This video starts off with Craig and Judy still in the Nectary in Champs Les Sims. They are enjoying the nectar.
Quickly they leave for Egypt where Craig is cured of the Mummy's Curse by the Sphinx.
I realised that I had not yet shown you through the Sphinx. When they originally picked up the Sigil of the Soulpiece Chambers the video didn't record. I needed a fresh version of the Sphinx to do it again. I had forgotten to do that.
Since I'd done the final two tombs with a new save I had a new version of the Sphinx so thought I'd better show you the way they did it.
The video is sped up in a few places to try to show you more in less overall time. It still runs for 50 mins.
When they return to Dragon Valley we see the new house and everyone is at home together.
I've added a lot of detail in the description of the video so if you want to know more before watching the video that's the place to look.
Update. I've been working on setting up the Butler household from Dragon Valley in their new home in Sunlit Tides. There is still a lot to do but I think, after today, I'll have enough of the setup done to put it away and start work on my next video. That next video will be a continuation of the 30 Grandchildren Badge Challenge. I'm hoping to complete that series and put it away for good before moving on, but that will only happen if the badge is awarded. If the badge isn't awarded then I'll stop for a while and approach it from a different angle.
Today I'm posting a few pictures of the game in Sunlit Tides.
Firstly, the location of the home lot is where the horse racing track is.
This lot is always wasted in my games as I don't often play with horses and I have no plans to do so in this game. So this time I bulldozed the lot that comes with the world and placed the new Butler house on that lot.
I have tried bulldozing that lot previously, a few years ago, and the original lot kept on appearing to still be there from map view, but this time their house seems to be visible. I liked the central courtyard of the Dragon Valley house so I did it again in Sunlit Tides. This is a completely new build and is quite different from the house in Dragon Valley.
The thing I've been doing so far is getting the house furnished - that isn't quite done yet but it's getting there. I like to decorate and add to my builds as I play so I may not get much more done to this house until I play it again.
I'll now show you pictures of the current occupants of this house. I've aged some up. There are some new imaginary friends made real. Some of the sims I'm about to show you are familiar to anyone who's been watching my Isla Paradiso Bunch videos, and some of them are totally new additions to the household.
Judy Butler, a witch, is the founder of the entire Isla Paradiso Bunch game. I have moved her and her 6 children and their imaginary friends made real to Sunlit Tides as the original Isla Paradiso Bunch household has grown too large for the game to be played. I'm using NRAAS Traveller mod to allow households to live in many different worlds in the same game and continue to interact with each other. All relationships have been preserved between the sims left behind in Dragon Valley and this new household in Sunlit Tides.
If I start a new video series on this story there will be a few households living in a few different worlds. I'm only setting this one up for now. The others will happen eventually.
Here's Judy. She's in her new TV / Living room.
Judy's traits: Angler, Loves the Outdoors, Friendly, Handy, Neat plus Green Thumb. Her LTW is: Zombie Master. I've never achieved that lifetime wish and think I might make it a goal for this game.
I made a new sim for this household. His name is Joe Hart. His traits are: Adventurous, Loves the Outdoors, Natural Cook, Handy, Gatherer. His LTW is Bottomless Nectar Cellar. He needs a garden to grow grapes and things for his nectar. He hasn't started learning about nectar yet but he has a basement garden with nectar making machines and nectar racks all ready for him. Only the low growing plants are in this basement garden. Trees are in the open at ground level at this stage. When Winter comes I'll probably enclose them in a greenhouse.
Joe has been learning the gardening skill and handiness skill. He's been gardening and upgrading some of the sprinklers to Auto Water. Sprinklers don't work in the basement so they have to hand water because I won't buy them Swift Gro Gardening Stations. They all have to work hard in the gardens until their gardening skill is to level 10. That'll be a while because some of them are still children and will be children for quite a long time. At some point I'll hire a gardening service to take care of their gardens.
I've had Judy and Joe working in the garden together. They've started getting the Attractive Sim moodlet. I'm wondering if some sort of romance might be happening there. If it does I will go with it. They only have 1 trait in common. Oops - I just realised they have 2 traits in common Handy and Loves the Outdoors. I guess Romance is in the air. This could get interesting.
If they do get together I would hope they may have a few children together. That's something else that may happen if I continue with this series of videos in a new playlist.
I've been getting them to start a medium sized garden for Joe. Unfortunately Joe isn't exactly dedicated to gardening. He seems to have developed a fixation with the climbing wall I put into the basement. That might have to go.
The garden was in danger of dying from neglect - again. I went looking for Joe and found him here.
The Group Science project, Tree of Prosperity and Climbing Walls are all in a deep corner of their basement. I'm trying to keep their basement smallish so I haven't extended the deepest parts all over the lot. It's just in one corner.
I eventually managed to get Joe back to his basement garden. Judy helps him with it a lot.
I found the existing gardens were too much for Judy and Joe to manage on their own so it was time to age up some of the children to teen. Teens can help with the gardening, children can't. I know there is a mod to have children gardening but I'd rather just age a few of the older children up. I've had Charlie the Plant sim as a child in various games since 2013 and I've never seen him as a teen. So he aged up to teen first. By the way I've got video of all of this just in case I do make another playlist.
Charlie was the first plant sim I ever made and the only plant sim I had made for a few years. Judy made his forbidden fruit seed but her housemate at the time, Dora Lake, picked Charlie. That was when I discovered the sim who picks the plant sim baby is the sim who is the parent. I wanted Judy to be his mother. Sometimes I have Charlie in households with Dora when I'm playing her, and sometimes I have him with Judy when I'm playing her. I moved Charlie into the Isla Paradiso Bunch from Dora's house in Dragon Valley just for this story. (Dora is in the Witches Village in a different Dragon Valley save. She's not in the current save.)
Before moving to Sunlit Tides all of the children who had gone to school for a while were A Grade students. But when they arrived in Sunlit Tides they reverted to C grade so it took them a few days to get back up to A Grade. I used that time to have them discover potions, make their imaginary friends real and allow the imaginary friends to do their child skills and advance to A Grade at school. They were all A Grade before all of the child skills of the IFs made real were completed.
Here is Charlie as a teen. I didn't take him into Stylist yet.
Charlie's traits are Athletic, Loves the Outdoors, Easily Impressed - he got Green Thumb on aging up to Teen. His LTW is Master Acrobat.
Judy was the only one in the household with the Green Thumb trait and she took ages to revive all the plants that died of neglect so I gave a few of the teens that trait when they aged up.
Charlie has an imaginary friend made real named Peter Lake. Peter quickly did all of his childhood skills so he could age up on the same day as Charlie.
Peter's traits are: Virtuoso, Coward, Loves the Cold, Green Thumb. His LTW is still a mystery. I was pleased to age him up from child because of his coward trait. At night, while still a child, he constantly fainted from terror due to looking for monsters under the bed. I didn't change his traits when I initially took him into CAS to give him a makeover. I changed just about everything else about him. My Imaginary Friends made real in this household are getting a major redo.
When I chased Joe from the climbing wall to his garden I was surprised to find Charlie and Peter had autonomously gone down there and had started tending the garden.
Joe joined them - eventually.
A day or so after Charlie and Peter aged up I aged up Anne Butler.
Now, Charlie was the first plant sim I ever made, but Anne was the first clone I ever made. They both happened within weeks of University Life being released. I first made Judy at that time too. Judy took a sample of her own DNA and cloned Anne from it. She's always been in Judy's households - except for the Isla Paradiso Bunch because it wasn't supposed to ever become an actual game. I've been constantly looking for a way to get Anne and Charlie into Judy's household in the IP Bunch and grabbed the opportunity when I set up the new household in Dragon Valley.
I aged Anne up to teen.
This is Anne with her Imaginary Friend made real, Ruth, and her little plant sim brother Benjie Butler behind her.
Anne's traits are: Absent Minded, Loves the Outdoors, Disciplined, Green Thumb. Her LTW is still a mystery. Undecided.
This is a better look at Ruth. She is the first Imaginary Friend made real that I decided to give a major makeover to and she changed completely from her original appearance.
Ruth's traits are: Loves the Outdoors, Disciplined, Gatherer, Eco Friendly. Her LTW: Undecided. She got Gatherer when she aged to teen. I don't think I change the traits she got when she first became real as a child.
By the way, this was Ruth as a child.
I'll post more later showing you the younger sims in this household. The rest of them are all still children. Only Donna Dutiel has to discover the potion to make her imaginary friend real. Bertie, Benjie and Terry King have all found the potion they needed and turned their Imaginary Friends real.
Here is the rest of the household I started showing in my above post.
If you've been watching the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos you will know Bertie, Benjie, and Terry.
Bertie and Benjie are twins - because Judy picked them both at the same time.
There is a 50% chance of getting a Plant Sim baby or a Forbidden Fruit when a sim plants a Forbidden Fruit seed.
