Multi-units galore! 🤩 With the new tool, you can build your next property in any livable world 🏠 We're talking townhomes, duplexes, in-law suites, condos, dormitories & more with #TheSimsForRent ✨ pic.twitter.com/xejcm6lsQG
This wasn’t a direct response to any tweet, but it seems like it’s answering the question about the unit limit? If so, it appears that 6 is the limit unless you use a cheat (new cheat?).
hello, multi-unit building is one of my features! getting this level of freedom in the game for y'all has been a wild journey, to say the least. but I'm so happy with where we've landed. the possibilities are endless, I'm so excited for the community's creations 😌 https://t.co/qjuR0t4Z5M
A residential rental can be in basically any form you'd like it to be – apartments, townhomes, duplex, in-law cottage, rented out basement, etc. like they mentioned in the tweet. You could rent out multiple rooms in your house, designate which parts of your house are shared, etc.
tomarang is literally so beautiful, I adore it. the environment artists did an INCREDIBLE job like 😭 every time I play there I want to take a million screenshots
Anna and Rudy Banks are the young married spellcaster couple embarking on this challenge. Anna is a family oriented, creative foodie with the bonus trait of essence of flavour from choosing a food aspiration (Appliance Wiz). Rudy is a genius foodie rancher with the bonus trait of business savvy from choosing a fortune aspiration (Market Magnate).
If you’d like to play with these sims, they are on the gallery.
Rules:
Start with nothing on an empty lot (I’m starting on Twin Oracle Point in Newcrest, a 50×40 lot).
No selling into personal inventory until your sims have a yard sale table (so do errands, sell to Finchwick stands or Chestnut Ridge general store to earn money to start).
If get free services reward trait, must manually deduct half the cost of groceries ordered (this requires the use of cheats and is because ordered groceries are free in the game with this trait). If both sims complete the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration this restriction will be lifted and groceries can be free.
Lot type used and lifespan is up to you. I’m using a regular residential lot and a long lifespan.
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post or video.
Goals:
Complete the two new aspirations that came with the Home Chef Hustle Stuff Pack (Appliance Wiz and Market Magnate). Anna will be working on the Appliance Wiz aspiration and Rudy will be working on the Market Magnate aspiration.
Build a home.
Complete at least the first three tiers of the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration.
Optional, once Rudy completes the Market Magnate aspiration, try using they copypasto spell to copy an extra ambrosia multiple times and see how quickly they can finish the Making Money scenario.
Mods in my Game Related to Home Chef Hustle:
I’m currently only using one mod related to the stuff pack:
Our two main sims are Teen Holly Ito-FitzMoon (traits: genius & rancher, blond teen wearing pink cowboy hat) and her younger child brother Jared Ito-FitzMoon (trait: horse lover). Joining them is their grand aunt Nanami Ito (traits: animal enthusiast & genius), who is a teen and their first cousin, once removed, child Ivy Fitz-Moon (creative). They are all spellcasters. See cousin chart below as an FYI, I had to look it up to figure out the relationship!
See their outfits starting here in the Cottage Living LP finale.
The two main sims will stay for the entire LP, if I increase household size with MCCC, the other two may stay too, but that will depend on how things go!
Complete the Making Money scenario, earning the majority (approx a minimum of 75%) of our money from the Horse Ranch Pack, most of which will probably come from nectar!
Complete the Expert Nectar Maker aspiration with at least two of our sims (see screenshot of aspiration below). Make at least one bottle of every type of nectar available to our sims, including the special one for spellcasters & the vitality nectar.
Complete the Championship Rider aspiration with one sim (see screenshot of aspiration below).
Explore the Deadhorse Cavern caves in the Galloping Gulch neighbourhood.
Have at least one foal and raise it to see what special traits is can get.
We will need a minimum of one child, possibly two, for the next generation, from either Holly or Jared, most likely Holly as she is older.
