"Stardew Valley" Inspired Harvest Moon Challenge!
Hello, Farmer! Inspired by the Harvest Moon series and Stardew Valley, I have created a challenge for you. The point of this challenge is to start off with nothing other than a little bit of dirt and a few seeds, and then build up your farm and lifestyle from the ground up along with improving your neighborhood and making connections. I thought about this challenge myself since I really like working for what I have in the game.
Rules
- You cannot use cheats unless you need to move objects, reset your sim, or take away funds.
- You cannot build a kitchen, decorate, start a business or get married until you pay back your loan of 4500, and an additional 500 for taxes for a total of 5000 in fines (which you must delete to simulate paying the fine).
- Traits don’t matter, you can randomize to make things more difficult.
- Your lifetime wish must be under the Nature or Cooking, or Pet related category.
- You can only build a garden if you have at least 10 plants on your lot.
- Each time you travel to any other lot, you must subtract five or ten simoleons. (optional)
- You CANNOT get a job. You must work all on your own.
- You are allowed to use custom content as long as there's no cheating involved.
Main Goals (Non-Optional)
- You must own at least one successful shop, vet center or restaurant. You can use items you made, found, scavenged, or grew, as long as you worked to get it.
- You must get married and have at least one child to take on the legacy before you pass.
- You must fulfill at least one-lifetime wish under the Nature category during the sims lifetime.
- Earn at least 25,000 or 50,000 on your own. Your choice.
Additional Challenges (Optional) - You must volunteer at least once every three days
- You must write at least one book
- You must befriend everyone in the neighborhood.
- Improve your entire town to make everyone happier.
- Be an amazing parent.
Mandatory Steps:
- Create a YA sim. It doesn’t matter what gender.
- Create townies and at least 3 bachelors and 3 bachelorettes. Make sure they have homes to live in.
- Move to Newcrest and pick any lot you desire. The biggest lot would be the most appropriate.
- Whatever money you have left after picking a lot, delete it and reset it so that you have 4500 simoleons. These simoleons will be used to build the shell of your home (which must be either 5x5 or 6x6) and paint along with a single bed, a bathtub/shower, and a toilet. If you have extra you can only purchase either a nightstand, bookcase or bonfire but ONLY ONE of those things.
- After that, reset funds so that you have 300 simoleons these simoleons will go towards to your starter crops. You can use this to buy seeds or planter boxes.
- In Harvest Moon games you must introduce yourself to everyone that lives there, but you don't need to be their friend if you don't want to.
Business - You cannot build a business/vet center and purchase the land until you have a kitchen on your home lot and enough money for it.
- You must only sell items you found, scavenged, or grew for retail.
- If you’re making a restaurant, you must have at least a level three in cooking skill before opening along with the things required to be considered a restaurant.
Marriage
- You need to pay back your loan and taxes before you marry someone.
- You must marry someone in Newcrest.
- The person you like must have their own starter home.
- You must have talked to them at least once a day for at least five days before asking them out. If they accept them you must be dating them for at least ten in game days before you can ask them to marry you.
- You need to have at least one double bed, a kitchen, and a starter business along with at least 2500 in extra funds.
- You must have a wedding to celebrate.
Children
- You cannot have a child until you have a nursery and space for them.
Tips
- You can remove/set funds by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C to gain access to the cheat bar, type in testingcheats on and then hit enter. Open the cheat bar again and enter money 0 or whatever you need to set the funds to and hit enter again, this will take away/set your funds.
- At the beginning when you don’t have a kitchen, you can still survive by eating your own goods, scavenging, and cooking with a bonfire if you have one.
- You can volunteer to feel more in tune with the neighborhood.
Alright, I don't know if this is fleshed out enough but that’s all I can think of right now for this challenge. I play tested it a bit so you have anymore ideas let me know. I feel like a similar idea has been done, but this is my own little twist so I hope you enjoy it.