Now the trick is that percent chance applies to each seed without any regard to any other seeds that were planted.
You'd have to plant thousands of seeds to see the result of a 50/50 mix of baby or fruit being produced.
Anyway, Judy really wanted one plant sim baby so she decided to hedge her bets and planted 2 seeds. She got 2 babies that both needed picking at the same time because she planted her forbidden fruit seeds at the same time. You would have seen them being planted and cared for and picked by Judy in a few of the episodes of the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
When I built the house for this group I left a huge courtyard in the middle. This is a playground for the whole household, but the children have most use of it. I'd like to keep most of these children as children for a while. Bertie and Benjie and their Imaginary Friends made real will age up next as the plant sim twins have been children for a long time. But I haven't played them much as they've been living in Isla Paradiso and the game there was getting progressively more unstable for a long time. The second playlist of the Isla Paradiso Videos were mostly about adventures and tomb walkthroughs with very little time spent at home with the family. Towards the last few episodes it was almost impossible to play them at home. I took the children to France or China occasionally just so we could see them and let them develop skills.
Bertie was picked first - I changed his hair to blond as I could never work out which was Bertie and which was Benjie. I also experimented with their skin colour by sliding their slider as far as possible to the left.
Bertie's traits are: athletic, eco friendly, green thumb His LTW is Illustrious Author
This group includes Bertie, Donna and Pippa. You'll meet them down the page a little.
And this is Benjie. His traits are: Good, Loves the Outdoors, Loves to Swim His LTW: Become a Creature Robot Cross Breeder
This group are left to right: Donna, Pippa, Bertie and Benjie.
Here are Terry King playing with Pippa.
Pippa is Bertie's Imaginary Friend made real. Pippa's name as a doll was Peaches.
I didn't like the traits Pippa arrived with and changed them. She started out with the traits of Evil, Slob, Never Nude. She might have been entertaining to play, but I was tired at the time and didn't want to contemplate what she might get up to. At another time of day when I was less tired I may have just chuckled and left her alone just as she was. However I did change her traits and now she is: Good Sense of Humour, Loves the Outdoors, Equestrian.
Good Sense of Humour and Loves the Outdoors can both be excessively annoying traits but I hope they are not going to drive me crazy with Pippa.
Since I deleted the race track because I didn't want to play with horses I thought it a bit ironic I now have a sim who has the equestrian trait. I think I gave her that trait because she has a hidden trait that has something to do with loving horses. She may never get to ride a horse, but then, when she grows up she might move to a different world where she can do whatever she wants with horses. And there are lots of horses roaming wild in Sunlit Tides. It has plagues of wild horses.
Pippa's LTW is still to be chosen.
Carl is Benjie's Imaginary Friend made real. Carl's traits are: Adventurous, Sailor, Dog Person. LTW still to be chosen.
Carl's name while he was a doll was Cuddles.
Anne and Terry are chatting here. Terry is a mermaid. Both Anne and Terry are clones. Terry is the clone Judy made from a DNA sample she got from Triton King. Anne is a clone Judy made of herself.
Ruth, Terry and Anne
Just Terry.
Here are Benjie, Carl and Harry
Harry is Terry's imaginary friend made real. Harry's original name was Hesper.
I had a lot of trouble caused by Hesper. He was happily running around after Terry after he became live. Then I didn't notice him for a while. When Terry got the potion to make Hesper real there was no sign of Hesper. His picture was still in Terry's relationship panel but Terry couldn't interact with him. This led to panic on my part. I'd gone to all the trouble of getting Terry to make that potion and now his IF had done a runner. Apparently he was well on his way out of the world and existing with the homeless.
I used Master Controller on countless occasions to reset Hesper and to add Hesper to the household.
I tried the cheat ResetSim Hesper a few times too.
I don't give up easily. I kept it up well beyond the point when I should have given up.
I was thinking I was going to have to shut down without saving and put myself through the tedium of Terry making his potion again plus lose progress other sims had made.
I tried again to add Hesper to the household. As soon as I did it I thought I shouldn't have done that because Hesper wasn't made real, he wasn't ready to appear in the portrait panel on the left of the screen. He was live but not real.
Anyway I had one more go at adding him to the household knowing it was futile when suddenly his portrait appeared in the portrait panel. This was a bit of a worry - he shouldn't be there. I just wanted him back on the lot running around after Terry. Then I spotted him just inside the front gate and Terry was with him. Terry had to be active for me to see Hesper.
Terry was already best friends with Hesper so they ran all around the outside of the house to where there was a bit more room and then Terry offered the potion to Hesper. He drank it. This was a relief as he now belonged in the portrait panel. When he became real I named him Harry.
Harry's traits are: Can't stand art, virtuoso, heavy sleeper. I don't like two of this 3 traits but I'll live with them. He hasn't chosen a LTW yet.
Finally there is Donna. In these pics she's playing tag with Charlie. Donna is a clone Judy made from a DNA sample she got in France from Lea Dutiel. Donna was cloned in France and this process was shown in one of the videos of Playlist 2 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Donna still needs to discover the potion to make her Imaginary Friend real.
Poor Riley is having trouble keeping up with Donna. In this pic Riley is standing next to Harry but of course, Harry can't see Riley as until Riley drinks the potion and becomes real only Donna can see him/her. And I can only see Riley when Donna is the active sim.
That's it for now. There is still much to be done with this household but I probably won't do much more until I'm ready to start making more videos on them. I think at least one or two people have indicated they might like to see more of this household.
Since there seems to be a romance developing naturally between Judy and Joe there might be babies born. Eventually I'll expect the children to age up to teens in future episodes and the teens will probably age up to Young Adults and might move out to set up their own households. But before that happens I want to enjoy some of the children playing in the big courtyard full of wonderful things for their enjoyment.
Only time will tell. Happy Simming all.
EDIT; I'm thinking of using this picture as the thumbnail for future videos when the videos are about the household in Sunlight Tides.
@Karritz: Awesome. I like their playground for the kids.
Thank you. I think that playground is the best part of it. I have done that twice now. Firstly in their original home in Dragon Valley and now I had to do it again when I split Judy's family off from the main overpopulated house in Dragon Valley to set up in Sunlit Tides. I plan to always have a few children in the lot to enjoy them enjoying their central activities.
I'll probably do the same sort of thing for Craig and his family but in a different world. And Sam has on toddler and a potential spouse so he'll be moved to a new world with a similar home too eventually. Same for Haley and her girls with Salty. Then the rest of the single members of the original Dragon Valley house will be on their own with a playground and no children so I'll have to work out a way to do something about that.
Do you recall the first ever video series I ever made and put onto YouTube? It was the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Initially I just wanted to see if I could get the badge for having a sim make 300 elixirs.
I used an old sim, my original witch who I first made way back when Supernatural Expansion Pack was first released.
In this original game I made my Crystal Gardens build and posted pictures here and people wanted me to put it onto the Exchange. I'd not planned to do that but I did because people asked for it. In the end I think it is a bit complicated for most people's computers. It is huge but has had quite a few downloads and is still in my studio.
It was in this build that brand new Judy lived with a few housemates.
One of her housemates was Lorna Lake. Here is a pic of Lorna in a different game as I don't have a good shot of her in the game in Crystal Gardens.
Here is a pic of some of the housemates relaxing in the Crystal Gardens house. Lorna is seen sitting in one corner. Judy is holding Anne (more on Anne later)
Lorna is important and you'll see why soon. She is also one of my old favourites and has been in many games and currently resides with her husband and children in a world in my Big Game so it is possible for you to see her in one of my future videos of Oscar's Teen Years or The McFulff story as they are both set in my Big Game. Lorna is human.
When Supernatural was about to be released I wasn't sure if I'd get it. I really did not want supernatural beings in my games but I did want the build items that came with it. I changed my mind over and over and eventually decided to buy it as I'd probably regret it if I didn't. As it turns out I grew to love having the supernatural beings in my game.
I decided to make a witch. So I made Judy. She was my first witch and I think she initially wore a white cowboy hat.
Since University Life was released I thought I'd try to learn a bit about some of the new things that came with it. I'd seen people posting their plant sims. I thought I'd have a go and decided Judy could be the mother of my first plant sim. I bought her a Science machine and she set to work learning the science skill and it took such a long time for her to successfully make a forbidden fruit seed I thought she (and I) was completely useless. She planted her seed in their large garden. I think it was in a pot.
This was long before we had soil rugs in the game. And I already had indoor gardens but usually they were up high in the build. Usually on the roof.
The first seed didn't get picked in time and it died. I think, or maybe it was a forbidden fruit. Something went wrong with it and I got Judy to make another forbidden fruit seed. That took ages too. She planted it and I was nervous of it dying too. So I watched it carefully. When it was finally ready to pick Judy was out somewhere so I got Lorna to pick it and it turned out to be a plant sim baby boy who I called Charlie.
