Mod The Sims - Decor with a Purpose: Functional Tissue Box

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Now when sims are sad they can "Cry it Out" with tissues instead of crawling into bed. Plus, when your sims have a cold or allergies, they can now blow their nose to get a 4 hour "Temporary Relief" buff in an attempt to offset the symptoms they're experiencing (just don't do it too often or you'll make things worse). This will not make them stop being sick, but it will make them feel better for a little while.

This is an override of a Basegame item, but the "Blow Nose" interaction requires either Get to Work or a supported sickness mod to function. It shouldn't conflict with anything unless you have something else that happens to modify this object specifically. In any case, please let me know if you have any problems with it.

Update 6/28/22:

Added integration with adeepindigo's GTW Health Overhaul
Added missing buff from adeepindigo's Healthcare Redux

Past Updates:

Update 6/9/22:

Added integration with Kuttoe's Lifetime Quirks allergy traits

Update 5/15/22:

Renamed the files to better reflect the mod name
Please delete your existing files and redownload one of the new zips because the renamed files won’t overwrite the old ones.
Added Polish translation from Mircul

Update 3/5/22:

Added new French translations from Vanessa Sims. If cilsophie gets back to me with the missing strings I'll add an alternate French translation for anyone who wants to compare them and choose.

Update 2/8/22:

Added a new moodlet so that if a sim blows their nose again before the "Temporary Relief" buff runs out they get a sore nose (because who hasn't experienced this really?)
Added support for shiningmoonmods's Health System Overhaul
Added the missing hidden tags for Chinese Simplified.

Update 1/27/22:

Brand new search functionality! I'm slowly adding hidden tags to my objects so you can find them by searching for "Ilex" (that's an uppercase i at the beginning if you can't tell).
Added Russian translation from Jane_Moriarty

Update 1/16/22:

Added Chinese and Chinese Simplified translations from Awcha

Update 1/15/22:

Behind the scenes fix for my strings. You won't actually see a change in game, but the old way risked conflicting with my own mods as well as others.
Added Czech translation from Mikaela_Lovett

Update 1/4/22:

Made some modifications that I hope will fix the reported bug with maids moving the object around. It's just a guess though so let me know if you still experience the issue.
Added another buff from adeepindigo's Healthcare Redux that I guess I missed before. Hopefully this fixes the other reported bug.

Update 12/30/21:

Added "Cry it Out" interaction. It doesn't last as long as crawling into bed, but it will lower sadness a bit and means that you no longer need GTW or a sickness mod to use this object.

Update 12/18/21:

Added the ability to use the object from a sim's inventory. I thought this would be super complicated and then I saw that it's literally one line of XML. I procrastinated it for nothing!

Update 12/15/21:

Added more Slice of Life buffs to the list. It's now checking for allergies and the flu instead of just the "Stuffiness" buff
Added custom thumbnails for the object so you can tell at a glace where the CC is from.

Update 11/25/21:

Increased the buff duration. I didn't want it to last super long, but in practice 1hr added nothing to my gameplay. So I upped it to 4hrs and that seems better.
Added the Private Practice hidden cold and flu buffs to the list of buffs detected. It's more intuitive and I think it works better alongside Private Practice medications.
Discontinued the GTW animation addon. I didn't like the animation and the only feedback I got on it was that it was "weird" so I'm ditching it. It's a pain to update stuff twice anyway so until I find something better it's just the grab animation.

HOTFIX 11/11/21:

Okay, I was wrong. I actually did need to update the addon.
I also didn't update the addon last time even though I should have. So those buffs are in there too now.

Update 11/11/21:

Added a Private Practice buff that I previously missed. If you're not using that mod you can skip this update.

Update 11/5/21:

Added support for IlkaVelle's Allergic to Fur Traits
Added French translation from cilsophie
The addon isn't actually changed so you don't need to redownload it. I just wanted to keep the version numbers the same.

Compatibility & Integration:

This is set to detect sickness and/or allergies from Get to Work, SimRealist's Private Practice, adeepindigo's Healthcare Redux and GTW Health Overhaul, KawaiiStacie's Slice of Life, NateTheL0ser's Misery Traits, Maïa Game's Medications, IlkaVelle's Allergic to Fur, shiningmoonmods's Health System Overhaul, and Kuttoe's Lifetime Quirks. If you don't have GTW but have one of those mods this should work for you.
Nies's Cooler Sicknesses appears to use the default GTW buffs so that should also work
I make no promises about other sickness mods since if they don't use GTW buffs this won't do anything. If there's another sickness or allergy mod you'd like to see this work with just send me a request and I'll see what I can do.
The mod is Basegame compatible but the "Blow Nose" interaction will never appear without GTW or a compatible sickness/allergy mod
andiberlin has added this item as an addon to their Purchase Medicine Overhaul Mod and Purchasing System Overhaul Mod. The latest versions are available on their Patreon.

Bonus Item: My Functional Bathroom Cabinets includes a cabinet with tissue box functionality if you have this mod.

Despite being my most translated mod, the new strings are still only in:

English
Chinese (missing some newer strings)
Chinese Simplified (missing some newer strings)
Czech (missing some newer strings)
French
Polish
Russian

I don't speak any languages nearly well enough to translate this myself so I welcome any translations that anyone can offer and will credit all translators.

Future plans:

Adding support for additional sickness/allergy mods as I learn about them. Please let me know if you know of one.

Thank you!

michela1390 - Beta testing
cilsophie - Original French translation
Mikaela_Lovett - Czech translation
Awcha - Chinese and Chinese Simplified translations and sharing with the Chinese community
Jane_Moriarty - Russian translation
Vanessa Sims - Updated French translation
Mircul - Polish translation

Filename	Type	Size
Ilex_ALL_FunctionalTissues1.11.zip	zip
Ilex_ALL_FunctionalTissues.package	package	252643

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