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NEW Sims 4 Legacy Challenge!

THE FAMILY FARM HISTORY CHALLENGE

- Created by Jester

The Premise:

Travel back in time. Now picture a newlywed couple, striking out on their own with nothing but the few pennies they’ve managed to scrape together. Their love is strong and their dreams are big. The husband purchases the largest plot of land possible, so their dreams have room to grow.

This is a variation of the Living Off the Land Challenge, plus a touch of the History Challenge, with some inspiration drawn from the Accidental Time Traveler Challenge. In other words, no conventional jobs; only farming/fishing/gathering. Each Generation represents 30 years, so new things will be “unlocked” as each generation passes.

How to win:

You win the challenge when you have established a family farm on 10 lots in Newcrest. A farm is considered “established” when it has:- 50 planted items- A barn with silo- A farmhouse with separate bedroom, bathroom, kitchen/dining, living room- A net worth of over $30,000- A married head of household with at least one child (to be the next generation)- A representation within the household* of the following:

Lvl 10 Gardening

Lvl 10 Fishing

Lvl 10 Handiness

Lvl 10 Cooking

*This can be divided among the household. For example: 1 sim can be level 10 gardening and fishing, his son can be level 10 handiness, his wife can be level 10 cooking, etc.

Getting Started:

-Create your 2 founders

-They can look however you want, but I’d recommend trying to match the aesthetic

-The male founder must have something in the Nature Aspiration, and the female founder must have something in the Family Aspiration

-Move into the largest lot in Newcrest

-Plant some natural landscape to make it look more rustic THEN adjust your money to $8,000

-Starting Funds: $8,000

-Build a small farmhouse with a double bed, 1 fridge, 1 stove, 1 sink, and 1 counter. Again, you can design it however you want, but I’d try to match aesthetic

-Build a separate outhouse with a toilet and a bathtub

-Lifespan set to normal

General Rules:

-You may not use any money cheats or cheat the needs of any household sims

-Until the phone is unlocked during Gen 3, you may only travel by pressing ‘M’

-The head of the household may only work as a farmer, they may never have a job/career

-You may gather/collect/fish and sell whatever you please to earn money

-Painting and woodworking are allowed, and you may sell your creations

-All heads of households must be married before having children

-Start of the Next Generation happens when your intended legacy becomes a Young Adult and you have fulfilled all the farm requirements

-Children and Teens may go to school if you choose to allow them to do so

-You cannot hire a maid, nanny, or butler

-If you would like to turn aging off of unplayed households, you may. This may help you find husbands/wives further on down the line. Or you can create new households as you need them.

GENERATION RULES:

Generation 1: 1840

No Electronics with the exception of a fridge and lights

Lights must be lantern-style or candles

All female sims must wear skirts

No sims are allowed to have jobs outside of farming/gathering/crafting

Phones must be silenced

Cannot work on Sundays and must either go to church (build or download one) or spend most of the day reading to build a skill

All babies must be home births. No hospital.

Next generation head must be male

Generation 2: 1870

LIGHTBULBS are unlocked

All female sims must wear skirts

No sims are allowed to have jobs outside of farming/gathering/crafting

Phones must be silenced

Cannot work on Sundays and must either go to church (build or download one) or spend most of the day reading to build a skill

All babies must be home births. No hospital.

Next generation head must be male

The farm must be an orchard (comprised of mostly fruit trees)

Generation 3: 1900

PHONES are unlocked.

All female sims must wear skirts

Cannot work on Sundays and must either go to church (build or download one) or spend most of the day reading to build a skill

All babies must be home births. No hospital.

Next generation head must be male

A member of the household must own a general store

Ignore this rule if you don’t have Get to Work

Generation 4: 1930

TELEVISION Unlocked

Females are free to wear any type of clothing

One member of the household must be a breeder

Ignore this rule if you don’t have Cats and Dogs

You cannot adopt pets using the phone. You must adopt strays you find in the world.

You may SELL animals via the phone, though.

Next Gen head must be Male

Babies may be born either at home or at the hospital

Generation 5: 1960

All technology unlocked

Everyone is free to wear what they please

Spouses may get a job/career if you’d like

Next Gen my be any gender

Families are allowed to work on Sundays if they choose

Generation 6: 1990

The age of GMO’s

Farm must contain 5 plants that can only be obtained from splicing others together

Head of household’s spouse must get a job in the science career

Generation 7: 2020

Hipster farm! Build a rooftop farm.

One member of the household must own a “farmer’s market”

Spouse must get a job in the Social Media career

Ignore if you don’t have city living

Generation 8: 2050

Farm of the future! Design your farm as your interpretation of farming in the future- ie. floating farm, pods, greenhouses, underwater… etc.

Farm must include 5 living cow plants

Head of household’s spouse must be an alien

Generation 9: 2080

The Apocalypse!!