I wasn't entirely happy to discover Lorna was the mother. That's when I learned the parent of the plant sim baby is the one that picks it. So Charlie and Lorna were an item and I referred to him as Charlie the Plant Sim. Charlie and Lorna spent quite a lot of time together arguing with Charlie the Evil Chicken.
Somewhat frustrated I decided to get Judy to take a DNA sample from herself and decided since she's so useless with that science machine contraption she may as well fail at cloning herself too. So she used her own DNA to try to clone a baby. It worked. I was shocked. So I named the baby Anne and it had no parent so I decided Judy could be her mother.
Charlie and Anne were toddlers together and became children together and then I moved on from that game and didn't play them for a really long time.
Here they are. Anne is a toddler and Charlie is a child already.
They played and studied together happily.
I'm sure I used them is a variety of new games over the years but never aged Charlie or Anne up beyond the child stage.
I started a new game with Judy and Anne and moved Charlie in with them. I played for ages and they had a lovely home in Dragon Valley, up on the plateau where I had established a huge witches village.
The part of this house you can see is just the entrance to a huge underground mansion.
The Isla Paradiso Bunch begins
I had Judy making elixirs and I discovered there was a badge available if your sims made 300 elixirs. I was sure Judy had made more than 300 elixirs but there was no badge. So I moved her out on her own to a new game in Isla Paradiso. I decided to get her to make 300 elixirs there. I planned to have her back with her children and friends in Dragon Valley after she'd got me the badge.
Playlist 1
In Playlist 1 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch I started trying to get all of the badges that I didn't already have from the Island Paradise EP. This failed miserably. I later learned you need a single sim household to be sure of getting those badges. I started the Caroline and Friends series and Caroline lived alone until she achieved all of the missing IP badges for me. That series is continuing and she now has many housemates who are going for various badges including the badges from University Life EP.
So in the beginning of Playlist 1, I had Judy as a single sim household.
A little bit of background so you can see where this is going....
I left Anne behind and I was using a new version of Judy so she didn't remember her cloned daughter.
Eventually, by the end of playlist 2 Judy had a few new children. She had cloned Triton King and picked two plant sim babies and then cloned Lea Dutiel from France. Her children/toddlers at the end of Playlist 2 are Bertie and Benjie Butler (plant sims), Terry King (clone) and Donna Dutiel (clone).
All newborns get an imaginary friend doll in this game.
In the beginning, due to boredom, I couldn't play with only one sim in the household.
I added a friend for Judy and looked through my library for a suitable sim to add to Judy's household.
I chose Josephine who was a blue genie that I'd previously banned from my games years as she was too hot headed and constantly picked fights with one of her housemates.
Here is a pic of the last fight she had before being banned from my games. Her housemate, the blond, was about to walk down the stairs when Josephine jumped on her and attacked.
I decided to give Josephine one last chance. I was very tempted to delete her, but I gave her a makeover. I had mods and custom skins by then so she got a new skin and clothes. Fortunately, she hasn't attacked anyone in this new game. But she is a coward and often faints when the Ghost of Mia Azul appears.
I just couldn't leave it at only one extra household member for Judy so I grabbed another two blue genies from my library. I don't have much of a memory of having them in my games but I did make them in CAS. I gave them both makeovers with new custom skins and new hair.
Jeannie
Haley
Haley joins the military career but doesn't make much progress in it. She meets up with an evil mermaid, Salty Seaworth. Salty's lifetime wish is to see the ghost of his wealthy spouse. Haley seems to think so long as they don't get married all will be good. They are eternally engaged and they ended up having twin daughters.
Wendy as a toddler
Gerri as a child
Wendy as a child
Wendy and Gerri
When Haley and Salty got engaged, Haley had a bachelorette party. I watched them for a while but eventually left them to it to play with other household members who were not at the party. When I got back to the party, Mia Azul had died of dehydration. I got her into an urn and she became part of the household.
Craig Miller
Once I'd added Judy, Josephine, Jeannie and Haley to the household I decided I had to have at least one male sim so made a new male sim. He's human. His name is Craig. I keep meaning to change the colour of his eyes but haven't yet.
By the end of Playlist 2 Craig has had 2 alien babies.
I eventually captured the alien mother and added her to the household.
Diana
Before starting this save, I was testing some of my custom content and needed a tester sim. She was a throwaway sim and I didn't take any care when making her.
Diana joined the Magician Career and added some magic to various episodes of the Isla Paradiso Bunch Playlists 1 and 2.
Meryl
While Diana was testing I made her an evil 'friend' to help out.
Since Diana and Meryl were already an item I added Meryl to the household too. Her dancing style is hilarious to watch.
Meryl needs to see the ghost of her wealthy spouse to satisfy her Lifetime Wish. She adds some hilarity as she autonomously heads out on her own to find out if various sims around town are wealthy.
Sam
At this point I decided the household was a little unbalanced and made another new male sim. Sam. He's human and by the end of Playlist 2 had one alien baby. And I caught the mother and added her to the household too. I also would like to change the colour of Sam's eyes.
In Playlist 1, Sam is in the Lifesaving career and gets to the top of it.
Muriel
Next I made Muriel because I needed a self sim. She doesn't actually look much like me but she'll do. I use her for my avatar on YouTube. She might as well be added to the game. Because - well why not? It was totally out of control by now anyhow.
So began Playlist 1. This was meant to be a way for me to learn about YouTube. I discovered I enjoyed making videos.
In playlist 1 the household gets to know each other. They make hundreds of elixirs but no badge ever appears for them. And they fail to get my badges for Isla Paradiso too in spite of completing all requirements for each badge.
I built them a huge resort and it was a 5 star resort.
They also owned Hobarts resort and didn't get a badge for that one either.
There was nothing wrong with the resorts. It turs out a single sim can own only one resort at a time to get the badges. Caroline got the badge for running a 0 star resort from Hobarts. Then she sold it and I added the resort I built for the Isla Paradiso Bunch to one of their hidden islands and she got the badge for running a 5 star resort as soon as I added the build to her island. I was a bit miffed with that as I'd been planning to get her to work on improving her resort. But then I decided it was probably a good thing because I'd already put a lot of effort into building it up with the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Playlist 2 (walkthroughs of all tombs in China, France and Egypt)
They completed all requirements for all of the badges in Island Paradise EP and I moved them to one of their owned hidden islands and they lived for a while and I started Playlist 2.
This playlist is a series of episodes where they complete all of the tombs in all of the three World Adventure Worlds. The episodes are basically detailed walk throughs of each tomb as well as other things they get up to when visiting France, China and Egypt.
This is most of the household towards the end of Playlist 2
I had made the aim of Playlist 2 to find all of the special Tomb Objects from each world. They are differently named in each world - can't think of the names right now other than in one world they are the Sigil of something or other in one of the three worlds.
Here are pics of their collections from the end of the playlist
China
France
Egypt
By now the game was totally unplayable as there were too many sims. I moved the alien mothers to a separate house. That helped but not much.
End of Playlist 2
I wanted a stable game.
I used NRAAS Porter mod and packed up everyone from the household plus the alien mothers plus the related mermaids. The mermaids I packed were Triton King, Maya Ocean and Salty Seaworth plus a fourth mermaid who the game had generated, presumably to replace Mia Azul who had died and her ghost resides with the main household.
The household set up in Dragon Valley
I built them a new house in Dragon Valley and added them to the world.
I was experimenting with a new style of house. I enjoyed this idea of a large courtyard inside the 4 walls.
After everyone was added to the world the main household was too big.
I had also added at least one extra sim to the world as a potential wife for either Sam or Craig - if they were every to marry. Not sure about that yet.
I had recently made Penny and here she is.
I found and added child versions of Charlie and Anne to the household and added them to Judy's family tree as her children.
I played with them for a while and this is where I started giving major makeovers to my imaginary friends made real.
The first one to get this major makeover was Anne's imaginary friend, Ruth.
Here is Ruth as a child when she was first made real and given a makeover.
For some reason I added Joe Hart to the household. I'm wondering if I had ideas of giving Judy a future spouse.
Now their traveling to other worlds is over and her twins are growing up, Haley decided to focus on her career. Here she is heading off to work.
Gerri and Wendy
Terri King aged up to become a child.
Bertie and Benji Butler are now children
Charlie Lake lives with them too now.
And Anne Butler is there too.
Here's Pat. I think he might be Gerri's imaginary friend made real.
Gerri, Pat, Betty and Wendy
I think Betty must be Wendy's imaginary friend made real.
Betty
Penny Exipeth is doing her toddler skills. She's Craig's alien daughter.
Pat, Anne Terry and Betty
Judy with her family including Donna Dutiel
The entire household in their Dragon Valley home.
Geri had a birthday party and became a teen.
Wendy became a teen too and here she is holding Steve, one of the alien babies. I think he might be Craig's son.
