I built a food truck in The Sims 4

welcome back to another Sims 4 video today we're going to be building a restaurant in The Sims 4. thanks to Carl's new dine out reloaded mod which I did a video on just up on the screen uh dine out game pack is so much fun and it works a lot better now so make sure to go support Carl and that mod but what I want to do is build a new restaurant one that looks pretty run down just starting out because I got some good plans for this myself and Dr Glenn are going to do a Sims 4 multiplayer live stream series playing in this restaurant trying to be our own chefs waiters and hosts because with the mod you can do that and combined with the Sims 4 multiplayer mod which I'll also link down below we've done a few videos on that in the past and a few streams basically we can play together in The Sims 4 we can have our own Sims and do our own interactions so the idea is one of us will be the chef making the food the other one will be serving the food cleaning up the plates and we're going to be trying to make them trying to make money at doing that also Carl is adding in a feature where you can grow your own food so you have to grow your own produce fish get some fish from you know the water and all that and actually have those served through the restaurant so that's also a fun challenge that we're hoping to explore in that let's play so stay tuned I'll do a community tab post about where that's going to be when that's going to be happening probably in the next week or so from when this video is out so stay tuned for that but for today's video we are going to be building a food truck uh because we thought that'd be a good place to start so I was playing around with a few different ideas here at the beginning I was trying to use the invisible foundation so that I could have the room of the the food truck on a foundation raised up without it being on the second floor of a house it turns out trying to use invisible Foundation is a little bit picky as you can probably see so I was playing around this is where this is actually on the second level of a house now so it's actually floating above the ground so it means if we go to ground level we won't see the restaurant which is also not ideal and I don't really like that idea um and at this point I was also trying to use this trailer so those Wheels underneath to make it look more like a food truck uh but also at the same time it kind of it gets a little bit unnecessary to do all that stuff I ended up not using that trailer because it meant the whole room had to be quite high up off the ground it meant we had to be on the second level of a house it kind of just got a little bit much and I think it was just going to be more annoying and gameplay than anything uh but in the meantime as you can see here I'm placing down these parking blocks uh and because essentially this is supposed to be a parking lot that we've pulled up in with our food truck we're trying to sell to people it's also a run down parking lot there's a lot of trash a lot of garbage it's not supposed to be nice it although it's in a very nice location to be fair we're here in San marciuno in the spice District which is also kind of fun because we'll have like the spice Festival where there'll be a bunch of other food stalls so we're kind of competing to see who can sell their food the best you know we're trying to compete with all the other food stores be number one that's kind of the idea as well and obviously as we get more money we'll be able to upgrade and buy new things for a restaurant probably you know buy out the lot renovate the whole lot make it more of our own something a little bit more special and uh just trying to fill it with as much junk as possible there's so much buyer bug stuff because the other thing is this is kind of going to be like a Rags or riches uh dine out let's play with Dr glow on I'm also planning on doing our own let's play here on the channel because this will be something a little bit different this won't be a series on the channel just a little bit something extra I wanted to do on the side because it should be a lot of fun but I think on the channel uh I would like to do some sort of dine out let's play either with the kids in the current high school years series we've got Addison and Brienne they could uh end up having a restaurant or maybe their kids as well I think it'll definitely be coming up but yeah this is going to be exclusively a separate thing and again I'll let you know where it is uh and when we're doing it soon but yeah so this I was trying to figure out at this point I decided to just put the food truck the food truck on uh Foundation it was just a lot easier so you can see I've put it on like this sort of stilted foundation and I'm trying to find some nice signs that we can cover the whole side of this in I did try a few different colors of the actual truck because obviously this is just white but with the the front of the truck that we have there the options I think were red black and blue no it wasn't blue I think it was something worse the colors of the front of the truck weren't very good red was the best one for the front so I thought let's just keep the back white and we can cover it in signs and all that and I think that'll work uh pretty well for us and yeah then we just use the roof do a little bit of a curve so it feels a little bit more organic in shape that doesn't make any sense but you know just make it look more like a trailer as best as I could obviously the scale of it is way out it's definitely too big but we've got to work within the confines we've got here now one of the cool things about the dine out mod that Carl's made is customers can actually go up and grab the orders themselves from this Chef station so once it's prepared they can walk up grab the food go sit at their own table so we don't need to do that what we do need to do though is take the orders so we'll go out take the orders and then we can serve the food uh up onto the chef station they grab it themselves and it's actually pretty cool uh I'm pretty excited for this to all come together especially because the way we're going to do this we're going to be starting off with not very much money this whole lot I think in total is about 30 000 