#SIMS 4 WORLD SAVES HOW TO#
The base save tutorial is effectively finished now, but I promised I’d show you how to separate all your saves in the future. HELPFUL TIP: Always copy, never cut! If you cut your base save files into your game, then you’ll lose the files in your backups which you will need to copy whenever you want to start a new game with your base save. Your new folders should be set up like this: When you run the game, select Load Game and select your base save. No worries, you just backed up your base save in the previous step.įrom now on, whenever you want to start a new game, instead of clicking New Game, copy the files from your most recent Base Save version and paste them into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves.
Now that you have your new base save backed up, return to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves and delete everything in that folder. Whenever you edit your base save, save it in a new dated folder under your Base Save folder. Inside your dated folder, paste all the files you copied from Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves. If you ever run into trouble with your current version, you will always have a previous version you can fall back on. 2) Dating each version of your saves gives you multiple backups. Why date all the files inside your Saves folder? Two reasons: 1) As we get new pack content, you’ll want to edit your base save to include it. Inside the Base Save folder, make a new folder and title it with the current date. Inside this Saves folder, make a new folder called Base Save. All the files in this folder belong to your base save. Go back to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves. Whenever you are finished setting up your save exactly the way you want it, save and exit the game. I’ve also put buffet tables in my clubs and bars.Īwesome! Now it’s time to put your newly created base save somewhere safe in your backups so you can always go grab it whenever you need it. I have a laundromat in my game and have added pools and rock climbing walls to my gyms, for example. Edit existing lots to include content from later packs that you have installed. Add whatever clubs you like and edit existing clubs to your liking. Set up your clubs the way you want them if you have Get Together installed. Add pets to the premade Maxis households if you have Cats & Dogs installed. You want to be able to just load it and go without having to redo your Sims and lots all the time. If you ever get rid of your CC or if it breaks, the next time you start your game, all your Sims will look strange. Give all the premade Maxis Sims makeovers to suit your personal taste. Build or place all the lots you want in the empty Newcrest world. This is entirely up to you and your own personal preferences, but here are some ideas of things you might want to change or add: 
Start a new game and begin setting it up exactly the way you want it. You will only have the option to start a new game since your saves folder is currently empty. It may take you days or even weeks to set up your base save exactly the way you want it, depending on how particular you are, but it will be worth it in the end when you have a save file you can always use instead of redoing everything all the time. 
This is the longest, but probably the most fun part of the tutorial. Now that your saves folder is empty and all your saves are backed up somewhere else, we can begin with a clean slate. Your backup folder should look like this, with all your save files inside the Starting folder: Don’t worry about losing your saves, you just backed up all your saves in Step 4, remember? Go back to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves and delete everything in that folder.Paste the files into your newly created Starting folder under The Sims 4 Backups.Go to Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves and copy everything in there.Inside The Sims 4 Backups, make a folder called Starting.Make a folder in your Documents called The Sims 4 Backups.
There is no easy way to do this except by a lengthy process of elimination, which I will go over at the end of the tutorial, but for the immediate purposes of setting up our base save as quickly as possible, follow these steps: In order to have a base save, you will need to know which files belong to which save. I hate having it all messily jumbled into one folder.
To make matters worse, these files have computer jargon names that make it impossible to tell which save files are which. It jumbles all your save files into one folder. Before we get started, it’s important to understand something about how The Sims 4 saves your data.
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