Obviously this whole thing was getting seriously out of hand. I needed to break them up into their own households. But I didn't want the others to go off and do their own thing. So I decided I'd move Judy with her family to a new world. They travelled to Sunlit Tides where I built them a new house with a big central courtyard near the beach.
Judy's Move to Sunlit Tides
Here's Judy Butler
Joe Hart
Charlie Lake - he's a teen now
Peter Lake (Charlie's imaginary friend made real)
Anne Butler (Judy's teenaged clone)
Ruth Butler (Anne's Imaginary Friend made real)
Bertie Butler (Judy's plant sim son)
Benjie Butler (Judy's other plant sim son)
Carl Butler (Benjie's imaginary friend made real)
Pippa Butler (Bertie's imaginary Friend made real)
Terry King (Judy's son who is a clone of Triton King, a mermaid)
Harry King (Terry's imaginary friend made real)
Donna Dutiel (Judy's daughter who is a clone of Lea Dutiel from France)
Riley (Donna's imaginary friend who is not yet real because Donna hasn't learned the potion to make him real)
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There might be a playlist 3 but it won't be for a long time. I was just thinking about them over the past few days and decided to post this here now. I hope you enjoy them. I used spoilers so there wouldn't be so many pictures to wade through whenever you visit this page.
Part 1 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch was set up for me to learn how to use YouTube and for us to get to know the sims in the household. The game evolved and I decided to send them off exploring the tombs from World Adventures. That became Part 2 with walkthroughs of all tombs.
Now, I know some of you would like to see more of this group of sims and so would I. But I don't feel I can manage another series of videos as I have so many stories going and I need to finalise most of them asap.
Then thing I am thinking about doing is to start doing some Live Streaming. I've never done that and am just beginning to work out how to do it. The reason I've decided to do this is YouTube is trying to get people to live stream. My channel is way too small for me to monetise it and I thought you needed to have more subscribers than I have to be able to live stream. So either something at YouTube has changed, or I just wasn't aware of it. I know YouTube puts ads on some of my videos but I get nothing from that.
If I do go ahead with live streaming I propose to begin with about an hour of game play from The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Here's a bit of a back story to show what's been going on with them.
At the end of Part 2, I was struggling to complete the final tombs. The household had grown quite large. I was having a problem with the final tomb in France. I think I worked out what the problem was. It was a random thing that I hadn't expected.
By the time they got into the final tomb in France they had been living in their own home in France for a long time. The point was, they no longer stayed at the Base Camp. When working on the final tombs there are a series of mini adventures, one of which requires the sim to visit Egypt to get something from a Sim living there. Every time my sims visited Egypt the adventure dropped out. Even if I used a mod to restart the adventure it immediately dropped out so the adventure could not continue.
I started a fresh game several times and kept trying to work out what was wrong. Every single time, while they were living in a house in France, the adventure dropped out in Egypt. The only time it worked was when I got exasperated with it and didn't bother buying them a home in France. They stayed at the base camp in France and finally, the big tomb in France went through without any problems at all. So I was able to complete the videos showing walk throughs of all tombs, including the final tombs in France.
My objective for that series was to collect the major tomb objects from each world. They got them all. They have different names in different worlds but in one world they are Sigils. I hope you know what I'm talking about there.
Egyptian tomb collection
French tomb collection
China tomb collection
During their adventures, both of the male sims from the household had alien pregnancies. I kept all of the alien babies and managed to capture the alien mothers and added them to the household. I decided the babies need to know both parents.
The original sim in the household was Judy.
Judy is a witch I had grabbed from another game in which she had a daughter she had cloned from a sample of her own DNA. That daughter, Anne, was never in the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos.
Judy also had a plant sim son, Charlie, who also never appeared in the Isla Paradiso Videos.
I allowed the wrong sim to pick Charlie so he doesn't resemble Judy. But she made his forbidden fruit seed and planted his seed and cared for him so I tend to think of him as her son even though another sim who is not part of this story picked him.
So I took Judy from her game and she left her two children behind to start a new game in Isla Paradiso.
At this stage I had no thoughts about making videos. It is just that this was the game I was playing when I decided to make a channel and start loading videos to YouTube.
That channel currently has 200 subscribers. It has taken a really long time for that many people to subscribe.
As I played with Judy, a lone sim trying to make 300 elixirs I found it all a bit boring. I like big households with full autonomy.
I thought if I added two or three extra sims the game might be a bit more interesting.
I have hundreds of sims saved to my hard drives. These are sims I've made and played at various times since June 2009. I decided to add a genie to Judy's household. I found some old genies I'd made back when we could first make genies in CAS. I had no mods at that time. The genies I selected were the original blue colour. I chose Haley, then decided I needed one more and couldn't decide between Josephine and Jeanie. Josephine had only ever been in one previous game and she'd given my so much trouble I'd decided never to play her again. She's hot headed and a coward and she kept on picking fights with other household members. At first this amused me but eventually I was really over having her roll around the floor in a ball of dust as she attacked another household member. I hadn't deleted her but she might as well have been deleted as I never used her again. As I pondered do I erase her totally from my computer or do I give her another go? So I grabbed her and added her to Judy's household along with Haley and Jeannie. I gave them all makeovers, including new skins, but I didn't change their traits.
Haley
Jeannie
and
Josephine
Next I added Craig as I thought the household needed a man.
Craig
I might change his eye colour as every time I look at him I want to do that.
Then I thought Craig might need some support from a fellow bloke and I made Sam and added him to the household.
Sam
and Muriel
and Diana
and Meryl
The number of sims in the household was getting out of hand by this time.
Haley met Salty Seaworth while out diving and when Salty realised she was wealthy he pursued her romantically until they became engaged and they had twin daughters who were toddlers for most of the series.
Wendy
Wendy and Gerri
Wendy and Gerri with their imaginary friends turned real
Judy with her family of clones and plant sims
Over time Judy acquired two plant sim sons, Bertie and Benjie, and a clone, Terry King, she made using the DNA from Triton King. Then she made a clone she made of Lea Dutiel from France.
Terry and Benjie
Mia Azul died during Halye's bachelorette party.
They keep her inside in an urn and she regularly haunts them. Josephine faints from seeing the ghost.
The household when they started Part 2 of the series consisted of Judy, Haley, Jeannie, Josephine, Craig, Muriel, Meryl, Sam, Diana, Wendy, Geri, Bertie, Benjie and Terry.
During their adventures in Part 2 of the series Craig and Sam both had alien pregnancies and three alien babies joined the household. Judy cloned Lea Dutiel and she ended up with Donna Dutiel joined the household.
I captured the two alien mothers of Craig and Sam's babies.
The household was on the verge of explosion. The house was stuffed full of relics collected during their adventures. The game was unstable.
I used NRAAS Porter mod to gather up the household plus related sims. The related sims included Salty Seaworth, Triton King and Maya Ocean plus the two alien mothers.
I started a fresh game and built them a huge new house in Dragon Valley. The alien mothers were placed together in a nearby house and the mermaids were put into a home of their own too.
Then I added Judy's two children from her previous game, Anne and Charlie. And I moved another sim I'd made into a house near the Dragon Valley home of this huge household.
Penny lives alone in Dragon Valley near the house containing the sims from Part 2 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch. I thought she might be a potential wife for Sam or Craig.
Next I played them for a while and aged up the twins to teens. They were children for a while before they became teens.
Naturally I made all of their imaginary friends real. The household was too overstuffed. I wanted to break it up but keep the unplayed sims in stasis so I moved a group of them to Sunlit Tides. This is Judy's family. She has a big house in Sunlit Tides and she lives there with her children and their imaginary friends made real.
This is the household I would like to try streaming to start with. If the streaming works I expect to include all of the sims I moved to Dragon Valley from time to time.
Some of the children in Judy's household have aged up to teen.
This is Anne Butler, Judy's clone.
Anne's Imaginary Friend made real, Ruth Butler
And Anne's plant sim brother, Charlie The Plant Sim.
And Charlie's Imaginary Friend made real, Peter Lake
The toddlers are now children
This is Benjie Butler
And Benjie's Imaginary Friend made real, Pippa
I tried to make Bertie and Benjie look a bit different from each other as they were identical. Here's Bertie
And Bertie's imaginary friend made real, Carl Butler
And Terry King
Of course, Terry is a little Mermaid.
And Terry's imaginary Friend made real, Harry King
Finally, Donna Dutiel
I think her imaginary friend has not yet been made real but it is live and they run around together.
Their house is on a large lot and there is an inner courtyard.
They have a small basement garden
That's Joe and Peter in the garden. I think I made Joe as a possible love interest for Judy. Nothing much is happening between them so far. I've never given her a romantic interest before.
They've also got a small outdoor garden for their trees
I'm thinking maybe streaming for about 1 hour initially to see how it goes.
@Karritz
I like the idea. I will watch you live if it fits my schedule.
