The Sims 4: Expanded Mermaids Mod Walkthrough

hello everybody I am Trey also known as spinning Plum Bobs uh here on YouTube and over on Twitter my patreon patreon.com spinning Plum Bobs and uh today we're going to go over the expanded mermaids mod that just released for my patrons for early release and the public release is going to be on March 1st we're just going to be going over the main points of this mod today and what you can do with it and what it brings to the game so without further Ado we're gonna just hop into our lot and let's get started all right so we are loaded into the lot now and we've got our uh test Sims here that are going to be showing us the elements of the mod today you might recognize them from the trailer that came out last week we have Maya ocean and we have Aaron Maritime what I want to go through first is the basics and show you guys what you can do with the ocean here so if we go over to Aaron if you click on the ocean you can see that he can scuba dive but he does need to buy a rebreather like you do with basic scuba diving in the game but this interaction you can actually do anywhere in sulani and in tartoza so you'll be able to scuba dive and that'll give you different outcomes and different little text pop-ups that'll come up over here it'll give you different items it'll be helpful for making recipes or advancing your mermaid mythology skill which we'll get to in a second but you can also snorkel which you can do in any body of water apart from pools so that will also give you different outcomes and items and whatnot you can also see here if you click a little bit closer to the shore that you can collect sea water and that's going to be something helpful for sea witches for their potions or for mermaid mythology making some certain recipes that you can learn but for mermaids these are your options some of these were available in the original version of The Mod such as dive underwater and dive deeper and so on but there are some new ones like search for ambergris which is a different collectible that will be helpful for making certain recipes but with these interactions that were available before they have been updated so there are some new outcomes there are some new text pop-ups that you'll get up here there are some new Collectibles that you can find that will be helpful in advancing mermaid mythology as well with dye for kelp that has also been updated so now there are five different types of kelp that you can find four of them are just regular edible Kelts that have different varying amounts of hunger you get from them and there is one that's extra special because it will give you special abilities we'll get to that a little later but mermaids can also eat raw fish in this new update so that's something else that they can consume but for now we're going to bring Maya out here you might be familiar with these piles of floating junk that you can see out in this area in the ocean here and before you could just clean them up but mermaids now can actually search for human stuff so they will be able to swim up and they'll start digging through this trash and just kind of trying to see what they can find and eventually they'll be able to find these little items and you can see that she has found a dingle hopper with all of these items that they can find these human Collectibles they all have different interactions like brushing your hair with the dingle hopper or there's like a candelabra that you can place on a surface and light like a regular candle so they're all decorative but they have these special interactions so now we're going to go back over to Aaron here and as you can see in his inventory he has some special books and these are the mermaid mythology books that you may recognized from my original mermaid mod that came out even before Island living so those had been brought back for this update so these books go along with the mermaid mythology skill that you can see here that's a 10 level skill and with it you'll be able to learn some different recipes like things that involve ambergris or maybe some perfume things like that and those recipes can be grafted at the bar or at a stove depending on which recipe you're making so for the sake of the video we're going to have him craft this little drink that requires bottled sea water lemon and wakame which is a different type of kelp that you can find so we're gonna have him go ahead and do that but while he's doing that I want to say that you can actually buy these books in build by mode or you can buy them on a computer and building the merman mythology skill will give you some extra social interactions and I'll let you explore that yourself with your own gameplay but for now we'll let him take a drink of that there's a few drinks there's a cell for mermaids who have certain powers that's helpful to them so now that he's had a nice little beverage and he's feeling a little bit better I'm going to go ahead and have him research this strange seaweed he found this earlier when he was snorkeling and he's interested in it so he's going to look in the book and try to figure out what that's all about so you can see that he's learned that the seaweed is called Gilly weed and it has some special properties so we're going to go ahead and have him eat it and see what happens and as you can see he's developed some interesting attributes some gills and some flippers and if you eat more than one you'll find that that progresses even further and some new developments happen but we're going to have him swim out here to show you what effect that has had so from consuming that kelp he now has a little bit of a different swim style and you can see he can die for kelp and dive underwater and do some of the interactions that other sea creatures can do he can now search for Gilly weed after he has learned what it is from the book it unlocks that interaction now we want to go over the mermaid Rank and perk system that I have implemented with this mod so you can see over here she's got her mermaid rank which is a five level skill and that is going to unlock different perks that you can gain you can see that since she's swimming right now in her mermaid form she's gaining that skill as well as her mermaid XP which is a different skill it's a three level skill that's