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Stardew Cottage Living Challenge

** UPDATED 08/01/2021 **

Requirements: The Sims 4 Cottage Living

Highly Recommended: Eco Lifestyle and Seasons

Nice to Have: Cats & Dogs, Tiny Living

This challenge is inspired by the gameplay created by ConcernedApe for Stardew Valley! This is a Sims 4 challenge for the Cottage Living expansion pack that requires you to complete tasks to unlock the ability to progress your farm. It has elements of a rags-to-riches challenge as well! I tried to bring in some of the most enjoyable and iconic aspects of Stardew Valley’s gameplay into this challenge, but don’t worry, even if you haven’t played Stardew Valley this is still a fun challenge for the Cottage Living expansion that tries to give you the opportunity to use all the new gameplay features from this pack! This challenge is still a work in progress so feel free to comment with your experiences if you try this!

Create-A-Sim

Start with a single young adult Sim. Optionally, you can create a dog or cat for your Sim.

Recommended Traits:

Animal enthusiast

Loner

Loves Outdoors

Aspiration:

The Curator

Aesthetic:

Choose how you want your Sim to look and the style of their home, but I strongly recommend going full cottagecore!

Lifespan:

Normal, but it really doesn't matter. This challenge should take about one in-game year (or 8 weeks if you don't have Seasons). I turned aging off for Sims in the world to more easily complete the friendship requirements.

Move In

If you're playing with Seasons, set the Season to Spring!

Purchase the "2 Olde Mill Lane" lot in Henford on Bagley.

Set the following lot challenges:

Off-the-grid

Simple living

Wild foxes

Build a small one-room house and (optionally) design it to look like an old cabin. It should be one main room with plus a small bathroom.

Note: If you have the Tiny Living pack, it is fun and beneficial to start off with your lot set as a Tiny Residential Micro Home. You get skill gain and gardening bonuses and you can easily fit the starting items in a 32x32 lot! I have one on the Gallery with all the starting items already in it. Search honeybrewsims to find it!

To start off, you can buy:

Kitchen:

Fridge

Stove

Sink

Counters and cabinets

A small table and one chair

Garbage can

Pet bowl (if you're using pets)

Bedroom / Greatroom:

A single bed

Bookcase

Cross-stitch box

Outdoor

Outdoor garbage

2 packs of starter vegetable seeds

3x In-ground garden patches

Bathroom

Toilet

Shower

Sink

Mirror

Other

Whatever lighting you need

Note: If you have multiple choices for these items (i.e. there are multiple off-grid fridges to choose from), you should purchase the cheapest available option. This rule only applies for the initial set-up of your house.

Note: Do not change the lot terrain (no adding ponds).

Once you have your cabin set up, cheat your simoleons to 0.

The Calendar

(Optional, this is just for fun. Works with Seasons pack only)

Remove the standard holidays from the calendar (Harvestfest, Winterfest, etc.) and then make the following Stardew themed holidays instead!

Spring: Egg Festival

Traditions: hunt for eggs, Flower Bunny

Summer: Luau

Traditions: fire, barbecue

Fall: Spirit's Eve

Traditions: wear costumes, trick or treat

Winter: Feast of the Winter Star

Traditions: decorate, give gifts, open presents, festive spirit, grand meal

Gameplay Rules

1. Complete the following Aspirations, in this order:

The Curator

Freelance Botanist

Country Caretaker

2. Do not get a job. Only make money from your land (farming, animal husbandry, and creating items from these), crafting (cross-stitch, knitting, woodworking, candlemaking), and from collecting in the world.

3. Live on a lot that has the following three lot challenges active:

Off-the-Grid

Simple Living

Wild Foxes

4. Max out the following skills:

Gardening

Handiness

Fishing

Cross stitch

Cooking

Charisma

5. Complete all the Bundles listed below to earn the associated rewards.

6. Do not upgrade your house or buy any of the reward items listed in the Bundle Rewards until you earn them. Do not buy anything not listed as a bundle reward until you reach the fourth house upgrade. Then you may buy other items freely, unless it's a bundle reward item you have not yet unlocked.

