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PhDSimmer’s Never-Ending Story Legacy Challenge!

Hey guys, I came up with this Legacy Challenge to celebrate five years of The Sims 4; it was previously known as the 5 year Legacy Challenge but I have updated it to include the most recent expansion packs and re-named it. Basically this legacy is a never-ending story and will only end when the Sims 4 ends! (which at this rate seems to be never!). Share your sims story with #nelegacy

Each Generation focuses on completing some of the features introduced in a Game Pack and/or Expansion Pack and works through the order of release. I don’t use every single DLC but most of them! This legacy can be challenging so don’t worry if you can’t complete everything it’s more important to have fun.

I also have an excel progress sheet (I need to update for Gen 16 and 17) you can download if you want something to help you keep track when playing (click here for the sheet).

To complete this Legacy Challenge you will require the following packs but you can skip generations for packs you don’t have if you like:

Expansions: Get to Work, Get Together, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Island Living, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Snowy Escape, Cottage Living, High School Years, Growing Together, Horse Ranch and For Rent (coming soon).

Game Packs: Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Dine Out, Parenthood, Jungle Adventure, Strangerville (and/or Realm of Magic), My Wedding Stories, Werewolves.

Optional Stuff Packs (not strictly necessary): Kids Room Stuff, Toddler Stuff, Tiny Living Stuff, Home Chef Hustle. It’s hard work and a challenge for sure! but we need that in the Sims 4 right? Enjoy and please feel free to share your gameplay with me on twitter (@phdsimmer) or tag your tumblr posts with Ultimate Legacy Challenge.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU RUN ACROSS ANY PROBLEMS! WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK!

I recommend you don’t play your teens in “active” high school in this legacy until required.

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Don’t forget you can use my excel tracker if you want (click here for the sheet). Generation 1 – Outdoor Retreat / Get to Work Although you love your job and are determined to reach the top, being stuck at work all day has taught you to appreciate nature. You love nothing more than being outside no matter the weather – be it sunbathing, hiking in Granite Falls or indulging in your passion for photography. You love to spend a few nights camping among the stars. Traits: Ambitious, Loves the Outdoors and one of your choice. Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast Career: Complete one of the active careers from Get to Work. Tasks: 1. Start off in either Willow Creek or Oasis Springs on an empty lot with zero simoleans. 2. Complete your career and aspiration. 3. Marry a sim also doing an active career from Get to Work. 4. Reach level 5 of the photography skill. 5. Take a vacation of at least 2 nights in Granite Falls, find the hidden cave and befriend the hermit to get the fungal infusion fertilizer remedy. 6. Complete the insect collection. 7. Woohoo in a tent. 8. Have a Gold level Weenie Roast 9. Visit Sylvan Glade (secret area) 10. Move to Windenburg when your Heir for Gen 2 ages up to a Teen. Notes: *You don’t have to play the spouses career if you don’t wish to. If you can’t find a spouse you can download from the gallery or make your own sim as long as you give them an active career. *The Fungal Infusion Fertilizer Remedy is obtained from the hermit once you’re good friends and is an unlocked interaction. *If you have trouble finding all the insects I found this guide helpful. *Read the next generation rules as you’ll need to move to Windenburg when your heir is a teen.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 2 – Spa Day / Get Together Moving to Windenburg as a teen gave you a fresh start and whilst your parents were always focused on their careers you were more interested in the Arts and making friends. You are not as ambitious as your parents, and as long as you can make a little money from your hobbies and passions to get by you’re more than happy. Traits: Choose three from: Insider, Creative, Dance Machine and High Maintenance. Aspiration: Choose either Musical Genius, Best Selling Author or Painter Extraordinaire Career: Register as self-employed (painter/author or musician). This can be related to the skills you will develop with your chosen aspiration or separate if you want more of a challenge. You can also do the freelancer career in painting or writing if you wish but this is not required. Tasks: 1. Complete your aspiration. 2. Create a club or take-over leadership of an existing club. Have 8 club members. 3. Befriend all your club members and marry one of them. 4. Have a weekly club gathering. 5. Complete the wellness skill and participate in a yoga class once a week until you reach level 10 of wellness (you can stop then if you want to). 6. Woohoo in the sauna, the woohoo bush and the closet. 7. Attend each of the themed bar nights at least once: Happy Hour, Bear’s night, Alien night, Ghost Nights, Knight Knight, Single’s night and Ladies/Guy’s night depending on your heir’s gender. 8. Max the dance skill and DJ skill and host a dance party at the Bluffs to show off your new talents. 9. Treat your club to a spa day - get 2 massages, a mani/pedi, relax in the sauna, enjoy a face mask and soak in a mud bath. 10. Earn £3000 from being a yoga instructor.

