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karritz
3 years agoNew Spectator
I suppose I do have farms too I just don't think of it that way. My sims almost always garden and I tend to have huge basement gardens because I don't want to mess up the look of my worlds or houses I build. I prefer to use the space at ground level for other things. Or just leave it empty.
If you're interested in mods there are a few that would help. I'll get to that a little later.
The thing I do is I garden and if my sims need simoleans they use the humble harvest stands to sell their produce. But I don't put the stands on their home lot. Never thought of that. Also don't want random townies showing up as they tend to annoy me when they venture indoors or stand outside shouting through a locked door.
Since they need seeds to plant their gardens, and the best place I know of to get seeds is at the Stones Throw Greenhouse, I always add a greenhouse to my world and put 4 humble harvest stands on it. Then my sims can consign their produce and get paid. The process is like using a consignment store without a sim needed to manage the store. Sims can tend the humble harvest stands if they want to but I rarely bother with that as it just is a way of giving them some different idle actions.
https://i.postimg.cc/g0JLXNFT/Greenhouse-With-Stands.jpg
There are 4 humble harvest stands and the lemonade stand placed in front of the greenhouse. I put it on a 40x40 lot. The greenhouse comes to fit on a 40x30 lot.
The beauty of the humble harvest stands is you can put them around town on various lots. I sometimes place the Al Fresco Market as well. It has the humble harvest stand, the lemonade stand and purple eggplants and lemon trees as well as a few other items.
I almost never use a store venue as it comes from the store because they only use items that come new with the venue or are base game.
The Bohemian Garden set adds extra fruit and nuts.
The Grandpa's Grove adds orange trees.
Plus there are mods that provide new different types of produce with recipes.
If the garden gets too much for my sims to handle I hire a gardening service. This is from a mod.
https://modthesims.info/d/459967/gardener-service-v2-3-4th-may-2014.html
You need to use the landline phone to hire the gardeners. You get enough gardeners to handle the job each day. You can use the phone to sack them if you don't want them any more. They do all the weeding, watering and harvesting. They put the produce in the fridge at the end of each shift. They need access to the garden.
I've had lots of farms but only one that I called the farm. It is a large indoor garden that doesn't have a basement. It has a second level running along the back of the lot which is where the sims can live. I initially meant this lot to be on a second lot owned by the family but decided they could stay there sometimes too.
https://i.postimg.cc/Hx6k9SDL/The-Farm005.jpg
It has cows and chickens too.
https://i.postimg.cc/fLBpWWgH/The-Farm004.jpg
I have the tractor in it but don't like to use that object as the sims inventories get too full and they start deleting the tractor at the end of each run around the track. And their inventories get so full the game just about stops running.
Ages ago I built a couple of Savvy Seller shops and added humble harvest stands to the foyer. When I use these shops in a game my sims consign their produce to the 4 hh stands at the greenhouse plus the stands at the shop(s) and there are 4 or 5 stands at the Al Fresco Market.
https://i.postimg.cc/50sVQQgj/Shops-K7-GFloor-Foyer.jpg
Now there is another mod that is quite new and might interest you. It is the Sim State mod. It allows you to run a business at home. I found it works best on a residential lot. I made a YouTube video on my findings. It will give you a good overview. You will see how the sims buy from the shop and how it gets restocked and you hire staff. And I found the preserves made from Grandmas preserve station sell well.
https://youtu.be/kVYkmJWRmZA
There are some things I've said in the video that I've since learned more about and changed my mind about. But it will still give you an idea of how I got it to work. It isn't perfect but I found it fun. But not enough fun for me to want to use it all the time.
This is Alfina. She owns the shop.
https://i.postimg.cc/0jPyHd50/Alfina001.jpg
This lot was already set up with the Oven from the Bistro venue and also one from the Bakers venue. It's kitchen has Grandma's preserving thing as well. And the shop already had savvy seller shelves and mats. The mod wasn't designed to run with the mats or shelves so if you don't have them then you might get a better result than I did as I may have had conflicts.
Here is Alfina celebrating the arrival of her breakfast.
https://i.postimg.cc/JhjmVD26/AlfinaCelebratingArrivalOfFood.jpg
So the bakers oven still works as does the items that came with the bakery set with or without the savvy seller rugs.
I used the display cases that came with the bakery set and sims kept buying and my sim and her employees kept restocking.
https://i.postimg.cc/HxGwnK3W/BakeryDisplays002.jpg
I found I had to keep an eye on the restocking as after posting the video I worked out the cost of restocking does come out of the household funds and where there are employees they might sometimes line up to restock and item and will all restock the same item and you get charged for it each time so I would suggest you don't let them line up to restock. This should be easy to manage if the items for sale are not as spread out as mine were in this video.
I had a greenhouse in the back yard in which my sims grew the produce used to make preserves. There was also a barn at the side of the house where my sims had horses. The sims lived in the living quarters above the shop. I had to lock doors to the living quarters to keep customers out.
She was earning money from sims buying bakery items and they would stay and eat in the shop or take the purchases home.
There are lots of mods available on Mod the Sims and other places that you can use to change how things work.
https://i.postimg.cc/RFXb2rkC/Old-Mill-Cafe-00015.jpg
I have a scarecrow in the back garden and had to lock the gates to the horses as they got the panicked moodlet when they saw a scarecrow.
Have fun. I hope you've got some more ideas on running a farm business.
