Brand new challenge inspired by The Sims 4 Lovestruck! Another commission from the lovely @simplyrockie 💜 There's so much fun stuff in this one, I hope you all enjoy it!
Rules are by Rockie, but the graphics are by me as always. For more information on my Sims 4 graphics, check out my FAQ here.
Ready for a wild journey filled with love, death, and adventure? The Life & Death Legacy Challenge is here to push your Sims to their limits! 💀❤️ Each generation has unique challenges and goals that must be completed to carry on the legacy. But beware – this challenge won’t be easy, as it focuses on the thin line between life and death!
Rules:
You must complete each generation’s goals before moving on to the next one.
Your Sims must live in Ravenswood for the first 3 generations, setting the stage for a dark and twisted family history.
Murder and death play a central role in the challenge, but there are no cheats allowed to cause death (like MCCC or Testingcheats True).
A “bucket list” is crucial for some generations, and all tasks on the list must be completed before moving on.
You cannot make your Sims immortal (except for one specific generation that seeks immortality).
Each Sim must experience some form of tragedy or hardship, such as losing loved ones, facing poverty, or dealing with betrayal.
This challenge revolves around dark themes of life, loss, and redemption, creating a dramatic and emotional storyline for your Sims to live through. 😈 Can you guide your family through generations of trials, heartbreak, and perhaps even forbidden love with death itself? Use the #lifeanddeathlegacychallenge So i can see your legacy!
Good luck!
Cannot read the pictures well, try this!
If this challenge is nothing for you try this Legacy Challenge!
You’ve always hated the heat, as a kid you dreamed of snowy mountains and chilly air. But now, as a young adult, you're finally leaving your warm hometown behind to start fresh in the cold, serene peaks of Mt. Komorebi. With nothing but the winter landscape ahead, and ready to build a new life — a legacy — in the heart of the snow. Welcome to the Winter Legacy Challenge!
Expansion packs you'll need:
-- Snowy Escape.
If you don't have snowy escape, but have seasons, this works fine too. It's okay to play through spring considering the weather conditions BUT you'll have to remember to enable testingcheats and change it back to winter once it becomes summer with seasons.set_season 2
-- Seasons
Recommend packs, but BG alternatives provided:
-- Outdoor Retreat
-- Life and Death
-- Spa Day
Not needed, but nice for gameplay:
-- Island Living
-- Eco Lifestyle
Rules:
-- You may use freerealestate for your first house, but after please refrain from using any other cheats while playing.
-- Normal or Long lifespans.
-- Careers are up to you, UNLESS stated otherwise.
-- You need to complete each requisite (goals, and challenges for the generation. Aspirations if stated) before that sim dies. If they die before everything is completed, their heir must pick a goal or challenge to complete in honor of them.
-- If they die before producing a heir, you fail.
-- If a sim dies from freezing, their heir must honor them by building a small memorial or shrine.
Gen 1: Winter Dreamer
Backstory: Having spent their life in the desert, this Sim dreams of snow-covered landscapes. They’ve saved enough to move to a permanent winter wonderland. Snow brings them joy, and they dedicate themselves to creating a cozy, snow-loving life.
Traits: Cheerful, Loves Outdoors, Family-Oriented
Aspiration: Mt. Komorebi Sightseer
Goals:
Complete your aspiration entirely.
ALWAYS Complete the Winterfest holiday tradition (decorate the tree, cook a holiday meal, etc).
Have a Hot Tub on your plot. (OR build a pool and add decorative rocks and greenery around it)
Collect all Sammies.
Challenge: Your Sim must spend 3+ hours outside daily, no matter the weather or their needs. (It can be making snow angels or exploring town, etc.)
Gen 2: Frostbitten Adventurer
Backstory: Growing up surrounded by snow, this Sim craves adrenaline-fueled adventures. They embrace the wildness of winter, seeking thrilling experiences and surviving extreme conditions.
Traits: Adventurous, Active, Self-Assured
Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast
Goals:
Master the Snowboarding skill.
Reach at least Rock Climbing level 5, to prepare for intense outdoor activities.
