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Woodspell Springs (No Sims Neighborhood, No CC,OFB only)
A picturesque town nestled by a mountain lake, complete with 58 community and residential lots for your Sims. Most community lots can be bought and run as a business, and three residential lots (Spring Run) are already set up as a home business.
No Sims are in this neighborhood. It is clean, has never been played and is ready for you to use. No custom content is required and the only expansion needed is Open For Business for N555 or B555. M555 requires OFB and Bon Voyage. You have the option of downloading the main hood, N555, the business subhood, B555, or the mountain vacation hood, M555. Installation notes below.
UPDATE: Upon request, I have made this neighborhood into a mountain vacation hood, M555. The Woodspell Spiritual Retreat is now a hotel. I fixed The Love Shack floor with terrain paint. Lots that had phone boxes have had the boxes fixed so Tour Guide doesn't get stuck inside. There is no secret community lot and there are no custom sims. Sims are not dressed in mountain clothing so locals aren't recognisable and you'll have to wait and see who you can learn Chest Pound or Slap Dance from. You cannot get any mountain vacation memories here. That would be a whole new project...
I'd love to see your pictures and suggestions in the comments!
Legend says a tunnel was dug into the mountain by two lovers secretly meeting. One tragic night, a jealous suitor saw them sneak inside, then riled the town to block the "dangerous" tunnel. Since then, it's said purple flowers bloom where the lovers' spirits pass, guiding lovers so they do not culminate with the same fate.
Introduction!
Welcome to Woodspell Springs! Sign in our guestbook at the Town Hall and listen to our citizens complain about taxes while admiring the lavishly decorated mayor's office! Feel free to visit our many attractions like...
Union Gardens, where lovers make their vows and promise to be together until death, financial reasons, infidelity, or any other change, do them part!
The Love Shack, filled with the stench of teen hormones and no deodorant in sight!
The Invincible Dreams Library, where you won't lack books, but motivation!
Description!
This picturesque town is filled with 29 furnished community lots, 25 mostly unfurnished residential lots, and 4 empty lots. All lots are original and lot designs are based on online searches. The neighborhood design is consistent, such as similar architecture in close groups of houses, and paths between community lots making it feel like an open world.
There are two main sections - the town itself, and across the lake there's a small farming area with 4 empty lots.
You will need...
Open For Business expansion pack for N555 or B555.
Open For Business and Bon Voyage expansion packs for M555. Gunmod's Camera Hack to use this neighborhood.
N555:
Extract to (your relevant pathway) My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 and the map will automatically go into SC4Terrains and the neighborhood will go into the Neighborhoods folder. If you are prompted to combine folders, click yes.
B555:
B555 is a business subhood. Extract the folder B555 to your relevant pathway which is most likely this:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Open For Business\TSData\Res\NeighborhoodTemplate
Then cut the SC4Terrains folder from NeighborhoodTemplate and paste it into My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2. It will combine with the SC4Terrains folder already there so now you have the custom terrain.
M555:
This is a mountain vacation subhood. Extract M555 to your relevant pathway which is most likely this:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Bon Voyage\TSData\Res\NeighborhoodTemplate
Then cut the SC4Terrains folder from NeighborhoodTemplate and paste it into My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2. It will combine with the SC4Terrains folder already there so now you have the custom terrain.
NOTE: When you are adding an extra mountain/east/island vacation hood, only the custom sims from the first mountain/east/island hood are created. So, make sure you add whatever mountain vacation hood first with sims you want. This hood has no custom sims. Any sims in extra mountain/east/island hoods will delete and leave junk references that can corrupt your hood in the future. There is a method to keep all sims here (it says it's for Downtown but it's the same for vacation hoods).
Lot Sizes/Quantites!
Total Residential Lots: 25 built lots and 4 empty lots. Total Community Lots: 29 built lots. Total Number of Lots: 58
1 Spring Run
$68,625
5 bed, 3 bath, home business with public toilets, basic semi-furnished.
2 Spring Run
$52,363
8 bed, 4 bath, garden, home business with public toilets, basic semi-furnished.
3 Spring Run
$63,328
6 bed, 4 bath, garden, home business with public toilets, basic semi-furnished.
Community Lot Descriptions!
Open/Closed signs and phones are on all businesses.