Thank you. I don’t know when I will be ready. It looks like I already have all of the software I need. I don’t have a camera on my computer so it’ll just have to be the game on screen. At least in the beginning. I do have a microphone so can talk. I will need to know the best time and day to do it. At the moment I have extra commitments taking my time as I’m in a play and need to go to rehearsals and then we’ll be on stage for 3 weekends. It ends in mid December. So I’ll spend the time between now and then getting it set up. I’ll let you know how I’m going with it.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. We might start with only one person watching but I have to start somewhere.
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This video starts off with Craig and Judy still in the Nectary in Champs Les Sims. They are enjoying the nectar.
Quickly they leave for Egypt where Craig is cured of the Mummy's Curse by the Sphinx.
I realised that I had not yet shown you through the Sphinx. When they originally picked up the Sigil of the Soulpiece Chambers the video didn't record. I needed a fresh version of the Sphinx to do it again. I had forgotten to do that.
Since I'd done the final two tombs with a new save I had a new version of the Sphinx so thought I'd better show you the way they did it.
The video is sped up in a few places to try to show you more in less overall time. It still runs for 50 mins.
When they return to Dragon Valley we see the new house and everyone is at home together.
I've added a lot of detail in the description of the video so if you want to know more before watching the video that's the place to look.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Today I'm posting a few pictures of the game in Sunlit Tides.
Firstly, the location of the home lot is where the horse racing track is.
This lot is always wasted in my games as I don't often play with horses and I have no plans to do so in this game. So this time I bulldozed the lot that comes with the world and placed the new Butler house on that lot.
I have tried bulldozing that lot previously, a few years ago, and the original lot kept on appearing to still be there from map view, but this time their house seems to be visible. I liked the central courtyard of the Dragon Valley house so I did it again in Sunlit Tides. This is a completely new build and is quite different from the house in Dragon Valley.
The thing I've been doing so far is getting the house furnished - that isn't quite done yet but it's getting there. I like to decorate and add to my builds as I play so I may not get much more done to this house until I play it again.
I'll now show you pictures of the current occupants of this house. I've aged some up. There are some new imaginary friends made real. Some of the sims I'm about to show you are familiar to anyone who's been watching my Isla Paradiso Bunch videos, and some of them are totally new additions to the household.
Judy Butler, a witch, is the founder of the entire Isla Paradiso Bunch game. I have moved her and her 6 children and their imaginary friends made real to Sunlit Tides as the original Isla Paradiso Bunch household has grown too large for the game to be played. I'm using NRAAS Traveller mod to allow households to live in many different worlds in the same game and continue to interact with each other. All relationships have been preserved between the sims left behind in Dragon Valley and this new household in Sunlit Tides.
If I start a new video series on this story there will be a few households living in a few different worlds. I'm only setting this one up for now. The others will happen eventually.
Here's Judy. She's in her new TV / Living room.
Judy's traits: Angler, Loves the Outdoors, Friendly, Handy, Neat plus Green Thumb. Her LTW is: Zombie Master. I've never achieved that lifetime wish and think I might make it a goal for this game.
I made a new sim for this household. His name is Joe Hart. His traits are: Adventurous, Loves the Outdoors, Natural Cook, Handy, Gatherer. His LTW is Bottomless Nectar Cellar. He needs a garden to grow grapes and things for his nectar. He hasn't started learning about nectar yet but he has a basement garden with nectar making machines and nectar racks all ready for him. Only the low growing plants are in this basement garden. Trees are in the open at ground level at this stage. When Winter comes I'll probably enclose them in a greenhouse.
Joe has been learning the gardening skill and handiness skill. He's been gardening and upgrading some of the sprinklers to Auto Water. Sprinklers don't work in the basement so they have to hand water because I won't buy them Swift Gro Gardening Stations. They all have to work hard in the gardens until their gardening skill is to level 10. That'll be a while because some of them are still children and will be children for quite a long time. At some point I'll hire a gardening service to take care of their gardens.
I've had Judy and Joe working in the garden together. They've started getting the Attractive Sim moodlet. I'm wondering if some sort of romance might be happening there. If it does I will go with it. They only have 1 trait in common. Oops - I just realised they have 2 traits in common Handy and Loves the Outdoors. I guess Romance is in the air. This could get interesting.
If they do get together I would hope they may have a few children together. That's something else that may happen if I continue with this series of videos in a new playlist.
I've been getting them to start a medium sized garden for Joe. Unfortunately Joe isn't exactly dedicated to gardening. He seems to have developed a fixation with the climbing wall I put into the basement. That might have to go.
The garden was in danger of dying from neglect - again. I went looking for Joe and found him here.
The Group Science project, Tree of Prosperity and Climbing Walls are all in a deep corner of their basement. I'm trying to keep their basement smallish so I haven't extended the deepest parts all over the lot. It's just in one corner.
I eventually managed to get Joe back to his basement garden. Judy helps him with it a lot.
I found the existing gardens were too much for Judy and Joe to manage on their own so it was time to age up some of the children to teen. Teens can help with the gardening, children can't. I know there is a mod to have children gardening but I'd rather just age a few of the older children up. I've had Charlie the Plant sim as a child in various games since 2013 and I've never seen him as a teen. So he aged up to teen first. By the way I've got video of all of this just in case I do make another playlist.
Charlie was the first plant sim I ever made and the only plant sim I had made for a few years. Judy made his forbidden fruit seed but her housemate at the time, Dora Lake, picked Charlie. That was when I discovered the sim who picks the plant sim baby is the sim who is the parent. I wanted Judy to be his mother. Sometimes I have Charlie in households with Dora when I'm playing her, and sometimes I have him with Judy when I'm playing her. I moved Charlie into the Isla Paradiso Bunch from Dora's house in Dragon Valley just for this story. (Dora is in the Witches Village in a different Dragon Valley save. She's not in the current save.)
Before moving to Sunlit Tides all of the children who had gone to school for a while were A Grade students. But when they arrived in Sunlit Tides they reverted to C grade so it took them a few days to get back up to A Grade. I used that time to have them discover potions, make their imaginary friends real and allow the imaginary friends to do their child skills and advance to A Grade at school. They were all A Grade before all of the child skills of the IFs made real were completed.
Here is Charlie as a teen. I didn't take him into Stylist yet.
Charlie's traits are Athletic, Loves the Outdoors, Easily Impressed - he got Green Thumb on aging up to Teen. His LTW is Master Acrobat.
Judy was the only one in the household with the Green Thumb trait and she took ages to revive all the plants that died of neglect so I gave a few of the teens that trait when they aged up.
Charlie has an imaginary friend made real named Peter Lake. Peter quickly did all of his childhood skills so he could age up on the same day as Charlie.
Peter's traits are: Virtuoso, Coward, Loves the Cold, Green Thumb. His LTW is still a mystery. I was pleased to age him up from child because of his coward trait. At night, while still a child, he constantly fainted from terror due to looking for monsters under the bed. I didn't change his traits when I initially took him into CAS to give him a makeover. I changed just about everything else about him. My Imaginary Friends made real in this household are getting a major redo.
When I chased Joe from the climbing wall to his garden I was surprised to find Charlie and Peter had autonomously gone down there and had started tending the garden.
Joe joined them - eventually.
A day or so after Charlie and Peter aged up I aged up Anne Butler.
Now, Charlie was the first plant sim I ever made, but Anne was the first clone I ever made. They both happened within weeks of University Life being released. I first made Judy at that time too. Judy took a sample of her own DNA and cloned Anne from it. She's always been in Judy's households - except for the Isla Paradiso Bunch because it wasn't supposed to ever become an actual game. I've been constantly looking for a way to get Anne and Charlie into Judy's household in the IP Bunch and grabbed the opportunity when I set up the new household in Dragon Valley.
I aged Anne up to teen.
This is Anne with her Imaginary Friend made real, Ruth, and her little plant sim brother Benjie Butler behind her.
Anne's traits are: Absent Minded, Loves the Outdoors, Disciplined, Green Thumb. Her LTW is still a mystery. Undecided.
This is a better look at Ruth. She is the first Imaginary Friend made real that I decided to give a major makeover to and she changed completely from her original appearance.
Ruth's traits are: Loves the Outdoors, Disciplined, Gatherer, Eco Friendly. Her LTW: Undecided. She got Gatherer when she aged to teen. I don't think I change the traits she got when she first became real as a child.
By the way, this was Ruth as a child.
I'll post more later showing you the younger sims in this household. The rest of them are all still children. Only Donna Dutiel has to discover the potion to make her imaginary friend real. Bertie, Benjie and Terry King have all found the potion they needed and turned their Imaginary Friends real.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
If you've been watching the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos you will know Bertie, Benjie, and Terry.
Bertie and Benjie are twins - because Judy picked them both at the same time.
There is a 50% chance of getting a Plant Sim baby or a Forbidden Fruit when a sim plants a Forbidden Fruit seed.
