Cleaning Skill  

Day in, day out, our Sims perform the grieviously mundane task of cleaning, with little to no reward aside from the survivalist goal of keeping the household's cleanliness afloat to prevent it from falling into disarray.

However, no matter how much experience your Sims have when it comes to cleaning up, they will not get any faster at it without the assistance of a purchased reward trait. A necessary reference is that the reward trait Speed Cleaner, which your Sims have to purchase from the rewards store, makes Sims "tidy up much faster" by applying a stat use multiplier of 5 to the increase of commodity_dirtiness on the participant. This translates to the process of cleaning becoming much faster for Sims with that trait.

This mod makes it so that your Sims can also gradually increase their Cleaning Skill, a custom five-level skill, and become faster at cleaning the more they perform cleaning interactions, benefiting from their labor over time. 

Following the baseline trend the Speed Cleaner trait itself established, ranking up on the Cleaning Skill will apply that same multiplier the trait does, but now, equal to your Sim's cleaning skill. Level 2 Cleaning Skill? That multiplier will be 2. Level 3 will be a multiplier of 3, and by the same logic Level 4 will provide one of 4. And upon reaching the skill's maximum level of 5, your Sim, through their hard work, will be as fast at cleaning as if they had purchased the Speed Cleaner trait. 

Note that a Speed Cleaner with Level 5 Cleaning Skill will be able to perform cleaning interactions almost instantly.

Sims with max Cleaning Skill will be able to access the Cleaning Frenzy of the Neat trait (likelier to clean autonomously while this buff is activated) if their surroundings are dirty enough to trigger the discomfort buff.

Important: Performing any cleaning interaction will enable this skill for the specific Sim that performed the action, and the skill will begin to increase with every subsequent cleaning interaction. Your Sim will unlock the skill upon the second cleaning interaction they personally perform after this mod has been added, due to the way it is set up in order to not need to override any resources.

Compatibility:

This mod is base-game compatible.

This mod will conflict with any other mod that alters the following XMLs: Puddle_Mop_Small [27284], Puddle_Mop_Large [27285], Puddle_Mop [13835], and puddle_Mop_Small_Vomit [173924].

Credits: Sims4Studio and Lot51's TDESC BROWSER for making the creation of this mod possible