Rockview Village
This is my attempt at a tiny house community for my Maristella project. There are four homes, each with a different theme and decor: the Avocado, the Llama, the Dogwood, and the Sunray. All of of them have a functional kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and dining area. Also, most of the homes have bookshelves, and some have a radio/computer/TV. There is a communal patio area with a grill, sink, and stereo.
The community garden has a variety of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and even some catnip. There are also some other harvestables scattered around the lot, including an avocado tree from Selvadorada. You may want to have one Sim devoted to gardening (or hire a professional gardener) to keep up with everything. You can also create a gardening club consisting of the village residents and have their sole activity be gardening, then hold a club gathering every couple of days to take care of gardening chores (I did this while playtesting and it worked really well!).
During my playtest, I used the door-locking feature of the game in order to keep the homes themselves private. To do this, select the Sim who lives in a particular house, then click on the door of their house and select “Lock Door for Household”. Select the name of someone else in the household. This will keep them out. You have to lock the door for each person in the household, then repeat the process on the other homes (make sure you select the resident of that house before you start locking the door). It takes a little time to set up but once you’re done, all of the residents will sleep/shower/etc. in their own homes but still mingle and cook food occasionally in the common area. (A kindly anon sent another tip for locking doors using the club feature - see this post.)
There’s a lot of landscaping on this lot; I hope it doesn’t lag for anyone, but if it does, try deleting some of the plants.
You may want to enable “bb.moveobjects” before placing the lot in build mode to make sure all of the landscaping stays in place.
You can find more pics in the Rockview Village tag.
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Lot size: 50x50
Cost: §189,676
Lot Location: “Affluista Mansion” in Oasis Springs
Required Packs:
EPs - Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats and Dogs
GPs - Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Dine Out, Vampires, Parenthood, Jungle Adventure
SPs - Laundry Day, Toddler Stuff, Fitness Stuff, Bowling Night, Vintage Glamour, Backyard Stuff, Kids Room, Romantic Garden, Movie Hangout, Spooky Stuff, Cool Kitchen, Perfect Patio
To install, download the ZIP file from the link below. Extract the folder and copy its contents (there should be 6 files total) into your My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Tray folder.
DOWNLOAD ZIP file (SimFileShare)
**If you don’t want to install it using the Tray files, you can also find it in the Gallery under #jenba and Origin ID silrosse.
Enjoy!
