Start with nothing on an empty lot. I’ll be starting on Pebble Burrow in Oasis Springs.
Optional: No selling into personal inventory or equivalent* until you have purchased a yard sale table or street gallery.
You can make money from anything in your goal to complete the Making Money scenario.
Lifespan is up to you. I’m using a long lifespan & aging up as certain goals are met.
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post or video.
*e.g. no selling off the plant, selling paintings to collector or similar
Crystal Creations Rags to Riches Goals:
Complete the Crystal Crafter Aspiration
Complete the Curator Aspiration.
Complete the Fortune Aspiration.
Complete the Making Money scenario.
Optional Goals I’ll be Doing:
Have all three teens complete the Overachiever aspiration.
Have all three teens complete the Admired Icon aspiration.
Have at least four character values be in a positive range before they age up (for all three teens).
If you’d like to play along with these teens, you can find them on the gallery.
24 While 24 Checklist Challenge:
My spreadsheet version of the goals with information on required packs where necessary:
Added Challenge – Remove the Lot Challenges:
Considering adding an element where I add most/all lot challenges and each one will have it’s own goal that needs to be met to remove it.
Lot Challenge (or equivalent) and required goal to remove it, draft version (I will leave this as an FYI, but if I do go ahead and finalize it, I will also show the final version):
Developer livestream is scheduled for 11 am Pacific on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. It will be on their Twitch and their YouTube. Time Zone Converter for when the livestream will start in your own time zone: http://tinyurl.com/bdf94mcv
Base game update will be Tuesday, February 27, 2024 and the usual time for updates is 10 am Pacific. Time Zone Converter for when base game update will happen in your own time zone: http://tinyurl.com/4ztb8vwy
Teen Phillip Ito-FitzMoon (Cringe, Nosy, with Business Savvy bonus trait from a fortune aspiration) and his younger sister, child Rosalind (Creative) will be joined by teen Hollie Pruett-Meyers (Creative, Geek with Collector bonus trait from a nature aspiration) who was a child in my For Rent Mini Let’s Play. Link to their household on the gallery.
Goals:
For Rent Goals:
Complete all four For Rent aspirations (Discerning Dweller, Fount of Tomarani Knowledge, Five-Star Property Owner & Seeker of Secrets) with at least one sim, though I hope to complete all but the Seeker of Secrets with all of them. Seeker of Secrets will be a goal of Phillip, our nosy sim.
Complete both collections (marbles & tassels) that come with the For Rent pack.
Get as many secrets as possible (there are about 30).
Hold a potluck and pool party at least once (the two new social events that come with the For Rent pack).
Teen Goals:
Teens must complete the Admired Icon and Goal Oriented teen aspirations.
Teens must have at least three positive character values before they age up to young adult, but preferably all five character values will be positive.
Other Goals:
Complete the fortune aspiration.
Complete the Making Money scenario.
Our Ito-FitzMoon sims must have two children to carry on the Rags to Riches legacy in the next generation (the siblings can each have one each, or one of them can have two). They can have more children, but only two are needed for the next generation pack LP (whatever pack that will be!).
I will work on other aspirations that seem to suit their goals of making money, etc., but those are the defined up front goals.
Rules:
Start with nothing on the 20×20 empty lot in Tomarang (ISDA Riverfront, Koh Sahpa). While on this lot sims can only use things that are portable, the only exception is they can have a small garden, though with no trees.
No selling into personal inventory or marking up prices until our sims have paid off the yard sale table they start with.
Travel is restricted to Tomarang, San Myshuno, Magic HQ & to the high school neighbourhood. They can also visit the vet clinic in Brindleton Bay if they have a sick pet. Otherwise they must book a vacation rental in the location (see Note I below) until they complete the Fortune Aspiration.
Once the sims have saved enough money they will move into a rental.
Once at least one sim has completed the Discerning Dweller aspiration, they can move into their own owned residential rental lot.
Once they have completed the Five-Star Property Owner aspiration they can move off their owned residential rental lot if they wish.
They can make money from anything as I find being a landlord isn’t lucrative & needs other sources to support it.
Lifespan is up to you. I’m using a long lifespan & aging up as certain goals are met.
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post or video.
Note I: Worlds I consider as one world:
Oasis Springs & Del Sol Valley
Willow Creek, Newcrest & Magnolia Promenade
San Myshuno can be accessed freely from any world.
Updated to add Thunder released a Bug Fix mod for the issue with weeding while gardening after I released my video: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bugfix-tend-fix-94711697 Note this bug fix requires Lot 51 Core Library which is also linked on their bug fix post and Thunder states that it is compatible with LittleMsSam’s gardening workaround fix.
