and going on choose-your-own adventure type explorations in starships (similar to exploring space in the base game rocketship).
🛰️ Meet and work with (or against) some of the Star Wars film characters, like Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker. They are tied into the story missions and are not romance-able.
🛰️ Collect lightsaber parts to build and customize your own lightsaber. Sims can train with the lightsaber and challenge other Sims to lightsaber duels.
🛰️ New cooking recipes and drinks that can be learned by eating and drinking them on Batuu.
🛰️ New Aspirations: Hope vs. Order, Galactic Privateer, Paragon of Hope (branches off from Hope vs. Order), Enforcer of Order (branches off from Hope vs. Order)
🛰️ New Collections: Lightsaber Parts, Batuu Records
Realm of Magic
🧙♀️ Two new mini-worlds, one forested world to live in and one magical floating world to visit
🧙♀️ Spellcasters, a new occult life state. Equivalent to witches
🧙♀️ Spellcasters can be created in CAS. Human Sims can also become Spellcasters in-game
🧙♀️ Spellcaster “skill tree” with powers and abilities that can be purchased using magic points
🧙♀️ Six ranks of Spellcaster; Apprentice, Neophyte, Acolyte, Adept, Master, and Virtuoso
🧙♀️ Spellbook for Spellcasters, detailing all potion recipes and learned spells
🧙♀️ Four schools of magic; Practical, Untamed, Mischief, and Alchemy
🧙♀️ Spellcaster charge system. Casting magic builds up magical charge but building up your magical charge too much can have consequences
🧙♀️ Magic duels
🧙♀️ Familiars
🧙♀️ Cauldrons, brooms, and wands
🧙♀️ Spells and potions can go wrong, afflicting your Sims with a variety of curses
🧙♀️ Three Sages for Practical, Untamed, and Mischief magic who can help your Sims become Spellcasters or help train them to become more powerful Spellcasters
🧙♀️ Children can be Spellcasters but don’t have any powers until they become teens
🧙♀️ Children of Spellcasters are born with magical bloodline traits that will help them with magic in the future. The longer the magical bloodline, the stronger the trait
🧙♀️ New Aspirations: Spellcraft & Sorcery, Purveyor of Potions
🧙♀️ New Traits: Weak Bloodline (inherited), Strong Bloodline (inherited), Ancient Bloodline (inherited)
🧙♀️ New Lot Type: Magic HQ (special)
🧙♀️ New Death Type: Spellcaster Overload
🧙♀️ New Collections: Magical Artifacts, Gardening additions
StrangerVille
☣️ One new full-size world with an Old Western desert theme
☣️ Solve the StrangerVille Mystery; a story mode with quests to complete
☣️ Strange neighbours who appear “possessed” by… something
☣️ Military personnel and scientist NPCs wandering around town
☣️ Government agents around town
☣️ A deserted lab in a crater outside town with dark secrets to uncover
☣️ Bizarre plants growing all over town
☣️ Plant bugs on Sims and spy on their conversations with the listening station
☣️ Spar with the B64 Training Bot
☣️ Curio shop stall
☣️ Laptops
☣️ New Career: Military
☣️ New Aspiration: StrangerVille Mystery
☣️ New Trait: Paranoid, Infected (hidden)
☣️ New Lot Type: Secret Lab (special)
☣️ New Emotion: Possessed
☣️ New Death Type: Consumed by the Mother
Jungle Adventure
🧭 A new full-size vacation world with a South American jungle theme
🧭 Purchase adventure gear and souvenirs from market tables
🧭 New local cuisine
🧭 A wild jungle to explore with both treasure and danger to be found
🧭 Natural dangers that happen to your Sims in the jungle, such as spider bites and swarms of bees
🧭 Fight off natural dangers with adventure gear or by having high skills
🧭 Ancient blessings and curses
🧭 Treasure chests
🧭 Dig sites that can be excavated for artifacts
🧭 Learn local culture and dance moves
🧭 Assemble magical relics to bless and curse Sims
🧭 Discover ancient ruins and secret ancient areas in the jungle
🧭 Explore an ancient temple that changes its layout every time you visit
🧭 Disarm traps in the temple to gain access to the next area
🧭 Archaeology table and street market tables
🧭 New Skills: Selvadoradean Culture, Archaeology
🧭 New Aspirations: Jungle Explorer, Archaeology Scholar
🧭 New Lot Types: Rental, National Park, Omiscan Baths (special), Ancient Temple (special)
🧭 New Death Type: Poison
🧭 New Collections: Omiscan Artifacts, Omiscan Treasures, Gardening additions, Fish additions
Parenthood
👨👩👧👦 A character value system for toddlers, children, and teens
👨👩👧👦 Five character values: Manners, Responsibility, Emotional Control, Conflict Resolution, and Empathy
