The school system in The Sims 4 is seriously boring with your kids just going to school, coming home, and doing their homework. It can get extremely repetitive especially if you’ve been playing The Sims 4 since it launched in 2014.
Thankfully, modders are always able to add exceptional depth and detail into the game and school mods are no different. These mods add things like after school activities, the ability to drop out, and so much more.
1. After School Activities
The after school activities mod created by Kawaii Stacie is a great mod because it will give your child or teenaged sims something to do after school, since most of the time it’s just homework, dinner, and then bed.
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There are over 30 after school activities for your sims to participate in that will happen every single weekday at 4PM and this is in addition to Scouts or Drama Club that are in some of the packs.
The types of activities your sims can participate in include things like kpop club, party planning club, gaming club, chess club, and more. The best part is that each of these after school activities will allow your sims to earn skills in those particular subjects (i.e., video gaming skill for the gaming club).
2. Cheat Highschool Performance Mod
The cheat teen highschool performance mod is an extremely simple but effective one that will allow you to stop spending so much darn time finishing your teenaged sims homework so you can enjoy their lives a bit more.
This mod will let you cheat to get your teens homework done immediately and will bring their school performance bar to the highest level without having to put in the work.
3. Drop Out of High School & Get a Job
The drop out of highschool and get a real job mod by telford is a great option if you just want a sim to not spend their entire teen lives in High School. In addition to letting your sims drop out of school, this mod will let your teen sims start any adult career that you have in the game.
This type of mod is extremely useful for different story lines and having sims who may be teenaged parents who are no longer in school. It is seriously fun to mix things up!
4. Early Exit from School
The early exit mod is an extremely simple one that gives your high performing kids and teens more free time. A sim who has an F in school will have to stay at school until 4PM, a sim with a D to B will stay until 2PM, and sims who have an A in school are able to go home at 1PM giving them way more free time.
5. Education System Bundle
The education system bundle by KawaiiStacie takes four of their most popular school mods and mixes them together allowing you to have a really great school experience.
This mod includes a few awesome mods including a preschool mod (enrolls toddlers in preschool), the better schools mod (giving you skill building and interactions at school), the smarter homework mod (letting you build skills while doing homework) and finally, online schooling allowing your sims to take school from home.
6. Elementary School Mod
This elementary school mod works in conjunction with the go to school mod that we’ll talk about in a few. This mod adds a full elementary school for your sims to go to, including an alchemy lab, classrooms, headmaster’s offices, and so much more. It can really make the going to school experience more streamlined and fun for your sims.
7. Genius Teens Can Apply to University
If you have The Sims 4: Discover University you’ll definitely want this mod. It will allow you to let teenagers go to University if they meet a requirement. This can be any sim with a genius trait, or a sim who finished elementary school with an A or currently have an A in high school.
This is really great because you can get a jump start on University without having to wait until your sim is a young adult giving you a chance to spend less of their adult lives in school.
8. Go to School Mod Pack
The go to school mod pack by Zerbu is one of the best school mods available. This mod adds the ability to actually go to school with your sim, including going to different classes with different subjects which makes it so much more fun.
There will be an actual teacher standing at the front of the room teaching the children and your sims are going to be able to earn skills and even unlock special aspirations if they are doing well enough. Overall, just a really great and in-depth mod if you want to change the way school feels for your sim’s kids.
9. Meet Sims Faster and Gain School Performance
One of the most annoying things about school in The Sims 4 is that if you choose for your sims to meet new friends while at school they are going to lower their school performance while making friends.
Thankfully, this mod adds just a small quality of life change where your sims are able to meet sims more quickly as well as gaining performance so you can still make friends without doing poorly in school.
10. No Goals Needed for School
The no goals needed for school mod will make it so your sims no longer have to do homework or gain any skills for school. This is going to unlock so much time for your sims to do hobbies or spend time with their families after school instead of grinding their time on homework or skill gains.
11. No Grade or Highschool From the Start
The no grade or highschool mod does just that, makes it so none of your sims have to go to school anymore. This can be interesting for different storylines, like if you want to act like you were homeschooling your sim’s kids or if school didn’t exist.
