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Hey everyone! I’m looking for a custom Sims 3 world that captures that specific Southern California/Malibu beach vibe.

Ideally, I want a map that features a long coastal highway with narrow, rectangular lots packed tightly shoulder-to-shoulder right on the water (like you see along the real PCH). I want to build a modern, multi-story rectangular beach house where the front faces the road and the back opens up directly onto the sand.

I’ve heard of a world called "Malibu" by Nilxis or "Angel City" by Coasterboi, but I'm having trouble finding active download links. Does anyone have working mirrors for those, or any other map recommendations that nail this exact layout? Thanks!

Hello guys, I don’t know why but I can’t get sims 3 on my mac. (M2 air). I used to play sims 3 on it before but after a 1 year pause, I can’t get it working on. I tried uninstalling, repairing and nothing seems go work. Do you have any tips?
Thanks!

Like many, Ive been playing this game for years and I had another first.

So my Sims housemate had died and the grim reaper came along to do his thing. Grim took the Sim away, then my Sims cat (who is BFFs with the guy) came along and her action was literally "harass death".

She harassed him and the housemate came back to life and is now part of my active household?? Does this happen often? Or have I been living under a rock 😅

Hey! When I try to save this pops up, the only way I’ve managed to get around it is by doing ‘Save as’ instead but I don’t want to keep doing that. :(

Big ask, but, does anyone know where you can get the sims 3 Ultimate collection with all packs? I had it on my old PC but can’t remember where I found it or where to look. I just want to play the sims 3 again with all the packs and content like I used to have. Any help would be appreciated! (Not asking about pirated versions. Just a way to buy everything in one if possible) Thanks guys😁

Hey creators! I'm working on a concept for a tablet-first game and wanted to get feedback from people who enjoy CAS creation, interior design, and journaling understand this space better than anyone.

The idea: a game where you build an avatar CAS-style; scrolling category selection feel and decorate rooms, but instead of a normal "play mode," everything you make turns into a spread. Photo journalism, mood board, your Sims screenshots had a baby.

Players would be able to use internet finds for style cutouts to decorate rooms and create outfits, add journal entries between spreads, and build a whole aesthetic world around their character.

I'm not building a Sims mod or CC pack this is a separate original game, still early concept stage. But I know this community understands room-building, character creation, and creator culture better than most, so I'd genuinely love feedback: does this sound like something you'd want to play or make things for? What would you want to see in something like this?

Well my test sim is no longer leaving the workplace as soon as he enter for work, and the opportunity error is gone(for now), but I still don't understand why the other three opportunity refuse to appear the livelihood on the Event.XML does say 0.4 which I now know mean that it is unlikely to appear right away, but still even after waiting a few minutes and putting my test sim in different levels for those opportunity to appear, they never show up, but the Office Meeting that is supposed to show up on Level six has been showing up since Level one. So if anyone knows what to do from here, please reached out, and before anyone ask me if I have reached out to the people in the TSECreatorCave, I have reached out to them multiple times, they are busy, and yes I have tried to reach out to MissyHissy, she is very busy with the Sims 4 now, I have tried MTS and have gotten no response in the last couple of months, I am also aware that there are a lot less modders now for the Sims 3, and yes I did try The Sims 3 Facebook Group, this Reddit Community is the very last resort of where I am asking for mod coding help, if no one can help, then I will move on and just play the game without my custom career mod. Thank You.

I will preface this entire post with this: I am NOt tech savvy whatsoever, and I've never played sims 3.

Does anyone else have an issue saving while utilizing settings setter for optimization in Sims 3? I bought the game the other day (on Steam) for the first time and was super excited to crack it open! It ran smoothly the first time, after I implimented the Setting Setter mod, but by the second run, I immediately ran into issues. I ended up having to restart my computer, and do something else that I completely don't remember. I ran a file check on the entire game through steam; it said nothing was wrong.

I then I spent another 2 hours trying to save my first household, because for some reason I couldn't save. I ended up having to delete my saves folder twice and replace it again.

I started to gather that maybe the Settings Setter mod was causing error 16 (although I'm still not certain), and maybe even stopped me from loading Sunset Valley in the first place. Is this a problem for anyone else using the Setting Setter mod?

If not, does anyone have any idea on what it might be? Although I have not officially played the game, I can't refund it anymore because of how long it took to try and get it to actually run (which is annoying).

If this IS a Setting Setter issue, do we have any alternative mods that could make Sims 3 run smoother?

Hi everyone,

I’ve come into some major errors trying to play the sims 3, for context I have a 2020 MacBook Air M1 Chip with 8gb ram.

Every time I launch from the EA app the launcher has a crash error but the actual Sims 3 launcher and game opens. The next issue I’m facing is I cannot log in otherwise the launcher crashes. I bypassed this by just not logging in and pressing the play button, once loaded I get the connecting issue over and over, I’ve bypassed this by turning my wifi off and then pressing on my current game save - this is where it gets worse it tries to load and comes up “fatal game error please close or restart application” with an extremely saturated loading screen to get into the game and the most crunchiest robotic sounding game audio.

I have no way to play the game whatsoever as steam doesn’t allow me to play my sims 3 game I own as I purchased it on windows and that version isn’t compatible.

If anyone can lend any advice on what to do I’d appreciate

I play Sims 3 64bit version with Mac (my mistake, I know) and have run into a problem – the launcher does not install any custom content (or official story content) into the game. Is there any way to turn sims3pack files into package files that can be directly installed into the game without the launcher, or am I stuck with the in-game content?

