Which adventure is the most stressful for your sims?

Still hoping for desert adventure in specific with array of deep sand dangers and tomb fun

also I used that Al Simhara stuff everywhere in ts3 to the point of ridiculous :lol:

like I'd have these box houses that were just kinda normal modern houses

but then you'd have those egyptian torch statue dudes everywhere or whatever for no apparent reason other than "thats kinda cool i like this lamp"

"LiELF;c-18350453" wrote:
I wish they would do an "Adventure" series of GPs. "Ocean Adventure", "Mountain Adventure", "Desert Adventure", "Lost Island Adventure", "Cavern Adventure", etc, etc. And have them all have lots of danger, risk, and excitement with special "ancient" rewards and curses. Make Archaeology a base game skill and expand on it, even make it a career. It would be like an Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider adventure collection and each location could be a Sim version of a new culture that hasn't been represented yet, with new things to learn like dances, greetings, foods, skills, stories and customs. Zombies, Mummies and Genies could return to the game as new Occult "antagonists" like the skeletons.

It would be magnificent.

☝?All of this please! ??


Jungle Adventures is hands down one of the best TS4 packs! My main active sims will always have the Jungle Explorer and / or Archaeological Scholar aspiration at some point.

It is near impossible for me to play house for longer than 3 sims days, it drives me bonkers, so there comes a time when my sim HAS to go on a risky outdoor adventure in order to escape death by boredom. Potential death by poison however, totally acceptable! By all means, put that deadly curse on my sim, let him find the anecdote, as long as he doesn’t have to change another dirty nappy. Speaking of which… my attempt to bring along an infant on one of these jungle adventure quests sort of failed, because I’m unable to handle Growing Together’s baby carrier system. I don’t know how it works to be honest. I truly want it to function correctly so that I can explore the good old ”Lone Wolf & Cub”- type trope, but the babe won’t stay in and it frustrates me…Just saying that no one can blame me for turning my sims into runaway “dads”. ?

I’m currently playing the jungle quests as a werebeast with basic werebeast perks. The great thing about this is that toilets, beds and food are not required whatsoever, he can easily survive in the wild whilst keeping most of his needs in green. Even so, none of that makes the adventure less “stressful”, he has the werewolf curse after all, which can be exceptionally challenging at times, and none of it renders him immune from poisonous attacks and other curses.

Initially I wasn’t impressed with Jungle Adventures’ easy-as-pie temple puzzles and I had my concerns regarding replayability, simply because TS3 World Adventures exists and “tomb raiding” is huge and a lot more demanding in that pack. TS4 is TS4 however, with Selvadorada being arguably one of the most beautiful worlds in the entire sims franchise - a world that can also be delightfully dangerous. It keeps pulling me back in, if my sims could live there they would. It’s even more fun to explore the temples in First Person Mode which is not everyone’s cuppa tea for obvious reasons. Oh I can only imagine how wonderful it would be if we had an entire range of Adventure Game Packs! ?️?

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18350262" wrote:
Jungle temple
This one takes the cake for me. I won’t forget the day when my fully prepared team of five played the guitar around the campfire in the temple and suddenly everyone was on fire AND a skeleton attacked them. Just last week I sent two rival groups of sims into the jungle and it was even better. Afterwards everyone was limping on their last leg and a long-standing relationship was destroyed (no deaths, though).

Bringing more than one sim is helpful for extinguishing fires or taking turns hacking away the vines at the portals (one sleeps, one hacks).

Mt. Komorebi
My close second. Unlike in the jungle, I had deaths here occasionally and reaching the summit is not a given. A team consisting of beginner climbers (skill level 6) can fail even if everyone is focused and using climbing gear – just last week I had a six hours uncomfortable moodlet from an injury and only four hours left at the very first steep wall. The sims all were beginners and didn’t have enough satisfaction points to buy the moodlet solver, so they had to abort the expedition. Still, even with the risk of failure objectively being greater than in the jungle, Mt. Komorebi drains my sims’ needs less.

Bringing more than one sim is recommended to plead with the Grim Reaper in case of accidents.

Batuu questline
Technically the worst that can happen here are timeouts (getting arrested or getting escorted out of the area) and Dazed moodlets. Getting electroshocked by a droid isn’t even dazed, but uncomfortable, so even eight shocks in a row cannot kill a sim (I gave up after eight, maybe some more would have done the trick by draining hunger too much).
As for the needs, motive drain would probably be the worst of all adventure packs if we didn't take freebuild into account.

Bringing more than one sim is recommended so that one can “call over” enemies to give the questing sim breathing space. Droids in my experience are too unreliable.

