Enduring Roots Legacy Challenge
A seven generation Sims 4 legacy challenge based on some of the plants found in the base game. Focus on gardening and some supernatural gameplay.
Required Packs: None
Optional Packs (for some alternate aspirations/traits & optional goals): Basically all of them. This challenge is meant to adapt to whatever packs you have, whether that be none or all.
Getting started: Aging can be set to whatever you prefer, including being turned off entirely. Gen 1 can be created alone, or with a spouse, sibling, parents, etc., and can be of any age. The listed aspiration does not have to be picked as the sim's first one; they just need to work on (and ideally complete) it at some point in their lives. This challenge is meant to be flexible and guide storytelling, not to be intentionally difficult, so feel free to make changes to the rules where you need to.
Currently play-testing. As I do, and as new packs release, I may make some changes.
Generation 1: Orchard
Always bright as a summer’s day, and beloved by everyone you’ve met, sometimes you’ve been told you’re too much of a good thing. And that some quirks are just not endearing. It’s not your fault you can see things others can’t, and you refuse to pass up the opportunity to make a friend, living or dead.
Traits: Cheerful, Erratic [or Cringe (for rent), or Clumsy,], Outgoing [or Dog Lover (cats & dogs), Cat Lover (cats & dogs), Animal Enthusiast (cottage living), Horse Lover (horse ranch), or Mystical (enchanted by nature).]
Aspiration: Friend of the World, Friend of the Animals (cats & dogs), Country Caretaker (cottage living), Emissary of the Collective (werewolves), Ghost Historian (life & death), or Harmonius Fairy (enchanted by nature).
Goals:
Reach level five of the comedy skill
Befriend 3 ghosts*
Have a penpal
Grow an orchard of at least three different types of fruit trees
Have a ghost join the household, or a current member die and rejoin the household as a ghost.*
Optional: Live in a haunted house residential (paranormal)
Optional: Have the island spirits lot trait (island living), hallowed grounds lot trait (life and death), and/or spooky lot challenge (city living)
Optional: Max the medium skill (paranormal), pet training skill (cats & dogs), and/or horse riding skill (horse ranch)
Optional: Complete any of the following collections: postcards, sugar skulls, spirit dolls (snowy escape), and/or tarot cards (life & death)
*Ghost pets (cats & dogs) and horses (horse ranch) qualify. Specters (paranormal) do not.
Generation 2: Wolfsbane
A student of the earth and the night sky, you’ve always found the mysteries of the world more intriguing than any facet of contemporary human civilization.
Traits: Loner [or Socially Awkward (high school years), Unflirty (city living), or Romantically Reserved (lovestruck)], Genius [or Bookworm], Loves Outdoors
Aspiration: The Curator, Archaeology Scholar (jungle adventure), Outdoor Enthusiast (outdoor retreat), Jungle Explorer (jungle adventure), Cure Seeker (werewolves), or Crystal Crafter (crystal creations).
Goals:
Grow an herb garden
Grow wolfsbane flowers*
Have a telescope
Reach level 10 of the logic skill
Moonbathe at least once during each different lunar phase
Optional: Max the vampire lore skill (vampires), herbalism skill (outdoor retreat), and/or gemology skill (crystal creations).
Optional: Complete any of the following collections: microscope, space prints, crystals, and/or fossils
*If you don’t have Vampires or Werewolves, then you may have to use debug to find the flower, as although it is a base game plant, I don’t know if there is any way to access it through base game gameplay.
Generation 3: U.F.O Fruit
Your parent inspired in you an awe for the cosmos, but unlike them, who considered it distant and obscure, you’re determined to experience as much of the expanse as you can. All your dreams of adventure you will make reality, and your belief in true love may guide the way.
Traits: Good [or Generous (for rent), or Idealist (businesses & hobbies)], Childish, Loyal [or Adventurous (snowy escape), or Competitive (adventure awaits).]
Aspiration: Soulmate, Nerd Brain, Strangerville Mystery (strangerville), Paragon of Hope (journey to batuu), or Romantic Explorer (lovestruck)
Goals:
Have a Lin Z speaker
Marry either your high school or college sweetheart, or meet your future spouse on vacation (or while visiting Sixam (get to work)
Reach level five of the fitness skill
Have a rocket ship and reach level 10 of the rocket science skill
Find the U.F.O fruit and plant it in your garden
After having your first child, publish 3 children’s books
Optional: Grow all three Sixam plants in your garden (get to work)
Optional: Max the robotics skill (discover university) and/or programming skill
Optional: Complete any of the following collections: aliens, space rocks, geodes (get to work), and/or snow globes (city living)
Generation 4: Dragonfruit
There’s something about you that’s striking, alluring; you can’t enter a room without everyone’s eyes on you. Admire, but don’t touch. You have a reputation for having a thorny veneer, and no matter what you do, you can’t help but hurt the ones you love the most.
