We’ve converted the backwards baseball cap for child Sims! The Child’s Backwards Cap is available for children of either gender and comes in six colors.
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The Sims 4 Mods: Sideways Cap
Introducing SimCitizens’ first mod for The Sims 4! The Sideways Cap is a non-default modification of the base game’s Baseball Cap. It is available for both genders and comes in eight colors!
Download it here!
Some clipping occurs with certain female hairstyles.
The Sims 4: Digital Deluxe Edition Content Overview
As you may know, The Sims 4 Digital Deluxe Edition comes with the Up All Night and Life of the Party downloadable content packs. In this article we’ll be covering what exactly each pack contains.
The Up All Night pack contains costumes, furniture, and food based around themes of black & white and costume parties.
- Swallowtail Tux
- Take the Plunge Formal Dress
- Grim Reaper Hood
- Grim Reaper Costume
- Hot Diggity Dog Hat
- Hot Diggity Dog Costume
- Cappy the Clown Cap
- Confetti the Clown Costume
- Just Clownin’ Clown Shoes
- Happy Clown Facepaint
- Why the Sad Facepaint?
Click on the link above to view each individual part. Dress up as a clown, hotdog, or even the Grim Reaper!
Furniture
- Anti-Balloon Balloons
- Sitting Pretty White Chairs
- Stream Me Up Party Decorations
- Yin & Yang Circular Rug
- Let There Be Light! Laser Show
- White All Night Dining Tables
Social Events
- Black and White Bash
- Incognito Costume Party
Sims attending these events will dress up in random outfits based on the theme. Achieving a gold or silver ranking during an Incognito Costume party will unlock the Flying Llama sculpture. The Black and White Bash unlocks no additional items, but you will receive different black & white themed furniture as rewards based on your ranking.
Food
- Hamburger Cake
- Taco Casserole
- Black and White Cookies
Gourmet Food
- Black & White Cake
- White & Black Cake
- Salt and Pepper Shrimp Cocktail
Drinks
- Zebra Fizz
- Buffalo Wing Tea
Take a seat at the Flaming Tiki Bar and enjoy a hot drink with the content included in this pack!
- Shine On Men’s Suit
- Glitter & Abs
- Big Hat of Shame
- Star-Spangled Glasses
Click on the link above to view each individual part. Be the life of the party by wearing these silly, glimmering outfits.
Furniture
- Flaming Tiki Bar
Drinks
- Flaming Zesty Salt
- Sea of Fire
- Hot and Smoky
The Digital Deluxe edition is available exclusively on the Origin store! Owners of The Sims 4 can purchase an upgrade as well.
Check Out the Gallery on TheSims.com!
The Sims 4’s Gallery can now be accessed at the official website! Log in with your Origin account to browse, favorite, or download any of the creations into the game.
Popular households, rooms, and lots, and even the hottest creations chosen by Maxis themselves will be showcased right from the front page. Clicking the browse tab will allow you to view all uploaded creations with many of the convenient search filters available in the in-game version. Clicking on an upload’s thumbnail will bring up more detailed information about the item with additional options for sharing it on social media or commenting.
The Sims 4: The Pools Are Here!
The highly anticipated pools update for The Sims 4 has launched! Log into Origin to automatically download the November 4th patch.
Pools can be found in Build Mode and built using triangle, square, diagonal, and octagonal blocks, or freely drawn with the Pool Tool. They can be placed on any floor of your lot! Pools have customizable wall and floor designs, and can be decorated with a ladder, lights, windows, and decals.
Get your Sims ready with the new Swimwear outfit category! New speedo, swim trunk, bikini, and one-piece swimsuits, as well as a new necklace and sunscreen lotion face paint are available in Create A Sim. Be wary of your Sim having dangerously low hunger and energy while in a pool, as they can now die from drowning.
The Sims 4: Tacky Holiday Sweaters for December!
The Sims forums is hosting a poll where you can vote for a tacky holiday sweater you’d like to see in the game. The winning design will be “delivered” by Santa Claus in December.
You must be logged in to vote.
Sims 4: Star Wars, Pools, and Other Free Updates to Come This Year!
