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The Tides of Power (On Hiatus 'till 5th September)
A kingdom ruled by a deadly siren. A court overrun with enemies. If Melody wants to keep her throne, she'll have to rely on the one human who doesn’t die at the sound of her singing. Updates are every Saturday. Click the image below to read the prologue.
The Whittaker Saga - 1970s (updated 07/24)
I was vastly inspired when reading the decades challenge, and as a history teacher, I could not stop myself from giving it a try. Of course, true to my nature or refusing to do things by the book, the first thing I did was break the rules. How? By creating as my protagonist a single, working woman living on her own! Gasp! Why? Partly because a story popped into my head, but also, partly, to honor the many women who - by choice or necessity - actually worked, and worked hard for their living in the 1890s. We tend to forget them, but the working women were there - from the hard working farmers that we often downgrade by calling wives, as if they weren't an essential part of the economy of the farm, to the working class women working as domestic help or in the factories where they were only payed half of a man's wages. So with that, I introduce Abigail Spencer, a single, working, middle class woman in 1890s Willow Creek: As middle class there is only a few jobs available to Abigail, that of governess or that of teacher. Abigail is therefore a teacher, teaching at Willow Creek Elementary School. She lives right next door to the school, in a small shotgun house with a few chickens and a patch of land to help her make ends meet (teachers really were not payed a lot during this time either). Obviously, her biggest goal in life is to find a husband, get married and start a family so that she won't have to work. (In fact, a teacher, as well as many other working women, automatically lost their job if they got married during this time.) But to get married, she needs to find a husband. Meet Willow Creek's eligible bachelors: Matthew Godeau: Matthew is one of the richest men in Willow Creek. A bit too old to still be a bachelor he lives with his widowed mother in Ophelia house (yes, eventually this family changed their names and became the Goths. Ophelia house is named from Matthew's mother). Pro: Matthew is creative, just like Abigail, as well as a romantic and would be sure to bestow lots of attention on a wife. He lives in one of the biggest houses in town, and is a wealthy business man. Abigail would have a good life with him. Con: His mother. Ophelia is a woman set in her own ways and she is not about to let some silly girl interfere with how she runs her house! Ophelia is mean, materialistic and an overachiever. She is not likely to see some middle class teacher as good enough for her son. Add that she has raised her son to be not only creative and romantic, but also incredibly self absorbed and the household may prove hard to be comfortable with. Joseph Whittaker: Joseph is a novellist, living in the stately Whittaker house, which with time, will be turned into the well renowned Willow Creek Archive. He has no mother (a definite pro), but two very young children. A son and a daughter, from a previous marriage. Pro: Joseph is a bookworm, just like Abigail and is sure look favourably on her past as a teacher. They are also both family orientated which means they are a good match in personalities and would likely find a lot of common ground. The house is ripe with books, and Joseph's two motherless children desperately need a mother to tend to their needs. With two live in maids it's a comfortable life focused on the family and the books she so loves. Con: Joseph very much mourns his dead wife, and keeps her picture on the wall over the fireplace. Can he ever truly love again, or will Abigail forever live in the shadow of the woman he loved and lost? Loyd Brennan: Loyd is the owner of Brennan's Groceries and Dry Goods, the biggest (only) shop in town. He lives with his sister Mary and their dachshund above the store. Pro: Loyd is outgoing and friendly and easy to get along with. He's self assured, but unlike Matthew, not self absorbed. He works hard and provides a good home. As a working man he does not mind a working wife, so Abigail would do more than sit around being pretty. He loves dogs, and anyone who does cannot be bad - right? Con: Living in a store would mean working in the store. There is no way the wife of a store owner is not in that store working along side her husband. Without money for a maid, this involves not just working in the store but running the household as well. The apartment isn't really big enough for a large family and unless Mary gets married, it's bound to be crowded. Then there is the fact that she and Mary does not really get along well. Paul Heydale: Paul is a farmer, living with his entire family at Garden Essence, a farm with a cow, chickens and a whole lot of crops. They're a tight knit family who works hard for what they have. Pros: Paul, like Abigail is both creative and family orientated. He dreams of becoming a painter rather than a farmer. By marrying him, Abigail would be wrapped up in a large family who would be there for her, something she'd never had before. His family is also very friendly, and Abigail teachers his younger sister and has already met and chatted with his mother and father and really likes the entire family. Con: Marrying a farmer would be a step down the social ladder, and the life of a farmer is hard! Is Abigail cut out for working out from early morning to late evening without ever more than making ends meet? And the house is crowded as is, with Paul's parents and two younger siblings (so far). Where would more children live? Is Abigail prepared for the hard life that accompanies this choice? Now I wanted to make a poll, but apparently you cannot do this in this section of the forums. So I'll leave you with a question instead - who do you believe Abigail will most likely fall in love with and why? Matthew Joseph Loyd Paul Finally, here is my Willow Creek in 1890: *** An important note about the future postings in this story: After trying and fighting the forum to get the posts up and running as they are supposed to work, I have now decided that it's simply too much work. Instead, I have started a blog that (hopefully soon) will contain all of the chapters from here and the old forum. I am currently at 1891 and moving forwards quite rapidly. Here the posts of each chapter will be replaced by a link to the chapters in the blog as I move forwards, though I will leave any comments as they are. The massive perk with this is that I do not need to worry about editing in all images manually, and the loading time will decrease enormously without them. The process of reading is also easier at the blog - and while the blog itself is in the wrong order, I have set up a list of all chapters in chronological order for new readers as well as a search function if you are looking for a specific chapter. Another perk is that I have some new options, like character pages where you can get a summary of each of the main character in the story (warnings for spoilers) and a separate page about the challenge, how time moves. I hope I will be able include a link to the family tree as well. It will take some time to get everything set up, and I do appreciate input in the process. I do promise that the story will go on, and hope you will keep reading it and commenting on it either here or on the new blog. Link to the blog.
