Minecraft Player

In the overworld, our brave players created a glowstone portal, hoping to go to the utopian world of the Aether.

However, upon entering the portal, they entered a world where they needed to pay... gasp, bills. Indeed, a very strange world for them.

They may feel a bit quirky in the world of The Sims, but let's be honest, when you look at them you think "wow this looks stupid" in a comical way.

The mesh was created using mixiate's TS1 Blender IO plugin!

Included Skins

All of the default Minecraft skins (Sunny, Kai, Makena, Steve, Alex, Zuri, Efe, Ari, and Noor)

Herobrine (woo, spooky!)

Four skins of my own OCs (Loritta, Pantufa, Gabriela, and myself)

All of the default Minecraft skins are, according to the wiki, gender-neutral, so I needed to do some crackpot theories to try to assign a The Sims gender to each of them. Feel free to change the genders as you wish!

If you want to be lore accurate, you can change all skins to use the U (unissex) skin identifier, which makes the mesh available for both male and female genders.

Adding your own Minecraft skins

You can add your own Minecraft skins into the game! The skins support the Minecraft: Java Edition 1.8+ skin format, albeit without the skin's secondary layer support, so you'll need to manually copy the secondary layers into the base layer to make the skins look correctly in-game.

If you have The Sims Legacy Collection, you need to resize the image to 512x512, because Legacy Collection uses linear interpolation for textures, which causes tiny images to be blurry. If you have The Sims Complete Collection, you can keep the image to 64x64.

After creating your image, you need to rename the file to match the skins file format.

These are the meaning of each mesh:

MCW means Minecraft wide arm
MCS means Minecraft slim arm
MCH means Minecraft head

So, here's how it goes

BMCWMA: Wide arm body, adult male skin
BMCSMA: Slim arm body, adult male skin
BMCWFA: Wide arm body, adult female skin
BMCSFA: Slim arm body, adult female skin
CMCHMA: Head, adult male skin
CMCHFA: Head, adult female skin

So if you wanted to add a Minecraft skin that uses slim arms, has medium skin, and is female, you would name the BMP file BMCSFAFitmed_minecraftskin*namehere*.bmp and CMCHFAmed_minecraftskin*namehere*.bmp.

Then, if you want to make the skin's hands transparent, you need to copy the HUAO*_minecraftskin*.tga/HUAP*_minecraftskin*.tga/HUAC*_minecraftskin*.tga files and change it to match your skin's skin tone and name. It doesn't matter which .tga file you copy, all of them are the same.

Bugs

Any Sim that has a Minecraft Skin as their body will have their hands' textures transparent to make the skin look cool. However this has the disadvantage that, even after the Sim changes clothes, they will always have no hands. This also causes some graphical glitches in The Sims Legacy Collection (not in Complete Collection!) where the game sometimes does not render things behind the invisible hand mesh.

That bug may be a deal breaker for some, but sadly I couldn't find a good solution for this.

The Sims doesn't let you bind hand textures to specific dress styles, which is why the Sim always have their hands transparent.
The Sims doesn't let you have custom hand meshes for specific body styles, which is why the graphical issue happens.
Keeping the hands visible does work, but it doesn't look as funny as not having the hands.
The body mesh arms could've been enlongated until it covered the Sim hands. This is what other skins that want to cover the hands do, but then the skin looks... weird. The player's body is already a bit weird compared to the original Minecraft player because it has been stretched vertically to fit the skeleton, and enlongating the arms would've made it look even weirder.

If you want to remove the transparent hands, you can do that by deleting all HUA*.tga files.