A minimal mod/cc folder for The Sims 4 📁

hey it's ocean and as you can see in the title i'll be showing you my must-have mods but specifically the mods and custom content that i absolutely cannot play without so this video is split between creative stem and gameplay and as always everything will be linked and a post down in the description below but let's go ahead and jump right and i'm going to start with creative sim truthfully i can't play the game 100 vanilla but if i didn't have to and someone forced me to choose my favorite mods that will at least spruce up the game these are the mods that i'm gonna play with i do enjoy playing with the default skin and eyes the default skin that i've been using for literally the last two years is lumia's vanilla skin i've literally literally been using it for like two years straight non-stop i love this let me actually take off her skin details and her makeup so you can actually just see it in its raw form i just love the way that the lips look it has like a slight texture to it but the great thing about the vanilla skin is that it's the closest skin to max's skin it's just better so it's my go-to skin you can layer anything on top of it and it still looks good and it's just a really really nice pretty skin and speaking of skin i cannot live without my bare skin tones by lamatis now granted the sims did add um some new skin tones um definitely an improvement from the original game back in 2014. however um i just feel like the original like here i'm gonna click on some of the originals they just don't do it justice you do have to kind of play around the sliders to get that perfect skin tone but llama tease has literally made skin tones that again are still slider compatible here's one of them right now but a lot of them are already kind of made in so many different and dynamic skin tones that i don't even have to play with the sliders they're just kind of there and when i do play with them i can just kind of perfect already like something that's already perfect the cool tones are actually cool and they don't make your sim look dead you know like they are just very very nice so very nice skin tones perfection heading over to the eyes now something about the eyes right now i'm actually using pearl eyes by llama loaf i tend to go back to them a lot because they look very simple i'm a very simple gal i love simple eyes that kind of resemble ea but just you know have a little different twin to them i really love how crystally they look just very clear direct eyes however i have been known to not use a default eye at all and all i've used is an eye shine remover by lumia again i've taken the eyes and opened it up in photoshop and there's literally like a shine there that's just so unnecessary so technically i do not need a default eye i can use the eye shine remover and i have done that before because i actually really do like max's um their eyes but sometimes i just like using a default eye just to make my stems look slightly different the next must-have are the pearly whites by pixes and what this mod is going to do is make the actual eat look better more wider it just looks better it's going to fix all of the default teeth that the sims 4 comes with i do have two additional teeth types here but i'm not going to go over those because these are its own thing however yeah this is just what it does for the ea um teeth it's just it makes it look better they're literally pearly whites and i just like how they don't look too too real but they just look good for the sims a lot of you ask how i make my sims look so different or how i make them look so unique and this next mod that i'm going to show you is why um is what has helped me do this so you see how i have a lot of head shapes i probably have more than enough and they're all not gonna load i have to like literally pause on it so they can load up um same thing with the eyes you see i have tons of eye shapes here again like they're not all going to load but if i click on them you know you can still look through all of them now this is called the zerbo more cast presets what this mod is going to do is add additional cast presets and the one that maxis gives us so that you can experiment with a ton of presets and mess around with them this is how i make them unique you know i'm able to just choose from different starting points which helps drastically that is also with the noses i mean everything that you can shape on your sim that's with everything also different styles of lips so that i'm able to experiment with all different types of lips and you know make different sims essentially so it gives you different starting points it's going to enhance your creativity the next thing i want to talk about is my lighting mod now normally i have a cast background i use my own i do have them linked on my tumblr but i took it out because it's not really a must-have for me but what is a must-have for me is what you probably notice which is my cast lighting i need created some lighting so that i can kind of like immerse myself in the experience and my stems don't look dry and dusty while i'm trying to make them you see how there is some shine on her legs it seems like there's some type of light in the right hand corner that is just targeted on her and she looks gorgeous everything's illuminated and it helps to see everything when you're creating sims i am using the simply anjuta create a sim lighting i love this light so much it's a lighting mod that is going to