I will have some other aspirations I will work on including, but not limited to, the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration, two teen aspirations (Admired Icon and Goal Oriented) with any teen & all child aspirations with our sim children.
Rules:
Sims start with no money, though if starting with existing sims, miscellaneous personal items are okay, as long as they don’t overly help with the challenge. My sims have Nanami’s cow (that was unplanned, thanks game!) and a shed for her. They will have to pay for the shed and the two brooms (mops) they brought with them once they have funds.
Start on the Palomino Junction lot in the Galloping Gulch neighbourhood, the house has been demolished and all that is left is the sheltered area for a horse, some landscaping and a pond that still needs a fishing sign! See screenshot below.
No selling into inventory until you have a yard sale table/street gallery (requires either City Living, Jungle Adventures or Eco Lifestyle).
Majority (a minimum of approximately 75%) of the money for the Making Money scenario should be from the Horse Ranch pack. Once that is completed you can make money however you want. Sims can get starting money from fishing, collecting, frog breeding, etc.
Aging can be whatever you wish. I will have it on long for my current household only.
You can use whatever type of residential lot you’d like. Mine will start as a tiny home (2 tier Tiny Residential), I may possibly change it to a regular residential lot later.
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post or video.
Lot – can be found on the gallery under my ID, MapleSimmer:
Horse Ranch Mods in My Game:
I have a number of bug fixing, game tweaking mods in my game, but this will only cover mods that I’m using that are specifically for the Horse Ranch pack.
LittleMsSam has a few mods that are for the Horse Ranch pack, but I am only using the following: – https://lms-mods.com/
Complete the Expert Nectar Maker aspiration with at least two of our sims (see screenshot below). Make at least one bottle of every type of nectar available to our sims, including the special one for spellcasters & the vitality nectar.
Complete the Championship Rider aspiration with Madison (edited to say we may use Veronica for this instead) (see screenshot below).
Complete the Making Money scenario, earning at least half from Nectar or Horse Ranch EP activities.
Examine the options on the community board.
Buy some mini goats and mini sheep.
Have Avery complete his final child aspiration & Veronica complete any that she’s missing.
Have Madison finish the Lady of the Knits aspiration.
Deal with any midlife crisis or work place rivals that happen, if they do.
Here are my written notes about the livestream re the Horse Ranch pack and the base game update (expected to be at 10 am Pacific, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, link to time zone converter for when that will be in your own time zone), information seen afterwards, and the laundry list that came out before the live stream.
My video overview, which will include my thoughts, will follow, link will be added when it’s available.
Note the livestream was prerecorded due to scheduling conflicts, so things shown in the livestream may be different in the game because they are still finalizing the pack. Though apart from an edit at the end to show a child riding a horse, the rest of the ‘stream’ seemed to be recorded in one take.
Horse Create a Sim (‘CAS’):
More than 30 breeds in the game.
Horses can have up to three traits from a choice of eleven traits (aggressive, brave, defiant, energetic, fearful, free spirit, friendly, independent, intelligent, mellow, needy).
Traits can impact how horses interact with sims.
Sim scan develop fears of horses.
Can start as foals (as well as full grown horses) in CAS.
If horses are born in game, they can have special traits that you can only get when born in game.
However, both foals born in game and those created in CAS using the genetics option, will inherit physical attributes from parents.
Similar to cats and dogs, there is a full colour wheel for putting brushes, stamps and stencils on horses. Horses have some unique stamps for blazes or ‘snips’ and some unique stencils.
Including a bow tie stamp (already available for cats and dogs) and star stencils (new for horses)
Horse Accessories:
Two blankets, one hat, one flower crown, a bow and a flower for the tail and leg wraps (‘leg warmers’). Didn’t see the unicorn horn there, but it was shown in the horse CAS tweet The Sims shared later and it was shown in the CAS previously shown on the EA app.
Screenshot originally show in the EA app.
