Adventure Awaits Rags to Riches Legacy Challenge: Fairy Edition (Sims 4)

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Here are the goals and rules for my Sims 4 Adventure Awaits Rags to Riches Legacy Challenge: Fairy Edition, which uses the youngest heir (Zoe Ito-FitzMoon) from my Rags to Property Owners LP, who was born in the prelude to my Life & Death Rags to Riches Legacy challenge. She is still the fifth generation in this legacy.

Playlist link (TBA)

Meet our Sims:

I am starting with five sims, our teen Zoe Ito-FitzMoon is the main sim and is who will be having an heir for the next generation.

Her cousin Annie Pruett-Meyers, who Zoe’s Aunt Poppy adopted and who is currently a child, is joining Zoe. Also joining Zoe are siblings from my Fairy Pauper’s LP, twins Rowan & Glenn Reaves, teens, and their infant sibling Cassie.

Zoe & Glenn are spellcasters. Rowan & Cassie are fairies & Annie will become a fairy when she ages up to a teen. Zoe has the ancient bloodline trait and Glenn has a weak bloodline trait.

Past Related Let’s Plays:

If you’d like to see the prequel to my Life & Death Rags to Riches Legacy Challenge where Zoe was born and her parents completed their Soul’s Journey and pass down their aspiration traits to her aunts, here is the playlist for that.

Here is the playlist for Zoe’s parents For Rent rags to riches journey & the playlist for Zoe’s aunt and brothers Life & Death rags to riches journey.

Here is the playlist for my Fairy Pauper Let’s Play where Rowan & Glenn were raised from toddlers to teens & where their infant sister Cassie was born.

The back story as to why Glenn is a spellcaster and Rowan is a fairy is that their mother hid that she was a spellcaster from her husband, who is a fairy due to the negative relationship fairies and spellcasters have. It came out when the twins were born and Glenn was a spellcaster and at that point it appeared that she abandoned her family. It later turned out that she had gone to give up her magic and when that happened it caused her to lose her memory (this can’t happen in the game, but we’re using poetic license here!). A family friend knew who she was so she was reunited with her orphaned younger brother. Unfortunately she had kept her marriage and pregnancy from her family (due to the aforementioned negative relationship between fairies and spellcasters) so no one knew to look for her husband and children. It wasn’t until Cody, her husband and the twins’ father, accidentally found her again after joining a new career that her memory came back and the family was reunited.

Pack Goals:

Complete the new aspirations that come with both Adventure Awaits (Critter Hunter & childhood aspiration Cool Kid on the Block) & Enchanted by Nature (Elixir Enthusiast, Nature Nomad & Fairy Stories plus one of the two aspirations that unlock when you complete that aspiration) with at least one sim in our household.
Complete some childhood formative challenges.
Have at least one child in the household have an imaginary friend that we turn into a real sim when the child becomes a teen.
Max the new skills from both packs (Adventure Awaits: Papercraft, Diving & Entomology and for Enchanted by Nature: Apothecary & Natural Living).
Between the sims in the household have them max the careers from both packs.
Complete as many Adventure Awaits Quests & Enchanted by Nature Fables as we can.
Try to catch all the butterflies (Adventure Awaits).
Possibly look at the competitive trait with one of our sims.
Optional: possibly look at getaways if I can fit it in with everything else.

Other Goals:

Complete the fortune aspiration with all sims.
All children/teen who age up to young adult must have at least four positive character values, hopefully all five.
Any toddlers must max all toddler skills, children need to complete all childhood aspirations (base game & Growing Together) & teens need to complete the Goal Oriented & Admired Icon teen aspirations.
Young adults will have to complete their Soul’s Journey.
Work on completing the Making Money Scenario.

Rules

Start with no money on an lot with no home (we are starting on the 64×64 lot in Innisgreen that has a large pond and landscaping). We will move to Gibbi’s Point when our family has enough funds to do so.
Starting sims need to complete their soul’s journey before they can leave the household.
Any sims joining the household can’t bring any money or any significant assets (sell furniture before moving them in if they live on their own).
Money can be made from anything that game allows including any new money making opportunities that come with either pack. when using Trendi, the mark up is limited to 10x (which is still quite high) and will mainly be used for the Admired Icon aspiration (the goal to list and if needed to get Social Bunny follower count up).
Here are the general rags to riches rules for rags to riches I tend to follow in my rags to riches tutorial video, and my blog post.

