Handmade Challenge - make things home
Handmade Challenge - make things at home
Hi all. This challenge makes it possible for you to focus on all the beautiful and fun crafts skills the game has to offer. Your sim will live a self made life and decorate their home with makings of their own hands. Your goal is to max 5 skills and build a awesome creative crafting space. Note that this challenge is DLC heavy, but i will include base game version and its totally doable with only base game. You will max 5 skills, 4 crafting and making skills and 1 joker skill that can be related to crafting such as gardening etc.
The beginning
Start with one young adult sim. Your sim can be occult. Set the lifespan to long. You are free to choose your sims style, but to make it fun you can also go with a theme. After you have designed clothes for your sim add one clothes preset to day clothing (the 1st section) and design a crafting work outfit for your sim. Your sim will dress in their crafting/maker outfit when they do their crafts to make it more professional. You can decide your starter sims personality traits and aspirations. Also remember to choose few likes and dislikes, including favorite colors for your sims.
Home lot
Your home lot should have enough room for your crafting space, so i recommend starting with minimum of 30x20 lot. 40x30 and above would be ideal because you will do 5 crafting skills in this challenge and you need space to make your crafting workshop. Any world will do, its up to you do decide. Set the home lot trait to simple living on and other lot traits if you want. After you have purchased a home lot buy these things:
One skills station/object of your choosing (For example candle making station, woodworking bench, flower arranger etc).
Tent or a sleeping bag
one of these (not all) : Coffee machine, smoothie maker or Tea set and counter to place them on.
Garbage bin
Next open the cheat code panel. Type the "testingcheats true" cheat and then "money 1000". Your starting funds are 1000 simeleons. Now build around your skill station to make it look pro. You can use half walls, columns, fencing,roofs etc to have nice space. Place flooring or terrain patterns under the crafting space to make it stand out.
The Challenge rules:
Start by dressing your sim into their work/crafting outfit when they work. Work on weekdays from monday to friday from 9 am to max 7 pm. Remember your sim has needs, so take proper care of their needs. In the morning eat proper breakfast, have cup of coffee or tea or have a glass of smoothie and every night before bed take rest of the evening off for your needs. Have weekends off from crafting. If your sims has garden, however you are allowed to take care of gardens, farm animals and pets in the night and weekends if necessary. If your sim is on bad mood they are not able to do crafts so pay attention to their mood and surroundings . Treat your sim and their well being on the weekends. They are allowed to visit their friends, go to spa, bowling, eating out at restaurants etc how ever you want to treat your sim on the well earned weekends.
Craft and sell your items from home to make simeleons. You can do that by selling them directly from inventory or buy a market table to set yard sales or open home business. Work on your first crafting skill until your reach level 5 (5 if the skill has 10 levels or 3 if the skills has only 5 levels). Then you are allowed to unlock a new skill and buy new skill working object. Every time your sim reaches level 5 (or level 3 with skills that has level 5 as max) of skill it unlocks the next crafting skill. Choose 4 crafting related skills and 1 joker skill to max. Joker skill is a skill not directly crafting skill but can be helpful such as gardening, but it does not have to be it can also be hobby like riding horses or something else.
After your sim has maxed 3 skills they are allowed to take a vacation and you can take them to somewhere, have relaxing camp or just stay few days in mt komerebi etc. something relaxing like that. Then continue the challenge.
Challenge ending:
Build a creative crafting space and a home/house. You can use clutter/decor items to make it fun but mostly use your self made items for decorating. Your home house must have kitchen, pantry, living area, bathroom and 1-3 bedrooms. Your final home has to have some of these minimum of 20 self crafted furniture, things, functional objects (candles for example) and decor items. The challenge ends when you have build the crafting space/shop and your sim has maxed 5 skills. Note that you can do more with the house, these are just minimum requirements.
If you play nature living style (nomad style) instead of furniture and traditional house you can have other crafted items such as collection of your sims crafted things but your sim must have crafting/living space. You can get creative here.
Other rules:
You are allowed to have clubs and open home business (business and hobbies) and have employees and help. You are also allowed to hire staff like butler, maid etc.
You are allowed to play on tiny home benefits/build tiny home.
You are allowed to buy and sell things from Plopsy and gift shop.
