I’m giving Oasis Springs a full cultural and architectural makeover, reimagining it as a vibrant desert city with Middle Eastern influences. This rebuild will balance everyday family life with rich community spaces, turning Oasis Springs into a living, breathing world for Middle Eastern sims. 🏡
There are 9 residential lots across the neighborhoods, plus 12 themed community lots (see below).
Required Packs
To fully enjoy my Oasis Springs rebuild, you’ll need:
✔️ Base Game 🎮 (Oasis Springs is base game!)
✔️ Spa Day 💆 (Raha Spa)
✔️ Get Together 🎶 (Sukoon Teahouse café lot)
✔️ Dine Out 🍽️ (Al-Noor Restaurant)
✔️ City Living 🏙️ (Layali Hookah Lounge + décor)
✔️ Snowy Escape 🏔️ (Hammam Al-Falah bathhouse)
✔️ For Rent 🏢 (Apartments & duplexes)
✔️ Cats & Dogs 🐾 (Paws & Claws Vet Clinic)
✔️ Werewolves 🌙 (Al-Falah Mosque build set)
✔️ Courtyard Oasis Kit 🏛️ (Key architectural + décor pieces)
✔️ Life & Death ⚰️ (Botanical Garden features)
✔️ Get Famous 🌟 (Spa & botanical garden extras)
✔️ Jungle Adventure 🌴 (Landscaping + cultural décor)
✔️ Island Living 🏝️ (Architecture & landscaping details)
Community Lots
Here’s the new lineup of venues:
🕌 Al-Falah Mosque (Wedding venue, community events)
🛍️ The Grand Bazaar (Marketplace)
🌿 Rawdat al-Furḥah (Botanical garden with fountains, chess, community garden plots, a playground with splash pad, and tons of activities)
🐾 Paws & Claws Vet Clinic
💆 Raha Spa (Wellness, yoga, massage, meditation, and salon)
📚 Dar Al-Ilm Library (Family-friendly library, archive & debate area)
🏛️ Bait Al-Fann Museum (Islamic/Middle Eastern-inspired art, tapestries, pottery, easels for painting)
🍽️ Al-Noor Restaurant (Middle Eastern dining)
How I’m Approaching This
I’m blending CC-free builds from the Gallery with some of my own creations. If I can’t find the right vibe, I’ll build from scratch — and I’d love to collab with other builders who enjoy this style! My goal is to make the world feel authentic, not stereotypical, with lots that Sims can actually live and play in.
Looking for Feedback!
What do you think of the lineup? Would you add or swap anything to make Oasis Springs feel more alive and family-friendly? 🌙 Suggestions for CC-free builds or collabs are always welcome!
I’ve been working away on Rawdat al-Furḥah (Garden of Joy), and I thought it was time to share some progress shots! 🌿
📸 Sneak peeks from the build so far
The front entrance of the garden, framed by greenery and water fountains, welcoming visitors into the garden
A top-down view of the full courtyard layout so you can see how everything connects
The cozy fire pit area, perfect for evening hangouts
A peaceful meditation corner, designed as a calming retreat
The main water feature in the heart of the garden, which really brings the space to life
Right now, I’m mostly working on:
The tower interiors
Finishing the (seemingly endless 😅) greenery
Adding detail to the bathrooms
Finalizing the playground
Decorating the colonnades
It’s finally starting to feel like a real community hub, and I’m so excited to see it coming together. 🌙
As always, feedback is welcome—especially from Muslim and Middle Eastern simmers, since my goal is to create something that feels both respectful and authentic.
More updates soon, but for now, here’s a little glimpse into how the garden is growing. 💧🌴
I’ve been working on a new community lot for Oasis Springs, and I’d love to share a sneak peek before it’s finished. This build is inspired by Middle Eastern and Islamic architecture, since I’m reimagining Oasis Springs into a more culturally rich and regionally inspired world.
