How's the Cottage Living so far?

I work nights but had last night off, lucky me! I have been playing since midnight and I love this pack so much! No bugs so far just fun and animal cuteness overload! I've been playing with cheats so I could experience a little of everything but I will now start a new save without them to test how challenging it all is. Either way I don't foresee being bored with this pack anytime soon!

I only had a few hours to play last night, I enjoyed it so much. I love the simple living challenge and I didn't think I would. I started a brand new save file, moved my sims to HOB and bought an empty lot. I built them a small one bedroom home and got some of the new garden plots and a chicken coup and an animal shed. I have watched some game changers that loaded their chicken coop with the max amount of chickens they could and it seemed like a lot of work, so I only got 2 hens and a rooster. I am so glad I did that, It is a lot of work just keeping them and my cow happy. I also planted all of the giant crops and several other plants, I befriended two bunnies who now help me with my garden, I love seeing them spring up out of their rabbit holes and start eating the weeds. I haven't explored the world to much yet, I did get to do a few of the tasks for residents around town, and I ordered groceries, which worked well without the mod, so I guess if you have the pack that particular bug might now affect you, I don't know about actual food delivery, as I haven't tried it yet, maybe tonight. All in all, I am having so much fun with this pack, I didn't want to stop playing last night, but I have work this morning so had to force myself. I think it is well worth the price.
As for bugs, I haven't noticed anything new yet.

I have been enjoying it so far. I made my Sim dropped her in a pre-made house to experience and get the feel of the pack. I am challenging myself to use the simple living and only sell things that can be sold at the shop stalls. Same with buying things as well. I plan on also using a yard sale table at the weekly fairs to earn money and sell other things like collectibles she has found. So far my big achievement playing this way with outbusing any grindy or cheaty methods to earn money is challenging but rewarding with only 400 dollars to her name and my biggest accomplishment so far was affording a vacuum cleaner and hens for my coop. It is nice not to make money so fast or easily for once. I plan on working on getting the wash tub and clothes line next. In my game its Sunday so it will be her chance to get out of the village and go to the nearest town I think.

I would say my only gripe is that I wish they had a way to sort grocery items by recipes you know. I would be nice to know at the store what you needed if you wanted to make whatever meal. I have to go to the fridge and write down my ingredients list or hope I can just guess what I might need once there. Though it does add a new challenge with being able to afford groceries to eat.

I'm so jealous of everyone playing the new EP, it's still not available for bundling so I got to be a little extra patient I guess. I'm going to put so many sectional sofas in my haunted cottages!

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 ?!

So far I haven't lost a chicken to a wild fox ?

Just noticed that the wild foxes are in Household Management! That means they can be merged with the active household. Will that stop them from attacking chickens? Let's see ?

I like what I've experienced. My Sims seem to wash their hands a LOT but I'm not sure if that's a bug. The cow interactions are super cute. The BB, CAS, and premade lots are lovely. I'm going back in now to play more. I haven't done much so far but play with the cow, put dragonflies on my pond, cook some of the local food. I did see a fox running across the land but nothing happened with that. I don't have any chickens or rabbits yet. I'm playing Spring and it's been rainy, cloudy, and thunderstormy.

"joRN1414;c-17940037" wrote:
I like what I've experienced. My Sims seem to wash their hands a LOT but I'm not sure if that's a bug. The cow interactions are super cute. The BB, CAS, and premade lots are lovely. I'm going back in now to play more. I haven't done much so far but play with the cow, put dragonflies on my pond, cook some of the local food. I did see a fox running across the land but nothing happened with that. I don't have any chickens or rabbits yet. I'm playing Spring and it's been rainy, cloudy, and thunderstormy.

They won’t come onto your actual lot unless you have the Wild Foxes lot challenge turned on.

The pack is great. I finally got in yesterday, its very different from previous packs. The Sim I chose to move had alot of money, skills, aspirations so it made things easier. Running a farm is ALOT of work, feeding chickens, cows, cleaning up and I love it. One thing I have done in the past is make a greenhouse so I have all fruits and veggies available year round. I finally caved and made one in Cottage because my lot challenge requires I have all ingrediants. Otherwise, its all super fun. My next sim will be broke or with the initial $20k. I wonder how they will do ??