Some reshuffling by necessity

Until Sacrificial returns from his hiatus, the Extreme Violence mod for The Sims 4 will remain partially broken, along with Akihana's loading screens - which broke with the patch for Journey to Batuu.

Several career items for the Batuu world don't mesh with Extreme Violence, nor do the combinations bode well for neighborhood loading, nor for compliance with the MC Command Center.

Until these items are in place, The Sims 4 will be too broken to use for modding for Dozerfleet Labs. This means that the remaining Swappernetters story packs will have to wait until Sacrificial returns to updating Extreme Violence, before Blood Over Water can be produced. Likewise, this affects all remaining Sims 4 story packs.

In the interim of waiting for these repairs, The Sims 3: Tales of Extirpon is going to see its story pack repaired on this blog. All other projects not terminally dependent on The Sims 4 will likewise proceed, until the mods for that game are repaired. Details on those other projects on the main blog.

The crafts and widgets are back online!

Please click on the Software and Crafts tab for more information. In other news, Citric Sid has a new recipe: King of the Tributary Rainbow Trout Feast. Try it for yourself today!

The Horrorday Gang Story Pack now fully online!

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Do you want your Sim kids reminded of how bad they are? Do they need to know about the year Santa didn't come, but something worse came instead?

While the pieces are still missing to make a DzMD Sims 4 upload of Michael Doughtery's Krampus franchise; Dozerfleet Comics has its own version to share: the Horrorday Gang ™!

It's Gerosha canon, as well as partially canon to the Every Ape and His Brother music collection! Hide from the world in Nordreichdun Castle, in northern Greenland! Play as Krampus, and plot wisely whom you need to prey upon when your annual feeding time comes! Play as the Straggele, and defend the castle - or the kingdom - or, aid the Horrorday Gang in their raid on some of the lowest scum on Earth, as they enact their twisted morality.

Icy Finger baddies especially posing a problem? Blow up away, with Luca the Snowmobster and his trusty Tommy gun! Or, learn at the end of a chainsaw why all of the other reindeer live in fear of Jerry! (They deserve it!) Want to send human traffickers to their graves? The vengeful Perchta has a thing or two to say to them!

Or, play as the corrupt Dickey County Sheriff Chad Estahm, and plot your next sinister move to curry favor from the Icy Finger's Dark Lord, Rappaccini! Or, play as his brother Anton, who escapes from prison on a quest to expose corruption in North Dakota; but expects the Navyropes, rather than some supernatural menace, to be the solution.

If Chad gets too far ahead of himself, back him up as Wilma Menka, an evil witch from the Icy Finger's Screwworm Network, who is one of many to have taken over CPS. Traffic the children of North Dakota into the Hebbleskin Gang's sinister Gleeful-N'-Young cartel, and make their mothers cry as you cackle, "legally" hauling them away to their doom! Just make sure the Horrorday Gang doesn't get too jealous of you taking kids away, or they may voice an opinion on it in a manner you're not gonna like!

Aid Estahm to avenge your hurt feelings as Jack Strainer - but beware of what happens if you should ever disagree with him!

Want some good to survive in this world? Play as Leah Strainer, and seek to find a meaningful existence in the halfway house. Or play as Ted or Jemma, trying to find a way out of the makeshift dungeons they're being kept in by their captors. How did the judge not realize that the CPS lady was wrong, or that she was a trafficker that was barely even hiding it? How do get back to your loving parents, when your own brother Jack teams up with the local judge to betray you?

Barring all of that, play as Rob Strainer - whom the media blood libeled and whom Estahm went to extreme lengths to personally ruin. A man who was robbed of nearly everything. He has but two reasons left to live: win back his family, and / or avenge them! Little does he realize the help he's about to get - of a sort he'd never dare ask for!

When one corrupt sheriff ignores warnings to stay out of Greenland, all of the towns of Forbes and Oakes in North Dakota become battlegrounds of fairly bad vs. pure evil! The wisest move for what little is left that is good in this setting? Run away! Your homes and possessions aren't worth it!

Partnering with Sims 4 Downloads and other news

Networking

Dozerfleet Labs is currently in the process of trying to link with the official Sims 4 Downloads compilation directory site. This will improve exposure of DzMD to the greater Sims community, while also enriching it with giving players a chance to explore the possibilities with the stuff packs and story packs included.

