20 Essential Paralives Mods: Overhauls, Functional Items, New Storytellers and More!

Mods are one of the main things that add variety to life simulation games and let you customise exactly what you want to see and do when you're playing, and Paralives mods are no different!

We have curated a list of 20 Paralives mods to add more variety and functionality to your game.

Overhauls

Crystal Clear Map View by Arro

With this Paralives mod, zooming out further on the town map or when travelling, the map view won't blur or darken.

Smaller Terrain Paint by ciamaar

Paralives build mode brings so much customisation, but one area where it is limiting is the terrain paint. This mod will make the size of the terrain paint brush significantly smaller so you can edit the terrain with much more freedom.

No Hover Effect by Dockamorpher

This handy mod removes the white outline on objects you hover over, reducing visual clutter.

Display Townies On Map by RanS

Using this Paralives mod you can see exactly where any townie is in the world, making it easy to complete quests or just find someone you want to make friends with.

Don't Cancel Going Home by anissims

This mod will stop your Parafolk from completely clearing their interaction queue to go home. Instead, it will just add the interaction to the end of the queue.

Wants Don't Disappear by BellaDovah

Now when your story teller shows up, your wants won't reset for the next day. It's a handy mod to have if you don't remember to pin wants, or if you are working towards something and didn't get a chance to finish before your Parafolk went to bed.

Skills for Babies & Toddlers by robin

This mod adds new ways for babies and toddlers to increase their skills and lets babies use the toys to increase their fine motor skills.

Transportation

Taxi & Personal Vehicles - Fast Travel by ChiefMaster

This mod adds taxis and vehicles to the game for additional ways for you to fast travel around the map.

To use this mod, enter the toggleedittown cheat and search for 'taxi' or 'parking' in the build mode catalogue.

Taxis

Each taxi sign costs 0 paradimes so you can place as many as you want without your Parafolk footing the bill.

To use these, click on the sign and select Take a Taxi.

Once you go to the town map view you will see your taxi spots.

You can only fast travel using taxis to these markers, so be sure to place a couple before you send your Parafolk off.

Personal vehicles

Personal vehicles work the same way as taxis, so you will need to place the parking spots around the map before you send your Parafolk off.

The signs are free to place down in the world, and the parking spots/bike spots are 10 paradimes.

Once the various parking spots are placed, have your Parafolk click on them and select if they want to travel by bike, car, sports car, or truck.

Then select a destination from the map.

For both the personal vehicles and the taxis, you won't see a physical car or bike; it will cut to black and play a sound like the in-game buses.

Melino Bus Pass by Stangalina

If you want to use the bus but hate paying the one-off fees for every journey, this is a simple mod that pays for itself in just a couple of trips.

For the one-off price of 50 paradimes, you can order a Melino bus pass from your phone. It will then be delivered to you the next morning.

To use the bus pass, put it in your Para's inventory and click use bus pass on the bus stop when you want to travel.

Making Items Functional

Read From Book Clutter Item by Dizzard

A simple overhaul to the book clutter object, this Paralives mod allows you to read from the stack of books as well as a bookcase, giving them some functionality.

Functional Laundry Machines by dinara

This mod adds functionality to the decorative washing machines in Paralives.

Clicking on the washing machine allows Parafolk to load, turn on, and empty the washer.

Once the clothes are clean and emptied, your Para will get a "squeaky clean" buff, which increases their maximum hygiene capacity by 3 bars for 12 hours.

Kitchen Appliance Functionality by BigBoy

We have all of these kitchen appliances in the game, but most don't actually have any functionality to them normally. This mod changes that, letting you make rice in the rice cooker, coffee from the coffee machine, and toast with butter or jam using the toaster.

Each food item has a cost to it, just a few Paradimes per item, with a slice of toast being only one Paradime.

Functional Kettle by dinara

This adds the ability to make tea, coffee, and hot chocolate directly from the kettle.

However, currently this mod does conflict with other kitchen appliance overhaul mods, so if you have these installed you'll only be able to use the kettle to make tea.

Functional Changing Tables by robin

This Paralives mod adds functionality to the decorative changing table and makes it easier to stay on top of your babies' and toddlers' hygiene needs.

Together Cards, Story Cards, and Storytellers

Faster together cards by Erevaia

This mod speeds up the amount of time in between selecting together cards, so you can spend less time idly watching them stand across from each other talking.

Negative Story Cards by HermanTheDragon: Blood Moon

Add some consequences to your gameplay with these together cards!

Here is a full list of all the new cards which come with this mod.

Negative Story Cards by HermanTheDragon: Eclipse

Made to complement the Blood Moon negative cards pack, this mod adds even more negative consequences and temporary debuffs.

Here is a full list of all the new cards which come with this mod.

Chaos Story Cards by JulieBlack

Cards to add a little bit of chaos into your Paralives gameplay. These will do things like add mood debuffs, give your Parafolk a virus, or influence their relationships.

New Storyteller: Lemony Snickett by J_Whatever

This storyteller mod adds a bit of chaos to Parafolk in your household, and you're not sure if this storyteller really wants the best for you...

You'll get brand new want cards with this mod that centre around volunteering and starting fires. Depending on your level, volunteer packs offer rewards that help your Parafolk and Fire Starter packs give you a bit of a challenge.

The story cards also have the potential to impact the newspaper headlines depending on which cards you choose.

This is a really interesting storyteller mod for a bit of variety and consequence.

New Storyteller: Ann by Naps!

This is a classic rags to riches storyteller who will give you cards that focus on earning money and helping your household, but also adds a bit of challenge.

When you select this storyteller, her settings are the same as Ricardo, but your starting funds will be set to zero and the threshold for job strikes is much harsher.

This is a great storyteller to use once you've been playing the game for a while and want the challenge of a true rags to riches experience.

MasterCore Overhaul

This MasterCore mod by NeonJay unlocks a huge amount of customisation for your Parafolk, including skills, careers, instant relationships, instant pregnancy, and world editing.

We will be covering this mod in more detail to break down each of these incredible features on its own dedicated page.

Are there any mods that you love for Paralives that we haven't mentioned? Let us know below!