hmiller61615's "Go Hunting" Spears Revamped

An interesting object by hmiller61615, that actually adds a bit of gameplay element to the game! There is some balancing issue with the original, so I went to town and piled upon it more and more features. Timer-based countdown for returning home was the most basic addition...

The revamped version has a lot of new features. It has 3 interactions, including the original Go Hunting. Having a spear in the inventory is no longer needed. Sims and pets simply walk up to the spear bundle, touch /yowl at it , and run off the lot. They will return when the timer runs out, or when forced to such as canceling the interaction.

The revamped object is now named Milliman H. Hunting Spears and can be found in Hobbies -> Miscellaneous. It costs $699 and has a fairly complete description.


Let me begin with the Go Hunting interaction
- Available for teens and older
- Hunting Sim will take 4 hours before returning home.
- Cleaning, Body and Cooking skills combined reduce time spent on a hunt, down to a minimum of 2 hours.

- Hunting Sim will return with, depending the score - "nothing", "1 dish", or "group serving".
- Body skill, Nature enthusiasm, and starting mood combined dictate the score; higher score yields better result
- Nature enthusiasm helps avoid the "nothing" result.
- Charisma skill helps turn the "1 dish" result into "group serving" result.

- Builds Body skill, Nature enthusiasm and fitness
- Drains Energy, Comfort and Hygiene; somewhat less than a workout
- Fun loss on nice Sims; bigger gain on mean Sims.
- May relief Bladder

Possible results:
"1 dish": Comfort Soup; Chili con Carne; Salmon; Trout (actually a group serving)
"Group serving": Pork Chop; Turkey; Ribs; Roast


Next is a new interaction - Go Outing
- Available for children and teens
- From 12:00 to 20:00, or 07:00 to 20:00 during weekends, this interaction becomes available.
- Outing youth will take 3 hours before returning home. If the hour is past 22:00, they will be forced to return home.
- Restores Fun and Social; Active Sims gain more Social; outgoing Sims gain more Fun.
- Drains Comfort and Hygiene
- May relief Bladder and Hunger

- Outing youth will return, and if on good enough starting mood, do so with a chance card and skill combination choices.
- Picking any choice while having at least 4 skill points for each skill in the combination will yield a positive result. There is no negative result.

Skill combinations:
- Cooking and Logic: yields 6 random gardening or orchard produce and boost the Gardening talent badge. High skills can increase the yield, up to 18.
- Mechanical and Cleaning: yields a random small electronics. High skills can yield a microwave or handheld game.
- Charisma and Body: street performance earns some cash. High skills make the earning bigger.


The last is for exclusive for pets - Go Scavenging
- Available if the Hunger bar is at 3/4 or less
- Scavenging pet will take 2 hours before returning home.
- Restores Hunger, Social and Fun
- Drains Energy, Comfort and Hygiene
- May relief Bladder

- Scavenging pet can return with $40 to $120 if it can fulfill its Hunger by about 1/3 of the bar.
- Pets may Go Scavenging autonomously if hungry.
- Can be directed to otherwise in conjunction with the boolProp controlPets and boolProp petActionCancel cheats


Go Hunting and Go Scavenging are available on checked in hotels and campgrounds. Go Outing is only available on owned residential lots. None of them are available on community lots.

Canceling the interaction, or returning home prematurely from poor mood or time, will deduct the score or prevent better results.

Most parameters can be customized in the BCON section. Although you will need some serious mathematics skill.


Issues
Autonomy for pets is not tested yet. Please report any other bugs in the comment section.


Conflicts
This mod is fully intended to replace hmiller61615's original "Go Hunting" Spears.


Credit:
hmiller61615 for the original "Go Hunting" Spears
BuggyBooz for the spear mesh and Smonoff for help with the original "Go Hunting" Spears