7. Keep your farming to the garden patches you have unlocked. Do not intentionally plant extra plants directly in the ground (planting trees are the exception).

8. Max out the friendship bar with the following Sims:

The Pub Owner

The Creature Keeper

Grocery Store Owner

Grocery Store Delivery Person

Agatha Crumplebottom

Agnes Crumplebottom

The Mayor

One other person who lives in HoB

One rabbit, one flock of wild birds, and two foxes.

9. Complete three errands for each of the following people:

The Pub Owner

The Creature Keeper

Grocery Store Owner

Grocery Store Delivery Person

Agatha Crumplebottom

The Mayor

10. Do not get married or have anyone join your household until you complete the marriage requirements listed below (under “Getting Married”). You also essentially need to wait until you unlock the double bed to get married!

The Bundles

The idea behind Bundles (inspired by SV Community Centre Bundles) is to limit the expansion of your life and farm until you’ve gained some farming experience and earned rewards. There are three rules to Bundles:

When you are required to collect items (i.e. crops, frogs, fish, etc.) you must KEEP THEM until you have completed the bundle. Once you have the required items for a bundle, you may then do with them as you wish (including entering them into fairs or giving them as gifts).

You cannot buy any of the items that bundles unlock until you’ve completed the associated bundle.

You must still be able to afford the items that are unlocked by the rewards (i.e. no cheating money to get these items for free).

Frog Bundle

Collect 4 different common frogs, 4 different uncommon frogs, and 1 rare frog

Reward: Unlocks wind turbines (if you don’t have Eco Living, when you finish all three of the Fishing, Frog, and Canning Bundles, turn off the Off-the-Grid challenge instead)

Fishing Bundle

Catch a trout, bass, tilapia, catfish, and a rainbow fish

Reward: Unlocks the dew collector (if you don’t have Eco Living, when you finish all three of the Fishing, Frog, and Canning Bundles, turn off the Off-the-Grid challenge instead)

Canning Bundle

Create the following canned goods. You must use ingredients you grew or collected yourself (no grocery store ingredients except sugar).

mushroom conserve

custard

strawberry jam

raspberry jam

blueberry jam

blackberry jam

mayonnaise

aubergine conserve

watermelon conserve

chocolate syrup

pumpkin conserve

Reward: Unlocks solar panels (if you don’t have Eco Living, when you finish all three of the Fishing, Frog, and Canning Bundles, turn off the Off-the-Grid challenge instead) and the woodworking table

Spring Crops

Harvest and collect the following from your own garden: 20 mushroom, 20 strawberry, 20 green peas (with Seasons expansion only. If you don’t have seasons, do 30 strawberries and 30 mushrooms instead of 20)

Reward: Unlocks one chicken coop (you may buy fences to go with it)

Spring Herbs

Harvest and collect the following from your own garden: 40 parsley

Reward: Unlocks 3 more garden patches

Summer Crops

Harvest and collect the following from your own garden: 20 black beans, 20 tomato, 20 bell peppers (with Seasons expansion only. If you don’t have seasons, do 30 each of the other two crops).

Reward: Unlocks 1 animal pen (you may buy fences to go with it)

Summer Herbs

Harvest and collect the following from your own garden: 40 basil

Reward: Unlocks 3 more garden patches

Fall Crops

the following from your own garden: 20 carrots, 20 grapes, 20 green beans (with Seasons expansion only. If you don’t have seasons, do 30 each of the other two crops).

Reward: Unlocks unlimited chicken coops

Fall Herbs

Harvest and collect the following from your own garden: 40 sage

Reward: Unlocks 3 more patches and you may now add 3 patches to your farm every season for the rest of your life. If you need planter boxes for growing crops in the winter, you may now buy them.

Winter Crops

Harvest and collect the following from your own garden: 30 spinach, 30 potato, and 30 onion

Reward: Unlocks unlimited animal pens

Giant Crops

Harvest and collect a Large sized pumpkin, aubergine, watermelon, and lettuce head.

Reward: Unlocks an outdoor BBQ and you may build a pond on your property with a fishing sign.

