I finally finished my base camp, and I do regret that I didn’t keep track of where all the CC I used came from because there is some truly awesome content out there. I designed the base camp to be hidden at the back of a ruined lot. The front of the lot looks like this.
I wanted to add decor to the lot while also making this look like a good hiding place for my Sims. Their base camp actually exists behind this dilapidated house.
Here’s a close up of their sleeping and cooking areas. (I’m not positive if that dog does anything, but I thought they’d definitely have a guard dog, so he’s there.)
I added the shower into the rocks to make it a bit more realistic, and I brought in some CC fishing stuff because they’ve got to eat!
But I think my favorite part of the lot is that dilapidated house at the front. I downloaded a lot of CC that is post-apocalyptic decor but is so much more than that. So, when I put the house on the lot, I thought it would be more realistic if I included some of the CC appropriate to the house. Obviously it’s way too small to be a full house, so I set it up as just a first floor or half a house.
All the content in these photos is additional CC, but they work so well in the run down house you would think it all came together.
I also added some additional CC to the front “yard” of the house--a rusted bicycle and a broken chair along with a broken mop, but when I decided to make the lot overgrown that got a bit lost in the images. That’s fine because in real life it would be lost in the overgrowth.
Tomorrow I’ll work on creating the sims that inhabit the town. That will give me time to think through all the traits I want to allow/forbid for the challenge.
