My friend and fellow Simmer Caleb and I created the original Pleasantview world for Sims 3 earlier this year. As I’ve been playing the world, I could clearly see there was room for improvement (mostly on my part). All of Caleb’s lovely lots are still here intact, but I’ve updated the map with some much-needed fixes – including tons of EMPTY LOTS.
One of the biggest problems people have reported with the world is not being able to place additional lots. I have fixed that and much more!
Requirements
REQUIRES: The Sims 3 Base Game & Late Night Expansion
RECOMMENDED: Pets and Ambitions Expansions
- You MUST have Late Night for the bridge to work. Your Sims can’t access the Military Base without it.
- You need Pets for the fences to show up in the world. If you don’t have Pets, the world will still work fine, but you won’t have the white fences as shown in the screenshots.
- You need Ambitions for the street lights to show up in the world. If you don’t have Ambitions, the world will still work fine, but you won’t have the street lights as shown in the screenshots.
NOTE: The new, updated version is NOT an identical Pleasantview. It includes lots where there were none, plus additional world decorations that did not exist in the Sims 2. If you’re obsessed with everything being EXACTLY the same, you may not want this version. But if you want to play a cohesive, attractive, and functional version of The Sims 3 Pleasantview that takes full advantage of all the TS3 features, I highly recommend the updated world!
Changes Made to the Map
To see the original screenshots and a longer explanation of the features, please see the original world post. The following are the changes that I’ve made in this update:
- Fixed issues with floating trees and terrain
- Fixed routing issues and minor cosmetic issues on lots, moved all fences at least one tile from the road
- Rebuilt Military Park – fixed elevation issue, added picnic tables and autosoil for basegame plants
- Added twice as many spawners
- Moved spawners away from roads for easier lot placement (should fix unroutable terrain issue)
- Added street lights, and more sidewalks and decorations
- Streetlights on lots all updated to match
- Added Effects (rainbow, birds, ocean waves)
- Extended Lakeside Drive to the Ocean
- Added MORE empty lots for you to fill with expansion pack lots or whatever you want:
- 64×64 lot – Can be used for Festival Grounds (Seasons)
- Six 30×20 Community lots – Can be used for Ambitions Lots (Consignment Store, Junkyard, Salon, Fire Department, Community Garden) and Dog Park (Pets)
- 30×40 Beach lot on the Ocean – Can be Residential or Commercial
- 35×30 Lot at 45 Lakeside Drive – Can be used for Mick’s Master Karaoke (Showtime)
- 30×30 Lot at 35 Lakeside Drive – Can be used for Performance Park (Showtime)
- 30×30 Lot at 55 Lakeside Drive – Can be used for Port-A-Porty Mini Warehouse (Showtime)
- 30×40 lot at 85 Main Street – Can be used for Horse Ranch (Pets)
- 40×40 lot at 75 Main Street – Can be used for Equestrian Center (Pets)
- New empty residential lots of various sizes throughout the map
Changes Made to Save File
I made the following changes/fixes to the populated save file:
- Fixed Nina and Dina’s Bios
- Fixed Daniel and Mary-Sue’s wardrobes
- Made Michael Bachelor and Bella Goth show as siblings in the family tree
- The remains of Skip Broke are in the community cemetery.
- The Burb Family live at 225 Main Street and their home is UNFURNISHED.
- The Oldie Family live at 95 Woodland Drive and their home is UNFURNISHED.
I decided to leave the Burb and Oldie homes unfurnished so you can do whatever you like with the families. They were Bin Families in The Sims 2 and people play them in different ways. If you don’t like their location, move them out right away and they should get their money back. Or, leave them be and furnish the houses for them however you like.
A Note on Relationships & Careers
Although I tried my best to make things EXACTLY as they are in The Sims 2 (careers, relationships, etc.), The Sims 3 has other plans. I have never pressed the play button on this save file, but still the game has assigned some unemployed Sims to various jobs and also assigned some random relationships.
It was impossible for me to overcome this. No matter how many times I changed them, the game would just change them back on me as soon as I moved to another household.
