Heads Up

Regarding the Future of the Keep

Due to many factors, not just financial, and after careful consideration, it has been decided that Plumb Bob Keep will close its doors on March 1, 2024.

This extra year has been given to us so we can properly archive the site and ensure that the content is still accessible. We will be launching a kickstarter or similar donation drive to repay Stas, Sunni's widower, for this bonus year.

The staff of PBK would like to thank the community as a whole for their amazing creations over the years, the way you all pulled together to help archive the site, and the comraderie and friendship that we have shared as historical simmers.

Looking forward, there are ideas in the works for a new, "spinoff" site where we can continue to host downloads, and the Discord will go on as well, possibly under a new name. We hope many, if not all of you, will make this transition with us.

Thank you again for 12 wonderful years of simming, and for proving that there was definitely enough interest for a forum dedicated to medieval and other historical content!

--The PBK and Discord Mods

Oh, I have that, got it from a second hand game store for like 50 cents, my copy came also bundled with another tool called style factory that is for custom hair meshes. I've used both very briefly, it was a weird tool kinda yeah. My copy doesn't have like a manual, so i don't know if it ever did have one Other than that it seems the copyright is by some company called GedonSoft GmbH.

'the sims 2 fashion factory'

was this a thing? i have no memory of it but if anyone could provide some info

the description says:

A new tool offering easy and fast creation of your own fashion collection and accessories for your Sims. Importing things into the game itself is easier than the blink of an eye. In addition, you can also design your own tattoo and know the latest trends and clothing styles.

Done in collab with wonderful @pforestsims – it's 2024, high time to rework how cameras work in TS2!

With this mod, sims can only take pictures if they have a camera in their inventory. To make this more feasible, the default camera is now buyable under Electronics / Small for §120. (If your sim happens to leave on a vacation without a camera, they can still ask kind locals and tourists to take pictures for them.)

In addition, there are six new functional custom cameras.

For most cameras, you'll need to order the photo with a computer to get a printed version, as is the default behavior.

Instant cameras: With Classic Polaroid and Instax cameras, the photo will be added to your sim's inventory right away. They require the instant photo mesh to work (included with the download). The photos taken with instant cameras can't be ordered with computers.

By default, the instant photo has a clear vignette overlay. You can add a tint to it by clicking the mesh and choosing either blue, green, red, or orange tint from the pie menu. It's also possible to revert it back to being clear.

There are two versions of this mod: the 'cellphone' one makes the cellphone work as a camera and is meant to be used together with my phone default. The cellphone will get picked for taking pictures only if the sim doesn't have another camera in their inventory.

The 'no cellphone' version has all the other functionality but the default cellphone won't work as a camera with it.

📷 Download (SFS) (alternate)

Files are compressed. Requires Bon Voyage and maybe University too. A collection file for the custom cameras is included; you can keep only those that you like, the mod works with or without them.

🚨🚨 Both mod versions conflict with the custom smartphone camera mod by @jellymeduza. The other parts of that smartphone mod are compatible.

This mod is compatible with camera default replacements that don't include an OBJD override, for example this one by @vegan-kaktus works perfectly.

The mirrorless camera was converted from TS4 by @lordcrumps, thank you for sharing the textures! The telephoto camera was converted from TS4 for this project, thank you @deedee-sims for extracting! The DSLR camera was converted for this project as well, from ACNH.

Cottonwood Hills: a Sunset Valley makeover!

The various subhoods (with their lot sizes) can be viewed here.

Scenery pictures here: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.

What’s changed?

Grass and rock textures have been replaced.

Island has been made playable.

Denser residential area lot placement.

Additional or modified lots (including lots suitable for IP gameplay, see subhoods post for details regarding sizes).

Minor road edits.

Replaced all palm trees, mixed cottonwood trees in with the blackgum trees and added various other vegetation.

Added various decoration throughout the world, including signs, traffic lights, billboards etcetera (see scenery pictures for details).

Street names have been altered to match tree theme.

Important notes:

World size: 56.3MB.

This world is empty, unpopulated and tagged as a ‘normal world’!

All lots are empty, except for the waterfall lot (as I didn’t want to mess up the rock placement, so I left it in place).

All of SSV’s routing issues should be fixed, please message me if you come across any problems.

My recent SSV downloads all fit Cottonwood Hills. I will be adding exact locations for Cottonwood Hills to future uploads.

Most original SSV spawners are still in place (with various other spawners added).

Cottonwood Hills has SSV’s original lighting and water resources, as I use Brntwaffles’ lighting mod (Fresh cut day 2.5 with Lucky Palms water).

To build your own diving lot and make it playable, please follow this excellent tutorial (you will find one diving area lot in the ocean, but you can add more in Edit World).

If you’re having trouble placing a lot, but it has the appropriate size: go into buy/build mode on the empty lot, place one object (can be anything), go back to edit town, bulldoze the lot so it’s empty again. You should now be able to place your lot.

