When EA was developing the Island Paradise, they originally planned for sharks on the surface to be able to attack sims and even designed a moodlet specifically for it. However this feature was cut before release, leaving the swimming sharks on the surface purely decorative and just there to intimidate. The complete original code remains in the game files and this mod brings the cut content into the game.

Requirements

Island Paradise

Features

When a sim is swimming in the ocean in an area with a shark spawner and sharks appears, there is a 30% chance of being attacked. Each meat or fish in the sim's inventory increases the attack chance by an additional 10%.

Similar to underwater attacks, if the sim loses the fight, they will get two negative moodlets (including the exclusive "Taken for a Ride" moodlet). The shark will also steal any meat of fish from the sim's inventory. The attack will not kill the sim. If the sim wins against the shark, they will receive a shark tooth and get the "Pumped" moodlet. The chance to win the fight is based on how many skill points the sim has in athletic, martial arts and scuba diving skills. If the sim has the loves to swim trait, there's a chance they will win the fight.

Because only Isla Paradiso has surface shark spawners in offical EA worlds, and custom worlds that place them aren't very common either, the chances of encountering this event are extremely low (which I suspect is why EA ultimately cut it). For this reason, I ended up keeping the debug interaction that I used during testing. No matter which world you're playing in, just turn on testingcheatsenabled and click on your active sim (aged teen and older) while they're swimming in non-pool water, and the debug interaction will appear.

Tuning

You can adjust values of attack chance and shark detection radius in the xml.

Conflicts

This is a pure script mod, so there shouldn't be any conflicts.

Installation

Just place the package file in your Mods/Packages folder.

Credits

Thank you to the various tutorials on MTS and other sites, as well as Visual Studio 2022, ILSpy, s3pe and my computer wiz friend Gu for help with coding issues.🫶

If you encounter any problems, please let me know. Have fun!