Now the trick is that percent chance applies to each seed without any regard to any other seeds that were planted.
You'd have to plant thousands of seeds to see the result of a 50/50 mix of baby or fruit being produced.
Anyway, Judy really wanted one plant sim baby so she decided to hedge her bets and planted 2 seeds. She got 2 babies that both needed picking at the same time because she planted her forbidden fruit seeds at the same time. You would have seen them being planted and cared for and picked by Judy in a few of the episodes of the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
When I built the house for this group I left a huge courtyard in the middle. This is a playground for the whole household, but the children have most use of it. I'd like to keep most of these children as children for a while. Bertie and Benjie and their Imaginary Friends made real will age up next as the plant sim twins have been children for a long time. But I haven't played them much as they've been living in Isla Paradiso and the game there was getting progressively more unstable for a long time. The second playlist of the Isla Paradiso Videos were mostly about adventures and tomb walkthroughs with very little time spent at home with the family. Towards the last few episodes it was almost impossible to play them at home. I took the children to France or China occasionally just so we could see them and let them develop skills.
Bertie was picked first - I changed his hair to blond as I could never work out which was Bertie and which was Benjie. I also experimented with their skin colour by sliding their slider as far as possible to the left.
Bertie's traits are: athletic, eco friendly, green thumb His LTW is Illustrious Author
This group includes Bertie, Donna and Pippa. You'll meet them down the page a little.
And this is Benjie. His traits are: Good, Loves the Outdoors, Loves to Swim His LTW: Become a Creature Robot Cross Breeder
This group are left to right: Donna, Pippa, Bertie and Benjie.
Here are Terry King playing with Pippa.
Pippa is Bertie's Imaginary Friend made real. Pippa's name as a doll was Peaches.
I didn't like the traits Pippa arrived with and changed them. She started out with the traits of Evil, Slob, Never Nude. She might have been entertaining to play, but I was tired at the time and didn't want to contemplate what she might get up to. At another time of day when I was less tired I may have just chuckled and left her alone just as she was. However I did change her traits and now she is: Good Sense of Humour, Loves the Outdoors, Equestrian.
Good Sense of Humour and Loves the Outdoors can both be excessively annoying traits but I hope they are not going to drive me crazy with Pippa.
Since I deleted the race track because I didn't want to play with horses I thought it a bit ironic I now have a sim who has the equestrian trait. I think I gave her that trait because she has a hidden trait that has something to do with loving horses. She may never get to ride a horse, but then, when she grows up she might move to a different world where she can do whatever she wants with horses. And there are lots of horses roaming wild in Sunlit Tides. It has plagues of wild horses.
Pippa's LTW is still to be chosen.
Carl is Benjie's Imaginary Friend made real. Carl's traits are: Adventurous, Sailor, Dog Person. LTW still to be chosen.
Carl's name while he was a doll was Cuddles.
Anne and Terry are chatting here. Terry is a mermaid. Both Anne and Terry are clones. Terry is the clone Judy made from a DNA sample she got from Triton King. Anne is a clone Judy made of herself.
Ruth, Terry and Anne
Just Terry.
Here are Benjie, Carl and Harry
Harry is Terry's imaginary friend made real. Harry's original name was Hesper.
I had a lot of trouble caused by Hesper. He was happily running around after Terry after he became live. Then I didn't notice him for a while. When Terry got the potion to make Hesper real there was no sign of Hesper. His picture was still in Terry's relationship panel but Terry couldn't interact with him. This led to panic on my part. I'd gone to all the trouble of getting Terry to make that potion and now his IF had done a runner. Apparently he was well on his way out of the world and existing with the homeless.
I used Master Controller on countless occasions to reset Hesper and to add Hesper to the household.
I tried the cheat ResetSim Hesper a few times too.
I don't give up easily. I kept it up well beyond the point when I should have given up.
I was thinking I was going to have to shut down without saving and put myself through the tedium of Terry making his potion again plus lose progress other sims had made.
I tried again to add Hesper to the household. As soon as I did it I thought I shouldn't have done that because Hesper wasn't made real, he wasn't ready to appear in the portrait panel on the left of the screen. He was live but not real.
Anyway I had one more go at adding him to the household knowing it was futile when suddenly his portrait appeared in the portrait panel. This was a bit of a worry - he shouldn't be there. I just wanted him back on the lot running around after Terry. Then I spotted him just inside the front gate and Terry was with him. Terry had to be active for me to see Hesper.
Terry was already best friends with Hesper so they ran all around the outside of the house to where there was a bit more room and then Terry offered the potion to Hesper. He drank it. This was a relief as he now belonged in the portrait panel. When he became real I named him Harry.
Harry's traits are: Can't stand art, virtuoso, heavy sleeper. I don't like two of this 3 traits but I'll live with them. He hasn't chosen a LTW yet.
Finally there is Donna. In these pics she's playing tag with Charlie. Donna is a clone Judy made from a DNA sample she got in France from Lea Dutiel. Donna was cloned in France and this process was shown in one of the videos of Playlist 2 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Donna still needs to discover the potion to make her Imaginary Friend real.
Poor Riley is having trouble keeping up with Donna. In this pic Riley is standing next to Harry but of course, Harry can't see Riley as until Riley drinks the potion and becomes real only Donna can see him/her. And I can only see Riley when Donna is the active sim.
That's it for now. There is still much to be done with this household but I probably won't do much more until I'm ready to start making more videos on them. I think at least one or two people have indicated they might like to see more of this household.
Since there seems to be a romance developing naturally between Judy and Joe there might be babies born. Eventually I'll expect the children to age up to teens in future episodes and the teens will probably age up to Young Adults and might move out to set up their own households. But before that happens I want to enjoy some of the children playing in the big courtyard full of wonderful things for their enjoyment.
Only time will tell. Happy Simming all.
EDIT; I'm thinking of using this picture as the thumbnail for future videos when the videos are about the household in Sunlight Tides.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Thank you. I think that playground is the best part of it. I have done that twice now. Firstly in their original home in Dragon Valley and now I had to do it again when I split Judy's family off from the main overpopulated house in Dragon Valley to set up in Sunlit Tides. I plan to always have a few children in the lot to enjoy them enjoying their central activities.
I'll probably do the same sort of thing for Craig and his family but in a different world. And Sam has on toddler and a potential spouse so he'll be moved to a new world with a similar home too eventually. Same for Haley and her girls with Salty. Then the rest of the single members of the original Dragon Valley house will be on their own with a playground and no children so I'll have to work out a way to do something about that.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Initially I just wanted to see if I could get the badge for having a sim make 300 elixirs.
I used an old sim, my original witch who I first made way back when Supernatural Expansion Pack was first released.
In this original game I made my Crystal Gardens build and posted pictures here and people wanted me to put it onto the Exchange. I'd not planned to do that but I did because people asked for it. In the end I think it is a bit complicated for most people's computers. It is huge but has had quite a few downloads and is still in my studio.
Crystal Gardens and its Exchange Link
https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7259783
It was in this build that brand new Judy lived with a few housemates.
One of her housemates was Lorna Lake. Here is a pic of Lorna in a different game as I don't have a good shot of her in the game in Crystal Gardens.
Here is a pic of some of the housemates relaxing in the Crystal Gardens house. Lorna is seen sitting in one corner. Judy is holding Anne (more on Anne later)
Lorna is important and you'll see why soon. She is also one of my old favourites and has been in many games and currently resides with her husband and children in a world in my Big Game so it is possible for you to see her in one of my future videos of Oscar's Teen Years or The McFulff story as they are both set in my Big Game. Lorna is human.
When Supernatural was about to be released I wasn't sure if I'd get it. I really did not want supernatural beings in my games but I did want the build items that came with it. I changed my mind over and over and eventually decided to buy it as I'd probably regret it if I didn't. As it turns out I grew to love having the supernatural beings in my game.
I decided to make a witch. So I made Judy. She was my first witch and I think she initially wore a white cowboy hat.
Since University Life was released I thought I'd try to learn a bit about some of the new things that came with it. I'd seen people posting their plant sims. I thought I'd have a go and decided Judy could be the mother of my first plant sim. I bought her a Science machine and she set to work learning the science skill and it took such a long time for her to successfully make a forbidden fruit seed I thought she (and I) was completely useless. She planted her seed in their large garden. I think it was in a pot.
This was long before we had soil rugs in the game. And I already had indoor gardens but usually they were up high in the build. Usually on the roof.
The first seed didn't get picked in time and it died. I think, or maybe it was a forbidden fruit. Something went wrong with it and I got Judy to make another forbidden fruit seed. That took ages too. She planted it and I was nervous of it dying too. So I watched it carefully. When it was finally ready to pick Judy was out somewhere so I got Lorna to pick it and it turned out to be a plant sim baby boy who I called Charlie.
