Senior Trip guide

Your teen plans the senior trip with their class: meetings, a vote, a fundraiser, and then two days away.

This mod adds a senior trip to the teen years. Your teen goes to three planning meetings, votes on where the class goes, helps with a fundraiser that can succeed or flop, and finally pays for the trip and leaves for two Sim days. They come home with a moodlet and a milestone.

Version 1.5 is free.

Senior Trip cover art: three teen Sims posing with a camera in front of the Eiffel Tower

Getting started

What you need

The Sims 4 base game. No expansion, game or stuff pack is needed.
XML Injector. Required.
Lumpinou’s Mood Pack. Required.
Maplebell Pie Menu. Required. You only need one copy, shared by every mod that uses it. If you already have it, keep it.

Two editions: install only one

Edition	Destinations
Sims World Names (default)	Windenburg, Komorebi, Del Sol Valley, San Myshuno, Granite Falls, Forgotten Hollow, Selvadorada, Tomarang
Real Names	Chile, New York, Bighorn National Forest, China, Toronto, Egypt, Paris, Rome

Both editions play exactly the same. Only the destination names and pictures differ. The Sims World names are names only: you do not need those packs. The old Fictional Names edition is no longer offered.

Installing and updating

If a teen has voted and is still waiting for the result, let the result arrive first. Wait for the “Location Set” message in game, save, and only then update.
Close the game completely.
The file name changed. In your Mods folder and all its subfolders, delete every file whose name starts with maplebell_seniortrip. This removes every older Senior Trip download.
Then extract only ONE of the two zips into your Mods folder. Each holds maplebell_seniortrip_v1.5.package in a folder called Maplebell Senior Trip.
Make sure you have exactly one copy of the Maplebell Pie Menu.
Delete localthumbcache.package from your Sims 4 folder if it is there.

Downloads:

Maplebell Senior Trip (Sims World Names) v1.5.zip (default)
Maplebell Senior Trip (Real Names) v1.5.zip

How to use it in game

Everything starts on your teen’s phone: MB Menu > Senior Trip. The list changes as planning moves on, so you only see the next step.

Only teens can use it.

The Senior Trip phone list showing Senior Trip and Vote on a Location

The Senior Trip list on the phone. It only shows what you can do next.

Step 1: the first meeting

Pick the first pre-trip meeting. It takes about three Sim hours, with a few short event cards.

If your teen leaves early because a need got too low, the meeting does not count. The option stays so you can try again.

You can space the meetings out however you like. For example, one per season with the trip in spring.

Step 2: vote on a location

Pick Vote on a Location and choose one of the eight destinations. You get a “Vote Registered” note and the “I Can’t Wait” moodlet.

About two Sim hours later the class result comes in: a “Location Set” message with the place and the price.

The class does not always agree with your teen. Your vote makes your choice much more likely (about two times in three), but another place can win.

Each teen votes once.

The Vote on a Location list with Komorebi, Del Sol Valley, San Myshuno, Granite Falls, Forgotten Hollow and Selvadorada

Voting on a destination (Sims World Names edition).

Destinations and prices

Sims World Names	Real Names	Price
Windenburg	Chile	§1350
Komorebi	New York	§1700
Del Sol Valley	Bighorn National Forest	§850
San Myshuno	China	§1080
Granite Falls	Toronto	§350
Forgotten Hollow	Egypt	§725
Selvadorada	Paris	§750
Tomarang	Rome	§1200

Step 3: the second meeting and the fundraiser

Go to the second pre-trip meeting. Afterwards the class picks a fundraiser. It is picked for the class, so you cannot choose it.

About an hour later a classmate calls to tell your teen which fundraiser it is. The call sets the fundraiser whether you answer it or not. If you miss the call, or your phone is silenced, a note tells you which fundraiser the class picked. A second call does nothing once a fundraiser is set.

The second-meeting option stays in the list until the call comes. Ignore it once you have had the call.

The five fundraisers:

Fundraiser	How to help it succeed
Bake Sale	Bake good food and bring it (see below). Post about it.
Car Wash	Post about the Car Wash.
Game Night	Purchase Games (§250). Post about Game Night.
Movie Night	Purchase Movie Bundle (§250). Post about Movie Night.
Talent Show	Post about the Talent Show.

Posts go through the phone. A post can go viral, which helps more. With Charisma 8 or higher posts go viral much more often. A teen with no Charisma goes viral as rarely as levels 1 to 7.

Purchase Games leaves the phone once the fundraising event starts.

A classmate’s message announcing Game Night, the Senior Trip list with Post about Game Night, Purchase Games and Go to Fundraising Event, and the success and failure moodlets

A Game Night fundraiser: the classmate’s message and the steps on the phone.

Baking for a Bake Sale: the classmate’s call asks for desserts or junk food. Put them in your teen’s inventory before they leave for the Fundraising Event. Up to 10 items are taken. Good food helps the bake sale more. Only the Bake Sale takes the food: at the other fundraisers it stays in your inventory.

Step 4: the fundraising event

When you are ready, pick the fundraising event. It lasts about three Sim hours. Then it either succeeds or flops, and your teen gets a moodlet for it. Everything you did before (buying, posting, baking) makes success more likely.

