Off The Grid Living

Cooking: outside grill, salads (although I don’t know what they’re gonna do about fridges)
Lights: someone said something about candles
Entertainment: beachy things, board games, outdoor games, etc

"jazminesarah;d-960514" wrote:
How would your sim live, like what would you put in the house and help fill their needs?

Example;
Cooking
Lights
Entertainment
Etc...

I know the waterfall and swimming in the beach fills hygiene.
Plus having the wash board and clothes line for laundry.

So excited for Island living and the trait, hopefully in another pack they’ll add more to this like solar power and windmills.

Food/Drinks:

• Raw produce (Various)
  
• Pit BBQ (IL)
  
• Grills (BG)
  
• Campfire (OR)
  
• Cooler (OR/TS)
  
• Bars (BG)
  
• Portable bars (GT)
  
• Lux drinks tray (SD)
  
• Backyard drinks tray (BY)
  
• Kava bowl (IL)
  
• Punch fountain (LP)
  
• Buffet table (LP)
  
• Marketstalls (Various)
  
• Dried grilled cheese (JA)
  
• Gourmet fruitcake (cooked elsewhere, never spoils)
  
• Unspoilable food from Fresh Chef (cooked elsewhere, never spoils)
  
• Counter (you can make salads and nigiri from raw things in your inventory)
  
• Wood burning stoves (if they update to work off grid)
  
• Fireplaces (if they update to allow roasting items on them)
  

Lighting:

• Candles (Various)
  
• Torches (JA/IL)
  
• Kerosene/paraffin/oil lanterns (Various)
  
• Gas lantern (OR)
  
• LED lantern (OR)
  
• Fiery coffee table (GT)
  
• Bonfires (GT/IL)
  
• Lit solar system project (PH)
  

Entertainment:

• Ocean (IL)
  
• Sand (IL)
  
• Pool (BG)
  
• Books (Various)
  
• Easel (Various)
  
• Workbench (BG)
  
• Floristry bench (SNS)
  
• Violin (BG)
  
• Guitar (BG)
  
• Piano (BG)
  
• Perform scenes (GF)
  
• Podium (CL)
  
• Portable radio (BG)
  
• Portable dancefloor (GT)
  
• Game tables (BG/GT)
  
• Chess (Various)
  
• Foosball (GT)
  
• Darts (GT)
  
• Tell jokes (funny interaction)
  
• Tell stories (friendly/funny interaction)
  
• Pranks (mischief interactions)
  

Hygiene:

• Ocean (IL)
  
• Pool (BG)
  
• Shower in waterfall (IL)
  
• Shower in rain (SNS)
  
• Waterfall in a bottle (JA)
  
• Cleansing cream (OR)
  
• Portable shower (OR)
  
• OTG Baths (Various?)
  
• OTG Showers (Various?)
  
• OTG Sinks (Various?)
  
• Laundry tub (LD)
  
• Washing line (LD)
  
• Brushing pets clean (mod)
  

About missing fridge, you can grill fresh fish and fruits from inventory.

I am most excited for the off-the-grid lot trait, I think.

Cooking: barbecues (the barrel one from JA), the coolers and campfires from OR, the new cooking pit. I plan to avoid fridges unless they are updated to look like cabinets or shelves or otherwise made more low-tech
Lights: candles
Entertainment: books, card tables, musical instruments like the violin and guitar, the easel, toys. Lots of choices there.
Toilet: toilet bush. I wish they'd add an outhouse or an earth toilet.
Hygiene: shower in the rain (came with Seasons), waterfall; I am surprised to hear that swimming improves hygiene, because that wasn't the case in pools, but, if true, that will make it easy to keep sims clean. I wish they'd added a hot springs hot tub.
Energy: beds, tents. They need to bring back sleeping bags and find a way to make coffee and tea without appliances.

Something was said about certain objects being updated to work off-the-grid in the next patch. Maybe that means outdoor showers, short-wave radios, plumbing-free toilets, oil lamps, pantries instead of fridges, etc. I hope so; more options are always good.

I think one of the fridges will work off the grid (the vintage one) as it is placed in the shipwreck pilot which is off the grid I think.

Pools do increase hygiene (I did that for my historic save), albeit very slowly. Not sure if swimming in the ocean would do that same but there’s always the waterfall and shower in the rain (which I can’t ever get to work reliably).

I wish coolers could store food like fish and meals too. I think they’re adding more campfires and the pit bbq to this pack.

What I wish is that you could search a pile of wreckage and find materials like wood, cloth, leaves that you could then use to craft basic survival needs (shelter, fishing spear or trap, all the way up to a canoe). And also get some materials from harvestable like coconut trees. Maybe you’d need to first craft/find a knife and then as you get better at “crafting”, you can make more sophisticated stuff. The woodworking table isn’t quite the same for that. That would be so great ?

"simfriend1968;c-17106015" wrote:
I am most excited for the off-the-grid lot trait, I think.

Cooking: barbecues (the barrel one from JA), the coolers and campfires from OR, the new cooking pit. I plan to avoid fridges unless they are updated to look like cabinets or shelves or otherwise made more low-tech
Lights: candles
Entertainment: books, card tables, musical instruments like the violin and guitar, the easel, toys. Lots of choices there.
Toilet: toilet bush. I wish they'd add an outhouse or an earth toilet.
Hygiene: shower in the rain (came with Seasons), waterfall; I am surprised to hear that swimming improves hygiene, because that wasn't the case in pools, but, if true, that will make it easy to keep sims clean. I wish they'd added a hot springs hot tub.
Energy: beds, tents. They need to bring back sleeping bags and find a way to make coffee and tea without appliances.

Something was said about certain objects being updated to work off-the-grid in the next patch. Maybe that means outdoor showers, short-wave radios, plumbing-free toilets, oil lamps, pantries instead of fridges, etc. I hope so; more options are always good.

In debug you can find the "bad quality" toilet from the woodworking bench. It looks like a box with a bucket under it. I'm hoping they make it work OTG.

"simfriend1968;c-17106015" wrote:
I am most excited for the off-the-grid lot trait, I think.

Cooking: barbecues (the barrel one from JA), the coolers and campfires from OR, the new cooking pit. I plan to avoid fridges unless they are updated to look like cabinets or shelves or otherwise made more low-tech
Lights: candles
Entertainment: books, card tables, musical instruments like the violin and guitar, the easel, toys. Lots of choices there.
Toilet: toilet bush. I wish they'd add an outhouse or an earth toilet.
Hygiene: shower in the rain (came with Seasons), waterfall; I am surprised to hear that swimming improves hygiene, because that wasn't the case in pools, but, if true, that will make it easy to keep sims clean. I wish they'd added a hot springs hot tub.
Energy: beds, tents. They need to bring back sleeping bags and find a way to make coffee and tea without appliances.

Something was said about certain objects being updated to work off-the-grid in the next patch. Maybe that means outdoor showers, short-wave radios, plumbing-free toilets, oil lamps, pantries instead of fridges, etc. I hope so; more options are always good.

Would be amazing if they added more in a patch. It’s going to be such a fun lot trait to play.
Right now I could see it being a little disappointing without having the outdoor shower/toilet and just those little things to make it more realistic.

I like the notion of off-grid living. Let's hope it works in my Ancestral save. I may have to move the family to the island, however. LOL

"nerdfashion;c-17106354" wrote:
-Hunger
.Ordering Pizza.

Has ordering a pizza ever worked for anyone? I think maybe the pizza has actually shown up once out of the many years I’ve played ?

I’ll be using a modded cooler from LittleMsSam (if it still works)