Obviously, many players who mod and add custom content to their Sims 4 game are familiar with the many decorative clutter items, adjusted meshes, and more standard changes to Build & Buy Mode items that are widely available from CC Creators. However, it can be a real treat to find a new item that actually adds new gameplay, especially when they’re well-made and expansive! We’ve gathered 32 amazing Sims 4 Functional CC pieces from a group of outstanding creators, links and previews included!
Install Instructions
Please review our Mods & CC Installation & Maintenance guide. For those with a bit more experience who may need a reminder, a simplified version is…
To add the items to your game on Windows, follow this folder path:
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods
To add the items to your game on MacOS, follow this folder path:
Macintosh HD/Users/User/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods
Once you’ve downloaded the files, make sure you have an extraction program installed. These can include 7Zip, Winrar, etc. After that, highlight one or multiple zipped/compressed files and select “Extract Here”. Drag the extracted contents to your Mods folder. You can also sort them into their own folders within your Mods folder, but it is recommended to not nest them too many levels deep as it can cause longer loading times, and some CC items and mods stop working when too deep within folders.
Tip: While many creators provide additional files, like .txt/ReadMe, .jpg/.png files, and more possible file types for previews or instructions, it is best practice to not put those into your Mods folder as they can also lead to longer load times and excessive clutter. Creators will often specify any files that need to be put into the folder, along with where, so primarily focus on .package and .ts4script files!
The Sims 4 Functional CC
Sims 4 Functional CC can have a wide range of definitions, but the items in this list are primarily items that add completely new gameplay or expand upon existing gameplay features! They can even be created to add options that likely should’ve been included by the Sims Team themselves, but possibly got cut due to time restraints or other issues, or they’re a completely new concept that we haven’t seen before, sometimes in The Sims 4 or the entire mainline franchise!
Table of Contents
Playful Toddler Pack by Pandasama
Prior to the addition of the infant life stage in 2023, many players still sought ways to expand the gameplay of toddlers, including sometimes ways of making them appear younger than “toddler bed” age. An example of this is the functional crib in this Playful Toddler Pack by Pandasama, but this pack also includes multiple new toys for your toddlers, including a tiny food truck playset, a spiral car race track, and even some play dough!
Toddler Creativity Pack by Pandasama
For tots on the more creative side, Pandasama also created the Toddler Creativity Pack! This includes new activities that help to build skills and entertain your toddlers, as well as giving them the ability to craft and draw new pictures that you can save by hanging on your sims wall, just like children’s drawings from the activity tables!
Sims Portrait Maker by Ravasheen
If you aren’t up to heavy posing and backdrop making in your game, but you want to save a portrait of your sims at a specific age to hang up in their home, Ravasheen created the Sims Portrait Maker! This object creates a portrait of a selected sim with a standard backdrop, allowing you to add captions and retitle the image as well.
Landgraab Self Storage by Ravasheen
Perfect for a simple shed or garage on your sim’s home lot, or to build a functioning storage unit community lot, this is a modified version of the City Living mural garage door, allowing you to drag and drop any personal belongings or collectibles, as well as lock away items!
Cake a Break by Ravasheen
Whether you need a quick birthday cake for a sim who can’t cook, or an emergency wedding cake for a shotgun wedding in Tartosa, Ravasheen’s “cake a break” set includes a pink cake box, giving you the option to purchase any cake or wedding cake in-game that is available, popping it directly into the box for easy access!
ISO Love Photos by Ravasheen
This camera mod by Ravasheen gives you an in-game camera with a wide breadth of controls with no photographer required! Sims won’t have quality issues normally found with low-level in-game photography, and images can be taken without sims being knocked out of their poses, making memories for your sims and their families has become so much easier!
Functional Perfumes Bottles by Around The Sims 4
Around The Sims 4 has made a multitude of functional perfume sets, designed and inspired by real-world popular perfumes and colognes, and providing your sims a special mood or buff when used! You can get all three sets, individuals perfumes or colognes to mix and match, or even just download your favorite real-world perfume for your simself!
Sunrise Alarm Clock by Lot 51
With a style that calls back to retro bedside alarm clocks, Lot 51 created a functional alarm clock with multiple settings to match any lifestyle! Have a sim who needs to wake up early to get their family ready, tend their garden, or take care of their farm animals? You can have them wake up at sunrise! Have a sim who tends to sleep in or be late to their job? Choose a career-based time!
