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House updates! Serenity's room got a teen makeover ( it's probably a little too girly for her I admit ) and we updated 'The Wall'. The downstairs bathroom got a makeover, as did the upper one. The dining room was expanded to be...well a real dining room and I added a laundry and small corner studio for Lexi to do photoshoots. Originally Lexi was going to save up to purchase a private photo studio, however after saving it all, it became apparent that if she did she would then spend way too much time off the lot so instead she expanded the house for something more cosy but professional.

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I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a favourite

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Caught all fish exclusive to Granite falls ✔️✔️✔️

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This was a first! Lexi ran off to do some goal getting on her generational ambitions and got struck by lightning, twice! After showering in the Hermit's shack she was ready to wield her new ( temporary ) powers!

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Gunther has had a lot of character development since the kids, and playing with his whims, he took up a new fitness hobby, expanded his wall garden to the entire side porch, quit his job as a writer to become a teacher and aged up into an Adult - I can't believe they were both still young adults this whole time! I think that makes him a bit younger than Lexi.

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The two Generation 1 founders are still doing well and I enjoy playing with them both, when decorating I focus mostly on Lexi's nature-esque but instagrammable aesthetics. As the founder she gets her way and Gunther is a romantic pushover - always has been. Their dynamic continues to be supportive of each other though and Gunther still gets his own space.

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As always, I love my sims interacting and Lexi putting Rowan to bed while River rejects her family hug is classic both of them. I've never actually had a toddler be too uncomfortable to want the interaction.

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Play Your Packs Legacy  Challenge

****THIS IS A WIP AND WHILE SEVERAL GENERATIONS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN UP I AM STILL FLESHING OUT THE OTHERS*** -------------------------------------------------

Play My Pack Sims4 Generational Legacy Challenge

This is a challenge I made after buying and owning way too many packs without ever actually completing all the content, because sometimes you just buy nifty knitting and then actually knit y’know? So here’s my way to remedy that!

Each Generation focuses around a certain pack and what it contains, if you like themes then houses and sims should reflect each pack - but this is only limited to heir sims and their homes, everyone else can do whatever! 

Although I have numbered each generation and assigned them a pack, there is a generational challenge for every game pack and expansion and you can mix and match them around based on the packs you own and content you’ve done. 

General Rules

You’re allowed to start in any plot you like using the freerealestate cheat when you first start the challenge, however after this no more monetary cheats are allowed and any future moves your sims must pay for. 

Cheats such as moveobjects and item cheats ( debug, unlock career items etc. ) is fine. 

You’re allowed to move the family around as much as you like with any lot traits, unless otherwise specified. 

Every generation should have the heir complete the career and aspiration for that generation along with the generational goals.

Normal lifespan only

Seasons are set to 14 days

Default Lunar cycle

when generation goals are not yet complete, you may only age up on a sim’s birthday UNLESS 2 or more sims are aging within 1 day of each other. If more than 1 sim is aging up within the same 2 day period then you can age them both up provided you throw a gold level Birthday party ( can be the same party ).

If you have completed all generation goals you may age up to the next heir.

You may use cheats to change your heir’s traits to match the ones required

Unless otherwise specified, role a 6 sided dice to determine that generation’s number of children. If you get twins or triplets you can keep them.

You may use guides to help find collectibles. 

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Generation 1: Outdoor Retreat

Your sim is ready to get out of the big city and back into nature, that’s what it’s really all about! They don’t have time for that gritty 9 - 5 grind and prefer to take things at their own pace, focusing on family, the outdoors, and keeping it ’down to earth’. It’s not the destination that matters - it’s the journey. 

Traits: Loves outdoors, self assured, Clumsy Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast  Career: Freelancer Generation Goals:

Host a silver medal Weenie Roast

Maximize the herbalist skill

All your children must join the scouts. To qualify as heir they must reach Llamacorn Scout

Collect all the insects and all the fish exclusively in Granite Falls.

Have a Sim consume every type of toxic plant ( doesn’t have to be the heir )

Take a Hermit out to lunch

Go on a family holiday to Granite Falls at least once during every life stage of the eldest child up until Young adulthood ( toddler > teen , minimum of 3 family holidays )

Tips for this Generation! - Several Granite falls plants only grow in summer, so if you want to prioritise getting them first, start in summer, but if you want to work on your skills and family first start in spring so it’s summer in time for the 2nd or 3rd family vacation. - You can go on a quick 1 or 3 day vacation during the toddler or child stage, so that when your sim has more money, you can spend a longer time there collecting everything without waiting for the spawn timer on plants.  - There is a 2 day spawn time for all plants in Granite falls, please see notes about how to work it on this post.  - There are no toddler beds in granite falls, so you’ll need to edit some into lots before going camping with them.

