Not So Berry Extended Challenge
After playing through the Not So Berry Challenge twice, I decided to make my own extended version of the challenge so I could keep playing for ten more generations (although there is an optional endpoint after five gens)!
3/17/2022 Update: Iâve finished my playthrough of this challenge, so the rules that are here are official and final! Check my page for posts about how the challenge went for me. I had a lot of fun with it!
4/16/2022 Update: I will be playing the original Not So Berry Challenge and this extended version of the challenge on YouTube! If you are interested in following along, the link to my YouTube is in my profile!
Enjoy! âĽ
Note: This post will also be saved as a page on my profile for ease of reference.
Generation 11: Beige
Growing up in a household with too many children and a sometimes-overbearing parent made you sure of one thing: You never want to have kids. Instead, youâve chosen to dedicate your life to your career as a salaryperson, spending the majority of your time at work, schmoozing your boss during happy hour, or singing karaoke with your friends. Of course, life doesnât always go as planned. Eventually, you find yourself raising an unexpected child. To be fair, the nanny does most of the raising, but youâre still a parent. You try to distract yourself from this unfortunate reality by throwing extravagant parties for your friends and family (excluding any children, of course), along with the occasional birthday party for your child (youâre not a monster, after all). At least all the time you spend working means you have the money to ensure your kid never wants for anythingâŚexcept your affection.
Traits: Outgoing, Hates Children, Ambitious
Aspiration: Party Animal
Career: Salaryperson
Rules:
Have one (unplanned) child
Master the charisma and singing skills
Master the salaryperson career and complete the Party Animal aspiration
As a young adult, start a karaoke club and become close friends with all club members
Earn gold in at least three different types of social events (for example, dinner party, house party, and wedding)
Hire a full-time nanny to raise your child
Generation 12: Rainbow
Spending your formative years in a household where you felt unwanted did not make for the happiest childhood, but you found ways to get through itâmostly by creating art, getting lost in books about fantasy worlds, playing your violin, and telling jokes to your nanny (as well as your imaginary friends). Youâve always loved colorful things, so it makes sense that you grow up to be an artist. Painting is your passion, and you long to share your love of art with someone as creative as you. Of course, your soulmate will have to accept yourâŚeccentricity. But then, what great artist isnât a little eccentric?
Traits: Art Lover, Bookworm, Erratic
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Painter
Rules:
Master the painting, violin, and comedy skills
Master the painter career and complete the Soulmate aspiration
As a child, become best friends with your nanny
Marry an art lover or creative Sim
Live in at least three different worlds
Enter the Sylvan Glade in Willow Springs and paint a picture from reference there
Generation 13: Black
Your parents always encouraged you to be creative and express yourself, even when you chose to do this by wearing only black and being brutally honest at all times. Since you were a child, youâve had a nasty habit of taking things that donât belong to you, but youâre smart enough to avoid getting caughtâŚmost of the time. As an adult, you canât seem to help but cause heartbreak and misery wherever you go. You also happen to have a serious addiction to fizzy juice. Still, you manage to become successful in the legal field by putting on a mask at work. Itâs your ultimate fantasy to play the puppet master of those around you, and what better way to do that than by sentencing others to their fates and breaking up couples in your spare time? You may be haunted by the ghosts of your past misdeeds on occasion, but you would never change who you areâitâs too much fun being mean!
Traits: Kleptomaniac, Mean, Noncommittal
Aspiration: Villainous Valentine
Career: Law (Judge)
Rules:
Master the mischief and juice fizzing skills
Master the law career and complete the Villainous Valentine aspiration
Become enemies with benefits with at least one Sim during your lifetime (or max the negative friendship bar and positive romance bar, if the game refuses to give you the sentimentâŚ)
Have a Sim die on your lot and keep their urn/grave on the lot for the rest of your life (you are not allowed to release their spirit)
Have at least two children with at least two different partners
Generation 14: Silver
You spent much of your childhood alone in your room, tinkering with things and avoiding hurtful comments about your appearance from your parent. You struggled to make friends as a child and to date as a teen due to your insecurity, but you finally find your place when you achieve your dream of going to university. At Foxbury, surrounded by other lovers of learning, you feel like you belong. Nothing will stop you from putting in the work to graduate at the top of your class, but you also make time to participate in club activities (and party). As an adult, you manage to create the popular club everyone wants to join. Suddenly it seems like youâre successful at everything you do, from making things for work or for fun, to making your club world-renowned. The only thing youâre missing is a best friend and confidante. Maybe the solution is to make one!