When a Sim dies, they can now return as a Ghost! Their appearance and special behaviors are affected by how they died. Their color will change depending on their emotional state. Traits and skills a Sim had while alive will carry over into the afterlife. Ghosts can added to a household and brought back to life. Additional information can be found in our Ghosts article.
Dress up as your favorite Star Wars character with new themed costumes! An X-Wing pilot suit, Leia’s robe and hairstyle, Darth Vader’s suit, and a children’s Yoda suit are available.
Fans disappointed by the lack of eye colors can now rejoice! Maxis has heard your requests and included five additional eye colors in Create A Sim: Dark blue, gray brown hazel, olive green hazel, dark blue hazel, and purple.
The Spooky music station has been added to the game.
New Cheats
bb.showhiddenobjects
Shows Debug objects in Build Mode.
casclockspeed [0-10]
Adjusts the speed of a Sim’s animation in Create a Sim.
November Update
- November marks the grand addition of pools to The Sims 4!
December Update
- Additional career paths and rewards will be added sometime in December.
These updates are all FREE and added via patch through Origin.
Sims 4: Secret Sylvan Glade Lot in Willow Creek
The world of Willow Creek holds a secret. Through a series of interactions you can gain entrance to the Sylvan Glade lot!
Next to the Crick Cabana lot you may notice a large, strange tree unlike any other in the game. Clicking on it gives you an option to view it. Continually interacting with the tree will unlock additional options. Eventually an entryway will appear on one side of the tree. Choosing the explore option will begin your Sim’s Tree Adventure.
Now you are faced with a small puzzle of sorts in which you must correctly choose the correct options in order to continue.
(1) Follow the Sound
(2) Follow Downstream
(3) Enter the Mist
(4) Travel to Glade
After a loading screen your Sim is transported to Sylvan Glade! Here you’ll find various ingredients, collectibles, and a fishing spot. You may return at any time through the tree.
Sims 4 Let’s Play – Day 5: Launch Day Broadcast
Today’s Sims 4 stream was broadcasted live from the production pit at Maxis and hosted by Sim gurus Ryan Vaughn, Grant Rodiek, and Antonio Romeo. Various members of the Sims 4 team also made appearances.
Familiar faces Andre DaSilva and Babs L’amour were joined by new Sims Tracey Hills and Albert Peterson in their Willow Springs home.
The gurus empty a room of the house and plan to fill it with crafted furniture. Babs begins crafting an end table at the woodworking table, making use of the handiness skill. Albert is building his mental skill at the science table. In addition to unlocking new science table potions and computer and social interactions, the mental skill will make the logic skill easier to obtain once a child ages. After completing the end table, Babs begins working on a Large Bear Sculpture.
Andre heads outside to weed the tomato bush while Tracey feeds the Cowplant. At level 8 of the gardening skill, a Sim can graft two plants together to create a plant that grows both types of produce.
Andre is in the focused emotional state, so now is a good opportunity to work on his programming skill at the newly purchased computer. Being focused enhances the rate at which he can learn the skill, evidenced by the purple outline around the skill progress bar and the purple background of the interaction in the queue. Andre has the genius trait, so he becomes focused more often.
He has plenty of satisfaction points, so the gurus open the Rewards Store to redeem a couple new traits for him. “Beard guru” Argus Hulin stops by and chooses the Gym Rat trait, and Grant picks the Shameless trait. Gym rats don’t lose hygiene and have fun while working out. Shameless Sims won’t become embarrassed.
After a short load, the household heads across the street to visit another house in the neighborhood. It turns out that no one lives here, however, so they head over to a trailer house in Oasis Springs. This was a bust, as no one is currently home. The shameless Andre tries to chat up some local ladies. Tracy goes fishing and catches a chest containing an apple.
They nearly visit the Rattlesnake Juice Bar for the third time, but Andre and Babs instead head to The Blue Velvet Nightclub. It’s not as lively as they’d hoped. Andre tends to the bar, and it appears that Pancake Bob works here.
After returning home, Babs picks up a voodoo doll and binds it to the unsuspecting Andre. A lumberjack sculpture is placed out of her inventory. Sculptures and paintings your Sims make can produce emotional auras that affect nearby Sims. She performs voodoo and forces Andre to frolic around the house. Poking the doll backfires, giving her an uncomfortable moodlet. Poking it again is successful, and Andre receives an angry moodlet. Andre can prune a nearby bonsai tree into various shapes. He is feeling inspired, so he has a special inspired shape choice.