similar to my Werewolf Mod this will determine when you can unlock hercs so rank controls what powers you can get XP determines when you can get them so for the sake of the video we're going to go ahead and level her up to level three mermaid XP and you can see that she's gotten this pop-up letting her know that she is ready to select a perk so that's exactly what we're going to do so once you have full mermaid XP you go to her mermaid menu go to perks select perk and you have the option to choose one of these abilities you can see that there's hydrokinesis so control over water there's cryokinesis control over ice and cold thermopinesis control over heat and then there's a little bit more simple ones like being able to collect a large amount of kelp at once gaining more energy by sleeping in the ocean there's more advanced ones like siren voice which affects all singing interactions and we'll add an extra effect to them and then when you get high enough in your mermaid rank you might be able to drown Sims or choose to save them and be benevolent so it is up to you but for right now we're going to go ahead and give her thermopinesis so you can see she's gained that ability and she'll be able to evaporate water and she'll be able to heat other Sims up to make them uncomfortable she'll be able to thaw Sims if they're frozen and you can see here she'll be able to evaporate herself or other mer people if they're stuck with their tail out on land and that's another little thing that we'll get to in a bit but aside from Perks you can also develop weaknesses these can develop randomly during game play so when you're doing certain interactions if you have certain traits you might be more likely to get certain weaknesses but if you don't want to develop those randomly I have added a ton of cheats to this mod one of them being disabling random weaknesses so if you don't want your mermaids to just randomly get these hindrances you can turn them off and back on and that's individual to each Sim so you can pick and choose which ones you want to do that for or you can go ahead and select a weakness directly with these cheats so you have several options you have Call of the sea which is where mermaids will get sad if they're away from the ocean for too long on you've got Harpy voice which will give them a terrible dissonant voice and mess up their siren songs there's Moon spell which you may have seen in the trailer and there's my favorite which is sensitive scales and that makes mermaids a little bit more sensitive to contact with water so if they're washing their hands too frequently if they're taking a shower if they're exposed to water in any way they will have the chance of developing their tail and be stuck that way for a while so we're going to go ahead and give her that and see how that affects her and you can see she's not too happy about it and you'll get a little pop-up explaining what that does so since Maya has the sensitive scales weakness let's say she's walking through the park and happens to go buy an active sprinkler let's see what happens when she does that ah what and clearly she has had a little bit of an issue there so she has fallen and has her tail out on land you may remember that she has a thermokinesis ability so she can just evaporate herself she'll be able to use her powers to dry off really quickly and that takes care of that and that even leveled up her XP which you can see there so now we're going to come down to our sea witch in his little Cavern here you might recognize him as well from the trailer I'm gonna have him come to his cauldron here and practice brewing potions so one thing that sea witches can do now that has been added with this update is they can brew potions of different varieties which you learn by practicing or once you reach level three of the sea sorcery skill they will be able to go to their grimoire and they'll be able to search for potion recipes so this is actually one of the objects you can find while diving deeper in sulani or tartoza once you get it if you're not a sea witch already you'll be able to examine it and learn how to become a sea witch so once you start practicing brewing potions you will eventually start learning different recipes that you can make so you can see that he has learned the bottle Davey Jones curse which is one of my favorite potions and you might notice you can go to the notebook and this is where you'll be able to see the different recipes and what they do so if you look here bottle Davey Jones curse requires a wolf eel one Brimstone and one meselic help which is a different variety of kelp that you can find as well Brimstone is actually found in the sulfur piles near the volcano on the island so if you click on those you'll be able to collect the sulfur and that will end up being Brimstone in your inventory so here's a closer look at The Cauldron object there are several different color variations that you can choose from so you can find that in the study section if you go to hobbies and activities it should be listed there or obviously you can search for it in the search bar and as well there is the mermaid mythology book in all of the variations as well as potions something else that has been added with this update is the ability to craft contracts so we're gonna have him do that and you'll see that he suspends it over the cauldron and if you wait just a moment it'll pop up and you'll be able to make some selections so now he can decide the time limit and this is how long the Sim has to pay the sea witch back after completing this contract you can choose 24 hours three days or a week for the sake of this we'll just go ahead and say three days you can choose the spell that is done or potion so you can see you have several options here and you see which has to know the spell or potion that is required for these before they start the Fulfillment process and for the sake of the video we'll just save Poseidon's luck charm and here you choose the payment so this is what the Sim will have to give you in return for this magical contract that you've put together for them you can choose one of these monetary options these different amounts of money or you can choose love which will take the Sims ability to love and form romantic relationships you can choose Seoul which is