👨👩👧👦 Positive and negative traits associated with each character value that teens can get when they become young adults
👨👩👧👦 Various actions throughout childhood raise and lower character values
👨👩👧👦 Parents can encourage and discipline their children to help raise their character values
👨👩👧👦 Diaries
👨👩👧👦 Mood swings
👨👩👧👦 Childhood phases
👨👩👧👦 Tantrums and emotional meltdowns
👨👩👧👦 School projects
👨👩👧👦 Building block table
👨👩👧👦 Doctor and veterinarian play sets
👨👩👧👦 Volunteering
👨👩👧👦 Interactive family bulletin board
👨👩👧👦 Curfews
👨👩👧👦 Toddlers and children can make messes
👨👩👧👦 Pack home lunches to send to school or work with your Sims
👨👩👧👦 Set the table for meal times
👨👩👧👦 School will occasionally call parents to inform them of their child’s actions while at school
👨👩👧👦 Children and teens will occasionally ask parents for advice
👨👩👧👦 New Skill: Parenting
👨👩👧👦 New Aspiration: Super Parent
Vampires
🧛 New mini-world with a Gothic Victorian theme
🧛 Vampires, a new occult life state
🧛 Vampire “skill tree” with new powers that can be purchased with power points
🧛 Five ranks of vampire; Fledgling Vampire, Minor Vampire, Prime Vampire, Master Vampire, and Grand Master Vampire
🧛 Vampires must take on weaknesses to balance out their powers as they grow in rank
🧛 Vampire powers and weaknesses are unique to that vampire. Not all vampires have the same powers and weaknesses
🧛 Vampires can spar with other vampires as either a friendly or mean interaction
🧛 Vampires have vampire energy, which does not deplete gradually over time like human energy. It depletes when the vampire uses vampire powers and will occasionally need to be replenished with rest or meditation. Vampire energy depletes rapidly if a vampire is out in the sun (unless they have the sun resistance power).
🧛 Vampires do not need to eat or use the bathroom, but they do need to drink plasma.
🧛 Pipe organ is a new instrument
🧛 Coffins
🧛 New vampire tomes that can be read to increase Vampire Lore skill and learn new information on vampires
🧛 New bar drinks and recipe; plasma jane, sunlight reversal cocktail, vampire resistance cocktail, draught of reconfiguration, ultimate vampire cure, plasma fruit salad
🧛 Garlic braids and wreaths to keep pesky vampires away
🧛 Vampires can drink plasma from Sims, either with or without the Sim’s permission
🧛 Vampires can also drink plasma from plasma packs ordered through the computer or made from fish and frogs. Vampires can harvest and eat plasma fruit
🧛 New Skills: Vampire Lore, Pipe Organ
🧛 New Aspirations: Good Vampire, Master Vampire, Vampire Family
🧛 New Death Type: Sunlight
🧛 New Collections: Gardening additions
Dine Out
🍽️ Ability to own, manage, and eat out at restaurants
🍽️ New experimental dishes and nectars (wine)
🍽️ Sims can learn to cook experimental dishes at home by eating them at restaurants
🍽️ Hire staff for your restaurant and design their uniforms
🍽️ Train your staff and keep them happy to keep them performing well
🍽️ Purchase restaurant perks for your restaurant
🍽️ Interact with customers and keep them happy
🍽️ Increase your star rating to become a successful 5-star restaurant
🍽️ Food critics that will visit your restaurant and write reviews, affecting your restaurant’s reputation
🍽️ Assign a dress code for your restaurant
🍽️ Customize your restaurant’s menu
🍽️ Own and manage multiple restaurants at a time
🍽️ Ability to open the restaurant while you are away and let your staff run things
🍽️ Go on dates and have birthday parties at restaurants
🍽️ Children can draw on their place mats and take the finished artwork home with them
🍽️ Servers can sometimes drop dishes on the floor while serving them to Sims
🍽️ Sims can get food poisoning from restaurants and report it to get a cash compensation from the restaurant
🍽️ New restaurant objects include a chef station, modular booth seating, patio heaters, host station, server station, and aquariums
🍽️ New Lot Type: Restaurant
🍽️ New Collections: Experimental Food Photos
Spa Day
🧘 Ability to visit the new spa venues and partake in spa activities
🧘 Massages, foot rubs, and hand massages
🧘 Massage tables and massage chairs
🧘 Yoga classes and yoga mats
🧘 Meditation stools
🧘 Saunas
🧘 Mud baths and baths with soaks
🧘 Fizzy drink tray
🧘 Incense burners
🧘 New health recipes
🧘 New Skill: Wellness
🧘 New Lot Type: Spa
🧘 New Hired Service: Massage Therapist
🧘 New Death Type: Overheating
Outdoor Retreat
🏕️ A new full-size vacation world with a rustic Canadian theme