Guides for Appeasing Gnomes:

New guide/screenshot from reddit post for appeasing gnomes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/1m0idxa/i_made_a_cheatsheet_for_appeasing_the_gnomes/

EA Help guide for appeasing gnomes:

https://help.ea.com/ca/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/sims-4-appease-the-gnomes/

Contact Me:

If you would like to help with playtesting this challenge, or if you have any questions or want to share your own Sims game play with other Simmers head over to my Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/maplesimmersimssanctuary or my discord, https://discord.gg/aJaX7Pca8A.

Generation Three: Maple Rags to Riches Legacy (Sims 4 Base Game, Optional Moschino)

See my separate post with an overview of the rules and optional goals that apply for all generations. Note you will be starting this generation with two sims, the oldest (i.e. heir, primary sim) and their next younger sibling (secondary sim) from the previous generation.

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Playlist link if you’d like to see me play (TBA)

Lots Unlocked This Generation:

Museums and Art Centers
Note: Arts Center unlocks the Humour & Hijinks Festival

Note if doing this in the suggested order, the following lots would already be unlocked: Parks/National Parks/Myshuno Center, Wedding Venues, Beaches, and Gyms/Spas (unlocked in Generation One) and Bars/Nightclubs/Lounges/Karaoke Bars (unlocked in Generation Two)

Generation Lot:

Arid Ridge (40×30 lot, 5,500 simoleons) in the Skyward Palms neighbourhood of Oasis Springs

Skills:

Primary Skills to Focus on: Painting.
Secondary Skills: Photography, Logic & Charisma

Optional Traits: Creative and/or Art Lover

Careers & Aspirations:

Career: Max Master of the Real Branch with the primary sim, i.e. elder sibling. Max Patron of the Arts Branch with the secondary sim (either primary sim’s spouse or younger sibling, I will be using the primary sim’s spouse). Once they’ve both maxed both the painting career, the painting skill & at least one household member has maxed the photography skill, place the museum in Willow Creek. Museum/art centers in other worlds are now unlocked. Once that’s been unlocked/placed, have your main sim complete the painting aspiration.

Required Aspirations: Painter Extraordinaire once

Optional Career: (Moschino Pack): Have one sim max the freelance photographer (whichever didn’t do the alternate painting career, in my case the younger sibling.

Collection to Focus on for This Generation:

Collect & display* as many unique paintings from the various types of paintings, at least a minimum of three from each type (i.e. classic, landscape, etc. and from the different types of emotional paintings). Have your two main sims get a paint by reference of each other & include them with the displayed paintings.
*You can display the paintings on your home lot or place them on a museum lot. From this point onwards feel free to place completed collections on the museum lot if you prefer (though you can also keep them on the generational lot).

Optional, try to get a photo and/or painting of any children born in this generation from all life stages while they are still in the home. Note at the time of writing this blog post, it’s recommended to keep the number of photographs kept in the save down as they can bloat/enlarge save file size which can lead to save corruption so if you do this goal, just keep one, don’t have many.

Tips for This Generation’s ‘Collection’:

Some paintings are locked by skill level, both low and high. When I did my painting challenge, which this generation is modeled after, I had one sim paint first and once we had more money, then had the second sim do painting and at that point I had them start a lot of paintings in the different categories at the lower level since they would be blocked once a sim’s painting skill gets higher.

Alternatively, KaylaDot has a mod that unlocks low level paintings, so if you use mods you could do that. https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/low-level-paintings-unlocked and LittleMsSam has a mod that lets you chose your painting: https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/choose-painting-style

Note that I don’t plan on using either of these mods unless I get the minimum, but may try one or both to get the final ones in the end.

List of all paintings (this is not by me & I’ve not checked it): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sC-hyeswexHZNXVAdnDz6shRZI5iFPzR4TyGkAvmPbo/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Contact Me:

Note that my discord is the main place where others who are playtesting the challenge are sharing their game play.