Horses have two outfits. An everyday and a riding outfit (the latter has a variety of tack (horse equipment), including a saddle and bridle and a blanket or saddle pad plus reins. It’s mostly Western gear but there is some English gear). Horses will automatically change into the riding outfit when they are being ridden.
Link to my video on the CAS / Build/Buy Items shown in the EA app. AS of July 15, 2023, they are no longer shown, though they will come back at release at the latest as they always show the items under the pack view on the main menu.
Sims Create a Sim:
I don’t think everything was shown.
Chaps aren’t an accessory they are on some bottoms.
A lot of outfits have both a ‘clean’ look and a ‘dirty’ look.
Kids: Two girl tops and two bottoms.,
Toddler: one top and one bottom (chaps)
Infants: very cute horsie onesie
Three moustaches
Accessories – wild rags (oversized bandannas). There are two different styles. Found under necklaces. Note there may be clipping with some things, but they left it to work with whatever you want.
6 new male hairstyles
3 new base game native American hairstyles (mentioned the collab with Native American consultant Stacey Parshall Jensen).
Two New Sim Traits:
Rancher (under lifestyle): These sims excel at ranch life and take pride in their work. They enjoy ranch chores and caring for their livestock.
Horse Lover (under social): These sims share a strong bond with Horses. They have an easier time socializing with and caring for Horses than other Sims.
Two New Sim Aspirations:
Champion rider under Fitness
Nectar aspiration under Food
They didn’t show any details on these aspirations.
World of Chestnut Ridge Overview:
13 lots in three neighbourhoods. One empty lot (so three by each GC (ChrissieYT, Doctor Ashley, Ninnster & Simproved) plus one empty)
One neighbourhood had three lots, the other two have five each.
Lot sizes per tweet by Matthew J. Fahey, Principal Designer at EA for the Sims.
Note they started in the Riders’ Glen Ranches’ Neighbourhood, which has five lots:
one empty 64×64 residential lot
two residential lots have premade sims on them (40×30 and 30×20)
the other two residential lots have homes built on them (30×30 and 30×20)
Need to befriend horses, which was already shared in the Behind the Sims livestream and the gameplay trailer.
Skill: horse riding skill. In the beginning you can walk and trot, but eventually you can sit a canter.
Community board: Each neighbourhood has one and you can place one on any lot from build mode, though most of the options are also on your sim’s phone.
Prairie grass: grows in the neighbourhood. Horses will graze on it; you can harvest it by hand and search on it (it’s like a ‘loot box’). Can hand feed horses or stock your feeder with it.
The prairie grass is a new lot challenge and grass will spread (I’m glad it’s a challenge since those aren’t limited)
You can also pay to load feeder vs using what you’ve collected.
Showed horse stalls with ‘beds’: two different types plus different colour variations (you can assign beds to horses).
Horses both eat and drink water, so some basics needed for looking after them are horse beds, a feeder and a waterer.
If you don’t want to spend a lot of time looking after the horses, you can hire a ranch hand (can do from phone in addition to on the community board).
Note the ranch hands are scheduled to work everyday from 7 am to 7 pm, however, when the SimGuru’s returned back to their sims’ ranch around midnight, the ranch hand was still there.
Ranch hands can help with livestock care (not sure if that includes Cottage Living animals, hopefully it does), take care of plants and fix things that are busted.
There’s a box to put manure in so you can use it later as fertilizer.
Different qualities of poop. The better you look after your horse, the better quality the poop is, i.e., better the fertilizer is.
You can see the horses’ needs (seems to be when you hover over them?).
They showed the early purchase items, but also a few things in the pack.
New BBQ and new recipes: Three sisters chili (base game Native American dish) plus two more (Bison stew & Wild Nut Soup)
Plus Pan de campo (classic Cowboy dish) – they will bring that as a welcome wagon food vs the fruit cake.
Two new social events:
Ranch Gathering (can grill, dance, drink, socialize with neighbours)
Ranch Animal Day (focus more on four-legged friend and showing them off to your friends)
Plus, new ‘bedroll’ (i.e. sleeping bag from Growing Together).