🏕️ Camping tents and other portable camping equipment, like lawn chairs, fold-out tables, lanterns, and campfires
🏕️ Roast marshmallows, bugs, fish, and hot dogs on the campfire
🏕️ Hang out, sing songs, and tell stories around the campfire
🏕️ Locate and identify new plants to use in a variety of herbalism recipes
🏕️ Cloudgaze and stargaze
🏕️ Catch and collect bugs
🏕️ Purchase camping gear and other outdoor necessities from the ranger station
🏕️ Stay on the campgrounds in a tent or in a cabin
🏕️ New bear costume. Sims can occasionally be seen walking around the vacation world in bear costumes
🏕️ Explore the woods and discover the hermit’s cabin
🏕️ New Skill: Herbalism
🏕️ New Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast
🏕️ New Trait: Squeamish
🏕️ New Social Event: Weenie Roast
🏕️ New Lot Types: Rental, National Park, Hermit’s House (hidden)
🏕️ New Collections: Bugs, Fish additions, Gardening additions
Stuff Packs
Paranormal Stuff
🔮 Live in haunted houses and keep the specters happy to earn rewards
🔮 Specters: Small spirits that roam haunted houses at night. They range from friendly to hostile.
🔮 Give specters homemade presents or offer them your soul
🔮 Destroy cursed objects that pop up around haunted houses
🔮 Collect, consume, or sell haunted treasures specters leave behind, such as Hello Dahlia dolls, Unassuming Candy Jars, Specter Sips, Ectocake, and Soul Pieces.
🔮 Become a freelance Paranormal Investigator and visit other Sims’ homes to help them with their ghost problem
🔮 Purchase Sacred Candles from the Reward Store to help your Sims feel safe at night or craft them with Wraith Wax gifted from specters
🔮 Host séances with up to 3 other Sims that call upon the dead and calm the specters of the house
🔮 Summon Bonehilda to help you clean, cook, and defend your home against aggressive specters
🔮 Children and Teens can conduct séances, build the new Medium skill, and get their Paranormal Investigator License, but cannot join the career until they become Young Adults
🔮 Meet Guidry, a friendly ghost who will help you navigate all matters of the paranormal
🔮 Defend yourself against Temperance, an evil ghost who has a history with Guidry
🔮 New Gameplay Object: Séance Table
🔮 New Skill: Medium (minor skill)
🔮 New Lot Type: Haunted House Residential
🔮 New Career: Freelance Paranormal Investigator
🔮 New NPCS: Bonehilda, Guidry, Temperance
🔮 New Trait: Brave (Reward Store)
Nifty Knitting Stuff
🧶 Knit a large variety of clothing, accessories, toys, and decorations
🧶 Knittables can be given as gifts to other Sims
🧶 Knitted clothing must be crafted and then added to the household wardrobe to become available in CAS
🧶 Knittables and other crafted items can be sold on an online marketplace called Plopsy
🧶 Baby onesies can be knitted to dress newborn babies in
🧶 Toddler onesies can be knitted and worn by toddlers as well
🧶 Knitting in a rocking chair builds Knitting skill faster
🧶 Knitting while listening to music builds Knitting skill faster
🧶 Elder Sims can reminisce in a rocking chair
🧶 Children and toddlers can play in a rocking chair
🧶 Children can knit
🧶 Both children and adults can be taught to knit by more experienced knitters
🧶 If Cats & Dogs is installed, cats will play with the knitting baskets
🧶 Sims can afflict a significant other with “the sweater curse” (SimGuruConor hinted that we should look this up on Wikipedia)
🧶 Collaboration with the video game Unraveled; Sims can knit Yarny toys and sculptures
🧶 The Yarny sculpture is “special;” it appeared to move on its own in the livestream
🧶 New Skill: Knitting
🧶 New Aspiration: Lord/Lady of the Knits
🧶 New Reward Trait: Sacred Knitting Knowledge
🧶 New Gameplay Objects: Rocking Chair, Knitting Basket
Tiny Living Stuff
🏠 Build tiny homes for your Sims that offer gameplay benefits; the tinier the home, the bigger the benefits
🏠 Three tiers of tiny home; micro (32 tiles), tiny (64 tiles), and small (100 tiles)
🏠 Micro-Home Benefits: Double skill gain, increased relationship gain, increased comfort from objects, gardening boost, inspired/focused/happy buffs last twice as long, reduced bills
🏠 Tiny Home Benefits: Double skill gain, increased comfort from objects, inspired/focused/happy buffs last twice as long, reduced bills
🏠 Small Home Benefits: Inspired/focused/happy buffs last twice as long, reduced bills
🏠 New 3-in-1 entertainment unit with bookshelf, TV, and stereo built into one object
🏠 1-tile desk and dressers
🏠 New murphy bed in two variations; one with a fold-up loveseat attached and one without.
