Allotments Mod - Download
I made this mod for @desiree-uk! It's being shared as per her suggestion. A big thank you to her and I hope you all enjoy!
Put your community (or residential) gardens to use! Create and rent allotments, push gardening interactions and make a nice profit while you're at it.
Place the allotment marker in a gated enclosure, set the sim who will be renting the allotment, and they'll take care of all the plants within their enclosure, plus partake in other specified duties.
Available Duties - Toggle on/off - [visibility subject to lot-type]
- Water,
- Weed,
- Harvest,
- Get Fertiliser**,
- Fertilise Plants,
- Dispose of Dead Plants,
- Rake Leaves,
- Burn or Dispose Leaves.
Gardening Push
As the allotment marker is a meta object, the sim renting the marker may autonomously be pushed to the lot to garden their allotment while inactive.
The marker is also a broadcaster object, so while within the vicinity, the renter will be pushed to complete any outstanding garden activities while in range.
You can also set up dedicated gardening days to push your sim to the lot and prevent your sim from coming to garden during certain seasons.
Payment
Set an owner for the allotment or attach a Bronzo* bank to the marker and make your sim pay to use the space! You can even set up automatic rent payments.
Harvesting
Link a harvest box to the allotment marker and all harvested produce will go straight into the box instead of clogging up your sims inventory. You can also sell produce straight from the box!
Requirements:
*My social clubs mod and **Ani's compost mod. Without these, the mod will at worst, crash, and at best, not work as intended.
Please read the included documentation for a more comprehensible feature breakdown.
Objects:
A collection file is included for easy access to the objects.
Otherwise: the harvest box is in storage/misc. for $190 and the allotment marker is in outdoors/lawn ornaments for $35.
Thanks:
- To @aroundthesims for generously allowing me to use her objects for my mods.
- To @anitmb for her composting mod which has helped to enhance this mod.
- To douglasveiga from MTS for the gardener service mod which I looked at when my interactions weren't working as intended.
Please enjoy!
If you would like to donate to say thanks, please feel free to do so at: my kofi :)
Day 2 Update anyone?
There are too many restrictions for gardening on community lots! But thanks to a great idea by @bietjie on the Creators Discord, there's now a way to get around it!
Plant pots!!
These are non-default clones of the EA plant pots that allow you to plant, water, weed and fertilise on community lots!
Simply place a pot on a community lot and you'll unlock the relevant gardening duties on the allotment marker!
They work like regular EA plant pots while on residential lots so don't worry about mixing and matching.
The documentation has been updated so for more information, check that out!
[This requires Supernatural but I believe you can still install the mod if you don't have that pack. Just don't bother to install the planter bowl packages in the RAR. If you don't have SN and run into problems, let me know!]
EDIT: Seems like it's not updated yet on simblr. So, use alternate link in the meanwhile.
Alternate: http://simfileshare.net/folder/217762/
Big Update! 🔼 We can plant seeds on community lots in plant pots and perform all gardening interactions to the plants! Thanks, Phoebe!