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Simalleyaile
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8 years ago

Request: Lavender And Honey Stuff Pack: New Skill!

Bees and Lavender scatter all around our worlds in sims 4, and made me think of an idea to put honey, lavender, soap, candles, perfumes and body care products in one skill, for our sims to have fun making, using and selling items in their Body Care Shop, or just as a crafting hobby.

https://i.imgur.com/hKK2w2s.jpg


Theme: The Lavender Farm
Build Buy Style: French Country
CAS Style: Light and Breezy with Lilacs and Lace
Gameplay Objects: 1. A Distillery, and 2. a Bee Box, and 3. Harvestable Lavender
Gameplay Features: 5 Level Crafting Skill, using harvestables. Products made by using the distillery and a new option added to existing stoves. https://i.imgur.com/gKDzxC4.jpg

Lavender and Honey Recipes added to Gourmet Cooking!
https://i.imgur.com/MC2ieKt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HPtAdFI.jpg
The Bee Box has 3 interactions and gives two harvestables: honey and wax.
The Check bees interaction is to see how the bees are going. Sometimes, they leave bee boxes to find somewhere better, and sometimes, the bees die. Both should give a SAD buff to the sim. Also, if the bees have left, a notification should come up to Grow Some Lavender, cause you know what a bees favourite colour is? Blues and purples - they're naturally attracted to these coloured flowers and will even travel longer distances to gather the nectar from blue and purple flowers.
All three interactions should come with a chance of Bee Sting! - uncomfortable buff, and an even smaller chance of Allergic Reaction, in which case, the sim will bloat up to their largest capacity. If they don't use the Bee Sting Remedy, they could die!!

The Distillery
Farmer's Version for commercial use 2 wide x 1 deep, and countertop version for hobbyists.
https://i.imgur.com/UQS8eGF.jpg

The Perfumery Skill

https://i.imgur.com/3SlWElk.jpg
Level 1: Unlocks the Base Ingredients for body care products:
At the Distillery:
Carrier Oil - Grapes - makes Grapeseed Oil
Alcohol Base - Potatoes -makes Vodka!
Essential Oils - 1. Lemon, and 2. Lavender
Fragrant Distilled Water - By Product of making all of the above.

https://i.imgur.com/7HnlyBe.jpg

Level 2:
1. Linen Spray - Distilled Water + Lavender Essential Oil - Spray onto beds to give a Restful Night's Sleep Buff that lasts for 8 hours. Useful for spraying onto Cheap beds to replace 'uncomfortable' buff.
2. DIY Playdough - Beeswax + Lavender Essential Oil - 'mimic' of mouldable clay. Kids - Elder can be creative with it. Gets a Happy "smells good" buff.
3. Bath Bomb - Grapeseed Oil + Lavender Essential Oil + Lemon Essential Oil + Distilled Water - Drag to bath to give an Inspired Buff.
4. Natural Candles - Beeswax - Made on the Stove. Works as regular in game candles.
https://i.imgur.com/G6cBTMM.jpg
Level 3:
1. Lip Balm - Beeswax + Honey - When applied gives an instant romantic mood, adds Romantic Interaction: Give honey kisses.
2. Oil Burner - Distilled Water + Lemon Essential Oil or Lavender Oil - instead of changing moods, have it affect the sims needs. Lemon Stops hunger decay, Lavender stops hygiene decay. Lasts 2 hours. Effects every sim in that room.
3. Face Scrub - Distilled Water + Alcohol Base + Lavender (the plant) + Lavender Essential Oil - adds "Scrub Face" to all sinks. Increases hygiene.
4. Scented Candles - Beeswax + Lemon Essential Oil or Lavender Essential Oil - Reduces Stress (gets rid of tense buffs).
https://i.imgur.com/7HnlyBe.jpg
Level 4:
1. Honey Shampoo - Alcohol Base + Grapeseed Oil + Honey - Gives confident buff.
2. Homemade Soaps - Alcohol Base + Grapeseed Oil+ Distilled Water + Essential Oils+Lavender (the plant) + Honey - Can be used in showers, baths and at the sink - Gives a Focused Buff, Increases hygiene twice as fast. (made on the stove)
https://i.imgur.com/x84ajkH.jpg
Level 5:
1. Honey Body Butter - Grapeseed Oil + Honey + Distilled Water - Replaces any uncomfortable buff with a Comforting one.
2. Deodorant - Alcohol Base + Distilled Water + Essential Oil - Stops Hygiene decay for 8 hours.
3. Perfume! - Alcohol Base + Distilled Water + Essential Oils + Grapeseed Oil - when applied, Gives the Alluring Buff and Romantic Interaction: Smell Perfume, which will give a maxed romance bar.

