Last Update: 11:34pm EDT Wednesday, June 24, 2009

I've been having all kinds of trouble keeping track of the various tools and hacks that are coming out for TS3, so I'm starting a list. If you are an author, please let me know if I should or should not post your work, and also where in particular I should link, since many apps appear in many places.

Note: I am not linking to custom content here, and I am not involved in the development of any of the below. If I have forgotten or missed something (or you think I should link to your own tool/mod/hack), please email me at yggsims -at- gmail.com.

Jump to: Tools | Mods & Hacks | Tutorials & Info

• Tools
• Delphy's Pattern Packager
• Delphy's TS3 Install Helper Monkey
• Delphy's Multi Installer
• thetechnosims's TS3 Mod Manager
• TSR's Pattern Plugin (w/ Workshop)
• jfade's 3Viewer Tool
• jfade's The Compressorizer
• Echo's Package Editor - "If you're joining in the fun of figuring out file formats and how to make mods, this is as good a tool as any. If you're looking for content-creation wizards, this is probably not what you're after just yet. This is a very generic tool, for exploring the innards of the game's package files."
• Echo's Unpacker - "This is a fairly simple tool to extract the contents of a sims3pack exported file. Simply choose the sims3pack file when prompted, then select the file to extract and click the "Export Selected" button on the bottom left."
• Pescado's Recompressor - "Like the original TS2 recompressor, we bring you the TS3 recompressor, with more features. Simple drag-and-drop or command-line interface! Fixes busted-ass Store Sims3Packs! Will work with the Jfadetool!"
• Peter's Unpacker - "Just install it, run it, and use the browser to pick one or more Sims3Pack files, which will proceed to unpack into their constituent parts in their own folders."
• SimTools S3PI Library - Major effort. "The S3PI library is a collection of files that can be used to help make modding tools for The Sims 3. As a player or modder, you will need to download and install it if you want to use any tool based on it. The person who wrote the tool will tell you if that is the case."
• Christoph's TTAB tool - "The TTAB Editor is intended to provide the End-User a simple GUI for editing so-called TTABs."
• WesHowe is doing some crazy mesh work
• Mods/Hacks
Core Mods (incompatible with one another; often do more than one thing)
• Pescado's "Awesomemod" - Updated! changes a variety of in-game functions. - REQUIRES FRAMEWORK
• Wintermute's Grim Reaper Core Mod
• Wintermute's "Purity" Core Mod - fix only Story Progression, without any other features (or attendant faults)
• Klanly's Cheat Menu Hack - Core Mod

Bitty Mods (pick and choose)

• Rick's Debug Console Enabler
• Rick's No Intro Mod
• Rick's No Mosaic Mod - "Mosaic (pixelation effect when nude) remover for The Sims 3. Just a note, this is not just a reupload of an existing censor removal — this is a mosaic remover done in an entirely new nondestructive way (by myself, of course) provided as a .package."
• Rick & Delphy's CAS slider hack
• Aikea Guinea's No Drift/Lower Level Camera Mod
• Hysterical Paroxysm's No Sleep Zzzs
• Hysterical Paroxysm's No Build Sparkles
• Hysterical Paroxysm's No Music Notes
• Hysterical Paroxysm's No Fight/Slap Effects
• Hysterical Paroxysm's Floor Edge Remover
• Carrigon's Lifetime Happiness Points, Life Extension, and Food Replicator Hacks!
• Carrigon's Slow Motive Decay
• Carrigon's No More Weeds/Fewer Dead Plants
• Carrigon's Longer-lasting Moodlets
• Carrigon's No Repo Man
• Carrigon's No Social Worker
• Carrigon's Movie & Concert Theater Times Hack
• Carrigon's No Curfew Cop
• Carrigon's Magic Gnome Hack
• Carrigon's Bistro Open 24 Hours
• Carrigon's Smarter Cook Times
• Carrigon's Faster Homework Mod
• Carrigon's Child Cooking, Grilling, and Microwaving
• Vahi_master's Super Speedy Skill Books
• Vahi_master's Ghost Reaction Remover
• Wintermute's Make Ambrosia Easily Mod
• Wintermute's Buyable Mausoleum Mod
• Wintermute's Hack Anytime Mod
• Wintermute's No Maternity Leave Mod
• CyberOps' No-Censor patch
• CyberOps' Mod Pack
• CyberOps' Mod Pack 2
• CyberOps' No Dead Fish for 365 Days
• CyberOps' Max Newspaper Mod
• CyberOps' Mood Manager Mod
• CyberOps' Show Hidden Skills Mod
• CyberOps' Show Hidden Skill + Instant Skill Gain Mod V2
• CyberOps' Play Air Guitar
• CyberOps' Modified Traits
• CyberOps' Enhance Food
• CyberOps' Computer Mod
• CyberOps' Writing Mod
• mxp's Instant Skills/Fast Skills Hack
• Treeag' Pyro Mod
• Black_Spirit's Warmer Flame Fruit Mod
• Pigie's Slower Cars Mod
• Rothchild's Ghost Haunt Action Unlocked
• Rothchild's Air Guitar Unlocked
• Rothchild's Child Only Sprinkler
• nightie's Same Gain for All Beds
• Ashkitty's Longer Pregnancy Mod 1.5
• o0linsey0o's Purchaseable Life & Flame Fruit
• linz's Purchaseable Omni,Money and Death Flower Seeds
• XLStormyLX's Almost-Never-Empty Potty
• LostAccount's A mod to speed up the time it takes to teach toddlers to WALK
• LostAccount's A mod to speed up the time it takes to teach toddlers to TALK
• LostAccount's Teen WooHoo, Marriage, & Pregnancy Mod
• Sanati's No Jealousy Mod
• Petreak's Explore Catacombs Anytime Mod
• cazelfax's Superior Energy Gain for All Beds
• BlackCat007's No Autonomous Sprinkler
• dillowpillow's No More Autonomous 'Put Away' Fire Pit Action
• Gorre Money(?) Mod
• Gorre Botanical Boss Mod
• Gorre Hidden Traits Mod
• Gorre Faster Writing/Mo Money Mod
• Several Male Naughty Bits Mod(s)
• Dizzymental's Teen WooHoo, Marriage, & Pregnancy Mod
• Tutorials & Info
• Delphy's Sims 3 Wiki
• WesHowe's Tutorial: Modifying a TS3 Mesh
• Hysterical Paroysm's Custom Pattern Tutorial - "This tutorial explains how to make a custom pattern for The Sims 3 - both the editing of the image that you will need to do as well as how to get it to work in Delphy's Pattern Packager."
• How to Install Package Files
• Misty_2004's TUTORIAL: Four-Color Patterns In Paint Shop Pro 9
• MetalKat0642's Tutorial: A Fast Way to Create Patterns
• Inge Jones's Instructions for making a configuration hack
• Inge Jones's Sims 3 Gameplay Modding for Dummies
• Inge Jones's Handy Info About Creating Community Lots
• Getting TS3 to Recognize Your New Data
• Simply Complex's Adding Lifetime Reward points cheat or manual tutorial using Cheat Engine