Once all goals have been met you can age all the toddlers up to children all at once.
Rules:
The household starts with nothing on an empty lot (use cheats to set funds to zero; i.e. ‘testingcheats on’ or ‘testingcheats true’, then ‘money 0’ )
No cheats or mods for needs or to add money. Can use cheats to reset sims when they are stuck.
Must bring all the toddlers with you if you travel off the home lot (wandering around the neighbourhood is fine).
Aging should be on long or off.
Can hire services, including a nanny.
Can use lot traits and if you have Tiny Living you can build the house as tiny residential lot (may change to regular lot if wish).
Caregiver cando freelance work. If choose to be a freelance artist, you can’t accept gigs that require you to leave the lot; cancel gig if you accidentally accept one.
Can’t modify community lots to add things you need; however, you can add toddler items to them once you have provided them at home.
If have Seasons, it’s your choice as to whether you have weather/temperature effects on or off.
Challenge is considered a fail if any toddlers are taken away.
While it is considered a challenge fail if you have a toddler taken away you could try an easier ‘version’ of the challenge and keep going! In this case the challenge is to see how many toddlers you still have when you meet all three of the goals, the more toddlers you have to age up to children at the end, the better.😊
Here’s a closer look at the toddlers and their mom, including their names and traits:
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If you’d like to play along with the same family on and the same starting lot, the family will be starting on Tranquil Crescent in the Llama Lagoon neighbourhood of Newcrest and I have uploaded them to the gallery under my Origin ID MapleSimmer. 😊 https://tinyurl.com/yawemswm
Alternatively, you can come join my Facebook group and share how you do in this challenge, or in anything sims related, be it sim creation, sim builds or your sims stories &/or challenges! It’s also a great place to ask any sim related questions, including questions about this or other challenges, that either I, or other members can try to answer. Sims Sanctuary
Your sim, or sims, start with nothing on an empty lot and the goal is to become ‘rich’. You can define what ‘rich’ is, just set this up front. I often have at least one sim complete the fortune aspiration, which means they need to earn 200,000.
Note ‘Rags to Riches’ is often referred to as ‘R2R’.
How Do You Start With Nothing?
Using cheats, first open the cheats console to turn cheats on
‘testingcheats on’ or ‘testingcheats true’
Then type ‘money 0’
If you do not want to use cheats, add your sim to an existing household or create an extra sim you don’t plan on using. Move them into an existing lot (it can have a home) and then use the ‘split from household’ option and make sure the sim moving has enough money + 1 simoleon for an empty lot (the two cheapest lots in Newcrest are 1,500, so give them 1,501). See my updated tutorial on splitting from households if you’d like to see it in action: https://youtu.be/mbA0BLEL
Frequently Asked Questions (‘FAQ’):
Can your sim have a job? Usually not to start with, and I generally find sims make more money collecting, etc than a low-level, rabbit hole career. A good time for a sim to get a job is once you’ve built them a starting home.
Does the challenge require the use of mods? The use of mods is not required and if you want to use mods (or custom content), it’s recommended not to use any that will give you an advantage over someone not using them (i.e. create a sim custom content would have no impact however furniture custom content that is less expensive than it’s in game content, especially if it has higher stats would give an advantage).
How many sims do you start with? That is up to you, most people start with one, though I sometimes start with more than one, it depends on what I’m trying to do with the challenge.
Is there a specified age for your starting sim (or sims)? Again, that is up to you. You will need a teen or older to create a valid household in Sims 4. I often start with a teen and to make it harder, make them go to school so they have less time each day to earn money.😊
What lifespan should you use? That is up to you, you can use short, normal, long or turn aging off.
Can you use cheats for needs? No, since one of the goals of the challenge is to see if your sim can survive when starting with nothing.
How does your sim survive with nothing? Re: earning money, I find it’s best to start with fishing and collecting to try and get money & when you can find some harvestables, start a garden. You can also take photos and sell that into your inventory. Re: looking after themselves, sims can sleep on benches, eat produce, or cook on the BBQs in the world after you sell something from collecting. I will have more details in my separate video on this. 😊
Can I add things to community lots to help my sim? The general rule is no, especially if it is something that doesn’t make sense it should be there. I do often add a potty chair since usually in real life a toddler can use a toilet with help.