Requirements:

Patch 1.55.

Expansions: WA, AMB, LN, PETS, SHT, SPN, UNI, IP.

Store worlds: Monte Vista, Sunlit Tides, Lucky Palms, Lunar Lakes, Aurora Skies.

Download Cottonwood Hills (Sims3pack)

Download Cottonwood Hills (CAW files)

Yep, it's a fact, I helped with the European Portuguese translation for this Fetch Water update, and I'm so glad to have done so, if you notice any issues with it, please feel free to contact me.

Fetch Water - Updates, Optimization and Localization

Fetch Water has been updated and not only does this update come with bug fixes, it also with some nice new goodies!

Fixes

Fixed Seasons Wells flashing blue

Fixed some GUID issues affecting Barnyard Bash

Minor optimization

NEW

Added localization for the following languages: Dutch, EU Portuguese

There is a new water bucket variation available: the water basket:

Many indigenous peoples in the Americas, especially on the North-Western coasts (stretching from Alaska all the way down to Northern California), made and used tighly-woven baskets to store water. The basket shape we used in this case, most resembles watertight baskets woven by the Haida people, residing in Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the coast of Western Canada. Many thanks to June (junipermeadows) for cultural consultation

The Haida Wicker basket requires the dining chair from Basket Weaving. Please remove ALL old files before updating.

Download Fetch Water

View Use/Instruction Manual

Localization

do you speak a language supported by the Sims 2 that has not been translated yet? Do feel free to translate this set. You can download the strings for localization below. Please send them to Fire_flower (fireflowersims) via our Discord or Tumblr. It may take some time to add them and update the set, so be patient.

Download strings for localization

Many thanks to junipermeadows for cultural consultation and to @logansimmingwolverine for the European Portuguese translation!

Sul Sul!

It's me, Eve - or @simping-simmer, as you may know me. I've decided to create this blog in order to make a more comprehensive and accessible resource for those of us who enjoy playing with diverse bodytypes. I will try to update this blog as often as I can but it may slip through my fingers a bit - I work as a teacher, it gets quite busy.

I also personally play with quite a limited range - so things like RenGal, SlimBB, CPU, for example, may be less likely to get reblogged by me because I simply don't use them. However, if there's a bodyshape I have missed new content for, or completely forgotten altogether, please let me know via the ask button!

Anyhow, please enjoy this blog and I hope it proves as a good resource for these different bodytypes!

Happy 20th Birthday, The Sims 2! may we keep having fun for years to come!!

Happy 18th Birthday to the best game in the franchise! You're legal now, The Sims 2!

It’s that time of the year again

Thanks to everyone’s generous efforts last year we Managed to exceed the 400$ Mark, which means that the requirements for this years donation drive have been reduced to reflect that, this year the goal is $313 to cover the website expenses, namely the hosting and domain name costs: You can help The Keep by donating through this years GoFundMe:

gofundme.com

Let's keep The Plumbob Keep going through 2024!, organized by Stanislav Syursin

Hello, my name is Stas, I'm a widower of Sunni, the founder of The … Stanislav Syursin needs your support for Let's keep The Plumbob Keep g

"i'm gonna restart my CC folder🥰🌷✨!!" yes but:

re-downloading thousands of the same pieces you remember downloading not too long ago and getting confused whether you already have them or not (it's a 50/50)

"you will need the meshes here and here and here😘." (this website doesn't exist anymore)

broken links

foreign sites

fuckin adhfly

the TSR 15 seconds of agony per download

"where are those specific blinds i remember downloading in 2009 i can't live without them"

"meshes not included."

30 poly💕 <3

"dress has 80 RECOLOURS😅" (no swatches)

45GB follower gift packages (you only wanted the single carpet))

I ought to start rebloging stuff I might need later rather than just like... like I think my likes tab is a mess

Permanent Quarter-Tile Placement On!

Just wanted to share a tip I know about how to make the Quarter Tile Placement Cheat on all the time so you just have to press Ctrl + F when you want to use it without having to type in a cheat each time.

Many of you may know that adding “setquartertileplacement on” to your userStartup.cheat doesn’t work, so I’m going to tell you where you can put it that does work, in case you didn’t already know!

So, head to Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config and open up the file called “globalProps.xml” with a text editor, I recommend Notepad++. You should probably make a backup of this file first before making any changes, just in case.

In this file, scroll to the bottom and you should see a line that says:

<AnyBoolean key=“quarterTilePlacementEnabled” type=“0xcba908e1”>false</AnyBoolean>

Simply change the false to true and save the file and that’s it! The Quarter Tile Placement cheat will always be on without you having to type it in ever again! Simply toggle it on and off with Ctrl + F!

Hope that helps at least someone! I was telling my friend @morepopcorn​ about this trick and I couldn’t find the website where I initially read about how to do this anymore so she suggested I should make this post as it might not be common knowledge.