Couldn’t get enough of the original Not So Berry Legacy Challenge? Already played through Not So Berry Challenge 2? Wishing you could play a challenge with content from 2021 onward? If you’ve been daydreaming about an updated Not So Berry Challenge (2023), look no further!
Welcome to the Not So Berry Legacy Challenge 3, a ten generation rags-to-riches legacy challenge with colour-themed heirs. Note: This challenge requires basically every pack except My First Pet Stuff and Journey to Batuu (…y’all know why).
Thank you to @lilsimsie and @alwaysimming for the inspiration (and the rules!).
Basic rules:
Each heir must represent the colour of the generation (like hair, makeup, clothing), but brightly-coloured skin isn’t necessary.
The colours of the spouses don’t matter as they aren’t part of the challenge. Unless otherwise stated you can do whatever you please with them.
Cheats can be used, but not excessively.
You may live wherever you please unless something is specified in the rules of a generation.
Every generation is supposed to complete both the career and aspiration of the heir unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Keep the lifespan on Normal.
Generation One: Soil
Well, you’re on your own now and you haven’t got much to your name except a plot of land and a couple of chickens. That’s alright though; animals tend to understand you better than Sims, anyway. Living off the land is difficult work but you’re determined to cultivate a respectable farm with livestock, fruit trees, and even some oversized produce!
Traits: Animal Enthusiast, Socially Awkward, Music Lover
Aspiration: Country Caretaker
Career: None
Rules:
Complete the Country Caretaker aspiration.
Start on an empty lot in Henford-on-Bagley with 500 Simoleons.
Hard mode: Start as a teen.
Max the cross-stitch and gardening skills.
Play using the Living Off the Land lot challenge.
Befriend Patchy the Straw Man.
Complete 5 requests for your neighbours.
Generation Two: Sprout
Your best buddy growing up was a farm animal, and now you want to give back to the creatures that meant so much to you. As a veterinarian, you meet a lot of people and make a lot of friends. You spend your free time volunteering and training the animals you bring home with you.
Traits: Cat Lover, Dog Lover, Outgoing
Aspiration: Slumber Party Animal (Child), Friend of the Animals
Career: Veterinarian
Rules:
Complete the Friend of the Animals aspiration.
Max the veterinarian and pet training skills.
Befriend one of your parent’s farm animals as a Child.
Adopt at least one cat and one dog.
Volunteer on weekends.
Generation 3: Blossom
So, your parent was really into animals. And maybe that was a little bit too internalized in you… because now you can’t stop thinking about embracing your primal side and becoming a Werewolf. You still need to pay the bills though, so you work as a Green Technician to protect your territory’s ecosystem. On the weekends, you and your pack go bowling.
Traits: Lactose Intolerant, Insider, Loyal
Aspiration: Werewolf Initiate, Emissary of the Collective OR Wildfang Renegade
Career: Civil Designer, Green Technician branch
Rules:
Complete 2 Werewolf aspirations.
Max the bowling and logic skills.
Become a Werewolf.
Find and marry your Fated Mate.
Go bowling every weekend.
Generation Four: Mist
Uhh… you okay? You were kind of raised by… literal Werewolves. The experience was kind of traumatic, and now you’re trying to live a normal life. You eat grilled cheese as a coping mechanism and as a teen, you start a side hustle so you can move out on your own ASAP. You go to university and get a completely normal job in the city. You struggle to trust someone enough to fall in love, especially after the whole… “Fated Mates” thing your parents had going on. You just really, really want something normal.
Traits: Overachiever, Paranoid, Perfectionist
Aspiration: Goal Oriented (Teen), Grilled Cheese
Career: Any side hustle or part-time job (Teen), Education
Rules:
Complete the Grilled Cheese aspiration.
Max the cooking, baking, and flower arranging skills.
If your Sim is given the option to graduate early, take it.
Get a degree.
After university, move to the city (San Myshuno, Del Sol Valley, or San Sequoia) and get a bonsai tree.
Marry someone with a secret (for example, is an Alien or a Criminal).
Generation Five: Lava
Things were kind of weird growing up, and now you’re healing from your childhood. If therapy was a thing, you’d so be there. But since it’s not, you dedicate yourself to journaling, wellness, and less socially-acceptable coping mechanisms.
Traits: Erratic, High Maintenance, Party Animal
Aspiration: Drama Llama (Teen), Villainous Valentine (Adult), Inner Peace (Elder)
Career: Culinary, Mixologist branch
Rules:
Complete the Villainous Valentine aspiration.