Can my sims visit sims’ houses to help meet their needs? Generally, no, though I have seen some R2R challenges where they can do so once a week if they are good friends. Though usually sims will ask your sim to leave unless they have the ‘always welcome’ trait.
Can I keep the money a sim brings when they move into my home? Usually no since the goal is to earn the money, not to bring it into the household when you add another sim. To accomplish this, you will either have to make sure the sim you are moving in lives with another sim who is teen or older or if they don’t, make sure to choose the option ‘sell furniture’ and use cheats to reset the household funds to where they were before they moved in (see cheats from how to set funds to zero when starting)
Impact of different packs on the R2R challenge? I’m working on doing R2R video tutorials by pack for any packs that impact on the challenge, including how to survive with the impact of weather that comes with Seasons. These videos will be added to the playlist linked at the top of this page as they get released.
As you may have gathered from the answers to the FAQ, the general idea is that if something makes it easier, usually you don’t do it. That said, it’s your game and your challenge, so it needs to suit you and the main goal is to have fun!
Suggestions for Additional Rules or Goals to Add to Make it More Challenging:
Add the lot trait ‘off the grid’ and have your sims earn and ‘pay’ (using cheats’) the value of the lot to ‘connect to the grid’
Don’t let your sims travel from their starting neighbourhood until they have a predetermined amount of funds (e.g. 1,000, as used in the ‘Drifter Challenge’)
Make it more challenging;
only let your sims earn money from predetermined things. e.g. writing, programming, fishing, gardening, music. Some things let your sims earn more money than others. When I do this, I usually set a predetermined amount that sims can earn money from other things once they’ve reached that goal as I don’t like to be limited in what my sims can do/earn money from.
Don’t let your sims sell things into their inventory (examples that work with that are writing, programming, music. Also, if you have certain packs you can sell things from retail (Get to Work), yard sale table (City Living/Jungle Adventures) or the Street Gallery (City Living)
These are just guidelines for the basic concept of the challenge and some tweaks you can do to make it your own.
Alternatively, you can come join my Facebook group and share how you do in this challenge, or in anything sims related, be it sim creation, sim builds or your sims stories &/or challenges! It’s also a great place to ask any sim related questions, including questions about rags to riches or other challenges, that either I, or other members can try to answer. Sims Sanctuary
Challenge and Playlist Links:
There are a couple of challenges, such as Rosebud and the Rags to Riches Mega Challenge that have more details and rules and others that use the concept which I’ll link below. I also have a number of Rags to Riches Challenges Let’s Plays which I will also link below.
Nomad Challenge (you can start with a couple or a single sim who start with nothing & they can’t buy/build anything that’s not portable until the first collection is completed, this requires Outdoor Retreat. The overall goal is to complete all the collections, over as many generations as it takes, and build a museum on the lot to house it. This includes having a perfect garden with at least one of each type of plant.): https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/811827/nomad-challenge-requires-outdoor-retreat
If you are moving your sim out of an existing lot and would like to know how much money they need to buy any starting (ie less than 20k simoleons) or empty lots, here are some screenshots with that information as well as some information re what is in the neighborhoods that can be useful if you are planning on doing a Rags to Riches challenge.
Keep in mind that if you want your sim to move into an empty lot they will need the value of the lot plus 1 simoleon as the game won’t allow them to move in with the exact amount. If your sims are moving into a lot with anything of value of it, this includes landscaping, they will be able to move in with the exact value.
Keep in mind that for both Willow Creek and Oasis Springs the Commercial Districts have fishing, playground area and barbecues in the common, ie surrounding, area. Oasis Springs even has a public bathroom in the common area.
Willow Creek:
Pendula View has a playground with public barbecues & public bathrooms in it’s neighbourhood as well as a community garden to the left of the empty Hallow Slough lot.
Courtyard Lane has public barbecues.
Foundry Cove has the tree that will give you access to Sylvan Glade (see my video tutorial for more information: https://youtu.be/vk0MKwM151I)
The surrounding neighourhood of Magnolia Blossom Park has barbecues by the water at the back and a public bathroom at the front of the park.
All neighbourhoods have fishing and collectibles including plants you can harvest if you stay in the neighbourhood long enough (and if it’s the correct season if you have Seasons).
Oasis Springs:
Parched Prospect has a little park with playground equipment for children, but none of the neighbourhoods in Oasis Springs have public bathrooms.