Fair Bundle

Win first place at all four of the weekly fairs (Chicken, Garden, Cow, Oversized Crop):

Reward: Every win unlocks one of the four house expansions below.

House Expansions

When you complete the Fair Bundle by winning first place in each of the four fairs, you unlock a house expansion for every win. You must still be able to pay for the house expansion.

Expansion One:

Add a small living room area to the greatroom (keep the bed, kitchen, and living room in one room). Buy couches, end tables, armchairs, etc., if you choose. You may buy decorative plants and fireplaces for the house.

Expansion Two:

Your bedroom is now a separate room and you can have a double bed. Your kitchen can now be made into a separate room from your living room and you may add more chairs to your kitchen table and upgrade kitchen items and appliances if you can afford it. Buy whatever bedroom furniture you want. You may now buy rugs and mirrors.

Expansion Three:

Build a room that can serve as a children’s bedroom and furnish it with children’s furniture. You may buy anything you need to raise a child (like toddler stuff). You may now buy any item that counts as a decoration. You may buy better-quality bathroom items and a tub.

Expansion Four:

Buy whatever you want that isn’t locked as a bundle reward! Build your house as big as you want. You may now turn the Off-the-Grid challenge off if you so choose.

Getting Married:

Before proposing to another Sim you must gift the following items that you grew, made, or collected from the world to your prospective spouse:

1 perfect quality crop (grown by you)

1 perfect quality Large crop (grown by you)

1 perfect quality flower (grown by you)

1 canned Mayonnaise from your own eggs

1 pie cooked by you

1 uncommon collectible

1 rare collectible

1 excellent cross stitch

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“Theo?…. Theo?”

“Theodore?!”

A voice rang in his ears finally catching his attention. It came from the opposite end of the room, turning slowly where he sat to face the voice.

“Yeah?” Theodore responded setting the beaker down and pulling a headphone from his ear

“I’ve been calling your name for a good while now.” A man reaching just over six feet stood in the doorway to the lab with arms folding.

“Sorry I’m concentrating. I think I’ve finally got it down.” Theo beckoned the man to come over while turning back to his work.

The lab had a hallow feel, like it sucked all the life out of everything and everyone. It was cold and dark even with it being washed completely in a pale white, well everything. Almost untouched looking, as if nothing was out of place but it was always clean.

The mans footsteps echoed as he approached Theo, placing his hand on the desk to see what he had been up to.

“See?” Theo glanced up quickly then back to the beaker, pouring more of an unknown chemical into it.

“What am I looking at? Are you conducting a science class here?” The man chuckled

“No, if I mix enough of this and then inject it into the test subject I have the perfect virus!” Theo stated fumbling around his desk for a syringe.

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A Broken Soul

"Please don't do this" was all she could muster the guts to text him.

Sending text after text, after text. Waiting for a response.

Waiting

She tried everything she could to keep from thinking the worse. Her messages became smaller as she began to loose hope.

She had been trying for weeks to keep him from harming himself. From doing anything and everything she could to keep him from drifting into that dark dark place she was all to familiar with.

11:16pm

24 hours it had said by the time she found anything out.

All she could do was sob. Her heart was broken. Her soul ached for what he had done.

He was okai.

Maybe there was more she could of done. Maybe if she had of been awake she could of talked to him.

Those words rang in her ears. A text that read its self.

"Im sorry, live a happy life

Im so sorry."

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This has become me

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this right here, this is good shit

Love

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The Boy On Swings

They chuckles watching Ryan make a fool of himself, from the swings. The boy on the swing was smiling before becoming all serious

"Why are you with him, like be honest" the boy next to her asked, his long brown curly hair draped over his eyes making it hard for her to tell if he was actually looking at her.

She shurgged, kicking her feet to swing slightly

"I like him, i guess. I don't really know he has a nice sense of humor and he is different. He likes me i havent had many people actually like me and not think im annoying" she tucked the side of her hair behind her ear peering over at him.

"Seems like a good reason. But" he paused shaking his head then swaying him self side to side on the swing.

"Maybe someone else likes you, maybe they get you alot more then he does, i dont know. You don't seem that interested in him" stopping himself he took his hand to the front of his hair, pulling it out of his eyes almoat allowing her to catch a glimpse of his green and brown eyes.

