I was told I should make this like a year ago, but you know me, I’m lazy as heck lmao. So I’m making it now, my list of tips to play the 100 Baby challenge! Please note, this is mostly best on how I play. There might be more “optimal” ways to do things but I don’t know everything about this game lmao. It will also need updating when the High School Years pack and its base game update come out, I will do that after a little play time to get the hang of it.
I’ll divide this into sections, and I’ll do this under a cut because this might be a long one.
Also, if you can spare a reblog, I literally spent hours on this... 💗
First of all, I want to say that it all depends on the level of difficulty you want. I’ll try to give tips on the most optimal way to do things, and also if you’re like me and you like a challenge, how to make things a bit harder on yourself.
The Matriarch
Choosing your matriarch’s traits is important, of course, it’s the first decision you make when starting this challenge. The romantic trait is the most obvious choice, since it makes your sim flirty quite often, but to make things a bit harder, you can choose to skip it. For my 100BC matriarch Mavis, I chose perfectionist, because higher quality crafts means more money, and neat, because those Sims get positive moodlets while cleaning and your matriarch will do a LOT of cleaning. Finally, I couldn’t resist giving her the family oriented trait, another go-to. This one gives your Sim happy moodlets when they spend time with their family, which then again will happen a lot.
Choosing her aspiration is just as important: a Love aspiration gives her the alluring trait, which makes her more successful at romance, but it’s not the only option. A Family aspiration such as Big Happy Family or Superparent can be easy to complete without giving such a big advantage, and I also like the Creativity aspirations which depending on what skill you choose to make money with, can be a viable option. Don’t forget to change her aspiration once you’ve completed it!
Finally, rewards. First I always activate whims in the options, to get those extra satisfaction points, you can never have too much of those. For reward traits, I always get fertile first, for obvious reasons. Then I like to get steel bladder and seldom sleepy, because when pregnant your matriarch will need the bathroom all the damn time, and she will be tired a lot when she has three hungry toddlers running around in the middle of the night. I also get beguiling if I have the points for it, but to me it’s not the most important one to get. And depending on what skills your matriarch has maxed out, getting the mentor trait might be worth it. Your teens will get their painting level three in one painting with the matriarch mentoring them.
The House
In my research (yes I did some research!!!) I’ve seen tutorials that recommend living in a tiny house. Hummm… I’ve never tried it, so I can’t say it’s not viable, but your matriarch does need a double bed, and you’ll often have two toddlers and five kids/teens, sometimes three toddlers and four kids/teens. You need to be able to host all this little crowd. Of course, at first you don’t need a huge home because you start with only the matriarch. I usually start in a starter home with two bedrooms and one bathroom and I extend the house when babies start being born. For kids and teens, bunk beds are your best friends. Kids and teens can share a bedroom, but I like to keep my toddlers separated from them because toddlers have nightmares and when they do they WILL wake up everyone, so it’s better if you can catch them and cancel the interaction before they can get to the next person. Also, very important: have your toddler room, your toddler bathroom (with the tub and the potty) and your highchair if you use one (more on that later) on the same level! Toddlers at first can’t climb stairs and your matriarch has better things to do than to carry toddlers around. If you can’t do that though, just have your toddler practice their movement as soon as they age up until they get to level two so they can climb stairs. About bassinets, I usually put them in a hallway… I know it’s strange, but let me explain: babies when they cry wake up everyone toddler and up who might sleeping in the room they are in. And babies cry a lot. So I put them in a room where no one sleeps. Hence the hallway. Usually I choose one not too far from the matriarch’s bedroom.
About bathrooms – yes I’m making that its own paragraph because the previous one is way too long: You need at least two. I’d advise you separate the toilet from the rest of the bathroom (is this called half-bathrooms? I think). You need a bathtub for toddlers, but for space purposes I usually use a bath-shower combo. If you’ve got two free tiles and you can squeeze an extra toilet in there, do it. Also restrict access to non household members to every bathroom and every toilet but one. That’ll avoid them breaking all your appliances. In my current gameplay, my matriarch has her own bathroom for those emergency bathroom breaks, the kids and teens share another bathroom designed so they can use the shower and toilets at the same time without seeing each other (yes, that’s possible too!) and the toddlers have a bathtub and potty room, and there is one extra guest toilet. It might seem like a lot, but it’s the first time none of my kids ever had an accident while waiting for a bathroom to become available. Speaking of appliances, you’ll wanna upgrade those as soon as you have the handiness level, the spare parts, and the free time to do so.