Max the mixology, wellness, and writing skills.
Have a negative relationship with your parents.
Have an affair with a celebrity.
Have a child with a married Sim.
Write a tell-all memoir book as an elder.
Generation Six: Ash
You had a fractured family life growing up, but one thing your parents told you about was your ancestor who started a magnificent farm. You want to start anew, just like they did. But, well, you’re kind of a city kid… so you only grow avocados. Also, you’re totally in-tune with the paranormal and commune with ghosts for work.
Live in an apartment and grow avocados on the balcony.
Marry a Sim that you’ve brought back from the dead.
Generation Seven: River
If there were an award for weirdest upbringing, you’d probably get it. Seriously… one of your parents came back from the dead to have you! The fun doesn’t stop there though. You’re determined to keep having cool experiences and write about them for your whole life.
Traits: Bro, Good, Jealous
Aspiration: Mind and Body (Child), StrangerVille Mystery
Career: Drama Club (Child/Teen), Writer
Rules:
Complete the StrangerVille aspiration.
Max the writing and fitness skills.
Have a child with someone from StrangerVille.
Take your child on vacation at least once every life stage (infant, toddler, child, teen).
Chapter Eight: Ocean
As the heir to a wealthy writer, you’re used to having things handed to you, like jobs and vacations. Now that you’re old enough to make a name for yourself, you want to build your Trendi empire as a Simfluencer. You pick Sulani as the perfect place to make your mark; beautiful weather and beachfront property mean all your followers will be so jealous of you. You love the water more than anyone you know, until one day you see someone a little too far out to sea to be natural…
Traits: Child of the Islands, Child of the Ocean, Mean
Aspiration: Admired Icon (Teen), Party Animal
Career: Trendi (Teen), Simfluencer
Rules:
Complete the Party Animal aspiration.
Max the entrepreneur and media production skills.
Live in Sulani and become a mermaid.
Sell an outfit on Trendi for 9,999 Simoleons.
Get 1,000,000 followers.
Generation 9: Sand
Your parent always encouraged you to do great things with your life… as long as what you want is to be an Interior Decorator. Your real passion is music and you practice whenever you can. You’ve always wanted to rebel against your parent, but never had it in you to actually do it.
Have a Strict family dynamic with your parent (you may cheat for this).
Get a Fine Arts degree at university.
If your Sim experiences a midlife crisis, you must complete it.
Generation 10: Flame
As a little kid, your biggest goal in life was to one day become the best parent ever. Your own parent was sad a lot and you acted out because of it, but you want your own kid to have a happier home. You want to provide everything for your children with your own two hands. You like building on the woodworking bench and brewing herbalism concoctions.
Traits: Family-Oriented, Loves Outdoors, Maker
Aspiration: Live Fast (Teen), Outdoor Enthusiast
Career: Culinary, Chef branch
Rules:
Complete the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration.
Max the cooking, handiness, and herbalism skills.
Have at least three children, one of whom is adopted.
Go on family vacations to Granite Falls as much as possible.
You’re a mischievous scientist that really loves the color mint. You’re career driven but still make time for silly pranks and outings with your closest friends. You love luxury and want the best for yourself and your family.
Traits: Vegetarian, Materialistic, and Jealous (not loner- was an error)!
Aspiration: Chief of Mischief
Career: Scientist
Legacy made by @lilsimsie and @alwaysimming
Rules:
Master scientist career and complete Chief of Mischief aspiration
Based on Simcloudlogic's design updated for expanded generations.
Original Not So Berry Challenge by @lilsimsie and @alwaysimming. These are some updates I made for the Super Extended Not So Berry Challenge. Extended gens 11-31 & 51 by @illusorythrall, 33-40 based on @kateraed's Whimsy Stories, 42-48 based on Sim Michele's 7 Deadly Sins, 32 -60 created and adapted by @emilybluejaye. Icons by @luniversims.
meet thea berri, the founder of my 2nd attempt at the not so berry legacy challenge <3 i'm mixing up lilsimsie and alwaysimming's original challenge with sweetlysimss' updated version !!! check my goals + more about thea below, hehe <3
(al)thea berri | young adult | materialistic, genius, vegetarian, vain, jealous
gen. goals + rules
you’re a mischievous scientist that really loves the color mint, you’re career driven but still make time for silly pranks and outings with your closest friends, you love luxury and want the best for yourself and your family, but you can quickly turn sour and hold a grudge
Goals: Master the Scientist career, master the Nerd Brain & the Chief of Mischief aspirations, master logic and mischief skills, complete the elements collection, assign a voodoo doll to at least one sim, find your spouse through an hate -> love relationship, invent all inventions, use the electroflux wormhole generator to travel to sixam, invent all serums, master the rocket science skill and build a rocket and use it to travel to sixam
+ thea's backstory
Many moons ago, one of Sixam National Laboratories' pollination technicians was looking for a suitable Sim to experiment with when they found Theodore Berri; it was a night of full moon, and he was charting the constellations in the sky, looking for one he hadn't found yet.