She knew who he ment, she could tell. The moment she met him she hadn't lost this confusing feeling she had never felt before.

She could feel her face growing warmer as she could see he was looking at her, making her quickly look away.

"I don't know maybe I'll have to wait and see what happens" she sighed

He got up off the swing and wondered over to the pole next to her, leaning on it.

"Tell me, why you wont look at me?" He leaned over trying to catch her eyes

"You make me nervous, i don't know why" she muttered keeping her eyes on the sand between her toes.

He stepped closer, standing in front of her taking hold of either side of the swing so she had no choice but to look at him.

"Can i tell you a secret?" His voice was off, like he had a lump in his throat.

"What?" She said looking up at him

He was leaning over her slight, she could seen under his hair. Those green and brown eyes were soft staring down at her.

"I.." he paused swallowing hard. Trying to clear his throat.

"I know we have only just met, but. I think i like you.. alot"

Her cheeks were instently red.

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Valeria

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im sure Elijah would wear this xD

Picture / person: Anja LivingDreadDoll time for a new selfie. A kind of vampire tribal thing-ish ..I dunno, I just played around with make-up, clothing, lights etc.  What else to do on a rainy sunday :) 

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Decided to add another male. 

Cant think of a name yet but in going to make him a Reaper AKA Vampire hunter. Help on a name?

I need this outfit

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Bitter Taste

He slowly reached his hand to her cheek, brushing it lightly with his finger tips. Her face began to warm into a soft blush as she smiled closing her eyes.

His thumb made its way to her lips while his fingers rested under her chin pulling it up towards him. Her heart was racing a mile a minute , her breath was shakey like she was shivering.

His soft green eyes looked down into her washed out blue eyes. Reaching a hand to his cheek, she traced his jaw line up into his tangled curls. She couldn't help but love them. Her eyes darted, studying his face for answers but she could find none

He tugged her closer until she was standing on her toes pressed against him, trembling, taking in his smell mixed with her perfume.

Their lips inches apart, you could see her chest rise and fall with each breath. Her hand now part of those tangled curls.

"I love you" he whispered in a low husky voice. Sealing it with a kiss before she could answer.

This was the beginning of a broken heart.

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The Beginning

The soft rain fell silently against the pavement, leaving it shiny where the street lights hit the ground. The building of which everyone worked glistened from the rain The moon was full that evening, meaning there would be more of *them* out tonight, Gallows street was always full of *them*. But tonight they were particularly rowdy.

Alec wasn't to pleased he had to head to work on a night like this. He stood under the lip of the building running a hand through his damp hair. Alec was a tall man with dark brown hair with green to his tips and neon green eyes. He was build like an average athletic male and wore a black suit with a turquoise tie. His skin was a soft olive tone with a hint of tan from his parents Romanian and Arabic background.

"Are you kidding me?!" Alec huffed shaking his foot after stepping in a puddle.

"Oh that's shitty man." Westley chuckles.

Alec turned to see a tall skinny man with red curly hair that fell perfectly around his face . He wore a navy blue suit with a black tie. Westley was a quiet man, awkward would be putting it nice.

"I can't deal with this weather" Alec stated turning slightly to watch the rain fall.

Westley stood by the door shaking his hand in the font of his hair. His jacket was open and his shirt was slightly wet.

" tell me about it, nights like these those fuckers go crazy" Westly gestured behind him

The streets were filled with frantic people running around and screaming. One women pressed herself to the doors, black goo was coming from her eyes and mouth. She reached up to her mouth, sticking a finger in the side and smearing it on the glass door.

HELP ME was now written messily on the glass in black gunk with a large hand print next to it. Alec and Wastley looked at each other as the women laughed and pounded a fist to the door before taking off.

(Leaving notes here probably will change this! Sorry if my writing is shit)

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Omg xD

Basically threw aside everything else I was doing to make this for y’all.

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BWAHAHAHHAHA

Beth Washington lived to eighteen.

Hannah Washington lived to ate-teen.

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yes xD

It’s high noon

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