For lot traits, I think the lay lines lot trait is a must, but I only add it after the house is at its final size, when I can afford all those extra kids. Good schools is also important for kids to age up quickly. For the third one, it depends on what skills your matriarch is earning her money from, you might want one that makes her progress faster. Homey is a good option too, as it’ll help her get her cooking and handiness to max faster, and you will need both of those.
Getting Pregnant
Getting your first baby on the way should be easy. Usually there is at least one man in the welcoming wagon, and if not, grab the first townie walking by. I usually get the friendship bar a third of the way before I start flirting. Then I just use flirty interactions until the first kiss option shows up. If the sim react negatively to your flirting, just go back to friendly interactions until the conversation becomes friendly again, then try again with the flirting. You are going to need a lot of “victims” for this challenge, so I’d advise your matriarch introduce herself to every man she sees. Once they are in her relationships panel, she just has to call them when she has a little free time and chat them up. You can have her flirt with her next victim while being pregnant from the previous one, so when she gives birth she just has to call him over and try for a baby. Also, if you have MCCC on and your townies can breed on their own (or even with story progression now) you might want to be careful not to have kids with your matriarch’s cousin’s son as those don’t register as family in the game for some reason (this is more for gen 2 and up matriarchs, or if your first matriarch has family in the save).
Making Money
There is many ways for your matriarch to make money without working. The easiest ones are painting, writing books, and keeping a garden. Those aren’t exclusive, you can do all three! I like trying new ways to make money, though. I did woodcarving, flower arranging, fabricating, and cross stitching. All of those are viable. I don’t know about the other ones, but why not give it a try! And if you’re tight on money, send your kids and teens fishing or harvest collectibles after school! Also, if you have parenthood, the kids will receive birthday gifts for every birthday, and there will be MANY birthdays. Sell the gifts you don’t need and you might make a lot of money (especially the toys, toys are worth so much in this game). Same goes for school projects, if you have a lot of them, sell a few, they’re worth 100§ each.
Babies
Four words: ultra efficient baby care. You’ll want your matriarch to get her parenting skill to max to be able to use it, but that will come easily with all the parenting she’ll do. Fun fact, you can actually care for twins exclusively with ultra efficient baby care. As soon as the twins are born, use the baby care on one, and just feed the second. When the second baby cries for a diaper change, you should be able to reuse the baby care (if not just let him cry until you can...) so use it on the second baby. Then just alternate every time they cry. If you don’t have parenthood, just changing and feeding babies every time they cry (regardless of what they want) was how I used to do it when I didn’t have it.
Toddlers
Aaaah… Toddlers… You’re gonna hate them. My first advice is that if you use CC toddler beds, make sure they have energy 1. You want the little devils to spend as much time sleeping as possible. Also, don’t forget to check on their hunger level while they’re sleeping. As for feeding them, I personally use the high chair for realism reasons, but if this is your first 100BC and you’re not used to caring for multiple toddlers, I’d advise you skip it altogether and just drag food from your fridge onto the floor for toddlers to grab a serving from. If you do decide to play with highchairs, know that one highchair is enough to feed two toddlers, three if they don’t get hungry at the same time… If you have more toddlers, which happens, you might want to invest in more highchairs. Also, I always click the highchair to decide which child I feed and what I feed them. If you click the toddler, it doesn’t let them decide what you feed them, and sometimes you might want to avoid the sugar rush thing, or to the contrary provoke it. Also, it might seem awful but my toddlers’ hygiene and attention levels are almost always in the red. They won’t get taken away for that, so don’t worry about it!
Now onto toddler skills. Let’s start with potty. Did you know that when a toddler watches another toddler who’s on the potty, he gains potty skill too? Yep. Use that in order for them to reach level two without your matriarch spending hours potty training. Also independent toddlers don’t need to be trained by an adult at all. For communication, that’s the easiest, just spam talk to the giant plushie. For creativity any toy from the toy box does the job. We’re left with the hardest two, for me at least. Movement can be done with the construction cubes. Thinking too, but only from level two, so to get there, I use the tablet. In general, I use the tablet a lot when I have two/three toddlers and only one set of cubes, but for extra challenge you can try to have your toddlers reach their skills without using the tablet at all. For that, have the matriarch or a teen do flashcards with them for the thinking skill, or just do a lot of “what is this” interactions with the toddler if thee are no grown ups available.
