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Contents

  • Essentials
    • What's New
      • What's New
      • A World Without Limits
    • Creating A Sim
      • A New You
      • Personality
      • Family and Aging
      • Making Catherine Browne
    • Creating a House
      • Creating a House
      • Building Basics
      • Buying a Lot
      • Build Mode
      • Furnished Lots and Pre-Set Lives
      • Households
      • Cheat Sheet
    • A Day in the Life
      • The Essentials
      • Wishes
      • Skills
      • Careers
      • Mood Maintenance
      • Relationships and Socializing
      • Meet the Brownes
      • Getting Settled
      • Making the Most
      • Keep On Keepin’ On
    • Traits
      • Traits
    • Moods
      • Mood
      • Moodlets
      • Positive Moodlets
      • Neutral Moodlets
      • Negative Moodlets
    • Wishes
      • Wishes
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • Wishes List
      • Lifetime Happiness Points
    • Skills
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
    • Careers
      • Careers
      • Business
      • Criminal
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Medical
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-time Work
      • School
    • Opportunities
      • Opportunities
      • Skills Opportunities
      • Careers Opportunities
    • Relationships and Aging
      • Relationships
      • Friendships (and Enemies)
      • Romance
      • Socializing
      • Family and Aging
      • Having a Family
      • Death
      • Service Sims
    • Tour of Sunset Valley
      • City Life
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Fishing Spots
      • Places to Go Collecting
    • Design Corner
      • Truly Custom Content
      • Winsome Farmhouse
      • Le Grand Palace
      • FoxGlen Manor
      • The Cherry Tree Houses
      • Richmond Manor
    • Object Catalog
      • Object Catalog
      • Living Room
      • Kitchen
      • Dining Room
      • Bedroom
      • Bathroom
      • Study
      • Kids’ Room
      • Multi-Room Objects
      • Outdoors and Landscaping
      • Object Interactions
    • Community
      • Sharing with the World

The Sims 3 Guide › Essentials › Moods

Mood

A Sim’s mood of is the ultimate real-time determination of your success. A happy Sim means you are doing a good job on the big things, like fulfilling wishes and advancing careers, and also on the small stuff, like potty breaks.

Keeping your Sim’s mood up is critical for banking Lifetime Happiness Points. Use the information in this chapter—the list of moodlets below as well as tip and tricks for advancing skills, fulfilling wishes, and advancing careers—to keep your Sims’ moods high. By doing so, you can grab some awesome Lifetime Rewards that make life in Sunset Valley sweeter than honey.

Brownies Bites

If you’re like me, you reacted to negative moodlets with horror at first. What am I doing wrong?!? Relax. You are not causing permanent damage to your Sims. In fact, negative moodlets are excellent teaching tools. Whenever I spotted a negative moodlet, I made a mental note to avoid the activity in the future that caused the downer.

Besides, pain is part of life. Without it, you’re missing discovery opportunities. If you’ve ever had your heart broken, you know that once you get past the awful first week, you are already a better person because you learned about love’s fragility. You can apply that lesson to the next relationship—and if you’re smart, the next partner will benefit from your previous hurt.

Use that in The Sims 3. Let your darlings stumble.

(But don’t push them.) And when they do fall down, pick them up, dust them off, and send them back out into Sunset Valley all the wiser.

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