Full House - The Cottage Challenge
Since the launch of the Cottage Living expansion, I've seen several simmers asking their followers if they should make LP with the new pack, so, through this new challenge, I come to say: YES, DO SOME COTTAGECORE LP.
In short, this challenge aims to combine the gameplay of simulation with the build mode, and consists of starting to play with a grieving family, who decide to buy an abandoned farm house, and make it a home. You will have to work hard to earn money and renovate the lot as the family grows larger and larger.
Your goal is to end up with the farm 100% revitalized and with eight sims. If you're not very familiar with build mode, don't worry! I built the house so that it is easy to expand, and the backyard areas are also well divided.
Required:
In order to fully enjoy this lot, you will need: Cottage living, snowy scape, eco lifestyle, discover university, island living, seasons, cats & dogs, city living, get together, get to work, strangerville, parenthood, outdoor retreat, paranormal stuff pack, and laundry day stuff pack.
Yes, maybe I got too excited and ended up using too many different packs as I built. I'm sorry.
Rules:
- Don't cheat! Ok, you'll have to cheat one time to buy the lot, but just this one time!;
- No full-time jobs. You're sims can only have part-time jobs. Your goal is to work with the farm;
- Only the house expansions can have a modern theme. The original construction should continue with a cottage theme.
Hints:
- Take a good look at the trash before getting rid of it. I may have hidden some cool stuff over there (but don't be fooled, nothing is going to give you a lot of money);
- Always play with bb.moveobjects on.
How to start:
- Create your household with 3 sims. The house is already equipped with the worst double bedroom in the world, but usable, an acceptable bedroom with a single bed, and a makeshift attic room.
If you don't want to spend time on CAS, check out the Littlelion household, that I created for this challenge and will be using it for my own game.
- Select a season (it's up to you!);
- Go to Henford-On-Bagley and move your household to 2 Olde Mill Lane;
- The lot that we're using it's worth $31.039, so, ops, you don't have that much money. So you'll have to cheat. But just this one time!;
- With your game paused, so you don't waste your sims time, press ctrl + shift + c;
- Type: testingcheats true
- Press enter;
- Type: Money 40000
- Press enter;
- Type: bb.moveobjects on
- Press enter;
- Press ctrl + shift + c to close the cheat bar and now you're good to go!;
- Go to the gallery and find the right lot. It's name is "Full House Challenge", and my ID is arut3mis. You can also find the right lot with the hashtags #FullHouseChallenge #CottageChallenge #SimmerMaya and #arut3mis.
- Now you place the furnished lot;
- Explore your own too-old-but-new cottagecore life! And good luck.
Goals:
- Renovate and expand the house. It has to be comfortable for eight sims;
- Change the old fences;
- Revitalize the pond;
- Get rid of all the garbage;
- Grow your planting;
- Build a greenhouse;
- Go through, at least, 5 generations (so you don't need to do any renovations in a hurry). If five generations isn't enough for you to renovate the whole lot, do more!
- Have at least 1 hen, 1 rooster, 1 llama and 1 cow all the time;
- Finish your challenge with eight sims living on the lot, not counting cats and dogs (you can have cats and dogs if you use a mod to expand your sims limit).
Looking for a nightmare challenge? Don't worry, let's make it harder:
If you are looking for a harder challenge, try playing with short lifespan AND/OR add make de lot haunted.
Let's take a better look at the lot now.
It's dirty, abandoned, dark, overgrown, it has stains everywhere and fallen trees. The furniture in the house is precarious and old.
The lot size is 50x40, and it's purposely not the biggest lot available in the game. That's why it's called Full House.
I've already made the lot to come with Simple Living and Wild Foxes challenges. And the traits are On Ley Line and Homey. There is a trait space available for you to add something if/as you like.
You can see more pics of the house here
That's all, folks. I hope you like it and have fun!
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