Quickly, the fairies will likely be upon us because of The Sims 4’s imminent Enchanted by Nature enlargement. However earlier than all that, EA has laid the foundations for its impending pixie mud explosion with a free content material replace – introducing the likes of glass partitions and rooftop vegetation – that is accessible to obtain and muck round with proper now.
Glass partitions – which ought to delight the exhibitionist Sims in your life – will be situated beneath Misc > Wall Patterns in Construct Mode, and do just about precisely what you’d assume, providing your Sims all the outside they may presumably hope for with out them ever needing to go exterior. Alternatively, they may very well be changed into (lethally?) inconspicuous partitions, or paired with glass roofs for that genuine greenhouse look. And people aforementioned rooftop vegetation? Nicely, now you can stick a choose assortment of vegetation on high of your own home. The top.
Away from these new decor bits, EA’s newest replace additionally brings Sim stock enhancements and a pocket book refresh. Gamers now have new methods to kind their stock, as an example, with the default “new” view inserting freshly acquired stuff on the high, however your stash may also be filtered by value, identify, crafting high quality, and rarity. Spoiled meals, in the meantime, get an unmissable crimson background indicator and are grouped into a brand new Spoiled stack.
As for the pocket book – which features a new interface designed to make it simpler to maintain tabs in your family Collections – it now sports activities a refreshed format, class web page enhancements, new discovery badges, and extra. “Whether or not you are jotting down notes on your Sim or exploring distinctive classes,” EA writes, “the pocket book is now extra intuitive and interesting.”
All that arrives alongside an in depth checklist of fixes and enhancements throughout The Sims 4 base recreation and its expansions. With the replace utilized, as an example, Sims ought to not must grapple with the inconvenience of getting rain and snow do their factor indoors, and kids ought to cease going stretchy when trying to play the violin. There’s loads extra the place these got here from, although, as detailed in EA’s announcement publish.
The Sims 4’s newest replace is offered now on all platforms and arrives forward of the sport’s subsequent main paid enlargement, Enchanted by Nature. This launches subsequent Thursday, tenth July, and introduces emotion-hungry fairies (in each kindly and chaotic types) as a brand new supernatural Sim possibility. That is alongside the brand new coastal world of Innisgreen, the place courageous Sims can reside if they do not thoughts luck closely impacting the course of their lives. Chuck in new adventures, abilities, traits, and a brand new mechanic primarily based round emotional stability, and it is fairly a busy one.