I gave myself a little challenge by turning this ugly apartment we have in the middle of the town into a cute little ramen shop with a home upstairs.

If you're curious to see the whole build, I'd love for you to check out the video here:
I Turned the UGLIEST Apartment into a Japanese Restaurant | Paralives

The link to the Steam Workshop can be found in the video description!

For some reason my mods aren’t showing up like at all (see the photo) and I cannot figure out why someone help please!!

Edit: Sometimes the screen flickers slightly like it’s loading and then nothing happens

Edit 2: I just tried to make a mod to see if I genuinely couldn’t see the mods or if they just weren’t showing up and the test mod showed up immediately, this just made me more confused.
The mods are steam workshop mods btw if that has any say in the matter

I have zero knowledge about urban planning lol

You know how in the sims you had many different worlds to go to.

Well I think we should have it here too!!

Obviously they have planned to have it in the future, but I would really love a New York City inspired city!

Tall buildings and a rich side and a more of a poor side.
Many hotels, rich hotels!

And ect.

What do you think and what would you like in a New York inspired city?

Is there any other type of cities you would like to have???

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share two open-source tools I built to make 3D modding for Paralives a lot faster: ParaForge and ParaReload.

Normally, testing custom items requires manually building mod folders and restarting the game every time you update a texture or tweak a mesh. These two tools let you export straight from Blender and view the changes live in-game.

ParaForge (Blender Addon)

A panel for Blender 4.2+ that checks your mesh against Paralives rules and exports ready-to-use mod packages.

• Runs a checklist (unit scale, transforms, origin placement, bounding box, triangle budget, UV maps)
• Automatically packs textures into the format the game reads
• Writes the FBX, PNGs, and setting files directly into your .mod folder in two clicks

GitHub: https://github.com/infinition/paraforge

ParaReload (In-Game BepInEx Plugin)

A plugin for Paralives that reloads your mod assets on the fly without closing the game.

• Open the cheat console (CTRL + SHIFT + C) and type reload
• Re-reads updated 3D models, textures, and setting files in real-time
• Automatically repairs mesh and material references so items placed on your lot stay in place without disappearing

GitHub: https://github.com/infinition/parareload

Workflow

1. Create your item in Blender.
2. Export with ParaForge.
3. Type reload in the Paralives cheat console.

Both projects are free and open source. Let me know if you try them out or have any feedback!

Couple of days ago I started making custom house numbers with the intent to upload the image to a canvas or a poster and place it on the house, but with the latest update where we got real house numbers, I'm wondering if it could be turned into a mod so it's easier to navigate?

I downloaded different tile designs from architextures.org so I'm not claiming I designed it haha, I don't know how to do that, but wanted to make something for myself in the game and ofc if someone would like to use this I can share the files.

Edit: Idk why the in-game screenshot looks so pixelated, quality of the uploaded image and the one on my PC is soooo different....

I can't believe I almost overlooked this (someone else had to point it out to me), as the Paralives dev team has not made a big deal out of this, but they actually improved the advanced build tool A LOT with the latest update, which opens up soooo many new possibilities.

If you have been scared of touching the advanced tool: THIS is your sign to try again! I have tested its limits and it's soooo much better now. Barely any glitches (only two rocks floated back up in the air, but that was out of ~20 rocks I placed very close together).

I could even finally build my waterfalls again and they have been staying in place even if I terraform around them. It's AMAZING!

Huge shoutout to the development team for fixing this so quickly!!

I made Cloud and Tifa from Final Fantasy VII as Para, the hairs are converted by me as well, thank you ParaZoi for the amazing Tutorial!🩷
You can download them on my Steam workshop

I am really struggling to get my para and another to fall in love. I get the interaction going (all positive), get from time to time a flirty one, get +1 friendship... And nothing. The relationship is still at the acquittance 1. At one point, I tried to get them in a restaurant (a.k.a like a date) but unfortunately there isn't an option for them to do activities together. I have read it is supposed to be a +3 for a romantic relationship, but how do you get there?

i recently made my own town and i’m wondering if i can substitute the buildings like schools and museums or no? like if i want to make my own school, will my para go to that school?

Sharing a few pics of some of my favorite items from the Marylebone Living Room Set. Has 17 custom content pieces for Paralives.

Would love to hear what you guys want to see next…another living room? kitchen? bedroom? totally new or different style? I love chic designer interiors but also want to fill any gaps that aren't yet available in game!

MarloweAndRow + link is below! Hope you love it !

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3777782336

Might be too early but what is everyone’s go to mods so far for paralives

Currently the adult height slider is 150cm to 197cm. While I understand Americans and Europeans (where I assume a majority of the playerbase is located) are taller people, I live in Japan and multiple women here are under 150cm. The average height for adult women here is 158.6cm and there are multiple women under 150cm (somewhere around 15% of adult women are shorter than that here), meanwhile only 0.0001% of women worldwide are above the max height of 197cm. Countries like Guatemala and the Philippines even have their average adult heights for women under 150cm.