🏠 Murphy bed can break and be upgraded
🏠 New Gameplay Object: Murphy Bed
🏠 New Lot Type: Tiny Home Residential
🏠 New Death Type: Murphy Bed
Moschino Stuff
📷 New portable photography tripod, camera, studio lights, Sim ground markers, and backdrops
📷 Tripod will produce better quality photos and open up advanced camera options, even with a cheap camera or low Photography skill
📷 Digital picture frame and collage picture frame
📷 Take photos with pets and toddlers
📷 Take photos of multiple Sims together
📷 Control where Sims stand for photos with new ground markers
📷 New photography poses and more control over which poses Sims do while being photographed
📷 New Career: Freelance Fashion Photographer
📷 New Gameplay Object: Tripod
My First Pet Stuff
🐹 A variety of cute rodents to play with and care for; hamster, rat, porcupine, and bubalus (fictional creature called a voidcritter, featured prominently in the Kids Room Stuff pack)
🐹 Rodents have lives of their own and get up to all kinds of silly, fun antics, such as blasting off into space and going on vacation; they might even send you back a postcard from their travels!
🐹 Rodents can be fed IQ limiter treats to stop them from doing the above activities
🐹 Rodents can be fed anti-aging treats to stop them from dying of old age but can still die from starvation/neglect if you don’t take care of them
🐹 Children can study rodents as part of their homework
🐹 Sims bitten by rodents with dirty cages can contract the deadly Rabid Rodent Fever disease
🐹 Rabid Rodent Fever is highly contagious and will spread to all Sims in the household. Sims with Rabid Rodent Fever must be kept in isolation to protect other Sims
🐹 *New clothes and accessories for cats and dogs
🐹 *New objects for cats and dogs (cat towers, beds, food dishes, etc)
🐹 New Gameplay Object: Rodents
🐹 New Death Type: Rabid Rodent Fever
🐹 New Collection: Postcard additions
* The Cats & Dogs expansion pack is required to be able to use any of the content for cats and dogs in this pack
Laundry Day Stuff
🧺 Ability to do laundry, either by hand or in laundry machines
🧺 Washing machines and dryers can be upgraded to clean clothes better and break down less often
🧺 Washing machines and dryers can be stacked on top of each other or placed side-by-side
🧺 Clothes can also be washed by hand in a wash tub and hung up to dry on clotheslines
🧺 Flowers can be added to wash tubs and washing machines to make clothes smell nice
🧺 Food can be added to wash tubs and washing machines to make clothes come out smelling foul
🧺 Sims with mischief skill can put soap in the washing machine to make it overflow with suds during its next cycle
🧺 Children can do laundry. If Parenthood is installed, this builds the Responsibility value
🧺 The dryer must be upgraded to be lintless or have its lint trap cleaned between each cycle or it has a high chance of starting a fire
🧺 Sims can die in fires caused by the dryer, but this is not a new death type
🧺 Maids will do laundry. If Vintage Glamour Stuff is installed, butlers will also do laundry
🧺 If Cats & Dogs is installed, cats will jump on washers and dryers and play with the dripping water from the clothesline
🧺 New Gameplay Objects: Washing machine, dryer, wash tub, clothesline
Toddler Stuff
👶 New outdoor play equipment for toddlers
👶 New toddler slide, ball pit, and jungle gym build toddler skills
👶 Parents can help their toddlers slide down the slide
👶 Toddlers can play pretend on the jungle gym, climb through the tunnels, dive into the ball pit, and climb up and slide down the slide
👶 Slide, jungle gym, and ball pit come both separately and as one large object
👶 Parents can arrange play dates for their toddlers to play with other toddlers in the neighbourhood. Toddlers will show up with their caregivers, giving the adults a chance to socialise during play dates as well
👶 New Gameplay Objects: Toddler slide, toddler ball pit, and toddler jungle gym
👶 New Event Type: Play Date
Fitness Stuff
💪 New rock climbing object that Sims can use to build Fitness skill
💪 Multiple settings and difficulty levels on the rock climbing machine
💪 An extreme fire setting on the rock climbing machine; shoots fire out at your Sims that they must avoid while they climb
💪 Sims can die from the extreme fire setting but this is not a new death type