For each community lot, I spent roughly $10,000 making public areas. For your storytelling, if you like, use a money cheat to add $10,000 to your family if you're buying a community lot so you are technically paying for the private property instead of the public property.
Be aware your business records however may account for the total cost, without taking away $10,000. If you choose not to add $10,000 to account for public areas, perhaps this is a council tax your sims have to pay to help maintain the public areas.
Woodspell Gardens
$38,123
Chess tables, BBQ, swings, garden. Free entry. Come to Woodspell Gardens where you'll find chess tables, a barbeque, swings and a beautifully conserved garden.
Screaming Radio Music
$45,000
Sells pianos and stereos. Bathroom, seating area. Feeling an itch to slam the keys, strum chords or sing off-key to hit tunes on the radio? All your musical needs will be met at Screaming Radio Music!
Wooden It Be Nice Cafe
$56,558
Bar and restaurant. Bathrooms, seating area. Craving for a woody tea, woody coffee, woody latte, or a woody meal, made with the finest local woody ingredients? Find out about our top-secret ingredient by visiting us today!
Visual Eyes
$87,497
Movie theatre. Bathrooms, three theatres, arcade games, seating area. All the latest movies are screened on the best screens with less-than-best seating. Don't miss out the next big blockbuster, shown here only a few months after its premiere in other theatres!
Ali Barber
$50,390
Hair salon. Bathrooms, magazine rack, seating area. One day, Ali Baba was cutting wood from the forest, and overheard thieves visiting their treasure store. He decided he would rather not get involved, so he opened a hair salon and cut hair instead!
Examination Automatons
$38,895
Robot store. Bathrooms, staff room, work room. Beep-boop-beep! I am a robot. I am here to serve you! Bzzzooo...
The Marching Owl
$42,953
Toy store. Bathrooms, staff room, work room. Maybe your kids need more distactions? Maybe you need leverage for bribing them to complete their homework? You'll find nothing better than The Marching Owl toy store!
Dapper Dress
$98,065
Clothes store. Bathrooms, changing room, magazine rack, seating area. Want to impress that special someone? Want to wear the coolest, latest threads? You'll find all of last season's fashions right here, at Dapper Dress!
Tireless Toddler
$42,901
Baby and toddler store. Bathrooms with changing table, countertop game display, game rack. Toddlers screaming? Babies pooping? Children throwing tantrums? We understand your pain. Come here and find ways to pacify your bundle of terror.
The Empty Quest Pub
$99,360
Restaurant, bar. Bathrooms, beer garden, staff room. Authentic pub food served here with a relaxing bar and beer garden, for when you want to drink away your troubles, again and again and again and again...
Lawn Order
$48,601
Garden center. Bathrooms, staff room, work room, back garden. The hedges need to be trimmed, flowers need to be watered, weeds need to be removed. It seems like an endless list of tasks, but Lawn Order will help you tidy that garden fast and bring it back into shape!
Planet of the Grapes
$46,162
Green grocer's. Bathrooms with changing table, countertop game display, game rack, magazine rack. An apple a day keeps the doctor away! So does broccoli, sweetcorn, kale, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumber, olives, spinach, arugula, and maybe ice cream. Maybe. Why not test it and find out?
The Love Shack
$19,495
Hang out/romance spot. BBQ, chess, books, bed, toilet, telescopes. Have a special someone but your pocket money isn't enough for a hotel? Then come to the love shack to fill your teenage hormonal demands!
Woodspell Gallery
$161,312
Art gallery. Magazine rack, game rack. Toilets. Everyone needs a break to look and appreciate life in its many forms, whether that's sculpture, art or looking in the mirror.
Woodspell Pond
$12,958
Pond, swings, BBQ. Come here and relax at the lovely pond, eat a delicious burger, or get stuck in one of the swings.
Invincible Dreams Library
$130,197
Books, computers, chess, magazine rack, game racks, piano practice room, toilets. Loaded with books and computers, magazines and games, and even a piano practice room and chess, you'll never lack ideas, but always motivation, at Invincible Dreams Library!
Stairway To Leaven
$76,106
Bakery, restaurant, groceries, toilets. There's a baker who's sure all that glitters is browned pastry, and they insist you buy a loaf of bread. With a word, you can get baked treats and raw ingredients, but don't forget to buy a meal from the cafe!