make creating sims so much better and your pictures on the gallery actually reflect this lighting change as well so we have the city light i am currently using the neutral light i love it because i can just use it no matter what the torchlight is such a good vibe as well but the neutral light is what i use for create a sim and here they have the comparisons of the different lights so that you can see like which would fit your style better and here's neutral light that's what i'm using and it is just it is perfect for me i will never take it out of my game alright so we are in game and i'm gonna go ahead and show you my must-have gameplay mods these aren't gonna be too big so even if you're a first-time mod user i feel like any of these mods are gonna definitely be helpful and not make you feel too overwhelmed so these are the basics basically needs in the sims are very hard to keep up with especially if you have a big family or whatever the case may be i'm dropping her needs right now by using this mod just to show you say she is boom extremely tired she is now uncomfortable i can actually just click where i want her energy to be if you can check that um just so that i can you know complete a painting or say hi to a friend without her passing out i mainly use this to raise needs so if she was hungry you might see me just click it away so that i can complete things in the game without worrying about needs i mean sometimes in life you'll be really really tired but you have to push through so i look at it that way so there's nothing wrong with cheating up needs okay it's 2022 i'm not playing for needs anymore okay i got things to do in my game so that's a must-have another thing that i use this for which is also great for storytelling is promoting my sim if i don't feel like doing this i will right click and i can promote demote promote to the branch selection or i can just choose a level so if i just want her to be a level three teacher she'll go ahead and get a promotion on that and boom you got your promotion i can also say i i don't know i want her to have the promotion task complete and i don't feel like researching and debating i can right click that as well and it'll mark it as done and i can also do that with the home assignment too or with whatever the task for the day for that job is i love being able to right click this and most importantly i love being able to just promote them to the branch selection so that i can choose what they're going to do between that huge moment in their career so you don't have to like go through the whole process so what if i just choose professor or whatever i can click that she got the promotion i mean it's effortless and then i can go back here and i can actually demote before the branch selection if i change my mind i can change the career branch if i actually didn't want to choose that one and i can also promote to the max level another thing i love about the ui cheats mod is i can click on the season and i can change the current weather i'm just actually going to put cloudy just because it's sunny right now i can choose cloudy and you give it a couple minutes see how it's kind of sunny right now you give a couple minutes because the game kind of has to register okay you want it to be cloudy it's starting to get a little darker up in here so it'll change in a minute it'll change in a few don't rush it like me sometimes i'll do this and i'll click cloudy again because i'm like hurry up change it already but it will change because you can see it's not even as like bright as it what it was um you can also right click on the actual season and you can change the season i never change the season because my seasons aren't is normally set to whatever i want but you can do this just in case you're doing a build for instance and you want it to be winter time when you take your screenshot there you go that's how you do it another feature of the ui cheats and why i must have it is because if you look at the household funds i can right click and i can add simoleons galactic credits if you have journeyed about two i can add bits and i can also add pieces if you have equal lifestyle so i could add 100 bits and 100 pieces and she'll be able to make like handles and all that stuff without me having to rummage through the garbage cans i can add 60 000 simoleons i can either set her money to this which if i set it it'll just go directly six thousand sixty thousand simoleons or i can just add money you guys understand the concept i can just add it so now it's 62 000 simoleon it is now cloudy and i hate cloudy weather so i hate to do this to you game but make it sunny again but now as you can see it did get cloudy and it reflected that so now we're gonna give it like another two or three minutes and it'll change into being sunny again one more thing i use it for is to change um their mood she's happy right now but if she was like super upset and i wanted to change it all i had to do was right-click her motion and as you can see she's fine the next gameplay mod is one that we all are probably familiar with it is going to be mc command center this is like the holy grail of control when it comes to the sims 4. you can modify a household and cast which i didn't mean to do but here we are um this is great too if you just want to do that really quick wherever you are because you can do that with any sam any townie we have some commands here where i can modify their career outfit so sometimes career outfits look wonky you