💪 New home workout channels on the TV; plumboomba dance video and a power sculpting video
💪 New ear buds Sims can wear on the go and listen to music with while out and about and doing other activities
💪 New Gameplay Objects: Rock climbing machine, ear buds
Bowling Night Stuff
🎳 Ability to go bowling with your Sims
🎳 New bowling alley object with a “regular” and “nighttime” lighting mode
🎳 Sims can practice bowling alone or play short and long matches against friends and family
🎳 Children can go bowling
🎳 Using the bowling alley builds the new Bowling skill
🎳 Unlock new bowling balls and fancy trick moves as Sims level up in the Bowling skill
🎳 New Gameplay Object: Bowling Alley
🎳 New Skill: Bowling
Vintage Glamour Stuff
💄 Sims can use the new vanity table to change their appearance
💄 Children can use the vanity table to put on their parents’ makeup with amusing results
💄 A new globe bar
💄 Sims can hire a butler to maintain the household for them
💄 Butlers can greet guests at the door or turn away all guests, cook, clean, take care of children and pets* (including rodents**), do laundry***, and water plants
💄 Butlers will live with your Sims and must be assigned a bed in the house to sleep in
💄 Butlers can be praised or reprimanded and instructed to do specific tasks
💄 All duties can be turned on or off separately for the butler
💄 New Gameplay Object: Vanity table
💄 New Hired Service: Butler
* Cats & Dogs is required to have the butler take care of pets
** My First Pet Stuff is required to have the butler take care of rodents
*** Laundry Day Stuff is required for the butler to do laundry
Backyard Stuff
🐦 Sims can enjoy new backyard activities like slip’n’slides, lemonade, and feeding birds
🐦 Two new slip’n’slides available for Sims to use
🐦 Sims can do trick slides on the slip’n’slide and add soap to them
🐦 Sims who slide on a soapy slip’n’slide will be covered with suds for a short time afterwards
🐦 Sims can make lemonade and other citrus-based summer drinks using a new drink tray
🐦 Sims can fill up bird feeders and watch the birds; the birds can also sometimes attack Sims while they’re filling up the feeder
🐦 New bamboo, ceramic, and aluminum wind chimes
🐦 New Gameplay Objects: Slip’n’slides, lemonade tray, bird feeder
Kids Room Stuff
🎒 Children can collect, train, battle, and trade Voidcritter cards, similar to Pokemon cards in the real world
🎒 Voidcritter cards can be ordered on the computer, found in garbage bins and logs (children only), and traded with other Sims (children only)
🎒 Each Voidcritter has an alignment, making it strong or weak against other types of Voidcritters
🎒 Voidcritter cards vary in rarity and each Voidcritter card has both a standard edition and a special edition
🎒 Children can train their Voidcritters on the new battle station to increase their power level, making them stronger in battles
🎒 Children can battle their Voidcritters against other children on the battle station
🎒 A new puppet theatre children can play with to build their Social skill
🎒 A variety of different plays children can put on using the puppet theatre with different outcomes; sometimes the children will put on a good show, other times they’ll mess it up
🎒 Other Sims can come and watch the puppet performances
🎒 A new BeTween TV channel featuring the Voidcritter television show
🎒 New Gameplay Objects: Voidcritter Battle Station, Puppet Theatre
🎒 New Collection: Voidcritters
Romantic Garden Stuff
🌹 Sims can make offerings at the new wishing well and make wishes
🌹 Wishes can have good or bad results
🌹 Making offerings increases the odds of a wish having good results; the higher the offering, the better the odds of a good wish outcome
🌹 Sims can die in various ways from wishes gone wrong at the wishing well but the wishing well itself does not have a new death type
🌹 Sims can wish for knowledge, wealth, love, happiness, youth, good grades, a promotion, or a child at the wishing well
🌹 Ghosts can wish to be brought back to life
🌹 Sims can play in, sit on, and add soap to the new water fountain
🌹 New Gameplay Objects: Wishing Well, Water Fountain
Movie Hangout Stuff
🍿 Sims can watch movies and eat popcorn
🍿 A variety of new movies to watch on TV across many different genres; horror, family friendly, action, romance, comedy, etc.