All the Sims who had careers in TS2 Pleasantview do have the correct careers in this version. And all relationships are maintained. The only difference is some unemployed Sims now have auto-assigned jobs and some Sims have additional relationships. If you don’t like this, you can easily make changes using Master Controller.
Downloads
Click on the download button below to download the Updated Pleasantview for Sims 3. The download includes both the empty world and the save file for the populated world. See the video below if you don’t know how to install.
Alternate Download Link: Mediafire
I am leaving the old versions up and they can still be downloaded from the old post. However, I highly recommend you download the updated version for the fixes listed above.
How to Install Tutorial
I have received a lot of comments and emails from people having trouble installing the save file, so I made a short video tutorial to show you how.
If this doesn’t work for you, there’s something else going on. You can come ask for help in our Discord Server, but I cannot troubleshoot for you in comments or email.
Hi! I am not sure that this has been mentioned but I have just one small issue I wanted to see if you were aware, or if its just a me issue.
First off, I LOVE the world and the attention to detail in it is just astounding! I love playing it and have been tweaking the way I play rotationally because of this world, so thank you!
Now the issue is just that I find the townies – particularly the teens and children – seem to get stuck along the road and then are late to class/work. I end up having to reset them. Not sure if that is something you can fix, or again if its a me issue! Just thought I would ask and/or make you aware!
This recreation is the reason I’ve decided to go down the Sims 3 rabbit hole again. I’ve been obsessed with my Sims 2 saves for so long but nothing beats the open world.
I hope you enjoy it! I’ve had a ton of fun playing this world. 🙂
Hey Cindy,
I’ve been having a problem with finding the savefile so I can play the populated world, I downloaded Winzip I double clicked and I’m still not seeing the save file. All I’m seeing is 1a5tf1l3.dat,Meta.data,Pleasntview_0x000…00.nhd, and TravelDB.pack age. Which one is the save file? Also in your vid you said its called version 2 but that’s not what it was called when I downloaded it please help
Those are apart of the save file. IF you look at any other of the saves you have made for the sims 3, those are just the based components. DO NOT mess with those files. You possibly need to redownload the save and put the folder into saves. DO NOT separate the contents of the folder.
I might be too emotional but this is INCREDIBLE. I just wanted to thank you so much for all the attention to detail and how much time and effort it must’ve taken to recreate Pleasant View so perfectly. I’m a Sims 3 addict but your videos make me miss Sims 2 and its sims (specially the Broke family, I LOVED playing with them when I was younger) so this is the perfect middleground to make me play with them again. It’s surreal to fly over the town and be able to see all the houses and everything! Seeing the town in my game actually made my heart pound from nostalgia haha. Sorry for the long messy comment, I Just wanted to thank you both for such an amazing creation <3
Oh and also, would you ever consider making a Strangetown and/or Veronaville recreation?
Love your videos and your blog posts <3
I’m so glad you like the world! It’s definitely a possibility in the future!
Thank you soo much Cindy! a great help… I absolutely love pleasentview but onky have sims 3, so its a great help! thnxx
You’re very welcome!
My god, this world is AMAZING!!! I love it I love it I love it! That said, I do have some constructive complaints about this world though, ranging minor to major.
-If Late Night is required anyway, could you possibly update Angela and Lilith’s hairstyles to the one with the clip from Late Night? I know this sounds vague as hell, but I hope you can understand.
-I saw that Bella Goth is laid to rest in the Goth cemetery. That’s not the problem, it’s actually my headcanon that the reason she never comes back from her abduction is because the ship she was on crashed in Strangetown. My actual problem is, why is she the only person in the Goth graveyard? I want the Goths to be properly haunted, dangit!
-This one partially ties into the last complaint, but you made a graveyard lot for Skip Broke… and he’s the only grave there. It ends up looking REALLY stupid. I think you guys should have recreated some of the Pleasantview ancestors to properly populate the cemetery. I’d suggest just copying the versions of them from store worlds, editing them so they fit Base Game and Late Night only, and putting their graves in the graveyard. If you’re feeling REALLY lazy, just plop down a bunch of BuyDebug empty “remains” gravestones so Skip doesn’t look so lonely.