12. No University Housing Restrictions
The no university housing restrictions mod is a simple but great one that can make your life in the University dorms so much better. Currently, in the game you can move into the dorms when you’re in University and at these dorms you can’t have a stove or grill, meaning you have to go to the University commons to eat anything.
This simple mod removes those restrictions allowing you to set up a full kitchen and be able to cook meals at your own pace and not wait for the commons to start serving food.
13. Playable School Events
The playable school events mod by Kawaii Stacie is a fun one! This mod allows you to go to school with your sims. This doesn’t make it happen for everyday, but you get to choose specific days that you want the event to take place, giving you full control.
There is even event rewards that will give you a higher chance of promotion in school depending on how well you do that day. There is even an option to send your kids to private school which will cost you a few simoleons per day.
14. Preschool Mod
Do you ever wonder what you’re supposed to do with your pesky toddlers during the day while you’re at work and the older kids are at school? Well, KawaiiStacie’s preschool mod has the answer. It allows you send your toddlers to preschool between the hours of 8AM and 12PM giving you a couple of hours without your toddlers.
15. Quit or Rejoin School Mod
The quit or rejoin school mod by Triplis gives your sims the option to quit school at any time, without making it so they aren’t able to rejoin if they want. This is nice because it can make is so you can have a few days off school and then reenter whenever you choose.
16. Required Degree for Careers
The required degree for careers mod by Zero is awesome but awful because it forces you to earn a degree for most careers before you are able to join them. No more full-on doctors without a degree!
This means that you’ll need to get a completed degree done, so you have to have The Sims 4: Discover University in order to play. I love this mod because it feels extremely real and more like real life than just joining any career immediately out of high school.
17. Simston Private School Mod
One of my favourite parts about The Sims 2 was calling up the headmaster and trying to get your sims into private school. The Simston Private School Mod gives your sims in The Sims 4 that same opportunity.
You’ll be able to invite over the private school headmaster and you’ll need to convince them to let you into their school. This mod even makes it so your school day starts at 7 instead of 8 because private school kids are no joke.
18. Teens Jump to University
The teens jump to university mod by Zero allows your teen sims to go to University if they are doing well in school, however, it is not guaranteed. It will have a random likelihood of happening and it will just appear as a pop-up that comes from the school, so you don’t get to choose it, making it a bit more fun.
19. University – Sheldon L Cooper Program
The Sheldon L Cooper Program allows your teenaged sims to apply for scholarships to help them pay for University. You can get scholarships for 5,000 or 15,000 and there is even a night school for your sims to attend to get their grades up and earn a scholarship.
20. Willow Creek High School
This willow creek high school is another mod that you need to have the Go to School mod we spoke about earlier to use. This is just another highschool lot for your sims to attend that will make things feel a bit different and give you a different experience. It includes, a botanical garden, computer rooms, a library and so much more.
Final Thoughts
Adding mods to your school experience in The Sims 4 can seriously make the game so much more fun. I am obsessed with school mods because playing with kids in the game is so repetitive and boring since all they do is go to school and work through the same four children’s aspirations over and over again. Happy Playing!
The Sims game is a very interesting one to play, this article is going to list out some of the mods which you can use to enjoy and update your game.
Most times keeping track of mods that are working is something hard to do because some mods haven’t been tended to in years, sometimes the main game updates break them or add extra features that make the mods obsolete.
Having that in mind, here is an updated collection of the to 22 best mods for the Sims 4, up to date and ranges from the little and tiny to the life-changing.
Our List Of Best Sims 4 Mods
Be sure that you do not miss out in reading the installation guides and instructions for each of these mods, also try to check if there are any conflicts so as to make sure that you are not running two mods that would clash.
Custom food interactions
This mod is good if you want more culinary creativity, the Custom Food Interactions mod is the only recommended place you could start.
It however, doesn’t add any new ingredients or recipes to the already existing ones in the game—it only adds new possible interactions to your cooking equipments and along with an updated menu framework that lets you make a fridge full of interesting meals from other modders’ kitchens.