Both Bedrock Strait and Skyward Palms has fishing, Bedrock Strait also has a community garden with barbecues.
Acquisition Butte has a portal to the Hidden Grotto, Desert Bloom Park has a matching portal, however both portals need to be unlocked by a sim with level 10 handiness (see my video tutorial for more information on the Hidden Grotto: https://youtu.be/vP6Ib7ahlPI )
The surrounding neighourhood of Desert Bloom Park has barbecues and a public bathroom at the back of the park. It has fishing to the side and back of the park.
All neighbourhoods have collectibles including plants you can harvest if you stay in the neighbourhood long enough (and if it’s the correct season if you have Seasons).
Newcrest:
Llama Lagoon has fishing, two sets of public bathrooms, one of which is at the playground with monkey bars and public barbecues, a jungle gym on the water between Twin Oracle Point and Rippling Flats and another public barbecue behind Tranquil Crescent.
Ridgeline Drive has no fishing but it does have a public barbecue area.
Bridgeview has one fishing spot and a playground with monkey bars and public barbecues.
All neighbourhoods have collectibles including plants you can harvest if you stay in the neighbourhood long enough (and if it’s the correct season if you have Seasons).
The Drifter Challenge is a challenge created by the lovely Vihisha Tak’Nai and if you plan to do all, or most of the challenge, you start with both Willow Creek and Oasis Springs empty, ie you delete all the lots from those two worlds (one exception, if you have Dine Out you can add one restaurant to the museum lot in Oasis Springs).
The challenge can be thought of as a generation challenge as well as a building challenge, with each generation, or ‘house’, starting with no money on an empty lot and each ‘house’ having its own set of goals. As you meet certain goals over the generations, or ‘houses’ as they are called, you can also start adding certain community lots (which you can build, download from the gallery or add back the original lots if you’ve saved them in your library).
The only way I’ve ever managed to play for multiple generations is when playing the Drifter Challenge.😊 I find it to be a great way to examine a lot of different elements in the game, and you can skip any generation you do not want to do. Alternatively you can just do any house as a stand alone challenge; each house’s rules explain how to start each house, both if you are continuing or doing it as a stand alone challenge, along with the goals and rules for each house.
As an added challenge for most houses you can only control your main sim, ie the ‘Drifter’, apart from a few exceptions, one main one being aging up on a cake (and before we had the ability to assign beds, claiming beds was allowed). However, there are some houses where that varies and you can control more than one sim. In all cases each house always indicates who can be controlled.
Alternatively, you can come join my new Facebook group and share how you do in this challenge, or in anything sims related, be it sim creation, sim builds or your sims stories &/or challenges! It’s also a great place to ask any sim related questions, including questions about Drifter or other challenges, that either I or other members can try to answer. Sims Sanctuary
I have been doing this challenge on my YouTube channel and I am currently on House 6; as I start individual houses I will add links to each playlist and a summary of the goals for each house here. 😊
Starting Lot: Sultry Springside, Oasis Springs (30×20) Controllable Sims: Drifter * (heir from prior house) (*main exception is directing non controlled sims to ‘eat cake’ on the cow plant, see goal 4 below)
After living a fairly sheltered life, our new drifter Charity Driver returns to her grandmother’s world of Oasis Spring to start her first day with nothing in an empty neighborhood.
Here are the challenges facing Charity:
To max both the fishing and gardening skill.
At a minimum, build a 2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Home worth at least $40k Simoleons (after Depreciation)
Complete the Angling Ace Aspiration,
Raise a cow plant and collect five unique essences, and
Produce and raise an Heir to the Young Adult life stage; this Heir will become the Main Sim in the 4th House Mini-Challenge.
Starting Lot: Riverside Roost, Willow Creek (30×20) Controllable Sims: Drifter (heir from prior house)
After living a sheltered life, our new drifter Dominique Driver returns to her grandmother’s world of Willow Creek to start her first day with nothing in an empty neighborhood. She is fascinated by aliens, since her grandfather was abducted late in life and came back pregnant with her aunt Bridget.
Here are the challenges facing her:
To max the scientist career (if you don’t own Get to Work (‘GTW’) you can instead max the astronaut career).