Werewolf tunnels
My sims suffered a bladder accident from staying too long in the tunnels, and, yes, they can get turned into werewolves. But overall the tunnels are more boring than draining, especially for non-werewolves. I never had luck with mundane sims, they only ever found frogs or food and never even a different exit than the one they went in through.

Strangerville mystery
From a storyteller perspective this can be an intense experience, but gamemechanically there being no timer, a sim could take it easy here and attempt every step with full needs and plenty of moodlets. I only included this pack in the poll, because I’ve read a lot that players speedrun the mystery in a matter of two or three days and I expect especially with starting sims this would drain their motives quite a lot.

I kind of liked that my sim could take their time with the strangerville experience, and I actually enjoyed it the one time I have played it. I was actually afraid my sim and his friends wouldn’t beat the mother plant, as I wasn’t sure what to expect, or how or what to do at first, and I used a newly made military sim with no skills.

I won't vote since I only have werewolf tunnels and Mt. Komorebi in my game, not the others...

The werewolf tunnels involve almost no stress at all and no gameplay challenges, but there is the possibility of getting in a fight, or even getting turned into a werewolf. (This is apparently unusual, but it did happen to my very first sim to ever explore the tunnels, Salim Benali's daughter Laila from my San Myshuno game.)

Mt. Komorebi there is one point where you wonder if they will survive or not! (the tallest ice cliff)
It was fun and suspenseful.
But needs are very easy to take care of. There are tons of warnings and suggestions about bringing your own supplies, and then there are multiple places to sleep etc. along the route. And there's no way to get lost or anything so there is not much challenge in that sense.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/18343965/#Comment_18343965

Out of these I only have access to the Strangerville mystery and the jungle. I really like making archaeologist and/or treasure hunter sims, and have fun playing them every time I go down that route, but I only play the Strangerville story once in a blue moon.

Infants

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18350563" wrote:

"LiELF;c-18350453" wrote:
I wish they would do an "Adventure" series of GPs. "Ocean Adventure", "Mountain Adventure", "Desert Adventure", "Lost Island Adventure", "Cavern Adventure", etc, etc. And have them all have lots of danger, risk, and excitement with special "ancient" rewards and curses. Make Archaeology a base game skill and expand on it, even make it a career. It would be like an Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider adventure collection and each location could be a Sim version of a new culture that hasn't been represented yet, with new things to learn like dances, greetings, foods, skills, stories and customs. Zombies, Mummies and Genies could return to the game as new Occult "antagonists" like the skeletons.

It would be magnificent.

☝?All of this please! ??


Jungle Adventures is hands down one of the best TS4 packs! My main active sims will always have the Jungle Explorer and / or Archaeological Scholar aspiration at some point.

It is near impossible for me to play house for longer than 3 sims days, it drives me bonkers, so there comes a time when my sim HAS to go on a risky outdoor adventure in order to escape death by boredom. Potential death by poison however, totally acceptable! By all means, put that deadly curse on my sim, let him find the anecdote, as long as he doesn’t have to change another dirty nappy. Speaking of which… my attempt to bring along an infant on one of these jungle adventure quests sort of failed, because I’m unable to handle Growing Together’s baby carrier system. I don’t know how it works to be honest. I truly want it to function correctly so that I can explore the good old ”Lone Wolf & Cub”- type trope, but the babe won’t stay in and it frustrates me…Just saying that no one can blame me for turning my sims into runaway “dads”. ?

I’m currently playing the jungle quests as a werebeast with basic werebeast perks. The great thing about this is that toilets, beds and food are not required whatsoever, he can easily survive in the wild whilst keeping most of his needs in green. Even so, none of that makes the adventure less “stressful”, he has the werewolf curse after all, which can be exceptionally challenging at times, and none of it renders him immune from poisonous attacks and other curses.

Initially I wasn’t impressed with Jungle Adventures’ easy-as-pie temple puzzles and I had my concerns regarding replayability, simply because TS3 World Adventures exists and “tomb raiding” is huge and a lot more demanding in that pack. TS4 is TS4 however, with Selvadorada being arguably one of the most beautiful worlds in the entire sims franchise - a world that can also be delightfully dangerous. It keeps pulling me back in, if my sims could live there they would. It’s even more fun to explore the temples in First Person Mode which is not everyone’s cuppa tea for obvious reasons. Oh I can only imagine how wonderful it would be if we had an entire range of Adventure Game Packs! ?️?

First person mode!! Why didn't I think of that?! You're brilliant! I must do this.