Your sim can get married, have roommate and have or adopt children. Your sim can have animals and pets. Your spouse becomes your biggest supporter and also starts crafting or has their own career but you still must reach the 5 skills max only with your starter sim. If your sims spouse is not supportive and is just making things harder, you can kick them out. Your sim can also have other skills, but they are not required to be maxed.
List of all the making related skills so far in the game eligible for this challenge: Handiness/Woodworking, Gardening, Cooking, Baking, Gourmet Cooking, Photography, Painting, Rocket Science, Robotics, Writing, Herbalism, Flower Arranging, Pottery, Candy Making, Potion Making, Apothecary, Fabrication, Candle Making, Juize Fizzing, Nectar Making, Knitting, Cross Stich, Gemology, Archaelogy, Pottery, Papercraft, , Repairing broken things, Mixology, Canning, Ice-Cream making, Pizza making, Waffle Making, Pumpking Carvin
Optional relaxed easy mode: Play with Tiny home tier 3 or 2 will have skill doubling benefits. Use youth potions and other point potions like instant fun, sleep replacements, instant hygiene etc to make your sims life easier. Accept game inheritances. Use the shopping bag to get food easily with all modern benefits such as electricity and turning off simple living. Instead choose 3 beneficial lot traits.
Optional hard mode: Turn on simple living and off the grind, set the money to zero at the beginning. Dont take any game offered inheritances or pop up notification money opportunities. Use beneficial reward points only if your sim is close to die for emerengy such as sleep replacements etc.
Base game: you can use these base game skills to do this challenge: Handiness/Woodworking, Gardening, cooking, photography, painting, Rocket Science, Writing, Mixology, programming (create apps)Yes you can do this challenge with only basegame or few EP:s.
Note that you are not allowed to buy everything, your sim has to make most of the things for their home by themselves. As you proceed and get wins and gain more money you are allowed to buy things but only these things in this list: stove, kitchen counters, sink, fridge, tv, computer, radio, musical instruments, pet stuff, kid/infant/toddler stuff, animal shelters, skill/crafting/hobby objects and other build/buy items that cant be crafted such as fences, walls, windows etc. You are allowed to buy small things like clutter items to decorate and beautify your home.
You are not allowed to buy these: furniture like tables, beds for adults and teens and chairs (can be crafted with woodworking table and fabricating skills ), garden pots (can be made with woodworking table and pottery skill), flowers (can be self grown and made into arrangements with flower arranging table and also placed in pottery vases), lights (candle making and fabrication), foods or drinks (you can make all these yourself by gardening, having farm animals, doing nectary, fizzing, canning etc). You also cant buy bath or toilet because they can be made with woodworking table. If you dont want to do woodworking skill then you can have natural living from adventure awaits and live in the nature/cabin/tent type of set up. Otherwise decorating a house woodworking or fabrication skills is a must. You are not allowed to buy paintings because you can photograph, paint, cross stich etc your own decor.
Few ideas to help, there are many more (optional):
Woodworking/Fabrication/repairs shop/making furniture (skills needed woodworking/handiness, fabrication, candle making, rocket science, robotics ).
Flowers, gardening and pottery making (gardening, pottery, flower arranging).
Paper crafts, Plant press and Arts Studio (paper crafts, plant press, painting, drawing, photography)
Fairy/Witch core academy (potion making, apotechary, herbalism, gardening, canning)
When you are deciding which skills to build and what to make of your crafting studio/shop/space don´t forget kits and game packs, all DLC is allowed, for example gemology is great for this challenge. If you like mods, you can use them too but they wont be listed here.
Have fun, at the end of this challenge you will have beneficial sim for you to do crafting skills so save that sim for the future, tip: you can place a skilled sim in your household and then move them out from town edit. For example painter/photographer etc can take nice photos of your sims and then you can move them in and out. Or you can continue the challenge to the next generation and play legacy style by choosing inheritable crafting skill or trait to pass on and mentor.
If you do this challenge please tag #handmadechallenge
optional: You can use this skill random wheel while choosing the crafting skills, but this doesn´t include related skills such as gardening, making pizzas, writing, tending farm animals etc. If you get cooking for example you can also choose making pizzas or waffles etc or if you get gourmet cooking you can make wedding cakes if you want so under a main skill, you can make and craft things not in this random wheel:
https://spinthewheel.app/9P0ZZarx2d