Pack Wars

Meanwhile, release of the trailer for Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff came right on the heels of Maxis announcing that EA has ignored all polling data, and decided to mandate the next game pack be a Star Wars tie-in, partially to advertise the next Star Wars game by EA. Journey to Batuu will be downloaded by Dozerfleet Labs, but for the purpose of exploring possibilities with regards to a remake of Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side as a free downloadable PDF Sims comic. It'd be about the same story; but polished up, and with better graphics. New materials could help with Phaemer Village Peacekeepers set design for concept art too, even though the PhVP borrow more inspiration from Guardians of the Galaxy.

Schedule for releases

The final story pack release for Sims 4 for 2020 will be The Horrorday Gang. Ten characters remain to be exported as Tray file collections, and then the entire set can be uploaded. The Centipede and Fire Saga and the Anarteq Story Saga downloads are being saved for next year, along with any other Gerosha packs. The Sims 3 story pack for Tales of Extirpon will be fixed next year as well.

After The Horrorday Gang Story Pack is complete, non-Sims items from Dozerfleet Labs will be restored online for download. Focus will then shift back to Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil. This will be followed by Blood Over Water being re-created as a webcomic. By December, hopefully, Ciem: Inferno can begin to be written as a novel. It will be set up for publishing before the end of 2021, and will set the stage for everything else in the Legacy volume.

3-13 editing will resume at some point, and the Star Flops remake will probably be made in January some time of 2021.

Also planned for webcomic releases in 2021: Volkonir 2008, Volkonir Journals: Attempt #43, and The Blue Face Film Strips. The original videos of these are, due to various complications, on legal lockdown, and cannot be released. So webcomic versions of them will replace them.

2021 also hopes to be the year that Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana is completed, as well as the completion of Ciem: Ash Cloud and Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance. In 2022, Ciem: Caldera aims for completion, along with Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary.

Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff trailer online!

It's finally here! In other news, Jackie and the boys of Unlisted have since been added to the Sims 4 Gallery. They are even available cross-platform now! Just search for Unlisted, or under hashtags such as #obrl or #music or #ferris.

New facelift and the progress of packs

So many new packs!

The Swappernetters Pack got so large, it has been split into four packs! The Frontliners' pack is now available for download, as discussed in a previous post.

There will be three more in this set: one for the Chrome Kite baddies, one for the other baddies, and a third for all the remaining heroes that will be featured. This pack series is the Sims 4 answer to the much smaller singular pack of Swappernetters characters cleared for release for The Sims 3. It is predicted that work on these packs will resume some time in October.

For the next several days, until completed, focus will shift to the official trailer for Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff. Immediately after that, work will resume on a pack for The Horrorday Gang, which will most likely be released in late September - plenty of time before Christmas.

With these out of the way, editing can resume on 3-13, as well as completion of Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil. Along with that, Blood Over Water can be made into a webcomic. These works will clear the way for Ciem: Inferno to finally be written, and then sent in search of a publisher. With Inferno ready for publication, completion of Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana should go pretty quickly. And with it finished, writing can commence on Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo.

The Swappernetters and Horrorday Gang packs are the final Sims 4 packs that will be released this year. A few packs for Sims 3 are scheduled for creation and release in 2021, as well as the remaining Sims 4 packs. When all Sims packs in pending are finally released, no new Sims content is expected to come to Dozerfleet Labs. However, old projects that are not game-related are expected to return to this blog.

Facelift

Dozerfleet Labs has received a redesign, in keeping with integration of the Labs division visually and thematically with other divisions. The post-apocalypse theme it previously had was put up as a statement to be made about the state governors, and their manipulation of the exosome scamdemic in an effort to steal the November 2020 elections. The idea is that a war and apocalypse may be needed to undo all their crimes.

However, the future of the Labs division rests in its downloadable content, not in political commentary. The place for that is elsewhere. Therefore, the blog has been updated to show a retool toward that purpose - as well as to aid integration with the Dozerfleet Database.

Swappernetters Frontliner cast now available for The Sims 4!

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If you love futuristic parkour dystopia settings and Sims 4, then you may enjoy Swappernetters! Tabitha Pang and her closest friends in the series are now available to download for your copy of Sims 4! Pending for release are the Chrome Kite baddies, Screwworm and other baddies, as well as various non-Swappernetter heroes.

But while you're waiting for the others to get their releases caught up, you can play this cast in your own save file. And barring that, you can make them NPCs, to spruce up your futuristic world reduxs. This pack goes really well with the Into the Future Conversions Stuff Pack as well! So get to it, and download your roof-hopping ninja teen action today!