🌿 What’s inside so far:
A central botanical garden courtyard with water features and lots of seating
A playground with a splash pad in the back for kids and toddlers
A chess courtyard on the right
A community garden on the left
Family-friendly bathrooms (separate men’s and women’s sections, with toddler potties)
Easels for painting, a wishing well, a busker’s spot, a fire pit, a seller's table, a breakdancing-style dance floor, and a fortune teller
Telescopes for stargazing
Right now, you’ll see a lot of sand inside the walls, but all of that will eventually be lush greenery to bring the space to life.
🌙 Still deciding:
A meditation or prayer room
Indoor lounge areas with couches and water features
More kid-friendly activity spaces
How to use the space under the last tower
What flooring to use on the colonnades and second floor of the towers
⚠️ Important note:
I am not Muslim or Middle Eastern myself, so I want to be respectful and avoid turning this build into a caricature. That’s why I’m sharing it early: I’d love feedback, suggestions, and constructive criticism from Muslim and Middle Eastern simmers.
I’m currently calling this lot Rawdat al-Furḥah (which I understand translates to Garden of Joy). Since I’m not a native speaker, I’d love to know if this name feels accurate, respectful, and appropriate—or if you’d recommend something better.
If there’s anything I’ve gotten wrong—or anything I could include to make this feel more authentic and community-oriented—please let me know.
💡 The goal is for this to be a welcoming, family-friendly space that reflects the beauty and culture of the region, while staying useful and fun for Sims gameplay.
I'm building a small business residential lot featuring a cat café and bakery downstairs, with a cozy upstairs apartment for Catarina Lynx. It's a work in progress.🏗️ The landscaping needs to be done, and the colours and some items might change as I go (or if I actually buy B&H), but I’m loving the vibe so far!😻✨
I just wish the back looked as good as the front! If you have any suggestions—or if any fellow builders want to collab—let me know! 🏡🎨
I’ve been working on a plan to give Brindleton Bay a fresh makeover, and I wanted to share my ideas! 🏡✨ Residential lots are marked in red, and haunted residential lots are in purple. There are 12.5 residential homes: 5 standalone houses, a 6-unit apartment building, a haunted house, and Katrina’s apartment above her cat cafe (which is why I’m counting it as 0.5). Now I’m on the hunt for builds to bring it all to life.
Required Packs
To fully enjoy my version of Brindleton Bay, you'll need at least:
✔️ Base Game 💍(Required to play the other packs and for the Yacht Club, which I’m turning into a wedding venue!)
✔️ Cats & Dogs 🐶🐱 (Obviously, since it's Brindleton Bay!)
✔️ For Rent 🏢 (For the apartment building)
✔️ Businesses & Hobbies 🏪 (For Katrina’s Cafe/Apartment)
✔️ Spa Day 💆♀️ (For the Gym/Spa)
✔️ Get to Work 🍽️🐾 (For the seafood restaurant and pet store)
✔️ Get Together ☕ (For the cafe—unless they’re included in B&H? If you have the pack, let me know in the comments if you still need GT to open a cafe in B&H!)
✔️ Snowy Escape 🏔️ (For the hot springs, though if you don’t have it, hot tubs or pools can be substituted!)
How I’m Approaching This
I won’t be building everything from scratch! Instead, I’ll be using lots made by other players whenever possible. I’ll also be adapting custom content (CC) builds to work without CC, since I can’t use it anymore without my game crashing. If I can’t find something that fits my plan and the overall vibe, I’ll either build it myself or, if any builders are interested, we can collaborate!
Looking for Feedback!
Is there anything missing or something you’d change about the plan? Let me know what you think! I’d love to hear suggestions before I finalize everything. 😊
Would also love recommendations for CC-free builds or if anyone wants to collab on this! 💙
Here's a sneak peek of the Straud Funeral Home I'm working on in The Sims 4! It's meant to be a gothic, eerie funeral home with a touch of Victorian charm. 🕯️💀 My original remodel of Straud Mansion was corrupted and honestly way too big, so this version is scaled down but still has all the spooky vibes. What do you think so far? Any ideas for finishing touches or must-have items for a funeral home build? Let me know!
