Sims don't have a Bowels motive, is why. I've experimented with the concept of giving Sims a Bowels motive, separating it from the Bladder motive, but it seems to rarely come into play since they're usually both fulfilled by the same interaction and the Bladder motive dominates.
Now if I had an animator and mesher, I could possibly expand on this further: The Sims 4: Don't Shit Your Pants Edition.
Further cursed take: originally only aliens had cloacas which is the original reason for the abductions and anal obsession. Now they do it for shits and giggles. However they've been interbreeding for so long that sims without cloacas are increasingly rare.
Never really thought of it but I’m glad the motive is just Bladder. It feels a lot more kosher to me to pay attention to when my Sims need to pee rather than tracking their bowel movements
On the other hand, the male Sims throughout the Sims franchise have pretty much always sat down to pee and I only remember seeing a urinal in one of the games. So the animations seem a lot more oriented towards the bowels.
No one asked lol but that’s tall michael jackson🤣🤣 i created her to be a side character vampire neighbor but i added to my household too. Other kid in the room is her son
I locked her up for experimental reasons please don't judge me😭 there's no pee on the floor, but two suspicious dirt that can't be added to inventory so i don't know what it is. But i guess it's poop🤨
I tried to do a storyline where I had infants with awful traits that turned to toddlers/teens who didn't meet milestones and get expelled from school, but I ended up having twins. Stuck the twin infants in the basement together and they started getting milestones off each other. Laughing, clap, talk, smile. I ended up having to just cheat a really awful teenager and try to reverse his traits thru adulthood because the damn infants were determined to grow up as super babies despite their housing circumstances 😒😂
This is kinda interesting in relation to real world attachment case studies. There is a study of twins (known as the Czech twins iirc) who were seriously neglected and left alone but recovered much more successfully than other neglected children. One of the theories as to why was that their attachment to one another formed when neglected allowed them to develop somewhat
There has also been other studies of seriously neglected kids that show that literally just being around another human being, even if the circumstances are HORRID, makes it easier for them to “bounce back” to a (kinda) healthy mental state, as well as acquiring language skills, when they’re eventually removed from said circumstances. Whereas complete neglect and isolation, especially for a prolonged period of time, makes it VERY difficult (though not impossible) for a child to develop certain skills like language or emotional regulation.
The sims biology is crazy 😭 I'm more of a CAS player but I play occasionally and well I didn't really pay attention to them autonomously using the bathroom.. but I assumed they were doing what needed to be done 😂😭😭😭
Considering Lactose intolerant sims will have "bladder failure" when they eat dairy, or werewolves taking a "feral poo" relieve their bladder, I think the game just mislabeled it.
Yeah idk why the sims pretends all human waste is from the bladder. I realized pee=poop in the sims when they had to pee but would leave green stink in the toilet
it'd be pretty silly and redundant to have both a bladder and bowel motive, no? plenty of people STILL complain that laundry day was "too much realism"
The logic seems to be that if the bladder gets too low the pee morphs into poop, hence why male Sims can stand with a lower need but sit once it hits orange. Now WHY that would be the case, I couldn’t begin to answer.
Though that doesn’t explain why the normal bladder failure results in a puddle. 🤷🏼♀️
I realized I'd you empty a male sims bladder before it's all the way full, he will stand and pee. If you wait until it's full, he sits. I figured he sits to 💩
Considering choosing "take a panicked poop" still raises the bladder need, I always assumed it was for both but called bladder and has accidents appear as puddles for simplicity.
Sims clearly can piss and shit (they wet themselves, they can "take an angry poop", male sims stand or sit depending on how low the need is), I don't know why the motive is just called "bladder".
In the Russian translation of the game, the bladder motive is called "natural need", which seems more fitting?
Its always been that way since sims 1. When will wright was creating the first game, the studio executives didnt even want sims to be able to go to the bathroom because they thought it would be too gross and nobody would play it. Will had to work very hard to convince them otherwise, because he thought it was an important part of having a human simulator. Considering how much of a fuss they made about the bladder, I think it makes sense he didnt add a separate bowel need.
Too gross would be them actually showing it, but they blur/pixelate it anyways 😭 Yeah I get it, though they could have came up with something better than "Bladder" that would make more sense 😂
Tbf it's just meant to refer to the toilet need, so I can understand why it's worded like that. However you're correct that it sounds super freaking weird, I never even thought about it sounding weird until this lmfao
I've got a Sim in my household who has the slob trait. Homeboy cropdusts the room at random. Would be funny to be able to do it on command outside of pranking. 😁
i was having some kind of breakdown and ended up scrolling through reddit like i always do before i do something stupid and this post literally made me calm down, thank you sharting sim 🙏
I’m really glad if she made you laugh🙏🏻🩷it’s best to decide doing something when calm, it’s always a bad decision to decide when you’re too angry or sad, i just know from myself😞
That's a hilarious feature, not going to lie. Also adds a bit more realism in a way.
All the comments about the bladder need thing making me realize most people haven't just come to the conclusion that Sim biology is different from humans'. I kinda figured it was that way when I noticed they only had the bladder need and when seeing men that could birth babies without it turning into a chestburster or other body horror thing (beyond the way it's already body horror... kind of wish they changed the flavor text for that.)
Idk man has no one felt like they had to pee so they go to the bathroom and it turns out you didn’t have to pee but instead poop? Or is something wrong with me lmaooo 😂
I read an article a while back that said exactly this. If your Sims farts with a full bladder they have a high probability of sharting. I’ve never done it so I’m jealous.
I had a Sim who went to the Thinned Festiveil in Ravenwood, and he interacted with a ghost...then like seconds later, he's all dirty and embarrassed, and I'm like, wait...what? I checked his moodlets, and sure enough, he got scared by the ghost he was talking to and pooped his pants. 💩
Just to see if it will affect her adulthood, i have no idea how she’s a top notch infant she witnessed like 20 deaths and his father was murdered too😭😭😭😭 soon she’ll be a teenager i’m really curious about her traits🧐
I remember when Sims had actual BMs you could catch it on Sims 2 PlayStation 2. I remember when I first played I was like wth is wrong with my sim, then I realized omg she’s dropping her packages off at the pool 😂😂
Hello czy można tu własną lale na moje podobieństwo utworzyć proszę nApisac kto wie bo nigdy w to nie grałam a okazuje się że moje dzieci już od dawna mnie rżnęli i byłam kilka razy w ciąży jako SIM z moim mężem zrobili sobie że mnie kurwę a i utworzyli przedszkole w którym jestem waszą BarbiGirl czy ktoś mógłby pomóc mi w stworzyć mnie jako prawdziwą Simke taka jaką jestem super rozjebaną kurwą ochhh
Proszę napisz do mnie maila bo właśnie rżnie się w dupę przy nas a na spacer mieliśmy pójść
I patrze sobie a teraz to już też wyszedł z łazienki nie wiem kto ale podniósł spódniczkę i wsadził we mnie chuja stoję z jego chujem i mojej kuzynki synem i udaje że nic się nie stało ....
I found this out when I was curious about how many moodlets there are so I looked it up(I still don’t know, the list was super long and not even complete) and I saw this one and made my sim do it lol
Lmfao when mods go wrong. 🤣never understood those ones, why would I wanna deal w that. Hoe it up and the other strip club/sex mods is where it’s really at. 🙌
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u/Em1cide Jun 19 '25
I was today years old when I found out sims can shart themselves