Big ol' hunka Sims 2 mods
Before anything else, you're probably going to want the essential mods listed in this post to help the game run smoothly.
As you can see, I have a lot of mods. They come from all across the internet, on obscure blogs, old forums, and tumblrs, which is a lot to keep track of. So if anything, this is a reference in case I lose the link to some of my favorite mods!
Table of contents
CAS
Default hair, skin, eyes
- Remaxified default skins
- Queen of France eyes (I made defaults from this set)
- Less gendered default faces + baby face addon
- Clay hair default project
- My edit of MGSB's zombie skin
- Out There Somewhere alien skin
- Semi-transparent plantsim overlay
- Dead Silence Vampire overlay
- Correlated werewolf default
- Mannequin babies can be born
- Beastly bigfoot
- Animated servo jaw + camera eye
Clothing
I love Maxis Mesh recolors! Here are some places to find them
- DeJaVuDu (T$R)
- dgandy (T$R)
- Katsurin
- lliella (T$R)
- Maxis Match Repository Project
- Parsimonious + Parsimonious redux by Rudhira
- Rocket Horse
- Xandher (T$R)
Cosmetics
Default
- Antoninko lipstick default
- CatOfEvilGenius eyeshadow default
- Curly and slant eye shadows as eyeliners
- Maxis pink cheeks overlay revisited
Nondefault
- Layerable freckles
- Lifa eyeliners and mascara
- Moar liners than you'll ever need
- Simple eyeliners
- Subtle wrinkles
- Twiggy eyeliners
Sliders
Gameplay mods
Businesses
Cheaty stuff
- Gussy up: adjust appearance and clothes of any sim
- Sim Manipulator: cheaty interactions, helpful for configuring sims and neighborhoods
Community lots
- Community Lot Skill Building
- Community Time Project + patch: makes it so time actually passes when you visit a community lot
- Visitor controller: control which sims can visit a lot. Ban minors, make gay bars, make teen only hangouts, ban certain NPCs, ban animals, etc.
Death and ghosts
- Deadlier flies: increases the chances of Death by Flies, which is still an extremely rare event.
- Deadly bee swarms
- Better ghosts: now ghosts can actually ruin your life
- Child Ghost NPC Summon Fix
- Ghost children float
- Kill visiting playables: accidents happen.
Eating and drinking
Family
- Alt Pregnancy Controller Lite: adds chance of miscarriage if parent has very low needs
- Bigger families
- Extended family treated as family
- Great-grandchild memory
- In-laws fix
- Inventory inheritance
- Sperm donors + Surrogates + Name the father
- Treat as family: stop sims from lusting after sims they're distantly related to, and "friendzone" certain sims
Babies, toddlers, and kids
- Baby toddler mod: fixes parenting annoyances and lets it so sims can breastfeed their babies.
- Crib animation teeth fix
- Height mod + grow
- More fridge rights for kids
- Toddler playgroup: gives adults the option to send toddlers to daycare
- Toddler character changes: teaching/not teaching your toddlers how to walk, talk, and potty will have an effect on them
- Summer vacations for kids and teens: during whichever season is season 2 in your neighborhood, your kids and teens don't need to go to school. They will also have one day off in season 4, meant to simulate winter break.
Fire
Immersion
- 50 new lifetime wants
- Auto lights mod
- Bio on tombstones
- Biotech Station mod
- Drive by hydrant: spawns cars that drive by your home, simulating a busier neighborhood. There are different modes for more or less cars.
- Color traits + accompanying mods
- Immersive Rain + functional umbrellas
- Job outfit stopinator: stops certain sims that wear unique, modded clothing (such as trans sims or custom supernaturals) from changing into a work uniform, breaking immersion
- Karaoke autonomy limits
- Mood mod
- Music preferences + stereo ownership
- Poker skill-based nuance
- Privacy mod: makes it so sims wash their hands after using the toilet (depending on their neat points)
- Simple laundry: another chore for your sims to do. Not too intrusive.
- Temperature mods: sims are actually affected by changes in temperature, and will do things such as light a fireplace or drink water to keep themselves cool/warm.
- Work mostly weekdays: most jobs (not all) are Monday-Friday, so many of your sims have weekends off. This makes a noticeable difference when playing families, as adults can actually spend time with their kids.
Increase difficulty
- Bigger bills
- Disease mod
- Electricity mod: adds an electricity box that can break, resulting in power outages. Failing to pay bills also results in your power getting shut off.
- Fair wages for service NPCs
- Fall asleep while doing homework assignment
- Flammable birthday cake
- Frequent disease processing
- Job demotion skill loss
- Job application rejection chance
- Lower wages: keeps wages from later EPs more in line with base game wages
- More dangerous burglars
- No inheritance after elder dies
- No reputation awards
- No BFFs
- Period hack
- Reworked fridge leftovers: leftovers spoil over time
- Slower LTA gain
LGBTQIA+
- Aromantic trait
- Baby wants fix + Have child not adopt: having a child and adopting a child will be considered the same thing for want fulfillment purposes. Same sex couples will want to have a baby rather than adopt, and adopting will still satisfy that want.
- Gender transition potions
- No bi gender preference decrease
- Reproductive Capabilities Configurer: set a Sim's gender flags whether or not they're able to have a child, making it easy to have trans Sims
- Same sex marriage: same sex couples get married instead of "joined union."
Little fixes
- MP3 player fix
- Myshuno fixes
- Stair mods: allows multiple sims to use a staircase
Pets
Sleep
- Energy gain determined by aspiration level
- Sleep later mod: lazier sims will sleep in longer
Social
- Argue social fix + better argue animations
- Fight and immaturity mod: fighting affects sims' motives. also, if sims' aspiration is super low, they might engage in immature behavior.