The gurus rock the Landgraab family’s world by bulldozing their home and placing lots made to look like a pyramid, a spaceship, a floating house, and a castle. The castle is an incredible creation with fully furnished rooms and a lovely garden. Fences were used around the rooftops to emulate crenels.
From the Gallery they add a Sim modeled after Leonardo DiCaprio, an unfortunate creature called “The Bogeyman,” and one unibrowed fellow. Leonardo and The Bogeyman duel atop a tower, with the blue monster coming out victorious. Two more individuals rocking unibrows were added, and the Full House achievement was unlocked by having 8 (the maximum) Sims in the household.
The Hungry Games lot from the Gamescom presentation made its return. This time the Sims actually got to try it out. All six present Sims were instructed to the middle of the maze. Nancy Landgraab won the race, with Leonardo and The Bogeyman far behind the pack and in need of a bathroom break and a nap. The bathroom and bedroom are all the way on the other side of the maze.
The two waddle through the winding walkways and past shooting fountains. The Bogeyman is right outside the bathroom, but his bladder gets the best of him. Leonardo gets just as far before having to pass out. With no room in the narrow maze, he must slowly walk all the way outside and drops to the ground. Shortly afterwards he is awoken by his bladder…
To see all the entertaining interactions between the Sims 4 team, be sure to watch the stream!
The Sims 4: Live Demo at PAX Prime 2014
Lyndsay Pearson (Senior Producer of The Sims 4) and PAX Prime’s Joseph Alminawi aka Swiftor presented a live demonstration of The Sims 4 on the PAX Prime 2014 Twitch channel yesterday.
In their Sims household they have Angel, Robyn, Jax, and two Sims modeled after Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Jerry is actually watching a gaming livestream on his tablet, which increases his video gaming skill. Mike is sent on a Zero G Workout into space using the rocket ship in the backyard. Jax is able to listen to the space launch from the computer.
The ladies demonstrate multitasking by watching television, eating, and having a conversation at the same time. Meanwhile, Jerry is participating in a novice Blicblock tournament using the motion gaming rig.
A Sim modeled after Swiftor is added to the household from the My Library tab of the Gallery. He’s going to need a place to sleep, so a bedroom is added from the Styled Rooms section in Build Mode and placed at the front of the house. Any conflicting objects are highlighted in yellow and automatically sold when the room is placed. After decorating the outside of the room, the Sims head to the Burners & Builders Gym in Oasis Springs.
Swiftor is new to the fitness skill, so he’s struggling a bit with the punching bag. Mike can push the limits when using one of the machines because of his workout earlier. Moving on to the treadmill, Swiftor and Jax can also watch television. If they were to watch the cooking channel, they could learn two skills simultaneously. Robyn has the loner trait, so being around so many people at the gym makes her tense. Loner Sims have less trouble keeping friendships over time, however, and can receive positive moodlets from being around their friends.
While doing a bit of “simwatching,” Lyndsay notices two women having a conversation over burgers across the street. She sends Swiftor dashing over to one of them and gives her a rude introduction. The two argue, and he throws a drink in her face. Despite being the instigator, he ends up being the one in the angry emotional state.
The household heads home and plans a house party. In addition to the hosts and guests, the Sims can hire an entertainer, caterer, and mixologist. Jerry is hungry and that slice of cake hanging from the Cowplant’s mouth is looking pretty tempting. Reaching for it, he is swallowed up and spit back out by the plant. The caterer has just finished baking a real cake, and proceeds to place it on the floor for the party guests.
Jax is feeling inspired and begins painting. Sims can paint their emotion while in certain emotional states. When placed in a house, these paintings can affect the emotions of Sims in the room. Lyndsay mentioned that this can be turned off.
Additional Notes:
The little clouds above a Sim’s portrait contain whims, which serve as temporary goals that your Sim can achieve. These are very much like wants in The Sims 2 and wishes in The Sims 3. There is always one whim based on a Sim’s current emotion. Completing whims can improve a Sim’s mood and gives your Sim satisfaction points that can be used in the Rewards Store.
Clicking on an icon in the Needs panel will automatically queue an action to fulfill that need.