Introducing the Sims 4 Animal Crossing Challenge!
The Animal Crossing Challenge is a new way to play that doesn’t focus on earning money or gaining fame, but on building friendships and finding collectibles.
The Animal Crossing Challenge has 3 Main Goals:
1. To complete the Museum
3. To upgrade the town
To start the challenge, move one sim in using the freerealestate on cheat, and begin decorating their house! But first, buy a single suit of armor and place it in the entry to the museum to knock your funds down.
MUSEUM RULES:
-CANNOT change size/shape of rooms
-CAN add an Observatory, but only on top!
-CAN add a Microscope lab, but only in second story!
-CANNOT use entry room for collectibles, it is a foyer. Decorate it as you see fit.
-SECOND STORY can ONLY be used for 110% completion (see below).
The Museum, the large building in the back corner, has 6 sections. When you start the challenge, each section is empty! You’re free to edit them as you see fit, but you cannot change the size or shape of any of the rooms. The front room is an Entry Foyer and CANNOT be used to store collectibles or used as a living space. You can arrange collectibles in the other 5 rooms however you see fit. To complete the Museum, you must have:
-Every Gemstone/Metal/Element
-Every Fossil
-Every MySims Trophy
-Every Fish
-Every Microscope/Space Print
-Every Postcard
Each of those must be placed on the first floor and only on the first floor. The postcards may be placed in the Foyer or in your house. You may add a second floor, but if you do, it can only be used for “110% completion”. 110% completion is awarded for getting every space object and one masterpiece painting of each style of painting, as well as every type of frog. This isn’t necessary, it’s an optional set of extra goals.
The second floor of the museum CAN have a Cafe built on it. But you cannot use it as additional housing or plumbing. Only decorations, collectibles, seating, and a cafe! Nothing else!
HOUSE RULES:
There are 3 small houses! Each is a 6x6 room. You may NOT add walls. You may NOT expand the houses. You have to live with this space! Ideally you’d only place objects on the grid Sims 1 or Sims 2 style, because that’s how objects are placed in Animal Crossing, but it’s really up to you. Decorate the houses as you please. The exterior can be decorated, but don’t cheat about it. Do not put kitchen objects outdoors, beds outdoors, etc. Only objects found in the Outdoors category can go outdoors, with the exception of a single toilet found outside for the sake of saving space.
SHOP RULES:
There’s a Nook’s Cranny shop towards the back and a police station up front. You cannot modify these. You can change which furniture is in the store, but only by placing it on the table, or where the 3 objects along the back wall are. The table and decorative boxes must stay in place. This gives you an extra few tiles to work with for skill objects and whatnot. The Police Station is essentially decorative, but you can place stuff on the tables if you please.
LIFE RULES:
Aging is not required. You can turn it off, or leave it on. You can even play generations of sims if you want to. It does not matter. Your sim MAY get a job to pass the time, and unlock things, and to help with the bills, but once they reach level 10 they must quit. All sims on the lot can have a job, but their combined job level cannot be over 12. So if you have two sims, and one is at level 8, and one is at level 3, one of them has to quit before the other is allowed to get promoted. If one is promoted, the other is required to quit immediately. This is just so you can’t roll in dough and are encouraged to spend time ignoring the job-money grind of typical Sims gameplay. :D Please note that because of the lot being owned by your sim, the bills will be pretty high to start. You might have trouble keeping up with them. That’s okay. If you’ve played Animal Crossing, you know why!
No modification is allowed of any existing structures. That means no moving ponds, no moving the floor tiles outside (stone), no moving the rocks, no moving the buildings, no messing with the train station, etc. You can change wallpapers and plants all you want, though. Basically, if it’s not a tree or a plant and it’s outside, don’t touch it!
Obviously, you are allowed to leave town!
Basically, you’re only allowed to modify the structure of the museum, and the only lots that can be used for “Useful” items that aren’t chairs or surfaces or decorations are the houses, the store, and the cafe of the museum. Otherwise, just meet your goals!
GOAL CHECKLIST:
-Museum Goals
–All Fish Mounted or Tanked
–All Gems Stored
–All MySims Trophies Stored
–All Microscope Prints Stored
–Have 2 new sims move into town and take up residence in the other two houses
–Complete every type of party with a gold medal!
–Add Second Story to Museum
–Add Observatory to Museum
–Add Microscope to Museum
–Have at least 20 flowers planted around town
–Have at least 10 Fruit Trees planted around town
–Have the town in good standing with taxes (Pay the bills!). Upon completing every other goal if you have 50,000,000 simoleons in back bills to pay, you need to pay them.
-110% Completion Goals:
–One masterpiece painting of each Type of painting (not counting emotions)
–All frogs
–All space objects (Rocket ship can be built on any terrain in town)
–Collect all types of plant
The Animal Crossing VIllage can be found on the gallery by SimifyMeCaptain and you should probably have the Moveobjects Cheat enabled when installing it. (I had to remove the windows from the roofs of the houses because they just kept getting lost due to moveobjects being a bit buggy, sadly). This lot also uses the unlocked FISHING SPOT objects but Snatif on ModTheSims. I don’t know if they come with the lot or not, but I placed them by the pond. They’re not necessary, just a fun detail.
This is not a tried-and-true tested challenge, so it might be a bit imbalanced, but I wanted to share it anyway! Please share and enjoy!
