Friday Highlights - July 18th

EA_Cath

Community Manager

6 days ago

A week on The Sims Forums

Sul Sul simmers!

It has been more than a week since Enchanted by Nature has been released! Have you been able to try it out yet? How are you currently playing this pack? I have been having so much fun with Build Mode and floating around as a fairy.

First, let’s recap what happened this week:

📑 On Wednesday we released an e-patch for The Sims 4, you can catch up on the notes here!
🎁 Finally, don’t miss out on the Eco Lifestyle giveaway on Discord for a chance to win a copy of this pack!

DIY with gnomes, shared here by DiscipleOfDuat

Now let’s check out this week’s highlights!

Let’s kick off those highlights with a nice challenge offered by simszfreakz : The Siren’s Curse Challenge 🧜‍♀️, which is a story-based supernatural challenge that will be played over different generations. The legend says that a long time ago, a mermaid made a deal with the ocean to protect her child. In exchange, all mermaids born from this bloodline will pass when their child reaches teenagehood, if they were born mermaid… In this challenge, your start off as a regular sim who turns into a mermaid, you must have a child and your mermaid must pass away when the child becomes a teenager. If the child is born human, the curse is lifted! There are specific rules so I encourage you to check out the thread before you venture into the challenge. Good luck!
This week for our Sims 3 players, we are getting an update from HotBlackSand for the Hidden Springs Reimagined story, which is focusing on Jessica Willow. Her military career was stagnant, so she decided instead to focus on a new career of being an International Spy 🕵️‍♀️ In this new chapter, we learn that Jessica has been doing pretty well since she had made it to International Super Spy! However the needs for this new career seem to be taking a toll on Jessica’s private life, and we all know that work-life balance is important, so she might be considering another career path. With all those skills and experience with her, I’m pretty sure she can become anything that she wants - let’s see what new adventures await her!
If you are looking for inspiration to build houses in Enchanted by Nature, make sure to take a look at all the creative players from Simmingal's Share Your Innisgreen Builds thread! 🏡 I feel that the items from this pack are very versatile and the build combinations are limitless. But if you feel overwhelmed by all the different elements, I’m sure this thread will come in handy for you. We can already see a very promising work-in-progress build situated in the middle of the trees, as well as a manor for fairies for biggest households (who says fairies only need small homes?). Make sure to share your Innisgreen builds or to take a look for inspiration, I can’t wait to see what you creative folks come up with 🎨
This time, we will focus on one particular build, ADashofAsh90’s Floral Fairy Hobbit Home. As you may have guessed from the title, it’s the perfect place for your fairies and nature lovers, or just for shorter sims 😀 This build is a very cute 1-bedroom home completely surrounded by grass and flowers, with a beautiful gazebo on the top of the house to relax with a nice book or cup of tea. The interior is very cosy and whimsical and would be perfect for a couple or a single sim with a pet or two. I honestly don't know if I prefer the interior decoration or the outside: despite living in a smaller home, there is a sizable garden. You can even bring your farm animals there as there already is a stable and plenty of space in the plot for them. If this was real, I know I would trade my home for this one in a heartbeat. 😆
Storytellers, this is your time to shine once again! ✍️ Lion-In-A-Teacup is currently playing a legacy sims family and needs ideas to continue the storyline. The current household is a family of occults with werewolves and vampires, so this is an interesting start! The story should focus on the three children of a couple of occult sims, so that leaves the door open to a lot of different scenarios. Someone has suggested creating clubs for the children’s hobbies to keep them (and Lion-In-A-Teacup) engaged. I also like the idea of creating an enemy clan for a more dramatic story, Twilight style 😈 If you have any other suggestions, make sure to share them in the thread. I can’t wait to see what Lion-In-A-Teacup decides to do with the characters!