Traits: Genius, Maker, Insider
Aspiration: Academic
Career: Engineer
Rules:
Master the fabrication and robotics skills
Master the engineer career and complete the Academic aspiration
Attend Foxbury Institute and join the Bot Savants
Graduate university with at least a B average (for an extra challenge, get an A average to graduate with honors)
As a young adult or adult, create a club with the popular perk, max the number of club members, and become friends with all club members
Build a Servo and become best friends (or more) with them
Note: You may use mods to speed up university or pause time while your Sim is at university if you dislike this aspect of the gameplay
Generation 15: Gold
Your family is weird. Growing up, every surface in your house was always covered in robotics parts and homemade candles. You long to live a life far from this constant clutterâa life of luxury, surrounded by beautiful things. From a young age, you know youâll achieve your dream of being a rich and famous influencer/model/DJ, because everyone loves you. How could they not? Youâre perfect! In truth, you prefer to be alone most of the timeâposting updates about your day from the comfort of your own homeâbut you also enjoy flaunting your stylish looks and talent for your adoring fans. Everyone wants to know every detail about your life. They want to look like you, dress like youâreally, to be you! The only thing that could make your life more perfect is if you could stay young and beautiful foreverâŚif only there were a way.
Traits: Loner, Self-Absorbed, Materialistic
Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
Career: Style Influencer (Trend Setter)
Rules:
Master the photography, DJ mixing, and media production skills
Master the style influencer career and complete the Fabulously Wealthy aspiration
Become a Global Superstar (five-star celebrity)
Marry and divorce a celebrity; then, marry one of your fans
Become a Junior Artiste (level four of the Drama Club) as a child/teen
Once you become a young adult, you must live in Del Sol Valley for the rest of your life
Optional: Become a vampire as a young adult (after you have the next heir, if you choose to do so) and live forever (or die in a fiery blaze of glory by burning to death in the sunlight, if you choose to end the challenge here)
Generation 16: Aquamarine
You were born into a life of extravagance, but the money and things never mattered to you. All you ever wanted to do was spend your days at the beach, relaxing on the sand and swimming in the ocean. You care deeply about the environment and aspire to make the world a better and more beautiful place. As soon as youâre old enough, you move to Sulani, leaving behind your familyâs wealth (and your strangely youthful parent). Living on the island, you seek to become accepted by the locals by helping to make your new surroundings cleaner and even more peaceful. You will do anything to feel at home by the oceanâŚor in it.
Traits: Child of the Ocean, Loves Outdoors, Vegetarian
Aspirations: Beach Life, Inner Peace
Career: Conservationist
Rules:
Master the fitness and wellness skills
Master the conservationist career and complete the Beach Life and Inner Peace aspirations
Move to Sulani as a young adult with 10,000 simoleons maximum
Clean up the island (if you havenât already in your current save)
Eat Mermadic Kelp and become a mermaid
Become enemies with a Fish Poacher, Litterbug, or Anti-Environmentalist (Optional: Use your mermaidâs powers (Sirenâs Call, Summon Ocean Threat, etc.) to torment and possibly drown your enemy)
Generation 17: Brown
Like your parent, youâve always loved the outdoors and cared a lot about the environment, but the beach was never really your scene. As a child, you constantly begged your parent to take you camping in Granite Falls. You love collecting things, especially living things to which you can give a home. Youâre actually a lover of all animals, but dogs have always been your favorite. You know youâd be perfectly content living in a shack with your dog and surviving on the food you forage and find in trash cans, and the money you make from selling collectables and doing odd jobsâso thatâs exactly what you choose to do! The shack might begin to feel a little cramped once your family starts to grow, but the love you give your kids is enough to make up for their, shall we sayâŚhumbleâŚupbringing. Right?
