Nifty knitting is one of my favourite packs available on The Sims; and playing historical, means it's an integral hobby for sims to improve their Fun bars.
Unfortunately, while playing a lot with the pack, I found that the projects were completed very quickly, and it seemed very unrealistic - it annoyed me a lot!
So, it's another one of the things I was annoyed with and decided I'd try fixing!
After learning about XML, and downloading tools to work the coding - I have made this mod.
Originally, it would take 100-150 sim minutes to complete a standard project, and 200 for a large project. Interestingly, in my search for a mod to extend this time, I found only one to drastically reduce it - as quick as 10 sim minutes!!!
After playing around with time, I settled on 4x the original speed - though, I'm interested to know how others feel about this time.
This mod:
- increases the time spent knitting a normal project from 100 sim minutes, to 400
- increases the time spent knitting a large project from 200 sim minutes, to 800
In conjunction with this mod, I recommend:
- Using MC Command Centre to make skills more difficult, which will slow progress of level
- Downloading JaneSimsten's functional spinning wheel - you can then use this to spin wool from your animals, to make yarn for knitting, or thread for cross-stitch
This mod, obviously, requires the "Nifty Knitting" Stuff Pack, but you also need the XML Injector in your mods folder, in order for it to to inject my coding 😋
I have edited the following coding:
- knitting_CraftingPhase.xml
- knitting_CraftingPhase_BigProject.xml
So anything else that modifies these may cause a conflict.
I would like to thank JaneSimsten for helping me work out how to ensure the status circle thing in the queue, matches the length of time to knit the project!!
See more of my work, and support me at my Patreon!
