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pluwumbob · 6 years ago

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「the sims 4」animal crossing challenge, redux

original animal crossing challenge by simifymecaptain (deactivated, but archived here!)

because i’m way too excited for animal crossing on the switch, i decided to try out the animal crossing challenge! but, the original rules are older & the original simblr deactivated.. i hope they don’t mind that i’m taking this challenge & adapting it to new expansions, & new information from animal crossing: new horizons leaks! ♥

the animal crossing challenge is a mix between rags to riches, & a collection challenge! i hope you like the rules i’ve come up with, as this is my first challenge i’ve officially made! if you have any suggestions or questions, please send me an ask!

basic outline:

even though animal crossing is a sandbox/open end game, the basic “goals” of animal crossing are to finish your fish, bug, & diving encyclopedia, complete the museum, pay off your house, please the happy home academy, upgrade the town, enjoy holidays, catalogue items, & make friends! therefore, to translate this to the sims we can come up with these..

complete your museum

upgrade your "town”

enjoy the holiday events (seasons)

make friends

pay off your debt

what’s this like?

you will play only as one single sim!

you will have to earn all your money from selling items from your own town!

there are many, many holidays to celebrate!

prepare to make many friends, & get villagers to move into your town!

build your town by adding public works projects & other fun items to your town

extreme goals available!

full rules, recommended cc/mods, & more under the break! this is a HUGE challenge.. so prepare to read !! ♥ good luck, & have fun !!

starter building rules:

first off, you need to build your “town!” you can build your own, use the premade one from the original challenge (on the gallery by SimifyMeCaptain), or maybe i’ll upload my lot when i’m done?? :)

must use the largest lot (64x64 if you have the expansions with them, 50x50 if you do not)

you may use unlimited money to build your lot, but once the building requirements are done, you must set your household funds to §0.

indoor items must stay inside (example, don’t cheat out of your small room by putting kitchen items, beds, toilets, & other necessary items outside)

all other buildings & public works projects not listed below must be built & purchased with earned household funds.

housing rules:

build at least 3 small houses, one for you, & at least two for other villagers.

each roommate must have their own separate house (no room sharing or “apartment” style houses)

all houses must be the same size, square, one single room, single story, 6x6 grid space.

must keep your own sim’s room empty. all items placed in their room must be bought with household funds, not with the unlimited building funds.

fill the other houses with furniture, but you must lock your own playable sim out of the house so they can not use the items.

extreme rule: objects can only be placed locked on grids, with only 90 degree rotations, like animal crossing!

museum building rules:

your museum needs 5 rooms, one room for each of the following: fish, bugs (frogs if you don’t have outdoor retreat), fossils, & art, with a lobby/entrance in the center. no collectables go in the lobby.

you may decorate these rooms how you want, as long as they do not add any skill building objects.

you may add rooms on the second story for other collectables, if you decide to do the extreme/extra goals of finishing other collections. this must also have 4 rooms, with a lobby. this must be built with your earned household funds.

additional building rules:

don’t forget to build your town tree !! you’ll want to put a small tree, & replace as you get through your challenge with bigger ones, or plant one yourself in a planter

no skill building items can be purchased with unlimited building funds, except gardening planters. the rest must be purchased by earned funds. (yes, you need to purchase your easel!)

if something can be considered a “public works project,” you may not use unlimited funds to add it to your lot. these must be built with your own earned money.

optional: build a building as your “re-tail” where you can put extra skill building objects. these items must be bought from your earned household funds.

optional: you may build a “town hall.” this building can include a only 2 useable (non-furniture items): a computer & locker/dresser. computers are really needed in the sims 4 to do necessary things, & shouldn’t be used for fun or skill building! your sim will need to purchase their own computer to use it for that.

optional: you may build a small “camping” style bathroom with a shower, sink, & toilet for use without having to put them in your villager’s small houses. you sim may use this restroom.

you may build your town on any neighborhood.

once you’ve built the place, it’s time to make your own villager! ♥ use the freerealestate cheat to move them in, then set their money to §0 by using the cheat “money 0″ both of these cheats require “testingcheats true” on, first!

sim & gameplay rules:

your playable sim:

can be any age, gender

can choose any traits, but can not change them later. modded traits are permitted.

can choose any aspiration, & can change your aspiration once completing it. modded traits are permitted.

villagers/roommates sims rules:

one of the challenge goals is to fill your other houses. you must do this while keeping the other sims a non-playable character. discover university now includes roommates! you can either put an ad for roommates, or make friends & ask them to be your roommates. roommate mods: littlemssam’s roommates or kawaiistacie roommates no matter which way you choose to add roommates, they must be an non-playable character.

you may edit your villagers’ looks in CAS, but you may not change their traits, aspirations, or age.

if your roommates give you rent money, you may use it to pay for bills.

additional gameplay rules:

your sim may NOT have a full or part time job! all funds must be made by selling fish, insects, paintings, fossils, other collections, etc. just make sure you keep one of each in the museum!

