#sim post-apocalypse

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Return of the Zombies

The trio decided to have not one but two fires on site this week. Luckily nobody was injured. They only had to replace the television chair (twice!) and the fire pit, so they weren’t out terribly much.

But the big news in zombies is that after a few days of quiet, the zombie’s are back. The return was a bit odd, not because I wasn’t expecting them to return, but because I did not anticipate ghost zombies. An interesting development with ghost zombies is that they can not only bite and turn Sims, but they can also be shot. Artemis and Gaia spent the better part of two days running down all the zombies in the area and killing them. Zeus tried, but this guy really does fail as a zombie hunter. Once again, he went out to hunt, got himself bitten and partially eaten and needed reviving. That’s 3 for Zeus.

In other news, the trio made another improvement to the lot. They built a chicken coop! In my storyline, Gaia rescued a chicken from the research facility when she last went to water the plants and they all worked to build this coop. This is another amazing @icy-spicy-scalpel creation, and you can download the mod here.

So the trio did not and can not build a chicken coop, but I’ve devised a plan for purchases such as this. I base it loosely on a math equation I saw for a TS3 zombie apocalypse that calculated how much of a wall a group could build based on skill level. But rather than base it on skill level, I wanted to base it on money and investment. So I used the woodworking bench and the bar stool. The bar stools cost $15 to build, so it’s not a major investment for the group. I decided that since bar stools sell for $30, I would need 17 to have the money to build the coop. So the trio built 17 bar stools to earn the coop. I’ll stick to this as the equation for everything they build.

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Enter new skills (Zombie Day 7 & 8)

With fewer zombies to kill lately, my trio is turning to work on practical skills. While Artemis and Zeus were out fishing, Gaia did some research and discovered that she possesses quite a few seeds that will flourish in the winter, so she started a small garden.

Gaia also realized the propane tank at the abandoned house was full, and she decided to pull Artemis and Zeus away from their fishing to see if they could seek out a canning station, since they can’t use a stove without the need to keep a fridge running. They did not find such a stove; however, Gaia did manage to salvage a gas-operated canning station and they also managed to salvage a nice woodworking station. (My idea of “salvaging” is purchasing things that they have the available funds to purchase--no cheating!)

With the propane tank moved and hooked up to the canning station and the work bench not too far away, the trio is doubling down on new survival skills.

I am forever grateful to @icy-spicy-scalpel for the canning station mod. There are tons of additional harvestables also available, but they are not required for the canning mod. 

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Other Survivors (Zombie Day 4 & 5)

My trio went scavenging today and man did they score! They found a tent (”found” because I had to clear out a lot of mods yesterday and they lost their beds as part of that--though I no longer believe the culprit was the bed).

Also, today was a holiday and Gaia stumbled upon a gnome who offered her more seeds. Now she just needs the right weather for planting. It’s going to be a long winter!

Perhaps the best part of this day was the fact that the trio decided to take a trip to a nearby fishing spot. The zombies were easy to maintain and they took that as a sign that they might have fought off the majority of the plague. We’ll see. But that’s not the point. The point is that they found a nice fishing spot with a grill nearby and they were able to grill up some veggie burgers. Apparently the aroma attracted a few other survivors and they ended up with quite a good deal of socialization today.

I do have to say that this challenge is proving quite interesting. Running 3 sims who have the ability to do virtually nothing autonomously means they aren’t really able to work on anything that isn’t directly connected to their basic needs (which is probably how it should be). I even switched Zeus to the outdoor enthusiast aspiration because I do want them to earn some reward trait points. However, since they can catch insects only in Granite Falls, I need to sort out how that’s part of their story (and how to keep them away from the fridge while they’re visiting!)

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Base camp complete!

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.