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Cabinets with Inventory (Patreon Preview)
🕑 Added 2022-04-06 14:27:16 +0000 UTC
Got a quick and fairly easy idea on Sunday afternoon, so I went and made it. I looked all over to see if anyone had ever done this mod before, but couldn't find one. If you know of one, let me know. I'm still surprised that nobody seems to have ever made this mod before.
This download includes versions of 14 kitchen cabinets found in the base game and various packs modified to each have their own inventory, so that you can store things in it, like canned goods, repair parts, blocks of soy wax and all the other stuff your Sim hauls around in their pockets since they don't have anywhere better to put it and don't want to buy a storage chest to tuck in a corner somewhere.
The cabinets act like storage chests, specifically like the flea market tables found in City Living. This allows them to each have separate inventories. Since this is likely to lead to losing things when you forget which cabinet you put them in, you can also give each cabinet a name (e.g. Canned Goods or Upgrade Parts) that shows up in the tooltip for the cabinet when you hover over it.
There are two versions of each cabinet available for each pack that has cabinets. One contains cloned versions that are standalone objects, and the other contains overrides of the game versions, so that lots that already have those cabinets installed will automatically have inventory available in them now.
Caution: If you have a really enormous lot with a lot of cabinets on it (like a big apartment building with a dozen kitchens), you might run into lag if you use the override version -- not sure yet. That's why I did both versions. You can have both versions installed and they won't conflict, but you will see a lot of duplicate-looking cabinets in the build/buy screen.
You must install the CabinetsWithInventory_MainMod.package, as it contains the object tuning. It also contains clones of the Base Game cabinets modified to have inventory. I packaged and labeled the rest of the cabinets by pack. If you don't have a pack, don't install the files for that pack.
General Note
This mod is less than two days old, so I haven't given it exhaustive testing. The original cabinets are simple decorative objects without any tuning at all, so it should be pretty safe.
If you know of any more kitchen cabinets in kits, let me know which ones. I don't own many kits, but they're cheap enough that I might just buy one or two if they contain something useful to make a mod with.
Change Log
4/6/2022, 1.0.0, Patreon Preview Release
Comments
Simsonian Library
Thanks! I'm trying to decide whether to stop with this idea while I'm ahead, or whether to continue and do: * End Tables with Drawers (I don't know about you, but the drawers on most of the end tables at my house are crammed with stuff.) * China Cabinets, other decorative cabinets. * Kitchen counter drawers (to store repair and upgrade parts...of course) Probably would be separate releases. All the cloned objects end up being kind of large, download wise. I would only want to try to add storage drawers to counters if I can find a really solid, bullet-proof way to do so. There have been too many bugs involving kitchen counters over the years, lol.
anselpants
I'm literally mid playtest right now and just had to say thank you! I've longed for cabinet storage for years. It's so fun to have a real pantry at last!!!
