I go back and forth on this one. On one hand, it does not really add anything and for a long time I did not really use it. There isn't much point without an appearance system (or a more crucial one). On the other, it can be satisfying to see a well decorated room and clutter allows you to do that. Once I started experimenting with it, my favorite builds began to have an excess of it and they do feel lived in with personality.
However, at the end of the day, I think it is fair to say there is way too much of a focus on useless decorative items in 4. I would be more forgiving if well decorated rooms had better positives and bare rooms had more negatives, but as of right now the clutter section of BB feels unnecessarily copious. While clutter can be expressive, it feels tipped too far toward the dollhouse for me.
How about you?
Do you enjoy clutter? 255 votes
Yes; it makes building and live mode better.
Yes; it makes building better.
Yes; it makes live mode better.
No; it makes building and live mode worse.
No; it makes building worse.
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No; it makes live mode worse.
I can take it or leave it, but we probably have too much.
I can take it or leave it, but we have a good amount.
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Whenever I download a gallery build nowadays I have to delete like half of the stuff, all the columns, replace the giant lights with tiny ones, get rid of any giant mirrors or bookcases obstructing the build, get rid of the 50 items that are just levitating in thin air from most rotations as they've been alt placed on shelves, etc etc. Very few popular builders focus on functionality and it's a shame.
I like the clutter for looks and things like screenshots/sets. It can give a lot of life to the lot and make it looked lived in while also giving a sense of what type of sim might be living there. For regular, every day game play though, I don't use a lot of it and when I use more than my average in a build, I always make sure I play test before I put it into my main save or upload to the gallery.
I'm okay with the amount we have in game, though it can be hard to navigate in the catalogue. But I don't really want the same things in every home, so I like the variety.
When I actually play in live mode (and not build something for the gallery) I prefer a sparsely decorated starter home with good appliances and the necessary skill objects. I play with walls down, so I only see clutter that is attached to floor based objects anyway.
but i also think that lot of decorative items should just be gameplay items tbh like the cabinets and boxes and whatever should work as different storage options and every book clutter should be bookcase (cause they just did some of them last time)
and plants well i would like to have to water them like ts2 it just felt more real and tea set should actually work as teamaker and... you know if its not only decorative in real life im sure they could just make it have function too
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First, I don't feel we have enough clutter, especially single slot clutter, and I do like to use it in builds. But I also dislike playing in overly cluttered houses were sims can't get to certain things because of it.
When I'm building for upload to the Gallery, I put in very little decoration. I furnish them so a new family can move right in, not like they have lived there many years. When someone buys a new house, its not chock full of stuff, not even furniture or appliances.
If I build for my sims to live there, they have what they need to take care of themselves, and of course objects for skills. The house will be decorated as time passes by, with paintings and other small objects. I use alt-placement instead of MOO, which will let me place things more freely, but still with limitations. Mostly for garden plants and decoration.
I avoid houses on the Gallery that are decked out in clutter, or builders that use MOO. I end up deleting most of the stuff and re-arranging furniture/rooms, and that takes more time than looking for/building a new house.
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I prefer functional items over non-functional ones but I incorporate a small amount of clutter into most houses.
I avoid most gallery downloads now because of the lack of playtesting and excessive clutter. If I'm downloading, I'd rather almost have a shell to fill in. Replacing clutter and personalizing is something I do when I add a downloaded lot which is less often now.
And when I make a build to share on the Gallery I make sure it’s not too cluttered, (and I play test them, unless I forget).
As some folks mention here, I very much dislike builds that have not been playtested. I may choose to edit the lot, but as a hotheaded sim I tend to lose my temper and will delete the build from my library pronto if it proves to be incredibly messy and buggy. I don’t care how amazing it looks. It needs to work.
I have a hard time using anything off the gallery. As nicely made as all those builds are the amount of clutter and decoration makes actually playing in those lots very annoying.
I like having items that simply are visual props to the imagination, making the room feel more like a real room, creating diverse atmosphere and settings for my story scenes.
But I rarely use the gallery. I am building almost exclusively for my own personal use. So, obviously, I don't put in so much clutter that I annoy myself.
I do wish there was more variety of clutter to fit Sims' personalities.
I use to feel I was living in empty square boxes lol
BUT I hate having tons of non functional items all around. What am I going to do with it?!!!! All these little tooth brushes, perfumes, soaps, bowls of fruits or whatever it is, why can't sims pick it up and use it? 😑