Best Mods for The Sims 4: How to Download Them on PC or Mac

What are mods and how do they work?

These mods are, like the official one, expansions with new content that extends the existing one within the game. These can range from new hairstyles, clothes, furniture, professions or even custom, and actions that we have not been able to perform previously (or were censored) in The Sims.

Obviously, like any content external to a game, we will not find any trace of them either on the official EA website (developers) or on platforms such as Origins where we can buy the game itself and its official expansions. In order to download the mods we will have to go to the different repositories of their developers. Later we will show you some of the most interesting to make your work easier.

What does EA think of mods?

In Electronic Arts’ own question and answer forum, many users have asked about the legality of using this type of content. For this reason, the company developed a section in which it comments its opinion on these mods . But, in summary, EA accepts the use of mods within its game but under the responsibility of the user himself and, obviously, it will not support those who have this type of content installed and present bugs in the game.

Install mods in The Sims 4

Being external content to the game and being something developed by third parties, installing this type of expansion is not as easy as one of the official ones of this game. But don’t worry, the general procedure is simple and, in addition, if an extra step is required, the creators themselves usually indicate it in their repositories.

The first step to be able to use them is to activate them from the game itself:

• You will have to start The Sims 4 and, on the game’s loading screen, click on the button with the three dots in the upper right bar.
• Within this menu go to “Game Options”. Here you must check the box “enable custom content and mods” and “Script mods allowed” . Remember that every time the game is updated, this box will be deactivated automatically . You will need to log back in after each update to reactivate it.

Now is the time to start downloading mods everywhere. We recommend that to avoid possible confusion and detect faults quickly, you classify these in folders according to thematic, that is: hairstyles, furniture, professions, etc. Then you will have to add these folders to a certain path within your computer. But first, you must make a small modification to a document to avoid mistakes.

Whether you have a Windows PC or a Mac, you must access the path documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 4 / Mods . In this folder is where we will add all the mods that we download. But before, as we mentioned, we must modify that small file called “Resource.cfg” . Right click on it and open it with the notes app on your computer. Here, at the very end, you must add the following lines:

PackedFile * / * / * / * / * / * / *. Package
PackedFile * / * / * / * / * / * / * / *. Package

Therefore, the final document will look like this:

Now save the mod and everything is ready for you to start downloading mods and copying them to this folder. Remember that you can classify them in sub folders within this one.

Best free mods for The Sims 4

Now that you know everything important about these unofficial game expansions, we bring you a compilation of the best mods for The Sims 4.

Sim credible designs: the Ikea of furniture for Sims

If the furniture of the original game and its expansions fall short, in Sim credible designs you will surely find what you need. You will have from different designs for your rooms, more sofas, tables, chairs, plants and a long etcetera. The best thing is that we have a great gallery to find new furniture and, after locating it, we will only have to click on download and add it to the mods folder.

Asian Adventures World

One of the most known mods for its changes within the game is Asian Adventures World . This expansion works on the official pack of The Sims 4 Vampires, transforming the neighborhood of Forgotten Hollows into a Japanese neighborhood. The streets will be full of cherry trees, geishas and samurais.

Playable Pets

If you’ve played some of The Sims’ pet expansions, you’ve probably thought at some point how much fun it would be to be able to manually control pets. Well, with the Playable Pets mod you can make this idea come true. We will have different actions whether we click on other pets, on ours or on the sims.

Slice of Lice

This Slice of Life is a mod that gives our sims more realism. We will see how the appearance of these varies to the point of affecting the flushing of the skin, being able to identify the phases of drunkenness when they drink, acne, etc. We will also have different new aspects of the personality and new functionalities in our smartphone. The Sims more realistic than ever.

SBank Bills

And speaking of realism, it has not seemed a bit strange to you that since you started playing The Sims, they only received a bill at home and the same type. Well, so that the experience is as close to reality, the SBank Bills mod will make you receive bills for all the expenses that your sims have: water, electricity, mobile, internet, etc.

MC Command Center

Describing what the MC Command Center mod does is tricky, as it actually consists of a vast set of mods. Among these we will find some that allow teenagers to get pregnant or, even, that expand the number of existing professions or the physical appearance of our characters. We recommend that you take a look at it because it changes quite a lot of elements of the game.

Furniture mods

The following list compiles several furniture elements that we can have thanks to these mods:

• Pokémon dolls: 18 Pokémon dolls from different generations.
• Pet lift : to help pets to go upstairs.
• Igloo : who has not wanted to have their own igloo at home.
• Old West Accessories : If you like cowboy movies, this is your mod.

Appearance mods

• Prehistoric clothing : become a real caveman.
• Walking styles
• Apple shoes – sneakers with the Apple logo.
• Harry Potter Sweaters : The sweaters that Ron had in the movies can now be worn by your sims.

More “crazy” mods for The Sims 4

Unsurprisingly, being created by users outside the company, some of these developers give perhaps too much free rein to their imagination or creativity to craft some of the craziest mods for this game.

K-Pop career

Thanks to this extension of The Sims 4 you can become a true star of the K-Pop style . You will start from the audition position until you succeed in all scenarios.

WickedWhims

We are not going to delve into the changes that the WickedWhims mod makes in this game. An expansion for the most adult in which you will be able to see everything, absolutely everything, that until now was censored in The Sims.

Mortem

If you are a lover of realism and why not say it, of things a little sinister, the Morten mod will give you that realism that you wanted when the sims die in the game. Such is the point of realism that, after the death, their relatives will have to call the doctor so that he can remove the body and some more gloomy details.

Paid mods in The Sims 4?

After having done an extensive search in this world of mods, we found it quite strange not to find any of them that required a payment to download.

The only business models we found around mods were two:

• Affiliate systems : Using platforms such as Patreon, developers asked users who enjoy their work to adopt some of the “reward” models for their work. What would these users receive in return? Well, among other things, early access to mods, check with the developer himself before making a new mod, private chats to talk to each other about the game. But the exclusive content was never mentioned, that is, they would not receive anything that later other non-paying users could not acquire for free.
• Donations : as in other projects, many developers add a donation button via Paypal so that any user can make a selfless donation for their work.

Therefore, we understand from this that since it is an external elaboration of the game and original expansions, requesting a payment as a mandatory requirement to get one of these mods. Despite the fact that the game developers and the company itself accept the existence and inclusion of these internal expansions.