Sims 4 Basemental Drugs Mod: Purchase, Production, Settings, and Buffs

Sims 4 basemental drugs mod unlocks a wide variety of drug and tobacco use in The Sims 4, including the materials, seeds to grow, tools for producing drugs from the raw materials and rolling, etc. The mod also allows you to set up the dealers, police, and other drug-related relationships. However, it is not encouraging drug use in real life by no means, since your Sim will get drug-related mood changes and addiction as well! This post will unlock all the interesting settings and content in The Sims 4 basemental drugs mod, making it a heads-up for cautious drug use in real life.🌿

How to Download and Install Sims 4 Basemental Drugs Mod?

The Sims 4 basemental drugs mod is directly available at the basemental mods website. You can click here to go to the download page. Basemental drugs mod is an adult mod so it is advised to use this mod for only adults at the age of 18+.

Zip files work for both Windows and Mac, so you can download the zip files directly to your computer. Later, you should unzip the file to this location: Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/Basemental Drugs/

After downloading and unzipping, go to the location and check if you can see the file named basemental drugs directly shown at the location: Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/

Your basemental drugs file should look like this without being placed in any secondary files:

Then, you have successfully installed your basemental drugs mod and you should be able to see it in your game. Note that this mod is not available on CurseForge. The website download may be the only way for you to manually install the mod. But no worries, this process is very simple, as shown above.

Some functions are not available for the base game. This list includes beer brewing station, bust the drugs, hookah, remove keg buffs, and trippy batuu.

Browse All the Items of Sims 4 Basemental Drugs Mod in the Build Mode

The basemental drugs mod includes a lot of content and activities. It can be a bit overwhelming and confusing when you are just getting started. However, there is an easy way for you to kick-start this journey!

You can get started by viewing all the items you can purchase from the Build Mode. There are items for different categories of drugs and tobacco use.

1. Tobacco: rolling papers (French orange, natural, basemental, smoking), tobacco drying rack, ashtrays (cigar and cigarette), packs of cigarettes, packs of cigars, Slackwood’s wild and mild papers, Dig Dag Hemp wrap
2. Cannabis: cannabis seeds, empty weed jars (for curing), weed bongs
3. Amphetamine: speed package (low and high quality)
4. Cocaine: cocaine brick (average and high quality)
5. Others: smite bottles, Jolly Rancher bags, Phillies pack, King’s mini roll pack

From these categories, you can purchase seeds, rolling paper, curing jars, or ready-to-use products directly and place them into the world.

You can start by either using the products directly or planting and making your own cannabis or tobacco products.

Purchase the Items from Sims 4 Basemental Drugs Mod

Build Mode

You can switch to the Build Mode and click on Objects by Function. Click Filter Items on the upper right corner of the Build Mode bar, select Content, and then Custom Content.

All the items from the basemental drugs mod will be displayed in the bar. You can buy them directly and place them into the world.

Basemental’s Headshop

Another way of purchasing items is to call the Basemental’s Headshop. You will find the “B” icon in your Sim’s phone. By clicking on it, you can see the option of Basemental’s Headshop.

This will lead your Sim to a location but you won’t be going with your Sim. The pop-up window will show all the items you can purchase (some are unavailable here).

Convenience Store

At the convenience store, you can find some other items that the Basemental’s Headshop is not selling. However, the convenience store also sells some other miscellaneous things.

You can find the option of visiting the convenience store at the “B” icon on your Sim’s phone. By clicking that, your Sim will leave the lot and the convenience store window will pop up.

There are some unique items that you can’t find in the Build Mode, such as BM vape, BM vape cartridge, dipping tobaccos, moonshine buckets, stills, and boxes (for making the moonshine whiskey), and stay-safe test kit for drug use.

You can also purchase some miscellaneous items here like B&M colognes, bags of sugar, corn starch, etc. This mix of different items will give you a very realistic vibe as if it is a real-life convenience store.

How to Make Products from Scratch Using Sims 4 Basemental Drugs Mod?

Tobacco

The process of making tobacco products (rolling or dipping cigarettes) involves planting, growing, curing, and rolling/dipping tobacco plants.

1. Click on your gardening pots or planter boxes to purchase tobacco seeds
2. Plant the seeds into the gardening pots or planter boxes
3. Wait to harvest the tobacco leaves
4. Dry the tobacco leaves on the tobacco drying racks
5. Collect dry tobacco leaves (the curing process will be automatically triggered in your inventory)
6. Click the cured tobacco leaves and make them into rolling or dipping tobacco

Cannabis

The process of making cannabis products is similar to making tobacco products.

1. Click on your gardening pots or planter boxes to purchase any kind of cannabis seeds
2. Plant the seeds in the pots or boxes
3. Harvest the cannabis sativa
4. Purchase an empty weed jar from the Build Mode or Basemental’s Dispensary from the phone
5. Click the jar in your inventory to cure the cannabis
6. Wait for the curing and obtain a pack of cannabis product after the curing is done.