Notes: *I recommend using the calendar that came with seasons to remind you about having the weekly club gathering and yoga session. *I was going to make spot the loch ness sea monster (Nessy) a task but that’s going to be hard so give your self a pat on the back if you see her (grab a screenshot too!).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 3 – Dine Out Although creative in the kitchen your parents were not very skilled. Sick of putting up with bad quality and often burnt food you took over cooking for your family at a young age and have found passion in the culinary arts. However, you become invested in your business and don’t realise your home life is falling apart until it’s too late and you end up getting divorced. Traits: Foodie, Snob, Perfectionist Aspiration: Master Chef Career: Culinary (Chef branch) until Level 8 then quit and open your own restaurant. Tasks: 1. Get married whilst working as a Chef. You can have children during this time if you wish but these will not be able to be the heir. 2. Once you reach level 8 of the culinary career (chef branch) and complete your aspiration, quit your job, move your family to San Myshuno and open a restaurant in the city. 3. Complete the cooking skill and gourmet cooking skills. 4. Host a Gold level dinner party. 5. Get your restaurant to 5 stars. 6. Get divorced whilst running your restaurant. Move out your spouse and any existing children. 7. Get romantically involved with a staff member and have child by them. The child must born whilst living in San Myshuno, stay with you and will be the heir to Generation 4. 8. Collect the 20 experimental food photos (see collections). Notes: *You can demolish any lot in San Myshuno to make room for your restaurant. *For task 6, make sure you move out the ex-spouse and kids and not your sim otherwise your restaurant will stay with them. You can then move again within the city if you want to get a smaller place. You can always put them back after.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 4 – City Living You’re the odd one out of the family and raised by your mother alone in the big city. As a chef and foodie your mother disapproves of your vegetarian lifestyle. You love it in San Myshuno though, especially since you befriended the guys who hang around outside your apartment and play basketball. They’re a bad influence on you though and you find yourself skipping school and getting into trouble a lot. Perhaps its just your way of getting attention from your mother who is busy running her restaurant? You eventually grow up and straighten out your ways and decide to pursue a career in politics enabling you to help kids growing up in the city. Traits: Vegetarian, Kleptomaniac, Hot-Headed Aspiration: City Native Career: Politics – Charity Branch Tasks: 1. Remain in San Myshuno your whole life and complete your City Native aspiration. 2. Attend all the festivals at least once and grab some swag to prove it. 3. Do not allow your school grade to go above a C, skip school whenever you feel like it and have two character values in the red by the time you age up to a young adult. 4. Steal items that add up to the value of £10,000, graffiti at least one pavement and wall in San Myshuno, join any protests you see happening and start some of your own. 5. Move out to your own apartment as soon as you become a young adult and have at least one child before you are half-way through your young-adult life stage. 6. Have at least 2 enemies before you age up into an adult (full adult not a young adult). 7. Do not have a job until you reach adulthood (full adult not young adult) so make money any way you can including stealing (see task 4). 8. When you reach full adulthood join the politics career. You do not have to complete your career but must reach at least Level 5 and chose the charity branch. 9. Complete the snow globe and city poster collections.