Functional Broom by MizoreYukii
Whether you’re just looking for a change of pace when playing with The Sims 4 Bust the Dust, or you need something that isn’t a vacuum because you’re playing a historical save or The Sims 4 Decades Challenge, MizoreYukii created a functional broom with new animations, keep your homes spic and span without cords or vacuum bags to empty!
Pilates Mod by MiliNiki
A good functional CC item to add for your local gym, yoga studio, or even to build up a pilates studio by itself, MiliNiki created a functional pilates board with three workouts with smooth animations, letting your sims build fitness and get in shape in a new way!
Simply the Zest – Functional Lemonade Stand by ShoobySims & SurelySims
With the combined brains and talent of two wonderful creators, ShoobySims and SurelySims and in response to The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies, they created a tiny business for your tiny sims! Mix up lemonade and set up your stand just about anywhere. Perfect for a summer side gig for children!
Ding & Ditch Smart Doorbell by Lot 51
Tired of missing out on relatives, friends, and neighbors popping up at your door to visit unannounced, and only seeing them once they’re walking just out of view? The Ding & Ditch Smart Doorbell by Lot 51 provides notifications when Sims visit and press the doorbell, making sure you never miss a friendly gift or family bonding experience again! This doorbell also has some upkeep, requiring a bit of maintenance and repairs, unless you’re okay with the chance of a tiny zap greeting your visitors!
Functional Radiators by Around the Sims 4
Functioning as heaters if you choose the Sims 4 Snowy Escape download, or as thermostats if you choose the Sims 4 Seasons download, these radiators provide new functional options for temperature-controlling your sims’ homes, providing a bit of decor and realism to the property in the chillier months!
New Functional Thermostats by Around the Sims 4
Also providing some more realism and decoration, these function as thermostats in The Sims 4 Seasons, giving you multiple options for maybe older or historical homes, those with alternate forms of heat or air conditioning, or Sims who really just can’t be bothered to spend the extra dough on central air and heating.
Luminova by Arnie
Upgrade your Sims’ home to a sleek smart home aesthetic with Arnie’s Luminova set, with new smart electronics and appliances to decorate your sims home, simplify some of their life, and provide a luminous glow from the new modernized hardware. Many of the items give off or come with extra lights to provide optional RGB elements, giving off a subtle purply glow.
Functional Storage for EA Deco Boxes by dratsab
If you’re a big fan fo clutter and the decorative boxes that come with many The Sims 4 expansion packs and other DLCs, but find yourself running out of space for storing actual items without overflowing your Sims’ inventory, dratsab altered many in-game decorative boxes to include accessible storage! They even added the ability for you to label the boxes, allowing for more organization than ever before!
Ken You Not Dollhouses by Ravasheen
It can be somewhat irritating to find space for the gargantuan dollhouses found in The Sims 4, often taking up over six slots on their own! Ravasheen created multiple smaller dollhouses with different themes, giving you more options for your Sims’ childrens’ entertainment without requiring so much additional space. They even come with multiple styles, so sims with any special interests can get a dollhouse they love, or that matches their bedroom!
Air Fryer by icemunmun
Air fryers are an incredibly popular appliance over the last few years, and you can’t scroll very far on just about any recipe page in real life without finding instructions or recipes specifically for air fryers. Adding in new and easy recipes, icemunmun created an air fryer for your sims, making an easily accessible snack or meal option without using quick meals!
Scruff & Stuff Set by Syboulette
Is your sim family a little down on their luck, partially through a rags to riches challenge, or just needing a bit more clutter? Syboulette created an amazing set of items that add a little more scruff and a little more stuff to your game! This includes an ironing board that functions as a changing table, a laundry basket that functions as a crib, a trash bag that functions as a garbage can, an entire kitchen counter set, and much more!
Working Pet Water Bowls by LittleMsSam
While Sims and their pets don’t have a thirst motive and do not really become thirsty, some players prefer the immersion of being able to provide their pets with a refreshing drink. LittleMsSam has created functional water bowls, allowing pets to autonomously drink from them, typically after heavy play or going on a walk!
Functional Stands for Food & Bottles by Somik and Severinka
If you would like more options to extend the shelf life of your Sims’ recipes without sticking everything in the fridge, Somik and Severinka created a multitude of storage options including cake stands, ice bowls, bread boxes, and other displays for cakes, nectars, beverages, and other crafted goods your sims may want to display instead of hide in their fridge!