At a minimum to build a 2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Home worth at least $50k Simoleons (after Depreciation)
To achieve level 10 of the Rocket Science skill
To travel to space and bring back 3 unique Space Rocks or Aliens *If you own GTW, items acquired from Sixam count
To Befriend and Move In a Co-Worker (*If you own GTW, you may befriend and move in an Alien instead, so this will be my goal)
Produce and raise an Heir to the Young Adult life stage; this Heir will become the Main Sim in the 5th House Mini-Challenge.
Sims have been added to the world from the following creators (*Origin ID at time they were added):
EuphorialQueen ndsmith1689 gamersims101 mistycleo nikinicole1234 Siriusly_Black20 (uses CC eyelashes) Mewsage86 KristalSparrow Lisabeesims Rogueokie and The Smith Family by Maxis
Starting Lot: Arid Ridge, Oasis Springs (40×30) Controllable Sims: Drifter (heir from prior house) and Secondary Sim (newly created)
After living a sheltered life, our new drifter Emmeline Driver along with our secondary sim Edward Quin, returns to her grandmother’s neighbourhood in Oasis Spring to start her first day with nothing.
Here are the challenges facing them:
Max the painter career (Lvl 10) for both sims: (Drifter: Patron of The Arts branch Secondary Sim: Master of The Real branch)
Achieve level 5 of the Photography Skill on either Playable Sim
Complete the Photography Treasure Hunt *A completed collection should yield a total of 10 photos with all items and colors used only once
As a minimum create a 3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $100k Simoleons (after depreciation)
Produce & raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage; this Heir will become the Main Sim in the 6th House Mini-Challenge.
Starting Lot: Oakenstead, Willow Creek (50×50) Controllable Sims: All Sims, starting with the Drifter (heir from prior house) and Secondary Sim (newly created)
After living a sheltered life, our new drifter Fleur Driver along with our secondary sim Felix Juno, returns to her grandmother’s world of Willow Creek with the goal of building a mansion after starting with nothing* ; how will they fare?
Here are the challenges facing them:
As a minimum create a house worth at least 350k simoleons, must include a total of 8 beds (at least one needs to be a double)
Complete the Mansion Baron Aspiration**
Produce & raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage; this Heir will become the Main Sim in the 7th House Mini-Challenge.
(* Three starting options: Standard – start with 100k, Difficult – start with 50k, Extreme – start with nothing)
**Upon completing Goal 2, access to the following Lot type has been unlocked: Nightclub Lots Those playing the full 24 house challenge may now place a Nightclub Lot on Blue Velvet in Willow Creek world
The winning bachelor will join our heir from house 6, Gabrielle Driver in the second part of this challenge. In the second part, Gabrielle will have the following goals for her house:
Starting Lot: Vista Quarry Lot, Oasis Springs (30×20) Controllable Sims: Drifter (heir from prior house) and Secondary Sim (newly created).
Disguise their home (example: underground lair that looks like a park above ground)
Achieve level 10 of the Diamond Agent branch of the Secret Agent Career on The Drifter*
Achieve level 11 of the Villain branch of the Secret Agent Career on The Secondary Sim
Produce and raise The Heir to the Young Adult life stage**
*Upon reaching Field Agent (level 4) of the Secret Agent Career, access to the following Lot type has been unlocked – Gym Lots. Those playing the full 24 House Challenge may now place a Gym Lot on Burners and Builders in Oasis Springs world
**Select at least one of the following Traits on The Heir: Active, Vegetarian Trait (City Living no longer needed, this is now a base game trait), or Adventurous (Snowy Escape needed)
As a minimum create a 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom home worth at least $50k Simoleons – include a pool and a designated personal workout area.
Achieve level 10 of the Fitness Skill
Produce and raise the Heir (see my notes on this*)
Note that I will be adding goals from House 11 to this house, so here are the additional goals that will be required, note House 11 also requires you to raise an Heir:
In addition to the house requirements noted above, it will also need to include a designated party space.
Complete the Master Mixologist Aspiration.
Achieve level 10 of the Mixologist branch of the Culinary career.
*Re the heir, usually the goal is to raise the heir to the young adult life stage, however, with the changes to life stage lengths that came with the July 26, 2022 game update, I plan to end this house when either A) all the goals are complete or B) the heir ages up to a teen, whichever happens second.
I will be doing a blog post with more details on this house, including optional goals I’m adding for me to do & exceptions noted re non controllable sims, I’ll add the link when it’s available.