Notes: *You can buy any swag you like at each festival. *Getting your mischief skill up will help you steal more expensive items.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 5 – Parenthood You want to be the best parent you can because for most of your childhood your parents were absent. You strive to help your children in anyway you can and want them to live happy and fulfilling lives. You devote yourself to your children and have little time for your own career or hobbies. You spoil your children rotten. Traits: Family Orientated, Neat and Childish Aspiration: Super Parent Career: None (stay at home parent). Tasks: 1. Move out of San Myshuno to either Willow Creek or Oasis Springs (pick the one you did not choose for Generation 1). 2. Complete your aspiration. 3. Volunteer with your family 3 times and do 3 different activities. 4. Reach level 10 of the parenting skill. 5. Get married and have 4 children – give each child a different base game aspiration (not the Growing Together aspirations). 6. Toddlers must get level 3 in all skills before aging up. 7. All children must complete their aspirations, maximise at least one character values and reach an A in both grade school and high school. 8. Sunday is family day – every Sunday take your kids somewhere nice and spoil them rotten (ideas: bowling, cinema, beach, swimming pool, park etc). 9. Visit the Forgotten Grotto 10. Collect all the void critter cards (requires Kids Room Stuff*). 11. Host a Gold level Toddler Playdate (requires Toddler Stuff*).

Notes: *I recommend you don’t play active High School as we have a generation dedicated to that later. *Hint - Task 9 requires level 10 handiness *You can remove task 10 and 11 requirements if you don’t have these stuff packs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 6 – Cats & Dogs Surrounded by a big noisy family as you grew up, you found yourself preferring the quiet company of animals. You were spoiled as a child, and this continues as you grow up with your parents loaning you the money to buy your own clinic after you leave veterinary school. Soon you realise what hard work really is and you kind of enjoy it. You are determined to pay your parents back. Traits: Cat Lover, Dog Lover and one of your choice. Aspiration: Friend of the Animals Career: Run a Vet Clinic Tasks: 1. Move to Brindleton Bay and open up a vet clinic using £15,000 loaned to you by your parents. 2. Complete your aspiration. 3. Have at least 3 pets at all times* and one should be an adopted stray. 4. Reach Level 10 of veterinary skill and Level 5 of the pet training skill. 5. Get your vet clinic to 5 stars 6. Woohoo at the lighthouse 7. Remove £15,000 from your households funds to “pay back” your parents when you can. 8. Have a dog which has learnt all of the tricks and get a gold medal on the obstacle course. 9. Cook all the pet recipes at least once. 9. Collect all the feathers and assemble them into the bird sculpture.

Notes: *One of your three pets for task 3 can be a rodent if you have the my first pet stuff pack. Cow/llama/fox/rabbits from the Cottage Living pack do not count, I recommend waiting until the Cottage Living generation to use these features..

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 7 – Jungle Adventure / Seasons You are a generally happy and content person and love spending time in your garden and feeling the sun’s rays on your back. Not much gets you down. You love to travel and collect seeds from around the world to grow more exotic fruits and vegetables in your garden. You want to grow at least one of everything at home! Traits: Loves the Outdoors, Cheerful and one of your choice Aspiration: Freelance Botanist Career: Gardening – either branch Tasks: 1. Complete your career and aspiration 2. Complete the flower arranging and the gardening skill 3. Grow a money tree and a cow plant. 4. Take a vacation to Selvadorada, learn the rumbasim dance and complete a temple and complete either the omiscan artefact or treasure collection. 5. Collect an avocado and black bean from Selvadorada and grow at home. 6. Collect a coconut, cava, taro and pineapple plant from Sulani and grow at home. 7. Collect a mandrake and valerian root from Glimmerbook/Magic Realm and grow at home. 8. Collect a blueberry, raspberry, chocoberry and the charming, lovely, mysterious, nightly, spicy, verdant and wild mushroom from Henford-on-Bagley and grow at home. 9. Woohoo in a leaf pile. 10. Have a beehive and bake the honey cake using your own honey 11. Befriend patchy the scarecrow and bring him to life! 12. Have at least two children, have your heir for Generation 8 join the after school drama club and have a different child join the scouts and earn the scouting aptitude trophy.