They hit the trail to see Chestnut Ridge’s neighbourhoods.
Galloping Gulch Neighbourhood & Gameplay There:
There are only three lots in this neighbourhood. One is lived in, one is not lived in and one is a rental lot.
I noticed they landed in on their horses (But they seem to get on them before they left)
Montana style neighbourhood, with canyons
Perfect spot if you want to be away from civilization.
Big map for horses to travel around.
There’s waterfalls and stone bridges.
If you have seasons, weather will be more arid. However, if there is a storm, horses can get spooked.
Lots of D&D influence. Dreadhorse caverns (when you explore it there are good written stories, surprises, and rewards). Seems like it is similar to the caves in Island Living and Snowy Escape.
Lots of winding bends. Lots of story telling to discover, big vistas to enjoy. There’s something to touch around every corner to make it more interesting to explore. (Paraphrasing their words)
Can do jumping/barrel racing. Fun location for riding.
Also, lots of rest spots
Great fishing spots
Pee/woohoo bushes, plus the occasional outhouse.
Waterfalls, sims can swim in water under them. No mention of horses being able to swim.
New Appaloosa Neighbourhood & Gameplay There:
This neighbourhood has a ‘small western town’ feel to it and has five lots:
The Rusty Horseshoe is a great stop (nightclub?)
Oak Barrel Nectar bar
Small empty starter home (20×20 lot)
Home for Premade Sims
Dukes Hall (which is 40×30 park/national park lot across from the Equestrian Center)
The Equestrian Center is in the neighbourhood space, and it closes at 7 pm.
There are four competitions (Jumping, Barrel Racing, Endurance Riding and Western Pleasure Riding (art of how chill your horse can be while you are riding)). You can earn simoleons (big bucks? and plaques) from competitions and you can advance to more advanced competitions.
They gave a preliminary look at the painted ceilings which are coming in the free base game update.
You can ride your horses into the dance hall (Rusty Horseshoe).
Cowpoke dance shown.
Clothing store where your sims can choose and change outfits, general store (These are in the public space vs being lots but aren’t open all the time).
General store, closes at 10 pm (was closed when they were there).
Mini Goats and Mini Sheep:
Phone can be used to buy mini goats and sheep, no limit on how many you can buy. (Possibly computer?)
Mini animals: ‘black sheep – so expensive, wonder why?’ was what was said (costs 2000 simoleons). The others cost different amounts (150, 200 and 400 simoleons).
Sheep will provide simoleons when you shave them.
Goats will give milk.
If you have cottage living, feeds into that system (wool and milk).
They eat weeds and bugs in the garden. They can roam all over your ranch and they are very cute!
Sims can count sheep when they are trying to go to sleep (I had wondered if that was trailer magic!).
Nectar Making:
Found under activities.
This is a skill (the sim with more skill was level 5, wondering if that’s the max level, similar to juice fizzing)
Taps into everything you can grow, including trash nectar.
Occult sims each have a special nectar they can make (i.e. with the plants from those packs?).
Stackable nectar rack. If you put your bottles in the rack, they will stack up too. Aging nectar increases it’s value.
Once you crack a bottle it will only last a few days, so I expect it lasts indefinitely if it’s unopened. You get multiple servings from a bottle.
You can drink nectar from a glass or from the bottle.
Build/Buy:
Two different ranch signs that can be customized with different things. Animal iron work signs (horses, sheep, goats and cowplants and ones that match Cottage Living (cow, llama, and chicken) that you can add. Some signs can be unlocked.
Free cam mode coming to build mode in base game update.
Ceilings. Pretty much any floor tile can be used for the ceiling. They showed the icon you use to access the ceiling.
Plus, new flooring/ceiling from the pack. Night sky (not the top swatch).
Also, coming in the free base game update – more colour variants in floor tiles.