While there are 24 houses in total, this is going to be the second last house of this challenge for me. I will be finishing with House 24, which will also include goals from House 13 & as mentioned above, we will hopefully be starting it during the heir’s teen life stage.
Complete the Successful Lineage aspiration (optional, which we will be doing, we will also complete the Big Happy Family aspiration and the Super Parent aspiration from Parenthood).
Produce and raise the Heir
Note that I will be adding goals from House 13 to this house, so here are the additional goals that will be required, note House 13 also requires you to raise an Heir:
In addition to the house requirements noted above, it will also need to at a minimum have 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bathroom & be worth at least $100k Simoleons with a designated gaming area.
Achieve level 10 of the EASports Gamer branch of the Tech Guru Career.
Achieve level 10 of the Start Up Entrepreneur branch of the Tech Guru Career.
Score 1st place in a Pro-Ranked Tournament on both the Hillock II and Sims Forever games.
Please see my blog post with more details on this house, including additional optional goals I’m adding for me to do.
Link to house 24 rules on Vihisha’s blog post and link to house 13 rules on Vihisha’s blog post.
Note that House 24 is the final house of the Drifter Challenge, however, I ended up doing a Mash Up of some of my missed houses with our Drifter Katie’s two oldest children while we wait for them to complete the required goals for Katie and her husband Gabe, to complete their three family aspirations.
Starting Lot: Garden Essence Lot, Foundry Cove, Willow Creek (40×30) (House 15 Lot) Controllable Sims: All Sims
As mentioned at the end of my House 24 section, I skipped from House 10 (which did include House 11 goals) to House 24, though I did also include the goals for House 13 when I did House 24.
Also as noted above, goals/optional goals for House 24 are to complete the family aspirations, however the two base game family aspirations (Big Happy Family Aspiration and Successful Lineage Aspiration) require a child to get married, max a career & for the sim parent to be friends to 4 grandchildren. We will also be doing the Super Parent Aspiration that comes with Parenthood. Getting the children of House 24 to complete everything needed for their mother (and father) to complete these aspirations is going to take some time and the House 24 household is very wealthy and also quite laggy.
I’m hoping that starting over with the two oldest (Lily and Luna Driver), who are currently teens, with Luna just having aged up to a teen, with nothing on a new empty lot with both help with the lagging and also be more interesting than playing a wealthy household.
As mentioned, in true Drifter tradition, they will start over with nothing except a few miscellaneous items in their inventory (mostly for fun, nothing of much value).
They will take on the some goals from House 15, 16 & 18 plus an element of goals for House 17 that need to be completed in House 16.
Note their younger sibling Lee Driver, who is currently an infant, will eventually join them once they are established, though I plan to move him out sometime after he becomes a young adult.
The main focus of this challenge will be on Lily and Luna.
While I often provide an overview of goals here, since this is covering three (and a partial) houses, it’s quite long so please see my blog post with more details on this mashup challenge.
The completed house for House 3 of the Drifter Challenge is now on the gallery.
This is a family one story home with 4 bedrooms/4 bathroom on the main floor and 2 more bedrooms and 1 bathroom in the basement.
Garage was converted to greenhouse. Lot also features a perfect money tree (Seasons required), perfect forbidden fruit tree, a cow plant, other sundry plants & 5 collected cow plant essences (on shelf in main room of the basement, by the cow plant picture painted by my drifter 😊).
No CC, play-tested, 177,718 simoleons on a 30×20 lot
If you’d like to see the Drifter House 3 Let’s Play, and the two from before, links were provided in my previous Casting Call post for House 4.
Information on the Drifter Challenge:
The Drifter Challenge is a challenge created by the lovely Lady Vi and you start with both Willow Creek and Oasis Springs empty, except for one restaurant if you have Dine Out. It can be thought of as a generation challenge as well as a building challenge, which each generation, or ‘house’, starts with no money on an empty lot and each ‘house’ has its own set of goals. As you meet certain goals over the generations, or ‘houses’ as they are called, you can also start adding certain community lots (which you can build or download from the gallery or add the original lots back if you’ve saved them in your library). It’s a good way to examine a lot of different elements in the game, and you can skip any generation you don’t want to do. Here’s a link to the main page if it interests you; it further links to the different ‘house’ rules. https://thedrifterchallenge.blogspot.com/
Calling for non CC sims to use in my YouTube Let’s Play for House 4 of the Drifter Challenge. I need the following:
1) Young Adults (preferably unskilled) as potential love interests, they can come with siblings/parents, but need at least one other young adult or older in the household,
2) Sims in the Scientist career as co workers (just have them join, they don’t need to have been played in the career) AND
3) Aliens (I may eventually have one move in to my household as that is one goal of the challenge 😊 )
2) and 3) require you to have Get to Work.
