I haven't played a true fishing Sim yet, but this sounds inpiring. Thanks.

You are brilliant. A pond at home doesn't look the same without the jumping fish.

My sims like fishing very much, so let me tell tou what they know ('bout fishing home) :

- when you create a pound in your lot, it will allways be filled only w/ the 5 common spicies at the minimum quatity, fishies don't jump out of the water.
- Then, if your sims gets, anywhere (in that pound or else), 10 (ten) fishies of ONE spicie, he can fill his home-pound w/ them (all 10). The original spicies will be wipped, and you have in that pound only the spicie you've just put in, at minumum quatity.
- Your sim can repeat this as much as he doesn't mix salted and sweet spicies ... and the more you fill a pound the more fishies jump ! And you can make your own combinations.

This is just to tell, this is not critisize, but like allmost ALL mods, this one gives immediate access to a normal long lasting ingame feature.

Wish you much fun fishing !

this basically makes a home pond like a premade pond with differant sets of fish. so you dont have to stock your pond to get good fish closer to home

Oh this was sooo needed! I wish I had this when I created my parks. Thank you so much!

Amazing! Just What I Needed!

You're awesome. Now I don't have to buy tons of fish to stock my ponds. Thanks XD

This looks extremely useful, thank you.

Will this take into account any tuning mods we have for the spawners? Or would it perhaps clash with them? I've tuned the spawners for my game (as in, changed the probability for some fish to be caught, removed some of the box contents etc) and I wouldn't want to bork it.

Also, do you know which of the numbered spawners in the XML are used by which of your spawners? I can't find any reference to names lke "Ocean Rare 2" in the XML itself, so this must be defined elsewhere.

No, this wouldn't conflict with any tuning mods. In fact, they should play along so nicely, that your tuning mods will work with my spawners.

As for which spawners are which in the XML, I'm afraid I don't really know, sorry.

No problem -- if they play along, then I'll be able to see that in-game the same way I can now (i.e. just compare the list with what the spawners actually spawn). Thanks for the info.

No matter how many fish I stock the pond with on my home lot, I've never gotten a spot to have fish jumping (ie. when you click that spot and choose "inspect water", the pop-up msg reads something like "this is a great spot to fish. Fish here are very active", instead of "this is a decent spot to fish"). Did you manage to make a spot "a great spot to fish" by repeating stocking the pond with many many fish?

And, I believe you CAN mix salt water and fresh water fish. I've done a couple of times. Perhaps that's the reason why I couldn't get any spot in my pond to have fish jumping?

dlznyc (and also tchoa91), stocking a pond and placing a spawner are two completely different things.

If you want the same behaviour as in the pre-made comm lots and beaches (i.e. "jumping fish" spots that use the "official" spawners), then you need this download. If what you want is just a stocked pond, then all you need to do is .. stock it =). But jumping fish will not appear just because a pond is stocked.

This is exactly what I've been waiting for! Thanks so much! I was dissapointed that I couldn't have fish jumping & a "great spot to fish" in my home ponds. And no, it didn't matter how many of what kind of fish I stocked it with, "jumping fish" would never happen. Now it can!

Thanks !!
though I've already collected all the fishing spawners on my family's inventory by switching community lots to residential and picking them up with 'moveobjects on'.. XD

anyways, looking forward to your insects spawners !!

That's my understanding too. I thought tchoa91 found a way to make a spot with fish jumping by using the stock pond option. Thanks for clarifying it!

Snaitf, if you manage to do this with the insects, gems & seed spawners then our Sims wouldn't always have to leave their home lot to work on their collections!

Nice job!

Thanks for clarifying that. I was having a bit of trouble figuring out what practical purpose these serve. It makes perfect sense now.

I was hoping someone would discover how to place the seeds, fish, insects, and collectibles in the game. This is GREAT news!

Now, I have a question: Can you find and enable the "great view/vista" buff? I'm guessing it is an "add into game" type thing, as well -- but it is more easily deleted, it seems.

I like to make new houses on the choice lots, and then save the houses. By saving them in the library, I lose the buff. I would love to be able to put the buff back into the game on those choice lots. And I'd also like to add a buff or two in Riverview, where some of the rural landscape is, to my eye, just at wonderful.

Oh, Amjoie, it would be so sweet if someone could find that buff!

Snaitf, I have been working on the customization (well, as much as is possible) of a town map and I tend to reach points in that work where I start procrastinating, and one of those points on the lots I'm building is the fact that at some point I was going to have to stop and create a Sim and manually do a whole bunch of this kind of piddly work. Thanks to you, now I won't have to! I'll just go plop a few fish spots in my new park and be done with it. YAY!!

Thank you! My home pond was so boring. Now it'll be great!

Snaitf, you are wonderful for doing this, but am I the only person this doesn't work for? D:

Unless I'm missing something really obvious I assume the extracted .package file goes in mods/packages folder with everything else, right? Someone please tell me if I'm wrong and I'll be on my merry (foolish) way ^_^;

But if that is where the file goes, does anyone have any suggestions as to why this isn't working for me (same problem with Snaitf's other amazing spawners, too)?

What about them is not working? Are they not available to you at all? Can you see them, but not place them? I need specifics...

They should work, I and Srikandi have tested these intesively, so I don't know why they wouldn't work for you.

Unfortunately they're not available to me at all - nothing appears in Rocks category of build mode ('cept the default rocks, obviously!).

I can't imagine what the problem is, the file is definitely in the right place. Game is patched to the most recent version etc. D:

@ Freeze3006 - Try deleting the 4 cache files located in DOCUMENTS/ELECTRONIC ARTS/THE SIMS 3, and if you have a World Caches folder in that same location, delete the files in that folder too. You will only have a World Caches folder if you have any saved games in the 2nd neighborhood called Riverview.

After deleting the cache files start up your game & try to find the mod again. I hope this helps.