Generation 2: Get Together + City living + Spa Day

Your family was just ridiculous! Practically foraging in the bushes for food, and so many long nights with mosquitoes! They must have had it all wrong because you never want to see another campfire in your life! It’s time to pack it up and join the human race - in a big way, and it better be ready for you too! You’re here to make friends and rule them, while giving yourself the life you deserve. Be creative with your style influence, there are all kinds of influencer blogs! Fashion is one but you can be a maker, a gardener, an art critic etc. Fake being a wonderful person while you use them all or being a nice person who just happens to also be a bit narcassistic and doesn’t understand why the world doesn’t revolve around them!

Traits: High maintenance, self absorbed, Insider Aspiration: Leader of the Pack + Self Care Specialist + City Native Career: Style Influencer Generation Goals: 

Your first apartment must have the ‘needs TLC’ trait. 

Sim must live in the penthouse by the time they become an elder. 

Buy 10 pieces of furniture from the flee market

Tip a performer

Have at least 1 spa day a season ( Spring, Summer, autumn, Winter )

Host a karaoke party

Marry a celebrity ( you are allowed to cheat to make this happen )

Have only 1 child, if you have twins or triplets pick one to be the misfit while the other children are adored. The misfit will be your heir. 

Complete the city poster collection

You may complete aspirations in any order

Generation 3: Island Living

Your parent was the most self absorbed, shallow sim! You had to stay holed up in your room, or had to follow them out with their silly club entourage, listening to constant noise all the time. Your grandparents have never shut up about ‘the great outdoors’ and how you should get away, but you know you couldn’t hack it slumming in a woodland. It’s time to go somewhere far away, somewhere gorgeous, somewhere you can meet your dreamboat fairytale romance lover, and sail away into the sunset like you dreamed of.

Traits: Child of the Islands, Child of the Ocean, romantic Aspiration: Beach Life Career: Conservationist Generation Goals: 

Marry a mermaid on the beach

Live on a lot with the Volcanic activity trait

Complete all 3 part time jobs - Diver, fisherman, Lifeguard, before saving the island

Befriend a Dolphin

Catch all 14 Island Living exclusive fish and find all 13 seashells

Find buried treasure while diving and exploring the cave on Mua Pel’am

Attend at least 1 of all the Island festivals ( guide https://thesimscircus.home.blog/2020/02/22/sulani-festivals-the-sims-4-island-living/ )

Generation 4: Jungle Adventure

Island living is so relaxing, everyday is a never ending paradise of perfect sunshine and easy evenings with cool breezes. It’s so...so….BORING. There has to be something bigger and better out there! Living isolated on an island away from more exciting events  has had its own effect on your personality, and you’re a bit of a thrill seeker, at any cost. 

Traits: Adventurous, Erratic, kleptomaniac.  Aspiration: Their heir should have Jungle Explorer and their partner should have Archaeology Scholar.  Career: Writer Generation Goals: 

Have twins ( can cheat )

Both the heir and the Spouse must complete their aspirations

Master the guitar

Furnish 1 room in your home entirely with stolen items

Obtain the Spice Hound trait (eat 5 - 6 spicy meals from the spice festival)

Max out the Salvadorian Culture Skill

Complete the fossil collection

Unlock all tombs in Salvador

Become a skeleton for 24 hours

Generation 5: Dine Out + Parenthood + Seasons

You look back at your family and you see outdoor enthusiasts who never had a real job, an influencer wannabe, an island hippie and an adrenaline Junkie. Can’t anyone in this family be normal!? You just want a normal life, with a normal job, going on normal family trips ( not skeleton tombs ). As the next in line for heir you’ve been left a giant fortune, but you just want to live like every other sim. It’s time to add some normalcy to this family!

Traits: Good, Outgoing, Proper Aspiration: Super Parent Career: Self employed Generation Goals:

You may gave your sim up to 30,000 from the family funds to begin OR start them with 20,000 like every usual starter. 

Purchase a retail lot and move into it ( buy the lot and furnish it like a house and send your sim there ) and make a café/diner/restaurant of your choice.

Create and sell your own food ( can’t be art or items from the build/buy catalogue ) at your own retail store. 

Make a profit of 50,000. 

