Visible Illnesses

A small mod to give a visible buff telling you what kind of illness your sim has, and if it's mild or severe. These are in addition to the normal scratchy/dizzy/etc. buffs from the game that don't tell you what the illness is.

The treatments you can do at home listed in the buffs actually work, and if you were playing a doctor, the buffs list the treatments you would use to cure patients. If you've never played as a doctor, you might not realize that there are eight different illnesses, each with their own distinct symptom sets and required treatments.

Because of how I had to do things to get them to stay on sims and not vanish after a short period of time, if your sim is sick, they should always have an illness type buff. If you remove them, they'll come back for as long as the sim is sick. They may or may not have a severity buff, because the hidden buff for that isn't always there--sometimes the sim is just sick. Mild or severe can vanish or switch from one to the other.

This is NOT a healthcare mod. It doesn't affect gameplay. It doesn't add doctor's visits or death, despite what the buffs hint. The illnesses are just the ones that came with Get to Work.

Following on that: probably not overly compatible with healthcare mods. My mod does NOT override anything, but if the other mod does, it may not work with them, and it won't work with additional illnesses from other mods. Regular GTW illnesses only.

• Seems to not be compatible at all with Healthcare Redux by adeepindigo. Mine just doesn't work. I can't say if long term use would also affect HCR. Best not to try.

While it only works with GTW illnesses, I added custom strings. So if you want to change the names of the illnesses, you can, by making a string table override. Useful for if you want your sims to have real life illnesses, historical illnesses, or illnesses that fit your alternate universe. Or if you want to remove the mention of Grim. Up to you. That does mean it's all in English though, and I'd welcome translations.

Thanks to the wonderful testers in the Sims After Dark discord server.

REQUIRES Get To Work and Lot 51's Core Library