100 baby challenge: What if sims age up w/o any infant traits?
A couple of the first sims in my game did not age up with any of the infant traits, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do with them. I was thinking that my matriarch would still have to raise them to adulthood and would not be allowed to have another child using their donor parents, but they would not be a challenge fail and could still help around the house and with caring for other children. I'd set them as a household member so they wouldn't show up in genealogy, and alter romantic/woohoo preferences so that they wouldn't compete with the matriarch for donors or accidentally try and romance the matriarch. Alternatively, I'd have to age them down in CAS and start over until they got the happy or top notch traits, which I think would also be fair since babies are hard to deal with. However, I'm worried that I might not be able to see some infant traits, or that the traits might be buggy and not show up. There might be a protocol for this, but I haven't found anything online. Is there anything you guys do when this happens?
[IX Langraab Reno - 20th July 2025] - BansheeHVO's Showcase
Hi guys! I started playing Sims 4 in May 2020, but I've been playing The Sims on and off for almost twenty years. Building is my favourite part of playing, so I've posted quite a few builds on the gallery over the last few months. I thought I'd post pics and links of a few of my favourites below. Let me know what you think. They are all NO CC builds, though they DO require the MOO cheat to be entered prior to placement. Find my builds on the gallery => BansheeHVOLegacy storylines?
Hey everyone! I’m about to kick off the start of my generation 4 of my sims legacy (I’m not really playing a legacy challenge but I do set myself little challenges to complete while I’m playing with certain households (e.g. one of my sims owns a restaurant and we’re trying to get it to 5 stars). I have so many sims in my generation 4, I’ve been playing rotationally between my gen 1 sims children (most are elders now 😭). But, I wanna spice up my gameplay for my gen 4 sims! Most of my other generations I haven’t been ready to start until they’re YA’s but am very excited to hop back into playing teens. so my question is do you have any ideas for side characters I can create to fit into this world? My boyfriend recommended making football teams (which I’ve already done, 2 rival 5-a-side teams), but any other ideas? I haven’t been making over my townies while I’ve been playing because I focused on the vampire side of my legacy family for most of generation 2 and 3 (I’ve learnt my lesson now tho 😂). Any advice, tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
LavenderSims36 Legacy
Hello! The LavenderSims36 Legacy is my current family gameplay save and features the Lavender family (we'll see how many generations the name holds up for), with married couple Pax and Quill Lavender being the founders of the lineage. I don't have much of a plan for this Legacy, other than to play it as long as possible and gradually incorporate new DLC into my gameplay (my game is pretty basic in that realm right now). As Pax and Quill's family grows, I will eventually be doing rotational family play. I hope you enjoy reading about the Lavender family's journey!Daephene's New Save
I'm going to add links in here before the long intro so readers can skip straight to the details. Worldbuilding Overview Core Worlds Inhabited Worlds (First Gen) Vacation Worlds Bheeda Family Intro Campbell Family Intro Dragan Family Intro Elderberry Family Intro Sul sul! If you recognize the name Daephene you probably know about my longterm save, which mostly focused on the descendants of Athena Andreas and some of their occult neighbors. It was designed so that each family of Athena's descendants were assigned to be completionists about a specific pack or packs. I started that save in early 2019 and played it almost exclusively until earlier this year. As time went on I assigned a second pack to some of the households that had finished their goals, adding in new packs as I bought them. But it has gotten so big that it takes forever to make a full rotation, and I have been taking a lot of breaks from the game in the past few years. Those two things combined mean that I have had very little time to explore most of the newer packs because it takes so long to cycle back to the families that focus on them. And I may have gotten just a bit bored with stories that take forever to advance. So I decided to start a new save, still assigning a pack to each family but now starting with the newer packs that I have done the least with. I have also been making over the worlds for this save. I have imagined a map where all the worlds except for Sulani, Mt Komorebi and the vacation worlds are connected to San Myshuno by high speed rail, and Newcrest and Copperdale are within the San Myshuno metro area so that it makes sense for everyone to send their kids to the prestigious Copperdale High. I focused on those three worlds first. Then the worlds my starter families will live in, which includes Tomarang, Hanford, Chestnut Ridge and San Sequoia. I will be back when I can get to my desktop with all my photos to start giving a detailed description of how I am setting up my save. Then I plan for this thread to be a place for me to post my stories. I will likely post individual screenshot in some topics in the general discussion area, but will put details and stories here.World Building Tips/ Don't get bored
Hey everyone, Okay, TL;DR I've been playing with my sims legacy generation for a while now and I'm trying to develop the lore around my vampire/werewolf occults. I don’t have much storage left on my **bleep**ty laptop so probably can’t install any mods. so far I’ve created a few little vampire covens and werewolf packs using the get together club system. And when I was playing with my Gen 2 vampire sim I obviously had them date Caleb and I kinda played about with developing an occult council (putting all the occults into one club and kinda having them debate rules for occults and stuff). im currently playing a vampire werewolf love story which has been fun, they now have 3 children together and I really want to give each of the children a bit of a fleshed out story. So if anyone has any ideas or gameplay tips because I’m so passionate about this save file atm and I don’t want to get bored!
PHDSIMMER’S NEVER-ENDING STORY LEGACY CHALLENGE!