Notes: *You can live in any world you want *You should grow as many different types of fruits, veg and flowers in your garden as you can including those for task 5 and 6.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 8 – Get Famous You loved after school drama club and the attention being the lead in all the school plays got you. You dream of being a famous celebrity. You’ve been so focused on your dream you haven’t really paid much attention in school – just getting by as best you can. Despite your parent’s advice to buckle down and concentrate on your school work so you can go to college you decide to relocate to Del Sol Valley and attempt to climb the fame ladder. You hope one day you can prove your parents wrong and make them proud. Traits: Self-Absorbed, Non-Committal and Outgoing Aspiration: Master Actor/Actress or World Famous Celebrity Career: Film Tasks: 1. Move to Del Sol Valley 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Have a social media account with over 1 million followers 4. Complete the media production skill 5. Have at least three failed relationships with other celebrities (3 star or above). 6. Marry a 5 star celebrity 7. Woohoo in the sleeping pod and the money vault 8. Have only one child

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can choose one of two options for generation 9 (Strangerville or Realm of Magic). OPTION 1 - Generation 9 – Strangerville You’ve never really understood your parents desire to be in the spotlight, you’d prefer to hide away and be left with your games console and your books as well as all the computers and gadgets you like to tinker with. Somehow you think you’ve disappointed them by being their only child and not being interested in fame or fortune. You decide to get out of Del Sol Valley and relocate to Strangerville to focus on writing your first novel. This town is perfect as no one knows you or who your famous parents are. Traits: Geek, Paranoid, Bookworm Aspiration: Strangerville Mystery Career: Tech Guru Tasks: 1. Move to Strangerville. 2. Complete your career and aspiration. 3. Reach level 10 of the video gaming, programming and writing skill. 4. Complete the postcard collection. 5. Write 5 best-selling books. 6. Have no romantic relationships until adulthood. 7. Marry someone in the Military career. 8. Get married in Sulani on vacation. 9. Get pregnant in Sulani (this doesn’t have to be at the same time as task 8 if you don’t want it to).

OPTION 2 - Generation 9 - Realm of Magic You’ve never really understood your parents desire to be in the spotlight, you’d prefer to spend your time at the library reading books. You’ve always felt like the odd one out in Del Sol Valley with the alternative way you dress and your brightly coloured hair and little interest fame. One day you find an old book describing a place called the Magic Realm which has some connection to a world called Glimmerbrook. You tell your parents and they just laugh at you, telling you it’s little more than a fairy-tale. However, deep down you know it’s real and you feel a strange sense of calling so you immediately pack your bags and head off, determined to find the Magic Realm. Traits: Loner, bookworm and one of your choice Aspiration: Spellcraft and Sorcery or Purveyor of Potions Career: Your choice! Tasks: 1. Move to Glimmerbrook 2. Complete your aspiration 3. Complete the spell book and befriend all of the sages 4.Find all of the familiars and bind them to you 5. Have a cat or dog familiar 6. Date a different occult sim (vampire/alien/mermaid*). You don’t have to marry them. 7. Reach level 10 of the writing skill 8. Get married in on vacation in Sulani 9. Get pregnant in Sulani. This doesn’t have to be at the same time as task 8 if you don’t want it to.

