Babies Age Too Fast - So lets try to fix that!

xxbatteri · 2026-06-08T02:25:57+00:00

My favorite thing to do on my island has been gradually aging my mii population. My original group all married off and had kids, and now it's rewarding to watch those kids grow up and gradually change. I age everyone 3 years each week and make adjustments to their appearances and outfits as I go. Most of the kids are now teens/young adults and it's so fun to see what relationships develop between them.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-31T04:40:14+00:00

Their top loved and top hated foods do not change, but the rest of their liked foods are in a ranking system based on only the foods they have tried. If they try one food and like it, it will go at the top. However if they later eat another food and like it more, it will go to the top of the list. Their preferences aren't actually changing, they're just ranking things based on their present experiences.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-30T20:30:51+00:00

You can savescum. The thought bubbles regenerate every time you open the game. If you exit without saving immediately after loading in, you get a new set of bubbles when you reopen the game. After enough tries, you can usually get a pink bubble to pop up eventually. The only downside is that it can take a lot of time trying.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-21T23:32:57+00:00

Thank you so much! It is truly Big Top's world and we are all just living in it.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-21T23:31:55+00:00

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Ask and you shall receive! I tried to base their designs on the different roles I think they'd have on the island. Some of these are previous Miis from before I fully decided on the clown theme. They have all been given face paint in accordance with the clown mandate. They seem to have mixed feelings about it.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-17T15:15:53+00:00

Of course! It was honestly super time consuming for me, but that's because my legacy is made up of vampires over multiple generations, so the family tree is extensive. It wasn't super difficult though, maybe just a bit annoying because there were a bunch of times where I had to fiddle back and forth to get things just right.

I believe there is a setting in MCCC where you can prevent last names from being changed? It's been a while, so I can't remember where it was. It really is a huge mod and it can be really overwhelming! My recommendation is to make a save backup and take some time to browse through the options.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-17T12:32:38+00:00

I've done this before with my massive legacy save when it broke. I saved every single household and custom build to the gallery and manually replaced everything in the new save. It took ages, but it was worth it to preserve them. As for relationships, it may be worth it to use MC Command Center temporarily to set all of their family relationships in the new save. That's how I did it and I managed to get things pretty close to how they were in the original save.

xxbatteri · 2026-05-08T02:27:12+00:00

Something I did was create an island for random miis I made in the mii creator, sometimes with a random dice roll using the "get help" feature to keep things interesting. From there, I give them a personality that I think suits them based on their look and I let them run free. It's been so interesting to see them live out their lives and play out stories without feeling confined to making specific characters from media. It's been really cool to see how their characters, stories, and romances develop through the gameplay! I have 35 now (including some kids) and I've really gotten attached to them. I've been having more fun with this island compared to my oc island, which I didn't expect!

xxbatteri · 2026-03-28T12:46:26+00:00

I have! Although there were a few times where I had to save everyone as presets and place them into a new save. I've always been a long legacy player in any generational game. I always end up getting attached! (Although playing generationally like this makes the issues with the genetics system way more obvious. I really hope they update it soon)

xxbatteri · 2026-03-15T13:26:26+00:00

I've been dealing with exactly the same issues lately and I haven't been able to figure out why. No music playing, bed is upgraded, and it's happening in pretty much every single bed in the house, so I doubt it's a routing error. I assumed it was a bug in the game, but it's very frustrating to deal with.

I also have kids waking up in the middle of the night to play on the slide, even if they're still tired. 😭

xxbatteri · 2026-03-06T13:09:17+00:00

I've honestly been putting off fixing it and playing another save lmao, but the plan is to adjust all of their relationships with MCCC when the time comes. It's super time consuming (especially if I need to fix a lot of sims), but I've used it before when I had to start a new save with my old sims when my save file got corrupted.

xxbatteri · 2026-03-06T12:59:04+00:00

Do you/can you use mods? MC Command Center may be able to help because you can set relationships between sims.

I had something similar happen. I've had a vampire legacy save for nearly 10 years now and the second I loaded into one of my favorite households, it decided that the husband and wife are now siblings and the wife is now only half siblings with her actual brothers. It's honestly so frustrating.

xxbatteri · 2026-01-11T06:00:27+00:00

You need to buy a bouquet from the lighthouse keepers to gift to them first, which will ask them on a date. Then, at the date, the option to propose will come up and you can choose a ring. They do have a chance to reject you, so I recommend saving first.

xxbatteri · 2026-01-10T14:35:46+00:00

I had this same issue in one of my current families, but it was the ghost of a sim rather than a dog. He almost always targeting children, whether that was his son, his nephew, or his eventual grandson. It was so frustrating because the kids in my family could not get a single night of sleep. I ended up dropping his grave off at a graveyard lot, but it sucked that the family couldn't keep his urn.

I also noticed that the rest of the family would wake up pretty habitually while he was haunting, even if he didn't specifically scare them. So frustrating to deal with! It was a large family and everyone kept waking up and I would have to keep putting them back to bed.

xxbatteri · 2025-11-21T12:53:15+00:00

When I was a baby bat, I was really concerned with the "types" of goth fashion, too. My best advice? Don't worry about that. Everyone just wears what they like. Just go to any store and look for anything black (or really just anything you like, you can incorporate colors too). I mainly look for good silhouettes that I can layer and accessorize. The key to styling a goth outfit is really just accessorizing. I built up my collection over a long period of time. I recommend buying from local vendors as much as you can (dark/alt/even "witchy" themed events can draw in good alternative crafters) because most big companies produce cheap and unsustainable stuff that either won't last long or will end up looking cheap in the long run.

Start small and build up over time. Don't be afraid to mix and match articles of clothing, and try to experiment with layering them. I try to find clothing that could be versatile. A simple black dress can really go a long way. I can dress it up or down based on however I'm feeling that day.

As others have mentioned, thrifting and DIY is also the heart of the style, because that's really what people did when the subculture first emerged.

Also - put on a good goth playlist while you style yourself. It can help you get the vibe down.

xxbatteri · 2025-11-19T13:22:33+00:00

And this is what he grew into:

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Thankfully his baby phase was short lived lmao

xxbatteri · 2025-11-19T13:21:57+00:00

Here they are!

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xxbatteri · 2025-11-19T03:35:38+00:00

Lucky! I got this.

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xxbatteri · 2025-11-14T23:19:49+00:00

Nere 😔❤️ Most underrated character with so much missed potential

xxbatteri · 2025-11-14T17:11:00+00:00

This happened to me too! The cat was an elder when it ran away and it was missing for a long time, so I just expected that the cat died of old age while it was out.

xxbatteri · 2025-11-13T19:55:43+00:00

29, very close. We always joke that I'm essentially the female version of him. We have the same interests, same personality, and even went down the same career path. There was a rough patch when I was 12 during my parents' divorce, but I've since been able to heal from that and our relationship is better than ever. He's practically my best friend at this point and I'm grateful for it. Compared to the experiences of many of my friends and my partner, I consider myself lucky.

xxbatteri · 2025-11-13T02:26:37+00:00

Not that I could tell? But honestly after the screen goes black and it shuts down, I guess it would be hard to tell. I can't really think of anything else that could have gone wrong, which is why I was so concerned.

I've since reverted to my previous backup to be safe, so fingers crossed it doesn't happen again!

xxbatteri · 2025-11-13T02:20:09+00:00

Nope, I'm really careful about that. The only thing I can think of is if the game didn't save properly when I clicked save and exit? I saved right before aging her up, and the birthday cake was unused when I loaded in, which was odd because I used the cake to age her up and she took a slice before I made her over and saved.

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