Limited pack save: best packs for Enchanted By Nature

Yeah sorry, even I still look up pack acronyms. They are Cool Kitchen, Romantic Garden and Vintage Glamour.

Ellupelluellu​ that kind of legacy sounds interesting. Are you going to add the packs chronologically or just go with what seems most essential.

MVWdeZT​ sorry to hear you had to reinstall the game again. At least you saw it as a chance to change up the game and pick the DLC you need most

amapola76​ you have a point with gardening being overpowered. I haven't touched gnomes yet and only enchanted one plant. What bothers me most with seasons is the plants to collect in the world being out of season. A roof can help a lot in the garden.

HollownessDevour​ your post is almost a code to decipher. I am lost with  CK, RG, VG.  You have good points with spellcasters combined with natural living or apothecary skill. They go well together. 

I don't have all packs but your set up is really close to my game set up maybe mine is slightly inflated. I do still play with Season but am a bit annoyed without of season crops when off the home lot trying to get new specimens (but technically it is suppose to contribute to the challenge). But basically my set up is EbN, L&D, RoM, V, W, P, CC for fantasy, CoL, S, SE, GtW, GT, LS, IL, HR, JA, OR, DO, HCH, CK, RG, VG for extra gameplay and substance. What I could cut, basically I did just buy a bunch of packs during the summer sale are IL, DO, CK, RG, VG. If I was asked to curb further with bare minimum packs, I'd choose to keep these packs EbN, L&D, RoM, CC, CoL, HR.

• EbN Natural Living Skill, Apothecary Skill and Naturopath Career.
• L&D (wishing they fix/allow Macabre/Mystical to be compatible I'd be in heaven) but basically I love my Mystical Sim doing tarot and a bunch of the CAS.
• RoM Practical Magic Spellcaster (even if it is just 1 Sim with it) I love exploring collecting and not being a slave to needs. That and CAS/Build/Buy.
• CC I love this with my Spellcaster/Collector she wears Moonstone (spellcaster support), Jade (chance of crystals to drop randomly), Hematite (pretend they are immortal) and Fire Opal (for my Jealous Romantic, keeping him Flirty helps keep the peace and romantic satisfaction up if/when I am using LS). I also love the Crystal Tree, and how the Jewelry looks!
• CoL I like the challenge of Simple Living (I usually love pairing this with Home Chef Hustle adding a prepping step, but I do have a no spoiling mod too).
• HR for the farmhand and coloured Mini Sheep just love these pets and they are low maintenance with a farmhand.

I'd have to disagree about spellcaster with EbN, they are (I guess) an alternate fairy choice.

• Spellcasters that specialize in Practical Magic + Natural Living Skill = Synergy. Scruberoo and Repairo are huge saves for EbN. While leveling the Natural Living Skill, Sims can instant get fully clean anywhere. And if bad luck or Burning Passion cause fires/burnt objects Repairo fixes instantly (on and off the home lot). Even while you are waiting for a higher Natural Living Skill Delicioso can help with eating instantly too without tummy issues. What Spellcasters lacked in self sustainability they get with Natural Living Skill is a means to sleep, bladder, fun and socialize anywhere (unless you basically cheat with a Plentiful Needs potion). 
• Practical Magic Spellcasters + Apothecary Skill (despite new apothecary ingredients cannot be copypasto'ed (hope they fix/change this), the rest can be). Herbio, Floralorial and Transportalate helps a gardening and collector Sim breeze with multitasking while in the Naturopath career and leveling Apothecary Skill. I never enjoyed the game more since the EbN/RoM combo.
• Also the Realm of Magic is unaffected by Seasons weather wise, so helpful place to level Natural Living Skill.
• Fairy Dust can be Copypasto'ed, super helpful!

Beyond that I am planning on getting H&B, I want to sell my potions/cures/elixirs on my home lot paired with the Naturopath career eventually.

I don't think I could ever play without all of the packs turned on, but I can see the appeal of focusing on certain features. I'm very glad you mentioned Get Together, because surprisingly I  hadn't thought about using the club feature with my fairies yet, and that will definitely be essential.

I guess if I were limiting packs, the ones I chose here would depend on which features of EBN interested me most: fairies, natural living, or both. If natural living, Eco Living would also be essential. I've been playing a lot this past week with a household I created when Growing Together was released: a freegan with an infant. This pack is made for her! But if you were mostly focused on fairies, I probably wouldn't bother with Eco Living. 

Personally, I would definitely keep Seasons, because I like having a few challenges with gardening, as it's too overpowered otherwise, especially now with fairy dust and gnomes. Also, I am an avid gardener in real life, and it wouldn't seem realistic to me without lots of frustrations! 😂

I usually play with everything, but when I added EbN, I got two Innisgreen worlds on the World screen. Repairing my game didn't work, nor did uninstalling EbN and reinstalling it. I had to uninstall everything. So I decided not to reinstall a few packs. The ones I did keep included: the occult packs, Cottage Living, Get Together, Seasons, and Life and Death, as being the most compatible with EbN. I also kept Get to Work, Growing Together, Snowy Escape, Businesses and Hobbies, High School Years, and Discover University because I get a lot of use out of those packs. 

I did have to disable Sims 4 For Rent and Sims 4 Business & Hobbies Packs because they are broken.          That being said, what goes perfectly with Enchanted By Nature is:                                                                                    Cottage Living, Seasons, Realm of Magic, Werewolves & Island Living.

atreya33 wrote:

Do you sometimes turn off certain packs to explore new content?

I haven't yet, but I have planned at some day play a legacy, where I ad 1 to 3 packs per generation. It would be perfect way to deep dive to certain pack only. 

Maybe some day 🙂

atreya33​

https://www.patreon.com/posts/103267242?collection=294913

simgirl1010​ I have seen both videos. I am a big fan of cross pack compatibility. That's when the game can reach more potential. I like that we can make plant pots with pottery and the luck potion from realm of magic helps with the luck system. The only cross pack I don't like is the forced prejudice of fairies towards other occults.

Would you be willing to give me a link to that gardening mod. It sounds useful.  

I usually play with all packs but for ssome reason I had a feeling of overload with all the new systems in this pack. So I  disabled the restrest temporarily to focus on balance, luck and ailments on top of the career and the fairies. 

I don't disable any packs as I only play one save.  I also have Luth's mod for gardening in all seasons so no worry about out of season harvestables.

These videos  on cross pack compatibility might offer some suggestions.

EnglishSimmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPlsueR3_6E

Cinderellimouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgi14xMvQg&t=1s