Woo a partner during a Festival of Snow or a snowy outing.
Challenge: Participate in at least three snowboarding, sledding, or skiing competitions—and win at least one before aging up.
Gen 3: Icy Artisan
Backstory: Born into a family of survivors and adventurers, this Sim found solace in the beauty of the winter landscape and became a renowned artist known for their winter-themed works.
Traits: Creative, Loves the Outdoors, Proper
Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire
Goals:
Visit a National Park (via Outdoor Retreat pack) or build a homestead filled with outdoor elements.
Paint or take 8 winter-themed works (snowy forests, ice skating, festive winter scenes).
Embrace Winterfest as their favorite holiday, decorating the tree, and hosting festive gatherings.
Challenge: To make a living, they will rely only on their art—no regular jobs allowed. No thermostat can be used to heat the home this generation, use fireplaces or space heaters instead.
Gen 4: Frozen Royalty
Backstory: This Sim believes they are the ruler of a frozen kingdom. Eccentric and ambitious, they build an empire to match their icy vision, complete with loyal subjects and a grand icy palace.
Traits: Ambitious, Snob, Romantic
Aspiration: Mansion Baron
Goals:
Host at least two grand events each winter (Winter Balls, fancy dinners, or other social gatherings). These events must include 6+ guests, top-quality food, and gold-level rewards.
Have at least one child with Father Winter.
During the winter season, go to Magnolia Blossom Park in Willow Creek to skate. Max the skating skill. You are allowed to put them on your plot so you don't need to travel, if you have the funds and room.
Challenge: Your heir must inherit an heirloom and keep the ‘icy empire’ alive. (if you don't own life and Death, that’s okay, just pick something that stays with the heir until they die. It can be in their inventory or place somewhere in the lot.
Gen 5: The Eternal Winter Keeper?
As the heir to a family built on the love for winter and it’s traditions, you’ve always known your role: to continue your ancestors’ mission of preserving the eternal frost. But as the years go on, you’ve begun to question your destiny. You long for warmth, sun, and freedom from the cold. The decision weighs heavily on your heart:
Will you stay loyal to your family and uphold their wintery legacy?
Or will you break away and forge a new path, leaving snow behind for the warmth of tropical shores?
Path 1: Frozen Protector
Backstory: For generations, your family has served as stewards of winter—a lineage entrusted with keeping the delicate balance between the icy season’s beauty and its unforgiving harshness. You’ve grown up knowing that, as the next heir, the title of Winter Keeper will one day fall on you. Will you prove yourself worthy of the mantle, or will winter lose its way in your hands?Traits: Loyal, Outgoing, Lovebug (If not possible, use Romantic)Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Goals:
Befriend at least three Sims who are “winter aligned” (traits like Loves Outdoors, Loner, or Creative, etc) and strengthen your bond by doing winter-related activities together at least once a week with one of them. If you have Get together, make a club with outlines relating to cold or festive activities.
Find your soulmate in a winter setting (at a snow-covered lot or during a winter festival). Woo them with romantic gestures like snowball fights, outdoor stargazing, or ice skating. Have an outside wedding with them.
Ensure your child connects with winter traditions by maxing out a related skill before they become a young adult (e.g., Violin for haunting melodies, Charisma for storytelling, or Fitness for winter sports).
Challenge: Add at least one major improvement to the family’s estate if you haven’t already: build an outdoor skating rink, a winter conservatory, or a family mausoleum for past heirs.
Path 2: The Sun Seeker
Backstory: You’ve always felt like an outsider in your family, your dreams of warmth clashing with their love for snow. After years of feeling stifled by the cold, you decide to take the boldest step of all: abandoning your family’s icy traditions and embracing a life of sun, freedom, and joy. But forging a new path is never easy, especially when your roots are steeped in frost.
Traits: Child Of the Ocean, Outgoing, FoodieAspiration: Beach Life (Angling Ace if you don't own IL)
Goals:
Move to a tropical destination (preferably Sulani) and embrace the warm climate fully. Marry a local Sim and raise your family in the tropical paradise!