Notes: *For task 5 you can date a mermaid if you wish but bear in mind you’ll marry one for Island Living generation 10.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Generation 10 – Island Living You were conceived in Sulani, and were a surprise to both your parents. Perhaps this surprise pregnancy has something to do with the island spirits? It wouldn’t be the first time your parents were involved in some strange going on’s after all. Despite being born in Sulani, you grew up away from the islands with a love of music. But soon you felt drawn back to the islands and when you arrive you realise it’s your destiny help them to heal. Traits: Child of the Ocean, Child of the Island and one of your choice Aspiration: Beach Life Career: Conservation - either branch Tasks: 1. Move to Sulani and start by living off the grid (you can change this when you want to if it hinders you too much, but do at least 7 sim days off the grid). 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Reach Level 10 of the singing skill and one instrument of your choice. 4. Host a Gold level kava party 5. Marry a mermaid/merman 6. Befriend all the coloured dolphins 7. Woohoo in the Waterfall 8. Restore Mua Pel’am’s environment to the highest level and enact 2 global policies 9. Attend all of the Sulani festivals at least once 10. Complete 5 odd jobs 11. Complete 2 of the following collections: seashells, buried treasure or underwater photos.

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Generation 11 – Discover University You love your parents very much, but you are sick of the beach life and want to do your own thing, as soon as you can you head off to college to start afresh. You’re not even sure what you want to study, you just can’t wait to get to college and start your new life. Your parents are supportive and even offer to pay for your studies, but you want to do this on your own so you apply for scholarships, take out a loan and get a part time job to pay your own way. Traits: Ambitious, lazy and one of your choice. Aspiration: Academic Career: Choose a degree programme at either University and then one of the three new careers that came with Discover University once you graduate. Tasks: 1. Complete your aspiration. 2. Get a piercing, tattoo and change your hair colour when you arrive at University. 3. Have a part time job whilst at University. 4. Live in a dorm. 5. Join an organisation and get to Level 3. 6. Woohoo in the shower and with a servo you made yourself. 7. Host a gold level keg party. 8. Date at least two different roommates. 9. Complete the robotics skill. 10. Finish with an A grade. 11. Marry someone from the opposite University and both you and your spouse must choose one of the new careers that came with Discover University. 12. Read the rules for Gen 12 as your heir runs away as a teen to Evergreen harbour.

Notes: *Tasks 6 can be done after you finish Uni

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Generation 12 – Eco Lifestyle Your parents led a successful life and got their dream job through hard work and lots of studying…. you however don’t care for that sort of thing, you’d rather be using your hands to make a living and take inspiration from your grandparents when it comes to caring about the community and to living a green, environmentally friendly life. Running away from home as a teen you wind up penniless and living out of dumpsters in Evergreen harbour. Eventually your parents find you and beg to take you home but you’re determined to show them you will be just as successful as them whilst doing things in your own way.

Traits: Pick three from: Maker, Green Friend, Freegan, Recycle Disciple, Loves the outdoors, vegetarian Aspiration: Master Maker Career: Freelance: Simply Crafted Tasks: 1. Move to Evergreen Harbour as a teen and set your funds to zero. 2. Live out of dumpsters until you can afford a tiny container home in Port Promise. 3. Complete your aspiration. 4. Live off the grid, generating your own power, your entire life. 5. Turn Port Promise’s eco footprint from industrial to green. 6. Marry a civic planner or civic engineer and give them the eco innovator aspiration. 7. Never have a traditional job, make money from being a freelance maker and through other environmentally friendly means. 8. Reach level 10 of fabrication and juice fizzing. 9. Donate 500 to charity every Friday. 10. Covert all lots in Evergreen Harbour to Eco Homes. 11. Always live in a tiny, micro or small home. 12. Max the friendship bar with 6 of your neighbours.

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Generation 13 – Snowy Escape You work a boring office job but live for the extreme, always going for things even if you don’t have the necessary skills. You dream of the slopes all day everyday. You are competitive and like to live on the dangerous side. You are like this with your relationships too, always juggling multiple romances. You’re not well liked, people think you are a show-off and no friendships or relationships really last. You only have one true friend who’s always stuck by your side despite all your mistakes. It isn’t until later in life you realise that they are the one for you and finally decide to settle down.

