This mod requires the For Rent Expansion Pack.
Join my Patreon for status updates. Leave feedback here.
The loading screen standing between you and your neighbors has been DEFEATED. In a Residential Rental, you can now walk your Sim next door, knock, hang out in your neighbor's place, and then head home again, all without a single loading screen!
As we're all painfully aware, The Sims 4 only allows one lot to load at a time. Open Apartments sidesteps that for Residential Rentals by saving and instancing a neighboring unit's furniture and Sims on demand.
After the initial setup (more on that below), simply click a neighbor's front door or anywhere inside their unit and you'll get a dialog with two options:
Choose Drop By and your active Sim walks over and knocks. If anyone age Child or older is home, the unit loads, an event starts, and a resident comes to greet you and invite you in. From there, you just play.
See it in action on Sims Community↗️
When you drop by, the unit can load with the following household members:
Some residents won't be there:
The following household members aren't supported yet and will be skipped:
Neighbors settle into their own routines while you visit, and because your Sims are guests in their space, they're treated like visitors, not residents.
ℹ️ By default, only the Sims you originally chose in the picker to Drop By will freely walk into the neighbor's unit. If you want any other Sim in your household to be able to go in autonomously, just direct them into the unit once (or have them interact with something inside it) and then they'll come and go freely.
The Drop By is managed by an event, and only one Drop By can be active at a time. The event lasts either until you end it or until every household resident age Child or older has left for work or school (at which point it wraps up on its own). To end a Drop By, just end the event; the neighbors will route back to their own units.
During an active Drop By you won't be able to enter Build Mode. This is a safety precaution. Build Mode unlocks again a few in-game minutes after the Drop By ends, once everything has been cleaned up.
By default, the Sims you're visiting won't be allowed to wander into your own household's unit. If you'd like to let them in, click your unit's front door and choose: Allow the {Household} to Enter
You can also send them back to their own unit this way without ending the event. Simply choose: Prevent the {Household} from Entering
Setup is mostly automatic.
Before the mod can recreate a unit for a Drop By, it first needs to capture what's inside of the unit. A unit's data can be captured in the following ways:
Captured data is stored in its own file alongside your save game, so you typically only need to capture a unit once per save file. After that, it'll update on its own whenever you make edits to the lot.
If you don't have data saved for a particular unit you're trying to visit, the mod will let you know and offer to Travel there the normal way, which captures it for next time.
There are a lot of ways this mod can be expanded. Here's what's currently on my mind:
If you'd like to support this mod and its development, please consider subscribing to my Patreon! ↗️
✅ This mod is compatible with Better Apartment & Rental Behaviors by lunar_britney.
⚠️ This mod most likely conflicts with Dimmed Inactive Rentals and Labeled Rental Units by TwistedMexi. Open Apartments dims inactive units and labels units on its own.
ℹ️ This mod does not directly overwrite any files
Adds five new friendship tiers, improves existing tiers, and adds optional progression locks.
Adds five new friendship tiers, improves existing tiers, and adds optional progression locks.
