Magical growths include the beanstalk, the Crystal Clear Ability Rocks, and the magic flowers.  In the unmodded game, you get a magical growth after every FIFTEEN spells or charms cast on your home lot in the regular neighborhood or after every TEN cast on your home lot if you live in Magic Town.

That's a lot!  The crystals give abilities that aren't available in any other way, the beanstalk lets you up climb up and visit a sleeping giant Will Wright (if it grows all the way up, which takes 17 segments), and the magical flowers don't do anything that I know of, but they give your lot that "A spellcaster lives here" look.

So I've modded the game.  This file makes something grow after every 3 spells or charms cast on your home lot if you live in the regular neighborhood or after every 2 if you live in Magic Town.  So you can actually see all the cool stuff that came with Makin' Magic before you lose interest in the spells and charms.

The file that controls the magical growths in the game also is the file that disables Build and Buy when you take your sim to Magic Town.  Of course, you can always edit Magic Town when your sim is NOT there, but sometimes something comes up, and you want to be able to edit it while your sim is there.

So there are two versions of the mod:

1.  One changes just the rate of magical growths -- More Magical Growth.zip

2.  The other changes the rate of magical growths AND enables Build and Buy when your sim visits Magic Town -- More Magical Growth AND Enable Build Buy MagicTown.zip

If you want ONLY the Build/Buy enabler for Magic Town, you can get that at Simslice.

If you just want the crystals and the beanstalk without having to cast any spells at all, Gnohmon has a mod for that, which you can get at http://mistymage.com/gnohmongoodies/magic.html.


Installation:  Take MagicMasterSpells.iff out of the folder it comes in and put it into your ExpansionPack7 folder.  For most players, this is at C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\The Sims\ExpansionPack7.

Do NOT put this in your Downloads folder, because it will not work there!

And of course, you can only use one version at a time, since they both override the same game file.


I made this mod for my own use, but I went to the trouble of uploading it in an attempt to make my fellow simmers happy.  So if you enjoy this mod, I'd love to hear about it!  I don't get mail at corylea.com, but you can leave a comment in the thread announcing my mods at ModTheSimsReddit or send me a PM at either of those places; I'm Corylea at both.

Have fun!

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