Children
Children need a skill level 4 to get their grades to an A. The easiest way to get that is via the social skill. Just have the kids chat between themselves, or with a random person in the street, and once they unlock the “talk about school day” interaction just alternate that with any other friendly interaction (so that the person they’re talking to doesn’t get bored) and the level ups will start raining… so much so that if you have time, you can easily get your kids to level 10 to then have them work on their charisma or mischief for the teen skill… Also to anticipate for the teen skills, here are a list of skills children can start learning and keep when they become teens (according to the wiki, I haven’t tried them all): fishing, photography (though I don’t recommend this one as it takes forever to level up), bowling, pet training (though that requires having a pet which takes a slot in the household, so I don’t recommend it either), robotics, skiing, snowboarding, knitting, medium and cross-stitch.
If you have Parenthood, you have access to school projects. I only do those when kids are C or teens are B and just aged up. They aren’t mandatory but they help progress the grades while also upping the skills. I never buy them though, that’s wasted money. I keep the ones the kids come home with on Mondays and just use those when I want to.
Teens
I won’t develop this too much because it might all change with the upcoming pack. I just wanted to say that it might be a fun little challenge to try to do all the skills in the game as your level three skills for your teens! Also, don’t hesitate to use your tees to take care of the toddlers when they’re not at school. Your matriarch needs all the help she can get.
Making It Fun!
People sometimes tell me they get bored playing the 100BC, and I can understand why. It’s a very repetitive challenge where sims come and go out of your house like in a baby making factory. So here is my advice on how to keep it fun. First, do things. On the weekend with the whole family, or during school days with your matriarch alone, do stuff. Go visit the older kids that moved out of the house, go on a ski trip, go to the bar to hunt for new victims, go to a festival (to hunt for new victims…), just do stuff! You don’t have to be locked inside that house with your matriarch 24/7! Secondly, you don’t have to only play for the performance. If you want to sacrifice a slot in your household for a pet, do it. If you like one of the kids and want to keep them around longer, do it. If one of your teens aged up but you want to help them find love before they move out, do it! It doesn’t have to always be about the matriarch! In my first 100BC, my third matriarch had a twin brother. I decided to keep him around to help with the toddlers. He later was abducted by aliens and had an alien daughter. I decided to keep her around too! And those were some of my favorite sims to play with ever.
There you go!
I didn’t expect this to be this long lmao! I was planning on doing a bullet list and it turned into this… Thanks to those of you who read though it all and if you’ve got tips of your own don’t hesitate to add them in a reblog or a comment!
London takes a selfie with her young adult kids before they move out
London's Genealogy
👶🏻 100 Baby Tips under the cut. 🍼
London's Backstory
London was tasked to repopulate the world using any means necessary. This was her mission following a major catastrophe that left everyone barren, everyone except London. Will she succeed during her child bearing days or is too much pressure for one sim?
100 Baby Tips
Aspirations to go for: Super Parent for Full Parent Mode and Character Value building; Big Happy Family for massive skill gain boost
Homework and Projects: Each child/teen must finish their homework, extra credit, and 1 project before going to school. This way, kids go from aging up with Grade School C > B > A > High School B > A in just 5 school days. For faster time to complete these, put a project outside, have a kid start on it carefully, then have the kid click on any passerby and select Ask for help with project. 4 sims working on a project completes it way faster. Working on projects also add Responsibility.
Holidays: It may seem cruel but kids can still Go to School even during Harvestfest and Winterfest.
Household Clubs: Create a club and add your kids for more skill gain boosts. Initially, assign home activities like sleeping, eating, cleaning to gain Club Points. When all the skill gain Club Perks have been bought, all Club Activities can be removed. Skill gains are still boosted whenever there's a gathering.
Dating Club + Donor Club: This combo acts like a pipeline for future donors. First, partners are recruited into the Dating Club to make it easier to invite the sims into the lot and to easily increase the romantic relationship. Then, the next donor is moved to the Donor Club. After the matriarch gives birth, start the gathering for the Donor Club and the donor will arrive no matter what the time. After the donor enters the house, end the gathering then Try for Baby. Once successful, you can move up one sim from the Dating Club to the Donor Club and remove the previous donor.
