Iris Memorial Park - no CC graveyard

1. Important technical note

Important note about graves and safety:
All screenshots showing Sims and tombstones were taken on copies of the lot.
The version available for download has never been visited by any Sim and contains no graves or urns.
This lot is completely safe to place in your game.


2. Short lot overview

Iris Memorial Park is a no-CC community cemetery built for practical gameplay use.
Designed to be fully playable, safe, and accessible to Sims, this lot focuses on functionality first, with a clean Maxis Match look.

Is it another graveyard?

Yes, it is another graveyard.
But it was built to actually be used in-game.

3. Why I built this cemetery
Mostly personal reasons, but if you’d like to know, please read



4. Gameplay & Usability

This cemetery was built with one main question in mind: can Sims actually use it?

Sims can properly mourn graves, cry, see ghosts, die of fright, run around, interact with each other, and perform all the usual interactions without routing issues.

All graves can be placed without using move_objects, and the entire lot is built on flat terrain, avoiding the common “steep terrain” problems that often interrupt autonomous actions.

Fences and paths were carefully chosen to allow smooth routing. Decorative fences around flowerbeds are fully passable, and the larger fences near the grave sections are placed in a way that never blocks Sims — they can always find an easy alternative route instead of complaining or giving up their actions.

5. Sims’ Needs & Facilities

This lot was designed to support regular gameplay, not just symbolic visits.

To prevent Sims from losing aspiration (hello, Knowledge Sims afraid of public restrooms) or leaving the lot too quickly, the cemetery includes fully functional restrooms, food and drinks, and basic fun options for different life stages and species (dogs, cats).

There are separate male and female bathrooms, a common indoor area with snacks and coffee, a small kids’ area, and a small space for pets. Outdoor areas also provide room for Sims to walk around, socialize, and spend time on the lot without constantly complaining about unmet needs, plus another pet space.

6. Memorial Park Concept

Iris Memorial Park is not meant to be a gloomy or gothic cemetery.

The idea behind the lot is closer to a Memorial Park: a place where memory and grief share space with calmness, greenery, and a sense of community. Even with literal ghosts haunting the grounds, the environment was designed to feel peaceful rather than heavy.

Families can visit together, children can play, pets can roam, and everyone can spend time remembering the departed without that gloomy, gothic mood during regular gameplay.

7. Capacity & Burial Space

Iris Memorial Park was designed to accommodate a large number of deceased Sims and Pets over long saves.

The lot includes 116 individual grave plots in the outdoor areas and 4 mausoleums with space for 52 urns in total.

* Because this lot was built with no custom content, there is no vanilla object specifically designed to display urns as wall niches. For that reason, the urn spaces inside the mausoleums are placed on coffee tables and end tables.

Players who use appropriate CC can easily adapt these areas to hold even more urns if desired.

8. Design notes & narrative details