Dark, edgy, and unapologetically goth 🖤 Lilith Vatore embraces her shadowy aesthetic in this Sims 4 lookbook. Who says vampires can’t have killer style? 🦇
This build is my passion project right now. So far it has a:
formal dining room,
conservatory/breakfast/sun room,
eat-in kitchen,
music room,
parlor,
séance room,
two-story library/study,
game room,
smoking/gentlemen’s room,
two half baths on the main floor,
and two secret staircases.
There’s also a cold storage room and wine cellar in the basement. They’re accessible through a hidden staircase between the kitchen and music room. I’m also planning on adding a pool, and a crypt in the basement.
However, I’ve hit a wall with the layout of the second floor and attic, and I’m incredibly grateful that @awingedllama has graciously agreed to take a crack at it for me. I can’t thank you enough, Anna!
i think we can all agree the 2019 rebrand was pretty ugly, so we stuck with the old pack icons as long as we could - whether that was just using the old ones in our download posts for builds or even using mods to revert them back in game (*cough* ME). tbh, the new colours didn’t bother me, but the new design of them wasn’t exactly easiest on eyes… so i went and found these - the icons used in the cas and build + buy catalogs. simpler, cleaner - and not a far cry from the ones we had before. i mainly did this for personal use, but i thought they maybe be useful for some other simmer out there, so here you go! this is uploaded on my birthday too… so consider this my gift to you so we can celebrate together! i scrolled through probably thousands of game icons and files so you don’t have to :)
you can easily use these icons in place the ones of those in @ohmysims‘ nifty icons or @nolan-sims‘s icon overhaul codes (i know i will be doing so!). simply upload each pack icon into a text post on tumblr, click the settings/cog icon in the top right of the post, switch the text editor to html, copy the link ending in .png, and replace corresponding link within the the img src line of each group of code (you should be able to tell which pack is which with the img alt line stating its name before the matching img src line). i know this isn’t the best explanation, but i don’t really want to just copy the code as it was someone else’s original creation beforehand, so if you need any help, shoot me a message! @nolan-sims‘s icon overhaul does have a lot of helpful links to help with the coding as well as to previous versions.
all credit to ea for the original icons of course. the icons are one zipped file together under the cut - unfortunatley i can not upload them separately as the simfileshare doesn’t host .png files :( but use them however you wish! let me know if you have any problems ♡
100 Baby Challenge Guide | Part I: Overview & Matriarch
Objective
The objective of the 100 Baby Challenge is to give birth to 100 children in as few generations as possible, and successfully raise them to Young Adulthood.
Rules
No cheats or mods, except for ‘bb.moveobjects on’ and ‘reset sim’.
No help from nannies, baby daddies, or free services. Daycare is allowed only when leaving your lot to woo another donor.
You can’t use the same donor twice.
You can’t change pre-existing lot traits or lot traits that you choose, so choose wisely.
A child must reach Young Adulthood to count toward the 100 -- therefore they can’t die or be taken away by social services.
Your matriarch can’t get married until she becomes an elder, and must move out of the household after she is married.
You can’t have a career that takes you out of the household. Example: rabbit-hole jobs.
Only Young Adults can be moved out of the household.
You can’t influence your child’s gender or traits. You must use the randomizer for traits. You can't eat carrots or strawberries. You must avoid Pop and alternative music.
You can only age up:
-> Babies on their actual birthday;
-> Toddlers once they reach level 3 in all skills, or on their birthday, and;
-> When Children and Teens get an A in school.
TIP: Toddlers who reach level 3 or higher in their skills will have a head start in their skills when they age up to children, so don’t just let them languish until their birthdays. (I will go into more detail about this in Part 3: Babies and Toddlers.)
