Glass walls, roof plants, collections menu refreshes, inventory QOL tweaks, and more arrive in The Sims 4 with the latest patch

We’re proper in the course of a really busy interval on the earth of The Sims 4. Following on from the summer roadmap, revealed just below a month in the past, Maxis has been steadily making issues occur.

The Nature’s Calling event kicked off recently with new quests and tasks, getting the sport (and gamers) within the temper for some outdoorsy enjoyable in preparation for the launch of Enchanted by Nature, the sport’s upcoming enlargement.

Enchanted by Nature is very much right around the corner, launching on July 10 – so a little bit over one week from this writing. Maxis promised to launch a base sport replace on July 1 for all gamers, and it has delivered.

The replace – model 1.116.202.1030 on PC, 1.116.202.1230 on Mac, and a pair of.14 on consoles – brings a variety of main options to the core sport, alongside a number of high quality of life enhancements for longtime gamers.

For starters, you’re now ready to make use of glass partitions and glass roofs in your builds. You’ll discover the choice underneath Misc within the Wall Patterns part of Construct Mode. You may place crops on roofs, too. The sport will present you the kinds of crops obtainable to your roof (relying on the footprint) while you browse Roof Sculptures in Construct Mode.

The truth is, you possibly can even inform whether or not or not any plant within the Outside Vegetation part will also be positioned on the roof. There’s quite a lot of them, too, with a number of sizes of shrubs and flowers so that you can select from.

The stock of your Sims has additionally obtained an enormous refresh with this patch. The principle level is to make it simpler to seek out what you’re in search of. There are new methods to kind, and a brand new badge to element when an merchandise had been just lately acquired.

Spoiled meals will present a pink background to make it clear they’ve gone unhealthy, and there’s a brand new Spoiled stack the place you’ll discover meals you need to eliminate.

The in-game Pocket book has been equally refreshed. On high of a brand new, extra spacious format, you’ll additionally discover the brand new Class Pages extra helpful when managing discoveries. Talking of which, every time a brand new discovery is added, it’s going to return with a badge to indicate that.

The stream of the Pocket book has additionally been improved with the addition of a again button, in addition to new devoted buttons from Family Collections, and Sim Stats. In case you’re enjoying on consoles (or with a controller), you’ll discover it a lot simpler to scroll utilizing the best analog stick.

In case you’re a longtime participant of The Sims 4, you’ve possible been hoarding so many gadgets. The most recent replace makes the Family Collections UI simpler to navigate. Every assortment class now has its personal icon, depend, and completion standing.

The stock button to your Sims will play a little bit animation when a brand new assortment merchandise has been discovered, and the Collections web page itself has a brand new format that higher shows the totally different classes.

That web page will even observe progress, and you may even kind by completion progress for those who choose. For much more granularity, you possibly can filter by Rarity, Identify, Current, Bonus Objects, and Lacking inside any particular assortment.

For a have a look at the all of the patch notes, together with the bug fixes made on account of participant suggestions, hit up the EA Blog, and do not forget to atone for our Nature’s Calling event guide.