Other than those quibbles, you guys did an AMAZING job! Thank you!
You can’t create dead Sims in Create a World and you also can’t disappear a Sim like you can in The Sims 2 without them being completely gone from the game and family trees. Due to those limitations, that’s why Skip and Bella are buried there.
Hi Cindy, just wanted to say thank you so much for making this amazing world! I really appreciate all of the effort that’s been put in and I can’t wait to play it. Currently enjoying your youtube series on it too!
So glad you like it Becky!
I can’t wait to play this world in my game, I saw your videos and had to added this recreation to my game!
I hope you enjoy it Destiny!
This world is really awesomely detailed, The families and lots are spot on. Only thing I would change about it would be I wish that it was more connected to mainland than being like a island in an extinct volcano or crater. But maybe you guys had to do that for technical reasons to make it perform or even to get it to look correct.
I absolutely loved watching your gameplay of this, I don’t know if anybody has told you this but I believe that you’re some kind of YouTube genius. How you were able to get people’s attention and hold it is impressive. I’m not going to lie, I almost made a tik tok on your series, and how I think you’re jumping from household to household really benefited it. I’ve actually love this map and nostalgia is like everything for me! when I was a kid I would go to the Goodwill and get like $4 Sims 2 games. I beg my dad for it so it’s just so amazing! It’s weird to me that people’s first game they play in the series is Sims 4. It kind of makes me sad not going to lie.
Aww, thank you so much! I’m so glad people enjoy watching my gameplay. I know what you mean about the sadness. I feel old as hell when I realize some people are just starting to play The Sims 4 for the first time as teenagers. LOL
What if I don’t want to play for Don, but want, for example, for Caliente or Pleasant? How to switch to them?
I recommend using Master Controller. Click on the household of the Sim you want to play, then choose Nraas > Master Controller > Make Active Household. If you don’t want to use mods, you can go to “Edit Town,” choose the household you want to play from Map View, and then choose “Switch to this household” or something like that. There’s a button under the household bio when you select them in Edit Town. Hope that helps!
I tried to download NRAAS several times and the game doesn’t see it. The location is the correct Mods / Packages folder. But the mod itself is not visible in the game. Not when I click on sims, not when I click on my smartphone. I don’t know why it is so. And the day before yesterday I wanted to choose the Broke family, but I can’t because a nursery for animals has started up there.
In The Sims 3, you need a framework for mods to work. Here’s a download and instructions: https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Installing_Sims_3_Package_Files/Setup_and_Files
Hi cindy, any future plan, for recreating dead sims (ancestor of pleasantview) family?
No, not at this time!
hai cindy, a was try to download and extract the file but the file is empty, what should i do?
I have sadly never gotten the chance to play the sims 2 (I hope one day I will find a way) until then, thank you for letting me have some way to experience it!
I’m curious if you’ll ever upload the lots used in this build, like the Pleasantview Festival Grounds? I think they’re really cute and would like to see them in my game (I’m using Sunset Valley’s Festival Grounds at the moment).
Hi! I also use the Sunset Valley version in Pleasantview! All the lots are either included in the download or available in the lot bin. 🙂
Hey Cindy !
I had to write something because this new pleasantview s3 is just amazing ! I thank you n Caleb very much!!
It’s been years i wanted a world not so big not so little and it’s pleasantview from ts2!! Dreams come true!!
I just discover your yt channel yesterday n i love it!
I’m 37 too n i play since ts1 😀
Well, thx again and seen you n your sims very soon – i’m gonna play now ^^
I’m so glad you like it! Have fun!
Cindy thankyou so much. I have been following you for years on youtube and i am so so happy you have made this world. You are a huge inspiration to me and I hope you’re staying safe. Lots of love and hugs xxxx
You’re welcome Hannah! And thank you!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! Finally its working!
Hey Cindy!
You completely have made my dreams come true and revitalized some of my gameplay with this one! I never want to play my Sims 2 Pleasantview because I want to keep it so perfect, now with the Sims 3; I can have multiple saves of my favorite town with all my favorite characters! My only problem is I have been followed the video, but when I launch the game the save is still not showing up in my saves, despite putting in the saves file; what can I do to fix this?