Step 1: Create your Matriarch
According to the official challenge rules by Snarky Witch, your Matriarch can be male (as long as he can become pregnant) or female, but I’m going to use female pronouns for simplicity sake. You can make her look and sound however you want, but she must be a Young Adult.
Choose her traits and aspirations wisely!
1. Aspirations
I highly recommend either the ‘Freelance Botanist’ or ‘Painter Exraordinaire’ aspiration to begin with. I’ve done both, but I personally prefer the former rather than the latter, because you only have to tend to your plants once a day and are therefore not tied to an easel. The problems I encountered with painting are that it takes awhile to finish one painting, and my matriarch would have to start and stop every time she went into labor or had to do anything else (like eat or take care of kids). You can still paint until your plants start generating simoleons (§), but the lot I chose comes with blooming herbs, so I don’t have to wait.
TIP: However, I also recommend switching back and forth between aspirations, because meeting aspiration milestones will give you satisfaction points which you can spend on helpful reward traits (see the Reward Traits section below). In addition to the ‘Freelance Botanist’ (if you choose to garden at all) and the ‘Painter Extraordinaire’ aspirations, you’ll want to complete the following ones as well:
-> Fabulously Wealthy:
You’ll earn 5% interest on your household funds every week. More § for doing nothing? Yes, please!
-> Nerd Brain:
Instantly fix or upgrade any object. Super useful when stuff breaks, and trust me, they will. Completing knowledge based aspirations such as this one will also give you the Quick Learner bonus trait, which will help you learn skills faster.
-> Big Happy Family:
You’ll boost your children’s skill gains whenever you’re nearby, which means they’ll age up faster, and the faster you can age them out, the faster you can make more kids and finish the challenge.
-> Mansion Baron:
Get 10% back on any build mode purchases added to your household funds once a week. You’re going to be buying stuff to furnish your house, so you might as well get some of your § back, no?
-> Serial Romantic:
You might find this handy for the Alluring bonus trait, because it makes you more successful at romantic interactions.
You can still do career based aspirations like Master Chef without actually joining the career. You just won’t be able to complete them once you get to the career based goals. For Master Chef, you can go up to Milestone III. That’s 1,425 satisfaction points right there! Just be sure to switch to this aspiration before you cook anything, and you’ll easily blow through these goals and milestones (same with the other ones).
TIP: I’ll leave you with this last note: don’t bother with children’s aspirations, EXCEPT for your successor! Completing children’s aspirations just wastes time getting them out of the house, but completing these for your successor is beneficial because it means they can buy bonus traits sooner.
2a. Traits
Check out Carl’s Guide to The Sims 4 Traits if you need help narrowing down your traits, but I highly recommend the following:
-> Creative: your sim will become inspired more often, in turn increasing the quality and value of their paintings (higher quality = more §). Choose this one only if you plan on painting being your primary source of income. Otherwise choose something like Cheerful, which will make your sim happier in general, or any of the other traits instead. For instance, I’ve chosen ‘Loves Outdoors’ for my gardeners.
-> Romantic: your sims will be flirty more often, and will gain romantic relationships faster than other sims. This will help you woo and bed donors faster.
-> Family-Oriented: your sim will gain happiness from being around family, which will honestly be most of the time.
2b. Reward Traits
Reward traits can be bought with satisfaction points from the Rewards store. To get to the Rewards Store, press G and then click on the present.
IMPORTANT! Save your matriarch’s satisfaction points for traits; don’t waste them on potions. However, exchange your Young Adults’ satisfaction points for the ‘Moodlet Solver’ or the ‘Re-Traiting’ reward potion, and then transfer them to your matriarch’s inventory before you move the kid out of your household.
The Moodlet Solver potions will come in handy whenever your sims are mourning the death of someone they know, because it removes all negative moodlets. Don’t mistake this for the Happy potion, which is only a temporary fix.
