Here are the goals and rules for my Sims 4 Life & Death Rags to Riches Legacy Challenge, which uses the heirs from my Rags to Property Owners LP & is the fifth generation in this legacy.
I am starting with five sims, the youngest three are the heirs from the previous generation. Twins Roman and Phillip, and infant Zoe Ito-FitzMoon.
Their aunt Poppy and great aunt Elizabeth, both teens, will be joining them.
They are all spellcasters. Four are born in game and have spellcaster bloodline traits. Our heirs have an ancient bloodline trait, their aunt has a weak bloodline trait and their great aunt has no bloodline trait.
If you’d like to see the prequel to this LP, where their parents complete their Soul’s Journey and pass down their aspiration traits to the teens, here is the playlist for that.
Here is the playlist for their parent’s For Rent rags to riches journey. As indicated above, this is the 5th generation of this family that have done a rags to riches journey of an expansion pack.
Goals:
Complete the Soul’s Journey with the five starting sims & any spouses/partners. *see rule 2
Complete the fortune aspiration with all five starting sims (either need 200k before can switch to the aspiration).
Max all three Life & Death careers (with any household sims).
Complete the Alice’s Sorrow quest with at least one sim.
Complete the historian aspiration with at least one sim.
Complete the tarot deck collection with at least one sim.
Have a baby (or two) with the grim reaper (Zoe, who is our youngest, who is starting as an infant, will do this when she becomes a young adult). This baby (or babies) will be the heirs for the next generation.
Live in all three Ravenwood neighbourhoods.
Optional Goals:
Have all sims age up with at least four positive character values, preferably five.
Have one sim try to befriend Edith.
Complete the Making Money scenario.
Have one sim complete the Market Magnate aspiration (that the heirs’ father Phillip was never able to do).
Have one sim complete the ghost portion of the soul’s journey.
Have one sim be reborn???
Rules:
Start with no money on an empty lot.
Starting sims need to complete goal 1 (complete 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).
Use general rags to riches rules per video, which also links to my blog post.
I discuss the Oct 22, 2024, Sims 4 base game update, including what’s new, what was and wasn’t fixed, the mod impact and the new bugs since the update. I also review some other common bugs from before the update. What was your favourite thing in the update & have you experienced any non-mod related issues? 😊🍁 #Sims4 #GameUpdate #Sims4Bugs #Sims4Mods
Many mods broke with the update, including most popular mods (MCCC, UI Cheats to name a couple, those have both been updated). As of the time I’m typing this, many others, though not all, have been updated.
Two good sources to see which of your mods was impacted are noted below:
Note that injection tools that are used by other mods broke with this update. The two main ones are XML Injector and Lot 51 Core Library. Both were updated on Oct 23/24, though XML Injector was reupdated on Oct 23/24. There are two other injection tools that were still broken last I looked on Oct 25/24, I see them mentioned on Luth’s list.
Also, some loading screen mods broke with the update, according to SimMattically, it looks like pack pictures may be replacing the plumbob at some point, or something like that. The tooltips will remain. Original tweet: https://x.com/SimMattically/status/1849068375101567463
Follow Up tweets:
To be fair, I based my original tweet on the code alone, before seeing how it looks. It mentioned a DLC banner with a name and icon, so it seemed like an ad.
The design itself is nice! It’s only frustrating that they turn an opportunity for aesthetics into an advertisement. 🙌🏻
I discuss my thoughts on what was covered in the Life & Death Gameplay trailer & some additional information revealed from SimGuru tweets. What was your favourite thing from the trailer? 😊🍁 #Sims4 #LifeandDeath #Speculation
We thought of this! Per lore he's an entity and doesn't really have a face; you never see it in game without cheats. His babies will be born from a new genetic preset of him so long as you're on a fresh save.
In the picture above – that is a lack of presets you're seeing for his facial features. Before now, you'd only ever see Grim's face via cheats so he didn't need them at that time.
Yes! What @jackofallgames7 said above is accurate about it being encompassing. But also, Bucket List and Unfinished Business are the primary ways to progress on your Soul's Journey (and they're tracked in the same UI) – to explain why the trailer goes straight into them.
jackofgames tweet re their understanding of Soul’s Journey:
My understanding is it collates different systems, like wants, aspirations etc. and brings them all together as one giant system, alongside new systems like the bucket list.
It seems to me that it’s organising all of these seperate systems into one big one.
Love when Grim says, "The truth is that old age, fire, and anger claim more Sims lives than any other form of death." Because that's an ACTUAL Sims 4 fact! https://t.co/kbwBe96HjX
TheSimsDirect Tweet Thread on Update Being Next Week:
On Tuesday, Oct 22, a big base game update is coming to #TheSims4. If you use game mods & custom content, you may want to remove and backup save files. This will also give creators time to update their content to prevent potential in-game issues.
— The Sims Direct Communications (@TheSimsDirect) October 18, 2024
Additionally, we’re working on resolving the reported issues tied to the Reaper's Rewards Events. Due to the varying details around each report, we've consolidated the issues to support the team in their investigations. For further details & potential workarounds:…
— The Sims Direct Communications (@TheSimsDirect) October 18, 2024
Time Zone converter for when 10 am Pacific, Oct 22, 2024 is in your own time zone:
There’s a new Life and Death video by The Sims, this time on ‘Grimterns’! I discuss my thoughts on it and some recent SimGuru tweets about the pack & upcoming base game update, including some speculation on what the new ‘big’ feature coming to base game might be. What do you think it could be? 😊🍁 #Sims4 #LifeandDeath #Speculation #BaseGameUpdate
I can't wait for everyone to see all of the variants of these Swimsuits. They fit the Macabre Trait so well. They're my new favorites. (Okay, new favorites after that gnome one.) pic.twitter.com/11rTBEV7rG
And there's even more than we listed! 🫣 I also can't wait to talk about one particular thing coming with BG Update (that I don't even think we've mentioned yet). https://t.co/dki58UJ7m3
I art is amaaaazing! But also… if he was Nervous Subject when he lived with the Beakers who were experimenting on him… who was he before? I bet he even had a real name… https://t.co/IYU1Vw8n3v
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.
Thursday’s update had more bug fixes than expected, I discuss what was fixed and what of the more recent bugs wasn’t fixed. Have you updated your game? 😊 🍁 #Sims4 #Error123 #Sims4Bugs #LovestruckBugs Video link
I discuss some more information on the error 123 issue, some workarounds and mod fixes, as well as many other common bugs, and possible workarounds when available, since the Jul 23 update and a few Lovestruck bugs. 😊 🍁 Video link
Links referred to in video, including EA AHQ links:
Note that what I covered in my video, and also link below is what I’m seeing as popular issues since the July 23, 2024 updates and the later hot fix/e-patch updates that I noticed when looking through the Sims 4 bug section of EA AHQ.
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!
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.
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