I wasn't entirely happy to discover Lorna was the mother. That's when I learned the parent of the plant sim baby is the one that picks it. So Charlie and Lorna were an item and I referred to him as Charlie the Plant Sim. Charlie and Lorna spent quite a lot of time together arguing with Charlie the Evil Chicken.
Somewhat frustrated I decided to get Judy to take a DNA sample from herself and decided since she's so useless with that science machine contraption she may as well fail at cloning herself too. So she used her own DNA to try to clone a baby. It worked. I was shocked. So I named the baby Anne and it had no parent so I decided Judy could be her mother.
Charlie and Anne were toddlers together and became children together and then I moved on from that game and didn't play them for a really long time.
Here they are. Anne is a toddler and Charlie is a child already.
They played and studied together happily.
I'm sure I used them is a variety of new games over the years but never aged Charlie or Anne up beyond the child stage.
I started a new game with Judy and Anne and moved Charlie in with them. I played for ages and they had a lovely home in Dragon Valley, up on the plateau where I had established a huge witches village.
The part of this house you can see is just the entrance to a huge underground mansion.
The Isla Paradiso Bunch begins
I had Judy making elixirs and I discovered there was a badge available if your sims made 300 elixirs. I was sure Judy had made more than 300 elixirs but there was no badge. So I moved her out on her own to a new game in Isla Paradiso. I decided to get her to make 300 elixirs there. I planned to have her back with her children and friends in Dragon Valley after she'd got me the badge.
Playlist 1
So in the beginning of Playlist 1, I had Judy as a single sim household.
A little bit of background so you can see where this is going....
I left Anne behind and I was using a new version of Judy so she didn't remember her cloned daughter.
Eventually, by the end of playlist 2 Judy had a few new children. She had cloned Triton King and picked two plant sim babies and then cloned Lea Dutiel from France. Her children/toddlers at the end of Playlist 2 are Bertie and Benjie Butler (plant sims), Terry King (clone) and Donna Dutiel (clone).
All newborns get an imaginary friend doll in this game.
In the beginning, due to boredom, I couldn't play with only one sim in the household.
I added a friend for Judy and looked through my library for a suitable sim to add to Judy's household.
I chose Josephine who was a blue genie that I'd previously banned from my games years as she was too hot headed and constantly picked fights with one of her housemates.
Here is a pic of the last fight she had before being banned from my games. Her housemate, the blond, was about to walk down the stairs when Josephine jumped on her and attacked.
I decided to give Josephine one last chance. I was very tempted to delete her, but I gave her a makeover. I had mods and custom skins by then so she got a new skin and clothes. Fortunately, she hasn't attacked anyone in this new game. But she is a coward and often faints when the Ghost of Mia Azul appears.
I just couldn't leave it at only one extra household member for Judy so I grabbed another two blue genies from my library. I don't have much of a memory of having them in my games but I did make them in CAS. I gave them both makeovers with new custom skins and new hair.
Jeannie
Haley
Haley joins the military career but doesn't make much progress in it. She meets up with an evil mermaid, Salty Seaworth. Salty's lifetime wish is to see the ghost of his wealthy spouse. Haley seems to think so long as they don't get married all will be good. They are eternally engaged and they ended up having twin daughters.
Wendy as a toddler
Gerri as a child
Wendy as a child
Wendy and Gerri
When Haley and Salty got engaged, Haley had a bachelorette party. I watched them for a while but eventually left them to it to play with other household members who were not at the party. When I got back to the party, Mia Azul had died of dehydration. I got her into an urn and she became part of the household.
Craig Miller
Once I'd added Judy, Josephine, Jeannie and Haley to the household I decided I had to have at least one male sim so made a new male sim. He's human. His name is Craig. I keep meaning to change the colour of his eyes but haven't yet.
By the end of Playlist 2 Craig has had 2 alien babies.
I eventually captured the alien mother and added her to the household.
Diana
Before starting this save, I was testing some of my custom content and needed a tester sim. She was a throwaway sim and I didn't take any care when making her.
Diana joined the Magician Career and added some magic to various episodes of the Isla Paradiso Bunch Playlists 1 and 2.
Meryl
While Diana was testing I made her an evil 'friend' to help out.
Since Diana and Meryl were already an item I added Meryl to the household too. Her dancing style is hilarious to watch.
Meryl needs to see the ghost of her wealthy spouse to satisfy her Lifetime Wish. She adds some hilarity as she autonomously heads out on her own to find out if various sims around town are wealthy.
Sam
At this point I decided the household was a little unbalanced and made another new male sim. Sam. He's human and by the end of Playlist 2 had one alien baby. And I caught the mother and added her to the household too. I also would like to change the colour of Sam's eyes.
In Playlist 1, Sam is in the Lifesaving career and gets to the top of it.
Muriel
Next I made Muriel because I needed a self sim. She doesn't actually look much like me but she'll do. I use her for my avatar on YouTube. She might as well be added to the game. Because - well why not? It was totally out of control by now anyhow.
So began Playlist 1. This was meant to be a way for me to learn about YouTube. I discovered I enjoyed making videos.
In playlist 1 the household gets to know each other. They make hundreds of elixirs but no badge ever appears for them. And they fail to get my badges for Isla Paradiso too in spite of completing all requirements for each badge.
I built them a huge resort and it was a 5 star resort.
They also owned Hobarts resort and didn't get a badge for that one either.
There was nothing wrong with the resorts. It turs out a single sim can own only one resort at a time to get the badges. Caroline got the badge for running a 0 star resort from Hobarts. Then she sold it and I added the resort I built for the Isla Paradiso Bunch to one of their hidden islands and she got the badge for running a 5 star resort as soon as I added the build to her island. I was a bit miffed with that as I'd been planning to get her to work on improving her resort. But then I decided it was probably a good thing because I'd already put a lot of effort into building it up with the Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Playlist 2 (walkthroughs of all tombs in China, France and Egypt)
They completed all requirements for all of the badges in Island Paradise EP and I moved them to one of their owned hidden islands and they lived for a while and I started Playlist 2.
This playlist is a series of episodes where they complete all of the tombs in all of the three World Adventure Worlds. The episodes are basically detailed walk throughs of each tomb as well as other things they get up to when visiting France, China and Egypt.
This is most of the household towards the end of Playlist 2
I had made the aim of Playlist 2 to find all of the special Tomb Objects from each world. They are differently named in each world - can't think of the names right now other than in one world they are the Sigil of something or other in one of the three worlds.
Here are pics of their collections from the end of the playlist
China
France
Egypt
By now the game was totally unplayable as there were too many sims. I moved the alien mothers to a separate house. That helped but not much.
End of Playlist 2
I wanted a stable game.
I used NRAAS Porter mod and packed up everyone from the household plus the alien mothers plus the related mermaids. The mermaids I packed were Triton King, Maya Ocean and Salty Seaworth plus a fourth mermaid who the game had generated, presumably to replace Mia Azul who had died and her ghost resides with the main household.
The household set up in Dragon Valley
I was experimenting with a new style of house. I enjoyed this idea of a large courtyard inside the 4 walls.
After everyone was added to the world the main household was too big.
I had also added at least one extra sim to the world as a potential wife for either Sam or Craig - if they were every to marry. Not sure about that yet.
I had recently made Penny and here she is.
I found and added child versions of Charlie and Anne to the household and added them to Judy's family tree as her children.
I played with them for a while and this is where I started giving major makeovers to my imaginary friends made real.
The first one to get this major makeover was Anne's imaginary friend, Ruth.
Here is Ruth as a child when she was first made real and given a makeover.
For some reason I added Joe Hart to the household. I'm wondering if I had ideas of giving Judy a future spouse.
Now their traveling to other worlds is over and her twins are growing up, Haley decided to focus on her career. Here she is heading off to work.
Gerri and Wendy
Terri King aged up to become a child.
Bertie and Benji Butler are now children
Charlie Lake lives with them too now.
And Anne Butler is there too.
Here's Pat. I think he might be Gerri's imaginary friend made real.
Gerri, Pat, Betty and Wendy
I think Betty must be Wendy's imaginary friend made real.
Betty
Penny Exipeth is doing her toddler skills. She's Craig's alien daughter.
Pat, Anne Terry and Betty
Judy with her family including Donna Dutiel
The entire household in their Dragon Valley home.
Geri had a birthday party and became a teen.
Wendy became a teen too and here she is holding Steve, one of the alien babies. I think he might be Craig's son.
Obviously this whole thing was getting seriously out of hand. I needed to break them up into their own households. But I didn't want the others to go off and do their own thing. So I decided I'd move Judy with her family to a new world. They travelled to Sunlit Tides where I built them a new house with a big central courtyard near the beach.
