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The *Great* Hair Set

This set is based off of the Hulu series of the same name! Each hair is dedicated to a different character in the series :). Thank you all for your patience and I hope you like them!

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After playing the Curious family heir for 6 generations, I've moved to rotational play. As a new Sims player I had to find guides xD But, I have my Airtable set up with all the households and bloodlines and so on. No pets, though. Pets are emotionally fraught enough for me to play with, let alone track.

I also added SnarkyWitch's Anne Rice to the save, in my Renovated Victorian lot. Of course she didn't come with aspirations already filled, so she's part of the rotation while I make her into a bestselling author.

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Oohhh sad to say some of those bugs are very live. My Sulani mom currently gets stuck eating/trying to eat constantly since the release. Also, she and her husband try to Cowpoke Dance nonstop…to the Island Music…

A Sims 4 Horse Ranch* review, by a Simmer who's not all that into horses

* Software not final. Sponsored by EA.

First, many thanks to EA/Maxis for the early access! This was a treat for me, to get access to an early build to try out for a while, as I'm not exactly a high-profile streamer. Or a streamer at all. Or even a creator (though I'll upload a household I came to love to the Gallery when I get a chance!). But I do love this game! And I love that I can help more of you play it the way you want to. Anyway, the review…

What I liked!

The great range of build/buy! I'll get LOTS of use out of this. It complements some other packs well too.

There are lots of helpful rooms in build mode for fast stables and nectar-related spaces! As a non-builder who sometimes tries to build, I was really happy to have a premade horse stall for my lot.

[image: a pre-built stable room in Build mode]

There's lots of Teen–Elder clothing and hair, and I love the dirty clothes swatches. I'll get LOTS of use out of this pack's CAS! And it will go well with styles from some other packs, too.

The new Afro-textured hairs are a welcome recognition that the cowboy culture of the Old West was not a White culture — there were lots of Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous cowboys and entrepreneurial women in the Old West!

I deeply appreciate the Indigenous content in build/buy, recipes, and CAS — I could see lots there in CAS, for example, that the Navajo people I saw and met in Utah and northern New Mexico (which is a part of the world I really want to go back to) wore IRL.

Lots range from fairly small (15 x 20) to quite large. I appreciate the range as someone who isn't a fan of building on large lots when I do build. There are horse practice areas in the land around some small lots, so you can still keep a horse there.

For Strangerville owners who love that landscape (which I do!), there's now somewhere for that valley, with its smaller population, to be "near". I can imagine that you'd drive up into a range from the new world and drop down into hidden Strangerville. Driving the other direction might take you to Oasis Springs.

The horse-riding and other horse animations are really detailed and fluid. They interact a lot with each other, too. I felt like parent and child horses recognized their relationship even.

[image: a mare lovingly nuzzling her foal]

The sheep and goats are endlessly adorable. Plus profitable! :D And they can sleep in your house!

The rabbithole adventure location out in the countryside has a very different gameplay than previous ones! And it has great sound effects -- play it with the volume up! It's hard to find, though. But it was nice to not need other tricks to get access. (I still have not done the secret places in Oasis Springs or the Outdoor Retreat pack!)

What I didn't like:

No new fridge, stove, bathtub, or toilet (I do like getting more of those!)

Very little boys' children's clothes. And no chaps for Children, even though they can ride and even though Toddlers got some

I would have liked a higher-tech/automated version of a nectar maker. However, this isn't a feature I care about much anyway.

You can't breed the mini goats and sheep, and there aren't even smaller baby ones. I'd have liked to have a full-on sheep farm. I like sheep. (I can practically see my husband glaring about how much I like sheep, even though he's waaaaay far away at the office right now.)

[image: a smiling, leaping mini-sheep, with a spotted goat behind it]

I definitely would never have found the countryside rabbithole without help, but maybe you will? If I could figure out how to do spoilers here, I would...

The horse-toy balls are a little… glowy? for my taste. They also weren't where I looked for them in the catalog, so you'll want to use search for them.

Cross-pack things?

I'd have liked to check out these before now, but with the pre-patch builds, that's not an option, and I'm always kind of busy when patches come out! For example ...

How do cats and dogs interact with horses, sheep, and goats?