Hey guys, I came up with this Legacy Challenge to celebrate 5 years of The Sims 4, it was then called the 5 Year Celebration Legacy. I have now updated it to include the most recent packs and re-named it. Each generation focuses on completing some of the features introduced in a Game Pack and/or Expansion Pack and works through the order of release. Basically this legacy is a never-ending story and will only end when the Sims 4 ends! (which at this rate seems to be never!). To complete this Legacy Challenge fully you will require the following packs, feel free to skip/alter a generation if you don’t have that specific pack. Expansions: Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Snowy Escape, Cottage Living, High School Years, Growing Together, Horse Ranch, For Rent, Lovestruck, Life and Death (Businesses and Hobbies, Enchanted by Nature are coming soon!). Game Packs: Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Dine Out, Parenthood, Jungle Adventure, Strangerville (and/or Realm of Magic), My Wedding Stories, Werewolves. Stuff Packs: Kids Room Stuff, Toddler Stuff, Tiny Living Stuff, Home Chef Hustle, Crystral Creations. It’s hard work and a challenge for sure! but we need that in the Sims 4 right? Enjoy and please feel free to share your gameplay with me on twitter (@phdsimmer) or tag your tumblr posts with “NeverEndingLegacy” or “NELegacy”. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU RUN ACROSS ANY PROBLEMS! WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK! Note: I recommend not playing active high school until it’s required. I also recommend to “save as” every now and again and transfer to a new save after a few generations at a time to reduce glitches and lag associate with large save files, you will lose your family tree but gameplay will be better. You can always create your family tree outside of the Sims 4 if you want to keep track of it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 1 – Outdoor Retreat and Get to Work Although you love your job and are determined to reach the top, being stuck at work all day has taught you to appreciate nature. You love nothing more than being outside no matter the weather – be it sunbathing, hiking in Granite Falls or indulging in your passion for photography. You love to spend a few nights camping among the stars. Traits: Ambitious, Loves the Outdoors and one of your choice. Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast Career: Complete one of the active careers from Get to Work. Tasks: 1. Start off in either Willow Creek or Oasis Springs 2. Complete your career and aspiration. 3. Marry a sim also doing an active career from Get to Work. 4. Reach level 5 of photography skill. 5. Take a vacation of at least 2 nights in Granite Falls, find the hidden cave and befriend the hermit to get the fungal infusion fertilizer remedy. 6. Complete the insect collection. 7. Woohoo in a tent. 8. Have a Gold level Weenie Roast 9. Visit Sylvan Glade 10. Move to Windenburg when your Heir for Gen 2 ages up to a Teen. Notes: *You don’t have to play the spouses career if you don’t wish to. If you can’t find a spouse you can download from the gallery or make your own sim as long as you give them an active career. *If you have trouble finding all the insects I found this guide helpful: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/collections/insects.php *The Fungal Infusion Fertilizer Remedy is obtained from the hermit once you’re good friends and is an unlocked interaction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 2 – Spa Day and Get Together Moving to Windenburg as a teen gave you a fresh start and whilst your parents were always focused on their careers you were more interested in the arts and making friends. You are not as ambitious as your parents, and as long as you can make a little money from your hobbies and passions to get by you’re more than happy. Traits: Choose 3 from: Insider, Creative, Dance Machine and High Maintenance. Aspiration: Choose either Musical Genius, Best Selling Author or Painter Extraordinaire Career: Register as self-employed (painter/author or musician). This can be related to the skills you will develop with your chosen aspiration or separate if you want more of a challenge. You can also do the freelancer career in painting or writing if you wish but this is not required. Tasks: 1. Complete your aspiration. 2. Create a club or take-over leadership of an existing club. Have 8 club members. 3. Befriend all your club members and marry one of them. 4. Have a weekly club gathering. 5. Complete the wellness skill and participate in a yoga class once a week until you reach level 10 of wellness (you can stop then if you want to). 6. Woohoo in the sauna, the woohoo bush and the closet. 7. Attend each of the themed bar nights at least once: Happy Hour, Bear’s night, Alien night, Ghost Nights, Knight Knight, Single’s night and Ladies/Guy’s night depending on your heir’s gender. 8. Max the dance skill and DJ skill and host a dance party at the Bluffs to show off your new talents. 9. Treat your club to a spa day - get 2 massages, a mani/pedi, relax in the sauna, enjoy a face mask and soak in a mud bath. 10. Earn £3000 from being a yoga instructor. Notes: *I recommend using the calendar that came with seasons to remind you about having the weekly club gathering and yoga session. *I was going to make spot the loch ness sea monster (nessy) a task but that’s going to be hard so give your self a pat on the back if you see her! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 3 – Dine Out Although creative in the kitchen your parents were not very skilled. Sick of putting up with bad quality and often burnt food you took over cooking for your family at a young age and have found passion in the culinary arts. However, you become invested in your business and don’t realise your home life is falling apart until it’s too late. You end up getting divorced. Traits: Foodie, Snob, Perfectionist Aspiration: Master Chef Career: Culinary (Chef) until Level 8 then quit and open your own restaurant. Tasks: 1. Get married whilst working as a Chef. You can have children during this time if you wish (these will not be able to be the heir). 2. Once you reach level 8 of the culinary career (chef branch) and complete your aspiration, quit your job, move your family to San Myshuno and open a restaurant in the City. 3. Complete the cooking skill and gourmet cooking skills. 4. Host a Gold level dinner party. 5. Get your restaurant to 5 stars. 6. Get divorced whilst running your restaurant. Move out your spouse and any existing children. 7. Get romantically involved with a staff member and have child by them. The child must born whilst living in San Myshuno, stay with you and will be the heir to Generation 4. 