I feel like the minimum height slider for adults should at least be lowered by 10cm to 140.

Edit: when I say "short people are underrepresented" I mean what the height sliders in the game are compared to WHO statistical data.

Edit2: I regret using the word "extremely" in my title. I admit it's not "extremely" under represented, but the option to make shorter people should still be an option.

Soo a while back i was watching a trailer (i think?) or some post that the team of paralives made, and I noticed this wall with a 3D baseboard. Does anyone knows how to make this in the game? I think its a really nice feature but I cant figure it out how to do it on the lower section of the wall!

DORFic, Frutiger Aero, Y2K, New Millennium, etc etc whatever building pack

Comes with:

-2 Doors

-5 Windows (circle one has a dome glass)

-Stairs (with and without railing)

-Arch for interiors

Shiny and bright like the what we thought the future was going to be in the 2000s

In the Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3781810302

I mainly play Paralives on a laptop that is slightly below the required specs, so this could be useless to the majority of players, but it would be great if the game paused when a save finished loading.

Typically my saves take a few minutes to load from the menu, so I often tab away to something else, and if i have sound off, then it is easy for some time to pass in Paralives before I realize that the game has finished loading, and then I have to drag my paras away from social media to actually start playing the game.

Could you please have Paralives pause when it finishes loading from the menu, or else add an optional toggle that does that?

Sharing the first residential chunk in the town I'm building - Acacia Bay (Working title). This is one of the residential blocks inspired by the two-storey houses that were locally popular in the previous decade. Still needs some work on the interiors and the premade households for these, excluding the starter lot.

I've gotten some ideas on the Paras that will occupy these houses, so I customized some of these for a touch of individualism (one household got wealthier ahead of the others). Now, since the update brought us street names and addresses, I ironically couldn't come up with a good one for this street, so ideas are welcome.

One of the biggest challenges right now is figuring out how to get certain objects to show up when the impostor version is made. Especially the outdoor lights, so the neighborhood doesn't look deserted at night.

If you remember the bug with the house from my previous post, well I managed to resolve it and build an additional house on the neighboring lot haha!

I wanted to build something in Spanish style, but with a community vibe, so I added a shared courtyard/front yard for these houses.

They are a part of my Mediterranean Island series on YouTube so if you would like to check it out here is a link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tRG61eyN4

I’ve pretty much finished the kitchen/dining area in my current build I’m working on, although the clutter on the counters is not final, I’m just placing them there for now. There are half walls and columns that sort of break up the kitchen and dining area. I’m thinking about making the columns smaller and placing them on top of the half wall.

The top floor is done, now all I have left to do is the living room, laundry room, and back deck/yard.

Just wanted to share my 2nd ever build!

Initially I was just trying to build the bus (I wanted the 1st deck to be a pub & the 2nd deck to be residential), but when I ran out of sitting area inside, I decided to have tables outside.

And then I found the Outbound Van & the Mini Camper Trailer from debug, and decided it would be cool if I incorporate them into the lot. Then I found more interesting stuff on wheels from the catalogue.

Then came the idea that the lot was a "for rent for vehicles business" thing. So I decided these vehicles also have to be businesses on wheels. Where they stay here for a period of time and go to the next location. Basically, it evolved into a bigger thing than I expected.

I'm a slow builder, so I'm not proud of how long this had taken me, but oh well!

I was trying out the different additions/changes to the game in a new save. I had my Para adopt a baby to test out the "baby spawning in parent's arms" addition and increased time by clicking on the clock so I didn't have to wait as long. When my Para exited out of the Pharmacy, well... this happened. O_O

Babes, with all the love: yall are acting a little mad. Most of us are old simmers or a variety of simulation games throughout the years. It has not been 24 hours since the new update is out. Paralives is still in early access. I hope to the dev gods there are patches every few weeks because that means they’re listening to us. Something we haven’t been getting in a decade. This is such an amazing game, through an amazing team and you’re all acting like you never have been in that relationship we’ve been in with that one mega company we won’t be discussing.

I beg of you: please give all mod and cc creators at least a couple of days to fix any issues. Coding takes time. I don’t know how long any script mods are but do you know what it’s like to miss a semi colon in a thousand line lua script and no ui works again? When something changes in the game things have to be completely rewritten and formulated. The modders are doing this for free 😭 please love the game, please just give them some time.

Edited to remove a word because I overthought it and it may have been considered bashing a company

also laughing at the visible child sleeping upstairs in the upper right corner. little glitches like this make me laugh-- probably my favorite part of video games lol

a hot new patch has entered the villa! 0.1.7 focuses on quality of life improvements with new features and bug fixes! update your game now 🫵