Traits: Mean [or Nosy (for rent), or Disruptive (enchanted by nature)], Romantic [or Lovebug (lovestruck)], Self-Assured [or Self-Absorbed (get famous)]
Aspiration: Chief of Mischief, Serial Romantic, Villainous Valentine, Party Animal, Leader of the Pack (get together), World Famous Celebrity (get famous), City Native (city living), Discordant Fairy (enchanted by nature), or Social Puppeteer (royalty & legacy)
Goals:
Have and use a voodoo doll
Reach level 10 charisma
Grow dragonfruit
Throw/attend a social event (or a festival) every weekend while a young adult
Earn gold on three dates
Become enemies with two sims that you were previously good friends with
Optional: Complete any of the following collections: MySims trophies, city posters (city living), and/or tassels (for rent)
Optional: Max the gemology skill (crystal creations) and/or romance skill (lovestruck).
Generation 5: Cowplant
Dull days and long nights under pulsating lights and darkened rooms. You’re an eccentric bartender constantly surrounded by the pungent vitality of your workplace, and you find it therapeutic. But as you truly begin to perfect your craft, you find yourself bored with drinks that only free the mind for a time, and become obsessed with creating the elixir of life.
Traits: Evil [or Shady (businesses & hobbies)], Perfectionist [or Overachiever (high school years)], Foodie [or Glutton]
Aspiration: Master Mixologist, Purveyor of Potions (realm of magic), or Expert Nectar Maker (horse ranch)
Goals:
Enter the culinary career (regardless of aspiration) and reach level four (you can choose to leave after that). [Additionally, or alternatively, you could run a bar as a small business (businesses & hobbies).]
Grow grapes
Grow a cowplant and routinely milk it for the essence of life (even if you no longer need it for yourself)
Have a good relationship with only one of your children (your heir)
Optional: Learn the Pufferfish Nigiri recipe (city living)
Optional: Have the On a Dark Ley Line lot trait (vampires)
Optional: Make beetle juice and serve it to a friend/significant-other/family-member three times in a row as a "prank" (eco lifestyle)
Optional: Max the juice-fizzing skill (eco lifestyle) and/or nectar-making skill (horse ranch)
Generation 6: Death Flower
You grew up surrounded by the constant shadow of death, and you, the only one your parent could never sacrifice, were the one to finally end their reign of terror. Now, you’re alone with your memories, not even the Grim Reaper to talk to. You spend your life writing haunting eulogies, driven by some sense of penance, both for the lives your parent took and for the one murder you committed to end the carnage.
Traits: Gloomy [or Macabre (life & death)], Loner [or Paranoid (strangerville), or Chased By Death (life & death)], Jealous [or High Maintenance (spa day)]
Aspiration: Musical Genius, Inner Peace (spa day) or Good Vampire (vampires)
Goals:
Reach level 10 of an instrument (violin, pipe organ (vampires), piano, or guitar)
Befriend the Grim Reaper during your childhood/teen years
Kill your parent during your teenage or young adult life stage
Only visit community lots at night
Grow orchids, pomegranates, and death flowers
Optional: Have the tragic clown painting
Optional: Have the Cursed (city living) and/or Spooky lot challenge (city living)
Optional: Ask for three wishes from the wishing well (romantic garden)
Optional: Max the wellness skill (spa day)
Generation 7: Forbidden Fruit of the Plant Sim
Your parent lived in eternal mourning, so any happiness or beauty were things you had to find yourself. You found all that and more, in the splendors of nature, and became obsessed with capturing it on canvas for everyone to see. As you tread deeper into nature’s embrace, you find secrets that transform the very essence of your being.
Traits: Creative [or Art Lover], Cheerful, Loves Outdoors [or Green Fiend (eco lifestyle), or Plant Lover (enchanted by nature)]
Aspiration: Painter Extraordinare, Freelance Botanist, Country Caretaker (cottage living), Nature Nomad (enchanted by nature), or Critter Hunter (adventure awaits)
Goals:
Live off-the-grid
Reach level 10 gardening
Reach level 10 painting
Complete three masterpiece quality paintings
Find the forbidden fruit of the plant sim; plant it
Become a plant sim, or transform someone else into a plant sim
Optional: Have the Creepy Crawlies (jungle adventure), Simple Living (cottage living) and/or Reduce & Recycle lot challenge (eco lifestyle)
Optional: Max the flower arranging skill (seasons)
Optional: Complete any of the following collections: frogs and/or insects (outdoor retreat)
Optional: Become possessed by the Mother Plant and spread the infection (strangerville)
Optional: Become a fairy (enchanted by nature)