Traits: Dog Lover, Freegan, Green Fiend
Aspiration: The Curator
Career: Odd Jobs
Rules:
Master the fishing and pet training skills
Achieve an odd jobs rating of five stars and complete The Curator aspiration
Once you become a young adult, you must live in a tiny house with the Off-the-Grid lot challenge for the rest of your life (if you donât have the Tiny Living pack, you must live on a 20x20 lot)
Become best friends with the hermit in Granite Falls
Have at least two children
Complete the Fish, Frogs, or Insects Collection (or all three, if youâre feeling ambitious)
Generation 18: White
You grew up in a home with very little personal space, but it wasnât all bad. Your family instilled a love of the outdoors in you from a young age, sending you to join the scouts as a child (since they couldnât afford much else to keep you entertained). You have fond memories of camping trips to Granite Falls with your family, especially during the winter. Youâve always loved the snow, and the cold never bothered you anyway. You dream of becoming a professional snowboarder, making a living and fulfilling your adrenaline-junkie tendencies at the same timeâŚbut living in borderline poverty as a child made you a bit too much of a realist for that. Instead, you choose to get your thrills from working as a secret agentâŚand snowboarding and climbing mountains in your spare time. Your go-go-go attitude makes you a bit impulsive, but whatâs life without a little risk? You only live once, after all.
Traits: Active, Adventurous, Bro
Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast
Career: Secret Agent
Rules:
Master the snowboarding and rock climbing skills
Master the secret agent career and complete the Extreme Sports Enthusiast aspiration
Become a Llamacorn (level five) Scout as a child/teen
Marry another Sim within three days of meeting them
Become snow bros with at least three other Sims
Generation 19: Lilac
Your parent always tried to get you into extreme sports as a child, but you were never interested. You preferred more delicate thingsâlike flowersâand activities with a lower likelihood of causing you to injure yourself, or worseâŚbreak a nail. Youâre the first to admit youâre a bit high maintenance, but you think youâre worth it. Youâve always been a great friend and confidante to others, including your cats. Some people may call you a crazy cat Sim, but youâre not crazy. You just want things to be done a certain wayâthe proper way. Whatâs the harm in that? Of course, if someone happens to get in your wayâŚcan you really be held responsible for your actions?
Traits: Cat Lover, High Maintenance, Proper
Aspiration: Neighborhood Confidante
Career: Gardener
Rules:
Master the gardening and flower arranging skills
Master the gardener career and complete the Neighborhood Confidante aspiration
Have at least ten good friends (including at least three of your neighbors) and one enemy
Marry one of your friends and gift them with a flower arrangement scented with tulip
Gift your enemy with a flower arrangement scented with death flower (for a less extreme option, gift them with a flower arrangement scented with snapdragon)
As an adult, have at least three cats (preferably strays that you adopt) and become companions with all of them
Generation 20: Burgundy
Your childhood home always smelled like flowers. This wasnât a bad thing, but youâve always preferred things that smell good and taste goodânamely, food. From a young age, youâve been obsessed with creating the perfect version of your favorite foodâgrilled cheese. What could be better? You go so far as to train as a chef in your quest to perfecting this one dish. If you stumble along the way to your goal, you might throw a tantrum or two, but your childish nature also makes you optimistic. At your heart, youâre a good personâin fact, youâre so kind, you would even befriend Death itselfâwith a simple dream. Once youâve perfected the grilled cheese, your new aim is to find someone to share your sandwiches with. You struggle to meet the right match, though, so you might end up having to look a little farther to find someoneâŚout of this world.
Traits: Good, Childish, Foodie
Aspiration: Master Chef, Grilled Cheese
Career: Culinary
Rules:
Master the cooking and rocket science skills
Master the culinary career and complete the Master Chef and (secret) Grilled Cheese aspirations
Become friends with the Grim Reaper
Travel to Sixam and find an alien to marry there
Optional: Open a restaurant (preferably one that is grilled-cheese-themed)
If you make it to the end of the challenge, congratulations! I hope you had fun! Iâll be working on other challenges, so make sure to check my page for updates. - Gwen âĽ