Functional Board Games by Around the Sims 4
While board games like Don’t Wake the Llama and Woo-Who? provide lots of gameplay and group activities for your sims, they can become repetitive, and not all of them are good for groups of varying ages! Around The Sims 4 recreated many real-world board games (In both English AND Simlish!) for your sims to gather their friends for! From Monopoly to Hungry Hungry Hippos, your family game night has never been more varied and fun!
Playful Playpen by Dollish
Family Reunions in The Sims 4 can be a great time, but the amount of infants abandoned outside or in the Sims home because their guardians got distracted by a family computer is ridiculous. This wide playpen and freely positioned pacifiers function as cribs, providing a cute and convenient spot to place your little ones while their parents and family socialize!
Revamped Rocker by Dollish
If you need something more modular for your infants and you don’t want to just place them on the ground, even on a playmat, when out and about or just moving them between rooms in the home, Dollish also created a revamped version of their infant rocker! Let your little ones rest and relax while you get other things done, or have more options for where to set them while out at the park!
Retrofruit by Arnie
The popularity of retro and retro-looking electronics and items have risen greatly, and Arnie created an amazing set of functional electronics inspired by older models! The meshes are well-made and come with a multitude of accessories to complete the set, bringing in some of the nostalgia that the off-white box-shaped CRT monitors give off! Retrofruit is a great set for a wide range of sims, from elders “stuck in their ways” or electronics enthusiasts!
Living Fridges by Around the Sims 4
Some fridges in the Sims 4 come pre-decorated with clutter, but Around The Sims 4 has created a system of modified fridges in the base game and DLC to be completely modular, with decorations available to customize them to include every aspect of their lives from hobbies and jobs to responsibilities and memories. That’s not even it, because these are also functional with Around The Sims 4’s Pinboard Decor sets, adding even more customization!
Functional Pacifier by Simkatu
While pacifier accessories for infants and toddlers can be absolutely adorable, tying them to different outfits and having them on constantly or inconsistently can be a bit immersion-breaking, especially when your infants try their first food with a pacifier already in their mouth. Simkatu took some existing pacifier meshes and added gameplay, letting your sims give them to their little ones or toddlers and infants to pop them in or out whenever!
Functional Vending Machines by Ravasheen
Ravasheen has created functional AND Base-Game compatible vending machines for your sims, allowing them to get a crisp and refreshing beverage or crunchy snack without the need for The Sims 4 Snowy Escape! This also provides chance cards and other animations on the off-chance your Sim gets a bit unlucky and doesn’t receive what they paid for.
Functional Workout Gear Set by t0nischwartz
One of our very own authors, Toni Schwartz, created a lovely expansion on The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits’ exercise gear AND the dumbbells added by The Sims 4 Lovestruck that were both primarily decorative, allowing your sims to actually use them for weight lifting! Both of them use the “Lift Weights” interaction from The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits, meaning that both packs are required for functionality!
Parisian Sweet Corner Mod Pack by SIXAMcc x littlbowbub
Two titans of Custom Content creation have come together for a sweet collab! Littlbowbub, known for Granny’s Cookbook and custom recipe mods, and SixamCC, known for their Build & Buy mode sets and their assistance with the Storybook Nursery kit, came together to create a functional set of new recipes to emulate the sights and smells and tastes of a Parisian bistro street corner. These new recipes, including Madeleines, Charlotte Cake, and multiple other pastries, pair well with the street cart to order them from and the lovingly-designed tables and chairs to sit around and enjoy!
Functional “Little Sprout” Seed Display by Menaceman44
Perfect for a local grocery store, community garden, or outdoor supplies shop or small business, this functional item by Menaceman44 gives your sim the ability to buy seeds physically in-person instead of them magically appearing via gnome, computer, or gardening plot!
Toaster Mod by Around the Sims 4
Around The Sims 4 added multiple functional toasters and a variety of breakfast goods for your sims to eat before their very busy days! Warm up and snack on an english muffin before heading out to school, or spruce up a sim’s day with a little sweet treat in the form of a cherry pop tarts! This is a great new appliance that provides more variety in your sims’ diets.
Are any of these Sims 4 Functional CC items holy grails for you, or are there any favorites of yours not mentioned? Feel free to discuss and we’d love to find more gems to feature in future articles! Make sure to follow the Sims Community for more Sims 4 CC recommendations to expand your gameplay!
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