He didn't feel his body levitate toward the small spacecraft controlled by his abducter, didn't even flinch at all the tests and experiments they put him through all night. In his alien-induced haze, everything felt like a dream, even though he was very much awake.
The morning came, and Theodore woke up in his bed, but it was still made; he scratched his chin, feeling his stuble against his fingertips, thinking about how real his dream had felt - and how tired he must have been to fall asleep without changing his clothes or getting into the bed.
Just then, Theo felt a strange feeling in his stomach - something like a kick? But surely, it couldn't have been... Unless? He knew it was a possibility, how could he not after all the years he spent researching Sixam and its inhabitants?
Time seemed to fly by and sooner rather than later, Theodore Berri held a baby girl in his arms. He knew he could give her back to Sixam, he knew that he probably should, but he didn't have the heart to do so. No, not when his beautiful Althea looked so precious, so normal, as he held her.
And yet, he couldn't keep her for long. When she turned five years old, the same spacecraft appeared in the sky, silent as ever - but this time, it was the little girl who was taken.
In Sixam, the girl was told her father had given her up - that he realised that, after all, it was not right for a human to raise one such as her. Thea refused that - she knew her father would never leave her side, not if he could choose not to. This was an inconvinience - and an easy one to resolve, at that.
The very next day, all of Althea Berri's memories were of Sixam; of being nursed by a figure in a lab coat, of playing with other children her age in a stark white room, of eating only what could be unearthed from Sixam's soil. But those children, despite her age, didn't look like her. For a hybrid, she looked a whole lot more like a human.
On her 18th birthday, Thea was brought to a room, stark white like all the others, at the top floor of the facility where she lived her entire life. Well, where she thought she had lived he entire life.
Her superior told her then that she would be dismissed from Sixam. She had reached maturity, and yet she had never morphed into her alien form. She was a failed experiment, her superior said. She was, for all intents and purposes, a human. The only thing that set her apart from a common human was that she was hauntingly beautiful, unnaturally so, and that her hair was as pure white as the facility's walls and floors. Every inch of her was perfect, like she had been designed and engineered for months, even years, so much so that it gave anyone a headache to lay their eyes upon her for too long. And, for that reason, she was of no use to Sixam.
As quickly as they whisked Thea from the planet that watched her scream to life, they gave her back - alone, with no memories of that place she had been taught to fear.
The Sims 4: Just Genetics - an AlwaySimming Save File
hi and welcome to my first ever save file. If the name didn’t tip you off this may be the simplest yet, imo, most needed save file in existence. This save file only changes the genetic makeup of the sims and adds the much needed hotwear/coldwear options for those who didn’t come with it. It is completely vanilla and doesn’t require any cc or mods. I was really fed up with how little body representation there was and when there was some it wasn’t entirely accurate. I wanted to fix that while still keeping the sim recognizable. So, hence this idea was born. I thought, if I’m putting in this much work and effort why not share it for others to enjoy. I really hope you check it out and if you use it please tag me I wanna see! I’ve also included a version with just hotwear/coldwear fixed if you want to keep that classic sim look~
For the save file to work, you need to place the file inside the folder into your /saves folder located in the regular ‘The Sims’ folder
A continuation of lilsimsie & alwaysimming's Not So Berry Challenge.
Five More Generations for those who aren't ready to end there challenge just yet!
Laid out the same as the original challenge, have most of the new packs for Traits/Aspirations/Careers but other than that, enjoy!
Rainbow
Traits - Animal Lover/Freegan/Roll The Dice
Master Gardening/Herbislim
Complete Freelance Botanist Aspiration
Start with nothing and live off the grid
Own a successful vets and adopt three animals. (Five Stars)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You always admired your family and loved them but, what you needed is to make it on your own and give back to the World!
Living off the land and caring for its creatures is your calling and carrying on your family's legacy.
Monochrome
Traits - Neat/Music Lover/Roll The Dice
Master Painting/Piano
Complete Painting Aspiration
Freelance Painting Career
Live in a House with a Black & White Palette NO COLOUR.