🍿 Sims will react to the film they’re watching in “real time;” they’ll gasp at scary moments and cry at sad/touching moments in a film. If the Sims are eating popcorn while watching a scary movie, they can even jump and spill their popcorn everywhere
🍿 Sims will shush other Sims who are talking during a movie
🍿 Sims can discuss different aspects of a film they just watched with other Sims
🍿 Sims can declare their favourite movie genre
🍿 A new giant projection TV with speakers for Sims to watch movies outdoors
🍿 Sims can make popcorn with the new popcorn maker
🍿 Popcorn maker is tied to the Cooking skill. Sims with higher Cooking skill can make more kinds of popcorn
🍿 Sims can try to catch popcorn in their mouths while eating it
🍿 New Gameplay Object: Popcorn Maker
Spooky Stuff
🎃 Sims can carve pumpkins, eat candy, and throw Spooky Parties
🎃 New costumes for both kids and adults to wear
🎃 A new candy bowl with various little surprises that pop out and scare Sims when they try to take some candy from the bowl
🎃 A new pumpkin carving station that can be used by both children and adults
🎃 Pumpkin carving is tied to the Handiness/Motor skill. Sims with higher Handiness/Motor skill can carve more types of pumpkins in various colours
🎃 Sims might occasionally botch a pumpkin carving
🎃 New Gameplay Objects: Candy Bowl, Pumpkin Carving Station
🎃 New Social Event: Spooky Party
Cool Kitchen Stuff
🍦 Sims can make and eat ice cream with the new ice cream maker
🍦 The ice cream maker is tied to the Cooking skill. Sims with higher Cooking skill can make more types of ice cream
🍦 Ice cream can be enjoyed in cones or in bowls. The cone will be eaten along with the ice cream, leaving no dish cleanup
🍦 Ice cream can have a variety of garnishes and toppings added to it
🍦 Sims will frequently get brain freeze while eating ice cream
🍦 Some types of ice cream have different effects on Sims, like making them slimmer, larger, and temporarily turning them into PlantSims
🍦 If Get To Work is installed, ice cream can be sold in retail stores to create your own ice cream parlour
🍦 New Gameplay Object: Ice Cream Maker
Perfect Patio Stuff
🌊 Sims can enjoy soaking in hot tubs
🌊 There are two hot tubs, one typical suburban backyard one and one sleek, modern one
🌊 8 Sims can sit in the hot tub at a time, making it perfect for the whole household
🌊 Sims can chat with other Sims, cuddle, kiss, enjoy beverages, and watch TV while sitting in the hot tub
🌊 Sims can WooHoo and skinny dip in the hot tub
🌊 Children can use the hot tub
🌊 Tired Sims may fall asleep in the hot tub
🌊 The hot tubs can be upgraded to add stereos, aromatherapy oils, and be unbreakable
🌊 New Gameplay Object: Hot Tub
Luxury Party Stuff
💎 Sims can serve food and drinks with the new buffet table and drink fountain
💎 The buffet table comes in two styles; one with a long tablecloth and one sleek glass version
💎 The buffet table can be stocked with multiple group servings of food by clicking on the table and purchasing food, or by having a Sim cook food to put on the table
💎 The drink fountain can be filled with punch or chocolate
💎 Sims can grab punch from the drink fountain or dip strawberries in the chocolate
💎 The drink fountain is designed to be placed on top of the buffet table, but can be placed on other surfaces as well
💎 New Gameplay Objects: Buffet Table, Drink Fountain
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At this point, the guide is pretty well complete. I may add some stuff here and there as I think of it, but I am confident that anyone looking to buy a new pack for The Sims 4 will be able to make a good, solid decision based on all the info provided.
Please do not message me asking to add/remove packs from certain sections or giving your suggestions for which packs to list under which sections. Everyone is obviously going to have a different opinion on a subject like this but I have done my best to try and include every pack that might work well for the interests I have listed here.
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