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🍓 100 Berry Baby Challenge 🍓

FROM THE BEGINNING | RECENT | CHARACTERS | GENERATIONS

SIMBLR PROGRESS: 17/100 Babies {Teal GEN} IN-GAME PROGRESS: Complete

🍓Introduction

The 100 Berry Baby Challenge is a colorful twist on the original 100 Baby Challenge. The goal is to have 100 babies, but over 10 generations of family gameplay. This style of challenge is great for any simmer looking to for more family-style game play, whether you use berry sims or not!

I am torn...

I am feeling more inspired by Lisa Frank. It's what I'm playing now, and I feel my screencaps are better and the content is more detailed...It's my first game in a totally berry save file, so it's also sooo cute and colorful...

... but also posting gen 3 of Berry Baby would give me some time to build up my queue for that if people are actually interested in seeing more 100 babies.

Generation Ten: Adventure (fabric)

Color: PEACH

Parents: Tsunami Fresh x Burlap Tulle (by @berryconfetti)

Children: Muslin | Crochet | Stitch | Corduroy | Satin | Thimble | Cashmere | Lace | Linen | Taffeta

Time Played: November 2025-February 2026

World: Tartosa/Selvadorada

Generation Summary

Okay, so it was @berryconfetti is who inspired me to do this challenge with their original run of @100berrysprinkles, so it felt like such a full circle moment to be able to use their sim for my final generation spouse 🥹. Honestly, it's part of what helped me get all the way to the end of the challenge, because I've always been soooo inspired by Jo's sims 🤩 I was so excited to use Burlap.

Burlap was such a fun sim-- he had the Jungle Explorer aspiration, which naturally helped set the theme this generation. While Tsunami took care of the more serious archaeological aspects of things, Burlap loved busting through temple walls and making jokes with skeletons. His Latin dancing skills were also pretty legendary.

Whenever I had no newborns in the house, I would take a 2-3 day trip to Selvadorada...even if it meant my kids were missing school. I built a vacation home there that was full of everything I needed for toddlers and infants, so the whole family would come along. They'd even come to the temples! I would just make sure to have food and toddler potties in my inventory. Outside of that, they lived in Tartosa-- a perfect little vacation unto itself.

In addition to Tsunami being a mermaid, we had two more mermaid babies this generation: Cashmere and Satin. It was super fun to get to make some peachy colored mermaids! I raised my final child of this generation, Taffeta, to be somewhat of a super sim. She completed all of her toddler skills to level five, and all four of the childhood aspirations. She also got the scouting aptitude trait as well as the responsible, good manners, and emotional control traits. She technically has the physical traits to be an heir... so we'll see if I end up using her for something else in the future!

I also have to give a big shoutout to @bimbles-and-simbles for their Berry Jungle Adventure Default Replacements [Found Here on Their Patreon]. The colors made this generation even more enjoyable for me.

Generation Nine: Beach

Color: BLUE

Parents: Lily Plantain x Water Lily Lagoon Fresh( @cosmicamos-archive originally made this amazing sim for me, but unfortunately I'd lost some of the CC over time, including his original hair! I also dumbly named the heir Lily, which was too confusing with Water Lily, so I changed his name to Lagoon.)

Children: Island | Marine | Coast | Sail | Coral | Buoy | Shore | Scuba | Pier | Tsunami

Time Played: July 2024-November 2025 (wasn't sure I'd keep going...)

World: Sulani

Generation Summary

Lily grew up on the farm, but always knew she was a Child of the Ocean! She moved to Sulani to become a marine conservationalist, and fell in love with Lagoon Fresh there, who she didn't know was a merman 🧜‍♂️

While they originally lived in a pretty nice house on the main island, Lily kept having to travel to Mua Pel'am for work, so I eventually moved the family into a converted shipwreck build there so that she didn't need to travel. Lily also had the Loves Cats trait, so she adopted her little blue cat, Fish, while she was still living on the farm. Fish was a staple of this generation, and fiercely protected the family by always attacking strangers haha.

We had a total of five mermaid babies: Island, Coral, Shore, Scuba, and Tsunami. It was my intention to turn Lily into a mermaid at the end of the generation because she had such a deep love for the ocean, but in the end she was happy as a human in a family full of merbabies.

Enjoy a few more screencaps than my other posts, as these are more recent and I am happier with them... and I honestly just have so much mermaid spam...

I also want to give a big shoutout to @incandescentsims for their incredible berry mermaid cc recolors. They have amazing recolors in general... and also the most adorable berry sims ever.

Generation Eight: Plants

Color: Green

Parents: Shadow Midnight x Sorrel Plantain (I THINK @bimbles-and-simbles made him for me, but it's someone who has since changed their blog name so I'm not 100% sure, please correct me if I'm wrong!!)

