Can you make basements in the sims 3

Sign Up for free or Log In if you already have an account to be able to ask and answer questions. Question Status Can you create basements in sims 3? Answered How do you make basements?? Answered Are they going to make Sims 3 for PS3? Answered How can I make other sims take a bath? Ask A Question. Each floor the staircase touches will need to have a 1x5 clearance, but a different clearance; the whole staircase is essentially 1x7.

The stairs will also need some clearance around each landing to make sure your Sim can walk away from it. Further, the stairs cannot go through a foundation. That means basements should probably only be for houses that are actually on the ground terrain itself rather than a foundation. There is a way around it we'll show you in a moment , but it takes a bit of skilled placement.

Let's give you an example. I loaded up the Schultzes house, and you can see the floor plan below Okay, that's Shannon's bedroom, though I've shoved everything into the corner and placed some items into the family inventory. Man, I really need to do something about that gaudy wallpaper You can see that I've cleared a significant part of the room next to the external wall.

I'm going to aim to stick a basement there. I'll even do a couple tricks with it once I complete it, which I'll show you too. See how the basement is breaching the wall and is also under a bush? None of this matters; because we're going underground, stuff on top the basement including walls is completely irrelevant. All we care about is that we have enough room to stick a staircase in there, and as you can see I carved out the entire row of tiles closest to the external wall just for that purpose.

Okay, I drop down a level, and I deck out the basement floor and internal walls. I go ahead and put some masonry on the external walls just for appearance's sake, but it's totally irrelevant. Remember that the external walls don't matter since no one sees them anyway; they're against the ground, theoretically. After that, I ready my stairs All right, the tool is playing hardball. There's nothing downstairs so obviously that's not the problem, so I hit Page Up to jump back up to the first floor.

The only objects seem to be windows, so I delete those. I hit Page Down and try again Ah, that was the problem. Now, oddly enough, even though the game complained about the windows, after I placed the stairs, I can put the windows back exactly where I had them and the game lets me.

User Info: camobranson. Finish your freakin house! User Info: idrummerboy. To make a basement, first outline the area you want to be the basement in a foundation. Make sure it is a 1 tile width. It doesn't matter what kind. This will lower the terrain. Make sure it's near the center of your outline. You should end with three staircases leading down into the ground. This could take a while.

Basements are not possible at all in The Sims , as that game lacks both foundations and a dedicated basement tool. The basement tool was not included in The Sims 3 for console , but a basement can still be constructed using foundations in the same manner as in The Sims 2. It is still possible to build basements with foundations in versions of The Sims 3 that have the basement tool.

Patch 6 for The Sims 3 and patch 15 for The Sims 4 introduced the Basement Tool into build mode , allowing the construction of basements on buildings without foundations. The tool was previously used to construct the tombs included in The Sims 3: World Adventures. Basements created using this tool are considered an additional story level under the ground, and when viewed the surrounding area is black, rather than showing the terrain.

The basement stairs cannot connect directly to a foundation in The Sims 3 , but they can in The Sims 4. Basements in The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 can be as deep as four stories.