I agree, the temple puzzles are easy, so I randomize which Sim solves them and what they choose. Then it's up to them, not up to me. I like to take groups into the jungle for more challenge, as the insect attacks happen more frequently and supplies are limited. I have a main rule that I use to up the stakes; I make them camp out and stay overnight somewhere before they reach the temple to represent a long journey and being "lost", and they take time to explore all they can, eat, bottle shower, etc so it starts to feel very dire by the time they reach the "safety" of the temple, where they have to set up camp again. They also have to camp once on the return journey as well, so anyone who is poisoned is facing a race against time to get back and find a cure. I also have them all spend one day in the village to "prep" and buy supplies. What they see is what they get.


This all ends up taking about fourish Sim days to play out, with a lot of pausing, as Sims tend to try to run all the way back to the toilet when they're need drops and I have to cancel the action and direct them to a dirty bush, lol. Oh, I also have them travel to the park lot near the gate before starting their journey, and I make sure there are no amenities there so they don't constantly have the urge to run back to the lot to fulfill any needs. It also adds to the challenge to take a pet along.

But playing this way with this pack has opened up some really exciting gameplay where I've found myself riveted in my seat, wide-eyed and wondering if some Sim wasn't going to make it. It's exactly the kind of unpredictable chaos that I long to have more of in the game. ?

"LiELF;c-18350696" wrote:


I agree, the temple puzzles are easy, so I randomize which Sim solves them and what they choose. Then it's up to them, not up to me. I like to take groups into the jungle for more challenge, as the insect attacks happen more frequently and supplies are limited. I have a main rule that I use to up the stakes; I make them camp out and stay overnight somewhere before they reach the temple to represent a long journey and being "lost", and they take time to explore all they can, eat, bottle shower, etc so it starts to feel very dire by the time they reach the "safety" of the temple, where they have to set up camp again. They also have to camp once on the return journey as well, so anyone who is poisoned is facing a race against time to get back and find a cure. I also have them all spend one day in the village to "prep" and buy supplies. What they see is what they get.

I love doing the jungle and temple explorations with large groups! I have my sims buy supplies exactly the same way: what they see is what they get - they only get the one chance, so when it’s just dolls and baskets instead of repellents and machetes…well… good luck friendos!

In one of my saves the jungle is crammed with secret military labs and outposts - the largest of them is built atop a subterranean Omniscan Temple (bye bye museum) which, in my story, is home to the “original” Mother of the Jungle, a somewhat sedated version of her more aggressive “daughter” that lives in the secret lab in Strangerville, although she can be pretty lethal too! Basically, Mother of The Jungle is the True Mother, in fact, she’s the one that actually communicates through the one that lives in Strangerville ( that’s right, Stranger Momma is possessed by her own, dear Jungle Momma) with the sole purpose to take over and control Simnation. There’s much more to this story of course and it requires my Sims to go on many expeditions ( jungle, desert, mountain) in order to solve an ancient mystery and ultimately save the world.
When I play with the groups I rotate between several military units consisting of either 8 sims ( including 1 or 2 scientists ) or one with 7 sims and a highly trained K-9, which is a German Shepherd that fears nothing, except fridges, poor chap.

But wait, when you say that you randomize which Sim solves the puzzles and what they choose, do you mean that they can somehow autonomously solve it then, or do you skip the “examine” interaction and have them choose a random question mark and see what happens?
I’m curious, I need to know, more chaos is best!! ?

I had to laugh at the way some of you play Jungle Adventure ( or at myself, lol ), because I play it as safely as possible, I play an archeologist that happens to have very high skills, and before ever going into the Jungle has been to Selvadorado a couple of times for 2-3 day visits, accumulated several supplies, to take along, and has accrued archeology skills. She has only gone into the Jungle by herself, but is well prepared with every thing she needs,…. lol….. and she uses her phone to get back to her rental from the jungle instead of trecking back ( of course she has been picked up by a helicopter….. lol ), and it’s still adventurous to me. Now I’m wondering if I get her a horse, if it might go a bit quicker. Has anyone tried taking a horse to the Jungle yet?

I have a couple of scout groups that will go to Silvadarodo ( rental/town part ) as a field trip too.

I too, would love if my archeologist sim ( and another family I have ), could live in the town part of the Jungle. I love the way they made Silvadorado, and was thrilled to see stray cats there as well!

@SheriSim57 If you can use mods then the All Worlds are Residential mod by Zerbu turns the destination worlds Granite Falls, Selvadorada and Batuu into Residential worlds where your Sim households can move to.