Gardening Requires Effort
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All these mods may be used altogether.
Inconvenient gardening mods
With these mods, plot, crop, and orchard tree interactions affect hygiene and comfort motives.
In an unmodded game, they don't.
Interaction statistics:
- plots:
- planting: -4 comfort and -2 hygiene per each interaction
- fertilizing: -4 comfort and -2 hygiene per each interaction
- crops:
- watering: -1 comfort per each interaction
- tending: -30 comfort and -40 hygiene per hour
- spraying: -2 comfort and -10 hygiene per each interaction
- harvesting: -20 comfort per hour
- trees:
- tending: -50 comfort and -30 hygiene per hour
- spraying: -4 comfort and -10 hygiene per each interaction
- harvesting: -40 comfort per hour
- leaf piles:
- raking: -40 comfort and -20 hygiene per hour
Less enjoyable gardening mods
New interaction statistics:
- crops:
- tending: no fun (+10 per each interaction in an unmodded game)
- watering: no fun (+15 per each interaction in an unmodded game)
- harvesting: +10 fun per each interaction (+20 in an unmodded game)
- trees:
- tending: no fun (+10 per each interaction in an unmodded game)
- harvesting: +10 fun per each interaction (+20 in an unmodded game)
Tuning
You can change settings of all these mods by editing their behaviour constants in SimPe.
Conflicts
| My mod | Conflicting mod | Way to resolve |
|---|---|---|
| Inconvenient gardening mods | any mod that changes the same interactions as those affected by my mods | Use HCDU+ to check if the potentially conflicting mod directly conflicts with my mod:
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| Less enjoyable gardening mods | any mod that alters fun or social motive changes caused by crop or orchard tree interactions | Don't use it with my mod. |
Overridden resources
| Resource name | Type name | Group/object name | Type | Group | Instance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-crops | |||||
| Interaction - Harvest | Behaviour Function | GardenGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F383346 | 0x0000200C |
| Interaction - Spray | Behaviour Function | GardenGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F383346 | 0x00002008 |
| Interaction - Tend | Behaviour Function | GardenGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F383346 | 0x00002000 |
| Interaction - Water | Behaviour Function | GardenGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F383346 | 0x00002004 |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-leafPiles | |||||
| Event - Rake | Behaviour Function | Leaf Pile | 0x42484156 | 0x7FA3147D | 0x00001004 |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-plots | |||||
| Interaction - Fertilize | Behaviour Function | Garden - Plot | 0x42484156 | 0x7FC3B745 | 0x00001003 |
| Interaction - Plant | Behaviour Function | Garden - Plot | 0x42484156 | 0x7FC3B745 | 0x00001002 |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-trees | |||||
| Interaction - Harvest | Behaviour Function | OrchardTreeGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F491269 | 0x0000200C |
| Interaction - Spray | Behaviour Function | OrchardTreeGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F491269 | 0x00002008 |
| Interaction - Tend | Behaviour Function | OrchardTreeGlobals | 0x42484156 | 0x7F491269 | 0x00002000 |
| simNopke-lessEnjoyableGardening-crops | |||||
| Tuning - Motives | Behaviour Constant | GardenGlobals | 0x42434F4E | 0x7F383346 | 0x00002010 |
| simNopke-lessEnjoyableGardening-trees | |||||
| Tuning - Motives | Behaviour Constant | OrchardTreeGlobals | 0x42434F4E | 0x7F491269 | 0x0000200E |
New resources
| Resource name | Type name | Group/object name | Type | Group | Instance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-crops | |||||
| Tuning - Motives (Crops) | Behaviour Constant | GardenGlobals | 0x42434F4E | 0x7F383346 | 0x0000201F |
| Tuning - Motives (Crops) | Behaviour Constant Labels | GardenGlobals | 0x5452434E | 0x7F383346 | 0x0000201F |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-leafPiles | |||||
| Tuning - Motives (Leaf Pile) | Behaviour Constant | Leaf Pile | 0x42434F4E | 0x7FA3147D | 0x00001015 |
| Tuning - Motives (Leaf Pile) | Behaviour Constant Labels | Leaf Pile | 0x5452434E | 0x7FA3147D | 0x00001015 |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-plots | |||||
| Tuning - Motives (Plots) | Behaviour Constant | Garden - Plot | 0x42434F4E | 0x7FC3B745 | 0x00001015 |
| Tuning - Motives (Plots) | Behaviour Constant Labels | Garden - Plot | 0x5452434E | 0x7FC3B745 | 0x00001015 |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-trees | |||||
| Tuning - Motives (Trees) | Behaviour Constant | OrchardTreeGlobals | 0x42434F4E | 0x7F491269 | 0x0000201F |
| Tuning - Motives (Trees) | Behaviour Constant Labels | OrchardTreeGlobals | 0x5452434E | 0x7F491269 | 0x0000201F |
Credits
Ciastko
Izenvy
jfade (The Compressorizer!)
Nostural
Creators of SimPe
| Filename | Type | Size |
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| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-crops.zip | zip | |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-crops.package | package | 1380 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
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| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-leafPiles.zip | zip | |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-leafPiles.package | package | 568 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
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| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-plots.zip | zip | |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-plots.package | package | 890 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
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| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-trees.zip | zip | |
| simNopke-inconvenientGardening-trees.package | package | 1268 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| simNopke-lessEnjoyableGardening-crops.zip | zip | |
| simNopke-lessEnjoyableGardening-crops.package | package | 203 |
| Filename | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| simNopke-lessEnjoyableGardening-trees.zip | zip | |
| simNopke-lessEnjoyableGardening-trees.package | package | 203 |
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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Uploaded: 29th Jan 2023 at 1:38 PM
Updated: 16th Mar 2026 at 9:49 AM
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