Marry a Proper Sim
Your parents were very intense in your childhood which made you shy away from anything to informal or untidy. Life is good in a structured home, without a hair out of place. You express yourself only by painting and piano, to keep control of your life.
Neon
Traits - Self Absorbed/Adventurous/Roll The Dice
Master DJ Mixing/Bowling/Dancing
Vacation three times.
Live in three different worlds in YA/Adult stages
Complete Party Animal Aspiration
Max Business Career
If there's one thing your parents taught you is, to make sure to have balance in your life.
Desk jockey by week, thriving socialite by weekend you keep a well maintained and balanced life with a ton of adventures thrown in for good measure.
Pastel
Traits - Paranoid/Maker/Roll The Dice
Complete Fabulously Wealthy Aspiration
Max 5 Skills.
Have one child (cheat if needed)
Own a successful business/restaurant to make money, no career. (Five Stars)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Growing up you lacked stability in your life. Always moving from one place to the next ans never having enough money to get by. Not anymore! Laying your roots in a business and working your way up is how you want to live your life and make your dreams a reality.
Neutral
Traits - Insane/Lactose Intolerant/Roll The Dice
Be offered the Secret Service Career and max it out
Complete Big Happy Family Aspiration
Master Flower Arranging/Knitting
You spent your child hood reading, imagining and dreaming of how exciting life would be. You married straight out of high school, started a family and never got a chance to have an adventure. Until you were offered the perfect job. On the surface you're the perfect homemaker who cares for there family and the house. Underneath your a Secret Agent keeping the world safe!
To start off, I didn’t make the original challenge. The original NSB challenge was made by @lilsimsie and @alwaysimming. The extended version was made by @neecxle, and I’m going to be using Neecxle’s extended version to ‘convert’ it to TS3. The original NSB challenge has already been ‘converted’ for TS3 by lilsimsie herself, so I thought why not do the extended version for TS3 too!
Please keep in mind that some rules aren’t going to be exact, and I might reduce the challenge rules when it comes to something like skills depending on what TS3 has to offer. For example, in TS4 the singing skill that came with city living is an actual skill itself, and not a hidden skill like in the TS3. So technically in TS3, you’re not ‘leveling it up’ but instead just getting good at singing. Some skills for TS3 are store bought content like the dancing skill, unlike TS4 when the dancing skill came with Get Together. Another thing to add, some traits for these gens might not have the corresponding colors, unlike previous generations.
Here are links to the original version(s) of the challenge:
Not So Berry (TS4): NSBTS4
Not So Berry (TS3): NSBTS3
Not So Berry Extended (TS4): NSBETS4
Anyways, Onto The Challenge Rules!
Generation 11: White
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Side Note: If you have the Stiff as a Board, Light as a Feather Dance Collection from the store, the dancing skill is not optional
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From a young age you grew a fascination with acting, the idea of being able to step away from reality and take on a role of someone else excited you. So with the supportive parents you had, they enrolled you in drama club for the entirety of your high school life. You begin to strive for something more, becoming a global superstar actor! With focusing so much on your career, keeping serious romantic relationships is difficult because you always prioritize work over love. You eat, breathe, sleep acting and you were happy keeping it that way. But with a one night stand gone wrong… you find out you are now left with an unplanned child.
Traits: Commitment Issues | Workaholic | Star Quality | Ambitious | Virtuoso
Lifetime Wish: Superstar Actor
Career: Film: Actor Branch
Goals:
Enroll in drama club as a teen
Master social networking skill
Reach level 5 of an instrument of your choice
Have a karaoke night every week 
[OPTIONAL | Store Content] Reach level 3 of the dance skill
Become a 5 star celebrity
Master Acting Career & Complete LTW
Have one celebrity best friend
Never get married
Have one child, by ‘accident’
Generation 12: Brown
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Side Note: If you have the Killer Classics set from the store, the cowplant is not optional
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Growing up in the shadows of your parents spotlight was a little hard on you. Although you knew how much they loved you and tried their best to spend every free moment with you, you still felt…alone. Thankfully being a part of the scouts club gave you a sense of family, which you deeply cherished. Scouts club also made you truly fall in love with the outdoors. Being out in nature didn’t make you feel like you were so alone anymore, which is why camping/traveling became something you loved to do. There were tales that there were hidden temples and tombs all over the world, so naturally the curious bean you were you had to find out for yourself. Forever alone felt like a motto you started to live by and thought you’d never get married like your parent, but someone finally came along and you were really happy with the way life was heading. Unfortunately down the road things didn’t end up working out. You’ve always secretly had this crazy idea of making a robot best friend since you were a kid. The thought of having a robot who was there for you every waking moment felt like something you needed in your life, so it was time to make a crazy idea… a reality!
