SURVIVE! 1.8.2 [The Last Broadcast Update]

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!

 

TUTORIALS / DOCUMENTATION

DISCORD

 

Required Mods:

• Core Library by Lot51 https://lot51.cc/core
• MAL22's trait tracker injector is no longer required!

 

1.8.2

• Introducing Wasteland Jockies!

• Once you fix the Communications Tower, you’ll hear new broadcasts over the waves.

• You’ll hear either Dustwave, a post-apocalyptic radio jockey, Brother Static, a raving mad pastor, or a defunct Civil Notices broadcast (Municipal Alert Channel). These will trigger randomly in the form of notification.

• You can choose to opt out of The Last Broadcast notifications if you’d prefer not to have them, by choosing ‘Mute Last Broadcast’ in the pie menu on your sim.

• There are plenty of new flavour notifications for these broadcasts so you’ll rarely hear them twice!

• New radio channel! Comes with several custom made tracks from pre-existing EA assets, from pre-apocalyptic news broadcasts to Brother Static’s rants and Dustwaves chatter! Requires https://lot51.cc/mods/custom-channel-injector

• Dustwave, Brother Static & the MAC follow a loose storyline to add some extra fun little bits of lore to the mod. Dustwave & Brother Static will also reference the other in-mod characters, Doc The Wasteland Medic, Longshot & Marsh the Trader.

• You can also hear their broadcasts from any in game radio.

• I’ve also added the option of your own sim becoming a wasteland jockey! They can work their way up the new Wasteland Jockey skill by broadcasting once a day, reading the new ‘Broadcasting for Dummies’ skill book which can be scavenged (or bought pre-apocalypse from bookshelves), or practicing your broadcasting on the radio device.
  (Everything for Wasteland Jockies is available on the [LN] Radio Device which can be bought from B/B mode.)

• Pick your own Callsign and all notifications of your broadcasts will use it.

• As you work up the skill, you unlock the options to broadcast about different things, such as tips for survival and weather broadcasts which use the real in game weather forecast.

• Most exciting, once you reach level 5 you can write your own broadcasts! And they have a 25% chance of popping up as a notification when you next enter another household in the save.

• New Perk - Wasteland DJ. Find the perk book ('Mic Check or Die Trying’) or buy from the rewards store, this perk skill reduces the cooldown time between broadcasts.

• New milestone notifications when checking days survived on 10, 25, 50 & 100 days.

• Cheats:

  • survive.empty_streets toggle (Turns the empty streets on/off)

  • Added ‘Summon Necros’ interaction to the survive cheats pie menu to summon Feral Necros to the lot.

Bug Fixes

• Tuned down the chance of injury from scavenging/hunting

• Stopped washing in sink from autonomy completely, as it wouldn’t behave.

• Walkby sims & bills are now handled/prevented via cleaner python (less likely to break on updates)

• Phone calls & texts also handled/prevented via python now which means new EA ones don’t need to be patched out every time.

• Added ‘The Last Broadcast’ upon fixing comms tower

• Fixed an issue where rad puddles caused LE

• Sims should no longer want to go outside and play in rad puddles when rad storm is active

• Dramanodes are now also handled by python. This feature is still in testing, so please report if you get any festival notifications or things of that nature.

• Fixed the percentages of the chances to get injured when out scavving/hunting and chance of infection. (EA’s percentages are so complicated, jeez.)

• Fixed the thirst moodlet icons.

Compatibility with LuSimLaStars’ Post-Apocalyptic Cooking & Scavenging Mod

SURVIVE! is now fully compatible with LuSimLaStar's Post-Apocalyptic Cooking & Scavenging Mod!
Thank you to LuSimLaStars for your patience with me & your hard work on getting our mods to play nicely!
Go give LSLS a follow on Patreon so you don't miss the update!

• SURVIVE’s older dirty water system will now default to LSLS’s newer one if you have that mod installed.

• All custom ingredients & foods/drinks added to Marsh the Food Trader.

• Doc the Wasteland Medic now carries LSLS’s Wasteland Remedy for Water Poisoning.

1.8

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"
  
  
• Automatically use radiation-damaged skin [Download required skin here]
• 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 ⚠️

French [LINK 1 - Atalanta]