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Stheno
Euryale
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
I've just downloaded spinning plumbob's expanded mermaid mod, so definitely have updates from that. I'm just seeing what it does, lot of fun so far.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Rounding out a good night with a nice night swim and chat
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Coventina, Euryale and Damona enjoying a swim together
Euryale decides to entertain her nieces with some sea shanties
'Yeah don't mind my twin sister, Stheno's just an overly dramatic story teller like our dad'.
Euryale vibing with the ocean after collecting seawater
Before heading off for a swim
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
I definitely recommend the Sea-Nery stuff pack by Spinning Plumbob and the mod from Peridot Sim that keeps fish fresh.
Peridot Sims Mod
https://www.patreon.com/posts/69838558?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
Spinning Plumbob Mod
https://www.patreon.com/posts/74793919?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
Peridot Sims Mod is definitely a must for the aquarium sand bed and coral by Spinning Plumbob.
Without the mod by Peridot, the fish will suffer from quality decay over time.
Edit:
I think you need the Island Living Expansion Pack
And you need to use the cheats:
Bb.showhiddenobjects
And
Bb.showliveeditobjects
The corals can be accessed on both the PC and Console, but I think you need the pc to move the corals up on the wall with the 0 and 9 keys on a laptop, also the parentheses ( ), on a laptop.
Fair warning, placing the corals on the wall and raising them to a level merfolk won’t clip through is very time consuming, and it’s the one part of all my builds that easily take me an insane amount of time to do.
Second Edit: I don’t think it’s possible to adjust corals along walls with the console.
If these items weren’t debug items for most people, they would most definitely be accessible for console players to place on walls if they were found under wall sculptures and wall art.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Some screenshots.
Talay, Eurydice, Ezili and Sirona basking on their basking rocks (that's Theodora talking to them, she's a vampire and Eurydice and Danu's sister).
Talay, Eurydice, Eidotha and Narmada on the dance floor.
Ezili going from a swim in the pool area, showing off her tail.
Danu and Li Ban going for a swim in the ocean (this is where I realised you have to direct your mermaids to swim in the pool provided).
Overall shot of what the finished build looks like.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
It’s not just Sulani… it’s a quirk that all merfolk have 🧜🏻♂️🧜🏽♀️🧜🏻🧜🏽♂️🧜🏻♀️🧜🏽.
Dylan and Zeph, when I had them go through University, would stop doing homework and bike to the river to swim…
Honestly, if you don’t know where a sim can swim in the open world, place a merman and/or mermaid in a neighborhood, give them full autonomy, and they will find the swim spots for you. It’s almost like it’s hard coded into them.
Off for a night time's collecting of kelp and ambergris.
(Moryana)
(Damona)
(Stheno)
Nightime swim and chat
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Eurydice - is from the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. She has a twin brother, called Orpheus, and was originally a spellcaster and my first mermaid sim (hence her name isn't particularly connected with water).
Talay - is named for the Turkic god of the seas and oceans.
Eidothea - is named for the Greek nymph of prophecy, daughter of Proteus (I will be adding Proteus into my game at some point, although not as Eidothea's father, because she already has parents).
Enki - is named for the Sumerian god of water, knowledge, crafts and creation.
Ninmah - was created as a Sim wife for Enki, hence her name. Ninmah was an ancient Sumerian goddess who at one point forms part of a creation myth with the god Enki.
Nanshe - is named for the Mesopotamian goddess of the sea, marshland, and creatures that reside therein (birds, fish, etc).
Thaumas - is named for the one of the Greek sea gods.
Electra - is named for one of the Greek oceanids who was the wife of Thaumas (obviously in the case of my mer-sims I made them brother and sister instead).
Galene - is named for one of the minor Greek goddesses who presided over calm seas.
Thetis - is named for a Greek mythological figure of the same name, who appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and a Neried depending on the myth.
Danu - is named for a Celtic goddess who has nothing to do with water, that I know of (I just like Celtic names). Like Eurydice she was born a spellcaster and became my second ever mermaid. Both of them were already established in the game (as spellcasters) before I bought the Island Living pack.