8. Collect the 20 experimental food photos (see collections). Notes: *You can demolish any lot in San Myshuno to make room for your restaurant. *For task 6, make sure you move out the ex-spouse and kids and not your sim otherwise your restaurant will stay with them. You can then move again within the city if you want to get a smaller place. You can always put them back after. *After playing this generation myself I realised the aspiration is fulfilled when you reach level 8 of the career, so I adjusted 2 to fit this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 4 – City Living You’re the odd one out of the family and raised by your mother alone in the big city. As a chef and foodie your mother disapproves of your vegetarian lifestyle. You love it in San Myshuno though, especially since you befriended the guys who hang around outside your apartment and play basketball. They’re a bad influence on you though and you find yourself skipping school and getting into trouble a lot. Perhaps its just your way of getting attention from your mother who is busy running her restaurant? You eventually grow up and straighten out your ways and decide to pursue a career in politics enabling you to help kids growing up in the city. Traits: Vegetarian, Kleptomaniac, Hot-Headed Aspiration: City Native Career: Politics – Charity Branch Tasks: 1. Remain in San Myshuno your whole life and complete your City Native aspiration and attend all the festivals at least once and grab some swag to prove it. 3. Do not allow your school grade to go above a C, skip school whenever you feel like it and have two character values in the red by the time you age up to a young adult. 4. Steal items that add up to the value of £10,000, graffiti at least one pavement and wall in San Myshuno, join any protests you see happening and start some of your own. 5. Move out to your own apartment as soon as you become a young adult and have at least one child before you are half-way through your young-adult life stage. 6. Have at least 2 enemies before you age up into an adult (full adult not a young adult). 7. Do not have a job until you reach adulthood (full adult not young adult) so make money any way you can including stealing (see task 4). 8. When you reach full adulthood join the politics career. You do not have to complete your career but must reach at least Level 5 and chose the charity branch. 9. Complete the snow globe and city poster collections. Notes: *You can buy any swag you like at each festival. *Getting your mischief skill up will help you steal more expensive items. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 5 – Parenthood You want to be the best parent you can because for most of your childhood your parents were absent. You strive to help your children in anyway you can and want them to live happy and fulfilling lives. You devote yourself to your children and have little time for your own career or hobbies. You spoil your children rotten. Traits: Family Orientated, Neat and Childish Aspiration: Super Parent Career: None (stay at home parent). Tasks: 1. Move out of San Myshuno to either Willow Creek or Oasis Springs (pick the one you did not choose for Generation 1). 2. Complete your aspiration. 3. Volunteer with your family 3 times and do 3 different activities. 4. Reach level 10 of parenting skill. 5. Get married and have 4 children – give each child a different base game aspiration (not the Growing Together ones). 6. Toddlers must get level 3 in all skills before aging up. 7. All children must complete their aspirations, maximise at least one character values and reach an A in both grade school and high school. 8. Sunday is family day – take your kids somewhere nice and spoil them rotten. 9. Visit Forgotten Hollow. 10. Collect all the void critter cards (requires Kids Room Stuff*). 11. Host a Gold level Toddler Playdate (requires Toddler Stuff*). Notes: *I recommend you don’t play active High School as we have a generation dedicated to that later. *Hint - Task 9 requires level 10 handiness skill *You can remove task 10 and 11 requirements if you don't have these stuff packs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 6 – Cats & Dogs Surrounded by a big noisy family as you grew up, you found yourself preferring the quiet company of animals. You were spoiled as a child, and this continues as you grow up with your parents loaning you the money to buy your own clinic after you leave veterinary school. Soon you realise what hard work really is and you kind of enjoy it. You are determined to pay your parents back. Traits: Cat Lover, Dog Lover and one of your choice. Aspiration: Friend of the Animals Career: Run a Vet Clinic Tasks: 1. Move to Brindleton Bay and open up a vet clinic using £15,000 loaned to you by your parents. 2. Complete your aspiration. 3. Have at least 3 pets at all times* and one should be an adopted stray. 4. Reach Level 10 of veterinary skill and Level 5 of the pet training skill. 5. Get your vet clinic to 5 stars 6. Woohoo at the lighthouse 7. Remove £15,000 from your households funds to “pay back” your parents when you can. 8. Have a dog which has learnt all of the tricks and get a gold medal on the obstacle course. 9. Cook all the pet recipes at least once. 10. Collect all the feathers and assemble them into the bird sculpture. Notes: *Once of your three pets for task 3 can be a rodent if you have the my first pet stuff stuff pack, but only one counts. *Cow/llama/fox/rabbits from the Cottage Living pack do not count. *You can use the money cheat for task 7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 7 – Jungle Adventure and Seasons You are a generally happy and content person and love spending time in your garden and feeling the suns rays on your back. Not much gets you down. You love to travel and collect seeds to grow more exotic fruits and vegetables in your garden. Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Cheerful and one of your choice Aspiration: Freelance Botanist Career: Gardening – either branch Tasks: 1. Complete your career and aspiration 2. Complete the flower arranging and the gardening skill 3. Grow a money tree and a cow plant 4. Take a vacation to Selvadorada, learn the rumbasim dance and complete a temple and complete either the omiscan artefact or treasure collection. 5. Collect an avocado and black bean from Selvadorada and grow at home. 6. Collect a coconut, cava, taro and pineapple plant from Sulani and grow at home. 7. Collect a mandrake and valerian root from Glimmerbook/Magic Realm and grow at home. 8. Collect a blueberry, raspberry, chocoberry and the charming, lovely, mysterious, nightly, spicy, verdant and wild mushroom from Henford-on-Bagley and grow at home. 9. Woohoo in a leaf pile. 10. Have a beehive and bake the honey cake using your own honey 11. Befriend patchy the scarecrow and bring him to life! 12. Have at least two children, have your heir for Generation 8 join the after school drama club and have a different child join the scouts and earn the scouting aptitude trophy. Notes: *You can live in any world you want *You should grow as many different types of fruits, veg and flowers in your garden as you can including those for task 5 and 6. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 8 – Get Famous You loved after school drama club and the attention being the lead in all the school plays got you. You dream of being a famous celebrity. You’ve been so focused on your dream you haven’t really paid much attention in school – just getting by as best you can. Despite your parent’s advice to buckle down and concentrate on your school work so you can go to college you decide to relocate to Del Sol Valley and attempt to climb the fame ladder. You hope one day you can prove your parents wrong and make them proud. Traits: Self-Absorbed, Non-Committal and Outgoing Aspiration: Master Actor/Actress or World Famous Celebrity Career: Film Tasks: 1. Move to Del Sol Valley 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Have a social media account with over 1 million followers 4. Complete the media production skill 5. Have at least three failed relationships with other celebrities (3 star or above). 6. Marry a 5 star celebrity 7. Woohoo in the sleeping pod and the money vault 8. Have only one child ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can choose one of two options for generation 9 (Strangerville or Realm of Magic). OPTION 1 - Generation 9 – Strangerville You’ve never really understood your parents desire to be in the spotlight, you’d prefer to hide away and be left with your games console and your books as well as all the computers and gadgets you like to tinker with. Somehow you think you’ve disappointed them by being their only child and not being interested in fame or fortune. You decide to get out of Del Sol Valley and relocate to Strangerville to focus on writing your first novel. This town is perfect as no one knows you or who your famous parents are. Traits: Geek, Paranoid, Bookworm Aspiration: Strangerville Mystery Career: Tech Guru Tasks: 1. Move to Strangerville 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Reach level 10 of the video gaming, programming and writing skill 4. Complete the postcard collection. 5. Write 5 best-selling books. 6. Have no romantic relationships until adulthood. 7. Marry someone in the Military career. 8. Get married in Sulani on vacation. 9. Get pregnant in Sulani (this doesn’t have to be at the same time as task 8 if you don’t want it to). OPTION 2 - Generation 9 - Realm of Magic You’ve never really understood your parents desire to be in the spotlight, you’d prefer to spend your time at the library reading books. You've always felt like the odd one out in Del Sol Valley with the alternative way you dress and your brightly coloured hair and little interest fame. One day you find an old book describing a place called the Magic Realm which has some connection to a world called Glimmerbrook. You tell your parents and they just laugh at you, telling you it's little more than a fairy-tale. However, deep down you know it's real and you feel a strange sense of calling so you immediately pack your bags and head off, determined to find the Magic Realm. Traits: Loner, bookworm and one of your choice Aspiration: Spellcraft and Sorcery or Purveyor of Potions Career: Your choice! Tasks: 1. Move to Glimmerbrook 2. Complete your aspiration 3. Complete the spell book and be-friend all of the sages 4.Find all of the familiars and bind them to you 5. Complete the magical artifacts collection 6. Have a cat or dog familiar 7. Date a different occult sim (vampire/alien/mermaid*). You don't have to marry them. 8. Reach level 10 of the writing skill 9. Get married in on vacation in Sulani 10. Get pregnant in Sulani (this doesn’t have to be at the same time as task 8 if you don’t want it to). Notes: *For task 5 you can date a mermaid if you wish but bear in mind you’ll marry one for Island Living generation 10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 10 – Island Living You were conceived in Sulani, and were a surprise to both your parents. Perhaps this surprise pregnancy has something to do with the island spirits? It wouldn’t be the first time your parents were involved in some strange going on’s after all. Despite being born in Sulani, you grew up away from the islands with a love of music. But soon you felt drawn back to the islands and when you arrive you realise it’s your destiny help them to heal. Traits: Child of the Ocean, Child of the Island and one of your choice Aspiration: Beach Life Career: Conservation - either branch Tasks: 1. Move to Sulani and start off by living off the grid (you can change this when you want to if it hinders you too much, but do at least 7 sim days). 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Reach Level 10 of the singing skill and one instrument of your choice. 4. Host a Gold level kava party 5. Marry a mermaid/merman 6. Befriend all the coloured dolphins 7. Woohoo in the Waterfall 8. Restore Mua Pel’am’s environment to the highest level and enact 2 global policies 9. Attend all of the Sulani festivals at least once 10. Complete 5 odd jobs 11. Complete 2 of the following collections: seashells, buried treasure or underwater photos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 11 – Discover University You love your parents very much, but you are sick of the beach life and want to do your own thing. So as soon as you can you head off to college to start afresh. You're not even sure what you want to study, you just can't wait to get to college and start your new life. Your parents are supportive and even offer to pay for your studies, but you want to do this on your own so you apply for scholarships, take out a loan and get a part time job. Traits: Ambitious, lazy and one of your choice. Aspiration: Academic Career: Choose a degree programme at either University and then one of the three new careers that came with Discover University. Tasks: 1. Complete your aspiration 2. Get a piercing, tattoo and change your hair colour when you arrive at University 3. Have a part time job whilst at University 4. Live in a dorm 5. Join an organisation and get to Level 3 6. Woohoo in the shower and with a servo you made yourself 7. Host a gold level keg party 8. Date at least two different roommate 9. Complete the robotics skill 10. Finish with an A grade 11. Marry someone from the opposite University and both you and your spouse must choose one of the new careers that came with Discover University. 12. One of your children (the heir for Gen 12) runs away as a teen to Evergreen harbour. Notes: *Tasks 6 can be done after you finish Uni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 12 – Eco Lifestyle Your parents led a successful life and got their dream job through hard work and lots of studying.... you however don't care for that sort of thing, you'd rather be using your hands to make a living and take inspiration from your grandparents when it comes to caring about the community and to living a green, environmentally friendly life. Running away from home as a teen you wind up penniless and living out of dumpsters in Evergreen harbour. Eventually your parents find you and beg to take you home but you're determined to show them you will be just as successful as them ... but doing it in your own way. Traits: Pick three from: Maker, Green Friend, Freegan, Recycle Disciple, Loves the outdoors, vegetarian Aspiration: Master Maker Career: Freelance: Simply Crafted Tasks: 1. Set your funds to zero when you run away from home as a teen 2. Live out of dumpsters until you can afford