New door for base game with ‘ranchy patterns’
Horses can go through doors, but only some doors are available when a sim is riding a horse (they are labelled ‘mounted horse mountable’). The mounted horse rideable doors are available on medium and tall walls.
They cut to the next morning where they showed off child getting on and riding a horse.
Overall, can’t say I learned much that hadn’t already been shared in the blog post/behind the sims, except for names of some townies and their roles, however here’s my written summary including screenshots from the trailer of a few things I noted.
First thing they mentioned was how much work it is, which was already mentioned in EA’s guided tour blog post.
Community is mentioned as being important.
We got ‘introduced’ to a couple of townies over the course of the trailer.
The first townie we were introduced to was Siena, horse trainer and owner of the Equestrian Center in town, where all the competitions like barrel racing and jumping take place. This clip from the trailer shows plaques which are probably what you win from the competitions:
Horse ‘temperaments’. Some horses can be friendly and patient, others can be aggressive and defiant. They have different personalities and traits (Which was already mentioned in the behind the scenes look at horses during the Behind the Sims).
The closer you are with a horse, the easier it is to practice your skills.
You’ll see sims on horses pretty much everywhere, long rides out in the park and through town.
Horses take a lot of space (no surprise there!).
Foals can inherit their parent’s nature.
They need to be fed, played with, brushed, trained, and cleaned up after.
Adding the mini goats and sheep adds to the work (not sure why they need to be bottle fed if you can get milk and wool from them).
Not sure if sims will be able to count sheep or if that was trailer magic!
Mentions hiring a ranch hand, they will look after your livestock and tend crops needed for nectar making (however I would think they just garden in general?)
They mention you can hire the ranch hands from the community board, and you can also buy or adopt horses from the community board.
You can eventually make money from nectar making, though in the beginning you’ll make sub par batches.
There are many kinds of nectar (they show grape, strawberry and apple and they indicated different emojis for both, so I wonder if they give different emotions, like different fizzy juices do).
Is this one like the suspicious fizz you can make in Eco Lifestyle?Is this the special nectar?
The second townie we were introduced to was Roberto Crinkletop who you can learn a secret recipe from.
I expect that’s the recipe for the nectar that brings sims back to life.
Roberto has no home, no one knows where he lives, but he will show up to the dances!
The pack is out July 20th, 2023.
Early purchase bonus if you buy the pack by August 31, 2023 (pre-ordering isn’t necessary):
Reminder, the developer livestream is on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 11 am Pacific and will be on their Twitch and their YouTube. This was shared in the Behind the Sims blog post recap.
If you want to share your own Sims play with other friendly simmers, have any questions, or need troubleshooting help please head over to my Facebook group, Sims Sanctuary or my Discord
Meet Lila Mayberry, who is a creative freegan who is also an animal enthusiast and is about to embark on the No Skills, No Problem Scenario. The twist, we’re going to try and get a golden chicken to help her get a perfect garden since she won’t be able to gain any skills and evolve her garden herself. As per the scenario goals, she is starting with no simoleons and on a now empty lot (3 Olde Mill Lane in Henford on Bagley). As an aside, she is playing in the same save and neighourhood that Cameron McGregor is in, i.e. the sim used in my playthrough of the Extraterrestrial Researcher Scenario.
If you’d like to play with Lila, she’s now on the gallery.
The scenario goals are quite simple, have 400,000 simoleons while not being able to gain any skills.
In addition to this goal, I plan to complete the following aspirations:
Fortune Aspiration
Both Spellcaster Aspirations (Spellcraft & Sorcery and Purveyor of Potions)
Curator Aspiration
She will also work on other aspirations as best she can when not being able to gain any skills.
As for the rags to riches element, the main rule I will be following is that Lila won’t be able to sell into her personal inventory until she has earned enough for a yard sale table. So she will have to first earn money by taking on errands, selling fish/produce to the Finchwick grocery or gardening stands or taking on odd jobs.
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post.
Contact Me:
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