Better Bon Voyage Part 3: Shrine and Garden

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Where is part 1? Readiness issue, I need to make my final vacation hood first, so that's going to be in late March 2026!

This is part of my Better Bon Voyage mod that will enhance some aspects of vacationing. Part 3 covers the lucky shrine, and for now in the beta stage, the zen garden.

This part covers the lucky shrine by diversifying its results - different blessings between community and residential lots and introduction of the very bad results for extracting agony... Far less unfair randomness, as the Aspiration bar is the primary deciding factor on the results.

For the zen garden, it has been made far less obstructive, especially for its 8 by 6 tiles size, as most of the garden can now be walked over. Raking the garden has also been made into a group activity, and no longer limited by completion so as to allow its Want to be fulfilled more readily.


Features
"Spiritual Shrine of Odd Blessings"
Covered by the _Shrine module
  • Aspiration level dictates the results.
  • More result types, and different blessings between residential and community lots
  • Very bad results for Sims in the red
  • Longer timeout as the blessings are substantially better than before.

The possible results are segregated into the following groups:


"Sand Waves Zen Garden"
Beta version as its _ZenGarden module has not been finalized yet.
  • Can be walked over at any time, even while the garden is in use.
  • Grooming is now a group activity, and multiple rakers will chat with each other and even those viewing the garden.
  • Sims will only rake their particular quadrants, so as to allow others to join.
  • Grooming can be done no matter how well raked the garden is, so as to let the Want be fulfilled any time.
  • Grooming yields Cleaning skill, if moderately so.

Other Changes
These are all optional and quite minor.



Issues
Sims raking the zen garden together may have brief animation glitching while listening to others. Though it has no impact on the game, the chatting may be reworked in the final version.

Please report any other bugs in the comment section.


Conflicts
The _Object_Shrine module adds to or modifies the "Spiritual Shrine of Odd Blessings" group (0x7F3FAC27) in the following instances:


Both _Object_ZenGarden modules add to or modify the "Sand Waves Zen Garden" group (0x7FD7A6C4) in the following instances:


Other modules add to or modify various groups in the following instances, as sorted by each module name:



Credits:
Nostural for discovering an issue early on
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