Thank you so SO much! I love all of your content!
Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to re-create Pleasantview in TS3! I absolutely adored playing with this world, it looks so nice and all the lots and sims look very true to the original TS2 versions 😀
It’s so much fun to use story progression and see what the game can come up with on its own, since I usually always go for the same kind of stories when playing Pleasantview in TS2 xD
Would you ever consider doing something like this for Strangetown or another TS2 neighbourhood?
I have considered making Strangetown! Maybe sometime in the future when I get back into Sims 3!
Kudos for a nicely designed town. I actually never played TS2 so I don’t have the same connection to many of the sims there, but it’s just such a practical layout that is great for gameplay – nice and compact with grid streets. I’ve actually filled the empty version with a bunch of my own sims and it’s been the main world I’ve played of late.
I can’t put down 30×30 lots down on 35 Lakeside Drive despite it being a 30×30 lot.
You may have to change the lot type, depending on what kind of lot you’re trying to place.
Hi Cindy, I’m Still havin problems with the caliente condo not having doors, don’t know what to do
You can just use the move objects cheat and put the doors in yourself. 🙂
Hey Cindy, hope are all well. Sorry to bother you but I’m stuck at something, I downloaded your worlds yesterday and the mods, great job! the world is gorgeous! However, I have a problem none of the sims are able to look for jobs. I’m currently with the Broke family and neither Dustin and Brandi are able to look for part-time jobs or normal jobs. I do have all the mods from your list and that’s about it. Not sure what’s going on. Can you please help me, darling?
If you have the job overhaul mod I use, they can’t look for jobs normally. They must check the computer or the newspaper. I think it’s called “Browse Classifieds” or something like that. Then they go put their application in and wait for an interview. If you don’t like that, I would recommend removing the job overhaul mod.
Hey Cindy,
I have played The Sims since it first came out and have recently found your videos. Cannot wait to try out your remake of the TS2 world in 3. Everything looks so amazing. Wonderful job! Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you!
Mine keeps crashing and says I need an updated version..
Hey, Cindy! I loved your world and saw your youtube video of the tour by Don. Loved it!
I tried to download the world as download, and I have all the packs for the sims 3 but the bridge still isn’t showing up. Do you have any recommendations?
Thanks!
Hi Cindy, I try your want based playstyle with the sims 2 and I absolutely love it. I really like the idea of my sims decide their own life, playing like this make me truly feel like I’m playing a life simulation game with unique pixel people and not playing with doll. The story just write itself and I’m having so much fun. But I’m not having as much fun with this playstyle with the sims 3, there are not enough wishes to completely play on want-based and the sims doesn’t feel as alive as the sims in the sims 2. How do you recommend I aproach the sims 3 so I can enjoy it more and how do you determine a sims hobby in the sims 3? Thank you so much love your video.
Honestly, the Sims 3 is never as fun to me as The Sims 2. Wants-based doesn’t work as well, but I just make the best of it. I ignore wants that don’t fit the Sim and just lock in the ones that do. I don’t have a hobby system for The Sims 3 at this time, but I am working on something.
Great job,you have made a senior simmer very happy.Got my favourite Calliente sisters back in Pleasantville,really good likeness of sims and town…..many thanks Cindy
Thanks Ricki! Glad you like it!!
Hey Cindy! Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work on this world and more specifically on this blog in general! Your work doesn’t go unnoticed!! 😀
Thank you Arianne!
Thank you so much! I have been installing TS3 and all your recommended mods to play Pleasantview! Already loving it!
Have fun Sofia!
Heya Cindy,
I hope you’re doing well. Do you uninstall the original version? Or does this act as an update?
You can leave the original installed if you want, but this is technically a separate world so it will have to be installed separately. 🙂
Hi Cindy! You’ve done amazing making Pleasantview in the sims 3! I’ve just downloaded it all and it seems to have gone okay but I can only play on Don. I can’t choose any other household when I choose Pleasantview? How can I fix this?x
Hi Ella! You have to switch families in “Edit World.” Here are instructions on changing the active family: https://www.lifewire.com/sims-3-active-family-840420