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ALL - Better Ghosts!
🕑 Added 2021-03-10 22:26:04 +0000 UTCThis mod is meant to make Ghosts more enjoyable to play.
The first effect of the mod is giving Ghosts their very own energy bar:
Ghostly Energy
Ghosts use Ghostly Energy to exist in the livings world. They'll not have physical needs like hunger and bladder anymore (Pets don't have a custom bar, but they have some needs like hunger LOCKED, the energy, affection, bowel and fun still go down), instead they have this need that naturally goes down by day, and goes up at night. Different kind of ghosts have a different decay rate, and consume/recharge energy with their normal activities (all but humans):
Vampires: energy goes down a lot faster for ghosts vampires, but goes up a lot faster at night. They can still drink from sims to recharge energy, and use the dark meditation the same way as when they were alive, in addition to the standard ways a ghost can recharge (we'll see later)
Mermaids: energy goes down slower for them, they can recharge by swimming and taking baths, they use ghostly energy for mermaid powers instead of hygiene.
Witches: energy goes down slightly faster by day and up slightly faster by night. They use energy to cast spells and work magic. Build charge replaced with focus energy for ghosts, they can recharge a bit that way.
Aliens: energy goes down a lot slower.
Witches and Vampires have a night bonus. While normally they use ghostly energy to use powers and cast spells, none of this will have a cost at night.
Haunted houses: living in a haunted house will make energy go down slower and up faster for everyone. A ghost living in a haunted house will also get a +1 happy buff at night: happily haunting the place.
Ghostly energy is recharged for everyone in two ways:
Sleeping in a urn:
Ghost can only properly sleep in their own urn, they can rest in all the object they can normally possess to recharge a bit of energy (very little)
Draining Sims:
Possessing sims to drain energy from them is the faster way to recharge, it will drain their energy and reduce their lifespan, though.
Since this interaction was restricted to the murphy bed ghost and I used it for the drain sims system, this mod requires Tiny Living to work.
Ghosts can also declare their alignment:
Good ghosts will have a bonus interacting with the livings, while Evil ghost will unlock the option to kill a Sim the same way they died:
Evil and Mean sims cannot be Good Ghosts, Good and Proper sims cannot be Evil Ghosts.
There is also a new interaction if you click on your ghost to haunt the place:
They'll go around looking scary and scaring the shit out of sims while the lights go on and off for about a hour. This increases fun for them... and makes other sims panic.
Declaring the alignment is not required.
This mod requires the XML injector and Utility - Death Interactions to work.
In addition to the new features:
Added VFX and power cost to possess things, possessing things will have a will o wisp visual effect on top of the object (see the urn above) and will consume Ghostly energy, also added a cooldown for the autonomy.
Reworked outcome of maxis standard interactions: scaring sims will now... scare sims for real, the ghost will be playful, not embarrassed, the scared sim will be scared.
Reworked reaction to ghosts: seeing a ghost possessing stuff will not cause sims around to just be surprised, it will scare the shit out of them, causing them to panic and run away. Added a cooldown to the reaction and they should depend on relationship. If they have a good relationship with the ghost they should not react, in case you want a sim to live with ghosts.
Ghosts now have their own proper PieMenu: all the ghost interaction are moved under the ghost PieMenu.
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- Note: The Vampire Enabler package conflicts with Sunlight Weakness SIMS 3 Style that already includes it, so if you use that mod this package isn't required.
- Note that this mod doesn't support and never will support (none of my mods will ever support) hybrids. If your sim has two occult traits this mod will not know what to do and the UI will be broken.
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ALTERNATIVE DOWNLOAD: DRIVE
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UPDATE:
24/01/2023
Comments
emocyber
hey zero, I translated this mod to PT-BR, I'd appreciate if you checked it out!
Nea Emrys
I saw chippedsim made a Ghastly Ghosts mod, and I assume that one conflicts with this one?
Jordan
Dang... thanks for reporting it
Intern Waffle
There's a report from two years ago that this doesn't work with temporary ghosts, explicitly mentioning the Ghastly Ritual- and I can confirm it is still broken on that front :v
Zero_
The trait should already be removed once the sim is revived. I need to know: type of ghost and way of resurrection used.
Mark
Hey Zero, found a few bugs while playing not sure where to report them, hope this is ok. So from what I understand your mod adds another Ghost trait, issue is sometimes when reviving it doesn't remove both traits, only one gets removed so they still stay as a ghost. Would it be possible to have the modded trait remove itself if the other one is removed at any point? A good example of this would be using the paranormal seance table to temporarily turn into a ghost for a few hours, when the buff expires and you should turn back again but unfortunately you stay as a ghost.
Zero_
Yep forgot to update on drive
Kellie Schiavone
Hey, just a heads up, I think the "the link to download this mod is HERE" is the old version - at least, when I opened it up, the files had the date of the last update (6/15), not today's (6/25). The link at the bottom of the post appears to be correct.
Jordan
Yep this needs to be updated for the werewolves they don't have their own ghost overly yet.
MargoTheWitch
I'm having issues with ghost werewolves ghost bar not appearing and the UI needs panel glitching visually
Semtin
My mods were a terrible mess it seems, so I reinstalled the game and carefully put in some essencials, works like a charm. Thanks :)
Jordan
Try installing the injector again and try the mod alone with the injector and no other mods.
