Survival Instincts

We all know what vampires need to survive—blood. Making sure you have a steady supply of the red stuff to sate a vampire’s thirst is critical to enjoying all of the benefits of becoming a child of the night.

We already covered how to turn another Sim into a vampire, but that ceremony does not fulfill the need for blood. These techniques, on the other hand, satisfy the blood lust.

The Need To Feed

When a Sim is turned into a vampire, they lose the Hunger need. It is replaced, though, by Thirst. Thirst and Hunger are the exact same, although Thirst cannot be sated by eating regular food or harvestables.

Thirst can only be fulfilled by drinking blood. There are several ways to satisfy the thirst for blood. The easiest is to consume either a new Plasma Fruit (check the sidebar for details) or guzzle a Plasma Juice.

Plasma Juice can be bought at the store and stored in the fridge, just like regular ingredients or leftovers.

Plasma Fruit acts like a Quick Snack/Meal. Only Vegetarian vampires get the Sated moodlet from Plasma Fruit. For all other, Plasma Fruit only takes care of Thirst.

However, vampires derive the greatest degree of satisfaction from dipping their fangs into a fresh vein. The Drink interaction on a target Sim initiates the bloody snack attack. Now, you cannot just grab hold of strangers and start slurping.

You must have a good relationship with a target, regardless of whether or not they are controlled by you or are autonomous. If you attempt the interaction on a Sim that is not keen on your vampire, they will resist and reject the advance.

If the target has a good relationship with your vampire or is romantically interested in your vampire (and here’s where interactions like Think About Me help), they will allow themselves to be fed upon. If the Sims are friends, they offer their wrist.

If romance is involved, the vampire moves down to the neck for the main course. Either way, this action not only feeds the vampire (and imbues the Sated moodlet), but gives a slight relationship boost to both parties.

If a vampire fails to feed enough, they can perish.

So, when the Madly Thirsty moodlet appears, stop everything and do whatever you must to get this vampire some hemoglobin, stat. Should the timer below the moodlet zero out, the Grim Reaper appears to take what’s rightfully his.

The vampire disintegrates into a pile of ashes...but even the undead can come back as ghosts. Playable vampire ghosts are really cool, because they have the benefits of vampirism and of ghosts.

Vampire ghosts are dark crimson. Creepy, huh?

The Hunt

Not all plasma is the same. Vampires get greater pleasure and extra Thirst satisfaction if they drink from a superior source. But to identify a source of good plasma, vampires must go on the Hunt.

To start the Hunt interaction, just click on the currently occupied lot and select it from the available list. Now, the vampire will begin eyeing everybody in the joint.

As Sims around the vampire are “scanned” for plasma quality, they appear with a thermal overlay. After a few moments, the vampire gathers the necessary info to determine which Sim (or Sims) on the lot has particularly delicious plasma.

Those Sims will be noted in the relationship tab of the Status Panel and will be marked with an icon in Map View.

Your vampire definitely wants to keep track of these special Sims; when he or she drinks from them, the vamp earns the positive Sanguine Snack moodlet. This is more powerful than the Sated moodlet.