(This generation starts as a child)
Traits: Loves The Outdoors | Loner | Insane | Bot Fan | Adventurous
Lifetime Wish: The Perfect Garden
Career: Gardener (Register as Self-Employed)
Goals:
Join Scouts club as a child & teen
Collect at least 5 butterflies (10 total)
Collect at least 5 beetles (10 total)
Collect all mushrooms (7 total)
[OPTIONAL | Store Content] Have a pet cowplant
Master gardening skill
Master bot building skill
Travel to ALL vacation worlds at least once; Finish one tomb/temple for each world
Build a robot & become best friends with it
Have one failed marriage, and have at least one child with that sim
Generation 13: Black
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Side Note: You must turn into a vampire first before you start working on your LTW
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Ahh books… you love em! You always enjoyed a good read that could take you on a journey in a whole new fantasy world. So naturally regular trips to the library was the thing to do. Thanks to the library it brought you your best friend, who you later fall in love with and get engaged to. Instead of going off to university like everyone else you got convinced to join the military, but that didn’t last long so you quit and went off to study communications. Whilst away at uni you met a vampire, and end up becoming completely mesmerized with them and fall in love so quick as if you were put under a spell. This is where you decide to ask “could I be turned into one?” Without hesitation their teeth sink into your neck and the process of you turning has begun. You decide to drop out of university and call off the engagement because you have fallen for another and want to live out your new vampire life. Becoming a bookstore clerk was your only option after dropping out of uni, and you had more time to yourself so you started writing your own books. Unfortunately your job started to feel mundane, so you have the bright idea of buying the local library! Not being able to have children has always upset you, but with your new powers creating your own vampire family is only one step away…
Traits: Bookworm | Excitable | Supernatural Fan | Night Owl | Absent-Minded
Lifetime Wish: Turn The Town
Career: Military | Education (College) | Bookstore Clerk | Business Owner
Goals:
Start visiting the library as a child and teen, and meet your best friend there
Get engaged to your best friend as soon as you’re a young adult
Join military career then quit when you reach level 5
Go to university and study communications, then drop out after the first semester
Fall in love with a vampire while you’re at university, be turned into a vampire, and call off the engagement
Join the bookstore clerk career and ‘master’ it (level 3)
Buy the local library (I’ll allow cheats if you can’t afford it) then quit your job as a bookstore clerk so you can run your own business
Master piano, and writing skills
Go bowling with your friends every now and then (only at night)
Write and publish at least 5 books
Complete LTW
Don’t have kids, or adopt- turn 3 people into vampires instead
[OPTIONAL] Burn to death (Sunlight or Fire)
CONGRATS!! YOU FINISHED NSB EXTENDED!!
Spent a long time working on this so I hope you enjoy it :’)) If you did, thank you for doing it in the first place <3
Credit to; @lilsimsie @neecxle and @alwaysimming for the original challenges
Let’s take a trip down memory lane.....it’s 2017 and lilsimsie (A.K.A. Kayla Sims) starts a Sims 4 challenge called “Not So Berry”, which ends up going viral. Fast foward to today (February 5, 2022).....you’re bored with your Sims play.....then BAM!!.....you get inspired to try the challenge!.....So, here’s the ORIGINAL rules for the challenge:
“Welcome to the Not So Berry Legacy Challenge, a ten generation legacy with a focus on bright colors and new experiences.”
Basic Rules:
Each heir must represent the color of the generation (i.e. hair, makeup, clothing), but brightly colored skin is not necessary (these aren’t actually berry Sims, that’s the joke). Of course, this is optional but a big portion of the fun.
The colors of the spouses don’t matter as they aren’t part of the challenge. Unless otherwise stated you can do whatever you please with them.
Money cheats can be used, but not excessively. Suggestion: use freerealestate for your first home, but no cheats afterward.
You’re a mischievous scientist that really loves the color mint. You’re career driven but still make time for silly pranks and outings with your closest friends. You love luxury and want the best for yourself and your family.Traits: Vegetarian, Jealous, Materialistic
Aspiration: Chief of Mischief
Career: Scientist
Rules: Master scientist career and complete Chief of Mischief aspiration
So, we’ll start here. Let our Sim journey begin! Follow me as I create my sim, and start the challenge. (Check out lilsimsie’s original tumblr post here to go into deeper details)....Happy Simming!!