Build an underground bunker

Can only grow food from planters in an underground greenhouse

No family members may have a job

Generation 10: 2110

Post-apocalyptic

No technology

Basically go back to the Gen 1 rules, except less sexist. 

If you’d like to use this last generation as a jumping off point for the apocalypse challenge, go for it!

Feel free to add any bits of history into the beginning you’d like. I have a soft spot for historical accuracy. Have fun, enjoy it, and don’t forget to tweet me some screenshots!! Find me on twitter @JesterSimsYT. I will be doing a Let’s Play of this challenge on my YouTube channel, so feel free to check that out, too! Just search Jester or Family Farm Challenge. It should come up!

Last updated 4/22/18

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Loft Home

I was renovating one of the Zenview apartments but couldn’t manage to get the rooms to save correctly. So I did the only logical thing and turned the apartment into a house :) I kept the open loft style living area and expanded the upstairs to accomodate three bedrooms.

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I tried my hand at @Simproved’s #GlassHouseChallenge :)

Very different from my usual building style, I went for a #light, #modern, 4-story home for a wealthy family with one child. I enjoyed this build so much and will definitely be doing a similar one soon. #Sims4 #TheSims4

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New apartment for two artsy sisters

Inspired by some super positive feedback on twitter, I’ve decided to try and post here more regularly. So let’s go :)

There’s a fun QC Create a room challenge in the sims forums right now (http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/854381/sims-4-qc-create-a-room-contest-challenge-72-up-due-est-22nd-january/p1) and I’ve already done two builds for it. Here goes the first one:

Meet Maddy and Carolin Burke

Madddy is a talented painter and Carolin a succesful journalist and author. They’ve recently moved into a new apartment in San Myshuno, 122 Hakim House. It’s an old, industrial building and the two have renovated it to fit their modern and fun style. Let’s check it out!

The apartment has two bedroom, two full baths, two walk-in closets, two living areas, a big kitchen with dining area and a bar as well as an art studio for Maddy.

Maddy is not only a painter but also loves playing the guitar.

Carolin spends most of her time on the computer, either writing an article for the San Myshuno newspaper or working on her current novel.

The girls love hanging out in their big kitchen, for which Maddy painted a colorful mural.

Maddy is also just finishing up another mural in her art studio.

What do you think, will the sisters be happy in their new apartment?

I definitely like it, but I might me biased :)

You can find the girls, their apartment and all rooms separately on my profile on the sims 4 gallery (origin ID ChaosSimmer86)

You can also find more pictures of the build at https://imgur.com/a/itTfE

Hope you are all having an amazing day <3

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Epic Pet Challenge

Ever since The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs Expansion pack came out last month, I’ve been playing around with ideas for challenges. There was a couple that popped up right away in the community, but they were still pretty basic, like the 100 pets adoption challenge. But that was the one I had had in mind as well, so I started (literally) playing around with it. It’s not completely worked out yet but it will be an epic challenge, including gameplay, build, cas and even legacy aspects. I’m really looking forward to sharing this challenge with you and hope that you will enjoy it as much as I do! See you soon :) 

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I did a build challenge!

I participated in my first build challenge and I figured this was the kind of thing I should maybe post about on my tumblr. So here we go.

I found the challenge on the Sims forum: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/927235/the-sims-4-dynamic-developers-build-challenges/p1

The challenge was to build a man cave, dimly lit, with nerdy decor. It had to include a TV with a console, a computer and at least 3 other activities. There also had to be a spot for a cat to sleep. Here’s my version:

I present the DUDE HANGOUT

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Hello Tumblr.

What’s up, people on the internet? So, making a first post anywhere is really awkward and weird, but here it goes.

I’ve been simming ever since the game first came out (yes, I’m old), but it was not until recently that I realized what an amazing, fun, loving and creative community surrounds this game. I started by watching a few youtubers (hi Deligracy, lilsimsie & TheSimSupply), uploading a few builds onto the gallery and commenting in some creations by others. And that was all I did until a week ago.

I had been sick for a while so had been playing a lot and therefore creating a lot of content and all of a sudden I get this notification that Maxis favorited one of my creations. I completely freaked out! Right away, the notifications started pouring in about people downloading, favoriting and commenting on my “Teen Twin Bedroom”. Before, I had had a total of 500 something gallery downloads on about 100 items. Within an hour, that Maxis fave room alone had been downloaded 800 times! Later that night, I made a twitter account, sarcastically tweeting that Maxis had faved one of my tweets and I was obviously famous now :) I followed a few simmers, posted a few pictures of my builds and pretty soon realized how warm and welcoming this awesome community was. So the last five days have been spent on making and sharing content, both on the gallery and twitter, and interacting with fellow simmers. And I can only say I am absolutely addicted to it all! That’s why I thought I would explore another side of the whole simmer world and get myself a tumblr. So that’s my story of how I got here. 

I’m looking forward to the Sims community on this platform. To start off, I’ll share with you that Maxis fave room that got this all started :)

Take care!