Donors: After the matriarch becomes pregnant, you can Ask to be Just Friends with the donor. This way, it is easy to see that they had a previous relationship, but no one gets jealous when recruiting future donors.
Selfie Wall: It is definitely not required, but having the kids take a selfie with mom before moving out and putting each photo on the wall, was both a good keepsake and a good count keeper.
Hope these help! London hasn't aged up into an Adult by the time the last child moved out as a Young Adult, so these tips worked well for me.
Stats: 3 sets of triplets, 8 sets of twins, 86 donors, 100 babies
Final Rating: Was fun, but will not try it again 🤣
Molly Juarez: Toddler- child 16/100 - 1st generation. Creative and smart little kiddo, the last biological child of Mimi and Robbie.
Elliot Juarez: Teen- child 12/100 - 1st generation. Introduction here
(Couch)
Robbie Juarez: adult- dad. Introduction here
Mimi Juarez: adult- mommy. Introduction here
(Floor)
Victoria Juarez: Toddler- child 18/100 - 1st generation. Sweet and charming little girl, third adoptive child of Mimi and Robbie.
(Back row)
Cherry Hoffman: Teen- child 10/100 - 2nd generation. Oldest daughter of Ivy and Chester Hoffman, and the oldest grandchild of Mimi and Robbie.
Chester Hoffman: Young adult- in-law. Ivy's Husband. He works as an engineer in the field and was Ivy's highschool sweetheart.
Ivy (Juarez) Hoffman: Young adult- child 2/100 - 1st generation. Part of the original Juarez household, Ivy has a love for children and animals and is a stay-at-home-mom who runs an in-home daycare facility.
(Front)
Penelope Hoffman: child- child 13/100- 2nd generation. Ivy's second child and Cherry's younger sister. She is spunky and social.
(Left to Right)
Leif Juarez: young adult- child 4/100- 1st generation. Fourth child and first son of Mimi and Robbie. He dropped out of college and pursued engineering on his own path.
Vira (Poe) Juarez: young adult- in-law. Leif's loving wife. When they met, he had a crush on her and she was a mean girl. He was persistent and it caused her to change into a better person over time as she started to care for him and became good friend's with his sister Ramona.
Jasmina Juarez: baby- child 19/100- 2nd generation. The youngest grandchild of Mimi and Robbie and current youngest child of the 100 baby legacy.
Drona Anand: young adult- in-law. Ramona's live-in partner. They parent a dog together named Doki. His striking looks have caught the attention of Ramona's sister, Marja, and she has been secretly in love with him since they all used to hang out. Marja met Drona first, but when she introduced him to Ramona, Drona was infatuated.
Ramona Juarez: young adult- child 1/100- 1st generation. Introduction here
(sorry for the reshade change, the lighting was weird)
(Back)
Meryl Strokes: young adult- in-law. Celebrity super star who met Rosie by chance in the park. She treated him like a normal person instead of a teen-dream-boy, and now they are married with three kids.
Rosie (Juarez) Strokes: young adult - child 7/100 - 1st generation. Lover of gardening and being a mother. She is the twin of Nadia. She's recently rose to fame due to her marriage with Meryl Strokes.
Jonah Strokes: toddler - child 17/100 - 2nd generation. Clingy little dude. Kind of a crybaby and loves his mom.
(Front)
Todd Strokes: child - child 14/100 - 2nd generation. Twin of Phoebe. Athletic and social kid.
Phoebe Strokes: child - child 15/100 - 2nd generation. Twin of Todd. Social girl who is very trendy and popular at school.
don't mind the clipping on the pose, it wasn't meant for plus size sims oop-
Scarlet Juarez: young adult- child 9/100- 1st generation. Introduction here
Mavis Juarez: young adult - child 11/100- 1st generation. Introduction here
Marja Juarez: young adult- child 3/100- 1st generation. Introverted teacher. College graduate. Deals with genetic gloominess. She's a mama bear to her younger siblings, and is secretly in love with her sister, Ramona's, boyfriend.
Malcolm Juarez: young adult- child 8/100- 1st generation. Free spirited ecologist, loves to play music and travel. Is currently travelling the Sim world, starting in the jungle. He is excited to explore, and maybe find someone to explore with him...
Nadia Juarez: Young adult- child 6/100- 1st generation. Twin of Rosie. She is athletic and an army corporal. She hasn't had much interest in anything but her training in recent years.
June Juarez: Young adult- child 5/100- 1st generation. Introduction here