Lovestruck Sequel to Sims Checklist Mashup Challenge (Sims 4)

Playlist link TBA

Our Sims:

Continuing on from my Crystal Creations Sims Checklis Challenge Mashup, spellcaster siblings Cleo and Archer Pace, Cleo’s (currently) infant twins, Crystal and Jade & their cat Fabbo.

Cleo (Creative, Geek & Maker):

Archer (Genius, Geek & Rancher, self discovery trait not shown here is Active):

Challenge Goals

While Cleo did get the checklist challenge done, they have some lot challenges still to remove. Here’s a summary of all the goals they completed in their original challenge (playlist link here), which also shows what goals they still have left to do.

Close up of the lot challenges completed:

Goals to remove the three remaining lot challenges:

To remove the Reduce & Recycle lot challenge we will max fabrication skill and successfully make 5 items with the fabricator.
To remove the Volcanic Activity lot challenge we will complete the Beach Life aspiration (but not until after one of our sims hopefully does the 7 Wild Dates ‘challenge’)
To remove the Wild Prairie Grass aspirations we will complete the Nectar aspiration.

Both sims have been working on goals 1 and 3 in the previous LP. We’ve done very little for the Beach Life aspiration.

In addition to those goals I also plan on checking out some Lovestruck features:

Do the 7 Wild Dates Challenge
Max the romance skill with both Cleo and Archer
Complete both new love aspirations (Paragon Partner and Romantic Explorer).
Unlock the mystery of the bear and their ring
Collect some Axolotls
Raise our infants to teens and see if they can learn the Romantic Sage trait.

Contact Me:

If you have any questions or want to share your own Sims game play with other Simmers head over to my Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/maplesimmersimssanctuary or my discord, https://discord.gg/aJaX7Pca8A.

Lovestruck Mini Playthrough (Sims 4)

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Many thanks to the EA Creator Network for the code for the Lovestruck Expansion Pack.

Let’s play link TBA

Our Sims:

Cara Parker, in addition to the traits shown here, she is also creative and has a quick learner trait from choosing a knowledge aspiration.

Jefferson Parker, in addition to the traits shown here, he is a rancher and he also has a quick learner trait from choosing a knowledge aspiration. He is still romantically exploring, which is why it currently shows as romantically attracted to no one.

I’m asking for some young adult single sims to be put on the gallery as potential love interest for these two sims, who are siblings. I will also use some in my longer Rags to Riches Lovestruck LP, but I am still avoiding that save due to the bugs in the game.

Please use #MapleLSSingles when you put them up and please let me know when you’ve done so, either here, on my video, in my Facebook group or on my discord. If you include your Gallery ID with your comment that will ensure I don’t miss them.

Goals:

Look at the world.
Try and collect as many axolotls as we can.
Look at Cupid’s Corner and the new type of dates.
Explore the mystery of the ring and the blue bear ‘sammy bear’ aka ‘the ring bear’.
See how much of the two new aspirations we can get done.
See how the new traits affect gameplay as they both have one of the two new traits (the opposite ones).
Anything else that comes up along the way. Hopefully we’ll get the 7 dates challenge!

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Crystal Properties in Jewelry/Gemstones (Sims 4 Crystal Creations)

Introduction:

If you have Crystal Creations, crystals have special properties when they are made into jewelry or cut gemstones and then charged on the ‘Mystical Moonlight Crystal Grid’ in the moonlight between 7 pm and 7 am, which is a live draggable object. Note that crystals charge fastest on a full moon and slowest on a new moon.

Note the ‘Mystical Moonlight Crystal Grid’ can be found under Activities & Skills, Outdoor Activities.

Common Crystals (Base Game):

Uncommon Crystals (Base Game):

Rare Crystals (Base Game):

Crystals from Crystal Creations, Get to Work & Jungle Adventures:

Crafting Jewelry & Cutting Gemstones:

Sims gain the gemology skill when crafting jewelry and cutting gemstones. They can also gain it when they dig up crystals and metals, so a good way to start is to go exploring!

Use ‘The All-in-One Gemology Table By Humphrey Inc.’ to make your jewelry and gemstones.

It can be found under under Activities & Skills, Creative, however note that the game considers this to be a ‘mental skill’, so I like to put a charged cut sapphire gemstone by the table to reduce the chances of them getting mental burnout & to keep them focuses, which is required for one part of the Crystal Crafter aspiration.