so obviously we have to start with that but we'll set our money probably to like one samoli and something like that so we have to earn our money specifically through food and cooking uh and it should be a lot of fun so around here I'm just trying to make it look like we've got a nice little setup we're trying to find good signs again I want the whole like side of the truck covered in signs we've got the menu boards down the bottom there I don't know there's like some some crab there with a couple of bottles of juice I don't know what we're serving here but it looks good I also thought these barrels are quite nice seems like something I could set up you know it's kind of like a semi-permanent food truck we've just sort of posted up here no one's told us to leave so we're gonna we're gonna start up here we've also got this sort of uh sauce and ketchup tray from outdoor Retreat which I thought was kind of perfect for this and then our little kitchen area here you can see that van sort of comes in there just covered up with a platform so you don't actually ever see the other half of the van and then we can use that platform for like storage is kind of what I set it up as I think I put a few crates up there or something um yeah the actual interior of the kitchen is pretty small um and of course we've got some dumpsters out the back now this is going to be like a raxi riches kind of thing which means we're gonna need to sleep somewhere and you can nap in dumpsters that's all I'm saying we're not the most hygienic restaurant that's not the plan we're just trying to get the food out to the customers trying to make a quick buck and hoping that we're doing okay you know I think it's gonna it's gonna be so much fun it's gonna be absolutely uh wacky and and bizarre but it should be great fun and this little parking lot I I think it totally fits the area I mean to be fair the spice district is a little bit more up Market than this parking lot but maybe this is the last lot in this area to be renovated and done up now also we needed a bathroom so I thought I could just Place one of these pre-made bathrooms but I thought it might be nice to like recreate that bathroom but make it worse so I'm using like the corrugated uh metal sheeting uh and I'm using like the werewolf's roof with all the holes in it as well so like the roof is kind of collapsing inside we do that get to work like uh jail cell toilets and we do like the puddle splodges from uh strangerville which you'll see in just a second we're trying to make it look dirt you know we've got to start somewhere we got to be able to upgrade it that's the plan you know so we have this little toilet block which is just just dismal is is not nice but at least we've got a toilet which is which is good uh more than you could say about some beginnings of Rags or riches the sinks are quite nice to be fair but I thought they suited the area uh yeah so I do I think concrete flooring a few little cracks there's a sort of spills that we have on the floor I think I also do the newspaper that has like the pet uh pet pee on it as well just some newspapers on the floor it's all good it's gonna look nice in there some Batu vents as well very nice and piping uh it's all looking pretty good there and then I think from this point forward it's pretty much we're decorating the rest of the lot here uh making sure we've got a lot of debug things there's a lot of scrolling through through the menu trying to find stuff to place the things I wanted exactly I love these lights as well these string lights these are debug versions so they're free I was trying to keep the value of the lot reasonable obviously it does end up at 30 000 from like the bathroom and all the kitchen stuff so you know there's a bit of money spent but I was trying to keep the cost down so some of the debug stuff I guess I didn't need to do but having those lights uh for free does help I love those fencing set up there as well because I'm gonna set up like a little table area near the back of the lot here because we've got like a little a little deck up to the food truck and I'm gonna have tables down the bottom there maybe they've just sort of cordoned off a little section of the parking lot to have the tables now I'm also using this concrete terrain paint instead of the floor tiles because it meant I could actually paint underneath the foundation of where that truck was because before I couldn't also means we can use other terrain pants to break it up a little bit so it's not a solid clean bit of concrete we need to make it look a little bit more worn out little bit dirtier a little bit grosser and that's what that terrain allows us to do especially around the toilets here and we can get some of those uh cracked uh little things from werewolves as well those floor cracks really good now this parking lot doesn't make the most sense uh it's definitely not a good use of space but obviously it's been repurposed into a food truck uh Haven but yeah it'd be a little bit awkward trying to get your your cars out of this place I think but maybe that's the point maybe we're just trying to get more people in here to eat uh yeah so they I guess like the main driveway entrance is there on the right that I've left a section over there you can walk through because these fences while they are debug items um and not an actual fancy Sims can't walk through them which is handy so it does act as a real fence I think most of the stuff I've placed the Sims won't just like walk through they are they do have hitboxes and stuff so it seems to sort of walk around everything which is good uh because it's not that nice when a Sim just like walks through a giant rock or something it looks a little silly so I think the way this is set up should work pretty well um and also those tables are like really perfect for this I was I was really happy with that little setup and then we're just doing some outdoor lighting around the place because it's a little dark uh in the parking lot you know we don't want to completely pitch dark we're on a few lights around a place I like it to be a little bit dingy maybe a little bit scary but not fully and then actually the actual kitchen which we haven't done yet of the the whole this is the whole point of it is the