If you cancel the fundraising event, it does not count as held, so you can go again.

Pre-mixed brownies in a teen’s inventory and the Community Appreciation moodlet from a successful bake sale

Brownies for a Bake Sale, and the moodlet from a fundraiser that succeeded.

Step 5: the third meeting

The third pre-trip meeting is a debrief. You hear how the fundraiser went, and then the class gets ready for the trip.

Step 6: the trip

From your home lot, pick Senior Trip on the phone. Away from home, the trip rows say “Trips start from home.”
Your destination is listed with its price. Pick it and pay.
Your teen is gone for two Sim days.
They come home with one of five trip moodlets and the “Went on the Senior Trip” milestone. This works even when the family is away from home when the trip ends.

If you cancel the trip, the game asks if you are sure you want to leave early. Your teen still comes home with a trip moodlet.

One trip per teen. This holds however the trip ends. After the trip, the Senior Trip list is empty for that teen.

A milestone card for going on a senior trip

The senior trip milestone. From an earlier version: it is now called “Went on the Senior Trip”.

What’s new in version 1.5 (12 November 2026)

Changes since the last public release (maplebell_seniortrip_(August2026).package and the older 2023 and 2024 downloads).

The vote and the trip

Every destination can be voted for. The eighth destination (Tomarang / Rome) was missing from Vote on a Location.
Each destination shows the same picture on the vote menu and the trip menu. Sims World Names now has Tomarang as its eighth destination (it listed Windenburg twice).
Selvadorada / Paris now costs §750, as its message says. It used to charge §1350.
The vote now survives a save and reload, and the destination is set after the vote even when you load a save made during the vote’s two hours.
The trip now ends properly, with its moodlet and milestone, even when the family is away from home at the end. One trip per teen holds however the trip ends.
Away from home, the trip rows now say “Trips start from home.”

Fundraisers

The classmate call sets the fundraiser whether you answer it or not, and the chosen fundraiser is now remembered after a save and reload.
A second call does nothing if a fundraiser is already set.
If you miss the call, a note tells you which fundraiser the class picked. The same note shows when your phone is silenced.
The Bake Sale call now asks for desserts or junk food in your inventory. Only the Bake Sale takes the food; at the other fundraisers it stays in your inventory.
Posts work. Post about Car Wash, Game Night, Movie Night and Talent Show now raise the fundraiser’s success. A teen with no Charisma now goes viral as rarely as levels 1 to 7; Charisma 8 or higher still helps most.
Cancelling the fundraising event no longer counts it as held, so you can go again.
Purchase Games now thanks you for games, not movies, and it leaves the phone once the fundraising event starts. It is for teens only.
Small text fixes, such as a missing full stop after two of the prices.

Good to know

One trip per teen. Each teen can go on the senior trip once.
The Bake Sale needs food. Put desserts or junk food in your teen’s inventory before they leave for the Fundraising Event. The classmate’s call says so, and if you miss the call, or your phone is silenced, a note tells you which fundraiser the class picked.

Known limits

If the vote wait ends after a save and reload while your teen was away, the result still comes, but your own vote may not count extra. Any of the eight places can win.
“Followers” do nothing for viral posts. Only Charisma helps.
If the vote wait ends while your teen is visiting another household’s lot, the destination is set without a “Location Set” message. The trip list still shows the place and the price.
If the trip ended while you were away, the milestone card may show no date.
Planning progress and fundraiser success never reset. Since each teen goes once, this only matters if you want to replay the steps.
Other game languages show English text.

If something looks wrong

I cannot find Senior Trip on the phone. Check that XML Injector, the Mood Pack and exactly one copy of the Maplebell Pie Menu are installed. Only teens see it.

The Senior Trip list is empty. Your teen has not reached that step yet (vote, fundraiser, third meeting), or they have already been on the trip.

I voted and never got “Location Set”. Wait about two Sim hours with your teen on the lot. If your teen was visiting another household when the wait ended, the place may already be set without a message: check the trip list.

I never got the classmate’s call. The call comes about an hour after the second meeting. It sets the fundraiser even if you miss it. If you missed it, or your phone is silenced, a note tells you which fundraiser the class picked.

A meeting ended and nothing changed. If your teen left early because a need got too low, the meeting does not count. Try again.

My post did not go viral. Viral posts come much more often with Charisma 8 or higher. Followers do not count.

My baked goods did nothing. They only help at a Bake Sale, and only the Bake Sale takes them. Put desserts or junk food in your teen’s inventory before the event.

The fundraiser flopped. That can happen. Buying, posting and (for a Bake Sale) baking all make success more likely. The trip still goes ahead.

I can’t pay for the trip. Check your household funds against the price in the table. Also check you are on your home lot: the trip only starts from there.

Can my teen go twice? No. One trip per teen.

Do I need the packs the Sims World names come from? No. They are only names.

Can I switch editions? Yes, but delete every maplebell_seniortrip file first and install only the other edition. Both editions work the same way, so only the destination names and pictures change (for example, Windenburg becomes Chile).

If something goes wrong, tell me what happened, what you expected, and which Sims were involved.

Player guide