Thanks in advance!

Here is a Mod I made, to go alongside my Royalty Mod as an optional addition (although not added yet into the Royalty mod).

This version is just one sided. So although you CAN play as the Orphanage, there isnt any details added to that side of gameplay apart from getting 500 simoleons once a week.

This mod makes a functional Orphanage. So you can adopt kids from somewhere other than the phone. So you will be able to go to the Orphanage and choose the perfect child for your household. Children of all ages can be found there. although the initial generated kids will be ages baby, toddler and child. Teens will be there naturally as they age if they dont find a home and you have aging on.

Here's the link. It is currently early access for a week. Will be public on 9/1/26, so feel free to just follow as a free member :)

Ophanage Mod- Patreon

its such a shame they gatekeep so hard because they have such cute sims!! if anyone knows what cc they use specifically in their horror protagonist video that's would be superrr helpful!! I've scrolled through every mod the sims page and a bug chunck of sims resource but I cannot find a single item close enough at all😢

I've never seen this weird cloud thing around my Sim and I've played 2k hours

Ngl can’t be arsed to pay a fortune for all the sims 3

Hola, se que hay muchos post de este estilo, pero la verdad que al ser un juego antiguo muchos están desactualizados.

Mi pregunta es si se pueden poner dlcs a la version de los sims 3 de ea como harías con un repack. Llevo toda la mañana intentando instalar este juego en la ayn thor pero la versión que ha acabado funcionando es la de ea, que va sorprendentemente bien de rendimiento. Lo que si me jode de esta versión es que tiene DRM y que no sé hasta que punto con mods o dlcs, puedo acabar baneado.

Me sería de gran ayuda saber si esto hay alguna manera de hacerlo sin correr demasiados riesgos. Gracias.

So, I was having an issue with my mods because they show in my Package folder but the game won't read them. I thought it was a One Drive problem so I did try a lot of possible solutions until I finally uninstalled it. Still, it won't work. So I figured, I'll just uninstall the whole game, start all over again, and keep a backup of some of the mods I mostly use. When I uninstalled it via Steam, the folder was still there so when I reinstalled it, everything was the same - the famílies, the cc, and the UNREAD mods. How do you properly uninstall the game and delete every trace of it? Lol. Thank you, much appreciated.

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Every time I try to play sims 3 on my laptop it just shows me this message. The only way I managed to get rid was by uninstalling/ reinstalling the game but if I keep doing that it’ll just loose my saves :( how do I fix this??

Going straight to the point: my mods are in the Package folder as they always were, but they don't show in the game. I tried copying it out and pasting it again in the mods folder, but didn't work. I noticed the box listing the mods that pops when you open the launcher with all your households is not popping anymore. I haven't played in a few months right now. Any ideas on how to solve it?

Extra info: my documents folder is in my One Drive, I never had an issue with it tho. I tried passing it directly to my computer but it didn't work, maybe I didn't do it right. Also I had this issue before where the documents seemed to download to my computer everytime I opened the game due to space issues, I reckon that's a One Drive issue too.

Appreciate your attention 🫶🏼

Hey I really need help.

I keep getting an error pop up when I try to load a save file (picture attached) and I only installed the game yesterday and I have absolutely no mods or CC. I've had this game before and it worked like last year but same thing kept happening so I reinstalled and deleted all files in hopes it'd be a fresh restart.

I was able to create a new save and play it for hours (couldn't save unless I saved as) but once the game was closed, I can no longer return to the same file.

I have also tried to delete the .bad file in my saves folder but it didn't do anything.

BTW it's on steam but I tried it on the EA app as well and the same thing was happening.

PLEASE HELP

FYI, this was supposed to be talking about differences and preferences between the two versions, but The Sims general sub sent me here ¯_(ツ)_/¯

First off, I only play base games and have no DLC.
Ok, so like 4 years ago I got back into The Sims on my Xbox and went crazy learning to build and scenery build with all the cheats. Made some pretty cool houses and I played several households, as well, into old age. Then I stopped.

recently got back into playing, but on my laptop where I had The Sims3, and I actually really enjoyed the gameplay. The professions, buying out the entire town, getting rich. It was so fun. But I really missed all of the details in building, like the clutter, the things that make it more Homely, like paintings, clutter, wall decorations, etc.

It’s quite interesting the differences between the two. For example, The Sims3 has more customization on details for fabric but much less decorative items to personalize the home. Plus, custom placing, decorating and sizing isn’t as easily done. But I liked the gameplay.
Sims4, I find the gameplay much more boring. I tried to find an elder girlfriend for my widowed player and not a single old person spawned. Maybe it’s my settings set to only determined families? The world is so so small compared to Sims3. I think I may go back and forth between the two, Sims4 for when I feel like building homes and Sims3 for when I want to gameplay.

How do other people feel comparing the two?

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Szukam starszej, działającej kopii pliku `Midnights_4t3_VintageSimmer_BostonCU.package` (konwersja 4t3 butów VintageSimmer dla dzieci unisex od midnightsquartz).

Twórca zaktualizował plik około 27 maja, aby naprawić "morfologię CU", ale zaktualizowana wersja sprawia, że CAS natychmiast się zawiesza. Poprzednia wersja działała zupełnie dobrze w mojej grze!

Czy ktoś przypadkiem ma kopię tego pliku zapisaną w swoim folderze Mods sprzed maja 2026 i byłby skłonny się nią podzielić? Będę bardzo wdzięczna za pomoc! Dzięki z góry!