Please use #H4MapleSimmer when sharing on the gallery or just comment below if you have any and let me know your User ID. 😊
Here’s my sim, Dominique Driver. She is a genius, geek and a bookworm. Her story starts this Thursday, March 21.
After living a sheltered life, our new drifter Dominique Driver returns to her grandmother’s world of Willow Creek to start her first day with nothing in an empty neighborhood (lot is Riverside Roost). She is fascinated by aliens, since her grandfather was abducted late in life and came back pregnant with her aunt Bridget.
Will she be up to the following challenges?:
1) To max the scientist career (note if you don’t have GTW, the goal is to max the astronaut career).
2) To build a 2 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom Home worth at least $50k Simoleons (after Depreciation)
3) To achieve level 10 of the Rocket Science skill
4) To travel to space and bring back 3 unique Space Rocks or Aliens (*If you own Get To Work, items acquired from Sixam count)
5) Befriend and Move In a Co-Worker (*If you own Get To Work, you may befriend and move in an Alien instead, so this will be my goal)
6) Produce and raise an Heir to the Young Adult life stage; this Heir will become the Main Sim in the 5th House Mini-Challenge.
Note we can only control our main sim in this challenge (apart from a few exceptions, one main one being ‘claiming bed’ and aging up on a cake).
If you’d like to see Dominique’s great grandmother Alicia’s journey, a link to House 1 of the Drifter Challenge is here:
If you’d like to see Dominique’s grandmother Bella’s journey, a link to House 2 of the Drifter Challenge is here:
If you’d like to see Dominique’s mother Charity’s journey, a link to House 3 of the Drifter Challenge is here:
Information on the Drifter Challenge:
The Drifter Challenge is a challenge created by the lovely Lady Vi and you start with both Willow Creek and Oasis Springs empty, except for one restaurant if you have Dine Out. It can be thought of as a generation challenge as well as a building challenge, which each generation, or ‘house’, starts with no money on an empty lot and each ‘house’ has its own set of goals. As you meet certain goals over the generations, or ‘houses’ as they are called, you can also start adding certain community lots (which you can build or download from the gallery or add the original lots back if you’ve saved them in your library). It’s a good way to examine a lot of different elements in the game, and you can skip any generation you don’t want to do. Here’s a link to the main page if it interests you; it further links to the different ‘house’ rules. https://thedrifterchallenge.blogspot.com/
Do you have Get To Work? Here’s a challenge I thought of after EA increased the changes of 1) getting abducted and 2) male sims getting pregnant from abduction with the November 2017 patch.
You need to start with a male sim (See *Note)
Have them join the Scientist career.
See (A) how many times your sim is abducted & (B) how many times he gets pregnant with alien children (ie how many children he has) by the time he’s spent one week at the top of the Scientist Career. The plan is to keep them and raise them, not send them back to the home world. 😊
There are mods, such as MCC, that can help you increase the chances (or stop abductions from happening). The challenge is meant to be done without help from mods, but if you prefer to use them, just mention that when sharing your results!😊
*Note: You can either create your sim or use one that you’ve played through until the young adult age, I did the latter. Your sim can have a friend or sibling if you’d like them to have company, preferably female so they don’t get pregnant from being abducted. I chose to have his sister live with my sim.😊
Some optional goals to do while working on the above:
To complete the nerd brain aspiration;
To try to complete the element collection (inspired by the Not So Berry Challenge);
To complete the curator aspiration;
To visit Sixam; and
If you have Get Famous, see how famous your sim can get as a scientist.