Glowing Mirror Gym
$75,398
Exercise machines, running track, punching bags, obstacle course, mirrors, TVs, bookshelf and computer, toilets, showers, magazine rack, clothes rack. Flex those abs and squat that butt, whether it's 10% or 50% fat! You gotta work it, get healthy, then admire your sweaty, stinky work in the mirror!
The Ugly Fish Tank
$64,984
Indoor windowed pool, outdoor pool, hot tubs, toilets, one shower. Want people to watch you through a window as you swim around? Insist being in the water adds 10 pounds? Then prove your point and imagine being a fish at The Ugly Fish Tank!
Woodspell Real Estate Office
$82,521
Consultation rooms, reception area, waiting area, research area, computers, magazine and game racks, toilets. Have you worked for generations and you're now too rich? Perhaps you've bought every item in the catalogue? Maybe your fortune desires are not quite satiated? Then come here and throw your money at real estate!
Mellow Rest Java
$51,217
Restaurant, bar, toilets. Make sure you get your 8 hours of coffee per day at the Mellow Rest Java!
Stony Brook Market
$39,013
Open air market. Sells buy mode objects. Make a great addition to your junk at home at the Stony Brook Market!
Turquoise Fields Garden Center
$36,886
Build/buy plants, florist's bench, toilets. Want to buy a beautiful green plant then cry as it withers later despite your best attempts to care for it? Then come to Turquoise Fields Garden Center!
Woodspell Memorial Graveyard
$53,446
Graveyard and mausoleum. Place your loved ones to rest here at the graveyard or mausoleum.
Raging Llama of Doom Arcade
$71,016
Pinball machines, toy cars, TVs with games, computers, magazine and game rack. Satisfy your trigger finger with our games, including Flappy Llama, Angry Llama, Pac-Llama, Llamacraft, World of Llama, Super Llama Bros, Grand Theft Llama, and The Elder Llama V: Llama!
Sunny Hog Pet Store
$45,664
Fish tanks, magazine and game racks, BBQ area, bathtubs for washing pets with pets EP. Can remove fish tanks and replace with other pets if you have the Pets EP. Want to care for someone but can't get a date or any friends? Then get a pet which has no choice but to be your friend!
Woodspell Spiritual Retreat
$91,631
Non-profit retreat where tired sims can rest. 6 bed, 5 bath, living room and kitchen, piano, easel, exercise machine, BBQ, lake. Can run the kitchen as a restaurant.
BV Version:
$92,597
Hotel with shared bathrooms. 6 bed (1 double, 2 2*singles, 3 1*singles), 5 bath. Does your sim need to relax and take some time away after a tough day? Take them here where they can sleep, eat and live with other sims where they can share all that space they need to themselves.
Woodspell Town Hall
$442,788
Press room, conference room, two courtrooms, four consultation rooms, research room, public toilets, employee toilets and showers, mayor's office and private bathroom and breakroom. May take a while to save/load. Complain about how your tax simoleons are wasted here, while admiring the lavishly decorated mayor's office, consultation rooms, press room, conference room or research room!
Union Gardens
$57,194
Wedding arch in a chapel. Garden. Make your vows here and promise to be together until death, financial reasons, infidelity, or any other change, do you part.
Known "Bugs":
- The community lot "The Love Shack" has a white floor. I have no idea why it has a white floor. It should be grass. You can fix this by editing the lot and adding terrain paint that looks like grass.
- The backdoor of the Invincible Dreams Library kind of disappears but sims can still use it. This is because the lamps either side were positioned using boolprop snapobjectstogrid false. You can reposition the door and lamps to fix it.
- There is an extra floor tile above the door, on the second floor of the Real Estate Office. Sorry!
- Sims can dive into the indoor pool at The Ugly Fish Tank and can climb out using the ladder, but seem to dislike climbing in using the ladder.
- Let me know any other issues you find in the comments!
Additional Credits:
Thanks to all the people who created nice houses that I saw when I was searching online for inspiration. Thanks to the random name generators that created punny lot names.
Thanks to all the extra programs and programmers, like the Lot Adjuster and Lot Compressor by Mootilda and Any Game Starter by Numenor.
I used two fixes by nopke: skyFix and Sim Shadow Fix. skyFix makes the sun and moon appear in the sky, while shadow fix fixes the black boxes that appeared around sims with certain new graphics cards when trying to run TS2. You do not need these in your game to make this neighborhood work, it is only for aesthetics.
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