can change that you can set their age maintain sim i'm going to click on this you can delete a sim kill a sam move ascent you can teleport sims to a lot like say you actually want to teleport your friend dominic first you can go ahead and teleport him here just in case you just automatically want him to be here there are plenty of mc command center tutorials and i'll probably do one in the future but what i mainly use it for is going to mc cheats i will cheat the sim info and what i like to do is go to the skill cheats now mind you there's a lot of cheats here i mean you can even cheat up a degree if you wanted to but i go to skill sheets and i normally set skills to a certain level you have all these choices you can go through them but what i like to do let's just say i want her to have really good charisma i can go ahead it shows you the minimum and maximum value i'll say i just want her at least at five and then she will gain charisma level five without me having to work for it and it'll display that in her section right there another thing with mc command center that i like is going to mc dresser and just being able to change the outfit without them having to actually change their outfit because that's just another interaction that i don't want them to do so it'll just change their outfit and this also works for other sims in the neighborhood as well if you want everyone to dress in formal and for some reason they're not you can go to mc dresser change outfit and i can change him in his party outfit and then boom you know he'll be in that outfit and everything looks right i use this a lot especially when when i film and stuff like that i use it so that everything kind of looks cohesive my game is not perfect i'm using mc cheat's mc command center and i'm just editing it out another thing i like to use it for as well is to control pregnancy i can start a pregnancy with whoever i want i hate to do this to her but just to show you because it's such an important thing let's just get pregnant by marcus flex i can also uh you know put how many babies i want i can actually control if it's a male or female i could say i want twins and twin girls and she'll be pregnant with twin girls and it'll say it here who she is um it'll say who the partner was and pregnant with as you can see two female babies you can select the pregnancy phase and choose the trimester make her go into labor already you can also pause the pregnancy just in case like you're busy doing something and you don't want the pregnancy to go by so fast so those are just a couple of things that you can do with mc command center and also if you were to go to mccas for instance one thing that's kind of like a nice little addition is you can select your sims favorite drink so normally if you go to a bar you can order your favorite drink and normally it's something like random that you wouldn't think your sim would like but you can actually select what their favorite drink is here which is kind of cool the next mod that i want to show you guys is going to be a lighting mod that you kind of can't tell right now and i'm so used to it that i might not even be able to tell a difference but if i take it out i will so i'm gonna turn off all the lights in the house now normally if you turn off all the lights in the sims house especially if it was nighttime if it was night time it'd be easier to even see the difference see how everything is kind of like a neutral color and it looks more realistic the lighting looks realistic in the sims 4 for some reason there's a bluish tint when it comes to the actual game itself there's like a weird blue tint and i'm going to go to the website so that i can show you the pictures a little bit better so what i'm showing you is the out of the dark lighting mod by lothario it's a gameplay focused take on the sims 4 indoor lighting system so as you can see this is max's lighting and then here's out of the dark so it kind of brighten things a little bit but not too too much and it looks more realistic here's maxis this is no blue by lumio who also made a lighting mod and i used to use that in my earlier youtube days but it was a little bit too dark it's still good it's all about preference i liked out of the dark a little bit better because it wasn't too dark at night time so like at night time this one will be too dark maxis again is too blue it's like there's a natural blue tent in the game and it just looks awful if you take a look here here's maxis and then here's out of the dark as you can see like maxis is illuminating in this blue tint while out of the dark is kind of giving it the natural lighting that's coming from the light so if you say oh my god your game it looks so nice maybe this is what you all are seeing too because i've had in my game for so long that i don't even know and i'm not using reshade right now the next mod is into the light which is also a lighting mod created by the same person so with into the light you may not be able to tell the difference here it is so in this picture we have the maxis lighting it's normal regular and here's no glow so it's just you know simple but if we go to enter the light the stem is actually blending in with the background more it's completely dark so he's not glowing he is actually like it looks like he's in a very dark room um his face is not like lit up and then here where it looks kind of hazy like the sun's going down his skin is actually reflecting the lighting as well so it's it's like a really