SURVIVE! is a post-apocalyptic survival mod that adds real challenge to your sims survival.
The streets are empty, food must be scavenged, thirst must be accounted for, NPC survivors will want to join your settlement, your sims can fix up broken down vehicles and much, much more!
Welcome to the wasteland, survivor. This update introduces a Radiation system, deadly new Necros, dangerous illnesses, and gritty realism across the board. Survive if you can.
⚠️ Radiation System
New Lot Challenge: Radiation Enables deadly radiation storms (requires Seasons) and adds a randomized radiation level to each lot—ranging from mild to unlivable.
Radiation Exposure Sims gradually absorb radiation while outdoors. Prolonged exposure leads to illness or death.
Underground is Safe Build bunkers—radiation doesn’t reach below ground level.
Geiger Counter Scan your Sim or the lot to check radiation levels.
Available via Junk Trader or Build/Buy (if you want to cheat)
Radiation Suits Fully protect Sims from radiation exposure.
Purchase from Longshot the Junk Trader
Radioactive Barrels Place in Build/Buy to make custom radioactive zones.
🧟 Necros
Radiation Mutation Sims with latent DNA instability (randomized per Sim) have a 35% chance of turning into a Necro when exposed to too much radiation. (Cheat to enable or disable this trait is under the Survive pie menu)
Necro Traits
Immune to radiation and temperature
Cannot reproduce
Do not need to eat or use the bathroom
New motive: Ferality
Custom social interactions: "Recall Mortal Life," "Talk Pre-War History," "Worry About Going Feral"
Ferality Motive Drops if they don’t socialize. If it hits zero—they go feral.
💀 Feral Necros
Barely Playable. Extremely Aggressive. Feral Necros roam, attack nearby human Sims, and cannot be controlled.
Feral Traits
Unique idle animations
Only attack non-Necros
Immune to needs decay
Not attacked by other Ferals
Attack Mechanic Every 30 Sim minutes, there’s a chance to trigger an attack.
You’ll receive a pop-up asking how your Sim reacts
50/50 outcome with random consequences
Choosing "Fight Without Weapon" also activates the mechanic
Extreme Violence Mod compatibility: you can use it to kill Ferals directly (skips reaction mechanic)
🧠 Brainrot Illness
Mystery Meat Scavenge or purchase from Doc the Wasteland Medic.
Cheap and convenient
Eat it too often and your Sim develops Brainrot
No cure. No mercy.
Doc’s New Inventory:
Mystery Meat
Bandages, Band-aids, Antiseptic
Antibiotics (also extremely rare to scavenge)
🩹 Injuries & Infection System
Sims can now get injured during fights or scavenging
If untreated, wounds can become infected Treat with:
Band-aids
Bandages
Antiseptic (now scavengeable at bars)
💧 Water Safety System
Dirty Water Collection Grab it from puddles (requires Seasons)
Boil on Campfire Prevent Dysentery by boiling dirty water with wood
Necros can drink dirty water without penalty
🔥 Scavenging & Survival
Object Breakdown Smash furniture for:
Wood (fuel for campfires)
Scrap (used to repair satellites)
Expanded Scavenging
Fridges and countertops now scavengeable
Different lot types yield unique loot
Libraries = books
Bars = food + antiseptic
Residential = random supplies
Tents Now Scavengeable (vehicle-only)
Dogs Can Join you when hunting or scavenging
Flour & Sugar Now available via scavenging or Marsh the food trader
🧭 Traders & Modded Items
🛒 Longshot the Junk Trader
New stock includes survivalist contraband from Basemental Drugs and Wicked Whims:
From Basemental:
Tobacco Seeds
Rolling Tobacco
Dipping Tobacco
Rolling Papers
Pack of Cigarettes
Box of Cigars
Tobacco Drying Rack
Moonshine
From Wicked Whims:
Tampons
Pads
Condoms
Other Items:
Radiation Suits
Hatchable Eggs
📚 Skill Books & Perk Traits
Find books while scavenging or purchase traits from the satisfaction store (very expensive). Each trait grants long-term benefits:
📘 Still Standing: How Not to Die 🧠 Survivor’s Resilience 🔧 Avoid injuries, resist infection, reduced risk of Brainrot & Dysentery
📘 Punch First, Ask Questions Never 🧠 Wasteland Warrior 🔧 Win more fights, learn physical skills faster
📘 Run Like You Stole It 🧠 Fleet Footed 🔧 Faster scavenging, faster physical skill gain
📘 Rubbish or Relic? 🧠 Scavenger’s Eye 🔧 Increased loot while scavenging
📘 Fortune Favors the Stupid 🧠 Lucky Finder 🔧 Find random helpful items in inventory daily
📡 Walkie-Talkies
Walkie-Talkies allow you to contact Sims your Sim knows personally - only if they’re within range. No more magical long-distance calls in the wasteland (Which is handy, because your phone is disabled anyway).
⭐ New Aspiration: Survivor’s Spirit
Complete rugged goals to earn the Master Survivor trait:
More loot from scavenging
Better odds at breaking down furniture
Higher win chance in fights vs Necros
The world is harsher than ever—but you’ve got more tools than ever to survive it.
1.4 Pre-Update Patch (2 out of 2)
Great news! I was finally able to recreate the loading issue in my own game and was able to track down the files causing issues. Bad news; I had to completely remove the overrides for the phone calls inviting your teen sims to prom. Unfortunate, but worth it for the mod to actually work properly.
Loading bug should now be fixed.
Inherited traits issue fixed.
New world 'Chestnut Ridge' de-simmed, no more sims walking around.
Survivors can now use the fridge to create meals if they have the ingredients. Your sims will require power and the correct ingredients to cook. Off-grid fridge cooking is now basegame compatible.
1.3 Pre-Update Patch (1 out of 2)
In order to combat the issue some players are having with not being able to load into their saves, I have adjusted the files so that you can remove the overrides from the packs you do not own. Please upload any Last Exceptions to the discord linked down below. Please delete the packs you don't own in the 'OVERRIDES' folder.
Please make sure to read through the tutorial/documentation page thoroughly!
Please also be patient whilst this mod is in it's early release, this is a huge overhaul of a mod and there will be some things I missed. Feel free to let me know if you spot something you think I missed, you encounter an LE or simply have a suggestion for a future update.
🔠 TRANSLATIONS
Thank you to the translators who work hard to make my mods enjoyable for everyone!
Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese [LINK 1 - abonnie] [LINK 2 - MeowCats]
Russian [LINK 1 - Group Origamika] ⚠️ Version 1.7 ⚠️
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