With this mod installed, you can move on over to the ModTheSims custom food section and pick from the menu. Right there you will find recipes for each and everything, all from Chinese dumplings to beignets, blueberry cheesecake to biriyani.
You could also grab an optional bib to make sure you don’t accidentally pour saliva on your keyboard while salivating.
Building your own houseboat
If you ever get tired of living on land this mod allows you to take to water, it transforms decorative boat models in the game into full-on houseboats.
They look quite pretty but the spaces can be a bit limited which means that you’ll have to get creative as to what kind of furniture you try to pack into them. If you are a minimalist designer this is really a good choice.
If you also have the outdoorsy feeling, then this particular mod can help you to add a custom fishing location just by the side of your home.
Emotional Inertia
The Sims game has a lot of emotional bunch, in fact their moods flip within seconds like a light switch. Just by doing the simplest kind of activities like; having an good meal in a room that is well decorated would fill them with the most joy for a few hours, but then the feeling dosent last, it will vanish.
If this is not what you really like, or you just think that the system is just somehow too easy to control, then this is the right mod you should download, the Emotional Inertia.
It makes emotions to be more meaningful: emotions now last longer and become harder to override and then it would require more to reach the upper ranks of each of the emotions.
You will no longer have a problem whether your Sims are up or down, which makes your gaming feel a bit more like real they are real people.
Get a job Mod
This modders adds new careers to the ModTheSims every week. so if you’re ever looking to explore for inspiration or on which direction to steer your Sim in, then try to give it a browse.
The imagination behind these careers are impressive, most of which gives you a fully-fleshed out path to follow. Whether you want to become a bowling champ, a cook, a game developer, an engineer, a professional hacker or an investigator, you can now follow your dreams.
Become a Sorcerer
Do you ever miss the magic of previous Sims games? The become a Sorcerer mod adds a hearty serving of the supernatural, it lets your Sims sling magic spells which can either suck the sadness out of a friend or take down an enemy with a bolt of lightning or fire balls.
The mod requires you to touch lump of clay, then choose one of three available rituals—they will determine which of the Needs that would be replaced with new magical ones.
Using the magic frequently helps strengthen your powers which unlocks new spells only that it also depletes your “Magical Connection” (your mana bar, basically), which you can replenish by draining another sim or yourself.
Being an evil or good sorcerer depends on your choices, if you lean towards good or evil, which changes the kinds of spells you can cast.
If you choose doing good, you can eventually bring back ghosts to life, but if you feel that doesn’t sound like fun, just set everywhere on fire instead. This is a sure way to liven your game up if you are bored.
New personality traits
The Sims 4 has long list of traits which can change the way a Sim behaves, and because this lists makes it relatively easy for modders to create you can as well quickly expand that list through a custom content.
The Gamer trait, for example, which allows Sims to improve their gaming skills and also their programming skills faster, while the Functional Robots group of traits allows you to spawn human-machine hybrid Sims,
There are a lot of individual traits that are available on ModTheSims, another option is to grab pre-made packages of traits. It will make your Sims natural barmen, sales people, dancers etc.
True Happiness
The main idea behind this mod from roBurky is to help make your Sims’ happiness “natural, meaningful, and somewhat personal”. In the normal gameplay, ‘happy’ is everyone’s default state, but with the help of this mod your Sims will just be simply ‘fine’ most of the time.
The happiness can come whern something really special happens to them, things such as meeting a new partner, ripping through a good workout or eating a tasty meal. These various events, which are of course many, will make the game realistic by boosting their mood for a while.
The ‘fine’ mood doesn’t mean the characters of the game would look grumpy though.
Old French Village
Bring the antiquity to the Sims 4 with this beautiful and charming mod. You can have a village of old-fashioned cottages. The houses to choose from are ten houses which varies in grandeur as well as a pub and café for when your Sims feel peckish.
Somehow, one of the mods-modder catdenny has made the village by using only default assets that can be gotten from the game, which is also very impressive.
