Do you believe in fairies? In The Sims mainline series, our mythical creatures are imbedded in their reality, and fairies are an addition to The Sims 4 that many players have been itching to see. After the recent Instant Gaming Leak of The Sims 4: Enchanted by Nature, an expansion pack rumored to be next in line on the roadmap, buzz about the little fluttering humanoids has been everywhere. With The Sims 3 Fairies being many players favorite occult type that has been missing for the past decade of The Sims 4, its no surprise how excited many players are.
While The Sims mainline series is no stranger to adding occults, with many cult classics like Vampires, Werewolves, and Aliens being somewhat present in almost every installment of the game (playable or not), Fairies are one of a handful of occult types with very little history in the series. With demand for them being at an all time high, lets take a walk down memory lane and revisit the most recent iteration of fairies and The Fae in The Sims, as well as other mentions of them in previous installments.
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The History of Fairies in The Sims Series
The Sims & Fairies
Before the playable fairies of The Sims 3, we had very little examples of fairies in the entire Sims series. Going all the way back to The Sims, the first in the PC series, Sims could really only be standard humans if they were playable.
Makin’ Magic, the final expansion pack for the installment, brought spells and mysticism to your Sims’ homes. This also included Magic Town, a sub-neighborhood that your sims could visit and mingle with the Strange NPCs, participate in competitions, and purchase items. One of the residents of this town is an NPC by the name of Faerie Queen Mara, the first example of a fairy in The Sims. Your sims can interact with her, verse her in games at the carnival, or purchase items from her with Magicoins, a currency used in this sub-neighborhood. She can be found at the Forest Edge Camp at 98 Calamity Forest in Magic Town.
The Sims 2 & Fairies
In The Sims 2, while we didn’t have playable or even NPC fairies of any kind, there are references to fairies and The Fae found in Veronaville, the third base game neighborhood. Veronaville is largely inspired by The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, the classic play by William Shakespeare which has gone on to influence all forms of media and be rewritten many times over. It also has references to other plays written by Shakespeare, and the one I want to note is a reference to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In Veronaville, the Summerdream family is composed of Oberon and Titania, who live at 71 Bard Blvd with their two adoptive children, Puck and Bottom. Oberon and Titania are not married, but they are in love. These sims stick out as they all carry a trait only found on Face Template “26 Elf”, which is pointy elf-like ears. They also all, excluding the youngest child Bottom, wear various facepaint.
Their names are directly taken from characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Oberon in the play being the King of Fairies and Titania being the Queen of Fairies. Puck is a mischievous fairy, and Bottom is a weaver who had his head turned into a donkey head by Puck. So, while there are no actual fairies in The Sims 2, there is references to them and premade sims inspired by them.
Another piece of information about the Summerdream family to note, is that Oberon and Titania appear as townies in The Sims 3: Supernatural’s Moonlight Falls!
Also, The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff came with a fairy costume for female children.
The Sims 3 Fairies
Almost 13 years ago, The Sims 3: Supernatural hit store shelves, filled to the brim with occult types and a whole new world; Moonlight Falls. With five occult states added to the game, including Vampires (Which originally existed in The Sims 3: Late Night), Werewolves, Witches/Wizards, Zombies, and Fairies. While previous iterations of these occult types could only occur through being turned by another sim, potions, or magic, many occult types in the Sims 3 are genetic and can be inherited from parent to child! (Anyone else remember the online tutorials for ghost babies?)
Without the player creating any fairies, the world shipped with The Sims 3: Supernatural, Moonlight Falls, comes with twelve premade fairy sims, between playable families and townies.
The Goodfellow family (Flora, Pip, Dahlia, and Fawn) are all fairies except for Fawn Goodfellow, who is their adopted human child. The Rodgers family consists of Linda Rodgers and her adoptive fairy toddler daughter, Sophie Rodgers. There is hints within the game that someone, although we aren’t sure exactly who, played a prank that swapped Sophie and Fawn, leading to them being adopted by the wrong families.
The Hoppcraft family include the very successful James and Miriam who are very skeptical of supernatural Sims, without knowing that their toddler son, Alfred, was turned into a fairy accidentally by Flora Goodfellow.
As previously mentioned, Titania and Oberon of the Summerdream family are present, although they are homeless in Moonlight Falls. Weirdly enough, Titania and Oberon are married in The Sims 3: Supernatural, although their children are not present.
Other fairies found wandering the world, who can be made playable by marriage, moving them in, or switching to their household(s) in Edit Town Mode, include Branch Timbley, Marigold Maldano, and Aubrey Oviedo.