your sim may be employed as a freelancer, or do odd jobs (island living)

anything that your sim can sell is a viable way of money! don’t forget about woodworking, flower arranging,

benches placed outside ONLY may be slept on during the start. your sim can not sleep on comfy couches in the museum or town hall!

pets are allowed! dogs & cats must be adopted through the phone/computer & paid for. you may then edit them in CAS to your liking, but do not change their age/traits.

aging does not need to be on.

you can leave your town/lot to use other lots, of course! you’ll need to, to get collections & such :P

your villagers (roommates) may help you with chores, as long as you’re not asking them to. you can also purchase a patchy the scarecrow :)

you may NOT hire a maid/butler, etc.

mods are allowed, as long as they are not used to make money, or make collection finding easier. do not use mods that change the households’ bill percentage.

you may NOT use cheats, other than when you are first building your lot, move objects, setting your money to §0, or if you want to change the appearance of your sim/pets.

holiday calendar set up: (seasons)

add these holidays to your calendar! you’ll need to have 28 (or 21) day long seasons. ♥ make sure you get gold!

festivale: any day in spring. traditions: art & music spirit, grand meal, party spirit.

valentines day: any day in spring. keep love day & its traditions!

bunny day: any day in spring. traditions: flower bunny, egg hunt.

april fool’s day: any day in spring. traditions: mischief spirit.

parent’s day: any day in spring. (combined mother’s & father’s day ♥) traditions: give flowers.

weeding day: last day of spring. traditions: gardening.

bonfire night: first day of summer. traditions: fireworks, bar-b-que, party spirit

labor day: last monday of fall. traditions: go on vacation or travel.

halloween: last day of fall. traditions: spooky spirit, trick or treat, wear costumes.

harvest festival: any day in winter keep harvest fest & its traditions!

toy day: any day in winter keep winterfest & its traditions!

countdown: last day of winter keep new year’s eve & its traditions!

you may keep lottery as it was in the original AC!

you may also celebrate any surprise holiday, but do not have to gold it!

if you want to have sims off of work is up to you, as it will only affect your friends/roommates.

completion goals:

complete your museum with every base game fish (22), insects (21, outdoor retreat. frogs if you do not have that expansion, 25), fossils (15), & one of each painting painting goal includes one of each of the following: playful, flirty, confident, sad, angry, focused, classic, pop art, realism, abstract, surrealism, impressionism, & landscape painting. extreme goal: complete the paintings with each being a masterpiece.

complete the second floor of your museum by purchasing an observatory.

fill your town by having sims move into the other houses, & stay without moving out for a whole sim year

have at least 10 good friends, including being best friends with one of your resident villagers

build 10 “public works projects” such as a campground, fire pit, jungle gym, fountains, etc on your town’s lot

complete all the holidays with gold rewards! (seasons only)

pay off your debt by having all bills paid after completing all the other challenges

extreme goals:

if you enjoyed this challenge, try to finish these extreme goals!

complete every collection! you’ll need to get every alien (10), crystal (20), elements (15), fish (22), fossils (15), frogs (25), gardening (32), geodes (6, get to work), insects (21, outdoor retreat), metals (20), microscope prints (12), mysims trophies (20), postcards (14), space prints (15), & space rocks (4). you may combine rooms in the museum if they make sense (ex. metals, crystals together)

complete the fishing collection with expansions! full fish list found here.

collect all the flowers & “hybrids”, & reach level 10 of gardening. reach level 10 of flower arranging (seasons)

complete the “friend of the world” aspiration

purchase & build a retail lot to serve as your own “nookling junction” where you can sell extra items for money! this goal is complete once you’ve build a “T&T emporium” & have made 50 sales! (get to work)

purchase & build a restaraunt to serve as your “cafe” public works project. this goal is complete once you’ve got a 5 star restaraunt! (dine out)

cc recommendations:

sims 4 furry mod - to make animal villagers! by no means required, but they’re pretty cute to make for your roommates! ♥ littlemssam or kawaiistacie’s roommate mods systemdata studio - animal crossing series - walls, apple series, citrus series, & more just like in game! lana cc’s animal crossing tag - for misc animal crossing cc!

please share your towns!

please please please, if you’re doing this challenge, use the tag #TS4-AC-redux or @ me, @pluwumbob !! i’d LOVE to see what your towns! also if you have any questions or suggestions, please send them my way! i’m so excited to know what you guys think !!

#ts4 ac redux #ts4 #sims 4 #the sims #the sims 4 #sims challenges #animal crossing #challenge #ts4 challenge #ts4 challenges #the sims challenge #ac

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pluwumbob · 6 years ago

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Introducing the Sims 4 Animal Crossing Challenge! The Animal Crossing Challenge is a new way to play that doesn’t focus on earning money or gaining fame, but on building friendships and finding collectibles.

The Animal Crossing Challenge has 3 Main Goals:

1. To complete the Museum

2. To make friends

3. To upgrade the town To start the challenge, move one sim in using the freerealestate on cheat, and begin decorating their house! But first, buy a single suit of armor and place it in the entry to the museum to knock your funds down. MUSEUM RULES:

-CANNOT change size/shape of rooms

-CAN add a second story

-CAN add an Observatory, but only on top!