where the Sim will have to give you the earn of a deceased Sim you can choose a voice which will take their ability to speak and affect their interactions with people or you can take their youth which will immediately age them up so we'll go ahead and choose voice here after he's done crafting that he'll collect it and it ends up in your inventory where you can see the different terms listed so the payment is voiced time limit three days magic Poseidon's luck charm so that's a way for you to keep track of all these different contracts and whatnot and if we look over here Maya has signed this contract and you'll notice that service completed is there which means that we've already done the magic required for this contract and we are awaiting payment which means we have not collected the payment from her the payment is sold so she needs to give him the earn of a deceased Sim so since we're awaiting payment already we might as well take care of that so if you click on the contract and select collect payment you will go over and get that from her a meme sickle out grieving Tariq bashina and then we're able to select the different urns that are in her inventory or if you have the fairies versus witches mod which is also available on my patreon you can give a life Essence so we're going to go ahead and just select the spellcaster tombstone and he collects the soul and you can see it's here in his inventory and you can actually do some interesting stuff with this little Moon shell one of which is use it on a ghost Soulful Beach and there you have it so he has resurrected his friend by using the soul that he collected from Maya but that's just one example of the way that you can take those payments and use it to your benefit there's also a shell for The Sims youth for their love for their voice so there's different things you can do with those as well however as my favorite sea witch says you can't get something for nothing so we're gonna have to brew something up ah so aggression is going to start throwing in his ingredients and mixing up this potion and now we have the bottled Davy Jones curse and this is going to stay in The Cauldron until you collect it so we're gonna have him bottle up that potion and now that it's in his inventory he can take it and throw it at Wade and now Wade has transformed into this hideous green smelly Creature from the ocean and you'll see that he has a buff now that says Davey Jones curse and gives a little bit of background on that let's say you have a contract that's already been drafted and you want to have someone sign it Gresham is going to suspend the contract over The Cauldron and now you're going to click The Cauldron hit present contract 2 and select whoever you want if they meet the criteria of the contract and then he's going to present it in a very dramatic fashion and Aaron is going to give it a read and just see if he wants to commit to these terms and of course he does so he's going to give it a sign and agree to the contract nippy so as you can see now that he has signed the contract you get this pop-up explaining what you can do next to initiate the Fulfillment of the contract Gresham needs to suspend it over his cauldron again and select initiate contract fulfillment so we're going to go ahead and do that so once the contract is Over The Cauldron if you hover over you can see that these details are listed again but you can see it's signed by Aaron Maritime so no matter what happens you'll be able to see these stats and be able to keep track of your contracts and the status of them but for right now we're going to select initiate contract fulfillment pain though bail you bow jazz so now we have a little event started and up here cast Poseidon's luck charm on the beneficiary is listed so that just tells you that that's the spell you need to use so once you do that the event will complete and you will have fulfilled the contract and now the event has ended and was successful so now we can move on to the contract payment so let's say for the sake of argument that Aaron has let some time pass and his three days are up and he has not paid back the sea witch let's see what happens when he does that you'll get a little pop-up that says that he's neglected to repay the sea witch and the sea witch will also get a notification saying that Aaron has not paid and once you're notified of that you can select the contract between the two of you and there will be a new option to enforce consequences and you can select from these different options certain ones are disabled for like for instance money being taken from someone in your household and giving a mermaid weakness if the signer is not a mermaid so that's one way that you can get a weakness if you have a mermaid Sim you can lose skills you can lose your emotions you can be given Davey Jones curse so let's go ahead and select blue skills so now he has no more skills and they are completely gone so that's his punishment so then if we look at the contract again it is completed and everything is taken care of so now we can disperse that contract and it'll ask if you're sure so that you're not accidentally destroying a contract and one thing to mention is that you cannot be involved in multiple sea witch contracts so if you're the beneficiary of a contract you can only be part of one at a time so if you are a normal Sim and you don't want to go down the route of becoming a sea witch and doing all of that stuff but you still want to be able to form a contract and use that system you will be able to use the cheats that are included in this mod to select the sea witch and use turn into npcc which this will not affect your ability to control the Sim if they're in your household it's mainly for just maxing out all of the skills and giving them all of the stats they need if you're making a sea which that you don't necessarily want to play with so now he has mastered the sea sorcery skill among other things you may notice uh that he doesn't have any ingredients to make any of these potions but you will also notice that he has this interaction right here that is for ingredient conjuration that's a spell he learned from this Poseidon's grimoire you can learn different spells through this menu and now that Gresham is an NPC sea witch he is now available to purchase ingredients