#@danjaley

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Spring - Year 3

Justice comes ashore on the side of Isol Isle opposite his family's home.

After securing his windsurf board on the beach, he heads further inland on the small island where fruit trees dominate the scape.

I don't know if I said this already, but since getting back into this game I've done a mass renovation of all of my harvestable lots. I've filled out some with more plants, so that they look more natural and realistic. I've also incorporated harvestable plants on other lots, like the wood gathering lots, the beaches and parks where the family takes leisure days. I've created new lots, so that the gathering spots are more scattered across the entire landscape. Finally, after all of this, I've demolished some old lots after the previously mentioned updates made them obsolete.

Unlike my other saves, I very rarely take shots just to showcase builds in Isolation, so I'll just try to mention when a scene takes place in an updated/new location and maybe touch on what I did.

Anywho, closer to home, Assiduous returns to Poppa Shocc's workshop after solo adventuring for metals and jewels.

As the child puts away the materials, Shocc works diligently inside. I'm pretty sure he is still making the required statues for the fishing hut, which will be an expanse of the port where the family houseboat is docked.

Assiduous makes herself comfortable out front before doing her school work.

Once her written work is completed, Shocc tasks her with cutting jewels that have been stored up at the shop. I don't know if I mentioned this either, but I use gem dust as nails for my builds, so Assiduous' work contributes to the fishing hut build.

As an aside, I've expanded my adds to @danjaley's Banished Challenge rules and typed them up in a doc file. If I remember and have the energy I will post them here.

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That was an interesting read! I like the way a class-system is integrated into the challenge. Also the allowances for different types of houses are a good idea - I always struggle with how much I should get from buymode for realistic decor and how comfortable a house should be.

Yeah, Banished doesn’t really have a class system per se. But the way I play it, there are usually a few families that have nicer houses than the others- a stone house vs. a wooden one. Or, if you play with mods (which of course I do) there are typically larger houses which allow the bannies to have more kids. I always seem to put my farm workers in slightly crappier houses than the workers that are more trade-based. 

I fully admit I added it in there, because what’s a society without a class system? I feel like their should be one in the original game actually.

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Spring - Year 3

FroAnhke staying inside makes Ru's usual work light weight.

Already she's made a second meal, completing another of his daily tasks for him.

To be honest, I'm no longer sure if she was staying in because I was trying out a day off, unsure really what to do with her anymore, or because she was completing a writing want.

Regardless, like me, sim FroAnhke has a difficult time relaxing. This is especially true in a less than neat environment. She not only cleans up the dishes after finishing her meal, but she also washes a load of clothes and mops the floor upstairs.

With her tending to the home, Ru feels free to spend more time in his garden. There he enjoys harvesting and tending to his bees more than he would if his work partner was one of the children.

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I think I need to chuck a bunch of harvestables in this game. Because I have them stored in chest-like items, they don't go bad and then I end up with such a surplus that neither Trovinte nor FroAnhke have as much to do. Since there's a new household on the island I'm thinking I will take a forth of the food items out and give them to the new folks (I don't know what to do about the alchemy stuff just yet), and maybe I'll do this with each new household until I'm forced to make another root cellar. I should note that I've always imagined the root cellar would eventually become a community resource as oppose to just a household one, much like the public baths at my herbalist hut. Initially, because I still haven't found an effective way to prevent the pet adoption person from spawning and do have some animal settings active, I locked certain lots off to just my main household. I thought I would eventually authorize the new people in the lock system I'm using, but I hate it when the non-playables wonder to places I didn't authorize, lol.

Going back to the new households bit, I haven't really thought about how to handle things when the children want families and households of their own. I realize that @danjaley's Banished Challenge itself is about populating an unpopulated world, but I wasn't really doing the challenge as much as I was applying some of the rules to make this save more challenging. I honestly never expected this to last this long. I started it as a distraction from Resistance, and then I never went back to that save and was only eager to return to this one. Anyways, I'm kind of realizing I don't know what I'm doing anymore and that's made game play a little anxiety inducing. I'm sure I'll figure something out, and will likely enjoy the figuring out, it's just right now I feel like I'm in limbo and still taking way more pictures because the children won't be children for very long.

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Spring - Year 3

Once the sun is higher in the sky, FroAnhke and Ru work on completing the spring outfits* for the rest of their family.

Most of the other household members have left home to complete projects, or their homework, as is the case for Justice in Assiduous who are utilizing the temporary school.

Once Trovinte is done with his assignment, he grabs a foraging basket and heads for the family boat.

