Known issues and what to do
- If you still have the retired Nursing Homes mod, it can hide the Teen Stories menus. Remove Nursing Homes. It’s retired and no longer updated.
What to do: Update to 1.1 and install only one edition. If you still have the retired Nursing Homes mod, remove it.
What’s new in version 1.1
Changes since the 2024 release. Both editions, Standard and No Invite Requirement, have the same fixes.
Asking friends
- Organize a Sleepover and Ask to Hangout at House now work: a yes always opens the outing, a no just says no.
- All three hangout asks answer the same way: a middling friendship counts as a yes, a no only comes at low friendship, and after a no the teen waits 4 hours before asking again (with a tooltip saying so).
- The two house asks give the same friendship gain and loss as Invite to Hangout.
- A friend who says yes to Invite to Hangout now always gets their invitation.
- Get Information about Upcoming Parties: each party line comes with its own invitation, and the College Party invitation works again. Parents and step-parents can no longer be asked.
- Invitations last one Sim day, survive a save, and every new yes restarts the day.
Parents and permission
- Grades now count while the teen is still at school, so good and bad grades change the answer as intended. A and B grades count the same everywhere, and the bad-grades refusal works.
- A given permission lasts 7 Sim days and survives a save. A no starts a 5-hour wait and cancels an earlier yes.
- Uninvolved parents' "You don't need to ask" now really gives permission, and their safety talk gives "You'll Be Okay!".
- Authoritative parents now say yes half the time to Chill at Friend's House too (it was always no), and they can scold, be confessed to and be asked about Woohoo. Has Authoritative Parent(s) now shows the same picture as Has Strict Parent(s).
- A Strict parent says yes to parties less often than to other outings.
- Camping's bad-grades refusal now refuses.
- Confess: the teen and the parent get the right moodlets, and it no longer counts as mean.
- Only Sims in the teen's household can give permission or scold.
Outings
- Each locked outing needs the starting teen's own invitation, and friends just come along. If nobody has been invited, a note says so.
- Go Out With Date is for teens and unlocks when someone says yes to Ask Out On A Date, in both editions.
- House Party, College Party and the Nightclub are for teens and older.
- The companion list shows Sims your household has met.
- Sims come home together without Parenthood, and Express Disappointment uses a base-game animation.
- A cancelled outing still counts: it gives its moodlet, uses its invitation and brings everyone home.
- Chill at Friends House uses up its invitation. Each party uses only its own invitation, and the date no longer removes the hangout invitation.
- The Nightclub, Restaurant and Road Trip give their own moodlets.
- Add Trait and Remove Trait in the settings menu act on the Sim you clicked.
Behind-the-scenes fixes
- Old Country Club links removed, duplicate texts removed, two broken text tokens repaired.
Good to know
- If you pick a relative along on Go Out With Date, everyone still goes, but the relatives get no date moodlet.
- For a sleepover or Chill at Friends House, tick the friend you asked in the friends list, so they come along.
- In the No Invite edition the hangout outings are open anyway. The invitation asks still work there, but only the party invitations, and a friend coming along to a party, change anything.
- A Strict parent now refuses an A or B student's party ask about one time in six. Permission to Go Out still covers parties for 7 days.
For translators
Game text: 5 new, 4 changed, 0 removed. Both editions have the same changes. Translations for this mod
About
Your teens get 19 outings with their friends, from the movies and a skate park to an escape room, a road trip and a house party. From the teen’s phone, pick up to six friends on the lot, choose an outing, and they all head out together and come back with a moodlet. Some outings need an invitation first, which teens get from each other with friendly chats.
Outings 19 outings with friends.
Asking Parents Four parenting styles, four kinds of answer.
Invitations Friends invite each other first.
Sneaking Out Go without asking, face the parents.
Dating Ask Out, then Go Out With Date.
Before going out, a teen can ask a parent for permission. Each adult can have one of four parenting styles, from Strict to Uninvolved, and the teen’s grades change the odds too. A yes lasts seven days. A no means waiting five hours to ask again. Sneak out without asking, and back home a parent can reprimand, yell or show their disappointment. Teens can also ask each other out on dates.
Mod help
Install or update
- Install only ONE edition: Standard or No Invite Requirement, never both.
- Replace the old files: delete
maplebell_teenactivites.packageandmaplebell_teenactivitesbuffs.packageand put the new ones in their place. The file names are the same as in 2024.
Troubleshooting
I can’t find the outings on the phone. Check that XML Injector, Lumpinou’s Mood Pack and exactly one copy of the Maplebell Pie Menu are installed. Only teens see the menu. If you still have the retired Nursing Homes mod, remove it, because it can hide the Teen Stories menus.
I picked friends and nothing happened. Something is missing for that outing, usually an invitation. Pick your teen alone to see the greyed-out option and its reason, or install the No Invite edition instead. Never install both editions.
The parent always says no. A Strict parent says yes much more often to an A or B student, and a new teen starts at C. Also check the other parent hasn’t just said no, because one parent’s no cancels the other’s yes.
Friends came home at different times. Ending one Sim’s outing early doesn’t bring the others home. Otherwise, friends come home together.