Favorite

Favorites are part of a Sim's personality in The Sims 3 and can be set for them in Create-A-Sim. There are three types of favorites: food, music, and color. A Sim's autonomous behavior is mildly affected by their favourites.

Favorites can be changed with the Change of Taste lifetime reward from World Adventures. Favorite music can also be changed with the testingcheatsenabled cheat, but this method cannot be used to change color or food.

Colors

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Favorite colors serve no purpose other than as a conversation topic amongst Sims.

With The Sims 3: Into the Future, however, favorite colors serve a more useful purpose. Using the sonic shower with the Sim's favorite color will increase their hygiene faster, as well as grant the "Favored Cleansing" moodlet. Consuming a drink from the drink synthesizer that matches a Sim's favorite color will give them the "Favored Drink" moodlet, while drinking the opposing color will give the "It is Revolting" moodlet instead. Colors and their opposites are listed adjacent to each other below.

Image Color RGB Hex Spice Brown (76, 41, 22) #4c2916 Grey (176, 181, 185) #b0b5b9 Turquoise (0, 149, 181) #0095b5 Purple (97, 32, 122) #61207a Green (2, 99, 68) #026344 Irish Green (0, 123, 89) #007b59 Lime (67, 189, 44) #43bd2c Aqua (0, 162, 224) #00a2e0 Orange (238, 125, 59) #ee7d3b White (255, 255, 255) #ffffff

Image Color RGB Hex Spiceberry (107, 29, 81) #6b1d51 Violet (159, 33, 132) #9f2184 Lilac (142, 124, 182) #8e7cb6 Yellow (255, 247, 0) #fff700 Red (214, 37, 43) #d6252b Hot Pink (233, 57, 142) #e9398e Pink (248, 148, 174) #f894ae Sea Foam (270, 230, 222) #0ee6de Blue (41, 66, 148) #294294 Black (0, 0, 0) #000000

Food

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Sims who eat their favorite food will clap and laugh as they eat, and are more likely to autonomously make it. With Late Night or Supernatural, vampires will always favor O-positive plasma, a type of blood in real life. With Island Paradise, Mermaids will always favor Kelp.

Patch 31, with the release of Showtime, introduces new vegetarian and tofu-contained alternatives to existing recipes in the game. Vegetarian Sims can choose these as favourites in place of the non-vegetarian foods.

The game files contain favorite food icons for hot wings, nachos, olive platters, onion rings, shrimp cocktail, and hot and sour soup in the game files, but these are actually not available as chooseable favorites in the game.

For recipes, see Cooking (The Sims 3)#Recipes.

Image Food EP Autumn Salad Cheesesteak Cobbler Cookies Dim Sum Fish and Chips French Toast Fruit Parfait Goopy Carbonara Grilled Cheese Grilled Salmon Hamburger Hot Dog Key Lime Pie Lobster Thermidor Mac and Cheese Ratatouille Pancakes Peanut Butter and Jelly Spaghetti Stu Surprise Sushi Tri-Tip Steak Waffles Crepes Egg Rolls Falafel

Image Food EP Frogs Legs Shawarma Stir-Fry O Positive Cheese Tofu Steak Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich Spaghetti with Veggie Sauce Tofu Dog Tri-Tip Tofu Steak Vegetarian Dim Sum Vegetarian Fish and Chips Vegetarian Grilled Salmon Veggi Rolls Veggie Burger Vegetarian Lobster Thermidor Aloo Masala Curry Ceviche Chili Con Carne Firecracker Shrimp Firecracker Tofu Mushroom Omelette Porcini Risotto Potato and Truffle Torte Vegetarian Chili Pumpkin Pie Kelp

Music

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See also: Radio stations

Sims listening to their favorite genre of music will get a +40 "Enjoying Music" moodlet, instead of +10. If a Sim is instructed to "Dance" to a stereo, they will change it to their favorite radio station.

Due to a glitch in the game, it was possible for a Sim to have "French" as their favorite music without The Sims 3: World Adventures installed. This is fixed with game update 1.8/2.3. Subsequent expansion or stuff packs will also change a Sim's favorite music from "Custom" to a random station.

Image Music EP Classical Custom Electronica Indie Kids Latin Pop Chinese Egyptian French Roots Soul Rockabilly Hip-Hop

Image Music EP Country Music R&B Songwriter Dark Wave Disco Rap Rock Geek Rock Beach Party Island Life Epic Spooky Western DigiTunes