Fairies are available as soon as The Sims 3: Supernatural is installed through CAS, but pre-existing Sims or newly created Human sims can become fairies through a random opportunity while “Searching for Fairies” in the Arboretum or by using the “Bottled Blessing of the Fae”, which is a potion found in stores or created by high-level Alchemist sims.
The Sims 4 & Fairies
While we’ve recently got rumors about an incoming expansion pack that will add a full-fledged fairy occult state, this is still primarily rumors. The Sims 4 does have a few references to fairies sprinkled into the base game, as well, as different packs.
Sylvan Glade, the secret lot in Willow Creek, has tiny giggling fairies that will fly around as decoration. This area is accessible via interacting with the large green tree found in the neighborhood Foundry Cove. Follow our guide to access Sylvan Glade and other secret lots here.
In The Sims 4: Spooky Stuff, a fairy costume and matching facepaint is available for adult sims.
In The Sims 4: Realm of Magic, one of the available familiars for spellcaster sims is a fairy, but it is not human-like, but more like a glowing ball of light with wings.
Create-A-Sim & Genetics
The easiest way to get a fairy is to just create one in Create-A-Sim. Sims can be changed into any basic occult type, so fairies are available once you have The Sims 3: Supernatural installed. A new tab will appear called “Fairy Basics”, that specifically allows you to change the wings and wing color of your fairy, as they are randomized when the Sim is first changed.
Sims 3 Fairies can have any wing color available on the color wheel, and they have six different wing types available. These wings are labelled, in order, as “Willowed Wisps“, “Dreamy Dragonfly“, “Fanciful Ferns“, “Majestic Monarch“, “Super Swirly“, and “Busy Bumblebee“. Outside of using clothes, makeup, hair, and accessories added that are themed for fairies but can be used by any sim, this is about the extent of customization for fairies.
When a fairy is born, which can happen from two fairies having a baby or a fairy and another non-fairy sim having a baby, it does not have wings. The wing type and color are given randomly, and you can sometimes see the color that they will be because fairy babies do sparkle like adult fairies do.
Toddler fairies have wings, unique idle animations, and can interact with fairy houses, but lack any other fairy powers until they grow into children.
While Sims 3 Fairies do age at the same rate as other sims during their childhood, things change once they’ve hit their young adult years. Young Adult and Adult fairies have 100+ days in their life stages, while every other life stage, including being an elder, is the same as a Human Sim. This is the same lifespan as Vampires, as well.
Magic & Powers
Sims 3 Fairies have two forms; Their standard humanoid form, and their “natural” form, which is a tiny ball of light with sparkles that glow the same color as their wings. Their natural form is seen often when they’re using magical abilities, but is also available to allow them to access fairy homes, repair objects, and other various activities. Two examples include the Claw Machine and the Small Train Set.
The extent of their abilities, magic, and tricks is controlled by their level in the Fairy Magic skill, which becomes available as a child and by using their available abilities, can be leveled. They also have a magic meter, similar to motives and the same meter seen in Witch sims, that powers their abilities and drains as they use magic. Multiple activities allow fairy sims to regenerate their magic, including drinking the Essence of Magic elixir, relaxing or sleeping in a fairy house, drinking pollen punch, and more.
Magic abilities of Sims 3 Fairies are separated into Powers, Traps, Tricks, and Auras. Powers include flying or making other sims fly, repairing objects, and boosting plant growth. They are primarily contained to the fairy Sims self-interactions, and interactions targeted towards other sims.
Traps are targeted at objects and will “trap” the next sim to use them. They include trapping showers to dye the next sims hair, trapping mailboxes to release a swarm of bees at the next sim to open it, trapping couches to make sims get sleepy and nap, and many more.
Tricks are directly targeted at other sims and often influence their moodlets, appearance, or behavior temporarily. They include giving them a hot head, making them burp and get gassy, or even deform their face and ruin their social status temporarily, and these are only a few of the interactions.
Auras emit from the fairy sim and effect both them and nearby sims. There are only three types available; The Aura of Soothing (Blue) that slightly raises their mood and provides a happy moodlet, the Aura of Creativity (Green), which boosts creative skills (painting, writing, music, etc.), and Aura of Body & Mind (Red), which boosts physical and mental skills (body, logic, etc.).
Unique Fairy Interactions
Sims 3 Fairies also have their own unique social interactions with other sims, dependent on multiple factors. These factors can include the other sim’s age, species, traits, and more. Certain unique interactions from fairies to non-fairies include options like “Bestow Flight of Felicity”, which temporarily allows non-fairies to use the “I can fly!” interactions on themselves, or “Playfully Pester”, where the fairy enters their natural form and buzzes around another sim. If the non-fairy sim has the “Supernatural Skeptic” trait, they’ll attempt to hit the fairy with a fly swatter while this interaction is playing.
