PlumbBros  

This mod requires the Seasons EP. Enhanced by Eco Lifestyle, Bust the Dust Kit, and Snowy Escape.

Upgrade your homes with the PlumbBros Central Air Conditioning and Heating System! An alternative to the Thermostat/Temperature system that came with the Seasons EP.

In The Sims 4 Seasons, Temperature is represented by states like Freezing, Cold, Cool, Warm, Hot, Burning, instead of using number values we usually see in real life. The Thermostat introduced a whole new way to affect your sims’ home like never seen before in the franchise, however it only provides two simple states that affect your bills more than it affects your sims.

PlumbBros introduces realistic temperature flux to the indoors, with a fully simulated system that is dependent on how you build and optimize your homes.

Getting Started

By default, PlumbBros is disabled until you activate it for the entire save, or add the Heating & Cooling lot challenge to a specific lot. You can activate it for the entire save by placing a Thermostat on the lot and toggling in the Settings.

To get your HVAC system started, place an Outdoor Condenser Unit, Air Vents, and a Thermostat on the lot. Call PlumbBros from your Phone and receive a Consultation to learn more. Continue reading below to learn how to run your system and optimize savings.

Temperature

To create a temperature flux between the indoors and outdoors, temperature will now be represented by Fahrenheit and Celsius!

Throughout the day the outdoor temperature will vary based on the core temperature you see in the Weather UI. Each level of your home will have its own temperature value based on the distance from the ground floor. The higher the level, the warmer it will be on average, basement levels and below will stay cooler on average.

Depending on the size of each level, the temperature difference, the type of Insulation, and other optimizations, the indoor temperature will flow towards the outdoor temperature at different rates. If it’s Burning/Freezing outside, the indoors will more likely become hotter/cooler quicker but take longer to heat/cool which may affect your strategies in different worlds!

Each Sim will have their own Preferred Temperature depending on their traits. You can learn others’ Preferred Temperatures and Ponder about your own Preferred Temperature through Sim Interactions.

You can view the current outdoor temperature and the current indoor average through the Thermostat tooltip. Only available on the HeyHoney Thermostat.

More Realistic Billing

A core feature of the Seasons Thermostat is to increase your overall bills depending on which setting it is on. The way this works is by adding a multiplier to every electronic in your home. Which exponentially increases your bills based on the electronic objects you own. This is not anywhere close to how your Air Conditioning/Fans would affect your bills in real life???

Instead of affecting the cost of all other electronics, the PlumbBros HVAC System uses normal Power on its own which can incur high costs if it must run more often and can save money if it’s run less often from the temperature factors above and optimizations listed below.

Active Career

Join PlumbBros and work your way up to an HVAC Specialist through a commission-based Active Career! Study HVAC Knowledge and share it with other Sims in your neighborhoods. Daily Work Orders will take your sim around town to complete tasks like providing Consultations, Repairing Condensers, Replacing Air Filters, Recharging Refrigerant, Insulation Installation, and Repairing Water Mains + Plumbing. Use the Technician Tablet in your Sim’s inventory to study knowledge and view daily work orders.

NOTE: It’s recommended you opt your entire save into gameplay or opt in multiple lots, plus setup HVAC systems through World Edit mode to ensure the best Active Career experience!

HVAC Trainees will start off giving Consultations as they study HVAC Knowledge. Promotions will give higher commissions and access to more advanced Work Orders.

If you ever need help on the job, call a PlumbBros partner and give them a task to do. Depending on your career level they will take a cut of your final profits. If you enjoy working with a specific partner, try asking them to become your Permanent Work Partner! They will always be assigned to your job when requested.

Career Levels

Trainee: §7/hr, 10% Commission

Technician: §12/hr, 25% Commission

Specialist: §18/hr, 50% Commission

Cheats

Instantly Make Home Comfortable

With testing cheats enabled, shift click the Mailbox or Thermostat to “Make Home Comfortable”. This will set every level to 72˚F. You can also enter the cheat hvac.make_comfortable

hvac.live_stats

Toggles live hvac telemetry. Open the lot51_hvac.log file to view all the stats of the HVAC system in real time.

hvac.shutoff_water

Turn off the Water Utility

hvac.restore_water

Restore the Water Utility

hvac.break_pipes

Break the Water Main

hvac.fix_pipes

Instantly repair the Water Main

hvac.super_mop

Instantly clean up all puddles on lot

hvac.puddle

Spawn a random puddle

hvac.place_spawners

Spawns multiple broken pipe water sprayers

hvac.destroy_spawners

Removes all broken pipe water sprayers on lot

hvac.clear_trends

Clear the recent Usage Trend logs