so we're going to have Aaron purchase these ingredients let's go ahead and get some of that one of those or a couple of those uh we'll get one of those and let's do those couple of these and yeah and now he has some ingredients to make a potion if he wanted to next we're going to go over some of the Kelpie improvements that are with this update there is this special little bit of kelp here that you can also find while diving deeper in sulani and tartoza and now he is transformed into one of our new and improved Kelpies so now they've been given a more attractive appearance that resembles the base Sim more and if you click on him you can go to his Kelpie menu Kelpie form and you can change the color so let's just give him this one real quick and that changes it to a lovely blue if you would like there are also a couple more options like showing hair and Kelpie form and hiding these shark teeth that they end up with if you want to have just normal Sim teeth and unfortunately certain hairs are not compatible with the show hair option it will cross over the textures and not look very nice so it just depends on which hair you're using so keep that in mind another new addition for Kelpies in this update is the ability to control their transformation with this small hidden skill and this skill is gained by transforming at will but we're going to just hop on in and go to the cheats and use this boost transformation control and you'll see you get a pop-up that says Aaron has gained some control over his Kelpie form his shape-shifting power will now decrease at a slower rate let's just do it again and see what we get so now it says Aaron has gained the ability to transform it well any time of the day so not just at night and there's a few different levels eventually you'll get to the point where you won't transform against your will at all shape-shifting power won't decrease whatsoever unless they are uncomfortable or in a negative mood and the last little thing that you can do with Kelpies is you now have the option to ask for their scales this is specifically going to be helpful for witches because there are a couple potions that use kelpy scales you have to have a good relationship with them otherwise they are not going to want to give you little bits off their body as you would expect but that is all of the improvements for Kelpies in this update and last but certainly not least what you guys I'm sure have been waiting for the child Mermaid so here we have urchin Hyde who is our child Mermaid from the trailer we got a little sneak peek at the very end there or with child mermaid SIMS basically all it is is just an extra trait that is added to mermaids in the game so if you have a mermaid family and they have a child if the child has inherited the mermaid life State they will have this new trait added to them that allows them to choose their mermaid tail I've converted both of the island living tail styles for children in this mod so those are going to be included but if you have downloaded custom Tails from my sets that I have released you can have the Atlantica style tail or the down under style tail so we'll just give him the green markings tail for the purpose of the video so now we'll send him out into the ocean and you can see that he has some of the options that adult mermaids have but he needs to be in his mermaid form to do this so the best way to do that is to just send them out into the water so once your child mermaid gets out into the water they'll do a little spin kind of like how adult mermaids do and they will have their tail and I'll just show you what happens if you change their tail while they're out in the water so it will just automatically change when you select a new one but you can go back and forth you can change it every day if you want to but there you go and while he's out here let's just send him down to go diving many of the adult mermaid animations have been converted for children so you'll be able to do all of the diving interactions and whatnot and children actually have their own outcomes for diving so they will be slightly different than the adult mermaids and I just have a couple more things to show you guys so I'll send him back on to land as they swim into Shore you'll see that the tail kind of disappears and he becomes human again I wanted to give this object a quick look this doesn't come with this mod this actually comes with a set that I released at the end of last year but it goes very well with this mod so I highly recommend downloading it it is a basking Rock and adult mermaids and child mermaids can use this if adult mermaids have the singing skill they'll be able to practice their singing on the rock or they can just bask so they'll just lay out with their tail and look around and hang out and their fun need will go up a little bit so that's pretty much the overview of all the main points of the mod and the things that I wanted to go over and help you guys understand so that you don't have as much trouble this last little thing that I wanted to show you is if your sim is in a hot tub or in this hot springs you will be able to click on them and relax in your mermaid form and they'll let their mermaid form out and they'll do these little animations and flick their tail around and uh yeah that's a cute little interaction that I added at the last minute that I thought would be fun for you guys as always thank you all so much for watching and supporting my patreon if you've done that I'm so appreciative for your support that allows me to continue making content like this at the expanded mermaids update is available to my early release patrons and will be available for free to everyone on March 1st thank you all again I hope this video was helpful if you have any issues concerns or suggestions I'd love to hear them in the comments on patreon or over on Twitter that being said I'll hopefully catch you guys in the next video bye bye

Channel: SpinningPlumbobs

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Keywords: sims, the sims, the sims 4, ts4, s4cc, mods, mermaids, expanded mermaids, spinningplumbobs, spcreates, occult, lifestate, the little mermaid

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Length: 25min 31sec (1531 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 14 2023