The Re-Traiting potion, however, is best used on your next matriarch only. The rules of the challenge dictate that you have to randomize all of your children’s traits, so you will inevitably end up with a successor that has unfavorable traits. This potion will allow you to change their traits to more suitable ones. However, focus on stocking up on the Moodlet Solver potions first, and only purchase this one if and when you need it.
I’ve separated the Reward Traits I recommend into 3 categories: general, painters, and gardeners. They’re then ordered from most to least important in each of their categories. If you’re matriarch is a gardener or painter, I recommend buying Never Weary first, then skip to your specific categories, and finally work your way down the rest of the general list. However, anything after Great Kisser really isn’t necessary.
In general...
-> Never Weary (10,000): never have to sleep again! Trust me you’ll want to buy this first, because you’ll get more done if you’re not wasting 6+ hours sleeping.
-> Night Owl (1,000): gain skills 25% faster between 8PM and 3AM. You’re not sleeping any way, so this is great!
-> Frugal (2,000): reduces bills by 25%. Who doesn’t like saving money?
-> Beguiling (2,500): this is my favorite way to woo donors, because it makes it so easy.
-> Great Kisser (3,000): this one increases your Charisma skill every time you kiss, and charismatic sims are more successful at wooing donors.
-> Fertile (3,000): increases your chances of twins and triplets. I don’t recommend this early on. You definitely want to get comfortable with this challenge, and in a groove, before you start popping out multiples.
-> Forever Fresh (8,000): never need to shower or bathe again! Honestly, after the Toddler stage, showering is faster than bathing and isn’t really that much of an inconvenience.
-> Forever Full (10,000): never need to eat again. I like to make my Matriarch and Teens watch the cooking channel while they eat, because it raises their cooking skill, and satisfies their hunger and fun needs at the same time. Therefore this reward, like the previous one, is a very low priority.
For Painters...
-> Marketable (1,500): increases the value of paintings by 10% to triple the usual value. Choose this one, and the next one, if painting is your primary source of income. Otherwise, skip to Night Owl.
-> Creative Visionary (2,000): 20% higher chance of painting Masterpieces, which are worth A LOT of §.
For Gardeners...
-> Morning Sim (1,000): gain skills 25% faster between 5AM and 12PM. This one is great if gardening is your primary source of income, because your plants will need to be tended to and harvested at around 7AM.
For more information on reward traits, check out Carl’s guide here.
Step 2: Choose How to Make Money
I’m not going to spend much time on this, except to clarify which sources of income/careers are allowed. Only Careers that allow you to choose to ‘Work from Home’ are allowed as long as you always choose that option. I’ll try to list all of them, but I’ve only actually tried the Freelancer and Gardener careers with this challenge.
Work from home careers are as follows:
-> Freelancer (Basegame): including Digital Artist, Programmer, Writer, Fashion Photographer (Moschino Stuff), and Crafter Branch (Eco Lifestyle). I don’t recommend this career, because I found it difficult to manage a work-life balance.
-> Critic (City Living): Art or Food Critic.
-> Style Influencer (Basegame): Trendsetter or Stylist.
-> Gardener (Seasons): I prefer Botanist over Floral Designer, because I have no interest in creating flower arrangements. This is also the career I choose, because my Matriarch’s are usually gardeners.
-> Civil Designer (Eco-Lifestyle): Civil Planner or Green Technician.
-> Military (Strangerville): Covert Operator or Officer.
-> Social Media (City Living): Public Relations or Internet Personality.
Keep in mind that you DON’T have to do any of these careers, but make sure they compliment your Matriarch’s traits if you do. I’d even recommend avoiding these altogether if you’re starting this challenge for the first time.
I choose to pursue the Gardener career, because I get bored with just gardening on its own. This also gives me an additional source of income on top of my side hustles (i.e. gardening, selling collectables, etc..)
