If you’ve ever played The Sims, you know how challenging it can be to create a new pet. There are so many different ways to go about this. The options range from Stencils to Customizing pets. There are also ways to breed pets and adopt stray animals. Let’s look at some of the most popular methods and how to create the perfect pet for your Sims.
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Stencils
The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs expansion packs will feature the Create-A-Pet tool, allowing players to paint their pet in the most creative way possible. This feature doesn’t use layers and instead lets you paint on their coat directly, rotate and opacity them, and select specific designs. The game has an extensive variety of colors and patterns to choose from, so players can use a stencil to create a rainbow-colored pet.
The Paint Mode in Create-A-Pet is an excellent tool for customizing your pet’s appearance. This mode lets you choose between different types of fur, skin, hair, and patterns. You can then blend these features to create a completely unique pet. You can even combine different types of fur and colors in the same Sims pet. To customize your pet even more, you can use the stencil to paint the fur of your Sims.
Customizing pets
Adding custom features to your Sims’ pets is a fun way to personalize their appearance. There are many preset options available, but there’s nothing like being able to paint in the details of your pets’ body and face yourself! Your Sims can even change the colour of their eyes, nose, and mouth. Customizing your Sims’ pets can be as simple or as elaborate as you like! Here are some tips to customize your Sims’ pets.
Changing your pets’ appearance is simple with the paint tool in Sims 4. The painting tool is similar to the one found in many paint programs. Paint over your pet’s fur to add unique markings. You can even write words or make your Sims’ pets speak! Markings and text will be mirrored on the other side of the pet’s fur. Changing size and rotation can also be done with this tool.
Breeding
If you’re ready to try breeding your Sims’ pets, here’s how to do it! Getting the right level of friend is the first step to successfully breeding a pet! After this, you’ll need to interact with your pets and play with them a bit in order to reach the “Friend” level. If the first attempt fails, you can try breeding the same animal multiple times. Breeding a Sim’s pets is a great way to add more variety to your Sim’s life!
To breed an animal, your Sim must be friends with the opposite sex. Then, you can encourage it to mate with another animal. Make sure you choose a pet that’s friendly with humans. You’ll see heart icons around your new pet when it’s happy to be in your home. If your Sim has the Animal Lover trait, they’ll see the Pet Connection moodlet in their inventory.
Adopting a stray
Adopting a stray in The Sims 4 is a great way to make a new pet and save the lives of countless animals. You can adopt the animal yourself or adopt it from the shelter to raise healthy pets in your Sims’ life. In order to adopt a stray, you must have at least 200 Simoleons. Select “Adopt” from the pop-up notification. Once you adopt a stray, you can change its name.
Strays are playable pets and will visit lots without an owner. They are not replaced unless you neglect them. To make your stray stay in your household for a longer time, you should remove all food and water sources from it. Your pet’s Fun and Social levels should turn red before you remove its food. It should also lose its overall mood to stray. It can take up to a week for a stray to die.
Training pets
The game’s pet trainer allows you to teach your pets how to act or behave in specific situations. If your pet refuses to go outside for a potty break or relieve itself on the carpet, you can use discipline-based training to stop it. If you want to avoid any unpleasant incidents with your pets, you can also teach them how to avoid certain behaviors altogether. Here’s a quick guide to pet training in The Sims 4.
Besides teaching your pet different tricks, you can also teach your pet to perform specific actions, such as rolling over or sitting. Teaching a pet a trick gives it a +1 Happy moodlet and a +1 Tense moodlet, called Stressed from Training. Both moodlets affect the Sim’s emotions, but they last a short while. For instance, if you want your pet to sit down, you can teach him to do so by selecting the “Sit” or “Lie Down” command in the menu. After this, you can raise his or her Pet Training skill to level two.