a tiny container home in Port Promise 3. Complete your aspiration 4. Live off the grid, generating your own power, your entire life 5. Turn Port Promise's eco footprint from industrial to green 6. Marry a civic planner or civic engineer and give them the eco innovator aspiration 7. Never have a traditional job, make money from being a freelance maker and through other environmentally friendly means 8. Reach level 10 of fabrication and juice fizzing 9. Donate 500 to charity every Friday 10. Covert all lots in Evergreen Harbour to Eco Homes 11. Always live in a tiny, micro or small home 12. Max the friendship bar with 6 of your neighbours ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 13 – Snowy Escape You work a boring office job but live for the extreme, always going for things even if you don't have the necessary skills. You dream of the slopes all day everyday. You are competitive and like to live on the dangerous side. You are like this with your relationships too, always juggling multiple romances. You're not well liked, people think you are a show-off and no friendships or relationships really last. You only have one true friend who's always stuck by your side despite all your mistakes. It isn't until later in life you realise that they are the one for you and finally decide to settle down. Traits: Confident, Adventurous, Noncommittal Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast Career: Salary Person 1. Move to Mt Komorebi 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Quit your job the moment you reach level 10 4. Attend all the festivals at least one and grab some swag to prove it 5. Complete the snowboarding, skiing and rock-climbing skills 6. Woohoo in the mountain cave and bath house 7. Always have at least 3 romances on the go until you reach adulthood. 8. Every time you make a friend or get into a relationship you ruin it somehow and they end up disliking you 9. Complete the simmi capsule and spirit doll collection 10. Get married at the top of Mount Komorebi to your life long best friend who must have the proper trait. You can change the non-committal trait to someone of your choice once your sim gets into a relationship with this person. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 14 – Cottage Living and My Wedding Stories You hate the cold and have no interest in extreme sports so you move away from Mt Komorebi to the green hills of Henford on Bagley. You absolutely love this small community and are keen to make a good impression with everyone. Unlike your parent you want to have lots of friends around you and are looking to find someone for serious relationship. You’re not one for a traditional job so you aim to make a living from your hobbies of gardening and cooking. Every now and then you escape to your favourite destination in the word for some much needed sun and sand – Tartosa. It’s your dream to have an amazing wedding ceremony there some day. Traits: Animal Enthusiast, Loves the Outdoors, Outgoing Aspiration: Country Caretaker Career: Business Owner 1. Move to Henford on Bagley and have the simple living and wild foxes lot challenges on. 2. Complete your aspiration. 3. Open a business selling either canned ingredients or baked goods including wedding cakes (or both!) 4. Make all of the canned recipes using ingredients gown on your own lot (except those than can’t be grown): apple jam, meat substitute, mushroom conserve, tomato sauce, blackberry jam, blueberry jam, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, chocolate syrup, custard, mayonnaise, aubergine conserve, lettuce conserve, pumpkin conserve, watermelon conserve, oversized mushroom conserve and cowberry jam. 5. Become good friends with all of the key Henford residents: Grocery Shopkeeper, Garden shopkeeper, Creature Keeper, Mayor and Grocer Deliverer and complete at least 3 favours from each of them. 6. Come first place in all of the fairs. 7. Complete the cross stitching skill. 8. Woohoo in the animal shed. 9. Hatch an obsidian egg. 10. Collect all of the messages in the bottles from Tartosa. 11. Before getting married host at least two of the following events: Engagement Dinner, Bach party, rehearsal dinner or family gathering. 12. Get married in Tartosa to someone with the lactose intolerant trait and plan a full wedding with a flower pal, ring bearer and sim of honour. 13. Throw the wedding bouquet to one of your Henford on Bagley friends. 14. Get divorced when the heir for Gen 15 is a teen and move to Copperdale. Notes: *Task 5 - recipes can be found in this guide https://www.thegamer.com/the-sims-4-cottage-living-guide-canning/ *Make sure you check the next generations rules as you’ll have to move when your heir ages up to a teen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 15 – High School Stories and Werewolves Despite their dream wedding and promises of spending their lives together, your parents separate and you move to Copperdale with one of them just as you are about to start High School. Away from the slow pace of the countryside you dive into parties, socialising and exploring. You want nothing more to be the most popular teen at Copperdale High. After sneaking out of your bedroom window one night to party with your friends you end up with a nasty injury, thinking nothing of it you continue to enjoy your party lifestyle, soon however you transform into a werewolf – how will you survive high school as a teen wolf??!! Traits: Party Animal, and others of your choice. Aspiration: Admired Icon (Teen) and Werewolf Initiate after you have aged up. Career: As a teen earn money via Trendi or via one of the part time careers that came with HSY (simfluencer or video game streamer). You can pursue any career/money making activity you want as a YA/Adult. Teen Years: 1. Move to Copperdale as with one of your parents as you age up to a teen. 2. Become a werewolf. 3. Complete your Teen aspiration. 4. Join the simfluencer or video game streamer (or make money regularly through Trendi). 5. Join one of the following afterschool clubs: cheer team, chess team, computer team, football team. 6. Have at least 3 good friends and pursue 2 romantic relationships whilst in High School. Have a high school enemy! 7. Achieve gold at Prom. 8. Mess around on the Ferris Wheel and photobooth. 9. Complete the entrepreneur skill. Adulthood: 10. Complete the werewolf initiate aspiration and then one of the four spin-off aspirations that come after this. 11. Become an Apex werewolf. 12. Join a werewolf pack and become the Alpha. 13. Become enemies with another occult sim. 14. Complete the Moonwood relic collection. 15. Fully explore all of the tunnels to unlock the ability to travel between them. 16. Research and discover the werewolf cure, cure yourself, your party and any werewolf children. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 16 – Growing Together and Home Chef Hustle After your parents finds the cure for their lycanthropy, the whole family decide a fresh start is needed and you move from Moonwood Mill to San Sequoia. Growing up in Moonwood Mill with werewolves for parents you have developed a close bond with your family and have a desire for the whole family to live together under one roof, always. Your parents put so much effort into loving and raising you, you want to do the same for yours and make them proud grand-parents. Whilst raising your family, you don’t want to work a typical job and instead pursue your passion for cooking by selling food to the locals. Traits: Family orientated, loyal, and one of your choice. Aspiration: Appliance Whiz or Market Magnate Career: None - earn money by selling food. 1. Move to San Sequoia and live in a multi-generation home your entire life with your parents, your partner, and your children (except the heir for Gen 17 who will eventually move out). 2. Complete your aspiration. Never get a traditional job and make money from cooking and selling food (via the food sales table that came with Home Chef Hustle). 3. Marry someone you have amazing compatibility with. 4. Have a minimum of four children and at least 1 must be a science baby. Each child should have one of the childhood aspirations that came with Growing Together: Playtime Captain, Creative Genius, Slumber Party Animal, Mind and Body and you need to complete it. 5. Each child must have at least 3 milestones from each category (Fine Motor, Firsts, Gross Motor and Social) before end of infant life stage. 6. All toddlers must have at least level 3 in all skills before the end of the toddler life stage. 7. Get Gold for all new events: Baby Shower, Slumber Party and Family Reunion. 8. Sunday is family fun day, each Sunday do family activities: e.g. build a a treehouse (and fully upgrade it), teach your children to ride bikes, have sleepovers, go on group walks, visit the splash park, movie & popcorn, and play games (including puzzles). 9. Have a family keepsake box and fill it with at least 10 unique items which are connected to your family in some way e.g. photos, trophies, birth and marriage certificate, baby prints, school drawings and tooth fairy certificates. 10. Fill your home with family photos - at least 30 photos must adorn the walls by the end of your generation. 11. Each child must have 1 BFF and have traded friendship bracelets with them. 12. Accept at least 2 family dynamic pop-ups during this generation. 13. Each child should have high confidence by the time they age to a teen. 14. Woohoo in a treehouse Notes: *If you don’t have Home Chef Hustle you can ignore the associate rules and pick any aspiration/career you like. *I recommend spacing out having your kids so that you can focus on each life stage and complete the goals for each child. Good luck if you have twins or triplets this will be difficult! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 17 - Horse Ranch You grew up in a multi-generational home always surrounded by people and noise, sometimes you just like to be on your own. You decide to move to Chestnut Ridge – to the open plains and quiet lifestyle. You purchase a huge lot that is all yours to fulfil your dream of owning a ranch and raising horses. You love nothing more than getting up early and taking a ride alone with nothing but your horse for company and the wind in your hair. Your parents find your decision difficult at first, but they support you and offer your financial aid to start your ranch but you refuse it and decide to rely on yourself and your savings to get you started. You are quite determined that you never want to get married or have children of your own, but meet someone special along the way that changes this. Traits: Horse Love, Rancher and Loner. Aspiration: Championship Rider or Expert Nectar Maker Career: None - earn money from your ranch, horse breeding, horse competitions, shearing and milking mini-animals and doing jobs through the community board. 1. Move to Chestnut Ridge and live on the largest lot (64x64) which must be empty when your start (bulldoze the lot). Set your funds to £5000 to build your starting ranch. 2. Have the prairie grass lot trait on (you can also pick simple living/off the grid/great soil if you wish). 3. Complete at least 10 jobs from the Chestnut Ridge Community Board. 4. Own at least 1 mini-goat, 1 mini-sheep and at least 10 harvestable plants at all times (if you choose to you can also own chickens, llamas, dogs, cats and cows at any time you wish). 5. Have at least 3 horses at all times (can include foals). 6. Hire a ranch hand. 7. Get Gold on a Ranch Gathering and Ranch Animal Day. 8. Ranch life can be lonely, go to the bar every Saturday night, enjoy a glass of nectar or two and indulge in some line dancing to ensure you have some sort of social life. 9. Marry your ranch hand and have at least 1 child. 10. Breed at least 3 foals, and unlock the 4 hidden traits that can only be obtained through breeding: Champion Genes, Curious, Hardy and Playful. 11. Complete the nectar making skill and horse riding skill. 12. Have 1 horse that has maxed all horse skills: temperament, agility, jumping and endurance. 13. Have a nectar cellar and age your nectar there in nectar racks. Make at least 1 bottle the different versions of nectar: apple, grape, strawberry, potato, prairie grass, trash, energy, moon petal, plasma, valerian, fruit, berry and vitality. 14. Get gold at the master level of each competition and proudly display these at the entrance to your ranch. 15. Visit the secret cave of Dreadhorse Caverns in Chestnut Ridge and get the buff which you’re your sim “braved the Dreadhorse Caverns and lived to tell the tale!” 16. Have a ranch worth at least £50,000 by the end of the generation. Notes: *Here is a guide for nectar making and how to make all the different kinds: https://simscommunity.info/2023/08/04/the-sims-4-horse-ranch-nectar-guide/#nectar-making-skill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 18 - For Rent & Crystal Creations Growing up on a ranch with nothing but fields around you and horses for company you miss being around people. Craving that community feeling and a new place to explore you skip college and instead backpack your way around South East Asia. Eventually you settle in Tomarang. Luckily, your parents ranch has done financially well and your parents can afford to help you get your first apartment. Living as a tenant in your very first apartment you take up work as a handy person. You love pretty things and soon learn how to make your own jewellry which you sell to make extra money. It's clear to you that property ownership is big business, and dream of one day owning and renting out your own properties and making your own fortune just like your parents did with their ranch. Traits: Choose 2 from the new traits that came with For Rent (Nosy, Cringe, Generous, Child of the Village) and then choose any other trait you like. Aspiration: Five star property owner Career: Handy person (until completed), you can also make money your rental income and from selling crystals on the sales tables that came with the crystals creations pack. Tasks: Move to Tomarang and live in an apartment as a tenant. Complete the handy person part time career. Complete your aspiration. Own three different types of rentals: a duplex, a multi-story apartments and your own