Max out the Fishing skill
Befriend the dolphins (Island Living) or form a club of locals to celebrate your new lifestyle.
Challenge: Abandon all winter traditions. You can never celebrate Winterfest again. You must create a new summer holiday, or host a big party every Summer.
If you decide to take part, let me know by using #TS4WinterLC in your post! I hope to start this challenge in the next few days and share my progress ^.^
If you’d like to read it on a different platform, here’s the google doc!
You’ve always hated the heat, as a kid you dreamed of snowy mountains and chilly air. But now, as a young adult, you're finally leaving your
I hope you have fun, stay warm, and happy simming everyone! ☃️
Rules written by @matchacake, challenge inspired by @lilsimsie‘s current LP over on her YouTube channel!
The challenge is simple – complete 10 sim generations with the same family, but on short lifespan! Complete the challenge on story mode or nightmare mode for even more suffering!
Disclaimer: This is by no means a new take on the classic legacy challenge, and I’m sure there are many other challenges out there that are very similar! I’ve just been binge-watching lilsimsie’s current LP whilst suffering a bad flare-up of my chronic illness and felt so inspired that I pulled out my old gaming laptop so I could play something similar in bed! Now that I’m going into gen 2 I thought I would write up some rules that I could personally follow, and have decided to share them here with you. xo
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people like @saruin @gloomiegalaxie @aniraklova @vyxated @surely-sims @thatonegreenleaf @ssspringroll and many many more! i can't possibly list them all here bc there are actually a lot and that's a good problem to have BUT they need more recognition.
@alwaysfreecc is a good place to find creators who really deserve the support! <3
using SRWE to take screenshots is a must! basically what it does is it sizes up your game window to be larger than your physical screen, meaning you can get screenshots in much higher resolutions. for my screenshots, i size up my game window to 2x the normal resolution (3840 x 2160) here's a tutorial!
g/reshade and relight i use my own personal gshade preset along with relight for my screenshots. relight is a game changer for adding dynamic light sources into your game it does cost money tho here's a download link to my gshade preset, here's a tutorial for installing gshade, here's a link to relight and a tutorial for how to access it, and here's a tutorial for getting relight to work with gshade relight is built for reshade so it will be different for gshade!
graphics rule overhaul by Simp4Sims is a replacement file for graphicsrules.sgr which tweaks multiple settings and will overall improve your in-game quality here's the download link along with a tutorial
sunblind by softerhaze is a lighting mod that overhauls the lighting in your game so you can leave behind ea's ugly lighting! here's the download link + a tutorial for installation
better in-game and gentle cas lighting by northernsiberiawinds is another lighting mod! i use the "average" setting here is a link to the download for in-game lighting and cas lighting over on their patreon
buckley's camera mods allow for taking screenshots at more angles and is another absolute must have here's a link to the download
recreating topaz clean in photopea photopea is a free to use photo-editing website that is pretty much exactly like photoshop! i use the oil paint feature to recreate topaz clean (an old photoshop action) that smooths out those pesky jagged edges here's the tutorial i used for using oil paint in photopea
and that's really all! hope some of you could find this useful <3
this is a list of the palestinian survivors and their families who've reached out to me lately — please donate if it's within your means to do so, and REBLOG TO BOOST. thank you!
eman zaqout, vetted by 90-ghost, $23,597/$40,000
aya alanquar, vetted by 90-ghost, $10,282/$15,000
amal and family, vetted by 90-ghost, €8,185/€50,000
eman and family, can't find if this is vetted yet, $255/$50,000 (VERY LOW ON FUNDS)
mohammed and family, vetted by 90-ghost, €19,120/€35,000
musab, vetted by 90-ghost, £5,395/£8,000
mahmoud alkhaldi, vetted by 90-ghost, $12,820/$50,000
ayaa and family, vetted by 90-ghost, $3,435/$20,000
wafa and family, vetted by 90-ghost, $6,489/$50,000
ahmed and family, vetted by apollos-olives, €2,764/€30,000
yousef hilles, vetted by el-shab-hussein, €15,181/€23,000
muhammad atalla, vetted by 90-ghost, €14,075/€82,000
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