Traits: Confident, Adventurous, Noncommittal Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast Career: Salary Person 1. Move to Mt Komorebi 2. Complete your career and aspiration 3. Quit your job the moment you reach level 10 4. Attend all the festivals at least once. 5. Complete the snowboarding, skiing and rock-climbing skills. 6. Woohoo in the mountain cave and bath house. 7. Always have at least 3 romances on the go until you reach adulthood. 8. Every time you make a friend or get into a relationship you ruin it somehow and they end up disliking you. 9. Complete the simmi capsule and spirit doll collection. 10. Get married at the top of Mount Komorebi to your life long best friend who must have the proper trait. You can swap your non-committal trait once you’re romantically involved with this sim if you like.

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Generation 14 – Cottage Living and My Wedding Stories You hate the cold and have no interest in extreme sports so you move away from Mt Komorebi to the green hills of Henford on Bagley. You absolutely love this small community and are keen to make a good impression with everyone. Unlike your parent you want to have lots of friends around you and are looking to find someone for a serious relationship. You’re not one for a traditional job so you aim to make a living from your hobbies of gardening and cooking. Every now and then you escape to your favourite destination in the word for some much needed sun and sand – Tartosa. It’s your dream to have an amazing wedding ceremony there some day.

Traits: Animal Enthusiast, Loves the Outdoors, Outgoing Aspiration: Country Caretaker Career: Business Owner

1. Move to Henford on Bagley and have the simple living and wild foxes lot challenges on. 2. Complete your aspiration. 3. Open a business selling either canned ingredients or baked goods including wedding cakes (or both!) 4. Make all of the canned recipes using ingredients gown on your own lot (except those than can’t be grown): apple jam, meat substitute, mushroom conserve, tomato sauce, blackberry jam, blueberry jam, raspberry jam, strawberry jam, chocolate syrup, custard, mayonnaise, aubergine conserve, lettuce conserve, pumpkin conserve, watermelon conserve, oversized mushroom conserve and cowberry jam. 5. Become good friends with all of the key Henford-on-Bagley residents: Grocery Shopkeeper, Garden shopkeeper, Creature Keeper, Mayor and Grocer Deliverer and complete at least 3 favours from each of them. 6. Come first place in all of the fairs. 7. Complete the cross stitching skill. 8. Woohoo in the animal shed. 9. Hatch an obsidian egg. 10. Collect all of the messages in the bottles from Tartosa. 11. Before getting married host at least two of the following events: Engagement Dinner, Bach party, rehearsal dinner or family gathering. 12. Get married in Tartosa to someone with the lactose intolerant trait and plan a full wedding with a flower pal, ring bearer and sim of honour. 13. Throw the wedding bouquet to one of your Henford on Bagley friends. 14. Get divorced when the heir for Gen 15 is a teen and move to Copperdale.

Notes: *Task 5 - recipes can be found in this guide https://www.thegamer.com/the-sims-4-cottage-living-guide-canning/ *Make sure you check the next generations rules as you’ll have to move when your heir ages up to a teen.

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Generation 15 – High School Stories and Werewolves

Despite their dream wedding and promises of spending their lives together, your parents separate and you move to Copperdale with one of them just as you are about to start High School. Away from the slow pace of the countryside you dive into parties, socialising and exploring. You want nothing more to be the most popular teen at Copperdale High. After sneaking out of your bedroom window one night to party with your friends you end up with a nasty injury, thinking nothing of it you continue to enjoy your party lifestyle, soon however you transform into a werewolf – how will you survive high school as a teen wolf??!!

Traits: Party Animal, and others of your choice. Aspiration: Admired Icon (Teen) and Werewolf Initiate after you have aged up. Career: As a teen earn money via Trendi or via one of the part time careers that came with HSY (simfluencer or video game streamer). You can pursue any career/money making activity you want as a YA/Adult.

