Secret Scuba Gifts, Part II: Blacksmith’s Anvil + DR Bots

Category: Hobbies -> Misc.
EPs Required: +
Cost: $1100
Poly Count:

Important! If you package this item with lots, you will need to include the tong and mallet manually since they won’t package properly, but are needed for the anvil to function.

 
At leefish.nl, there was recently a Secret Scuba event – you know, like Secret Santa, except you were scuba and scubee instead of santa and santee. We’re all fish of the same pond after all. 🙂 This is the second – and final – part of my gifts; the first one can be found here.

One of the things my scubee Jo wished for was a blacksmith’s crafting station for her medieval game, which made me squee with delight because I am ever so slightly insane. So I promptly extracted the blacksmith’s anvil from TSM (and tweaked the textures a bit to make them look more TS2-y), cloned the OFB robot making station, and combined the two into a crafting station anvil where your medieval smiths can make… robots? Yeah, that didn’t make much sense to me, either – so I threw in some period-appropriate default replacements for the bots as well.

I’ve seen this being referred to as a “default replacement station” a few times, so I want to stress that the anvil is NOT a default replacement for the robot crafting station, but a stand-alone object. Only the bots are default replacements – and they’re completely optional, you do not need them for the anvil to work.

I repeat: The anvil is NOT a default replacement for the robot crafting station! It is a stand-alone object!

Now, if we’re all clear on that. 😉 Since my scubee had all EPs installed and this was made for her, the anvil requires OFB and FT. I might make an OFB-only version later, but for now, you need both.

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Update, 14 June, 2017: Downloader beradan has reported that the DR bots conflict with a mod for buyable craftables (that may or may not be this one); nothing will crash, but the bots won’t display properly if you have this mod installed. It might be possible to solve this by load order (i.e. having my bots load last), but I haven’t yet been able to check this myself. Just a heads up, in case the bots aren’t behaving as advertised in your game.

Thank you, beradan, for the report! ⭐

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The anvil comes with three recolours for the anvil itself and five for the water barrel:

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As your blacksmith sets about his crafting, the water in the barrel will begin to bubble and a piece of metal will magically appear to be placed on the anvil by… a butterfly. Because everybody knows how strong butterflies were in medieval times. 😛

His name is Hunk Smith. I’m like that sometimes.

 
Also, as you may have noticed in the title pic, your smith won’t be using a spanner and a screwdriver when making his item, but a mallet and a tong (also extracted from TSM). It seemed more appropriate for a blacksmith, not to mention less present day.

But what is he making? Well, like I said I’ve made default replacements for all the bots (again extracted from TSM) to make them more period-appropriate. So:
 
The toy robot is now a toy knight.

 
The HydroBot has become an Ambling Water Bucket.

 
The CleanBot is a Floating Broom.

 
The SentryBot is a Soaring Sword.

No action shots of this one, sorry – the ‘hood burglars refused to cooperate and do their dirty deeds.

 
And the MunchieBot has turned into a Flying Cooking Pot.

I could not come up with a good explanation for how the cooking pot is carrying the food, so let’s just say it’s fairy magic.
I mean, it’s a flying cooking pot; realism’s pretty much been put out of the running already.

 
(BTW, if you don’t want your medieval Sims to control their bots with a plastic remote with green lights? I recommend my DR remote controls found in this post.)
 
The bots’ base stations are invisible – and I do mean invisible, they don’t even have a sun shadow – so you’ll need to take note of where you put them if you want to move them around and/or set them for sale in an OFB lot, since it’s the base station you need to aim for to do that and not the actual bot. But in case you forget where they are, the tile directly beneath where the bot is hovering is always a safe bet. 😉

 

Known Issues

If you tell your Sim to start making a bot, and then immediately cancel the action from the queue before the material has spawned, the bubbles will still begin to bubble, and they won’t stop until you make another bot (or at least allow the material to spawn before cancelling). I tried everything I could think of to fix this, to no avail, so for you indecisive impatient types there is a menu option to “remove stuck bubbles” in case this happens. (Note that this menu option will show even if there aren’t any stuck bubbles to remove.)

Also – and this isn’t so much an issue as it is an annoyance – everything still has the original sounds, so things are whirring and clicking and humming in a very non-medieval way. I couldn’t fix this, either, sorry. (Yes, I do know how to remove the sound from an animation, but to be able to do it I have to find the darned sound first, and I couldn’t this time.)

 

Blacksmith’s Anvil

[Google Drive]       [MEGA]

 

Default Replacement Bots

[Google Drive]       [MEGA]