It actually means that there are slight variations in each style, but if you are a great fan of European architecture then this mod would probably won’t bug you. It sure just a nice place to live.
You can even add the village in ‘Manage Worlds’, but this will only fit in 64×64 vacant lot. Sadly, the plots in the game are not big enough which leaves you with the option of travelling to Brindleton Bay (part of the Cats & Dogs expansion) or Windenburg (from Get Together) to find such a viable plot.
Get to college
The simmythesim’s Get to College mod have been mentioned before because it sure fills a gap that those who played The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 will noticeably feel. The mod however, have not been updated in a long time now, but luckily another modder has saved us by coming along to have this mod patched.
For now this mod only allows you pick one of three majors, carry out related activities and attend lectures, and study to get a good grade.
We hope that maybe one day we’ll get an official university expansion for The Sims 4, but If at all the mod doesn’t work for you, then this University Career mod is a recommended alternative, only thing is that it does not allow you to visit the classroom.
There are other mods to check out like the out Zerbu’s Go to School mod for those who are really interested in the academic lives of their younger Sims. You just have to make sure that you add a new Elementary School or High School to the neighbourhood for it to work.
Less ‘Musical Chairs’
This mod might sound boring, but if you agree with me, the sims’ seating habit is so weird. Another annoying part is how the move around whenever you are having conversations; whenever there are several Sims involved in a normal conversation it can look like an elaborate game of Musical Chairs.
Shimrod101 has helped to build a mod that fixes that, making it more real and likely that Sims will just stay put during discussions.
Turbo Careers
This is another mod from Zerbu, the Turbo Careers mod makes all adult careers function just like the active careers from the Get to Work expansion.
You can try downloading work venues from the Gallery also including ones with a combined function, or better still make your own. You just make sure that the right objects are available for the sims to do their job.
Some of the necessary activities in a career progression that are naturally related to the career—training, cooking, exercising—are available. A sim who is an athlete can go to the gym, one who is a musician can go for an audition or even receive field work for engineers
Heights
The height mod lets you to spawn Sims of different stature and also alter how tall they are. The GODJUL1 allows you to adjust the height of your sims to create a natural feel of variations to your sims world.
All you have to do is click and drag their feet which is found in the create-a-sim to either stretch or shorten their heights.
Replacement paintings
If your sim is an artist and have done up to five paintings a day or in a week, the same images start coming up over and over again.
This mod which is from DaisyTighfield helps to replace all the default paintings and cuts across all categories, it replaces them with images from around the web, interestingly it features lots of fan art from trending and popular movies and also video games.
If you fall in love with the photos, you can look up the links that are provided in order to find the original images on websites like Deviantart or other sites. You can even follow instructions on the mod page to create your own masterpieces for your Sims to paint in-game
Gender Preference mod
This Mod has a way of letting you change the preferences that your Sims have for their romantic partners of specific genders although in the sims 4 there are just two genders.
All you have to do for this Gender Preference Mod is adjusting the numbers so as to set your Sims to prefer one gender over the other, you could prefer one over the other or like both of them.
Risky WooHoo
This is another mod that brings The Sims closer to reality and is from the PolarBearSims. The sim gives the females who WooHoo a chance instead of expressly Try for Baby and still fall pregnant.
The mod allows you to adjust from a variety of different percentage risks where you can adjust the chances which are based on where your Sims are getting it and also the traits that these sims possess. The mod tweaks other aspects like pregnancy, introducing complications and possibly the infertility for some Sims.
One thing to take not is that the chances of getting pregnant can be manually adjusted in the MCCC and Risky WooHoo mod is also compatible with that mod.
The only difference is that the MCCC will overwrite the percentage chances. One thing to try out if you feel you want to change the game even more is to explore the Create a Sim ‘custom gender settings’ found in the base game.
They have been updated in the sims 4 and provides you with more options such as allowing couples who are of the same sex to fall pregnant. There are also other pregnancy mods you can download like the artulwww’s Pregnancy Mega Mod, which lets you do things like give birth to twins, quintuplets as many as possible.
