#tiny town challenge

[podemechamardeeli]

Tiny Town Challenge Expanded - The Sims 3

The inspiration for this challenge came from Deligracy's Tiny Town challenge for The Sims 4 (Original rules HERE). I loved the idea of the challenge, but The Sims 3 has a huge advantage: it already has an open world, so the houses didn't need to be restricted to one lot, but instead, we could build a real community. That's why, in addition to translating, I took some time to adapt it in the best possible way to everything that TS3 offers us.

I kept the characteristics of the Sims from the original challenge as best as I could, but adapted them to keep them as "autonomous" as possible.

I have all the expansions and stuff packs, so feel free to do only what fits into what you already have in your game and/or adapt it as best you can.

When I saw the Stardew Valley map by @boringbones, I felt this would be a perfect match! You don't have to start on the same map as me, but I strongly suggest you start on a tiny or small mapto really have the proximity between the lots and, even better, if it's empty so you can populate it as you play with the Sims.

I'm just starting to play this challenge, so not all the rules have been tested. I will adapt as needed and welcome suggestions.

Tags: #TinyTownTS3 #tiny town challenge ts3 or tag my "@". I would love to know you're playing too. 😍

The Goal

The goal of this challenge is to build a town with tiny houses for up to 16 Sims (depending on whether you want to use mods or not or which packs you own) that match their desires and skills.

You can watch my gameplay of this challenge on my YouTube channel here. (link to be available soon)

The Stardew Valley map can be purchased here (link for download).

The Rundown

Each Sim has a set skill that you must utilize to fund the construction of their tiny home. For example, Frank Stem likes flower arranging, so you must sell flower arrangements to fund his Tiny House build.

You must also represent each Sim's favorite style and color in the build (see the Sim characters below). You can only work on one Sim's house at a time, moving each Sim in individually as you "unlock" them.

To "unlock" the next Sim, you must complete the previous Sim's home.

How to Play

Start by moving your first Sim into a lot of your choice.

To select your first Sim, you can use an online randomizer or simply choose your favorite.

After moving your first Sim in, use a money cheat to set the Sim's money to $0.

Each Sim should start on their lot with their skill item of choice and some useful items. They also start with a sleeping bag (requires Generations), a mini fridge, and an All-in-One Bathroom (requires Island Paradise, Into the Future, or Movie Stuff). Feel free to adjust these items if you don't have the necessary packs. After placing these items on the lot, set the money back to $0.

After finding your skill items, start earning Simoleons by selling your creations!

Use this money to build your Sim's tiny home!

Since we don't have a sales table in The Sims 3 like we do in The Sims 4, I suggest that all collectibles and creations be sold at the consignment store (requires: NRAAS Consigner - [link HERE]).

Extra Rules and Ideas

Your Sims can contribute to community areas to help other neighbors when they move in and to create a pleasant sense of community and lifestyle. Ideas could be a shared laundry, bathroom, BBQ area, garden, central square, pool, etc.

As you play, your town will grow and your community will become fuller. When you reach the last Sim, you can go back to playing with the first family, and here, my suggestion would be to put everyone in a rotational household using Story Progression and evolve with each family.

If you don't have all the necessary packs, feel free to alter the challenge to suit the packs you have, or use the base game features. There are many ways to make money, including tasks like collecting valuable objects or careers.

You can play on any lifespan, but I suggest playing on epic or disabling aging altogether to get the most out of your Sims.

According to the original rules, you can use cheats, rewards, and anything else to make it easier, but keep in mind that the easier you make it for yourself, the less challenging it will be!

The Tiny Town Sims

Azure Hue:

Skill - Painting (Base Game)

Decor Style - Contemporary/Boho

Color: Blue

Cyprus Handyman:

Skill - Sculpting (Ambitions)

Decor Style - Rustic/Farmhouse

Color: Orange

Frank Stem:

Skill - Flower Arranging/Gardening (Base Game)

Decor Style: Vintage/Garden/Farmhouse

Color: Green

Suggestion: If you want to go with Flower Arranging, I recommend this mod HERE.

Opal Gem:

Skill - Jewelry Making (Supernatural)

Decor Style: Victorian/Fairytale

Color: Purple

Annie Aperature:

Skill - Photography

Decor Style: Industrial/Minimalist

Color: Red

Beatrice Jam:

Skill - Cooking (Base Game)/Baking (Store Content)

Decor Style: Cozy

Color: Pink

Suggestions:

Cooking can be done through the Culinary career. Your world will need to have the Bistro lot or the Rabit Hole rug, which can be downloaded HERE.

Baking can be done with the Deliciously Indulgent Bakery. (requires: NRAAS Cupcake HERE)

Ziggy Yarn:

Skill - Knitting/Crocheting

Decor Style: Mid-Century Modern

Color: Yellow

Suggestion: If you want to make this Sim this way, you will need this mod HERE.

