FEAR FACTORY - Initial Public Release (Patreon)

Update 05/24/2022: custom pronoun support

Fear Factory introduces 20 new phobias and other anxieties for your Sims, giving them more personality as well as supplying new challenges to your gameplay.

Each fear generally includes at least one new social interaction, unique moodlets, new and blocked whims, and impact to autonomy.

How to Use:

Select fears by clicking on any Sim and browsing to the Actions menu, where you'll find a new menu called Fear Factory (Helaene). Within the menu, you can select individual fears, or add a random fear. Within that same new menu, you can also remove all fears.

List of Fears:

• Fear of Bees (Melissaphobia)
• Fear of Being Touched (Haphephobia)
• Fear of Birds (Ornithophobia)
• Fear of Cats (Elurophobia)
• Fear of Clowns (Coulrophobia)
• Fear of Crime (Scelerophobia)
• Fear of Darkness (Nyctophobia)
• Fear of Deep Water (Thalassophobia)
• Fear of Dogs (Cynophobia)
• Fear of Dolls (Automatonophobia)
• Fear of Fire (Pyrophobia)
• Fear of Frogs (Ranidaphobia)
• Fear of Germs (Mysophobia)
• Fear of Gnomes (Gnomophobia)
• Fear of Hospitals (Nosocomephobia)
• Fear of Mirrors (Catoptrophobia)
• Fear of Public Speaking (Glossophobia)
• Fear of Rodents (Musophobia)
• Fear of Spiders (Arachnophobia)
• Fear of Storms (Astraphobia)

Complementary Mods:

• Death by Terror (LeRoiDeTout)
• PreferencesPlus (me)
• Emotional Socials (me)

IMPORTANT: This mod contains many overrides of base game files in order to provide compelling fear functionality. Overridden files mostly include objects, a few interactions, and whims. The list of tuning files modified can be found in my documentation here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oln1bcoDf3ypYYXZZehqfp-C8FuclyL80d34jgZ5wLQ/edit?usp=sharing

Installation:

Use a program such as Winrar to extract files no more than one folder level deep within your Mods folder. All three files are required.

Translations:

• French (Kimikosoma)
• Polish (NuSims)

Please leave a comment if you enjoy the mod - it helps me stay inspired!

If you'd like to offer suggestions or reports issues, the best place to chat with me about them is on my Discord: https://discord.gg/d5BMZzTmgg