How's the Cottage Living so far?

I've just built a cottage in the empty lot for my single Sim, Rusty Styles. He started off with a tent and the basics of a grill and bathroom though. He's already made friends with a rabbit and a white fox, met the park keeper and found the chocoberry plant just over the bridges. The areas they can walk in are much wider than previous packs so far I've found.

The save started in Autumn but now is the first day of winter and I'm looking forward to what happens next. Father Winter is part of his Cosplay club!

Plopsy is very useful for getting pet outfits for the animals too.

I'm loving it so far. Any bugs I'm having I'm attributing to the mods I'm using. Only ones that were deemed 'compatible', but still. One strange thing just occurred. My Hawkins family has two chickens, a Hen and a Rooster; one cow; and one Llama. The eldest Teen, a female, took the time initially to get to know the Llama named Nugget, and the Cow, Clara. She also made friends with the chickens, too. However, after that she's been concentrating more on the garden. Trying very hard to produce a large something or other to win, plus keep up with the rest of the crops, since that's how the family makes their money. Gramps has been helping out, but he's really old and tires so easily. Dad seems to be taking care of the Toddler and Mom, who knows what's she doing? I don't. LOL This isnot a new Sim, she's always been this way. Oi!

Sarah Jane, the eldest kid, had her 'friend' over to visit and while he was there, I got a popup that Nugget is very unhappy and will be leaving. But — if the Sevier's feed him in time and make him happy, they may be able to avert his leaving. The Sevier Farmstead is just next door (in a country way). John Sevier was the guest, but I can't control him, of course. So, I send the second son, a Child Sim, (since the eldest son is busy snoozing in bed) to clean out the stall and feed Nugget. He cleans out the stall just fine, but when he took the garbage to dispose of it, he didn't come back right away to feed the Llama. This vexes me. What's he doing? To his credit, and on his own, he was emptying the trash cans around the house. Face/palm. Feeling a bit of panic, I nixed out the trash can duty hoping he'll come back and feed the poor Llama. Nugget is a very nice Llama. He hasn't spit at anyone. At least not yet. We'll see if he spits, now. LOL

It is a lot to juggle, but I'm very happy. It reminds me of Sims2, in that manner. You have to stay on your toes to keep up.

ETA: Mystery solved! Sarah ends up marrying John Sevier, and for some reason, I still had her married name attached when I created her family anew from her in CAS. Whoopsie!

"MaggieMarley;c-17940090" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17939949" wrote:
I played for 13 + hours (10:30 a.m. PDT until midnight PDT) yesterday making money looked so easy in the GC videos but I have Seasons installed and so a bunch of the errands were nearly impossible to complete because the produce needed was out of season in my game and I didn’t have the money to buy it. My sim ended up having to take a part time job as a gardener to make ends meet and shelter in the pub until we made enough for a very basic shack and coop with a handful of chickens to get our farm started. He was smelly, and hungry, miserable and dirty and I absolutely loved ? every single second of it! This pack is great ?!

I used the weather machine from Seasons to change the season from winter to spring :D

Ha ha ha! ? ? a farmer’s got to do what a farmer’s got to do!

Having fun especially with the new Simple Living lot challenge, never thought I’d be so happy for the Welcome Wagon’s fruit cake when starting out, but kinda irked that your sim has to know about fish before they can stock it if you make your own fishing hole to use.

I love it so much. My game seem to be laggy since installing it though which is a little concerning.

I play without mods/CC, and so far the game has run very smoothly for me. I've spent about 10 hours on it so far.

I haven't explored all of its features yet, but the only glitches I have encountered are:

- early on a hen got stuck outside of the coop and couldn't move anymore. It wasn't blocked by objects. As a result, it was starving because it couldn't eat either. If my Sim called it, tried to feed it, or told it to go inside the coop nothing would happen either. In the end I managed to sell it. So far it hasn't happened again.

- chickens can roam inside your home too; there is a option to lock the door for all chickens, but despite locking the door a chicken still came inside at some point (it's not big deal, though, unlike real chickens, they don't leave behind a trail of destruction and filth :D )

- sometimes two or more chickens "physically overlap" when napping or when standing still. If they are of different colours you see a weird composite chicken where one half is one colour and the other half is the other. As soon as they move, they each go back to normal. Again, no big deal really.

No problems with the llamas, market stalls, fairs, canning, cross-stitching and oversized produce so far. I haven't tested the ponds yet.

"troshalom;c-17940347" wrote:

"Evilyn_1007;c-17939630" wrote:
Only got to play for a few hours. I'm enjoying it so far. It's providing some challenge. The bugs I've encountered is the pub owner not manning the bar. She was at the pub and labeled as pub owner but their was another sim at the bar. Also I'm having the foxes show up as households. It's only happening with the foxes and not with the bunnies. Hopefully they fix that because it's very annoying.

Do you have Cats & Dogs EP @Evilyn_1007? Wondering if that pack's foxes are conflicting with CoL foxes.

"Pamtastic72;c-17939949" wrote:
I played for 13 + hours (10:30 a.m. PDT until midnight PDT) yesterday making money looked so easy in the GC videos but I have Seasons installed and so a bunch of the errands were nearly impossible to complete because the produce needed was out of season in my game and I didn’t have the money to buy it. My sim ended up having to take a part time job as a gardener to make ends meet and shelter in the pub until we made enough for a very basic shack and coop with a handful of chickens to get our farm started. He was smelly, and hungry, miserable and dirty and I absolutely loved ? every single second of it! This pack is great ?!

@Pamtastic72 do you have Outdoor Retreat? If you do consider purchasing the family a tent and portable shower until they have enough money to build a house. Then they can use the tent and shower when they travel to other spots in the world too.

Yes, I do have cats and dogs. Not sure if it’s that because I remember seeing the bug in a game changer video. I think it was James turner.

My Sims have been going to make friends in the local pub a lot.

I think the toilets there need to be put downstairs though! If it were a proper UK pub the clients would probably fall downstairs, the amount of beer and spirits they put down themselves! :) >:)

Currently, I am playing a legacy challenge and it is a struggle for me. Having the simple living lot trait makes it so hard for me at least. I have not been able to reach 1000 dollars yet lol. Having to go food shopping does me in every time and they are planning to have a big family too to help out on the farm ?. It really fun so far and I anticipate not be able to get my farm until they are close to adults! ?

I hate building. I've never had a knack for it.

But Cottage Living has opened up my creativity a bit! I am in the process of making my first smallholding. I love combining it with other packs, esp Seasons and Eco Lifestyle. They blend very well. I can't wait to share it with everyone :smiley:

The Simple Living lot challenge has added so much too. I forgot to buy groceries for my sim, so cheese and milk it is :neutral: :lol: