ℹ️ About

This mod attempts to improve immersion by allowing players to tweak multiple aspects of NPC spawning, such as forcing pedestrians to stick to their home worlds and allowing strays outside Brindleton Bay, as well as multiple other tweaks and fixes.

⚙️ Mod Menu

This mod has a settings menu through which you can configure most of its features. Here's how to access it:

• Press Ctrl + Shift + C to open the cheat console.
• Type in testingcheats true and press Enter.
• Find any mailbox object and click on it while holding the Shift key.
• You should see an option called Lotharihoe Mod Settings and, inside it, Sim Spawn Overhaul. Click it and the mod menu will appear.

🚶‍♂️‍➡️Features

These features can be toggled through the settings menu.

• Local Pedestrians - Forces pedestrians to always be sims who live the current world.
• Allow Homeless Pedestrians - Requires Local Pedestrians to be enabled. Allows sims who are homeless to also spawn as pedestrians.
• Prefer Local Sims in Venues - Sims who live in the current world will have a higher chance to spawn at venues over sims from different worlds.
• Homeless Service Sims - Sims such as bartenders and stall vendors will always be homeless sims.
• Fix NPC Outfits - Randomly generated NPC outfits will be replaced with the Everyday category.
• No Pedestrians in Bad Weather - The game will not spawn pedestrians if there's heavy rain, a storm, or a blizzard.
• Animals Everywhere - Stray animals and dog walking sims will spawn in worlds other than Brindleton Bay.
• No Sunlight in Forgotten Hollow - Vampires will not burn in the sun in Forgotten Hollow.

🔧Tweaks and Fixes

These features are always enabled and cannot be configured through the settings menu.

• Fixes instances where any sim is allowed to spawn when only a neighbor sim should.
• There's an NPC which spawns in park lots and is called a "park sleeper". They wear dirty clothes and sleep on benches, and always have the Erratic trait. This changes this NPC to always be a homeless sim, regardless of trait.
• Replaces random non-occult sims jogging towards and entering the magic portal in Glimmerbrook. The game will now only spawn Spellcasters for this purpose.
• Fixes children being allowed to spawn inside gyms.
• Replaces fake vampires that spawn at night wearing randomly generated outfits with actual vampires in regular outfits.
• Fixes vampires spawning at bar venues in Moonwood Mill. Bars placed in that world have a higher chance of spawning occult sims, and this happens to include vampires who shouldn't be anywhere near Moonwood Mill.