How do basements work in sims 3

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. Your done! User Info: haley You have to use the terrain tools and create a hole in the ground that has an even floor. You then put the walls down there.

I haven't tried it yet but I think the top of your walls have to be aligned with the above ground. Lowering the ground, by hand, won't work. For easiness level out the whole terrain to the desired height.

I raised the terrain 8 steps to get stairs of the same lenght of 8 steps for up and down later:. I create a large basement to have freedom construction the floor plan. Not needed parts can easily be deleted later:. It's no problem to change inner walls later. But you have to define the outer walls and the area that will be opend. If you want to change those later, you need to repeat all steps to adapt the holes and heights of the outer walls. This ist my floor plan:. When finished delete all unneccessary basement parts.

The green parts here need to be opend to the outside: Opening the ground will take some repeating steps. Put as many stairs into this area as will fit in. Switch to ground level and build foundations at one square distance to all stairs , no mater where exaclty - just one square distance. Build a short stair from the foundation to the basement stairs , though this won't work for Sims, the game excepts this even without cheat pictures are not!

Delete the basement stairs first. The upper stairs will keep the holes open. Afterwards delete the ground level stairs and foundations. Build an Eye-Catching Underground Garden. You can remove the ceiling from the first level basement, too, which allows you to make a giant hole in the ground that you can turn into a pretty cool Underground Garden. Navigate back to the top and click the yellow strip that is highlighting the block.

From there, click Delete Ceiling. Build Stairs Through Foundations. The basement tool is located in Build Mode in the top-right corner of the pane. You can add roof sections to the lower parts of the house that are not as high as the rest of the house. Of course, upper levels can also extend out over areas where there is no level below, just add support walls while building then remove the walls and place columns. You can build the walls back and go on with building the rest of the house including the basement.

Build the building walls next to the wall foundation. The walls will automatically connect, however, one wall will be taller than the next.

Re: hole in roof sims 4 You have built a room on the first floor. If you do not want to have it there, delete these four walls and this door. If you want to have this room on the first floor you have to cover the whole first floor with a roof.