Waste Manager Rework
The game will now generate a service sim, like the mailman, that will come empty your garbage cans every Monday and Thursday, at around 6 A.M. Right after spawning, the sim will check for the following:
- Does the lot have the Reduce and Recycle trait?
And, if it does:
- Are the external trashcans in the lot not empty?
If both these tests pass, then the sim will walk to the lot and empty all non-empty trashcans before leaving with a trashbag in hand.
If one of the tests doesn’t pass, then the sim will just leave. I couldn’t make them not spawn at all, so this is the best solution I could come up with.
As you can see in the picture above, the sim is no longer called a “Waste Manager”, they are now the Garbage Collector.
The Garbage Collector will be assigned a custom career, so that the game always picks the same sim after it’s generated one (it also means you can get information if you use the Ask About Career interaction on them!). This career is NPC-only, like the Mail Carrier or Pizza Delivery careers, meaning it’s not available for your played sims.
You can create your own custom Garbage Collector by using the cheat “careers.add_career lotharihoe_garbagecareer”, without quotes, on your sim of choice, then moving them out of the lot and putting them in the “Unplayed Sims” category.
The name changes and other text-related features are available in:
- English and Portuguese (made by me)
- French (thanks to @kimikosoma!)
- Simplified Chinese (thanks to Monica!)
- Japanese (thanks to maru dada!)All other languages will default to English.
If you would like to help translating the mod to other languages, please send me a message.
OPTIONAL:
Reduce and Recycle Lot Trait - Default on All Lots
If you use the “rrlottrait-default” package, all residential lots will get the Reduce and Recycle lot trait by default. It won’t show on the UI, so you’re free to use all 3 slots. If you use the trait on any of your lots, make sure to remove it before adding the mod, cause you won’t be able to remove it while the package is in your Mods folder.
No Name Change
If you like the name “Waste Manager” and want to keep it, download the “wastemanagerrework-nonamechange” package instead of the other main one. It retains all other functionality without the Garbage Collector name change.