Today he'll head over to the other side of the central island to gather food. Normally, this would be Ru's domain, but making new outfits has the dye stores running low and Justice is hoping to make up for what he's been using for items in his room.

Decorating isn't the only thing I have to adjust to going back into this save. I have to readjust to @danjaley's Banished Challenge Rules (those rules are over on ModTheSims) plus my additions, and the apprenticing and seasonal events schedule I created. Additionally, Justice aging up, with the triplets soon to follow, means the creation of a new schedule as they'll likely start to exclusively apprentice for their future adult careers. As I still had no idea what I wanted Justice to do, he kind of does most 'away from home' tasks for the first part of this season. He has finally got a future career path, but that doesn't show up in my shots for awhile now.

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*I already mentioned that I was having issues with @greenplumbboblover's functional sewing machine. They've since updated the mod, and I have that version in my game, but my screenshots won't reflect that for awhile. Basically, what I'm saying is yes, I know FroAnhke has a carpet in front of her, but at the time I couldn't get the a lot of features to work and just used what did.

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Spring - Year 3

Meanwhile, back across the island Justice and Assiduous have redressed in everyday wear and circled back to the cow field. 

It’s pretty common at this point for one of the three free standing cows @danjaley​ made to not be as cooperative as the others when I have a sim go to get milk. I usually have to milk the other two, do something else, or just kind of linger, and then wait for the third to give into my demands, lol. It was no different for Justice on this day. Assiduous did seem a good sport about it at least.

Over at the house, Ru studies a recipe and then tries his luck once he finished the book.

I can’t say I remember who it was who recently made a bunch of soup recipes for TS3 (if someone tells me I’ll edit and tag the creator). I found them amongst a long list of food related stuff I am gradually adding and decided to drop in all of the soups and have my household learn them like spring in Isol Isle is synonymous with soup.

Upstairs, Pride proves me wrong that it was her last day doing laundry or that this is a really long day, lol. In addition to adding that washbin and bucket I mentioned a little bit ago, I also removed Kapear’s no stretch laundry mod (found on ModTheSims), so now the children can’t even take stuff off the line.

A little while later, Assiduous and Justice make it back to the house and the prior puts away their gathering basket before heading into the dinning room to recount the afternoon’s adventure to Daddy Trovinte.

Although I don’t have shots, I’m pretty sure I tried out the bathe in the ocean feature that comes with the One with nature mod (MTS) using Assiduous. I mention this because I’m also pretty sure Justice is off showering because he didn’t wash up at the beach.

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Trovinte goes over some basic safety rules, then he takes Justice from egg gathering to tracking and hunting wild goats.

Again, I didn’t have access to @anitmb and @mspoodle1′s hunting mod, but used @danjaley’s edit of the archers gauntlet originally from the EA store in order to set up lots for hunting. The lot in these pictures I set up just for beef and lamb, or honestly, it’s been so long since I’ve been able to go into this game, there might be one large lot with a section for beef and lamb and then another section for pork items (I use a lot of cc food items, so I have more meat items than the official stuff).

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Shocc finally finished the family houseboat, and just in time for Trovinte and FroAnhke’s diving trip.

Here are some exterior shots of the boat which I eventually named “The Sea Elephant.” For the sake of the game, I’m pretending the children were involved in selecting the name.

I’m going to be completely honest here. I can’t quite remember if I stumbled on the pictures that inspired this design when I first decided to build a houseboat for this game or for A Farming Town (which I will later build during Conquer’s Isla Paradiso vacation). However, the moment I saw the designs during a google search I knew I wanted to create something similar, and that they would best fit the style of Isolation.

So below are a couple of photos of houseboats that are similar to the ones that inspired this build. These aren’t the exact pictures I used (I have this issue with file clutter so I tend to delete things after I have used them), and I obviously didn’t/couldn’t completely replicate the style with my limited skills, but they’re very much like the pictures I kept referring to when I worked on this.

I am very proud of this build, and as I noted awhile ago, the interior of the boat is extravagant, and I broke some of the extended rules I added to @danjaley​​’s Banished Challenge in order to furnish it.

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With night fully settled in, and the family gathered around the bond fire, Ru handed out belated presents to the triplets.

First he gave Pride, a Mrs. Jenny doll (a King_Deadly creation that can be found over on Modthesims.info). Then he gave Real a bear with wings (the fairy kind that I guess came with Supernatural?). Finally, he handed the oldest of the three, Integrity, a MySims doll (Hopper, from the 4 to 3 collection over at aroundthesims3). 

Of course, in keeping with my edits to @danjaley’s Banished Challenge rules the parents gathered the materials and one or more of them either upped their writing skill or crafted to simulate making the birthday gifts.