Li Ban - is named after the Celtic legend of the formation of Lake Neagh, where a woman named Li Ban (also sometimes spelt Liban) was a woman who became a mermaid.
Sirona - is named for the Celtic goddess sometimes associated with healing springs.
Ezili - is named for the Loa in Vodou who are, among other things, associated with water and fluidity.
Narmada - is named for an Indian goddess who is the personification of the river Narmada.
Moryana - is named for a Russian sea spirit.
Veles - is named for a Slavic god of waters, earth, livestock and the underworld.
Damona - is named for the Gallo-Roman patron deity of hot springs.
Coventina - is named for the Romano-British goddess of wells and springs.
Stheno - is named for one of the Gorgons (yes there are another two besides medusa) who n Greek mythology was the daughter of the primordial sea deities, Phorcys and Ceto.
Euryale - same as for Stheno.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Ah, okay that makes sense. I thought I had autonomy switched off, but maybe I didn't double check that after I had to redownload the game. I get what you're saying about mermaids finding any spot the can swim. I had some of them doing university courses from home to get the Academic aspiration, and every time I tried to send them to Britechester to sit on on lectures, or tutor other students, they kept running off and going for a swim in the rivers instead.
By the way I love your mer-sims and the stories you've created for them.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
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Curious about whether or not you have the Expanded Mermaid Mod set to give mersims a random weakness. There’s a weakness called a moon spell that can cause all kinds of havoc. Maybe that’s why Veles started manipulating an object? I know that if you don’t change the settings, merfolk can get random weaknesses with the Expanded Mermaid Mod.
I don't have the mod set to random weakness, I like to be more in control of my game and very rarely appreciate surprises or things I haven't set up. In this case I had Veles manipulate on object, because I wanted to see what it did. Coventina just happened to decide to start mixing drinks whilst the bar was floating in mid air.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Nanshe meditating in mermaid form.
While Phaedra practices making drinks
Nanshe mentors Phaedra in guitar
And then I had them get engaged in front of the cupcake maker, as you do.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Phaedra in human form having a drink with her future mother in law (Ninmah seems to want to keep all the drinks to herself).
Galene drops in for a visit, and Nanshe gets a congratulatory hug from her Great Aunt after announcing her engagement to Phaedra.
Waiting for the countdown to midnight to start.
Phaedra and Nanshe having a post midnight swim.
As for who prefers to stay in mermaid form and who stays more in human form, I'm making it so that those who were born or specifically created as mer-sims, or who have the child of the ocean trait always prefer to be in mermaid form. For others it's a literal dice roll as to whether or not I give them the 'restless fins' trait (mod) where they're happier not being in human form.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Nanshe, Phaedra, Ninmah and Enki enjoyed it so much I've given them their own underwater basking area at home.
Also Enki has now apparently mastered the art of walking on water.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
On the console, I triggered the walking on water glitch when I placed nanpuka plants underwater to simulate sea grass. Apparently, it messed with the pathing when I told my merfolk to swim around.
The other thing that might be glitching movement underwater and on the water could be open water ladders. I remember evil Alexander climbing on the ladder before glitching underwater to the point where Ukupanipo used the siren call, bathroom walked to the ladder underwater, and climbed up the ladder a second time before making it to dry land.
Anyways, the movement of merfolk that use items underwater will glitch. As much as I love the idea, I started creating the underwater rooms because the walking on water got a little jarring for me.
Thanks for this. I've removed the underwater basking areas from everywhere except the national park, it was causing too many glitches.
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
Reciting love poetry at dinner.
More basking at the nightclub
Time for a selfie
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.
One of the things I’ve done at the sand bar is create a basement to simulate being underwater. I used a gate and locked the door for everyone except my club that only includes merfolk, and Ember.
So, above the simulated underwater environment, you have a normal lounge for everyone. Below, you have a space that only merfolk can enter.
With MCCC you can make merfolk outside of your active household move around with their tail.
It’s actually super easy to do with mods, and as soon as I’m able to, I can share a short walkthrough of what I’m doing.
This is something you can do without mods, but the console is limited to the active household.