Build Buy:

https://i.imgur.com/DLXtRWe.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/2U9DfgA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/EMKV7Es.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LmBOIx5.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/30X7IkZ.jpg

CAS:

https://i.imgur.com/MoJcNUV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/BZOb7zB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/oQbUJKN.jpg

I hope one day to get a Farming Expansion Pack, so if this is still too much for its own Stuff pack, perhaps it could be included in that, or included in a Hobbies Game Pack. Either way, I'd love to eventually play a sim who lives on a Lavender Farm, and Owns their own Body Care Shop for other sims to visit.
  • Simalleyaile's avatar
    Simalleyaile
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    <3
    "Idontrcall;c-16064235" wrote:
    All of this I love! It looks beautiful & it looks like fun to me.

    Great idea, thank you :)


    Thank you @Idontrcall - (I don't think I've been thanked for suggesting an idea before. :)
  • Simalleyaile's avatar
    Simalleyaile
    Seasoned Newcomer
    Thanks @verlainem - I've asked for jam making and other spreads like lemon butter and chocolate spread in my Chocolate Thread if you're interested: Gameplay Ideas for Chocolate. It's all about sugar and one of my favourite things in life: chocolate!
  • Wow! Beautiful work! Would love to see this idea in the future. It looks very cute and cozy as well as being quite practical <3
  • I can see this working as a stuff that that will go well with Vintage Glamour and Seasons. The bee box and the gardening career is coming with Seasons, so I can see like maybe a pack that allows sims to create their own perfumes to use and perfumes can have either positive or negative effects. Kind of like that one store pack from Sims 3. I think it is called Prism Art Studio. We can have something like that.
  • I love the idea and your presentation of clothing and hats; just <3 . Maybe EAxis will give "DLC for DLC" another try. As I'd be willing to buy this one for sure. However, I still have my hopes up for a farming EP.
  • Simalleyaile's avatar
    Simalleyaile
    Seasoned Newcomer
    Yes, I think these ideas are too big for a Stuff Pack, plus, maybe stuff packs are a thing of the past now?

    I made another thread: Perfumery Skill. I'm happy to have a perfumery skill included in ANY pack, expansion or game. Farming pack might be good, as well as a Mediterranean Destination pack, or a Hobbies pack. :)
  • "Simalleyaile;c-16056979" wrote:
    "marcel21;c-16055732" wrote:
    Interesting idea.

    Will it be fun tho?


    Depends on your idea of fun! ;) Only you can decide if you want a sim to work on another crafting skill, have a honey box in their backyard and lavender that attracts bees, eat honey, cook with lavender and honey, use harvestables we already have like grapes, potatoes and lemons in body care products you can then use on your sim to change their hygiene and moods and give various buffs, make candles for around the home, have a linen spray that will get rid of the uncomfortable buff that comes with cheap beds, build and decorate a Body Care Shop and sell the things your sim has crafted, or download a shop with all the body care products, candles and new foods set for sale already for your sims to go shopping for, or have a sim buy the Come and Get it Table to sell their perfumes and scented candles out in the public spaces, or go down to the Flea Market and earn some simoleans using their tables, *takes a breath*, give your sim a way to get inspired in the bath (only the shower does this now, and Spa Day didn't add anything for inspired), build a French Country inspired home for your sims and decorate it with furniture that has soft muted tones, dress your sim in natural fibres with a new hat or two, put them in a dress in whites, creams, lilacs, soft greys, lace ... They're pretty specific ideas that will appeal to some, and not to others. Why stuff packs aren't a bad idea, I think. Gives a bit of content for those who'll think it will be fun, while easily avoidable to those who don't think it will be fun. It'll be fun for me! :) B)



    Yes all that would be fun B)