Bills, Bills, Bills
This is a sim 4, best mod, a mod that you must have if you ever feel like making your family to feel the effect of having tremendous bills every week.
It is good if you want an added challenge to your game as the modder promises it will add more challenge without going to the extreme or being too ridiculous.
It makes the game realistic because in the sims 4, it is always easy anytime to pay the bills of the house. This particular mod become a point of contention for most gamers since the game becomes much more easier if you have a job that pays you so well.
New Traits!
There are a lot of trait slots that have been provided by modders for our sim families, this mod is available and important if you really want to go along with these additional trait slots that your sim can now hold.
For example, do you a sim who is absent-minded to be dazed by default? Then download the Sims 4 Traits Absent-Minded mod! Or maybe there is this Sim you are making who is a pleasure seeker but gets bored automatically in no time unless they keep doing things that are fun at all times?
Do your Sim seem like the really “hard to impress” Sim? It is okay, all you have to do is download the Rejoice Arrogant people and You will be able to get embarrassed after each failure you experience with the Arrogant Trait mod!
Want to be an ironic lover of things? Be one who professes hep attitudes or tastes (hipster). Be the hot and ever attractive sim? Then try the attractive trait mod or the optimist/cynic and also catch some paranoia or be socially awkward then still try out the New Traits mod, it is crazy, there is even this one among the traits that allows you to add 100 new traits all in one.
So if you want to play around some new traits all at once. this mod for sure will let you add more traits that you need all at a time but mostly three traits at a time: it is easy you just have to type a quick cheat code and also include the name of your desired trait that you wish to add it to your Sim. Everything is explained on the mod page.
You can keep checking for new traits, because this mod is always updated every month. You could also read a guide for the best sims 4 mods if that is necessary for you.
Carry Over Lifetime Skills Mod
Are you tired of having your toddler who upon all the possible skill all maxed out becomes a moron immediately they age up? Yeah that dumb and annoying, but no need to bother yourself because that does no longer have to be the case.
Just like it happens in reality, your sim can work hard enough up to their skills as a toddler and still have all these skills when they become kids.
An example that the creator of this mod gave to make things clear. If you by any means increase both the mental and creativity skills as child, the mod will help you maintain those skills as a teen, not just that, you are going to enjoy a bonus boost to your handiness skill too
Normally, whenever you level up all the skills of both your toddler and child, they will then add points into the important and appropriate skill when they are grown.
Sims 4 Child Mods Folder
There is an outline too where you can check how these skills are split up. This mod makes it possible for you not to be able to lose all your progress made as a toddler it should be an instant addition in our mods for Sims 4 game.
Have Some Personality Please!
One can easily say the way the sims’ personality work is a huge overhaul. It always varies a lot in the background (as you can read over the exhaustive list of description in the mod page) but the best thing so far about this is that it tries as much as possible to eliminate all the idle conversations in the sims’ game.
There would be never a time when two sims will blab without aim to each other, or blab for nothing in particular: instead, the mod will help them to choose an interaction that is far more interesting than the initial.
Sims 4 Mods Child Support
Another interesting feature about this mod is that it does not just select the interactions at random, rather it selects them based on traits, the current mod of the sim and surprisingly the existing relationships between these two sims in question.
This in fact gives your gaming experience a greater sense of reality and also a sense of autonomy than before. You would expect much more love kisses from lover interests and even “you suck” punches to any of your enemies.
Sims 4 Child Mods Folder
MC Command Center
This is one of my best mod, it lets you to play around virtually with your sims’ lives which gives you control over them and also others in their world.
You can put certain clothing items on blacklist, this can be done even on the sim that you are not controlling. Categories like employment rates for sims of respective ages, pregnancy scanning of sims and of course the power to terminate these pregnancies.
The mod comes with lots of automatic settings that are geared towards letting Sims that you don’t control live full lives without you, get married and have babies, the mod also allows you to adjust some settings in the game so your Sims don’t spend half of the day to shower and have breakfast.
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