Is it a good idea to buy Cottage Living now?

Cottage Living is actually one of the least broken expansion packs released in recent years, honestly. I've personally never experienced any major issues. It's also a great expansion pack altogether! Not my #1, but definitely #3 (after Seasons and Get Together).

i bought cottage living at a discount and it was 100% worth it. one of the best expansions imo.

Having seen and used your excellent builds, I recently added your Port Promise Marketplace to my game, I highly recommend Cottage Living. There are a lot of items that lend themselves to fantasy/fairytale builds and maybe even a few you could use for Steampunk. Gameplay wise, the world is a great addition as it is very different from previous ones. Your Sims can live self-sufficiently on a farm, build a witchy cottage in the woods, use it as a weekend escape to the country or start a generation spanning feud with the Crumplebottoms if the above sounds too peaceful ;)

I have cottage living and haven't found any severe bugs in the pack. I think the cottage build items are very useful for spellcaster homes. The rural world is also excellent for witches, werewolves or fairies (if we ever get them) and mermaids can even swim in the local river. It is fun to use the lot challenge to be self sufficient and produce your own food. I think it is one of the better packs, definitely a must have if you enjoy gardening or taking care of animals.

I never saw any bugs other Cottahe Living so if that's what's holding you back, go for it. If, on the other hand, you aren't interested in cottagecore apparel and music, the strange mix of Beatrix Potter-esque fantasy of woodland creatures running around in sweaters, with a halcyon depiction of bucolic English village life..then give it a pass.

I bought it on sale just because, and have it a whirl, thought it was meh, especially compared to the Country Living pack in Sims3, and now just ignore the announcements of country fairs. It did add some fun options for building, like thatched roofs.

I haven’t seen any major bugs. I bought it mostly for the world, bb/CAS, and the premade characters. But, if you like garden and farm gameplay it’s a good pack.

I had great fun with the pack around release and it comes with lots of great b/b and cas

+ agnes crumplebottom alone is worth the money to me tbh

as for gameplay its cool although I don't often do whole farming sim thing at once

the items are useful in other context too/ with other packs and worlds like maybe you just want foxes in mt komorebi or chickens in sulani or cow herding aliens or vampire picnic or maybe your sim does cross stitching or something

heck maybe you just want that planting ground without box that alone i have used about thousand times by now

it also goes great with other similar worlds like say britechester or brindleton bay

as for bugs and glitches it has few but I haven't noticed anything particularily game breaking my worst annoyance is just not being able to set villagers in their roles if they are mistakenly replaced by game and maybe like the multiple agnes and agathas are tad frustrating if i play with them

i did also meet some routing glitch but nothing i could not solve (yet)

if you read my Henford Gossip story before that pretty much explains my experience of the pack :lol:

only reason i don't use henford often in full is probably that i just tend to watch lots of english village kinda shows and it feels tad overkill to also play in such world simultaneously :lol: i feel like i must ration myself a little on this theme in particular

I would personally recommend Cottage Living myself. I think the pack adds a lot of very well rounded content; the new world has a lot to offer with all the NPC's, town errands and events, all the different animals offer a ton of gameplay, I'm a big fan of the Simple Living Lot Challenge, and the CAS and BB is very nice as well. I try to incorporate this pack wherever I can find an excuse to use its content, just because of how much I enjoy it. There's nothing quite like Cottage Living and the content it offers. I also haven't encountered many if any bugs while playing around with this pack, so I'd say it's worth it on sale.

Moving animals between sheds and inventory can be fiddly at times (I had a llama copy itself once) and the white and green pumpkins don't work for canning or quests, only orange ones. Other than that I cannot think of any bugs on top of my head.

As for gameplay, the Simple Living lot trait alone is a real gamechanger. I thought I didn't need it, because my sims don't have free will, so I can manually restrict them from cooking something they do not have ingredients for. But after I activated the lot trait once, I noticed that it actually changes the ingredient requirements for all recipes, making them harder to cook. I now use that lot trait often.

I think it’s definitely worth the discounted price. I use the fashion more than I thought I would. Since gardening is buggy I use crops a lot. Most of my household’s have the simple living lot trait.

The world is very beautiful. I really enjoyed the town errands. Also having the towns people have jobs in the community, felt immersive.

Most annoying bug that I have encountered sometimes is having in my household panel be filled with fox households