A ten-step recovery program for The Sims 4.
Some Sims carry something that the game never gives them a way to put down. This mod gives them the room, the circle of chairs, and the long unglamorous work of getting better.
Your Sim can walk in, say the hardest first line, and start counting days. They will slip. They will come back. Both are part of it.
The program never names what your Sim is struggling with. It speaks about the cake — and it fits whatever they are carrying.
What your Sim can do
Join the fellowship. Through the phone. A welcome card, a first-step moodlet, and a counter that starts at zero.
Go to meetings. A real social event with its own venue and its own roles — host, member, newcomer — and goals to work through: share your story, hug a newcomer, read the literature, be of service, pass the hat. Meetings can be planned on the calendar or started on the spot.
Find a sponsor. Pick one Sim and the relationship becomes a real mechanic. They call. They ask to come over. They show up. When the craving hits, having made that call is the difference.
Work the steps. Write an honest inventory at the computer, one column at a time, and read it to someone who will not flinch.
Read the program literature. Three volumes, each tied to the Recovery Path skill.
Count clean days. Sobriety chips at twenty-four hours, one month, three months, six months, nine months, a year and two years — each one a real object for the inventory, each with its own ceremony.
Relapse. The mod notices when a Sim slips, resets the count without shaming anyone, and leaves the door open.
Recover. An aspiration carries the whole arc, and finishing it lifts what was being carried.
The hat. The Seventh Tradition needs something to pass around. In build mode, search for Motherlode Pouch (§25) and place it in the room where your Sims meet. Anyone at the meeting can drop §5, §20 or §50 into it.
Requirements
- Base game. No packs needed.
- Script mods must be enabled. Game Options → Other → Enable Custom Content and Mods, and Script Mods Allowed. Restart the game after changing this.
Install
- Unzip.
- Put the
PlumbobersAnonymous folder into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods\
- Delete
localthumbcache.package from Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\
- Start the game, and use your Sim's phone to join.
Keep the files together, and keep the folder directly inside Mods — the game will not read script mods from folders nested deeper.
Compatibility
- Addiction traits added by other mods are recognised where possible, and recovery clears them. No other mod is required.
- All text is English for now.
Known limitations
- Meditation is a program action, but does not yet train the Recovery Path skill.
- The level 10 skill window uses a generic caption.
Made with care and without judgement. If the subject is close to you, be gentle with yourself while you play.
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