RETROFRUIT! (Public Release + 1.1 Update!)

[May 6th 2025]: Retrofruit 1.1 is now available publicly! Download the mod kit and read the changelog down below! Enjoy :)

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Hey friends!

I’m excited to share a closer look at my newest mod kit from the Plumfruit Collection: Retrofruit! It’s time to revisit the past... I also just released an update to Luminova (1.6), with new features and refreshed designs, and making it cross-compatible with Retrofruit as well as Plumfruit Essentials! Grab Luminova 1.6 Update here!

You can watch the announcement and the Retrofruit trailer here! (trailer starts at 01:13)

It’s been such a long time since I wanted to explore the lore and nostalgia of the Plumfruit Inc. company, and I’m so happy to finally present this pack today. Retrofruit is an hommage to vintage tech, featuring fictional devices from the 90's and early 2000's, but also an anachronistic invention of mine: the landline smart telephone! This pack is full of nostalgia, warm tones, and retro-futuristic design… let’s take a look at what’s included!

🖥️ iPlum Classic - The OG Plumfruit computer, that allowed your sims to play Sims Forever in 1995, or maybe explore some of the very first internet websites and forums! It also features the redesigned and re-organised interactions menu and categories!

🖥️ iPlum 2000 - A slightly more recent model that would’ve launched in the early 2000s. The iPlum 2000 features a unique all-in-one base with a screen mounted on a metallic arm, revolutionary at the time! It brings back those memories of brushed aluminium, coloured plastics, and a design that felt like it came straight from the future at the time! Featuring iconic wallpapers and an original 2000's inspired UI I designed myself!

🎵 The miniPod Station - The iconic miniPod was the most famous music portable device back in the days, allowing you to carry an entire library of albums and singles in your pocket! Today, Retrofruit brings back the miniPod with its very high-end dock station, made out of metal and wood, with exceptional sound quality and a new Music app, gathering your favourite music stations and commands! The miniPod even has an animated screen and comes in 8 colourful swatches!

☎️ The RetroPhone - This is a fully functional landline smart telephone! The RetroPhone was ahead of its time when it came out, with Home Security features, clock alarms, an animated touch screen, and the ability to order services, call the emergencies, or just call your friends to chat! This device brings the charm of landlines back into your Sims’ homes. Just a tip though: don’t walk too far away during a call or you’ll get disconnected! And bonus: it’s cross-compatible with my CheatsMaster mod, and using shift+click on it will reveal the cheats menu! 

🖨️ Functional Printer - The Retrofruit Printer lets your Sims print documents from their phone, and you can write them yourself! Great for journal entries, data summary, logging your bills and utilities, family memories, or even writing stories. It's up to you! You can save the printed documents in your storage devices, maybe on a floppy disk for example?

📑 Functional Documents - The documents you can print with this printer are fully customizable! Choose from a variety of templates: text document, resume, data analysis, bills and utilities, newspaper article… and write them yourself! Just click on the “Edit Document” interaction and a UI menu will pop up, where you can rename and edit the content of the document. Reading it later is super easy: simply hover your mouse over it and its title and content will be displayed. This is perfect for players who love immersive storytelling, and something I have always felt was missing in The Sims 4. Now we can finally write down our stories, notes, and memories using nothing but our imagination.

💾 Functional Storage – You need to sort and store your memories, photos, documents? Say no more! Retrofruit has got you covered, because this kit features not only functional floppy disks, but also CD-ROMs and USB flash drives! You can rename the storage unit, let’s say “Summer 95 Memories” for example, and add your memories in its inventory, like photos from your Selvadorada holiday, and maybe journal pages where your Sim wrote a poem about a love interest they met by the river… it’s all up to your imagination! They also come in various colourful swatches!

📷 PlumCam Vintage

The ancestor of the PlumCam Future, this retro camera lets your Sims snap beautiful nostalgic photos. With its vintage design, it’s the perfect tool for memory-making, and of course, the images can be stored on your CD-ROMs, USBs or floppy disks! 3 Swatches: Vintage Vegan Leather, Space Gray, and Aluminium!

🪑 Plumfruit Pro Desk

A stunning addition to your build/buy catalogue, the Plumfruit Pro Desk is made from sustainable Granite Falls wood, and offers a perfect mix of retro aesthetics and modern practicality. It has many slots to display, store, and organise all your Retrofruit (and Plumfruit!) devices in one clean and elegant setup. It comes in 7 gorgeous wooden swatches!

💿 CD Tower + Storage Tower!

Storing documents and photos on CD-ROMs and flash drives is great, but where do you put them??? Well… I also designed new pieces of furniture so you can store your storage!

Say hello to the elegant wooden CD Tower, where you can display your CDs and floppy disks as if they were floating, as well as the beautiful Storage Tower with shelves to hide away documents, CDs, and more. It’s the perfect item to place next to the landline smart telephone, for example!

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Retrofruit ✦ Bonus Perks ✦ Now Available!

Retrofruit is now available publicly to download, but Patreon Members still get exclusive access to bonus perks! Click here to grab them!

Patreon Members can now download bonus perks which include: Four New 4K Wallpapers I designed, and an exclusive Early Access Member Card, as a digital collectible!

Click here to download Retrofruit ✦ Bonus Perks ✦

Also please note that Retrofruit has just been updated to its 1.1 update! This update features a fix for the "View" interaction on a document. Sims can now use the "Read Document" interaction, they will get close to the document and a notification will appear in the top right corner with the title and text written on the documents! That's it! Enjoy :)

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How to Install

• Download the file attached down below: "Arnie_Retrofruit_1.1.package"

• Put it in your Mods folder (and enable mods in the game's settings)

• Enjoy :) You can find the items by searching for "Retrofruit" or "Arnie" in the build/buy searchbar, there are 13 items!

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🐞 A bug? Let's fix it!

If you encounter a bug or would like to report an issue with my content, please use the new BUG REPORTS FORM, it helps me and the community a lot! Thank you for reporting :)

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That's it for today friends, I'm super excited about this release, and I hope you are too! Which one is your favourite item out of all of this? Let me know down below!

I'll see you tomorrow for the early access release! Have a great day!

Arnie💜