Note that the links that follow are just a handful that I saw that seemed ‘popular’, here’s a link to EA AHQ to see what other bugs are reported and if you don’t see your bug, and have tested in a mod and cc free game (which means nothing in your mods folder but the resource file which the game automatically generates), then do a bug report making sure to fill out the template. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
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/
No indication given on how long the gallery maintenance will take.
New Console Control Feedback Thread
The May 30 update brought more changes to console controls and EA has closed the old thread and created a new one. From what I’m seeing on the new changes, is negative.
Link to new thread I recommend going over there to comment with your feedback. Hopefully they are quicker to respond this time then they were last time.
New Mod to Bring Back Relationship Gain When Taking Photos:
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
Links for bugs mentioned in my video, and if available mods to fix the issues and/or Crinrict reports summarizing the issue:
GRO = Growing Together
BG = Base Game
This list is split into two types, ‘bigger bugs’ that have a bigger effect on game play (10 in that section) and minor bugs that are more of a nuisance and have a smaller impact on game play (6 in that section).
Note that if you are using mods and cc and are experiencing issues, make sure you test in a mods/cc free save as they may be causing problems, even if you’ve updated. Please check either Luth’s mod tracking list on the Sims 4 forums or Scarlett’s mod tracking list.
Note some issues have been fixed as of April 26, 2023 which is noted under the individual points.
Initially it was thought that this was tied to Laundry Day and that disabling the LD stuff pack would help. This doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, so the cause seems to be unknown. If you’ve experienced this, here is some information that EA would like (screenshot from bug report):
3.Parents need to be introduced to infant (BG): Note the issue with this is the parent/caregiver won’t be able to look after the infant until they are introduced. You can hire a nanny to introduce your sim to the infant, or if someone else on the lot is known to the infant, have them do the introduction. If you have MCCC you can use the ‘set relationship levels’ and then choose friends (lower level may work, but that was the option I choose) and your parent will then have all the options to look after the infant. It was initially thought to be tied to the beloved trait, and that may be one cause, but I’ve had it happen with sims who don’t have the beloved trait.
4.Sims lose milestones, including infants (GRO): Note one issue with this as it pertains to infants, is that they don’t seem to be able to get the milestones again and losing them can reset their progress and then they can’t progress any further. Some people found it was triggered by rotational play, others by sending the infants to the grandparents and others just by travelling. Not sure if just going into manage worlds might cause an issue.
5.Sims have all the same name/CAS corruption(GRO + Other): Note that there is a similar existing bug, but it can also be caused by GRO if you try to change traits after sims have learned extra self discovery traits. i.e. either by using the cas.fulleditcheat or if you download a sim from the gallery with extra traits learned through self discovery. See Crinrict’s report for more information.
Second key bit of advice from Crin's post: THIS ERROR CAN SPREAD to other households and even other Saves! If you see this error in CAS with the names or traits, "close your game completely without saving if you run into the error and reload the game." https://t.co/OGy4CqXLMD
6.Teens and Children change appearance due to loose tooth (GRO). The ability to lose a tooth has been temporarily disabled for PC/Mac (Mar 24/23 update) and console will hopefully get the same update shortly while EA works on a solution to this problem. Since the issue is not actually fixed, the bug reports are still open.
7.Pregnancy not Progressing & Relationship Telemetry Hooks Last Exceptions (BG): Neither of these are happening to everyone, but it is an issue for some people. For the never ending pregnancy, some have found that switching to another household has allowed the pregnancy to progress, but that doesn’t seem to be working for everyone, or possibly even many people. There is a bug fix mod for both these issues, which may be related. Fixed in April 18, 2023 game update.
10.Issues with the Mountain Climbing Excursion: The new issue is that the mountain climbing excursion is not progressing. There was an old issue where there was no check mark to select the members. There’s a work around for the latter. You currently need bug fix mod for the excursion not progressing, there is no other work around. Fixed in April 18, 2023 game update.
1.Items Removed pop-up appears when no items removed (BG): This is an older bug, but seems more common since the infant update. You get a message that items from unowned content have been removed but nothing appears to be removed from your build/lot.
Here is where the lots are in San Sequoia (sims can’t walk on the grassy area around these two lots, they can walk on the road and a dirt path that doesn’t show in this map view)
General Advice:
⚠️ Just a general piece of advice I saw Turbodriver give on September 21, 2022 is that if you are experiencing issues with saving, it’s best to save the game in gameplay (i.e. from live mode) versus from manage worlds. ⚠️This can help prevent some issues with corrupting saves. So I recommend if you are editing your world from manage worlds, go into your household/a household and then save the game. While this refers to the issue happening in modded saves, I have seen people have a problem even in unmodded saves.
My latest LP for Growing Together LP is a variation on rags to riches, as my family will get to start with an empty house. First part should be up later today, March 24, 2023 at 3 pm EDT. Playlist link to TBA.
Meet our Family:
The Samuels are a close knit family. including a recently widowed mom who has a teen, a child, an infant and another one on the way! Her husband passed away recently and she used the little insurance money remaining to buy an unfurnished home in San Sequoia, which is new town for her and her family but happens to be where her sister is currently living. How will they all manage? Gallery link for the family.
Mom, young adult Madison Samuels, she is creative, family oriented and an animal enthusiast. She has the bonus collector trait from choosing a nature aspiration.
Teen, Brynn Samuels, she is a creative and a geek & has the muser trait from choosing a creativity aspiration. She will be joining us in the fall as she is currently on an exchange for the summer in Mt. Komorebi.
Child, Fiona Samuels who is an animal enthusiasts.
Infant, Avery Samuels who is sunny.
Family cat Mimi, who is a glutton, clever and a prowler!
Also in the San Sequoia is Madison’s young adult sister Sage Galloway. She is a genius bookworm, who also happens to be an animal enthusiast. She has the quick learner trait from choosing a knowledge aspiration.
Goals:
Have Madison at a minimum complete the Parenthood parent aspiration, the fortune aspiration & one nature aspiration. She will also work on other aspirations and complete what she can.
When our teen Brynn joins the household she needs to complete the overachiever teen aspiration and like her mom she will also work on other aspirations, including her primary aspiration, Bestselling Author.
Have all children, starting with Fiona, complete all child aspirations, including the four new ones.
Have all children learn how to ride a bike.
Have all infants, starting with Avery, complete all infant milestones and try all infant foods (both mashed and finger foods) and as a toddler, max all skills.
Furnish their home so that it suits a family living there!
See if we can complete all the puzzles!
The family must buy and build a treehouse and fully upgrade it.
Will Madison meet someone and if she does, what impact will that have on her family?
Optional Goal: Complete the Making Money scenario.
Rules:
Sims start with nothing except the unfurnished house on 23 Eucalyptus Lane, a 30×20 lot in the Hopewell Hills area of San Sequoia (gallery link for my starting home, 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).
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 is a tiny home (2 tier Tiny Residential)
For more Rags to Riches guidelines, see my blog post or video.
Some tweets from the last few days* covering the following:
Game Play (Mix of Base Game & Growing Together)
Children (Growing Together)
Tweets re Growing Together Lots
Build/Buy (Growing Together)
Create-a-Sim (Growing Together)
Behind the Scenes (Naming Worlds)
Just for Fun, including some glitches! (Base Game, Growing Together & Other Packs)
*mostly March 6 to March 8, but one is from March 4.
Link to my video where I discuss many of these tweets.
1. Game Play
Adoption:
Sims can adopt infants (hopefully older children too) that are already in the world! A couple of examples where this will be great is if your sim already has a child and then gets married or if you have Get to Work and the spouse has a child through alien abduction (and I’m sure there are more examples!). This looks different from the ability to adopt a child using the phone. Since it shows an adoption certificate, I’m not sure if the entire interaction is limited to Growing Together, or just what I expect is the milestone related to it.
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 6, 2023
Most certainly. All changing tables are compatible with toddlers.
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 6, 2023
Toddlers and Baby Proofing (Base Game):
Toddlers escaping is also part of the base game update, it’s not limited to Growing Together. The fence is base game, most everything else that looks new is Growing Together.
Three different types of marriage certificates and your sims can order copies via the phone or computer. Hopefully sims who are already married will also be able to order them!
Married Sims now get a marriage certificate in Growing Together, which you can then customize from these three designs in a variety of frames!
Sims can request additional copies via the phone or computer!
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 8, 2023
I wanted to show off dogs playing on the splash pad. Maybe I shouldn't have selected a Couch Potato Bulldog who just wants to lounge on the baby rug all day. 😂 I'll get my picture though!
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 8, 2023
Cats will need to be held
I believe you can hold them and play in the water!
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 8, 2023
2. Children (Growing Together)
Sneak peak at the reward trait for Slumber Party Animal Aspiration:
The four new Child Aspirations are a bit of a hybrid. Slumber Party Animal gives you a different set of goals that support Children who are focusing on both Social and Creativity. https://t.co/tmSxC0N1Lgpic.twitter.com/7odZQAY5iR
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 8, 2023
Correct to all above. They each also tie into our new objects (as seen in icons) + a few other kid-friendly activities.
