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The Sims 4: Life & Deathintroduces funerals to the series for the first time. Sims can now remember and celebrate the life of those who have passed away through a variety of different means including holding services, and purchasing headstones, burial plots, memorials, and urns.
While Sims can have their tombstone, burial plot, memorial or urn placed on different lot types, including residential lots, many will want to take advantage of the new cemetery lot type.
The Eternal Hollow Cemetery
In theCrow’s Crossing neighbourhood of Ravenwoodis the Eternal Hollow cemetery.This lot is pre-built and placed,and comes with The Sims 4: Life and Death. It includes abuilding you can hold services in, two different types ofburial plots, a small selection ofheadstones, two explorablecrypts, some customisablememorial items, and someareas for reflection.
This lot wasbuilt to fit exactly into the 64 x 64 sized plot,with the roads in the world even matching up to the paths in the cemetery itself. However, you canbuild or place a cemeteryinany worldby using the newcemetery lot type.
As with any other lot type, you candownload cemeteries from the gallery,which allows you to search by lot type.Any lot in any residential world can be changed into a cemeterylot type. This means that no matter which world your Sims reside in, you can build or place a cemetery there. The only restriction will be thesmaller lot sizesin some of the smaller or older worlds.
What Are The Requirements For A Cemetery?
There aretwo sets of requirementsfor a cemetery lot type,required and optional. Here’s what each includes:
1 x Headstone Or Urn
2 x Gravesite
1 x Toilet
1 x Crypt
2 x Bench
1 x Casket
1 x Trash Can
You canbuild a cemetery lot in any residential worldand thecore requirementsare all items which are included in thebase game.
At the time of writing, the Prideful Llamagriff Bench from Life & Death is not properly tagged and will not count as a bench for the purposes of cemetery lot requirements.
What Can A Cemetery Be Used For?
Cemetery lots are a good place tohold a memorial service. In the Eternal Hollow Cemetery, you canhave a Sim deliver a eulogyfrom the podium inside the main building, while other Sims sit and listen.
You can also come here tospend some time in quiet reflection, sitting by the pond, in the chapel building or by the fountain,tending to a loved one’s gravesite, setting upa memorialfor them, orengraving and reading their epitaphon a headstone.
In the main building there is anempty casketbehind the podium which can becustomised with a flag or floral tribute. you may alsocustomise a memorial wreath and portraitwhich sit either side of the podium.
In small side rooms there arememorials which can be dedicated to deceased Sims. You can go andvisit theseto spend a few moments in reflection.
The main building contains toilets and Sims can sleep (or woohoo) in the coffin bed in the side building. There is also a set of swings for fun. No other needs can be easily met onsite.
Outside,a small building by the fountain contains a memorialwhich can also be dedicated to a Sim who has passed away. It also includes an urn and aWhispering Wren Messenger Statuewhich allows you topass on messages to loved oneson the other side.
Across the plot aretwo crypts which your Sim can explore, as well as another small building, this time containing acoffin bed.
As well as some areas for Sims to just sit, there are alsogravesites, which you can tend, as well asheadstones which you can engrave and read.
A few othermemorial items such as candlesare also in the area.
