👀📱 Plumfruit ✦ Exclusive ✦ Sneak Peek + Luminova UPDATE!

Hey friends,

Today I have some ✦ member exclusive ✦ content for you! 🥳

First, I'd like to thank you again for supporting my work by being one of my Patreon members, I'm so grateful to have such an amazing and caring community! I have tons of new content coming your way in 2025, and you all deserve it!!! Starting very soon with a Luminova update and a Plumfruit revival!

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Luminova Update with ✦ NEW FEATURES ✦

First, I'm happy to announce that I will be releasing a big update for Luminova this week! This update (v1.5) will bring bug fixes, improvements, and NEW FEATURES! 

The Smart Fridge is getting a brand new menu, the Smart TV is getting new apps, and your pets will no longer stretch when there's an Air Purifier in the room (phew!). There are other improvements too! Let's get into it!

New Smart Fridge Features!

The Luminova Smart Fridge now features a brand new redesigned menu, with interactions neatly sorted and categorized, making it easier to find what you need. The overhauled categories include improvements such as all cooking interactions being reorganized into a new main category, along with several other enhancements. I even added a Drinks menu, which is not in the base game. 😊

 This is something I originally wanted to include, but I did not have enough time before Luminova’s release, so here it is now!!!

New SmartTV Features!

The Luminova SmartTV will also feature a brand new redesigned menu, with interactions (the game's channels and movies) sorted and categorized with new SmartTV Apps! Your sims now can watch the kids network on Simsey+, a mysterious movie on Simflix, and all your favourite channels on PlumTV+ for example! There's also a new Fitness+ app for your workouts!

The Smart TV is also getting visual improvements with a brighter screen and new wallpapers/screensavers!

The Simsey+ App features movies, shows, and channels that you could find on its real-life equivalent! 🐭🏰✨

(some of these are only available with additional Sims 4 packs, but I made sure that base game players have at least 3 items to watch for each app!) 📺

New Smart Curtain Wall Height!

I am adding the Medium Wall Height option to the smart curtains (both fabric and wall-integrated). Even though the animation is not as smooth as it is for the small height, it works! Yay! 🎉

More improvements and bug fixes!

There are more improvements and bug fixes coming, especially for the bug where pets stretched weirdly when the Smart Air Purifier was in the room!

They were using the human animation for “wow, it smells good here!”, but it was clearly not compatible with their anatomy… and honestly, it looked kind of terrifying ngl... Anyways, I said no more, and it is now FIXED! ✅

Other improvements include: redesigned icons for the smart clock, improved fridge texture and shading, adding a feature to turn ON/OFF the devices' lights, improved spanish translation (by RoshySims🇪🇸, thank you!!🙏) and fixing the backlight's code.

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Plumfruit is getting a fresh start!

I announced the other day that I am working on bringing back Plumfruit, and I am starting FROM SCRATCH!

Yes, Plumfruit is getting a fresh start with a completely new standalone mod called Plumfruit Essentials - which is (kind of) a remake of my original Plumfruit Lite mod kit! This means it features only newly designed devices, which includes:

• 📱 A brand new PlumPhone (phone replacement) with redesigned UI app icons

•  🖥️ A new computer, the iPlum

• 💻 A new laptop, the PlumBook Air

• 🔊 Two new smart speakers, the PlumPod Mini and PlumPod Max

• 📲 A new tablet, the iconic PlumPad

• + and more!

And here's a ✦ Member Exclusive ✦ sneak peek!!!

Please do not share this online, I'm keeping this secret until release day! Also, this is a work-in-progress, so things might change!😌

When the devices are not in use, you can chose for them to have either a beautiful wallpaper/screensaver or have the device off with a black screen (just like the Luminova Smart TV)

Here's a 360° look at the new Plumfruit computer: the iPlum! This computer will feature revamped app categories with freshly designed icons, just like the Luminova smart devices! (Work-in-progress)

And here is a first look at the brand new PlumPhone! It's a phone replacement that has an animated screen! You can see the new redesigned app icons that are coming with this mod!

What to expect from Plumfruit Essentials?

As explained earlier, this upcoming Plumfruit Essentials mod kit will feature new devices based on some of the iconic Plumfruit products that were included in my Plumfruit (Lite) mod, with no/very simple code and features!

This means that the Simstagram App, the Luv2Meet App, the complete custom Phone UI, and some other Plumfruit features and items that you might have known in my original mod pack, will not be included in this release!

I'm going back from scratch with the Plumfruit brand, that's why I'm creating the Plumfruit Collection - a collection of mods and mod kits that explore the brand's universe with new products, phone apps, UI elements, and more...!

With the Plumfruit Collection, I will be exploring Plumfruit's universe more in depth than ever before, with frequent new releases and updates! All of this will be completely standalone and independant from my original Plumfruit mod pack.

Plumfruit Essentials will be announced and released soon, publicly and free for all!

What would you like to see next in the Plumfruit Collection?

So, what Plumfruit mods or mod kits would you like to see the most after this first release? Some ideas include:

• 🏬 Plumfruit Store Mod Kit – Create your own retail store and sell Plumfruit products in a high end and luxurious store, located on the most prestigious avenue in the world!

• 🕰️ Plumfruit Retro Mod Kit – A collection of vintage devices from the past, bringing nostalgic tech into your game!

• 📱 PlumPhone Pro Mod – A more capable phone featuring a brand new version of Simstagram, Luv2Meet, with a new interactive phone UI, and brand new apps inspired by TikTok and Twitter for example!

• ⌚️PlumWatch Ultra - a brand new functional Smart Watch, a high-end device with apps like Fitness+, Health, Weather, but also new features like alarms, sleep monitoring, and more!

Or maybe something else... If you have some more ideas, let me know in the comments down below!

(also please note that the above are just ideas for now!!! I'm not sure if I will work on any - or all of them, I'm just giving you an idea of what the Plumfruit Collection might become in the future!😌) 

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That's it for today friends!

I'm so excited about the upcoming releases and what's coming after that, but oh my gosh, I have so much work ahead!!!

I am still working on the World Edit, Brookheights, and Farmland updates, which are my biggest mod packs... These updates should hopefully be released during the first half of 2025, just to give you a heads up! Thank you for patience while I work on them. And stay tuned!

Alright thanks for reading! I cannot wait to hear your thoughts! See you very soon for the Luminova 1.5 update!

xoxo

Arnie 💜

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Bonus Screenshots ⬇️

And some Luminova App UIs I designed! It took me way too many hours, but I'm so happy with how they look! Here's Simflix and Simsey+