-CAN add a Microscope lab, but only in second story!

-CANNOT use entry room for collectibles, it is a foyer. Decorate it as you see fit. -SECOND STORY can ONLY be used for 110% completion (see below).

The Museum, the large building in the back corner, has 6 sections. When you start the challenge, each section is empty! You’re free to edit them as you see fit, but you cannot change the size or shape of any of the rooms. The front room is an Entry Foyer and CANNOT be used to store collectibles or used as a living space. You can arrange collectibles in the other 5 rooms however you see fit. To complete the Museum, you must have: -Every Gemstone/Metal/Element -Every Fossil -Every MySims Trophy -Every Fish -Every Microscope/Space Print -Every Postcard Each of those must be placed on the first floor and only on the first floor. The postcards may be placed in the Foyer or in your house. You may add a second floor, but if you do, it can only be used for “110% completion”. 110% completion is awarded for getting every space object and one masterpiece painting of each style of painting, as well as every type of frog. This isn’t necessary, it’s an optional set of extra goals. The second floor of the museum CAN have a Cafe built on it. But you cannot use it as additional housing or plumbing. Only decorations, collectibles, seating, and a cafe! Nothing else! HOUSE RULES: There are 3 small houses! Each is a 6x6 room. You may NOT add walls. You may NOT expand the houses. You have to live with this space! Ideally you’d only place objects on the grid Sims 1 or Sims 2 style, because that’s how objects are placed in Animal Crossing, but it’s really up to you. Decorate the houses as you please. The exterior can be decorated, but don’t cheat about it. Do not put kitchen objects outdoors, beds outdoors, etc. Only objects found in the Outdoors category can go outdoors, with the exception of a single toilet found outside for the sake of saving space. SHOP RULES: There’s a Nook’s Cranny shop towards the back and a police station up front. You cannot modify these. You can change which furniture is in the store, but only by placing it on the table, or where the 3 objects along the back wall are. The table and decorative boxes must stay in place. This gives you an extra few tiles to work with for skill objects and whatnot. The Police Station is essentially decorative, but you can place stuff on the tables if you please. LIFE RULES: Aging is not required. You can turn it off, or leave it on. You can even play generations of sims if you want to. It does not matter. Your sim MAY get a job to pass the time, and unlock things, and to help with the bills, but once they reach level 10 they must quit. All sims on the lot can have a job, but their combined job level cannot be over 12. So if you have two sims, and one is at level 8, and one is at level 3, one of them has to quit before the other is allowed to get promoted. If one is promoted, the other is required to quit immediately. This is just so you can’t roll in dough and are encouraged to spend time ignoring the job-money grind of typical Sims gameplay. :D Please note that because of the lot being owned by your sim, the bills will be pretty high to start. You might have trouble keeping up with them. That’s okay. If you’ve played Animal Crossing, you know why!

ETC RULES:

No modification is allowed of any existing structures. That means no moving ponds, no moving the floor tiles outside (stone), no moving the rocks, no moving the buildings, no messing with the train station, etc. You can change wallpapers and plants all you want, though. Basically, if it’s not a tree or a plant and it’s outside, don’t touch it! Obviously, you are allowed to leave town! Basically, you’re only allowed to modify the structure of the museum, and the only lots that can be used for “Useful” items that aren’t chairs or surfaces or decorations are the houses, the store, and the cafe of the museum. Otherwise, just meet your goals! GOAL CHECKLIST: -Museum Goals

–All Fish Mounted or Tanked –All Gems Stored

–All Metals Stored

–All Fossils Stored

–All Elements Stored

–All MySims Trophies Stored

–All Microscope Prints Stored

–All Space Prints Stored

–All Postcards Stored

-Friendship Goals

–Have 2 new sims move into town and take up residence in the other two houses

–Have 15 total friends

–Complete every type of party with a gold medal!

–Get Married

-Town Upgrade Goals

–Add Second Story to Museum

–Add Observatory to Museum

–Add Microscope to Museum

–Add Cafe to Museum

–Have at least 20 flowers planted around town

–Have at least 10 Fruit Trees planted around town

–Have the town in good standing with taxes (Pay the bills!). Upon completing every other goal if you have 50,000,000 simoleons in back bills to pay, you need to pay them. -110% Completion Goals:

–One masterpiece painting of each Type of painting (not counting emotions) –All frogs

–All space objects (Rocket ship can be built on any terrain in town)

–Collect all types of plant

The Animal Crossing VIllage can be found on the gallery by SimifyMeCaptain and you should probably have the Moveobjects Cheat enabled when installing it. (I had to remove the windows from the roofs of the houses because they just kept getting lost due to moveobjects being a bit buggy, sadly). This lot also uses the unlocked FISHING SPOT objects but Snatif on ModTheSims. I don’t know if they come with the lot or not, but I placed them by the pond. They’re not necessary, just a fun detail.

This is not a tried-and-true tested challenge, so it might be a bit imbalanced, but I wanted to share it anyway! Please share and enjoy!

#reblog #i want to do this with my own twist...........#me... playing the sims??? its kinda likely

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