I have a current Let’s Play where I’m doing this challenge, though as an alternative possibility I had an option to marry an alien if my sim never had any alien children from abduction, you’re welcome to do the same. Here’s a link to the playlist😊: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyPCBQSeZfrLodZ-82s9WtGPNUU22h0xJ
This is just a short little challenge that I recently did because I wanted to compare earnings from guitar🎸vs violin🎻 in a Rags to Riches challenge. Rules are in the screenshot. Please note that you can licence music you write with your instrument of choice; that is included in ‘making money from that instrument’.😊
I chose to do this with a teen, but you can use any age, teen and up. I have Seasons so I made the school days holidays so my teen didn’t have to worry about skipping school.
Please let me know if you have any questions! I’d love to see how you do! 😊
Here’s the sim I used, she’s a teen who is creative and a music lover and has the muser trait from choosing a creative aspiration (Musical Genius):
Here is how I set up the calendar since I have Seasons:
One of her first whims won’t be able to be completed for a while since she has no house, never mind a door, so I promptly dismissed it!
Perhaps one day in the not to distant future! Stay tuned to see how she did…
I really enjoy doing challenges when playing the Sims. While I’ve been playing since the first Sims came out, I only learned about them in the early days of The Sims 4. I have since gone back and played some Rags to Riches, which are my favourite type, in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 but I’ve done many more types of challenges in The Sims 4. That said, here’s my overview of challenges in The Sims 4 for anyone interested in attempting them.
I also have a tutorial playlist for the Rags to Riches challenge; here is a link. This is a new version and currently has one video with the guidelines. I had planned to add more that focused on various packs, but haven’t had a chance. I do however have many Rags to Riches LPs that focus on different packs and that covers what each pack adds. 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyPCBQSeZfrL4ZdeQlOSRsdmqOMz7D0Ql
Many people like to do challenges to keep their game interesting. Challenges can be a fun way to explore the game and find out new things about it that you didn’t know before.
There are many types of challenges, while many focus on game play, there are also some build and CAS challenges.
If you are just starting out, I recommend starting with a shorter one but the best challenge for you really depends on what you like to do.
However, there are many more challenges to choose from. I find Runaway Teen is a shorter challenge, so can be good for starting out if the rags to riches concept interests you. If you like to combine building with game play the Build Newcrest Challenge (legacy) and The Drifter Challenge are good challenges that combine both. My new legacy challenge also combines building with playing (see below), if you’re interested in playtesting it, more details on it are below and my contact details are at the bottom.
Frequently Asked Questions I Commonly See:
1) DO THEY REQUIRE THE USE OF MODS? Most of the popular challenges don’t require the use of mods. For example, teens can easily live on their own and you can even create a household with the teen as the oldest member in the household (this includes younger siblings). If anything, most challenges state that mods shouldn’t be used to create an unfair advantage over someone who doesn’t use them. 2) DO CHALLENGES HAVE WINNERS? Challenges are usually done just to challenge yourself to complete the goals of the challenge as opposed to it being a competition, though some challenges have scoring so you can compare how you do to others.
Keep in mind that the main goal of a challenge should be to make your game enjoyable, so you should play it as you like. Many people ‘tweak’ the rules to help suit their game play style, so if that means you want to change it up by using mods to make it more fun, that’s what you should do.
Another way to do some challenges that are now built into the game are to do scenarios. Some scenarios were time limited, if you can use mods, Twisted Mexi has a mod that let’s you access all scenarios.
I’ve done many and have quite a few scenario challenges on my channel:
Maple’s Rags to Riches Legacy Challenge (working challenge, still being play-tested, but I’ve started the founding generation on my channel & am looking for playtesters):
The founding generation has an optional ‘Castaway Island‘ prequel challenge that can also be done as a stand alone challenge. As a stand alone challenge, this is a short challenge originally created by Nando (name has changed over the years), however I can no longer find their version of the challenge on line. I have updated the challenge to account for Seasons and subsequent additions to the game, a link to my version is here: https://maplesimmer.video.blog/2021/12/31/castaway-challenge-seasons-edition/
Homeless Children Challenge: (this takes advantage that as of Jan 2024 you can use a cheat to remove the teen or older sims from a household leaving children to live on their own, no mods required, but you do need to use cheats to do this; not sure if this is a bug or by design). https://maplesimmer.video.blog/2024/01/07/homeless-children-sims-4-rags-to-riches/
Rags to Riches focused on Specific Packs (medium challenges), note while these all have your sim, or sims, start with no money, and usually no home, the focus is on the packs, not necessarily getting ‘rich’ :
Maple Simmer 