Ask Category & Menu Cleanup
A downloadable mod
Last updated December 12th, 2022
Working for The Sims 4 v1.93 / Pastel and Clutter Patch
Update 12/12/21
- Added Portuguese translation from Theuso
Update 10/22/22
- Renamed to "Ask Category & Menu Cleanup" and added "Better Vampire Menus" mini-mod to this collection. (No content changes. Filenames have changed, please delete the old versions.)
Update 9/8/22
- Added new questions added in the High School Years pack to the Ask category. Prom and Graduation specific questions were left in their own categories. Let me know if you find any I missed.
Update 7/28/22
- Added new questions about sexual and romantic orientation to the Ask category
Update 6/16/22
- Moved several new Werewolves questions out of the Friendly category and into the Ask category (socials which were already in a werewolf category were left alone)
Update 5/17/22
- Added new My Wedding Stories questions to the main mod and the Small Talk addon
- Added new questions from my New Emotional Traits mod to the Small Talk addon
- Added a new addon that organizes Village Errands into their own category (requires Cottage Living)
This collection of mods aims to group similar interactions together and clean up the menus into something less cluttered, so that there is less need to chose "More Choices...".
Ask Category
With this mod installed, you'll find a new social category called "Ask..." marked with a question mark speech bubble. Use this menu for any social interaction where some new information or other tangible reward is given to you. Small talk options like "Ask about Day" and "Ask to Stargaze" have been left alone, however.
Interactions moved into the Ask category include the following:
- Ask to Leave
- Ask about Hobbies
- Ask about Favorite Color
- Ask about Taste in Music
- Ask about Taste in Decor
- Ask about Career
- Ask if Single
- Ask for Small/Large Loan
- Ask to Clean Up
- Ask to Join Household
- Ask for DNA (Scientist Career)
- Ask for Crystal (Scientist Career)
- Ask for Metal (Scientist Career)
- Ask about Another Sim
- Ask to See Outfit
- Ask to Be Put to Bed
- Ask about Phase
- Ask to Trade Voidcritters
- Ask about Jungle
- Ask about Ruins
- Ask about Antidote
- Ask about StrangerVille
- Ask if Mermaid
- Ask about Major
- Ask for Donation (Education Career)
- Ask to Volunteer Time (Education Career)
- Ask for Repeal Signature
- Ask Sim to Pursue Dream Job
- Ask to Stay the Night
- Ask to be Sim of Honor
- Ask for Blessing to Marry
- Ask to be Flower Spreader
- Ask to be Ring Bearer
- Ask to be Officiant
Small Talk Addon
Additionally, there is an optional "Small Talk" addon for interactions with "Ask" in the name, but don't actually offer any information to the player. The addon includes the following interactions:
- Ask About Love Life
- Ask About Day
- Ask Risque Question
- Ask About Drink
- Ask About Being Dead
- Ask to Stargaze
- Ask About Being Old
- Ask About Favorite Author
- Ask About Food
- Ask About School
- Ask About Woohoo
- Ask About Prized Possessions
- Ask Due Date
- Ask for Advice
- Ask for Reassurance
- Ask for Typing Tips
- Ask Impossible Riddle
- Ask What Happened
- Ask for Massage
- Ask for Gardening Advice
- Ask for Repair Advice
- Ask for Present (from Father Winter)
- Ask About Wedding Bouquet
- Ask to Repeat Name
Village Errands Addon
(Requires Cottage Living)
This optional addon puts all social interactions related to Village Errands into their own category so you don't have to fish around in the Friendly category.
Vampires Addon
(Requires Vampires)
This optional addon reorganizes Vampire socials interactions and computer interactions into relevant categories.
Purchase interactions for vampire tomes, plasma packs, and plasma fruit seeds on the computer are now sorted into the "Order..." category.
"Search for Information on Vampires" is now found in the "Web... > Research..." subcategory.
The following social interactions have been moved out of the "Friendly" and "Mean" categories into the "Vampire" category:
- Ask to Turn
- Offer to Turn
- Offer to Cure Vampirism
- Throw Vampire Cure
- Vampiric Duel
- Slay Vampire
- Vampiric Spar
- Ask About Vampire History
The following social interactions have been removed from the menu entirely and will only be performed autonomously:
- Praise Vampire Lifestyle
- Debate Existence of Vampires
- Enthuse About Vampires
- Confess Fear of Vampires
Languages
English
French (thank you, Kimikosoma!)
Italian (thank you, Isy!)
Russian (thank you, wild_guy!)
German (thank you, LittleDog1002!)
