How's the Cottage Living so far?

I've been loving it. It goes straight to my second favorite EP right after Cats & Dogs. I've played it in two different saves. Yesterday I played with a family of parents, two children and a cat and today I played with a single woman.

I don't have any mods and I haven't had any other bugs or glitches but the weird new teleporting bug that also other players have mentioned and the old plants reverting to dirt piles bug that seems to be impossible to fix.
There hasn't been any more lag than the usual in HoB, which is great, I was afraid of it because I saw some early access videos with lag issues even though the game changers have powerful computers and they played only with Cottage Living and base game.

I'm very happy with this EP, there is so much to do and it's challenging. My Sim that I played with today didn't have money to buy ingredients for food and she was only able to get eggs from her chicken. I thought she was going to starve and I had to take her to another world to dig some collectibles to sell.

I can't find a bug thread for cottage living. With Seasons "Hunt for Egg" holiday tradition won't complete because she keeps finding various chicken eggs instead of the collectibles

I'm going to agree with the "good but challenging" opinions.

I thought I was ready to go for the new pack with a couple of families in a couple of saves that I could move in. Thing is, the empty homes in HOB are either too small or too expensive, and I didn't want to quickly slap together a crummy house that could house a family of six. So I started a fresh game and moved a single sim, Greta, into Cordelia's cottage.

Between gardening, trying to befriend the local wildlife, and running errands for townsfolk, Greta's days were pretty full. She only just got a boyfriend and got him to move in with her because during the Night On The Town holiday (which I didn't check the calendar to see coming up and delete it) she decided to go out to a restaurant instead of cooking for herself (and using her ingredients), and she got flirty with one of the waiters. I think I'm going to give him a standard job so he can bring in more income than she's making running errands and selling plants. Befriending the local songbirds is cool, but not really a viable career path, sadly.

I'm still waiting for my blueberries to come in so I can clear an errand. I had two blueberries and one errand that required one and one that requires four, so I planted one and now I wait. (I had a couple of errands that required 18 eggs between them, and rather than wait on my chickens, I solved that one with a grocery order, even though that basically ate my profits.)

I did have one weird thing happen, which I mentioned over in the thread about wildlife interacting with pets. I think it might be the result of a mod, maybe MCCC, interacting weirdly with the wildlife since they're not quite sims and not quite pets. The new boyfriend in my game? He lived in Newcrest but when he went to move in, he'd adopted one of the elderly foxes that liked to hang around my lot. I'm really not sure if that's supposed to be possible. I moved him (and the fox) in, and now I have *some* control over the fox. I can select him as the active sim and have him move around. The game wants to be able to feed him from a dog bowl, but when I have my sims go to fill the bowl and call him to dinner the command disappears from the queue before it's executed.

"Wrenry;c-17940294" wrote:
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.

Those fish discoveries from chatting to neighbours about local fishing spots actually have a function for sims that don't fish now. Everyone can add their discoveries to ponds on community lots or homes they visit, so you only need one sim in a save to find each rare fish.

"Akl500P;c-17940511" wrote:
It’s an absolute blast. Very addicting with a ton of new gameplay that meshes really well with other packs.

Only odd thing I noticed is seaweed was a required ingredient for one of the older recipes and I have no clue how to find it. Not sure if that’s meant to have that as an ingredient.

I know you can get weeds when fishing, but it doesn't go into you inventory. What about mermadic kelp?

"Amapola76;c-17940663" wrote:
First of all, there are so many lovely little details. I find the owl hooting in the background at night so soothing. And I think it's super cute that even though my sim's dog won't directly interact with the livestock, he gets incredibly jealous and needy when she pets the cow or chickens.

It is pretty glitchy at this point, though. Sometimes the errands get stuck and I can't turn them in. If I want to travel to the village to sell my goods, I have to be sure to leave by noon, because sometimes the travel screen gets stuck loading while time continues to pass on my lot. Oh, and I got that phone call from Nancy Landgraab about the power temporarily cutting out, which usually lasts for, what, 12 hours? 24 hours? Yeah, the power on my lot has been out for a week and a half, which is not great for the simple living challenge! Then, of course, there was the time that my sim rode her bicycle straight through the wall of her home. Oh, and for some reason, every time she goes jogging with her dog, she wants to change into her bathing suit halfway through.

With the errands that ask for meals try with single servings if group meals don't work.

"Kimmer;c-17940868" wrote:
I've been loving it. It goes straight to my second favorite EP right after Cats & Dogs. I've played it in two different saves. Yesterday I played with a family of parents, two children and a cat and today I played with a single woman.

I don't have any mods and I haven't had any other bugs or glitches but the weird new teleporting bug that also other players have mentioned and the old plants reverting to dirt piles bug that seems to be impossible to fix.
There hasn't been any more lag than the usual in HoB, which is great, I was afraid of it because I saw some early access videos with lag issues even though the game changers have powerful computers and they played only with Cottage Living and base game.

I'm very happy with this EP, there is so much to do and it's challenging. My Sim that I played with today didn't have money to buy ingredients for food and she was only able to get eggs from her chicken. I thought she was going to starve and I had to take her to another world to dig some collectibles to sell.

You can make mayonnaise with just eggs. Then you can eat it directly from the jar. It's disgusting.

"ksmiss_137;c-17940942" wrote:
I can't find a bug thread for cottage living. With Seasons "Hunt for Egg" holiday tradition won't complete because she keeps finding various chicken eggs instead of the collectibles

You can go egg hunting on a lot without a coop to find the decór eggs to complete the traditions. I love the easy way to get coloured eggs though.

I haven't played it too much, but from what I've played, it's really fun, smooth, and not buggy whatsoever. And the CAS items are adorable. <3

"EmmaVane;c-17941146" wrote:

"Kimmer;c-17940868" wrote:
I've been loving it. It goes straight to my second favorite EP right after Cats & Dogs. I've played it in two different saves. Yesterday I played with a family of parents, two children and a cat and today I played with a single woman.

I don't have any mods and I haven't had any other bugs or glitches but the weird new teleporting bug that also other players have mentioned and the old plants reverting to dirt piles bug that seems to be impossible to fix.
There hasn't been any more lag than the usual in HoB, which is great, I was afraid of it because I saw some early access videos with lag issues even though the game changers have powerful computers and they played only with Cottage Living and base game.

I'm very happy with this EP, there is so much to do and it's challenging. My Sim that I played with today didn't have money to buy ingredients for food and she was only able to get eggs from her chicken. I thought she was going to starve and I had to take her to another world to dig some collectibles to sell.

You can make mayonnaise with just eggs. Then you can eat it directly from the jar. It's disgusting.

I find myself tasting the mayo spoon every time I use it. I also drink pickle juice......I'll show myself out now. : )


I am loving the pack. No bugs and using cc and mods. I have already put about 15 hours in and heading in for more.