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 8, 2023
Two children can play together on the treehouse:
Didn't get a chance to show this on the stream, but 2 Child Sims can also Play Pretend together! Space explorers, fairy tale castle, pirates, island castaway, and house! pic.twitter.com/M73bTLqRaZ
We showed off one dressed-up Starter Home during the Growing Together Livestream, but check out how cute this one is by @dzidziak86 in the Gilbert Gardens neighborhood! My two favorite parts: 1. The modern roof over the doorway. 2. It has the cutest little starter nursery inside. pic.twitter.com/65SvVZN0KG
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 6, 2023
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 6, 2023
40×30 Lot in Gilbert Gardens – this one was built by @lilsimsie. No sneak peeks since I'm sure she will be showing it off herself, but you can get a feel for the lot in case you want to build something there.😉 pic.twitter.com/kSd2JfRe4N
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 6, 2023
4. Build/Buy (Growing Together):
Splash Pad
The Splash Pad Play area in Gilbert Gardens is amazing! But you also have all the pieces to build your very own splash pad play area at home! Or why not at a public pool or your very own Recreation Center? 🐳 pic.twitter.com/9hDPAcrGTu
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 7, 2023
Most of these (splash pads, emitters, Whalebert) are found under outdoor activities. Whalebert is also a Fountain Decoration. The leaves and flowers are found in Sculptures in the Outdoors category. No cheats needed to access them at all!
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 7, 2023
Modeling did some extra hookup with Whalebert so that if you want you can also place him in a Fountain. ⛲️ pic.twitter.com/uHOfGYhTm2
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 7, 2023
Kindermade ‘Lore’
Does anyone remember Kindermade, a brand we created for Build/Buy for a few pieces from the base game? (like these ones pictured below)
So… I may have gone a bit wild with expanding the Kindermade lore for Growing Together build-buy items.
Kindermade HQ has informed me that I am obligated to share that these two tables? They are definitely two of the tables ever made! pic.twitter.com/6LJr39Aacy
Look! Kindermade's KinderMod line is also bringing retro-future vibes and existential panic to your libraries! Perfect for when your studies have you in literal agony, or you're on the verge of having your secret love of cowplants spilled via a slightly-too-tilted phone screen. pic.twitter.com/0bHY6zt5Gw
In Growing Together, we added some fun new Build/Buy assets for Recreation Centers & Libraries—you might have spotted them during the Livestream in our builds. Just a preview – I won't show all the Rec Center/Library objects. 😉 pic.twitter.com/OIq5EMp1R3
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 6, 2023
before you call me cringe – yes, the first one is meant to be an excruciating read! it's poking fun at the way brands will often misuse slang. the idea of a chair company having a board meeting to decide how to sound "cool and relatable" is absurd (and probably happens?)
— GooGooGagaGuruMorgan (@SimGuruMorgan) March 8, 2023
6. Behind the Scenes
I found this thread by GrimSuruDoi on what goes into naming a Sims 4 world very interesting!
I’ve finally recovered after our marathon stream yesterday (it seems y’all liked it??) and while I enjoyed ranting about why Moonwood Mill and San Sequoia are ✨perfect✨ world names, I figured a little behind-the-scenes context on how we go about naming worlds could be fun. 🧵
— Cheapskate Keepsake Doi (@GrimSuruDoi) March 4, 2023
One thing we don’t decide until much, much later? The world name. We don’t want to design a world around a name but rather fit a good name to the world that we’ve already designed.
— Cheapskate Keepsake Doi (@GrimSuruDoi) March 4, 2023
We think about a lot (maybe too much?) like the connotations of the name, the history of the places that inspire the world, possible translations, words they sound like, personal preference
— Cheapskate Keepsake Doi (@GrimSuruDoi) March 4, 2023
For those 2 worlds, I think we arrived in the right place. We looked at abandoned/secluded mill towns that seemed like good werewolf hangouts or at how the Bay Area’s flora has transformed over time and how local places are still named after trees that are no longer there
— Cheapskate Keepsake Doi (@GrimSuruDoi) March 4, 2023
Anyway, this is all to say while there was certainly some truth to my bit on world naming on the stream (Chair Village ahoy!), I really do appreciate the thought and intention we put into all the work do. We will sometimes still make mistakes, but we continue to do our best!
— Cheapskate Keepsake Doi (@GrimSuruDoi) March 4, 2023
(What we came to lovingly refer to as "Beard Baby" was a bug that showed up in early development on infants. Cracked us up.) pic.twitter.com/OTVRvWuS2o
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