#How you can set up Customized Content material and Mods in The Sims 4 – Destructoid

The Sims 4 is full of content material for each builders and life simmers alike, particularly while you consider the entire optionally available DLC Enlargement Packs, Stuff Packs, and Kits. If you wish to get extra out of your sport, you could be tempted by the seemingly bottomless pit of mods and CC. 

Mods and CC are fan-made content material for The Sims 4 that gamers on PC can use to enhance their sport or modify it to their preferences. Sadly, you received’t have the ability to use Mods or CC if you happen to’re taking part in on one other platform. 

Whereas Mods are used to enhance gameplay, working across the limitations of The Sims 4 because it often is, CC (Customized Content material) is used so as to add extra gadgets into the sport so that you can use in Create a Sim or Construct and Purchase mode. Each are equally tempting, to not point out obtainable on-line, and there’s a complete world of potentialities on the market courtesy of extra technically minded Simmers.

Nonetheless, earlier than you possibly can even start to make use of Mods or CC, it’s essential to know easy methods to set up it and ensure it runs while you’re in-game. Right here’s how to do this and easy methods to allow or disable them from inside The Sims 4. 

The place to put in Mods and CC for The Sims 4

When you’ve dredged by the hundreds of Mods and CC packs obtainable for The Sims 4, you’ll must know the place to place them. It is a course of that I needed to take a complete refresher course on only in the near past after reinstalling my sport, so I can speak you thru it. 

Wherever your copy of The Sims 4 is put in (mine’s on an exterior onerous drive, which brought on no finish of issues when attempting to re-install my CC and Mods), you’ll must find your Mods folder. For essentially the most half, it’s situated on the following location:

• “C:Customers[user]DocumentsElectronic ArtsThe Sims 4Mods”

For readability, my Mods folder continues to be situated right here although the sport itself is put in onto an exterior drive, so yours will probably be in the identical location. 

It’s greatest to all the time set up Mods and CC with out the sport open. Putting in Mods or CC whereas the sport is operating received’t mess something up within the sport, however you’ll must restart it after including something anyway, so it’s simply simpler to shut it earlier than including Mods or CC to this folder. 

In case you’re planning on happening a CC set up spree, I’d suggest pinning this folder to Fast Entry or in any other case making a shortcut to it in your Desktop.

How you can set up Mods and CC for The Sims 4

All CC, no matter kind, will probably be of a ‘.bundle’ file kind. A number of CC will probably be downloaded from their supply as ‘.zip’ information, however unzipping these provides you with the ‘.bundle’ information it’s essential to get any little bit of CC into The Sims 4. 

These ‘.bundle’ information could be positioned instantly inside your Mods folder, or you possibly can create folders inside the Mods folder if you would like a little bit of group (belief me, it helps). Both approach, something you place into the Mods folder, or folders inside it, will seem in a pop-up each time you open The Sims 4, permitting you to see what’s at present showing inside your sport.

Putting in Mods is way the identical course of, though you’ll must fastidiously comply with any directions that accompany the Mod. As an example, if you happen to’re putting in the T.O.O.L. Mod, it’s essential to place a complete folder into The Sims 4 Mods folder fairly than a single file (proven above). 

How you can allow or disable Mods in The Sims 4

If, for any purpose, you need to disable your Mods and CC with out eradicating all of it from the Mods folder, this could simply be accomplished by the settings menu in The Sims 4 itself. To do that, open up the Recreation Choices menu, then navigate to “Different.” 

On this menu, you possibly can examine or uncheck the “Allow Customized Content material and Mods” checkbox, permitting you to show them on or off with out an excessive amount of problem. You can even click on the “View Customized Content material” button and disable the pop-up that seems every time you open the sport if you happen to select to take action.  

It’s a good suggestion to disable Mods and CC if you happen to’re planning on putting in a brand new DLC Pack or if the sport has not too long ago been up to date, particularly if in case you have lots of Mods operating in your sport, as a result of Mods typically want updating and trigger the sport to run erratically in the event that they’re not up to date.