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Venue Lot Traits for Custom Venues
🕑 Added 2025-11-30 15:18:21 +0000 UTCA set of Lot Traits that enable venue-specific behavior for any lot you want.
I have an entire set of posts explaining what Venues do.
Now that we have custom venues, we can remake venues with more detail or special behaviors...but we've lost some of those special features the EA venues come with. For example, Socially Awkward Sims consider a Bar to be intimidating. But they won't consider any Custom Venue to be intimidating.
Well, now they will- because I've made a suite of Lot Traits that add "Venue Behavior" to your custom venues.
(Example: This Sim is having a bad social experience at...a retail venue?)
You can use these traits to enhance your Custom Venues to have EA default behavior they otherwise don't get! And because they are Lot Traits, you don't actually have to use them on the "right" venue. You can put this Socially Awkward trait on any venue you want, go nuts.
Note that these ONLY do what is described. There are still venue features that you need to use EA Venues for- these just supplement your custom venues. For example, Museums have many art viewing/assessing/etc interactions that afford special buffs...you won't get those by using these traits. You'll still need to make a proper Museum for that.
Available Lot Traits:
Lovestruck Bar, Gym, Library, Museum, and Park
Allows use of special Lovestruck venue interactions, such as complimenting workout form, kissing by bookshelves, making out in the great outdoors, etc.
Archaeologically Interesting
Causes a positive moodlet for Museum Patron Sims. (Requires Jungle Adventure)
Mundane
Causes a negative moodlet for Adrenaline Seeker Sims. (Requires Snowy Escape)
Socially Intimidating
Causes a negative moodlet for Socially Awkward Sims. (Requires High School Years)
Dance Time
Causes a positive moodlet for Dance Machine Sims. (Requires Get Together)
Climate Controlled
Sims are immune to Temperature here. (Requires Seasons)
I will probably add more of these at another time. Obviously this doesn't cover everything- Venues are pretty complex. But a lot of the other special things Venues do are already covered by the Custom Venue system, especially determining what kinds of Sims show up and which activities are prevalent.
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Comments
Intern Waffle
Yeah, making those things work is a lot more complicated because they're handled pretty deeply in the core venue systems. You can't really just move them over. But that also means that there's still value in having normal EA versions of venues, and making your custom ones more specialized and weird!
Piitii
That's so cool! This will go a long way in bringing those features together. Having to choose between a custom lot and the old functionalities (like your modded interactions, but also karaoke contests, talent contest, things like that) makes me a bit sad. I find it frustrating that you can supposedly tune a Lounge exactly how you want it, but important functionality like the talent show will be gone. This makes up for it a little :) thanks!
its-opheliasgarden
Thanks so much! Trying to make a multi lot fxn with custom venue ft and these will come in handy
