After playing The Sims 4 for so long, it can become bland and repetitive, and the expansion packs are too expensive for some to justify buying, but there’s a whole world of free content out there that can help modify the game and make it more entertaining or realistic.
Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to mod The Sims 4 and my top five mod recommendations.
How to Mod The Sims 4
- Open your game and open up your settings
- Once you’re in your settings, go down to other and make sure custom content is enabled.
- Once this is enabled, you’ll have to restart your game.
- Once that’s done, you’ll have to go to your files.
- From this point on, make sure your game is closed. Do not install mods while your game is running
- Locate your mods folder.
- Documents -> Electronic Arts -> The Sims 4 -> Mods
- Once you have this folder, you can drag any mods or custom content into it.
- If it’s in a zipped folder, make sure to unzip it before dragging it in
The Sims 4 Modding Tips and Hints
- You can have folders inside of the mods folder, but it can only be one folder deep.
- This helps keep things organized
- Rename the content files to something that will make it easy for you to understand.
- Anytime the game updates, you’ll have to enable mods again and restart your game.
Related: The Ultimate Cheat Guide to The Sims 4
Top Five Mod Recommendations
This is a go-to mod for most simmers. It doesn’t add too much to the game, but it lets you tweak minor things. For example, you can easily age a sim up or down, enable teen pregnancy, or enable risky woohoo.
Deaderpool, the modder, also does a good job of updating the mod quickly with the game updates, so you don’t have to wait long periods of time before using it again.
This is another simple mod that doesn’t add too much to the game. It’s more of a quality-of-life mod. It makes it easier to cheat on sims’ needs, career levels, or aspiration milestones.
All you have to do is hover over where you want the bar to be moved and click it with your mouse. Left-click if it’s the mood panel, and right-click for everything else.
This mod does break easily after each update, so make sure you disable it until a new patch comes out for the mod for each coinciding update.
Slice of Life makes The Sims 4 more realistic and a little harder. This mod gives you options to add health features, which make it so your sims can get sick, and you have to seek out treatments to help them, beauty features that allow sims to pamper themselves and experiment with hair and makeup, and alcohol features that make it so your sims will have reactions to drinking.
This is a website by the modder Sacrificial Mods, who makes a ton of gameplay mods that can add a lot of features. These mods range from life’s tragedies that add stuff like sickness and bullying to zombie apocalypses that turn The Sims into a different game.
This is another gameplay mod that adds some realism to the game. It adds things like attractiveness, shows how attracted your sim is to others, personality archetypes, menstrual cycles, and birth control.
The Guide Hall can’t wait to explore the many available mods for The Sims 4, finding the best and weirdest available. We’ll have new The Sims 4 guides for you in the coming days!