Paralives Mod: Wants Don't Clear
- BellaDovah

- May 28
- 2 min read
Updated: 7 days ago

I made a mod for Paralives which stops wants from being cleared when Paras go to bed each night, so they're still available to work on the next day.
This adds a lot more incentive, purpose and direction to gameplay for me personally.
I love how there's always wants active in The Sims 2 so that's what I'm going for. You can always manually delete ones you don't want anymore to make space when you get to pick a new reaction to an emotion. I learned after making this that you can actually stop one want from clearing by pinning it, but I'd rather be able to keep as many as I currently have and besides, remembering to pin one every day especially in large households could get tricky/annoying. So, I thought others might want this mod too to keep all of their wants.
UPDATE:
This mod now requires another mod by me, Always Show All Available Wants, in order to resolve the unforeseen and unwanted side effect of this mod; it stops new wants being offered.
It seems like there's something funky going on in the game logic that makes it so when it checks whether new wants can be offered, the clearing must have happened. This is not clear or moddable as far as I can tell. I'm hoping this will change in an update. For now, using the other mod alongside it will eliminate the issue because it ignores cooldowns/checks when determining which wants can be offered, so all appropriate wants can be selected from, something like 20-30 of them, rather than the usual 1-3 specially selected ones, or with this mod alone currently, none. So, by using both of my mods together you'll still be able to stop them from clearing during sleep and also be able to choose new wants, much more than you could choose from before. You can use my new mod without this mod if you just want the feature of being able to choose from a bigger pool of wants each time.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused, I'll update you if I find another workaround or anything changes with a future update.
Check out the full list of mods I use here.


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