Moonshine Whiskey

Moonshine whiskey is another illegal alcoholic beverage you can make from the basemental drugs mod. By making the whiskey, your Sim will unlock the skill of moonshine making.

Drinking the whiskey will give your Sim different buffs including some good buffs like moonshine delight and tipsy, as well as some bad buffs like wasted, drunk, unsettling, and nausea.

Drinking the moonshine will also unlock a compulsory trip when your Sim is drunk. Your Sim will go on a drunk trip which won’t take the player to any location but you need to choose a series of options to decide what to do during this trip (similar to the pop-up options from working)

To make the whiskey, you need to have the moonshine mash buckets and moonshine stills. You can purchase both from the convenience store on your Sim’s phone.

1. Click the still to purchase the moonshine ingredients
2. Put the bucket into the world and start fermenting the ingredients
3. Put the bucket with the fermented ingredients into your inventory and click the still to start stilling the alcohol
4. Wait for 2-3 days to discard the shots and collect the heart shots
5. Your moonshine whiskey is all done!

Setting NPCs for Your Basemental Drugs Mod

The mod is very flexible for toggling the settings for NPCs and others in the game. You can click your Sim and open up the panel for the basemental drugs mod. On this panel, you can adjust the autonomous drug use, addiction predisposition, police difficulty, reactions, legalizing cannabis, assigning NPCs, cheats, and so on.

In assigning NPCs, you can select which NPCs to be drug dealers, shamans, bouncers, and police officers. Each role allows up to three NPCs.

Drug dealers can not only sell you different drugs (including some drugs that the Dispensary or the convenience store are not selling), but also talk about drug markets with you and set you up as the supplier. With the shaman, they will give you a drink called ayahuasca which will also start a spiritual journey for you Sim.

Buffs from Using the Tabacco, Drugs, and Alcohol

Your Sim will receive a mix of buffs from any use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol, including some good ones and bad ones. The mod is to reflect the whole journey of drug, tobacco, and alcohol use. In this sense, your Sim may receive some good buffs at the beginning, but as time goes on, some bad buffs will kick in.

For example, if you start to let your Sim smoke a cigarette, at first, your Sim may feel disgusted by the cigarette smell. As your Sim smokes more, she/he will feel relaxed and happy from smoking. However, when you deprive your Sim of tobacco use, your Sim will feel very uncomfortable and even angry from the addiction and tobacco deprivation. Once you give your Sim tobacco again, your Sim will feel relaxed once again.

This design is more than realistic, to reflect the subtle changes in tobacco use. The same situation applies to weed and other drug use as well. Although the buffs tend to be good ones at the beginning, the situation will soon deteriorate into bad emotional buffs and addictions.

FAQs

What drugs are in the basemental drugs list?

You can turn on the Build Mode to check all the items available in the basemental drugs mod. To list a few, it includes cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine, Phillies, Jolly Rancher hard candies, and so on. There are also other items related to alcohol and tobacco, such as moonshine whiskey, cigarettes, cigars, and vapes.

Is it illegal to use mods in The Sims 4?

According to EA’s official notice, using or downloading mods is legal as long as the mods do not infringe the intellectual property or privacy rights, or contain any obscene or harmful content.

What is the most popular Sims 4 mod?

There are many mods by other artists that some uniform mod platforms like CurseForge do not include. But to find out the most popular Sims 4 mod, you can always go to CurseForge for a direct answer. Select the Browse and toggle the Sort to Popularity. The page will show the most popular mods of Sims 4 on CurseForge, including XML Injector, MC Command Center, WonderfulWhims, etc.

While XML Injector is a file to enable other mods, MC Command Center is a mod allowing you to cheat and take more control over the game, and WonderfulWhims enables more sex options.

Conclusion

The Sims 4 basemental drugs mod opens up a wide variety of fresh options you can try out in the game, which is by no means encouraging, but more like discouraging drug use in real life. The mod includes different drug-use options, producing, and dealing drugs (and other tobacco or alcohol items) for your Sim to try out.

Contrary to promoting drug use, this mod is a way to put you through a virtual journey of the sweet start and terrible consequences of drug, alcohol, and nicotine abuse. As the good emotional buffs only last a short while, the bad buffs constantly kick in to make your Sim almost always feel either dazed, uncomfortable, or angry. Financially speaking, purchasing any drugs or alcohol from the mod is also not cheap. For my Sim, it is certainly impossible to quench the addiction by working as a level-8 chef. I have to let my Sim run a five-star restaurant to sustain the constant purchasing.

In summary, The Sims 4 basemental drugs mod is a very well-designed mod that offers many playable items and options to enrich your gameplay experience. It is certainly recommended to give it a try considering how many new options, items, NPC settings, and conversation options it includes. It doesn’t fall short even to regard it as an expansion pack.