Spanish (thank you, MashyLatte!)
Polish (thank you, Nerine!)
Portuguese (thank you, Theuso!)
New translations are always welcome! This mod only adds one word.
Requirements
This mod only requires the Base Game. Interactions from packs will be added into the category automatically, but are not required.
The Village Errands addon quires the Cottage Living expansion pack.
Special Thanks
Andrew and The Sims 4 Studio team for making Sims 4 Studio
Alphabetsmells/LeRoiDeTout for his help teaching me about custom module code
and the greater The Sims 4 creator community for their continuous help and support throughout the whole modding process
Discord Server
For bug reports, live troubleshooting, discussion of my mods, and general chit-chat, please join us on the Sims After Dark Discord server. It is a joint mod support server for LeRoiDeTout, Shinobu Nox, NC4T/Keke, and myself.
Supporting My Mods
This mod and all of my others are free to download and will remain so. If you'd like to support their continued development, you can donate to my Patreon. I occasionally post progress updates and exclusive access to beta versions of my newer mods.
Download
Install instructions
Unzip the zip archive. Add the main ts4script file and as many package files as you want to your Sims 4 Mods folder or a subfolder which is only one deep. For organization, it is usually better to keep the files together as they are arranged.
Comments
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I can't see the "Small Talk" menu but I can see all the others :(
Small Talk is not a separate menu. The addon just adds more options to the Ask category.
does this work with the organized pie menu mod?
Wanted to say thanks again for this tool. It's vastly improved my ability to find items. I've added a few other mods to this new menu as well. No doubt there will be more I'll find to add.
This slight alteration, this script could also be used for moving a bunch of mod menus from the main interaction menu to the debug menu, as there's so many mods out there cluttering up the main sim interaction menus with settings menus or set-and-forget type interactions, that just don't need to be included with every click of a sim or object, and the way you've done it here requires minimal updates compared to editing the mod itself.I'm glad you like the mod, but I purposefully do not alter the custom interactions of other modders without their permission because that can cause confusion for their users and make troubleshooting harder if the modder isn't aware the interaction could be moved. That said, I think it's pretty cool that you've made a personal version of it to sort things how you like.
Great idea! I've noticed a couple issues with options showing when they shouldn't, such as "ask due date", when a sim isn't pregnant, or asking them to participate in MWS, when the active sim isn't engaged.
"Ask Due Date" is both a friendly question and a mischief prank, so it will appear for non-pregnant Sims and offend them if you try it. MWS socials appear even when not engaged, presumably to allow for Vow Renewal events. Those are both vanilla game behaviors and haven't been changed by this mod.
Can this be updated for the wedding socials? "Ask to be officiant/flower pal/whatever" is really clogging up my social menus, even though my sims are already married.
Thanks for bringing this up! I haven't really had a chance to play with the wedding pack yet so this hadn't crossed my mind. Will update that soon.
Thank you for the update!!
Here's my Spanish Translation of this mod! ^^
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqN35G96CQtPi59f1wpudlGZLpFUnWer/view?usp=shari...
Thank you! I have now added this into the mod and added your name to the credits. :)
I think I'm good. I was a little hasty. I updated 2 mods and removed yours as my test and then i was fine. I forgot to re-add yours for it didn't dawn me it was the outdated mod. either Nisak wicked or seriouslysims cooking. Assuming the first but maybe ask to cook was busting it. Just seemed the most logical would be yours lol, Askcategory w/ last exception saying tuning with the Ask for s'x
Not sure if you would do a little workaround but I enjoy making my game as realistic as possible. Evidently this mod which I love by the way doesn't play nice with wicked whims newest patch sept 10. Not sure if you ever collaborated but I love your stuff and all the ask's in one place made searching for specific things so much easier. Its the 'ask for' tuning mod that imploded. I am heavily modded and took me days to track this one down as the conflict. Should have found it way sooner but I have a specific Kuttoe folder with tons of your stuff and overlooked that folder for the majority of stuff i have from you is for get to work things
What about it isn't working exactly? Are you getting a last exception? Please come into the Discord server for better troubeshooting when you get a chance.
This is what i was looking for since so long ! especially for the question we need to ask only once ! Thank you so so much for that
Is this mod compatible with the newest patch (cottage living) ?
Yes, it's working fine. If you find new socials involving questions in the pack, let me know and I can add them.
Will do <3
This is great but imo I would love if there was a version which also included the excluded 'small talk' ones, just so my brain knows -anything- with "Ask to" is now always going to be in there. Even more useful!
But still, this is a must use! Thank you.
This is really useful, thank you!