The Hobby Mod  

The Hobby Mod adds 14 Preferences to CAS. Each of these preferences are inspired by the ten Hobby Tracks from Sims 2 Freetime: Arts and Crafts, Cuisine, Film and Literature, Fitness, Games, Music and Dance, Nature, Science, Sports and Tinkering. With the April 18th Update, 4 more Hobbies were added: Fashion & Beauty, Paranormal, Travel & Culture and Learning & Discovery.

Additionally, the preferences can be added to Sim via an interaction, found under the Hobbies category when you Shift+Click on a Sim. Also found here is the ability to Randomise a hobby preference. More on this system below.

Requires the XML Injector and Custom Whims Mod

Random Hobbies

The Randomise interaction is found under the Hobbies category when you Shift+Click on the Sim. When you choose to randomise hobby preferences, the mod will factor the Sim's existing Traits, Aspiration, Skills and Preferences and produce a hobby that should make sense. After a couple of months of testing, this has a very high success rate but occasionally pops out some surprises. Huge thank you to ChippedSim for coding this!

Each preference has it's own set of Whims and those whims are directly inspired by the Hobby track. They will act as a guide for the things your Sim wants to do, relating to their hobby.

For example, a Sim with a Nature hobby may wish to garden; a Sim with a Science hobby may wish to use a telescope and a Sim with Music and Dance hobby may wish to visit a nightclub.

The traits do not have any Buffs or interactions associated with them yet; just whims.

Translations

The mod currently supports the following translations:
English (Me)
Chinese (GreenOnionC)
Dutch (Britt Boons)
French (Kimikosoma)
Polish (Julia)
Portuguese (abronte)
Russian (Origamika Group, Joliebean)
Spanish (Dianuckethead)