AINALI by technicallyswagpizza
Ainali lies at the northern end of Finland where pristine blue lakes are surrounded by dense green forests. The rural village itself boasts of pretty, colourful traditional houses. Ainali is a destination for people who want to experience wild nature and love being outdoors, be it fishing, hiking, biking or simply getting lost. Also a great place for introverts to unite! As far away from other people as possible, of course.
I turned into a bit of a world collector *coughhoardercough* while I have been on a mission to find a perfect world that suits my playstyle and aesthetics plus is relatively small and lag free. I haven’t found many worlds that are based on Scandinavia let alone Finland, but I stumbled upon Vera’s Sammallampi awhile ago and I fell in love with it! It made me feel all fuzzy inside as it reminded me of my childhood and sweet summer holidays by the Ainali lake. I edited the world for my own enjoyment initially, but as I have been doing so I figured I might as well share it with the rest of you simmers since it really is a nifty little world!
- The playable area is now a medium map within a large world map, if that makes sense. Even though the lots are a little spread out around the lake it won’t take several sim hours to drive from one end to the other.
- The original distant terrain didn’t load for me, so I replaced it with ones from Twinbrooks and Island Paradise.
- Updated some of the textures such as grass and soil to use Nilxis textures instead.
- I have fixed all the roads, spawners and overall routing, I removed one of the piers as it was causing routing issues as well. Sadly, I had to make the small islands unroutable too.
- I removed quite a lot of trees, but it is still very much a tree heavy world.
- I have tamed all the floating grasses and trees.
- I added more lots and changed the size for some of the originals.
- I created a lighting mod and included it in the world file.
- Finally, I renamed it after my childhood stomping grounds.
But wait, there is more! I have made two versions for you to choose from!
#1 Empty world // Requirements:
Base-game and Ambitions, Island Paradise distant terrain is included in the download incase you don’t have the pack installed.
- Map is completely empty, has a wide variety of spawners and ready to be built by you. Go crazy!
#2 Built and ready to move in! // Requirements:
Base game, World Adventures, Ambitions, Generations, Late Night, Showtime, University Life, Aurora Skies store world, (Island Paradise is optional).
CC included in the download: Aurora Skies, Rabbit hole rugs & doors by Jynx (Pet fixed), distant terrain from Island Paradise.
CC not included: Bistro rug by Misty as per her TOU, download it here. (Registration needed)
- All the lots are built and furnished.
- I want to emphasize that this is very much a base game friendly world with some items used from the rest of the packs listed above simply for their functionality (Late Night for bars, University for baristas and grocery rabbithole, Ambitions for skilling items, Generations for a wedding arch etc) and as the world is based on a nordic village I used Aurora Skies stuff in it as well but it’s mostly just roofs, paneling and the lovely lupin flowers that come with it. If you don’t have some of the expansion packs or don’t want to install Aurora Skies the items I have used will simply be replaced by something else from your own game. Nothing should break, but some bits might look a little bare or funky due to the replaced items!
- More pictures in my blog under the #Ainali tag over here
Almost there, just few more bits!
- I have created a lighting mod for Ainali and included it in the world file itself, I would recommend at least trying it out (by taking your own lighting mod out of Mods/Packages folder to see it in action)! If you like Ainali’s lighting and want to use it in other worlds or as a standalone mod, shoot me a message and I’ll make a package for you.
- This world comes with 16 Community lots, 14 Residential lots and 2 empty lots. I have not included population.
- Ainali comes with basic rabbit hole careers you would get in a vanilla game. Even though I have all the expansions I rarely if ever play with pets or occult sims, so lots related to them you have to add yourself (Festival lots, future and showtime bits).
- I would strongly advise downloading Nraas Go Here and disabling boats. They will cause lag as townies have a habit of looping around endlessly. Same with horses, really, as they tend to get stuck.
- Some houses and lots may look familiar as I have edited and used EA lots as a base + 2 lots from doublemedion694′s Cladbridge-on-Stowe (one was made by Reachsim) and 1 lot from CAW blog’s Amberville.
- You do NOT need the original Sammallampi world installed for Ainali to work. This is a completely new world that simply used Sammallampi as a base.
- So just to make sure this is clear, everything else aside from the rabbit hole rugs/doors are entirely, utterly, completely cc free. I used Nilxis textures while building in CAW, but you don’t have to download them nor will they have an impact on your game outside of Ainali. The rest is just pure vanilla EA base game stuff, part of expansion packs or Aurora Skies.
If you post pictures, please let me know and tag them with #Ainali or simply holla at me. I’d love to see any and all pictures!
Congratulations, you have reached the end credits!
Special thanks to @verakasthethird for creating Sammallampi and allowing me to edit and share it forward. Shoutout to @nornities for answering a buttload of questions related to CAW, playtesting and witnessing my brainfarts without judging me, you have been a massive help! High5 @starburstshores for finding the time to test Ainali for me, you are golden ♡ Also final thanks to @nilxis for sharing the beautiful grass and soil textures!
