Edit Town

Edit Town is a powerful game mode in The Sims 3, which allows the player to edit and customize the neighbourhood in the active saved game file. Edit Town lets the player control many aspects of the neighbourhood outside of the currently-active household, including lot assignment, and allows the player to enter Buy Mode and Build Mode on neighborhood lots, even on community lots. This mode largely takes the place of the Neighbourhood menu available in The Sims and The Sims 2.
The player can enter the edit town by opening up the options menu in the bottom left corner of the screen or by pressing F5.
Firstly, on the sidebar there is a select button which looks like a mouse curser, this lets you select any lot in town and gives you information and options depending on the lot type and if a household is living there 
Secondly, there is the move lot button, this lets you move lots (the only exception is if a household is living in said lot) to empty lots in town that are equal to or greater the size of the lot is to the building.
Thirdly, there is the build/buy button, this lets you build on any community and unoccupied/empty lot.
Then there is the bulldoze tool, which lets you completely destroy any lot (if there is a household living there you will be forced to evict them, which will add them to the clipboard to either delete them, or put them in another house, if you exit edit town mode while here are sims in the clipboard will be deleted from the game, don't worry, if you accidentally press "return to game" or "return to game setup" it will give you a warning) if you bulldoze an empty lot then the lot will be gone and you then won't be able to build on it again.
Then there is the map editor which lets you place down lots of decorative items that will look pretty in your town, you can also add empty lots down here in variable sized from 10x10 to 64x64.
==Trivia==
*If the player owns community lots, this is a good way to renovate for more stars without paying a single Simoleon.
*In the Edit Town mode, the player can also create a new family and place a copy of it or of existing one from library to world. Later, the player can switch from instantly playing family to control another one using Edit Town.
*As of patch 1.12, the player can add, delete and move residential lots, community lots and neighborhood decorative objects from the Edit Town menu.
==Gallery==
Moreoptions.png|Basic options in Edit Town
Edittown-p3.jpg|Edit Town button in the options menu
Edittown-p1.jpg|Players can add, delete and move lots
Edittown-p2.jpg|Players can add, delete and move neighborhood decorative objects
Showemptyhousesoption.png|The "Show Empty Houses" option
Showhouseholdoption.png|The "Show Household" option
Showcommunitylotsoption.png|The "Show Community Lot" option
Category:Game mechanics
Category:The Sims 3