Game Help:World Routing Lags/GetWorld

STOP! Read before proceeding! These files are not meant to be placed in /Mods/Packages! Make a Backup of the .world files you planned to edit. Edited game files in Program Files paths will prevent the patch to update your games! So, these files need to be restored before you do any updating.

Step 1: Backup .world

• Do a backup! Please do a backup before continuing with the rest of this guide. Go to the path provided above for the location of the .world file.
• Select the .world file and Copy
• In any empty spot, right-click and Paste.
• Rename this file to have another extension so you won't get duplicates in the New Game screen. I usually put ".orig" as the extension for my backups.
• This <town-name> - Copy.world.orig is your backup file. Keep it safe! This is the file to restore when you need to update.
• Repeat the above steps for each game whose .world you want to edit.

Step 2: Backup Saves

• Next, backup your Save games. Go to /Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/, and backup the Saves folder by either
  • Copy+Paste so you have a copy of this folder and its contents to Desktop (or in another drive, preferably)
  • Archive it in a zip or rar file.
• You can also do a full backup of the whole user folder if you like, see this Backup Guide.

Step 3: Download the .world file

STOP! Backup before proceeding! I hoped you have made that backup by now, because we're about to make changes to a game file here. Screwing up at this stage without a backup means you need to uninstall, reinstall + patch and start the whole process over.

• You can also download the .world file from The Downloads
• OK, warning done, Ready?
• Download all parts of the world, and rename them to get rid of the "MTS_ellacharm3d_<numbers>_" portion. See Download content with Multi-part files.
• Right-click on the file with "part1" in its name and "Extract here", or whatever command your program uses. See Extract from Multi-part Archived files.
• Place the extracted & joined .world file in the appropriate path and replace the default version.
• Delete caches before starting game (though might not be necessary).

Step 4: Preparing for a patch or restoring the original

When the next patch is released, you simply rename the extensions.

• Rename the fixed <Town>.world to "<Town>.world.fixed"
• Rename the original back by removing the ".orig" so the file name is restored back to "<Town>.world", and you're good to go.
• Then patch or install the add-on.
• If you don't want the fixed version anymore, simply delete it from your system.
• If you do want the fixed version back, just rename the pair of them back to "<Town>.world.orig" and the "<Town>.world.fixed" to "<Town>.world", respectively.
• Check back on the Download threads that no changes is required though. I doubt EA would suddenly redo the Worlds when they have not done so in the past, but you never know. "Never say never" as the saying goes.