Is anyone playing in cottage Living

Henford is so beautiful. The chickens & bunnies are too funny & they can be useful. The cow & Llama are very handy. The CAS is beautifully historic. The gameplay is also wonderfully historic.
As well as, Cottage Living goes way perfectly with Get Together, Seasons, Eco Living &
Outdoor Retreat.??

And no, you don’t need to have a farm.

I love it.

A couple of guides.

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_4:_Cottage_Living

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/expansionpacks/cottageliving/

And the positive thoughts discussion thread.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/990700/cottage-living-positive-thoughts-thread/p1

It's a super great pack, adding s much! Seeing your avatar I'm 110% sure you will like it (but there are only cows, llamas and chicken as farm animals, plus foxes, rabbits and birds in the wild).

I play some farmers, but also a palace, a paranormal house, a simple apple tree cottage and a few small cottages more for artists than farmers. I find the farm aspects more fun if focusing on those tasks (have a milk farm OR a chicken farm), but the world is a very nice scenery for most country side households. And - having just a kitchen coop to provide your house with fresh eggs is not really hard work - you can still tend to a regular career etc. Canning is a new feature, goes perfect with retail or street sales table, but also makes for improved/increased ingredient.

One less obvious feature is the improved recipes, now allowing you to "live simple" meaning you can not cook just anything but need to have the ingredients. This is optional, you can still cook like before, but recipes are still more logical. I love the improved focus on food, and it is not restricted to the new world.

Lots of new mushrooms, fun especially if you play someone on the magic side.

I like BB/CAS, too. I'd get the pack right away, LOL :)

You can also check out the Livestream.

https://www.youtube.com/live/lGnkwx_e8eo?feature=share

"Flikka_Flikka;c-18261035" wrote:
Welp, the empty households save bloater bug is back. :(

@Flikka_Flikka is there a bug report for that?

ETA: Found a bug report that says fixed. If you're still having the problem you may want to start a new report.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Game-creating-tons-empty-households-Save-game-bloat-Insane/td-p/10543014

It's a great pack. Everything about it. Great world, build/buy, gameplay additions. CAS okay. I don't care about that stuff as much. I pick out my Sims clothes when they age up and never change them again. So I'm happy with a few good things.

I use the "simple living" lot trait on every lot my Sims live on, so they have to grocery shop (if they don't have a large garden and chickens).

The world in a cottage living is great. You can do much more than farms with it. I think the upper lots by the waterfall is the best place for a witches ( or spell casters ) house, even better than Glimmerbrook , because it’s more of a secluded area. I love the simple living lot trait, most of my households use it, now they need to add a simple clothing trait in a pack. The pub there serves different foods, than the regular bars, and I especially like the way they made the chickens. I do have one farmer, but you don’t have to be a farmer.

I often use the scarecrow and birds in other worlds. Children with high levels of mental skill can garden but cannot spray bugs.

Every pack and kit has something that I find essential to my gameplay. The packs that I was most uninterested in initially have become my favorites, often because of the extreme contrast to the gameplay offered in the packs that I was immediately drawn to.

I have always wanted farming in sims 4 as I played farmers in Sims 3. Plus it was always a dream of mine to own a small farm. I love Cottage Living with the animals, canning, and everything else that came with it! I wanted a very rural area for my sims to live and Henford fits that so well! It is also a great place for a game in the past and/or occults to live in. Farming fits well with family play as all members of a family pitch in when they live on farm. The interactions with toddlers and children with the animals are adorable! I love the knitting and now we also have counted cross stitch with this pack. I also have a small farming community in the upper lots of Brindleton Bay. You can have farms in any world. Works well with Eco Living too as I use the windmills and water collectors to save money. Like @Katofhyrule12 I also use the bunnies, birds and foxes in other worlds, mostly on my farm and park lots. I highly recommend this pack!

Well I did it. I now own Cottage Living, It is a little hard to get started, I do not know what lot to pick for my first start, any Ideas. I know there is a empty one. I don't know if it is good to kick anyone out and buy their lot.