Teen Years: 1. Move to Copperdale as with one of your parents as you age up to a teen. 2. Become a werewolf. 3. Complete your Teen aspiration. 4. Join the simfluencer or video game streamer (or make money regularly through Trendi). 5. Join one of the following afterschool clubs: cheer team, chess team, computer team, football team. 6. Have at least 3 good friends and pursue 2 romantic relationships whilst in High School. Have a high school enemy! 7. Achieve gold at Prom. 8. Mess around on the Ferris Wheel and photobooth. 9. Complete the entrepreneur skill.

Adulthood: 10. Complete the werewolf initiate aspiration and then one of the four spin-off aspirations that come after this. 11. Become an Apex werewolf. 12. Join a werewolf pack and become the Alpha. 13. Become enemies with another occult sim (e.g. vampire/alien). 14. Complete the Moonwood relic collection. 15. Fully explore all of the tunnels to unlock the ability to travel between them. 16. Marry another werewolf and adopt at least 1 child. The adopted child will be the heir for Gen 16. 16. Research and discover the werewolf cure, cure yourself and your partner (and any werewolf children). Once cured move the entire family to San Sequoia.

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Generation 16 – Growing Together & Home Chef Hustle

After your parents finds the cure for their lycanthropy, the whole family decide a fresh start is needed and you move from Moonwood Mill to San Sequoia. Growing up in Moonwood Mill with werewolves for parents you have developed a close bond with your family and have a desire for the whole family to live together under one roof, always. Your parents put so much effort into loving and raising you, you want to do the same for yours and make them proud grand-parents. Whilst raising your family, you don’t want to work a typical job and instead pursue your passion for cooking by selling food to the locals.

Traits: Family orientated, loyal, and one of your choice. Aspiration: Appliance Whiz or Market Magnate Career: None - earn money by selling food.

1. Move to San Sequoia and live in a multi-generation home your entire life with your parents, your partner, and your children (except the heir for Gen 17 who will eventually move out).

2. Complete your aspiration. Never get a traditional job and make money from cooking and selling food (via the food sales table that came with Home Chef Hustle).

3. Marry someone you have amazing compatibility with.

4. Have a minimum of four children and at least 1 must be a science baby. Each child should have one of the childhood aspirations that came with Growing Together: Playtime Captain, Creative Genius, Slumber Party Animal, Mind and Body and you need to complete it.

5. Each child should have at least 3 milestones from each category (Fine Motor, Firsts, Gross Motor and Social) before the end of the infant life stage.

6. All toddlers must have at least level 3 in all skills before the end of the toddler life stage.

7. Get Gold for all new events: Baby Shower, Slumber Party and Family Reunion.

8. Sunday is family fun day, each Sunday do family activities: e.g. build a a treehouse (and fully upgrade it), teach your children to ride bikes, have sleepovers, go on group walks, movie & popcorn night, visit the splash park and play games (including puzzles) together.

9. Have a family keepsake box and fill it with at least 10 unique items which are connected to your family in some way e.g. photos, trophies, birth and marriage certificate, baby prints, school drawings and tooth fairy certificates.

10. Fill your home with family photos - at least 30 photos must adorn the walls by the end of your generation.

11. Each child must have 1 BFF and have traded friendship bracelets with them.

12. Accept at least 2 family dynamic pop-ups during this generation.

13. Each child should have high confidence by the time they age to a teen.

14. Woohoo in a tree house.

Notes: *If you don’t have Home Chef Hustle you can ignore the associate rules and pick any aspiration/career you like. *I recommend spacing out having your kids so that you can focus on each life stage and complete the goals for each child. Good luck if you have twins or triplets this will be difficult!

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Generation 17 - Horse Ranch

You grew up in a multi-generational home always surrounded by people and noise, sometimes you just like to be on your own. You decide to move to Chestnut Ridge – to the open plains and quiet lifestyle. You purchase a huge, lot that is all yours to fulfil your dream of owning a ranch and raising horses. You love nothing more than getting up early and taking a ride alone with nothing but your horse for company and the wind in your hair. Your parents find your decision difficult at first, but they support you and offer your financial aid to start your ranch but you refuse it and decide to rely on yourself and your savings to get you started. You are quite determined that you never want to get married or have children of your own, but meet someone special along the way that changes this.

