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Cemeteries are a new lot type added inThe Sims 4: Life & Death. They are important for when a Sim dies, either unexpectedly or planned via your own story. However, cemeteries are also public lots that the living can travel to at any point. They can even be assigned as club hangouts and celebrity hotspots from past expansions. This means that a cemetery should have plenty of upkeep to make it a worthwhile place to visit. Otherwise, the dead may soon become forgotten.
The cemetery lot is most often used forhosting funeral events inThe Sims 4. You will need the essentials for both celebrating the life of a Sim and burying them properly. A single pre-made cemetery,Eternal Hollow, is included inThe Sims 4: Life & Death. But this might not fit all of your needs.The Sims 4: Cats & DogsandThe Sims 4: Snowy Escapealso had graveyard-style areas, but these do not have the outright functionality of a cemetery lot.
How To Make A Cemetery Lot
Going Beyond Required Objects
Cemeteries can be made on any vacant lot,even on worlds outside Ravenwood. However, it may be harder to visit vacation worlds like Batuu or Granite Falls. Preferably, you should use thelargest lot size of 64 x 64, but lots that big are extremely rare and may require bulldozing a pre-made structure. However, avoid destroying buildings with important game functionality, likeCopperdale High fromTS4: High School Years.
How To Make a Will In The Sims 4: Life & Death
The Sims 4: Life & Death allows you to write a will. You need to take care of this while alive, but can affect the next generation.
As with all other lots, editing is done inBuild ModeinTS4. This can be done either from Manage Worlds or while in Live Mode. Set “cemetery” from the drop-down menu in the upper left corner. Since it is a public lot, no Simoleons are required for any costs.
At minimum, a cemetery requiresone headstone or urn,one bench,one trash can, andone toile, but more objects will enhance the cemetery.TS4also recommends agravesite, acrypt, and acasket.
However, just having the basic objects can make this tedious for those attending funerals. Consider including items to restore a Sim’s basic needs inTS4. This can include items likea chess setfor fun,a sink or showerfor hygiene, andbed or coffee machinefor energy. If Sims get hungry, it is a good idea to have vending machines or a fridge foreasy-to-makeSims 4recipes. The cemetery I built in Del Sol Valley even included celebrity-themed items, like thevideo stationandexotic water garden.
Maintaining A Crowded Cemetery
As more Sims perish, you may soon begin to run out of adequate space inThe Sims 4: Life & Death. The biggest annoyances are gravesites, which take up a full 4x4 grid each. You could make more cemetery lots to fit more gravesites, but that is also finite.
Instead,opt to make cemeteries multi-levelwith both an upward structure and a basement. Any lot can have both three levels above ground and four below ground fora total of eight floors. To take things even further than the game typically allows, making use of cheat codes is a good way of stacking lots of objects together.
Switching To Urns
One of the best ways of saving space is toconvert headstones into urns. This should happen automatically if you drag an occupied headstone indoors. However, an empty headstone will need to be deleted and replaced in Build Mode. The advantage of urns is that they can be placed on surfaces, like desks, shelves, and display cases.Build items fromThe Sims 4: Jungle Adventurecan be one of the best means of displaying any collection, even deceased Sim remains.
Another method to avoid overcrowding is to not keep every dead Sim at a cemetery. Some families might want to be close to their loved ones, allowing for urns and headstones on their residential lot. You can also take a more morbid approach inThe Sims 4: simply abandon the Sim exactly where they died. This can leave a warning at dangerous places, like pools where many have drowned orgardens overrun with flesh-eating cowplants, and ultimately avoid the need to build an over-crowded cemetery inThe Sims 4.
