This framework allows modders and CC creators to add their own foods, music genres, and colors to the list of selectable favorites. It supports music stations added by gamefreak130's Broadcaster and foods added by douglasveiga's CCLoader in addition to foods included with the unmodded game and its add-on content.

Hereinafter is information relevant to modders. To users simply wanting to install packages that include new favorites, you can stop reading.

Information for Modders

I have included a generator as a program to add new favorites. It creates a new package that the base package accepts to add favorites into the game. This will be familiar to those who have used Broadcaster and/or CCLoader Generator.

Within the archive of that download is an executable that when double clicked will create a template XML in the same folder, which you can make a copy of and add entries to. You would then drag and drop the modified XML onto the same executable to generate a package.

In that XML, you'll find example entries of different types of favorites. Do not remove these entries. Simply insert new ones after the example entries of each type. For favorite foods and music genres, one will need icons in the form of IMAG resources, both small and large, and their keys will need to be specified in the entries in unhashed form (e.g., "cas_favs_music_i_alternative" and "cas_favs_music_i_alternative_s" ). For music types, the "Station_Name" attribute should match the one found in the XMLs made by Broadcaster. For food types, the "Recipe_Key" attribute should match the one found in the XMLs made by CCLoader Generator.

To add a favorite color, one only needs to add the name and hex code for the color, as well as the display names of it and its corresponding drink for Into the Future (not relevant for people without the expansion). The program will automatically generate the icons with the correct colors and the STBL entries, making adding new colors possible for non-modders.

As for the "Parent" attribute—leave that as an empty string unless the favorites entry is a member of a group of similar entries. It's to allow for, as an example, pasta to be a Sim's favorite food, and therefore spaghetti, ravioli, angel hair, etc. are too.

Source code available here

Credits

• Bietjie – Created the default replacement for the drink synthesizer drinks to add material states for 256 colors; my code finds the closest of these colors to the listed favorite colors to use for the drinks
• douglasveiga – Created CCLoader, useful for adding recipes (among other things) to the game, and also reverse engineered to make this framework
• gamefreak130 – Created Broadcaster, useful for adding music stations to the game
• garrettgivre – Made Converted Sims 4 Radio Stations (23 Stations, 226 Songs), which is what the TS4 music example package was made for
• LazyDuchess – Allowed me to borrow a method from Mono Patcher
• MihaiA10 – Provided me with information about unused favorites for the game
• MonoChaos – Provided the icon for the generator
• Pirombo – Provided me with the TS4 icons for the TS4 music example package
• pljones – Provided the S3PI library which serves as the basis of this framework's generator and many other Sims 3 tools
• thepancake1 – Showed me how to reload LAYO resources without restarting the game
• Twinsimming – Came up with the idea for favorite groupings
• zoeoe – Came up with the idea of adding a bunch of colors as material states, which the favorite colors will resolve to the closest of
• Likely others whose names elude me (sorry!)

Changelog

• Hotfix #1 (2026/05/18) – Fixed a null reference exception that would happen when a Sim had a favorite for a nonexistent recipe or music station and the game would check whenever that was relevant.
• Feature Update #1 (2026/05/18) – Updated the generator to populate generated packages with default icons for food and music.
• Hotfix #2 (2026/05/18) – Made it so that if the icon key attributes for favorite foods and music genres are left out or empty strings, they will point to the proper default-named icons generated by the generator.
• Hotfix #3 (2026/05/19)
  • Fixed blacklisting favorite colors causing a mismatch of icons in the dialogs.
  • Fixed preexisting drink synthesizers not showing the new drinks upon loading a save.
  • Fixed parent–child relationships not working for favorite foods.
  • Made it so that blacklisted favorite colors would not show their respective drinks for the drink synthesizer.
  • Made it so that blacklisted favorites would not show up in the NRaas' MasterController Cheats dialogs unless "kAllowBlacklistedFavoritesInMasterControllerDialogs" in the tuning was set to true.
• Feature Update #2 (2026/05/20)
  • Added the ability to specify opposites of colors for the drink synthesizer.
  • Added the ability to override colors by specifying ones with existing names.
  • Added the ability to hide favorites but still have Sims with parent favorites receive their perks
  • Reworked parent–child relationships so that the parent now needs to be specified instead of the children.
• Hotfix #4 (2026/05/22) – Fixed duplicate favorites entries showing up.
• Hotfix #5 (2026/05/22) – Fixed a fatal exception that would occur when trying to drag an XML from another folder on top of the executable.
• Hotfix #6 (2026/05/24)
  • Added validation for food and music entries.
  • Added the "IsGroup" attribute to food and music entries to allow for them to bypass the new validation.
  • Integrated an unmerged fix (as of writing this, there's an open pull request for it) for NRaas MasterController Cheats to show the icons for non-base-game music genres.
  • Fixed overrides for food and music entries.
• Hotfix #7 (2026/06/01) – Fixed an issue where the "Hidden" attribute would not work.
• Hotfix #8 (2026/06/02)
  • Fixed the windows for changing favorites in Create-A-Sim going past the boundaries of the screen if there were too many entries.
  • Fixed the windows for changing favorites in the Change of Taste dialog having missing or clipped scrollbars.
• Hotfix #9 (2026/06/04) – Fixed an issue where icons for modded favorite music genres would not show up in live mode.
• Hotfix #10 (2026/06/04) – Added compatibility with icarus_allsorts' Ingredient Moodlets From Meals + More Filling Kelp & Fish Meals For Mermaids.
• Hotfix #11 (2026/06/16) – Reduced the generator to a self-contained executable. To get the template XML, the user has to double click the executable.
• Hotfix #12 (2026/06/16) – Added an icon to the generator, courtesy of MonoChaos.