Picnic baskets on community lots

[el_flel]

Can you buy picnic baskets to put in community lots? I can't find one anywhere. I've searched build/buy catalogues, the buydebug menu for the object and a spawner (some places I've googled have said it's a spawner, but if it is I can't find one for it).

You must be able to get it because it's there in SV and I'm sure in a CC world I use. Or is it going to be like the elusive food truck that came with LN where you have to download them in order to place them?!

[lewisb40]

They are in the entertainment category, miscellaneous.

[tizerist]

In my game they are under entertainment misc, but residential only.
Awesome allows you to keep items on a lot no matter what you change the lot zoning to.
Then ctrl+shift+click and select debug:serve to make it usable.

[lewisb40]

I hardly ever have my sims buy them, just have them mooch off the ones the NPCs have laid out.
I have a world with picnic baskets on the picnic table in their large park. Maybe it's under community buildings/miscellaneous? Now I have to open my game.

[el_flel]

In my game they are under entertainment misc, but residential only.
Awesome allows you to keep items on a lot no matter what you change the lot zoning to.
Then ctrl+shift+click and select debug:serve to make it usable.Is this an option under the config file? Because I use AM and every time I rezone a lot incompatible objects get deleted.

[lewisb40]

Yeah, build mode, community buildings, miscellaneous.

[el_flel]

Where? Because unless I'm missing something mine doesn't have one:
http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/1/6/5/3/1/9/2/MTS2_el_flel_1186492_picnic.jpg

[tizerist]

Is this an option under the config file?

Yep, and not community objects category. You want entertainment misc.

[el_flel]

Thanks. Ok, well I've done that, can find it in residential (as I always could), and it stays when I switch the lot to community but whenever I ctrl+shift+click I don't get the option that you mentioned - any suggestions?

[kiwi_tea]

The picnic spawner is invisible, and available in BuyDebug if you download a mod to unlock it. I think Simsample has one, and a few others have passed them around, but I think you might need to PM for a link to it, as I haven't seen this mod published anywhere obvious.

Regular picnic baskets will not make NPCs have picnics.

[el_flel]

I found one. Here we go: http://www.modthesims.info/showpost.php?p=3390100&postcount=3. Haven't tested it with townies but this is what I was looking for.

Kiwi_tea: thank you! As payment for your services I shall give you my first born.

[lewisb40]

Where? Because unless I'm missing something mine doesn't have one:
[snipped img]

Okay, I googled it. Didn't have time to actually open the game. I thought it was there.

@ kiwi tea, I am using a world that have them on the picnic table and the NPCs can use it, just not my active sim. When it's clicked no interactions are available. So I wait on the NPCs to serve it and let my sim get a plate.

[tizerist]

whenever I ctrl+shift+click I don't get the option that you mentioned - any suggestions?
Probably you don't have debug commands available. Aweconf also does that ;)

[kiwi_tea]

Okay, I googled it. Didn't have time to actually open the game. I thought it was there.

@ kiwi tea, I am using a world that have them on the picnic table and the NPCs can use it, just not my active sim. When it's clicked no interactions are available. So I wait on the NPCs to serve it and let my sim get a plate.

Yeah, sorry for the confusion there. The picnic table allows Sims to eat picnics, but only at the table. You don't need to add a picnic basket, it will just appear.

This mod is to unlock the picnics on the ground. ^_^

[tizerist]

Well the plot thickens....
I have a lot in my Champs Les Sims that has picnic baskets on the bench/table thing highlighted in the picture above.
So the picnic table spawns them? I thought it was just a regular table andthe builder of the lot must have placed them there themselves.

Oh, and a picnic basket under residential? Why not just shove it under vehicles for all the sense that makes? Tsk tsk.

[SusieCC]

okay so if i understand this thread correctly, placing the picnic table on a community lot will spawn picnic baskets for townies to use, and without awesome mod your controlable sim cant click on it to serve it? or have i misunderstood it?

[simsample]

To clear this up once and for all:

If you go to buy mode> Tables> Misc (when on residential or community lot) there is a picnic table. That is just a regular table, sims can eat food they cooked at it, or just sit on the bench.

If you go to build mode> community buildings> Misc (as in el_flel's image) when on a community lot only, there is a picnic table, this is a COMMUNITY picnic table. Your sim can sit on the bench or use it as a regular table, but townies may autonomously start a picnic at this table, which your sim can join in. The only way your sim can initiate the picnic on this table is if you have a debug enabler mod.

If you download my mod to unlock the picnic blanket, as el_flel linked, then you can place picnic blankets to allow townie sims to have a picnic on community lots (as in Central Park, Sunset Valley). That picnic blanket remains invisible until a townie interacts with it. If you want your playable sim to have a picnic on a community lot, buy one of the picnic baskets from Entertainment> Misc and have it in their inventory.

[el_flel]

Thank you, simsample!

[Ghost sdoj]

That would have been handy to know a couple of weeks ago. I had a playable sim go to my community lot to drop off a picnic basket. Then I discovered that he gets it back every time I go to Edit Town, so I have to keep sending him back with the basket again.