Pippin Playmaker:

Skill - Toy Making (Midnight Hollow)

Decor Style: Colorful and Eclectic. Think of a dream child's room, with furniture of different styles, vibrant colors, toys scattered on the floor, and walls decorated with drawings and posters of cartoon characters.

Color: Rainbow (use and abuse the color wheel)

Sophie Sauvignon:

Skill - Nectar Making (World Adventures)

Decor Style: Rustic and Provençal. Imagine a French country house, with worn wooden furniture, floral fabrics, soft pastel tones, and many elements that refer to nature, such as fresh flowers and wicker baskets.

Color: Burgundy

Morgana Spellbinder:

Skill - Alchemy (Supernatural)

Decor Style: Gothic and Mysterious. Think of an alchemy lab filled with old books, jars of colorful liquids, candles, mystical objects, and dark wood furniture with metal details.

Color: Dark Purple

Melody Harmony:

Skill: Music

Decor Style: Bohemian and Artistic. Think of a music studio with instruments, band posters, vinyl records, comfortable furniture, and vibrant colors.

Color: Sepia (Warm and soft brown)

Oliver Quill:

Skill - Writing

Decor Style: Dark Academia, Cozy. Imagine an office with a wooden desk, a bookshelf full of books, a comfortable armchair, a fireplace, and earthy tones.

Color: Coffee Brown

Newton Gears:

Skill - Inventor

Decor Style: Industrial and Technological. Think of a laboratory with tools, machine parts, wires, neon lights, computers, and metallic colors.

Color: Metallic Gray

Scarlett Zinger:

Skill - Fashion Stylist

Decor Style: Modern and Elegant. Imagine a fashion atelier with mannequins, fabrics, mirrors, designer furniture, and neutral colors with vibrant touches.

Color: Hot Pink

Ink Ryder:

Skill - Tattoo Artist

Decor Style: Urban and Alternative. Think of a tattoo studio with graffiti, urban art posters, metal furniture, dark colors, and neon lighting.

Color: Black. This color represents rebellion, individuality, and the art of tattooing.

Finn Fisherman:

Skill - Fisherman

Decor Style: Nautical and Cozy. Imagine a fisherman's cabin with nets, boats, shells, light wood furniture, shades of blue and white, and elements that refer to the sea.

Color: Ocean Blue. This color represents tranquility, serenity, and the beauty of the sea.

Final Note

Have fun! You can change and adapt the rules as needed. The goal here is to have a lot of fun with the best game ever! So feel free to explore everything a truly open world has to offer.

[bottsbotts]

tiny town is starting to feel like a town!! I love Masami's house way more than Elliott tho.. she might have to financially support him

[aheathen-conceivably]

Tiny Town Applicant Three: Carmine Bronski

Growing up an army brat, moving has always been a big part of Carmine’s life; so the second she turned 18 she left home and never looked back, following Ren Faires or antique roadshows as she collected anything that caught her eye or learned any craft someone was willing to teach her. After almost a decade that way, she was feeling particularly lost when she saw the ad for Tiny Town and took it as a sign that she was meant to put down roots. If she’s being totally honest with herself, maybe it’s where she hopes she finally finds love too.

[biffybobs]

Frank Stem's happy ever after ❤️❤️❤️

[bunnithechubs]

Layne Coffin makeover cause my sim hooked up with him and let's be honest EA did him dirty.

[half-shadowgalra]

guess who’s gonna do a sims4 tiny town challenge with my favorite blorbos from Pjo!!!!!

(I’m so normal)

[seyvia]

Button Bobbins -Yellow🧶💛🪡

for @ethicaltreatmentofcowplants Tiny Town challenge!

Button was the only daughter of the late rock 'n' roll star known as Bub Bobbins, she lived like a queen with his fortune, until her sneaky manager stole it and left the county. Now left with nothing, she must make a new life for herself with her own two hands.

She keeps positive and she's generous to a fault, constantly showering her friend with gifts, but she expects a complement or two in return -after all she is amazing! (and maybe just a tad self-absorbed).

age: young adult, she/her

Orientation: heterosexual.

Traits: Self-absorbed, Cheerful, Generous.

Aspiration: Lady of the Knits.

decor: Mid-Century.

I hope yuh like her!💛

~୨୧~DOWNLOAD~୨୧~

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

Since no one wants to buy baked goods from a smelly chef (or at least, they shouldn't), the one 'luxury' item I granted Betty was a sink. So it was a quick wash up before our first ever bake sale - along with a bonus Bro?

(Also I love how Joaquin standing on a platform makes it look like I have a heigh slider installed. Gotta respect the improvisation!)

