While mods and cc have long been a large part of The Sims games for well over a decade, there is not just a larger history of The Sims as a franchise, but for each of its games as well. For that reason, I will only be focusing on the ways custom content creators have created an expanded, more realistic experience of Blackness in The Sims 4. Custom Content, or cc, is similar to mods, but rather than altering the gameplay, they add objects to it. These don’t alter the code of the game like mods do, and thus don’t tend to need to be updated. CC gives you a lot more options to customize your Sims and the world they inhabit, offering new articles of clothing, hairstyles, pieces of furniture, wallpapers, flooring, and more.

Here’s how to install The Sims 4 mods as well as some of the best The Sims 4 mods to try. Email newsletters will contain a brief summary of our top stories, plus details of competitions and reader events. This article has been updated since its original publication. Artist Turns That Awesome Matrix Unreal 5 Showcase sisu human Into ‘Superman’ Flight… Many, many thanks to @MizoreYukii for giving me a role in this project, and to all the other founders for all the long work that went into making this! I came in late to the project but am impressed with how well thought out it is, and everything that went into getting it ready to launch.

The server is not NSFW, so it’s very comfortably open to younger Simmers and those who prefer to stay clear of 18+ content. If you want to dip your toes into CC/mod creation, there’s support for you here too. This engaging mod makes cooking a more challenging and in-depth endeavor by adding many more ingredients. One of the most sought-after improvements in The Sims 4 are those that make your game look more realistic… or put simply, prettier. This has a lot to do with the fact that bathroom and kitchen sinks are just seen as “sinks” by the AI.

This mod makes your Sims’ lives more meaningful , with emotions that reflect real life—a first kiss creates true happiness, while a depressive rut can last for days. Because this mod does so many things, it comes in a series of modules, allowing you to mix and match. If you want to make changes to WooHooing, but don’t care about Occult Sims at all, you can get the WooHoo module and not download the Occult one. I’ve always downloaded all of them, however, as each part of this mod makes background changes to the game that I find makes the game flow more smoothly, and my stories more interesting. I don’t ever touch the pregnancy settings, for example, but when I play the game without MC Command Center, the Sims I’m not playing won’t get pregnant.

While her Black-influenced creations cover various areas of Sims cc, from poses to decoration, I always went to her for her hairstyles. Given that hair is one of the most significant aspects of Blackness to me, I needed better curly options to make a sim that looked anything like me, or relatives, or what I aspired to. Ebonix Sims had dozens of options, including children’s hair designed to look like Riley and Huey from The Boondocks. Insert some joke about EA only offering us Bomb Wave Cream style hair, and creators like Ebonix or Sheabuttyr offering us something sensible here. In fact, Sheabuttyr’s tumblr even has an option to sort hair by textures, such as curly, afro, twists, or locs.