The Social Event Overhaul Mod lets you create any goaled Event you can imagine!
Ever wanted to break the pattern of throwing the same old House Parties and social event gatherings in The Sims 4? The Social Event Overhaul Mod for the game lets you create Custom Events in the game – featuring activities, hobbies and interactions from all the previously released Sims 4 DLC!
This Mod is in development by Zerbu, a talented modder who’s brought plenty of useful Mods in the series through the years. Even creating a unique modded Elementary School experience for child Sims – years before the release of High School Years! Their most recent Mod release is The Sims 4 Schedule Festivals Mod – which lets you organize your calendar and all Worlds Festivals to your liking.
Now, the modder is focusing on developing the Social Event Overhaul Mod which will let you pick any Sims you want, choose activities they want to do together and plan out an Event Location for them. With more updates and features to come after the release of The Sims 4 Lovestruck Expansion Pack.
Creating Sims 4 Custom Events
The Sims 4 Custom Events Mod is currently in its early testing phase. As of now, the mod is borrowing an event planning system from The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories Game Pack. The modder emphasizes that it’s not an ideal solution considering the broken nature of the Game Pack itself. The creator of this Mod shared that instead they plan to replace the Event Planning system with the one that comes with The Sims 4 Lovestruck Expansion. As the upcoming “Create A Date” pack mechanism seems to be a bit more polished than the one from My Wedding Stories.
If you have most of The Sims 4 Packs installed, you can expect over 100 different activities that’ll let you characterize your Custom Event. There are no limits on how many activities you can choose for your Custom Event, but the modder encourages you to pick up to 6 activities. Considering that having more than six would make it extremely difficult to successfully complete an event.
- This version only updates the House Party and Dinner Party events from the base game. The full version will update most, if not all, social events across all packs.
- Because this is pre-patch, and the activity selection system is only used in My Wedding Stories, which doesn’t have rewards, you cannot see your current medal level while an event is running. Since Lovestruck adds events with actual rewards, hopefully it will update the UI to show it. The medal system is still used in the background, it just isn’t shown in the UI. To reach gold, you must complete the “Main” goal, as well as 6 of the activities you chose. Only completing the main goal will get you bronze, and completing 3 activities will get you silver.
- There’s currently no way to set a “minimum” number of required activities. This will become possible in the patch, as shown in the Lovestruck Gameplay Trailer, but isn’t in the game’s code currently. Therefore, it is possible to choose less than 6 activities, but if you do, it will be impossible to get gold, since that’s the amount you need to complete.
- The UI during events tends to glitch up at times… not surprising, considering which pack it was made for. Hopefully this will be fixed in the patch.
- There may be bugs I haven’t found yet. In fact, since there’s over 100 activities to choose from, it’s very likely at least a couple of them have bugs.
A Complete Social Event Overhaul
Beside the ability to create any Event of your choice, The Sims 4 Social Event Overhaul Mod also brings feature updates to some other aspects of Sims 4 Events, including:
- You can invite Sims that anyone in the household knows, not just the initiating Sim.
- You can invite any Sim aged Toddler and above for both the host and guests.
- You can select Sims from outside the household as the host. This doesn’t change how goals work, but lets you simulate being invited by another Sim.
- All Sims in the event will automatically be added to a group. This makes performing “Do X Together” interactions easier.
- The “Plan a Social Event” interaction is available for all ages.
- The “Plan a Social Event” and “Plan a Wedding Event” interactions start immediately, without waiting for an animation to start and complete.
- The test version is bundled with another experimental mod that sorts the social event and activity selection dialog alphabetically. It will probably be released as its own separate eventually, but is included with Social Event Overhaul for now.
As of now, The Sims 4 Custom Events Mod is in its unfinished test version. With more updates, polish and features coming some time after the upcoming Sims 4 Update release. You can already test out the Mod yourself, but beware that glitches and errors might occur as the modder further develops this system.
You can download The Sims 4 Social Event Overhaul through the official creator page linked down below. Simply paste the Mod file contents into Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods folder and enable Mods and CC in your game options.
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