small change but if you compare these three photos you can tell that they look like their surroundings um it pairs greatly with the out of the dark mod as you can see they just blend in with the environment so here's maxis and here's into the light you see it's dark it's purple she's probably in a nightclub but her face isn't glowing like randomly it just looks more realistic we are almost done here the next must-have is going to be some holiday icons for the sims 4. this is by little miss sam and it's absolutely a must-have because holidays play a big role in gameplay but we only get like a handful of icons which you have a ton of different holidays so i have a bunch of icons i can make a lemonade day i can make a coffee free starbucks coffee day i don't know um just a lot of different icons that you can mess with all of these icons are extracted from the actual game icon so they're not custom made by a user they're just extracted from the actual game speaking of custom holiday icons i also have more club icons by zerbu if you are creating a club again we have a select handful of icons but this is going to extract all of the gabe icons basically and you can look make a key club one thing i like about this is the pancake icon that's here you can make like a pancake club so it's actually going to expand your gameplay in a sense because you're like oh you know it takes you out of that element of having only five icons basically to choose from and you can have more ideas the next thing i want to talk about is something that i feel like i don't really need these items but they're things that i tend to use i'm noticing a lot a lot in game play and so i wanted to add this in here because i've been getting a lot of questions about it and yeah so it is the granny's cookbook in oni's recipe pack these are our two different creators but they do the same thing which is add more recipes for your sims i have two videos on this which i'm also gonna link in the description and probably at the end of the video as well so i'm not gonna really go over it or how to download it and all that stuff but i will say that it's gonna add more recipes these are some of the meals that i have let me give her cooking level 10. the recipes that are actually in these two mods require certain skills to unlock certain recipes so i went ahead and cheated that up really quick um now i can make a ton of stuff i've chose all of these recipes but basically what this is going to do is add more recipes i am someone that loves cooking games i love cooking in the sims they each have different recipes and i really love using them both because for instance oni's cookbook comes with certain recipes like spam musubi you know a lot of like asian uh recipes as well which is why like it's a must-have for me so i'm gonna have her just make that just because these mods literally work the same you just pop the uh you know you can put this anywhere these two objects no other strings attached no other mods and yeah you just choose what you want to cook and then the stems cook it so let me put the lasagna lasagna what am i talking about the peppers up here you see the food mesh and everything just looks really really nice the last item i want to show you is going to be a must-have because i feel like it's going to be something that i can't really live without only if again if i'm playing vanilla and i just really want to make sure everything kind of feels still immersive and it is the photographic memory mod i love this thing i know you're looking at this flash drive and you're like what is this this object is going to allow you to create photo gifs improve photo quality or transfer a photo to like a canvas or a cross stitch i have a video on this so this is not a tutorial i'll link it down below i mostly use this mod to create polaroid like pictures and stuff because i just really like it so i'll just take this picture i actually already see oh and it's already in our inventory so boom we can take it out put it back in if you use the design tool you can click on it and add like a little caption to it which i thought is a you know really nice feature so this is gonna make your sims gameplay just really nice you can customize this at a moodlet all this stuff i'm just gonna link you to that video because now it's gonna turn into tutorial i don't wanna have you guys here all day but if you don't even care about all that what you can do is improve the photo quality you see how her thumb is blocking this one sometimes the gnome will appear in your photo and stuff if you don't have a good photography skill i can click on this and it'll instantly make it better so no more thumb shots no more known pictures and those are all the mods that i just need to at least enjoy the gameplay there are tons of other mods that i use and you've seen that in my gameplay however these are the mods that you know just really just enhance the game in a very subtle way and i really need them like really bad i really really can't live without them so hopefully you'll check them out everything will be linked again like i said in a post in the description down below i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please don't forget to like comment subscribe just keep swimming always always always stay wavy and i will see you guys in the next video alrighty peace out [Music] you

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Length: 20min 0sec (1200 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 13 2022