Judy's Move to Sunlit Tides
Here's Judy Butler
Joe Hart
Charlie Lake - he's a teen now
Peter Lake (Charlie's imaginary friend made real)
Anne Butler (Judy's teenaged clone)
Ruth Butler (Anne's Imaginary Friend made real)
Bertie Butler (Judy's plant sim son)
Benjie Butler (Judy's other plant sim son)
Carl Butler (Benjie's imaginary friend made real)
Pippa Butler (Bertie's imaginary Friend made real)
Terry King (Judy's son who is a clone of Triton King, a mermaid)
Harry King (Terry's imaginary friend made real)
Donna Dutiel (Judy's daughter who is a clone of Lea Dutiel from France)
Riley (Donna's imaginary friend who is not yet real because Donna hasn't learned the potion to make him real)
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There might be a playlist 3 but it won't be for a long time. I was just thinking about them over the past few days and decided to post this here now. I hope you enjoy them. I used spoilers so there wouldn't be so many pictures to wade through whenever you visit this page.
Happy Simming All
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Part 1 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch was set up for me to learn how to use YouTube and for us to get to know the sims in the household. The game evolved and I decided to send them off exploring the tombs from World Adventures. That became Part 2 with walkthroughs of all tombs.
Now, I know some of you would like to see more of this group of sims and so would I. But I don't feel I can manage another series of videos as I have so many stories going and I need to finalise most of them asap.
Then thing I am thinking about doing is to start doing some Live Streaming. I've never done that and am just beginning to work out how to do it. The reason I've decided to do this is YouTube is trying to get people to live stream. My channel is way too small for me to monetise it and I thought you needed to have more subscribers than I have to be able to live stream. So either something at YouTube has changed, or I just wasn't aware of it. I know YouTube puts ads on some of my videos but I get nothing from that.
If I do go ahead with live streaming I propose to begin with about an hour of game play from The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Here's a bit of a back story to show what's been going on with them.
At the end of Part 2, I was struggling to complete the final tombs. The household had grown quite large. I was having a problem with the final tomb in France. I think I worked out what the problem was. It was a random thing that I hadn't expected.
By the time they got into the final tomb in France they had been living in their own home in France for a long time. The point was, they no longer stayed at the Base Camp. When working on the final tombs there are a series of mini adventures, one of which requires the sim to visit Egypt to get something from a Sim living there. Every time my sims visited Egypt the adventure dropped out. Even if I used a mod to restart the adventure it immediately dropped out so the adventure could not continue.
I started a fresh game several times and kept trying to work out what was wrong. Every single time, while they were living in a house in France, the adventure dropped out in Egypt. The only time it worked was when I got exasperated with it and didn't bother buying them a home in France. They stayed at the base camp in France and finally, the big tomb in France went through without any problems at all. So I was able to complete the videos showing walk throughs of all tombs, including the final tombs in France.
My objective for that series was to collect the major tomb objects from each world. They got them all. They have different names in different worlds but in one world they are Sigils. I hope you know what I'm talking about there.
Egyptian tomb collection
French tomb collection
China tomb collection
During their adventures, both of the male sims from the household had alien pregnancies. I kept all of the alien babies and managed to capture the alien mothers and added them to the household. I decided the babies need to know both parents.
The original sim in the household was Judy.
Judy is a witch I had grabbed from another game in which she had a daughter she had cloned from a sample of her own DNA. That daughter, Anne, was never in the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos.
Judy also had a plant sim son, Charlie, who also never appeared in the Isla Paradiso Videos.
I allowed the wrong sim to pick Charlie so he doesn't resemble Judy. But she made his forbidden fruit seed and planted his seed and cared for him so I tend to think of him as her son even though another sim who is not part of this story picked him.
So I took Judy from her game and she left her two children behind to start a new game in Isla Paradiso.
At this stage I had no thoughts about making videos. It is just that this was the game I was playing when I decided to make a channel and start loading videos to YouTube.
That channel currently has 200 subscribers. It has taken a really long time for that many people to subscribe.
As I played with Judy, a lone sim trying to make 300 elixirs I found it all a bit boring. I like big households with full autonomy.
I thought if I added two or three extra sims the game might be a bit more interesting.
I have hundreds of sims saved to my hard drives. These are sims I've made and played at various times since June 2009. I decided to add a genie to Judy's household. I found some old genies I'd made back when we could first make genies in CAS. I had no mods at that time. The genies I selected were the original blue colour. I chose Haley, then decided I needed one more and couldn't decide between Josephine and Jeanie. Josephine had only ever been in one previous game and she'd given my so much trouble I'd decided never to play her again. She's hot headed and a coward and she kept on picking fights with other household members. At first this amused me but eventually I was really over having her roll around the floor in a ball of dust as she attacked another household member. I hadn't deleted her but she might as well have been deleted as I never used her again. As I pondered do I erase her totally from my computer or do I give her another go? So I grabbed her and added her to Judy's household along with Haley and Jeannie. I gave them all makeovers, including new skins, but I didn't change their traits.
Haley
Jeannie
and
Josephine
Next I added Craig as I thought the household needed a man.
Craig
I might change his eye colour as every time I look at him I want to do that.
Then I thought Craig might need some support from a fellow bloke and I made Sam and added him to the household.
Sam
and Muriel
and Diana
and Meryl
The number of sims in the household was getting out of hand by this time.
Haley met Salty Seaworth while out diving and when Salty realised she was wealthy he pursued her romantically until they became engaged and they had twin daughters who were toddlers for most of the series.
Wendy
Wendy and Gerri
Wendy and Gerri with their imaginary friends turned real
Judy with her family of clones and plant sims
Over time Judy acquired two plant sim sons, Bertie and Benjie, and a clone, Terry King, she made using the DNA from Triton King. Then she made a clone she made of Lea Dutiel from France.
Terry and Benjie
Mia Azul died during Halye's bachelorette party.
They keep her inside in an urn and she regularly haunts them. Josephine faints from seeing the ghost.
The household when they started Part 2 of the series consisted of Judy, Haley, Jeannie, Josephine, Craig, Muriel, Meryl, Sam, Diana, Wendy, Geri, Bertie, Benjie and Terry.
During their adventures in Part 2 of the series Craig and Sam both had alien pregnancies and three alien babies joined the household. Judy cloned Lea Dutiel and she ended up with Donna Dutiel joined the household.
I captured the two alien mothers of Craig and Sam's babies.
The household was on the verge of explosion. The house was stuffed full of relics collected during their adventures. The game was unstable.
I used NRAAS Porter mod to gather up the household plus related sims. The related sims included Salty Seaworth, Triton King and Maya Ocean plus the two alien mothers.
I started a fresh game and built them a huge new house in Dragon Valley. The alien mothers were placed together in a nearby house and the mermaids were put into a home of their own too.
Then I added Judy's two children from her previous game, Anne and Charlie. And I moved another sim I'd made into a house near the Dragon Valley home of this huge household.
Penny lives alone in Dragon Valley near the house containing the sims from Part 2 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch. I thought she might be a potential wife for Sam or Craig.
Next I played them for a while and aged up the twins to teens. They were children for a while before they became teens.
Naturally I made all of their imaginary friends real. The household was too overstuffed. I wanted to break it up but keep the unplayed sims in stasis so I moved a group of them to Sunlit Tides. This is Judy's family. She has a big house in Sunlit Tides and she lives there with her children and their imaginary friends made real.
This is the household I would like to try streaming to start with. If the streaming works I expect to include all of the sims I moved to Dragon Valley from time to time.
Some of the children in Judy's household have aged up to teen.
This is Anne Butler, Judy's clone.
Anne's Imaginary Friend made real, Ruth Butler
And Anne's plant sim brother, Charlie The Plant Sim.
And Charlie's Imaginary Friend made real, Peter Lake
The toddlers are now children
This is Benjie Butler
And Benjie's Imaginary Friend made real, Pippa
I tried to make Bertie and Benjie look a bit different from each other as they were identical. Here's Bertie
And Bertie's imaginary friend made real, Carl Butler
And Terry King
Of course, Terry is a little Mermaid.
And Terry's imaginary Friend made real, Harry King
Finally, Donna Dutiel
I think her imaginary friend has not yet been made real but it is live and they run around together.
Their house is on a large lot and there is an inner courtyard.
They have a small basement garden
That's Joe and Peter in the garden. I think I made Joe as a possible love interest for Judy. Nothing much is happening between them so far. I've never given her a romantic interest before.
They've also got a small outdoor garden for their trees
I'm thinking maybe streaming for about 1 hour initially to see how it goes.
What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
@Karritz
I like the idea. I will watch you live if it fits my schedule.
Thank you. I don’t know when I will be ready. It looks like I already have all of the software I need. I don’t have a camera on my computer so it’ll just have to be the game on screen. At least in the beginning. I do have a microphone so can talk. I will need to know the best time and day to do it. At the moment I have extra commitments taking my time as I’m in a play and need to go to rehearsals and then we’ll be on stage for 3 weekends. It ends in mid December. So I’ll spend the time between now and then getting it set up. I’ll let you know how I’m going with it.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. We might start with only one person watching but I have to start somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg