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Are you "cottage living" outside HOB?
wahini2024
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I adore Hensford and have sims doing the cottage living and simple life there but I have other Gardner sims who I call my desert dwellers and would love to live the same way but for me they don't fit the.... personality or aesthetic...of Hensford
Has anyone set up a "ranch" style situation with success? Or in other worlds in general such as Willow Creek or for that matter making Magnolia Promenade a farming location?
I simply can't fit everyone in Hensford or they don't fit in Hensford (nor the simple living challenge as they aren't simple life kinda sims)
Has anyone set up a "ranch" style situation with success? Or in other worlds in general such as Willow Creek or for that matter making Magnolia Promenade a farming location?
I simply can't fit everyone in Hensford or they don't fit in Hensford (nor the simple living challenge as they aren't simple life kinda sims)
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@Akl500P awesome, love Windenberg as well and glad it's running smoothly in other worlds!
Oh, I plan to add at least one farm to Glimmerbrook too! Also, Windenburg as others have said, and Brindleton. Some will be specialized like in Oasis Springs I want to have a vineyard and a llama ranch. This pack combined with Seasons and the different climates in doing worlds opens up tons of gameplay possibilities!
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Crumbling Island is my favourite location, because after deleting all existing lots I could really personalise it and turn it into a secluded, gardening paradise for my family as there are no other inhabitants on it. The only residential lot is my family's small cottage, the other lots are marked as "generic" and feature orchards or ruins (including a shipwreck site).
The public orchard (including every pre-CL plant):
One of the ruins sites:
There is a wishing well in this lot, and the family goes there to make offerings, in hope of receiving a blessing. I like the idea of this family living in communion with nature away from other people and worshipping the old spirits and fertility deities... in a chill, genuine way.
I'm super-reluctant to make them move to HoB because the uninhabited island is so special for them. And the close-knitted, gossipy community in HoB would be overwhelming for them, they like being on their own.
So I created other Sims to play in HoB.
There are people who raise pigeons on rooftops in cities so why not chickens? I mean it’s the sims, you can do what you want! 😀
I know some people might have thought it was easy to make money gardening but the gameplay needs to work. When it comes to ease or difficulty, I think that ideally players can decide how much they want. For example, I am not looking for an easy game but if I have a highly-skilled gardener running a successful farm and I want to keep it going, I should be able to do that. Anyway, I know a lot of people complained about gardening. I hadn't gotten around to this household but yes, it is unplayable unless they repair regular gardening and find a way to correct the damage from plants turning into dirtpiles and not harvesting. I'd label it an unplayable bug especially with the new pack.
Yes, I'm excited for the new vegetables but fix the old ones as well. As mentioned, the simple living lot challenge does not really work when gardening is broken if you want to make any recipes including older ones and if you want to live mainly from what your household grows.
@Pamtastic72 I'm starting with desert oasis. My families there are the best suited to it and I love Spanish colonial lots... all the possibilities though! Glimmerbrook would be 😍 gorgeous!
@TARDISgrade you've convinced me to bulldoze that island lol I love that tiny community feel you built
@luthienrising I have 20 households in Myshuno. I had no idea you could do that, I need to try this! I have one Gardner in the city who would dig it I think 😉
You can also bulldoze the Bluffs. You can't change the lot type, but other than that you can personalise it as any other lot.
Also, the big lot on the promontory is fantastic! I have another save where I've placed a Celtic settlement there (as a residential lot). My family living there have 40 hens and 7 cows as well as an orchard, and there's still plenty of space to add more sheds - it's just they can't keep up with more animals.
and i also have family i wish to give some fox friends in mt.k
and yeah probably someone in sulani would like some chicken friends
and i might use some planters and llamas in selvadorada but I'll have to see how these things work on public lots first
also brindleton bay and windenburg surely suit the purpose as well
I'm not very interested in having too many farms per world myself cause its not my main playstyle but idk you could basically have farm anywhere
strangerville might be fun one too it kinda has that western vibe
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That said, I’ll probably still make a couple of main farm families to take on the bulk of the work gardening, raising animals, and canning. The possibilities for developing an internal economy are very interesting to me. I also kind of love that groceries are so expensive, since once your sim hits a certain point making money is the game is so easy
...or a lot! Thank you for such wonderful ideas, wow 😍
I moved Cordelia's Cottage to Windenberg.
You can look in the gallery for a downloadable lot called "Celtic round 2" by a Simmer called Sassy_Sk123. It's a nice ringfort with three round huts inside - one is designed as the main living area, one as the kitchen and one as a toilet.
I like it better than a similar one I had made myself, I only made a few modifications to it. For example I placed a wooden toilet and wooden bathtub (hidden object cheat) to make the necessary anachronisms less conspicuous and placed a firepit in the centre of the main building and a cauldron in the "kitchen". If you don't want to use a modern toilet at all, there's also the option of using the special bush found in BB.
If you place it in the big lot on Crumbling Island, it leaves a lot of space in the back and side for sheds and coops, plus there's lots of space for harvestable plants.
I am curious how the vineyard idea you have will be set up. Like what items will you be planting, etc. I want to do something of a vineyard leaning garden on a lot in Windenburg (until we can have real vineyards and wine making) but wasn't sure about setting it up. (especially with the new EP which I have barely gotten to play around with any since buying it.)
(I'm been redoing my gallery stuff so bear with me. FYI: I never use CC on my gallery builds. I rarely use MOO.) I am usually more pleased with my room builds than my lot builds.
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