- Mean interactions to any age
- New Parties
- Personality please
- Reaction mod: changes whether or not sims are shocked to see other sims naked or in their underwear, based on their relatonship with one another.
- Tell fortune social
- Townie enthusiasm seeder: if you use custom townies, this allows them to form hobby interests and show up at hobby clubs.
Romance and woohoo
- ACR Lite: configure the conditions in which sims get jealous, and allow them to woohoo and have babies on their own
- Adults can go steady
- Ask to leave partner social
- Confess to cheating social
- Friendly breakup
- "Let's just be friends" social
- Makeout want fix
- No aspiration attraction + zodiac attraction overhaul: I was tired of how predictable the chemisty system was, and wanted more couples with mismatched aspirations. Now, attraction is somewhat less predictable, and Romance and Family sims can actually wind up together (as they often do in game lore).
- No jealousy trait + ask to be in an open relationship
- Personality based proposal animations
- Random proposal rejection
- Romantic Standards: adds a lot of nuance to sim relationships, plus risky woohoo
- Sauna woohoo in public wants fix
- Woohoo teens: teens can woohoo with other teens
University
- College tuition and student loans
- Semester changes: college lasts for 8 days instead of 24
- More sensible career tracks for uni majors
No uni mods
Currently I don't play with uni, as I haven't found it fun in a long time. :( Here are mods that make that less annoying:
- Get Uni career without education
- Growing up wants panel: Sims gain Wants panel slots and locks by aging up with high aspiration, rather than earning them in college. They may also gain extra Fear slots if they age with low aspiration.
- No "Be Uneducated" fear
- No Memory Uneducated + No Want Satisfy Uneducated: InSimenator appears to be down so I am linking to this backup. The mods I'm talking about are included inside this pack.
- No scholarship or "Sim goes to college" wants
Graphic overhauls
Hacked objects
- 1t2 Skydiving Simulator
- Autonomous crate of throwing axes: Sims can autonomously throw axes and kill other sims.
- Spy crafting station + poison other sims + sell potions
Historical CC
Supernaturals
Cowplants
- Cowplant mod: Give them names and interact with them in new ways
- Custom male cowplant
- Cowplant milk can cure zombies
Genies
- New genie wishes: restores scrapped "Make me young again" wish and adds several new ones
- Witches can cast genie wishes + wealth wish failure
Plantsims
- Plantbaby changes and plantbaby personality: more personality variety for plantbabies.
- Cactus plantsim skin + accessories
- Cowplantsim skin + horns
- Multi ideal plantsims: so not all plantsim offspring look the same
Vampires
- Autonomous risky nibble: chance of turning another sim by "accident"
- Suck blood interaction
- Deadly neck bite
- Vampires influence for free
- More interactions for vampires
- Vampire hunger goes down at night + social/fun decay
Werewolves
- Risky scuffle: chance of turning another sim by "accident"
- Autonomous deadly ravage: werewolves might kill sims if they get hungry
- Maim interaction: werewolves can feed on a sim without killing them
- Werewolf personality daytime unchanged all
Witches
- Magic Manager: configure your witch's magic levels, enable/disable overlays and titles
- Casting neutral spells doesn't change alignment
Zombies
- Zombie personality
- Zombie iron stomach: zombies can eat spoiled food and not get food poisoning
Custom supernaturals
- A lot of these mods use custom outfits with unique bodies. The Never Nude mod makes it so your sim's body won't change when they shower.
Centaurs
Deities, gods, and demigods
- Aging On/Off: toggle if your sims age
- Autonomous Thunderbolt: if Zeus (or any level 10 evil witch) has low Fun, he might choose to smite other sims. Woops!
- Avatar bending mod part 1: main mod, part 2: little abilities, part 3: murder, part 4: duels, part 5: more little abilities: while themed around Avatar The Last Airbender, this mod is also useful for giving gods specific powers and abilities. Plus your gods/demigods can duel and that's epic!
- Immortality trait: Sims with this trait can only die by old age.
- Magic Manager: I use this to make my god sims witches with max skill, while also removing overlays and titles if I don't want them. Their alignment depends on what powers I want them to be able to use.
Devils
Fairies
Gorgons
Harpies
Merfolk
Mushrooms
Satyrs and fauns
Skelebros
Neighborhoods
Community lots
Custom hoods
- Aileen Landing
- Arkhelios: murder mystery sci-fi hood
- Copperhead City: desert downtown
- Euripides Bay
- Fellbridge
- Doogler Hollow
- Gaudy Shore
- Magic Town
- Moonbase Apollo: Vacation on the moon
- Nekojima
- Old Town
- Orville: Victorian hood with CC
- Planet Alades
- Pleasantown
- Prometador: Baja Coast/Spanish/Mexican vacation hood with custom locals and tourists
- Red Dunes
- Sedona
- Sunset Valley
- Widespot
Maxis hoods cleaned and redone
- Dreadpirate's Alt Riverblossom Hills
- Dreadpirate's Alt Hood Extracted Sims: make Chloe and Lola Curious actually resemble their father. You'll need to use Alt Sim Surgery to change them.
- Katatty's Belladonna Cove
- Katatty's Desiderata Valley
- Katatty's Downtown
- New Hobbies Stealth Hood: replaces the secret hobby lots with cooler ones
- Plumbtale's Magic
- Plumbtale's Three Lakes
- Strangetown