Can horses be familiars for spellcasters?

Are there new Milestones?

Are there new Lifestyles?

Are there new Club rules, and are there enough of those?

This Simmer needs to know! (And eventually will.)

Neat things to know!

There's a rabbithole building in town where you can change or plan outfits like a dresser! And just off the main road in town there's a rabbithole building where you can buy goats, sheep, and groceries and other useful things, like horse age-up treats. I liked having an alternative way to buy these things and a whole new way to plan outfits. I'd be happy for more of that. If I can't go into a building, I might as well at least be able to pretend I can. As long as they don't end up being worlds stuffed with rabbitholes in place of gameplay (actually watching horse competition would have been nice!).

You can use a Community Board in town (or from B/B if you want one on your lot) to take local one-off jobs for money. Most need you to own a Horse or some sheep or goats. There are lots of ways to make money as a rancher without needing someone in the household to have a job. My relatives who are farmers will be seriously jealous.

Get to know that Crinkletop guy! He's very useful.

Bugs? Bugs!

Things to watch out for that were issues for me in the early-access build, which is NOT the release build, so hopefully it's a bit better:

Ranch dancing is EXTREMELY popular. You might want to not keep a radio at home until the new dancing has a mod to … moderate it. Or is tuned down by the devs. But I do like it when I'm in control!

[image: five Sims ranch dancing (line dancing) as a group, including two Don Lothario and Eliza Pancakes]

The beautiful stone fireplace was also very, very popular, and of course potentially deadly. Watch out for that.

Ranch hands are NOT reliable. They might stay really, really late. They might stop showing up after a couple days. They might forget the things you instructed them NOT to do the day before. They might be super into kicking the garbage bin over. Keep an eye on your ranch hand. At least until the day, someday, when they get fixed. I'm hoping this is also moddable for those of us on PC.

At one point I had a weird bug where my Sim decided she would NOT eat. The rest of the household could eat. Guests could eat. They could eat HER food. It was fixed by going to the world map and back into the household, so I didn't find out if she was going to just starve to death.

I couldn't find some of the new CAS at first because some men's outfits were under "jumpsuit" for no apparent reason. So, if you're looking for some cool outerwear, try "jumpsuits." Hopefully it was recategorized for the release build!

And that's it! I'm happy to answer questions!

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Horse Art ♡

suprise !!! as some of u know, i've been working on getting into custom content.. i felt really inspired to make some art to go with the new pack for all our sad beige pixels lol.. enjoy !! ♡

download info ~ free on patreon

this is definitely just the start of my cc journey, ofc this is a simple piece but im working on meshes and getting ready to start a lil collection so stay tuned!!

i also want 2 say thank u to @farfallasims for her help on this, ms madi helped me perfect this and gave a lil input so tytyty ♡

styling cc creds: @harrie-cc @pierisim @felixandresims @simplistic-sims4

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Sound on for the screaming fainting goat

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bumbling cutie update! She said yes :)

Just before he passed out from exhaustion.

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Dear diary: met the cutest idiot today. He was in charge of the community bonfire. He lit it with lighter fluid, then immediately freaked out and pulled out a fire extinguisher. No one was hurt, there was no danger. I relit it for him.

But the woohoo was noice!

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Sims 1 hot tubs and ovens/stoves

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First Full Moon Rampage

I was not prepared for Eloise and Cierra's first full moon. They Rampaged in ways I had never seen.

Just when I thought I had them under control, in comes Greg who kicks both their asses.

At the end of the night, the girls woke up on the mountain and hugged it out. Then home to carefully cook breakfast, still bearing the marks from their fights.

Unfortunately, neither obtained Transformation Mastery, so I guess we get to go again the next full moon.

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Updated my legacy family tree with Occult backgrounds!

Yellow/green background - default/normal

Red background - Werewolf

Purple background - Vampire

Blue background - Mermaid

Rainbow background - Spellcaster

Purple/green cloudy background - Alien

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Hello world! This is Cora Curious, and she wants to learn everything everywhere. She’s immortal and doesn’t sleep, so every moment is for studying.

Unfortunately she forgot to make a Potion of Youth along with her Potion of Immortality. This is her before the wrinkles set in.