Once you are married and have your first child, celebrate EVERY seasonal holiday,  100% successful for all family members

Generation 6: Discover University & Cats and Dogs

Your family was so normal, it only makes sense for you to take the next step up. Seeing how busy running a family business was made you realize that, that kind of lifestyle wasn’t for you. Better to be a cog in the machine than handling all the stress of running the place! You’ll get a leg up with an education and start a new life and meet all kinds of new people!

Traits: Geek, Lazy, Bro Aspiration: Academic Career: Your choice of Discover University careers. Generation Goals: 

The first few goals are based primarily around University, once your sim has graduated please see section 6B

6a. 

Live in Brichester

Maximise the Research and debate skill

Throw a house party

Join a student organisation and reach rank 3

Pass University with honours

Apply for at least 1 scholarship

Complete the academic aspiration

Join the soccer team or the e-sports team.

6b.  

Complete the Renaissance sim aspiration

Have children from 3 separate partners

Have a child inherit a magical blood line trait ( The first sim with this trait is your next heir by default )

Reach top of your chosen career field

Own a servo

Have a dog

Make friends with a stray

Maximise pet training

Train a pet to max all pet skills

ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN ALSO OWN AND RUN A VET CLINIC AND GET IT TO 5 STARS

Generation 7: Realm of magic

Ah yes, a perfectly average family, with mundane suburban life getting along just swell. A few generations ago you were adventurers and trend setters, but that’s all over now. Except for you. You're the spark that won’t go out and from an early age you’ve known you were different from your family, there’s something about you something...magical! But you can’t tell anyone of course, they’d never understand! Better to go somewhere quiet and hone your special craft until you meet that right someone, or until they meet you!

Traits: Good or Evil, your pick, Gloomy, Neat Aspiration: Spell craft & Sorcery and Purveyor of Potions ( in either order ) Career: Gardner Generation Goals:

Sims must live in a tiny home house, Size can range from small to micro at player’s discretion

Master every spell

Enchant your spouse to fall in love with you

Set an enemy sim on fire and make their life miserable!

Collect every potion

Become a Rank 6 Spellcaster

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In a massive 3 days of Birthdays, Lexi aged into an adult, The twins aged into Children and Serenity aged into a teen! Rather than throw individual parties Lexi and Gunther planned one big party for everyone who was aging up. It's the largest sims party I've had and the most birthdays all at once. i was excited to see all the new transitions!

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Serenity has been a good kid so far, and is best friends with both the Goth kids. I'd love to see her and one of them hook up and her take over Bella's place as lady of the Goths. It might be a playthrough I do if she's not heir. Speaking of which, Serenity also made Llamascout during this playtime so she's an official candidate for heir of generation 2. She gets straights As but because of the twins I haven't focused on her too much.

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Sim baby days pass by fast, Rowan and River are now toddlers and I had more fun with them than I did with Serenity at this age, as the house was more set up and neither Lexi or Gunther really needed to 'work' So here's some spam! Rowan has the hat on and River has the blue T-shirt. The boys play together often and, unlike serenity, much prefer their parents attention. River is a MENACE for being unhappy and making messes while Rowen is a complete social butterfly. They have the motor skills and social aspirations/personality respectively.

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Family Updates!

Serenity has started school and is making fast friends! She's also started her journey to completing the Llama Scout condition which would make her eligible for heir. She hasn't completed any yet, but we're on the way to 'Arts and Crafts', 'Good Deeds', and 'Sociability'. I've never played with the scouts before so I'm looking forward to getting this one done. Gunther has also started a trellised garden down the side of the house, as the main yard is taken up by the deck and pool.

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Sims really can surprise you and, despite my intentions to keep to only 2 children this generation, Lexi had twins! Two boys, Rowan and River. They're fraternal and River has pale skin like Gunther, while Rowan has the darker skin of his mother. Both of them has dark eyes like Lexi and I'm excited to see them grow!

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I didn't touch much on it, but Gunther and Lexi had an argument while on vacation as Lexi continued to work on her laptop even though Gunther didn't continue writing. The same day the family got home and during her last trimester she was still also working. It was a great chance to use the new deck and grill area to entertain though and I'm really happy I got to use it.

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Serenity's birthday came up while on holiday, and her parent's don't think there's a better place for her to celebrate than out in the woods. I definitely get the feeling that Gunther and Lexi are the kind of parents that would force their love of the outdoors onto their offspring but at the moment Serenity is best friends with both her parents - we'll see if that changes though! She's a cute kid overall and seems to genetically have Lexi's colouring and eye shape, but has Gunther's nose and definitely his lips. I've changed her clothes to match the similar light blue dress from her toddler years, but we've ditched the bow. I hope her brother or sister is just as evenly genetically distributed, but with Gunther's brunette locks.