Semtin
This mod looks great on paper, sadly it doesn't work for me and I need help. What work, are: ghost UI (energy bar) and ghost possess kill interaction. Only these two things work, everything else is lacking. No possessing for energy, no sleeing in urns etc, everything else is vanilla (boring af). I've put 3 files into mods folder, got XML injector and Utility Death Interactions. What am I missing?
Katie C
Hey, is there a way for you to edit it to be basegame? I've been trying to figure out how to change it from the murphy bed ghost but I've been kinda having issues <.<
Zero_
that drive probably didn't update the file correctly
Nathan Jones
What’s the difference between the Zero All Better Ghosts and the Zero Better Ghosts files? The one in the link here has two newer files in it. But the one from the google drive has older files.
Zero_
Thanks. There is a discord for mod support eventually, you can find the link in the master posts, you don't need to be a Patreon if you're trying to save money for more important things.
Sara Elizabeth
I recently unsubbed from all my patreons as I'm trying to save money, but I keep coming back to yours again and again, and am just in awe of your talent! I had to sub! I looove all the spooky stuff you create, all the add ons for spellcasters etc etc etc. I feel like you make all the mods I would if I had the ability, like almost every single one features an issue that I've thought about before. The vet rabbit hole, etc etc. Thank you SOO MUCH for sharing all of these and for all of your hard work and for being awesome!
janyses
Does this update fix the problem where temporary ghosts do not return to human state? With the mod installed, temporary ghosts (for example, Ghastly consequences trait or Spiritual Ascendance,) stay that way permanently when it's time to change back to a regular sim.
Zero_
Yep... you didn't have the mod installed at all... the vampire enabler is a required file not a version of the mod, but I kept it separated because of a conflict, you need both the vampire enabler and the main mod. the main mod is always required.
Knightly Designz
So I think I figured it out... For the mod to work, you need to have the mod installed... (I had the vampireenabler file installed, but not the main file..)
Knightly Designz
I have the vampireenabler version of the ghosts mod
Knightly Designz
No, the needs page looks the exact same, as if they were alive
Zero_
did you update vampires can kill? they conflicted but the mod was updated to accommodate for the conflict
Knightly Designz
so i fully admit i'm most likely in the wrong, but does this mod conflict with your vampires can kill mod? i brought back a cattle and i don't see ANY of these features
Zero_
It's surely a loot on add and a loot on remove on the buff like for the skeleton that adds and removes the trait... it always work flawlessly in testing, but fails to work in gameplay sometimes.
Zero_
That's not even this mod causing it unless you mean that the overly was not removed (the ui), in which case, the mod was updated two days ago to fix it... but if after the séance she was supposed to turn back and she didn't, that's on maxis. Nope, the spell is not going to work (ghosts from the séance have a special trait not included in the resurrect loot nor in the wishing well. You need to manually remove the trait)
Baldylocks
I really like this mod, it’s been fun so far. Not sure if this is a feature or a glitch but after having a sim do a ghastly ritual on the seance table she turned into ghost but didn’t turn back and is still a ghost. I can have her de-deathified so not a huge deal, just a heads up if that’s not intentional.
Azuhra
Ghots have needed so much attention and I realize that EA isn't going to allow the sims team time to do it. Here you are, doing the hard work to make my occults interesting and FUN to play. I've never had much use for playing as a ghosts. You may have changed my mind about that now.
Zero_
The séance ritual gives you all the options without killing sims
Kellie Schiavone
I'd say EA should just hire you, but that'd probably be an insult to you ... in any case, this mod looks amazing, and now I have to decide whether to actively kill off some Sims to try it out or wait for them to show up naturally. ;)
Zero_
drain life is not autonomous, sleep in the urn, possess ad haunt are, but I can't tell how often they will, that's on the game.
Jude
Are any of the new ghost abilities autonomous? Will a visiting ghost drain life or do the haunt?
Zero_
Another thing i noticed is that u cannot bring back to life ( at least with the spell) a sim who is dead by flies - not caused by this mod, this doesn't even touch ghosts traits, only the ghost buff the rest is all new tuning, much less touches anything regarding resurrecting sims. When the bar goes all way down the sim turns into a puddle of goo but after a while (min 60 minutes after they get the last tired buff, to give them time to autonomously get into the urn, when they decide to be smart). Looking into the first thing now.
Killian
Hi! A thing i have noticed play testing. When traveling to another lot the ghostly energy bar goes back to full. Another thing i noticed is that u cannot bring back to life ( at least with the spell) a sim who is dead by flies ( but could be for sure base game bug) i also don tunderstand if something should happen if the gostly bar goes all way down, like it s just about flavor or they should go back to netherworld?
Elunæ
Great work! <3
Zero_
the worst part is that there were already some amazing things to use (see the interaction in tiny living, that's incredibly good) but they decided to make... pokemons.
SweetLilja
Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏 this is the update I wanted EA to do when creating happy haunts stuff pack. You are once again amazing! 👏❤
Your mods fill my heart with joy. Special thanks for this one. <3
Jude
You are my hero. This is exactly what I wanted out of a ghost mod 😍🥰🤩
Stephanie Anderson
This is amazing!
Svenja
Wow, thank you! I'm currently a little tired of playing (with all the bugs), but this is a good reason to start again.