Traits: Horse Lover, Rancher and Loner. Aspiration: Championship Rider or Expert Nectar Maker Career: None - earn money from your ranch, horse breeding, horse competitions, shearing and milking mini-animals and doing jobs through the community board.

1. Move to Chestnut Ridge and live on the largest lot (64x64) which must be empty (bulldoze the lot) at the start. Set your funds to £5000 to build your starting ranch.

2. Have the prairie grass lot trait on (you can also pick simple living/off the grid/great soil if you wish).

3. Complete at least 10 jobs from the Chestnut Ridge Community Board.

4. Own at least 1 mini-goat, 1 mini-sheep and at least 10 harvestable plants at all times (if you choose to you can also own chickens, llamas, dogs, cats and cows at any time you wish).

5. Have at least 3 horses at all times (can include foals).

6. Hire a ranch hand.

7. Get Gold on a Ranch Gathering and Ranch Animal Day.

8. Ranch life can be lonely, go to the bar every Saturday night, enjoy a glass of nectar or two and indulge in some line dancing to ensure you have some sort of social life.

9. Marry your ranch hand and have at least 1 child.

10. Breed at least 3 foals, and unlock the 4 hidden traits that can only be obtained through breeding: Champion Genes, Curious, Hardy and Playful.

11. Complete the nectar making skill and horse riding skill.

12. Have 1 horse that has maxed all horse skills: temperament, agility, jumping and endurance.

13. Have a nectar cellar and age your nectar there in nectar racks. Make at least 1 bottle the different versions of nectar: apple, grape, strawberry, potato, prairie grass, trash, energy, moon petal, plasma, valerian, fruit, berry and vitality.

14. Get gold at the master level of each competition and proudly display these at the entrance to your ranch.

15. Visit the secret cave of Dreadhorse Caverns in Chestnut Ridge and get the buff which you’re your sim “braved the Dreadhorse Caverns and lived to tell the tale!”

16. Have a ranch worth at least £50,000 by the end of the generation.

Notes:

*Here is a guide for nectar making and how to make all the different kinds: https://simscommunity.info/2023/08/04/the-sims-4-horse-ranch-nectar-guide/#nectar-making-skill

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Generation 18 - For Rent & Crystal Creations

“Growing up on a ranch with nothing but fields around you and horses for company you miss being around people. Craving that community feeling and a new place to explore you skip college and instead backpack your way around South East Asia. Eventually you settle in Tomarang. Luckily, your parents ranch has done financially well and your parents can afford to help you get your first apartment. Living as a tenant in your very first apartment you take up work as a handy person. You love pretty things and soon learn how to make your own jewellry which you sell to make extra money. It’s clear to you that property ownership is big business, and dream of one day owning and renting out your own properties and making your own fortune just like your parents did with their ranch.”

Traits: Choose 2 from the new traits that came with For Rent (Nosy, Cringe, Generous, Child of the Village) and then choose any other trait you like.

Aspiration: Five star property owner

Career: Handy person (until completed), you can also make money your rental income and from selling crystals on the sales tables that came with the crystals creations pack.

Tasks:

1. Move to Tomarang and live in an apartment as a tenant.

2. Complete the handy person part time career.

3. Complete your aspiration.

4. Own three different types of rentals: a duplex, a multi-story apartments and your own home with a rentable basement, loft or annex.

5. Get all three rentals to a 5 star rating.

6. Marry one of your tenants and have at least 1 child with them.

7. Find a secret from each of your tenants.

8. Woohoo in a hot tub.

9. Complete the tassles and marbles collections.

10. Host a gold level pot luck and pool party with your tenants.

11. Grow a crystal tree and display at least 1 of every type of crystal in your home including the two that come from the planet Sixam.