home with a rentable basement, loft or annex. Get all three rentals to a 5 star rating. Marry one of your tenants and have at least 1 child with them. Find a secret from each of your tenants. Complete the tassles and marbles collections. Host a gold level pot luck and pool party with your tenants. Grow a crystal tree and display at least 1 of every type of crystal in your home including the two that come from the planet Sixam. Complete the gemology skill. Craft all of the jewellery items, craft an engagement ring for the heir to Gen 19. Your heir to Gen 19 needs to date three different Sims during their teen years. Notes: *Find out about all the jewellery you can craft here: https://simscommunity.info/2024/03/14/crystal-creations-all-jewellery/ *Find out more about the crystal collection here: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Crystal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 19 - Lovestruck Born in Tomarang you love the hustle and bustle of a city and being around people all day - particularly when it comes to dating them! As a teen you dated all the way through High School, and are ready for fresh adventure and fresh dating market in a new city (Ciudad Enamorada). You’re a hopeless romantic but can’t seem to find the perfect Sim to settle down and give your parents specially crafted ring to - perhaps one day you will find them and find true love, but in the meantime you’re determined to help others. Traits: Lovebug, romantic and then chose one of your own. Aspiration: Romantic Explorer Career: Romance Consultant Tasks: Move to Ciudad Enamorada. Complete Romance Consultant Career. Complete your aspiration. Find 10 different Sims on Cupid’s Corner, arrange a date with randomised goals and have a gold level date with each. Have four relationships or at least 3 days each, each with a different relationship dynamic wholesome, steamy, strained and unpredictable. After task 4 marry a Sim you have amazing compatability and propose with the engagement ring given to you by your parents (see Gen 18). Maintain max romance satisfaction with your spouse throughout your entire marriage. Woohoo in the blaket, at the motel and in the vibrating bed. Complete the axolotl collection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 20 - Life and Death Your parents had a disgustingly cute and happy marriage, completely loved up together for their entire marriage with far too too much PDA for your liking. You are not interested in romance, you prefer the macabre and are fascinated by death. You love watching scary movies and reading horror novels, with the aim to publish your own some day. You escape Ciudad Enamorada and head to Ravenwood as soon as you are able. You focus on a different type of “happily ever after” by completing your ultimate bucket list and soul’s journey. Accidents keep tending to just happen around you and are worried Grim might be waiting for you sooner than you are ready for, so you decide you need to make the most of life now. Traits: Macabre, Chased by Death and Romantically Reserved. Aspiration: Ghost Historian Career: Reaper. Tasks: Move to Ravenwood. Complete the Reaper career. Complete your aspiration. Complete the thanatology skill. Write 5 best-selling horror novels. Have a baby with the Grim Reaper - this will be your only child. Never get married or have a relationship with anyone other than Grim. Hold a gold level funeral event for your Gen 19 heir when they die. Attend all the Ravenwood Festivals: Ravenwood Family Day, Crows Crossing Celebration of Live, Moon Revelry, Thinned Festiveil, and Afterlife Anyonymous. Complete your bucket list and soul’s journey. Die in your adult life stage, become a ghost and complete your unfinished business, unlock the burning soul trait and be re-born. Woohoo in a crypt and have a transcendant woohoo Complete the tarot card collection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 21 - Businesses and Hobbies Coming Soon! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 22 - Enchanted by Nature Coming Soon! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE SIREN’s CURSE (challenge)
🧜♀️ The Siren’s Curse Challenge – A Sims 4 Legacy of Death and Water Created by: @simzfreakz Genre: Story-driven supernatural challenge Style: Generational-lite, fantasy drama Playable In: Base game + Island Living recommended (for mermaids) Inspired by: Gothic myths, tragic mermaid folklore, and simmering generational trauma 💀 THE LEGEND “A mermaid’s love comes with a price. If she brings life into the world, then when that life grows… hers must end.” Centuries ago, a mermaid made a deal with the ocean to protect her child. In exchange, the sea demanded the bloodline. Now, every mermaid born into this cursed legacy must die when their child becomes a teenager. But only if they’re a mermaid. Some children are spared. Some are born human and escape the sea’s grip. But when a mermaid is born again in the bloodline… the curse returns. 🧜♀️ THE RULES This is not a traditional generational challenge. Think of it more like Rags to Riches or the Not So Berry Challenge — a set of gameplay rules to guide your storytelling. 🌊 SETUP Create your founder: A young adult human Sim named whatever you want. Move them into Sulani (or a beach lot of your choosing). Within 7 in-game days, they must become a mermaid using Mermadic Kelp. They must have at least one biological child after becoming a mermaid. Build a beach mansion before their death — it will become the family home. 🔱 THE CURSE When a mermaid gives birth, she will die the moment her child becomes a teenager. The curse only activates if the parent is a mermaid (born or turned by kelp). The death must be natural or planned (drowning, old age, emotional death, etc.). No cheating death — no Ambrosia, no Dedeathify, no resurrection. If the parent is not a mermaid, nothing happens. They live. If no mermaids are born, the curse remains dormant until one is. BLOODLINE RULES 🩸 Sim Type Mermaid? Has Kids? Kid Becomes Teen? Result Turned Mermaid (Kelp) Yes Yes Yes Dies Human Sim No Yes Yes Lives Born Mermaid Yes Yes Yes Dies Born Mermaid Yes No No Lives Adopted Child No No Yes Lives The curse follows the bloodline, not the household. 🧬 CURSE CHAIN If your founder dies because of the curse, but their child is not a mermaid → the curse ends. If a mermaid is born again later (ex: a grandchild), the curse reactivates. Only one mermaid per generation is allowed — either naturally born or by kelp. No more. You may choose which child is cursed by giving them mer
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SPOOKY SIMMERS SEASON: Just a cute discussion for all the spooky simmers who cannot wait til the leaves are orange, decorations are out and the spooky season has begun!!! 👻 I built this cute cottage on the gallery for your creations!! It is under #shandylou97 or on my account but please feel free to share your spooky sims,builds and stories below because if you can't tell I LOVE ANYTHING Spooky, Halloween, Autumnal or seasonal!!! 🍂 #spookyseason #spooky #seasonal #autumnm shandy_lou97
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