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InThe Sims 4, your Sim can travel to tropical beaches, snow-capped mountain ranges, vast deserts, and cliff-side coasts. But if your Sim is yearning to discover worlds of bygone game maps, they’ll have to take up postcard collecting.
The postcard collection features popular destinations like the eerie Victorian village of Midnight Hollow (which you may have visited in The Sims 3) and lesser-known spots such as Littlehaven, the picture-perfect suburb that Sims inhabit in The Sims Social. Postcard collecting isn’t an obvious gameplay option in The Sims 4, but once you know how to receive postcards, it’s really quite easy. Opening the mail has never been so thrilling!
How To Get A Pen Pal
You might have thought pen pals were a thing of the past, but the practice is alive and thriving in The Sims 4. Before you can start receiving postcards, you’ll need a pen pal to write to. After all, how can you get a postcard if there’s nobody to send one to you?
Snag a pen pal for your Sim by heading to a computer and selecting the Socialize menu, where you should seea button that says “Find A Pen Pal.“Once you command your Sim to find their new pen pal, you can expect to receive a response within a few hours. You can check for a reply by going to the Socialize menu on the computer once again.
How To Collect Postcards
Now that your Sim has become acquainted with a far-off friend, send at least one letter to your pen pal by navigating toSocialize > Write Letter To > Location. The location represents the town your pen pal is writing to you from.
Writing your first letter unlocks the ability to ask for postcards from that location. You’ll need tomake a pen pal in each location, write a letter to them, and then ask for a postcard to collect postcards from different locations.
Some postcards are easier to obtain than others.Rare or uncommon postcards will likely require you to write multiple letters and ask for postcards more than once.
The mail comes each day (as long as there is mail for you to receive) around 9:00 in the morning. When your Sim checks the mail for their postcard, they won’t be notified when it comes. You’ll have tocheck your Sim’s inventory for the postcard.Once a postcard comes for your Sim, you can keep it in your inventory or hang it on the Bunchapals Postcard Corkboard.
Postcards could come the next day or take multiple days to arrive, so try asking for multiple postcards from different locations if you want to speed up the process.
To hang postcards on the corkboard, purchase a corkboard from Build Mode and place it in your home. Then, you can drag and drop the postcard directly from your Sim’s inventory. You can alsosell postcards for §10 to §40.
If you have theMy First Pet stuff pack, you can also collect seven additional postcardsfrom exclusive locations. When your pet rodent occasionally heads off on its own adventures, it may bring back a postcard from its travels. These can also be placed on the corkboard, but collecting them is not required to earn the My Pen Pal plaque or technically “finish” the postcard collection.
List Of All Postcards
There are 14 postcards to collect in total from an array of interesting locations. Postcards that are displayed on the Bunchapals Postcard Corkboardemit an Inspired emotional aura if you choose to enable it, making them a great asset for those developing creative careers or skill sets.
§10
“Having a lovely holiday in Littlehaven. Wish you were here!”
“Gone fishin' in Riverview! Havin' a reel good time!”
“What happens in Lucky Palms, stays in Lucky Palms!”
§25
Rare
“Huzzah! Come tarry a while in Dragon Valley. Here be Dragons!”
Uncommon
“Ahoy! There be a fine breeze ‘n plenty ‘o plunder here in Barnacle Bay!”
“Bonjour! Enjoying find juice and frog legs in Champs Les Sims!”
“Moonlight Falls, home of all things magical and supernatural!”
§40
“Fun in the sun and under the sea! Relaxing at tropical Isla Paradiso!”
“Eerie greetings from Midnight Hollow, a uniquely eccentric town.”
“Come experience Lunar Lakes! A place like nowhere else!”
“Touring the bright lights of Bridgeport!”
“Admiring the skies of Sunset Valley, where it all began!”
“Horsing around with furry friends! Come visit Appaloosa Plains!”
Common
“Thinking of you from Twinbrook, where style is invented!”
Once your Sim has managed to collect all 14 postcards, they will receive theMy Pen Pal plaque, apparently sent by all of your lovely pen pals from around the world. This will look great next to your corkboard!
