What Are Your Plans For The Horse Ranch EP?

My plan is to own a small ranch where I have a horse, sheep and a goat. And I want to make Nectar, this started me setting up the ranch and getting my fruit to the perfect stage. This also made me try to find alternative shelter for the plants (greenhouses cost a lot).

So I made a tunnel greenhouse, placing a gabled roof on the ground and then expanding it to look like a tunnel shelter, you just place a door at one end. The advantages are: it doesn't cost anything, the plants think they are in a shelter, the sprinklers act like they are outside, and it doesn't add anymore in taxes.
You can make it as big as you like, height and width. You can only place lights on either wall end so don't make it too long. You can plant the trees straight into the ground (preferably in the middle) or you can place them into containers. If you move or resize it you may loose the door and lights. I can't post pictures but it is very easy to do. This has made the gardening so much easier, and saved my sim a packet. She will need all her money to buy the animals. :D

It depends on how well horses are integrated into the game as a whole. If it's like Mt. Komorebi and the unique pack gameplay is confined to that world, I probably won't do a ton.

I'll probably make the Old Wood Nectary in Tartosa an actual nectary. I'll probably also update some of the community lots in Evergreen Harbor to include Nectaries. I might also update some community garden lots to include a petting zoo with goats and sheep.

If there's enough to do with horses outside of the world included with the pack, I'll probably put ranches in Willow Creek (replacing one of the oversized mansions), Oasis Springs (replacing the Landgraab mansion since it's a massive eyesore and I usually move them into the Landgraab apartment building in San Myshuno anyway), Strangerville (replacing Old Penelope), and Sulani.

I'll probably at least once try putting a horse ranch in a penthouse lot in San Myshuno.

I've started a build save and cleared a 64x64 lot. I've started to make a farm complete with animals already in game such as the farm animals, bird feeder, crops, pens, ect. I plan to replace fences and wallpapers as well as items from build mode as soon as I get the pack. I plan to add a barn, pond, and new crops in the back when I get the pack and begin playing. Since horses and dogs/cats take up space :( , I plan to only start out with a couple and let them have kids later after they make money. I'm going to use the club and ranch hands to help with the farm. I plan to have several goats/sheep and hopefully it won't prove to be too much.

My third generation landgraab family is going to move to Chestnut Ridge. Mom is a top tier actress, dad is an engineer. They have twin girls who want a pony. Dads going to retire and start a winery.

I played a little more in Sims 3, getting ready for TS4 Horse Ranch. It'll be interesting to compare horse dynamics. TS3 horses moved awkwardly at times, backing up and maneuvering into place. I'm hoping TS4 horses can do better.

The foals aged up.
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I do but I'm still working on their background story.

Main sim is Mary, originally, she's the adopted daughter of this elderly farmers couple that lived in Windenburg. When Mary's parents died, she sold the big family house and move out with the family dog to settled down in a smaller home where she started a local honey buisness, applying the knowledge she gained during her childhood living in the farm.

In my game she moved to B. Bay, she got married and has a baby, but I'm rewriting her story so she moves to the new world instaed, since her husband is an animal lover and I want to give them a horse. I'm still thinking on a background story for her husband. ? Story ideas are welcome! ?

My plans changed yet again. I didn't have the occult hybrid mods in my game, and I hadn't had hybrids in generations. But now the two brother sims I wanted for this pack are spellcaster/vampire hybrids. I hopefully I can adjust them with mods to remove their vampire-ness. If not, then I'll have my hands full with them and have to drop most of the hotel ideas I had.

So I guess my plans for this pack are: vampire ranchers raising weird animals. Like, absolutely nasty-looking horses that look like rotting zombies, and blue goats.

OMG, I started a new save with a married couple, they now have a toddler and an infant. They're both freelancers one in writing and one in painting. Aging is off. The idea is to build up their skills (gardening etc.) and their bank account so they can move to a nice ranch. I also wanted to build up all the skills in the kids. When the toddler maxes all skills I'll age her up. But I won't age up past child because there are two new skills and I want her to have them both. Well money is no longer an issue. They just won $1,000,000. from the lottery. LOL !!!!!

Just wondering? But can more then one sim ride the same horse. Mom rode her this morning and dad will take her out for a run tonight. And their child can practice riding in the pen. Or is it one horse per sim only?

@Behappy1st if you're talking about one sim at a time, I don't see why not. Sims can share one bicycle ?

I'm currently setting up a new save to move all my sims to. Certain lots are going to have ranch homes, such as Hounds Head in Brindleton Bay. I'm also adding some little farms around the worlds for goats, sheep and chickens and updating some of my community lots.

Most of my worlds, if not all, will get a rec centre. Those are so great, it's like having a gym, library and fun place all in one.

I made a map of where I imagine all the worlds to be and have chosen 16 of my fave households to play, spead around the worlds. My archaeologist couple (jungle explorers) are still the ones who are moving to the horsey world.