restaurant in the kitchen we've got the waiter station just there and then annoyingly we do have to have a host station still uh which looks a little silly here at a food truck I might and the thing is it kind of needs to be outside because the guests will walk up and wait near it uh I would hide it inside but then they'd all walk inside the back of the truck which is kind of a little bit awkward so it's just kind of sitting out there I don't know if I'll come up with a better solution for that but for now it's just there around the lot here I thought the front of it would look nice because maybe this is part this is like what the city has done and then the parking lot's a little bit run down so we have some nice trees out the front there and then everything else is a little bit run down but let's go ahead we'll jump into the game I want to show you how all of this works uh through gameplay and all that because it does work it's very surprising uh and we'll give it a little tour of the lot you know it's a it's a small lot small build but I think it's all come together really really well all right so here we are in the game and I'll give you a better zoom out so I can actually see where we are physically so we this is where the spice markets are and we've got a few of the apartment blocks up over here and then this is where our little parking lot is with our food truck which I think looks really nice in the end I'm actually really happy how it turned out you know we've got all the little signs along the front there and we've got a couple of barrels around there it definitely feels I feel like the vibe is there obviously again the scale is kind of wacky it's pretty big but anyway around the front of this truck I actually put this is a light uh because I thought it actually looked kind of cool because it means when you go to night time like this it actually turns on and it just provides a little bit of light I don't know it's a little bit of fun just the lighter place over the front of it also makes it look a little bit different and yeah that's the setup so this here we can this is the door to the back of the truck that's how we get in it works it looks kind of silly because I think it cuts into that but it totally works um and then the little kitchen area is just in here and this is all functional we'll actually have a look in just a second how the gameplay Works uh we don't really need any of that stuff we only need the chef station I believe when we start using produce I think we do need a fridge I haven't looked fully into all that stuff yet but at the moment we do not need any of that stuff which is cool and then around here we've got two tables to start off with we'll have to buy more as part of the challenge there they sit there and if you go to night time as well these lights really nicely illuminate they don't actually really produce much light they do a little bit as you can see but I added this one in just so we have a bit more so it's a bit easier to see while we're playing and also while you're watching and then yeah this is the front of the lot with the nice trees we can walk through this way a little parking lot plenty of space and of course the dingy toilets with cracked floor grimy stuff we've also put our cleaning uh broom in there seems like a good place to put it and the newspaper just there as well so if we jump into live mode here I'm gonna go ahead and say open the restaurant and uh I'm gonna say I can cook orders as a chef so I'm gonna head up here I'm gonna get my Dr glue on Sam to come over here also we have really nice neat uh clothes too by the way uh if you haven't noticed we're very clean here at the the food truck oh yes I also forgot to mention so they're starting off with normally they start off with three stars but because I believe we have I put on some lot challenges uh I don't know I can't remember if it's Grody or filthy one of these causes them to come with one star by default which I think is also really fun for the challenge to build up our rating we have to work extra hard oh I shouldn't have gone into buy mode when you go to buy mode it closes the restaurant my bad but anyway yeah that was kind of an important note that whoa glue Anonymous fell over all right so the other cool thing is the guests there is a setting in the mod where they can seat themselves so we don't have to worry about seating them really as the waiter what we have to do is take the order ah reviewer we have to take the order and clean up the plate so it's not too hard but obviously once the restaurant grows and there's more and more people it's going to be a lot so I'm going to take both of these orders I'm going to get myself to cook out as a chef just so you can see how all this works as you can see I've I've jumped into action I'm chopping up the food and once that's ready to go he's going to place it up there and then these guys are going to walk over and get their own food which is pretty cool and I'm gonna get Dr glue on maybe to go welcome these other customers waiting just to make them feel better all right so the plate is now up so someone from this table yep should go up and go grab that for us I'm also gonna uh greet the uh the reviewer because the critic because uh we want a good rating here there you go see they like that I'll go welcome these guys too look at this look at look at this meal they've got some great stuff quality normal not too shabby oh critics food is ready hopefully I've done a good job yeah I think I'll leave this video here because this is more a build video and a little tour of how it's going to work again stay tuned I'll let you know when we're gonna be playing this uh I'll do a post on the YouTube Community tab here on the channel so you can check it out there and find it uh and I'm sure I'll mention it in the future as well yeah this is the food truck it's functional it's gonna be fun look forward to it and also look forward to another dine out inspired let's play that we'll be doing at some point in the near future too thank you so much for watching I'll see you next time and have an awesome day

Channel: James Turner

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Length: 15min 59sec (959 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 24 2022