I just choose to categorise my package files in this way, so I don’t have hundreds of files that could do any number of things. Just place this folder inside the Mods folder so it looks like this:Īs you can see, I have multiple files and folders inside my Packages folder. Now that we have that set up, we can now create another folder called ‘Packages’, (again the correct casing for the letters). So far, it should look like this (ignoring my other random folders in my documents folder): Once downloaded, place this inside the Mods folder. zip from here and just use the resource.cfg file – BluebellFlora). (if that file doesn’t work you can download the Framework.

packages to show up in game, you need a file called ‘resource.cfg’. Now, if you were to put a package file inside the Mods folder, it wouldn’t show up in the game and you’d be sat there wondering what you did wrong. Make sure you use the correct capital/non-capital casing for the letters! If you go to the above path (Doc/EA/TS3/) you can create your folder. This folder will not be there to start with, as you have to create it yourself. package file you have downloaded will go in a folder called ‘Mods’. Now we will get on to the actual installing of mods.Īny. IF YOU CURRENTLY HAVE YOUR MODS FOLDER THERE, YOU NEED TO REMOVE IT. IT NO LONGER WORKS (obviously).Ĭurrently, the place you need to create a Mods folder is:ĭocuments/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/ and here you create your Mods folder. – Applications/The Sims 3/The Sims 3.app (by showing package contents)/Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/.Īs you can see, that is a rather long path, but, we no longer need to put our Mods folder in there. package custom content (hereby known as CC) was: The original path of where you needed to go every time you wanted to add a new piece of. Prior to Patch 1.12, the location of the Mods and Packages folder was rather confusing.

ModTheSims & SimsWiki have a wonderful guide on how to do it, but I feel like it’s a bit too basic, and this is why I’m going to try and include as much detail as I can without making it too messy and too hard to read. You can also find it over on her Tumblr page – (for help on installing Mods in The Sims 4, please read her great guide here). She did post it over on the official forums but sadly EA kept deleting it. ItsaprilXD has written this brilliant tutorial on how to install mods on a Mac for The Sims 3.

For mac download The Unknown City