When interacting with other fairies, outside of throwing parties together in the fairy bungalow or castle, fairies can “Fairy Frolic” together. They’ll change into their natural forms and playfully dance around each other. If the fairy sim is interacting with a werewolf, they can choose to play tag, and they’ll buzz around in their natural form while the werewolf bats at them.
We all know too well that having The Sims 3: Supernatural installed often leads to encounters with the undead, both Zombies and Vampires. If you want a sim to be returned to their normal state after zombification, your fairy can create a jar of Fairy Dust to be used on the sim, which will cure them. Also, if your fairy sim is bitten by a vampire, the vampire will get a temporary buzz from their magical plasma!
The World & Fairies
Similarly to other Supernaturals or Occult Sims, Sims 3 Fairies are influenced by the Lunar Cycle. They get energized when the moon is out, especially during a Full Moon. During a New Moon, however, they receive a debuff moodlet. Fairies also receive a general buff to their gardening skill.
The primary location in Moonlight Falls for fairies is the Arboretum, a greenhouse-like rabbithole structure that sims can visit to participate in gardening competitions, search for and play with fairies, and even woohoo in. If you are playing in a world outside of Moonlight Falls, the Arboretum must be placed manually. When using the Edit Town mode, select a community lot you would like to add it to and select Build/Buy Mode. Once you’re there, under Build Mode, look for Community Objects. All rabbithole buildings and structures are stored there. Look for the Fae Ray Arboretum and place it.
Curing a Fairy
Sims 3 Fairies can be cured through two separate avenues. One is by purchasing or creating the Potent Cure Elixir. This potion is actually used for more than just curing fairies, and can cure just about any occult type and magical buffs or debuffs. After reaching Level 7 in the alchemy skill, a sim can use Wolfsbane, Glow Orbs, and a Ruby to create the potion. It can also be purchased from the Elixir Consignment Shop, which is typically auto-placed in a world if the save is not in Moonlight Falls, and has a rotating inventory.
Another way to cure a fairy is through a fairy’s romantic partner or spouse. They can ask the fairy to Forsake the Fae, leading to the fairy receiving a pop-up. If they accept or you choose for them to accept, they’ll be tasked with visiting the Arboretum to forsake the fae and become a human sim.
My Thoughts and Fairy Rumors
While it is still not confirmed at the time of writing this, this revisit is largely inspired by the recent leaks indicating that The Sims 4 will be adding fairies to the list of occult sim types in the near future in an Expansion Pack called Enchanted by Nature. Also knowing that the next pack release is an Expansion Pack rather than a Game Pack helps us to gauge what we could expect from fairies.
Currently, occult sim types have been added in either Expansion Packs or Game Packs. Those added in Expansion Packs were Aliens (The Sims 4: Get to Work) and Mermaids (The Sims 4: Island Living), and those added in Game Packs were Vampires (The Sims 4: Vampires), Werewolves (The Sims 4: Werewolves), and Spellcasters (The Sims 4: Realm of Magic).
In my personal opinion, those added in Expansion Packs often feel less developed than those with their own dedicated Game Packs. While Vampires, Werewolves, and Spellcasters all have their own skill trees and unique UI, Aliens and Mermaids both lack in that category, making their gameplay much more limited. With the release of fairies likely on the horizon, I’m concerned that this could happen in the same way, even though fairies have so much potential for a huge skill tree and tons of in-depth gameplay. However, since nothing is confirmed yet, we will have to wait and see.
I also really hope that fairies in The Sims 4 will have a more in-depth CAS than they do in The Sims 3. Sims 3 Fairies CAS is incredibly limited outside of the outfits and accessories available to all sims and wing customization. When it comes to wings, while I do love the transparent and sparkly wings with the color wheel, I found that if your wings were darker than a certain shade, the sparkles around them and coming out of your sims back were just black. Adjusting this threshold or maybe having more opaque wings could help with this and lead to less customization limits. I have higher hopes for this as, historically, customization for occults in The Sims 4 has been much more in-depth than previous games.
Fairy Teasers
While I was revisiting Sims 3 Fairies and gathering all other instances of fairies or fairy-like things in previous games, we received a teaser during the Hotties Play The Sims livestream with Megan Thee Stallion & Quen Blackwell..
As well as a secondary teaser website.
While the full reveal arrives on June 12th, we also got a leaked promotional screenshot for the upcoming pack, Sims 4: Enchanted by Nature, that gives us a peak at the new Fairy Occult type that is likely coming.
This is still all speculation, and it felt good to revisit The Sims 3: Supernatural, both to bask in the nostalgia of The Sims 3 Fairies and to get some ideas for what we may be looking at for the future. However, I do believe that the future for fairies in The Sims 4 is bright (and sparkly!).
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