EDIT: I realised I didn't give you a link to the Sim State mod. Then thought you'd be better off with a link to the forum discussion on the mod. It is 4 pages of posts by various people and has a link to the mod in it.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/987500/sim-state-the-sims-3-open-for-business-mini-expansion-launch-trailer-available-now/p1
If you're interested in mods there are a few that would help. I'll get to that a little later.
The thing I do is I garden and if my sims need simoleans they use the humble harvest stands to sell their produce. But I don't put the stands on their home lot. Never thought of that. Also don't want random townies showing up as they tend to annoy me when they venture indoors or stand outside shouting through a locked door.
Since they need seeds to plant their gardens, and the best place I know of to get seeds is at the Stones Throw Greenhouse, I always add a greenhouse to my world and put 4 humble harvest stands on it. Then my sims can consign their produce and get paid. The process is like using a consignment store without a sim needed to manage the store. Sims can tend the humble harvest stands if they want to but I rarely bother with that as it just is a way of giving them some different idle actions.
https://i.postimg.cc/g0JLXNFT/Greenhouse-With-Stands.jpg
There are 4 humble harvest stands and the lemonade stand placed in front of the greenhouse. I put it on a 40x40 lot. The greenhouse comes to fit on a 40x30 lot.
The beauty of the humble harvest stands is you can put them around town on various lots. I sometimes place the Al Fresco Market as well. It has the humble harvest stand, the lemonade stand and purple eggplants and lemon trees as well as a few other items.
I almost never use a store venue as it comes from the store because they only use items that come new with the venue or are base game.
The Bohemian Garden set adds extra fruit and nuts.
The Grandpa's Grove adds orange trees.
Plus there are mods that provide new different types of produce with recipes.
If the garden gets too much for my sims to handle I hire a gardening service. This is from a mod.
https://modthesims.info/d/459967/gardener-service-v2-3-4th-may-2014.html
You need to use the landline phone to hire the gardeners. You get enough gardeners to handle the job each day. You can use the phone to sack them if you don't want them any more. They do all the weeding, watering and harvesting. They put the produce in the fridge at the end of each shift. They need access to the garden.
I've had lots of farms but only one that I called the farm. It is a large indoor garden that doesn't have a basement. It has a second level running along the back of the lot which is where the sims can live. I initially meant this lot to be on a second lot owned by the family but decided they could stay there sometimes too.
https://i.postimg.cc/Hx6k9SDL/The-Farm005.jpg
It has cows and chickens too.
https://i.postimg.cc/fLBpWWgH/The-Farm004.jpg
I have the tractor in it but don't like to use that object as the sims inventories get too full and they start deleting the tractor at the end of each run around the track. And their inventories get so full the game just about stops running.
Ages ago I built a couple of Savvy Seller shops and added humble harvest stands to the foyer. When I use these shops in a game my sims consign their produce to the 4 hh stands at the greenhouse plus the stands at the shop(s) and there are 4 or 5 stands at the Al Fresco Market.
https://i.postimg.cc/50sVQQgj/Shops-K7-GFloor-Foyer.jpg
Now there is another mod that is quite new and might interest you. It is the Sim State mod. It allows you to run a business at home. I found it works best on a residential lot. I made a YouTube video on my findings. It will give you a good overview. You will see how the sims buy from the shop and how it gets restocked and you hire staff. And I found the preserves made from Grandmas preserve station sell well.
https://youtu.be/kVYkmJWRmZA
There are some things I've said in the video that I've since learned more about and changed my mind about. But it will still give you an idea of how I got it to work. It isn't perfect but I found it fun. But not enough fun for me to want to use it all the time.
This is Alfina. She owns the shop.
https://i.postimg.cc/0jPyHd50/Alfina001.jpg
This lot was already set up with the Oven from the Bistro venue and also one from the Bakers venue. It's kitchen has Grandma's preserving thing as well. And the shop already had savvy seller shelves and mats. The mod wasn't designed to run with the mats or shelves so if you don't have them then you might get a better result than I did as I may have had conflicts.
Here is Alfina celebrating the arrival of her breakfast.
https://i.postimg.cc/JhjmVD26/AlfinaCelebratingArrivalOfFood.jpg
So the bakers oven still works as does the items that came with the bakery set with or without the savvy seller rugs.
I used the display cases that came with the bakery set and sims kept buying and my sim and her employees kept restocking.
https://i.postimg.cc/HxGwnK3W/BakeryDisplays002.jpg
I found I had to keep an eye on the restocking as after posting the video I worked out the cost of restocking does come out of the household funds and where there are employees they might sometimes line up to restock and item and will all restock the same item and you get charged for it each time so I would suggest you don't let them line up to restock. This should be easy to manage if the items for sale are not as spread out as mine were in this video.
I had a greenhouse in the back yard in which my sims grew the produce used to make preserves. There was also a barn at the side of the house where my sims had horses. The sims lived in the living quarters above the shop. I had to lock doors to the living quarters to keep customers out.
She was earning money from sims buying bakery items and they would stay and eat in the shop or take the purchases home.
There are lots of mods available on Mod the Sims and other places that you can use to change how things work.
https://i.postimg.cc/RFXb2rkC/Old-Mill-Cafe-00015.jpg
I have a scarecrow in the back garden and had to lock the gates to the horses as they got the panicked moodlet when they saw a scarecrow.
Have fun. I hope you've got some more ideas on running a farm business.
EDIT: I realised I didn't give you a link to the Sim State mod. Then thought you'd be better off with a link to the forum discussion on the mod. It is 4 pages of posts by various people and has a link to the mod in it.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/987500/sim-state-the-sims-3-open-for-business-mini-expansion-launch-trailer-available-now/p1
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