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[kyrasims91]

Intro to Tiny Town Challenge 2.0 #apartmentchallenge

Tiny Town Ch 1.0 ♡ Beginning ┃ (Previous / Next)

(Rules 1) & (Rules 2)

Hi guys..Look who's back from trying to get consistent in posting again 🙋🏻.

So, I decided to try Tiny Town Challenge again, which I've have play and post on my other simsblr. But this time, I'm gonna merge tiny town 1 and town 2 rules in one, which I'm gonna play this challenge in an Apartment and renovated it.

Fyi, this apartment that I will use for this challenge are not mine. U can also download Deligracy's apartment or lots to play with this challenge, she already include it on her blog. There's will be 8 sims gonna live in each unit and all the unit already had being given something for them to start with. In this apartment also, will be 2 sims living together in 2 out of the 6 unit and their item will get double. Intro to the townie will be post later and I will tell more about this challenge and my own rules. I also add some essential item that might useful for the townie.

So that its, link and credit to this apartments will be down below. Wish me luck with finishing this challenge with all 8 townie 😆.

Modern Apartment by ninaschmidt ( I set their apartment to unfinished and put it at DSV with a bigger lot that will have future community lot that the townie had to build to completely end this challenge)

[tychosims]

so I decided to give the tiny town challenge a try but the sims 3 version! These are my townies so far...

[bottsbotts]

house expansion, llama love, skill building

[aheathen-conceivably]

Tiny Town Applicant One: Roan Mcgovern

Dreams of living off the land always seem mighty far away when land is just so expensive. So when Roan saw the advertisement for Moonwood Mill Tiny Town, submitting an application was a no brainer. Only cows and chickens and horses (oh my!) may be too big a dream for such a tiny plot, but that's something she'll have to worry about later.

*Although Roan rolled the horse riding skill, I am including all types of animal husbandry for her so that her gameplay isn't as tied to one world (Chestnut Ridge) and she can interact with Tiny Town more easily.

[biffybobs]

Just a few snaps from playing Deligracy's Tiny Town. I started back in April with Miss Biffy but she's been far too busy with her own sims to play with me over the summer holidays 😭

I'm going to be chilling out in this save for a bit before diving back into regular posting.

[awkwardwhims]

Girly got abducted...

[frostedshore]

my tiny town is starting to feel like a small town~

[ethicaltreatmentofcowplants]

Hello everyone! Once I have finished up with Simply Lilac, this is what I'd love your sims for.

I'll start with this culinary arts enthusiast in pink: Betty Crocker.

(And if she looks kind of familiar, I was paying some homage to Halle Berry as Storm in the original X Men movies.)

more details below

So Betty is starting with nary a simoleon to her name (but still some comfort items) in the newly vacated Von Windenburg manor lot. Will anyone really miss Jacques? I don't think so.

Anyway, I bulldozed and evicted the whole Crumbling Isle because it's nicely isolated from the rest of the world, has a surprising amount of harvestables - and now gems (thank you Crystal Creations pack). There's also plenty of fishing spots - and party bushes for while we're without our creature comforts.

As per the official rules each sim will start with a tent, party bush, cooler (or similar) and items related to the skills they're supposed to max out. Once they've made enough to build a functional tiny home, I can invite the next sim onto the lot.

This is going to be very casual in comparison to a bachelorette but I do enjoy other people's sims - it breathes fresh air into my save files. If you submit someone, here's what I'll need.

Pick one of the following colours: blue, green, orange, purple, red or yellow. Only one sim per colour, sorry 😔

While I'm going to start playing the lot as one big household, if For Rent cooperates the sims may eventually start dating and spawning, so tell me their sexuality and jealousy settings in case my download messes them up.

No skills preferable as it's part of the challenge - let me know if they have any and I'll reinstall mccc to delete them.

If you use cc, please keep it maxis match and to a modest amount. No cc eyes, no sliders and no defaults of anything please.

To give you an indicator, I've uploaded Betty's outfits below:

They can be an occult if you so choose! I love occults! I'll give any merfolk a bathtub to start with - aaaand I'd recommend that any vampires have solar immunity a la Caleb Vatore since they'll spend their initial days tent living. (You can cheat this ability if your vampire is at a low occult level.)

You can give them as many likes and dislikes as you want, and likewise incorporate their colour as subtly (or not) as you like. I mean, you can even make one of the skills they have to max out a disliked activity if you really want to torment them, mwuhaha.

I may still need to avoid updating my game once Simply Lilac has wrapped up, so please send them to me in a zip.

That's it! Hope it all makes sense. While I won't be posting nearly as much or in depth as the Simply Lilac recaps, I will keep everyone apprised of our sims' antics - and with (hopefully hilarious) photographic evidence.