Children: Ivy | Laurel | Leaf | Daisy | Sage | Poppy | Forest | Briar | Juniper | Lily

Time Played: January 2024-July 2024

World: Henford-on-Bagley

Generation Summary

This was my farm life generation! We lived on a quiet little farm in henford-on-Bagley, raising animals and growing plants. The inheritor of this generation, Shadow, was actually born a vampire but he always loved plants and his dream was to exist in the sunlit, so he cured himself of vampirism and bought his own farm.

Every week in this generation, we went to the Finchwick Fair and competed for ribbons. This was kind of breaking the rules for me, because I usually followed a rule about not leaving the active lot if I had newborns. I'm glad I did, though, as it was only for a few hours each week and it was fun to get the family out of the house and meeting some townies. In addition to our many cows and chickens, we had a little hamster called Thorn in this generation.

The kids in this generation were a mix of those who loved farming and those who wanted to get as far from the farm as possible lol, which was a fun story to tell.

Generation Seven: Vampires (spooky)

Color: PLUM

Parents: Tenor Sforzando x Raven Midnight (by @disasterbri)

Children: Tarot | Storm | Luna | Salem | Slayer | Ash | Hex | Rune | Shadow | Mystic

Time Played: August 2023-January 2024

World: Forgotten Hollow

Generation Summary

This was my messy generation, by which I mean there was SO MUCH DRAMA! I had never tried to do a vampire x werewolf romance in the game, but let me tell you--- it's actually very challenging to keep them in love. Tenor and Raven were immediate enemies, and I couldn't get them to accept any nice socials from each other, so I had them meet at a bar to challenge each other at foosball for a few nights, and that progressively brought their relationship to a more neutral status so I could start building their romance.

Weirdly, I first had four wolf girl babies followed by four vampire boys, so there was a bit of a battle of the genders going on. I tried so hard to have all the siblings like each other, but failed pretty miserably at that. Raven was also a bit indifferent to her wolf babies, which was a little sad, but I liked it for story building.

In the end, I had Tenor take the immortal trait, so Raven and Tenor lived immortally in my game, locked in their weird love/hate relationship and sometimes checking in on their descendants.

I also have to give a huge shout out to @disasterbri for Raven, because my initial plum sim maker had backed out on me, and I requested a sim from them specifically, and Raven ended up being such an iconic matriarch in my game!

Generation Six: Werewolves (music)

Color: RED

Parents: Icicle Overcoat x Key Sforzando(by @dcwnandout)

Children: Chord | Coda | Forte | Riff | Lyric | Ballad | Melody | Harmony | Tenor | Rhapsody

Time Played: June 2023-August 2023 (so short!)

World: Moonwood Mill

Generation Summary

Welcome to my werewolf generation! This is the generation where I feel like I finally perfected having a theme. This gen really fueled me and gave me so much inspiration, partly just because Werewolves is a good pack. I built them a run-down swamp house in Moonwood Mill, with mismatched furniture and a grubby, homemade vibe. I usually gravitate towards clean aesthetics, so this was a brand new way to play for me and I LOVED it.

As fate would have it, Icicle, my inheritor to this generation had the Loves Dogs trait (I randomly rolled this), which was such an adorable detail. We adopted a dog named Ringo who would always howl along when we were teaching our little wolf babies to howl. I had Key turn into a werewolf at the beginning of the gen, and then ended up with four wolf babies by the end (Tenor, Harmony, Melody, and Lyric). I leaned into ripped up denim and well-loved t-shirts for the aesthetics and it really made this gen stand out in my mind. This was definitely of my favorite generations.

As a side note, @dcwnandout who made Key for me also did a version of this challenge many years ago, which is still on their blog and is adorable if you want to check it out!

Generation Five: Winter

Generation Four: Teas & Spices

Aw thank you, that's so sweet!! 💖 For my 100 Berry Baby portraits, I just took them in game with some basic modeling poses for pose player and the Spa Day light-up walls as the background.

My only tips are:

Make sure everything is well-lit! Sometimes if the lights are too close to the sims, they can look reflective or over-exposed. I like using a smaller sized room as a little studio (4x4ish), as I find the lighting is the most even

For consistency, I always make sure that I zoom all the way in with the x/z keys in the Tab camera mode before adjusting by moving forward/backward.

Generation Three: Fruits

Almost 100% of my mods are just for aesthetics! I don't even keep MCCC installed regularly unless I specifically need it for something.

I use a pose player and sim teleporter pretty regularly, and lighting mods, CAS/Loading screens.... but nothing for gameplay!

As a kind of exception, I recently put this Nap with Infant Mod by @simkatu in my game and the animation is soooo cute. I probably won't keep it long term though.

I also recently used the All Cheats Mod by Twisted Mexi to enable some cheats I needed for setting up my save file. I still have it installed for now.

Generation Two: Crystals

Generation One: Desserts