Dunne&Ias' Sims 2 Stuff

Again, I'm going with the first question because it seems more fun.

This is part of why I don't want to play a historical hood: a tool they lack is electricity.

While I have no problem initially playing without the technological parts of the game, eventually I do want to add them. So they'll have to be unlocked somehow. But I've put a ban on the vanilla workbenches so I can't do robotics which is how I usually solve it in a BaCC, becuase I want work to be connected to resources.

This will take some pondering I think.

The poll is this week's project.

Other active projects:

Silk: 2 weeks left

Is there a witch?: 3 weeks left.

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Oh you know I'm gonna do the first one, no contest.

They say there's a well hidden deep in the forest. If you find it once, you won't find it again, no matter how much you make sure to triangulate your position.

Some say this well moves around.

Some say it's the work of a witch (does this community have witches? I don't know yet. We have werewolves so supernatural things exist)

They say though, that if you come across this well, you need to be careful. They say some people can hear a voice coming from the well and foolish people will rush forward to try and help whoever is down there.

There is no one down there.

There might be someone down there if you are not careful, because then that person will be you, you will not be buried in the sacred grove with your ancestors and your spirit will forever be trapped, calling out to weary travellers and those who have gotten lost in the forest and are looking for a sip of water.

Some people say it's a wishing well. Others say the rumours of it being a wishing well were started by the witch in the forest.

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A project is started to find out if someone is a witch. This project will take four weeks (turns).

Other active projects: The charismatic young girl, Meredith Weaver, has recruited a bunch of adults to figure out these islands are suitable for silk worms. 3 weeks left.

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Town Center now has some buildings. The larger ones are home businesses for the Merchant Class and the smaller ones can be used as either apartments or smaller residences for the lower classes that don't need to live near their base resources.

fae inspired build/buy stuff in 2026? Especially outdoor stuff

Updated map as it stands right now (had to take two pictures to capture it all.

New things added: The island where the werewolves live who are not really part of the community is now Luna Island.

The island that will hold the Sacred Grove and The Temple is now Sacred Island

The farmland island is now Golden Island.

Forest Hill is now correctly spelled.

Hm. Tricky.

The daughter of a sheep farmer, her name is Meredith, I guess, does not like the idea of her future shearing sheep. She's heard of fabrics made of little worms instead, and manages to get several adults involved in figuring out how it all works.

This is a project that is going to take five turns, because they'll have to send someone off to the mainland for information before they can even start on a new production line.

Meanwhile, the project to search out farmland has been successful (I mean, I already knew that when I made the map but whatevs), and one of the empty islands is suitable for growing vegetables and fruits. Good for us! This island is now called... Golden Island, because of colour of hay.

I can't build the farmhouses because I don't know how the families who live there will look yet, as usual.

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Oooh, this is a fun card!

I don't think my community is very unified, so I'm going with the first question, and say that someone lives on the small island furtherest away who refuses to conform to the landlord's demands and is thus mostly ignored.

I rolled a D10 and concluded that this person or persons is a werewolf. I don't really enjoy playing with werewolves that much despite my insane Teen Wolf obsession, so I guess it'll be a new challenge for me. I also rolled a die to learn that this other little community has 4 members.

The die say they are not all in the same family, in fact it's four single adult sims, two male, two female.

As non-members of the main community they'll have to forage for most of their food and resources. but they are allowed to own a shop and aren't on house arrest (i.e. I will not prevent them from visiting a community lot as long as they're not the active household when it happens). They may not take any of the unlocked jobs, but they also don't have to pay taxes.

Their children will not be allowed to go to school and while other playables may marry them, in that case, that sim is also now an outcast, although their children may go live with a relative if they turn out to be human (I'm gonna go by eye colour for this)

This one took me kinda by surprise so I'm going to have to think about how to solve this practically for a bit.

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I really need to name the town center island.

Forest Hill Lumberjack Hut

This lot is for the lumberjack and anyone interested in woodworking to come cut down trees and if they need to, process them into planks or firewood.

Forest Hill (I've learnt to spell the word now, and will adjust the hood name) Iron Mine.

As established by the game play, this island has some iron findings. This is the lot a miner or blacksmith would go to to gather ore and coal. They'd have their own forge or smelter of course, but in case someone else would need to mine and smelt something, there's also a work shed.

So it's time to come up with a blacksmith. I tried having a miner AND a smith in my play test, but what the miner could gather in one season, the smith used up in one day, so now the smith will do their own mining (or more likely, get one of their family to help out).

Pelehan Island is reasonably complete. One more round of hood deco is probably needed and it annoys me to no end that I couldn't get the front of the house to align perfectly with the road leading up to it.

I also need to find a longer bridge that won't stick out too much so I can connect this island to Forest Hill, the largest island.

Pelehan Island is home to the seat of the Pelehan family, Pelehan Court, who owns all of the archipelago (so far), and it is made out of wood because that's the resource we have available. It is very sparsely furnished because this is an ias BaCC and furniture isn't something you can just buy. But the family will receive furniture from a future carpenter, or weaver, or black smith, that will eventually allow them to complete their mansion.

Some initial roads and hood deco placement, mostly trees.

Most roads don't connect. Theoretically, resources and people would be loaded onto boats to get around, or they'd just walk through the forest.

So they told their users very explicitly what NOT to do to still be able to use it. It's very detailed. They tell us not to do it.

First draft.

Thoughts so far is,

Mountain on Forrest Hill needs to be a little bit bigger and stretch out onto the flatter area

All of the islands need some sort of hill or it won't make geological sense for them to be islands at all

The height of the flat areas on all islands seem appropriate and usable for beach lots but I don't know for sure yet

The unknown islands might be too small to be used for stuff

Pelehan island seems a little big actually, and so does town center island.

I need names for the town center island and the farm land island.

The Lighthouse will look really cool but might need room for a beach lot if I want to have a fisher on the island.

Moving forward, I drew Six of hearts which is this card:

This is actually one where I think some input might be fun, so which of these two questions are the most interesting to answer for this hood?

Remember, both Education and food are still Scarcities here, which will affect these demographics in different ways.

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Next card drawn was 7 of hearts:

I'm not so interested in answering the first question for this card, so I'm going with the second one.

Forrest Hill has plenty of wolves in the woods. These wolves have so far not made it over to the other islands, but what it means practically, is that this island is not a safe place for lifestock at all. Any residential lot on Forrest Hill must have at least one trap on the lot at all times and if they want to get a chicken they'll have to move.

All these restrictions may be lifted if a sim declares themselves a hunter or trapper. I currently have no plans to have a hunter as a main source of employment, but someone else may end up married to one. I don't know that yet. Still have 24 sims to create.

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