One Month One World One Year Challenge 2026

Hello and welcome. :)

This challenge was started by Karababy52 (see more here) and I would like to continue it on for another year if I can. Hopefully more people can join in. The more the merrier!

The premise of this challenge is pretty simple. The goal is to post one in-game screenshot once a day during the 2026 year. So, kind of like a 365 project for your sims. 

You will start out with a teen sim and pick your starting world. I'll share a list of suggestions, but really you can pick whatever you want. Your sim will be a teen for 3 real world months, then age-up to Young Adult in April. They will spend 4 months as a Young Adult, then age-up to Adult in July. They will spend 4 more months as an Adult, then age-up to Elder in December. Each month your sim will move to a new world to explore. 

I've taken all the rules and guidelines here and copied them over from Karaybaby52's 2023 post and edited them slightly.

Rules/Guidelines:

• One screenshot post per real life day in this thread with a short text summary.
• One world per real life month - See monthly schedule of worlds in spoiler below. Optional: May change schedule of worlds to reflect your preferences.
• Your challenge Sim MUST be a teen to officially begin this challenge and post in the thread.
• After three real life months have passed, your Sim will age up to young adult for four months, adult for four months and finally, age up to an elder for December. Timeline posted in spoiler below. Optional: How long your Sim stays in each life stage, teen-elder, is at your own discretion. However, they are required to be at minimum a young adult to attend Uni in Britechester. *Note: If you own the High School Years EP, your Sims may be offered early graduation. If they take the offer, your teen is allowed to apply, enroll, and attend university or join full-time adult careers.
• Begin Rags to Riches style on an empty lot with 0 simoleons. Optional: Use the 20,000 starting simoleons to buy a starter home and furnish it how you want.
• Aging off Optional: May use long lifespan.
• All unplayed residential worlds are off limits for any kind of travel. Exception: Newcrest may be designated a 'neutral' world to place venues for your Sim to use regardless of their current world residence. Optional: Newcrest may be used to replace a pack you don't own instead.
• Sims may take a vacation to any of the designated vacations worlds. Rental lots in unplayed residential worlds are off limits.
• Aspirations released with a world must be fulfilled first. May choose a base game or other pack aspiration not in the challenge to complete afterward.
• Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade may be used in substitution for worlds listed in the challenge for packs you may not own. In that event, choose one or two base game or other packs aspirations not in the challenge to complete per world.
• Your Sim may marry and/or have children. Aging up children is at your own discretion.
• High School attendance is not required. May use cheats to fulfill daily/promotional task requirements. *Exception: Applicable only if you do not own the High School Years EP or if you do own it, but have elected not to have your Sim live in Copperdale and do the aspirations associated with the EP in your challenge.
• The beginning of each new month/world must start Rags to Riches style. Optional: Your Sim may keep personal possessions, sell the rest and bulldoze the house. They may use simoleons from this sale and accumulated household funds to build or download a house from the Gallery.
• If your challenge Sim dies, it's game over. Optional: You may bring them back to life and continue or use another existing Sim in the household to complete the challenge.
• Occult states and Celebrity statuses must be removed when progressing to the next month/world. Optional: May keep acquired lifestates/statuses. *Note: Vampires can't get a suntan, which is a Beach Life aspiration task.
• If a new world is released with a new pack at any time during 2026, you have the option to swap the new world with another prior released world.
• Give yourself a break and don't stress over days missed due to internet outages, vacations/holidays, real life work/responsibilities or sickness.
• Extra story screenshots may be posted in the thread under a spoiler in addition to your daily post pic and short text summary. Strongly suggest a maximum of 20-25 screenshots per post.
• May use satisfaction points to buy rewards. Exception: Money tree seeds are disallowed.
• Lottery tickets are disallowed for purchase.
• Beginning season, length of days and moon phases are your choice.
• May turn off or cheat away/change all Eco Lifestyle features applied to worlds. Exception: Must be turned on while living in Evergreen Harbor.
• May participate in all default Holidays, modify, delete and/or add your own.
• May include a link to your preferred Blog site with additional story text/screenshots, in addition to your Daily Post Pic/Text Summary.
• Mod friendly challenge! However, please use discretion when using them. Using a mod to fulfill an aspiration is disallowed. Exception: May be used to correct bugs and/or glitches.

Worlds/Packs and Age-Up Timeline:

*Note: Feel free to replace any pack you don't own with one of your choosing!

Beginning Age: Teen

January - Copperdale (Highschool Years) OR you can choose to do it third (I just feel like starting with it).
February - Gibbi Point (Adventure Awaits)
March - Innisgreen (Enchanted by Nature) OR Copperdale (Highschool Years) 

April 1st: Age up to Young Adult

April - Britechester (Discover University)
May - Nordhaven (Businesses and Hobbies)
June - Ciudad Enamorada (Lovestruck)
July - Tomarang (For Rent)

August 1st: Age up to Adult

August - Moonwood Mill (Werewolves)
September - Tartosa (My Wedding Stories)
October - Live in Newcrest, but vacation in Batuu (Star Wars) 
November - Evergreen Harbor (Eco Lifestyle)

December 1st: Age up to Elder

December - Ravenwood (Life and Death)

Challenge End Date: December 31, 2023

Challenge Pack Aspirations (Pick one, or play them all):

January - Live Fast, Admired Icon, Goal Oriented, Drama Llama *Note - Challengers who own HSY not living in Copperdale this month may complete the Live Fast and Drama Llama aspirations at any time as a teen. Joining teens at high school is not required to fulfill them.
February - Critter Hunter
March - Fairy Stories, Elixir Enthusiast
April - Academic
May - Esteemed Entrepreneur, Master Mentor
June - Romantic Explorer, Paragon Partner
July - Seeker of Secrets, Five-star Property Owner, Fount of Tomarani Knowledge, Discerning Dweller
August - Complete Werewolf Initiate and pick 2 of the following; Emissary for the Collective, Wildfang Renegade, Lone Wolf, Cure Seeker Optional: Complete all aspirations
September - Soulmate (I know, it's Basegame, but My Wedding Stories doesn't come with an aspiration...) Optional: Choose any aspiration if you don't want to do Soulmate
October - Hope Vs. Order, Galactic Privateer
November - Master Maker, Eco Innovator
December - Ghost Historian

I chose the list of worlds based on my personal preferences and packs I haven't fully explored yet, so feel free to change it however you like. The main goal of the challenge is just to pick a new world each month and post one screenshot per real life day.

Links to Challengers Day 1 Post and/or Blogs:

1. Honey Tomlin - Belalucina

Gallery & Other Links to Current Challenge Sims:

1. 

To join, post a photo of your sim with their name, starting world, traits, aspiration, and any backstory you'd like to provide here. 

Can't wait to play with you :)