Other sources of income include:
-> Painting
-> Gardening
-> Fishing
-> Digging for collectables
-> Selling honey (beekeeping in Seasons)
There’s probably more, but I only have experience with Basegame and Seasons, because, up until recently, those were the only ones I owned.
If you have Seasons installed...
I recommend you get at least one Money Tree, but you don’t have to spend 5,000 points in the rewards store to get a seed. You can easily get a fully grown tree from the Gallery if you have the § , and don’t consider this cheating. Perfect trees are available, but I prefer to download the '3 x Money Fruit Tree’ from SimBuilder20 instead. As I’ve said before, I prefer to make § gardening, so starting with a lower level tree helps me build up my matriarch’s gardening skill and complete the ‘Freelance Botanist’ aspiration quicker.
TIP: You don’t have to keep spending points or simoleons to get more money trees.
Here’s how to get 5 more Money Trees for FREE: go into build mode and put your money tree into your household inventory when it bears fruit. When you do this, the fruit (i.e. seeds) will be separated from the tree. You can then take them out of the inventory and plant them (and your first tree) somewhere on your lot.
Conclusion
Please do a Google search for more information on anything mentioned in this guide. Carl’s Sims 4 guides are a great resource, but so is Youtube, etc..
If you have any additional tips regarding the topics covered in this post, please include them as a note on this thread. Otherwise, stay tuned for Part II: Your Lot wherein we will discuss things like: choosing which lot to purchase, applying lot traits, and saving money in build/buy mode.
Meet Fallon Maker. She is the matriarch of my 100 Baby Challenge family, and this is her giving birth to her first set of twins on Winterfest. The twins, Ian and Jacob, marked the first time I reached 10 kids (at least without the game becoming corrupted, and forcing me to start over again.)
This is Fallon sharing a Winterfest meal with Father Winter, and some of her children ages child to young adult (some of them are being camera shy in another room, and the twins were born shortly after this shot.) From right to left, top to bottom we have: Fallon (in white), Caleb, Erica (brown hair), Georgia (black hair), Felicia (redhead talking to Erica), Father Winter, Broderick, and Delia (in green). Missing from this picture is: Allison (the oldest), Heather, the twins (Ian & Jacob), and our newest arrival, baby Kellen.
If you’re counting: that’s 11 in total with 5 boys and 6 girls, because apparently Fallon is a girl factory. I swear I didn’t influence any of the genders; I didn’t use cheats, and she didn’t eat strawberries or carrots, or listen to pop or alternative music (we don’t even own a stereo!)
It could be worse; in a previous attempt at this challenge, one of the frustratingly many ones I’ve lost (save frequently people!), she had 4 boys and 1 girl. I kid you not, she gave birth to boy triplets on her first pregnancy (thanks a lot Don!) No cheats, no ley lines, no fertility trait.
Fun fact about Don Lothario: he’s fathered a child in every single attempt I’ve made at this challenge, EXCEPT this one. Maybe Don’s my bad luck charm? XD
Any way, I'm very proud of the Makers (my families never have the same matriarch/last name), because they’ve survived bugs, crashes, and whatever else the game has thrown at me.
I’ve gotten pretty good at this challenge, at least I think so any way, so I was thinking: would anyone like to know my tips?
I would really love to do a Let’s Play series, but my computer can only run The Sims 4 on low settings, so I worry people wouldn’t watch because of the low quality settings.
BUT!
If you don’t care about that and want to know some of my tips & tricks, like and share this post to make this happen.
The series will cover
* What the challenge is, including a quick overview of the rules;
* Some common tips you’ll hear;
* AND the tips and tricks I’ve developed on my own that I don’t see people talking about online (or at least I haven’t seen them.)
I only own Base game and Seasons, so I would cover everything in regards to those, but not other packs. I can even start over from scratch with a new family, so you can follow from start to finish (given that Fallon is LOADED now, and I imagine most people wanting a tutorial would be starting at square one.)
