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Cottage living, wish it had...
Elisdream
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Not trying to be negative, just opening a space to hear everybody's ideas about this pack. I'm genuinely curious,
What kind of features would y'all have liked to see in game?
Here are mines :
- Baby calves ♥️ available to buy and possibly growing into an adult cow. It would have been so cute. We got baby chicks after all.
- A little bit more of variety. Geese and ducks. I'm not a fan of chickens tbh but I would have absolutely loved to see geese and ducks clumsily wandering around, and dress them in cute outfits.
-Same thing with llamas. I get that it's funny but I don't really play with them. I'd love the option to get a sheep instead for wool.
-With a friend we were fantasizing about the idea of u know baking a pie on a cute farm oven, put it on a window when ready, and some sim suspiciously walking by and steal it. 🤣😅 You know, something totally normal that would happen. Lol And what if sims could steal your family recipe for the pie contest, or ask/beg for you to share it? What if pie entries could be sabotaged...🤔 😈
🦆 🥧 🐑 💐 🏡
I'm hearing y'all ideas ♥ ♥ ♥
What kind of features would y'all have liked to see in game?
Here are mines :
- Baby calves ♥️ available to buy and possibly growing into an adult cow. It would have been so cute. We got baby chicks after all.
- A little bit more of variety. Geese and ducks. I'm not a fan of chickens tbh but I would have absolutely loved to see geese and ducks clumsily wandering around, and dress them in cute outfits.
-Same thing with llamas. I get that it's funny but I don't really play with them. I'd love the option to get a sheep instead for wool.
-With a friend we were fantasizing about the idea of u know baking a pie on a cute farm oven, put it on a window when ready, and some sim suspiciously walking by and steal it. 🤣😅 You know, something totally normal that would happen. Lol And what if sims could steal your family recipe for the pie contest, or ask/beg for you to share it? What if pie entries could be sabotaged...🤔 😈
🦆 🥧 🐑 💐 🏡
I'm hearing y'all ideas ♥ ♥ ♥
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This thread has quite a few suggestions.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/990705/the-sims-4-cottage-living-negativity-thread/p1
Awesome! Thank you! I was just more like... letting my imagination flow... 😂 I know there's a lot of threads already, sorry about that...
Fairies
Pigs
Baby Animals
Horses
Corn Seeds to grow Kernel Corns
Apple Bobbing Contest
Heyrides
Corn fields
Breeding of animals
Machinery to make Hay Bales
More recipes to use the jam like bread and jam, biscuits and jam, etc
Get lamb meat from Llamas and recipes to go with it
More things to do at the fair(like eating contests, bobbing for apples, kissing booths, haunted houses, skating depending on the seasons well like everything from sims 3 seasonal parks)
Farmer's market sort of like the flea market where you could sell goods
I wish the cow and llama sheds were not a black hole. I was looking forward to making a barn LOL
I wanted baby animals so bad lol
Chickens roaming is kina cool, but there seems to be no option to shoo them from inside the house.
I think you mean chintz.
For those who don't know what it means: It oringinated in India. Block printed floral desins on fabric. Over time it's come to mean any densly printied floral cotton, the term has also expanded into describing certain floral designs on china, and other items around the home. You can have a chintzy tea set, a chintzy sofa, chintzy curtains, chintzy carpet, and greet your guests in a chintz frock.
It's all just a little bit too much Mrs Bucket for me.
Yes, sandwiches and different things served on toast would be good. I eat sandwiches almost every lunchtime because it's the most practical option for the office. For example, cheese and pickle , cheese and marmite, tuna (no mayo please!), and there are so many variants you get in grab-and-go supermarket deals and so forth. And how about that Christmas combo, turkey with Brie and cranberry? It would be amazing if sims could create their own combos if they have a loaf of bread and the correct ingredients to hand.
I even know who you mean by 'Mrs. Bucket'. A little chintz would be nice, in moderation.
I second the vote on sheep, UK without sheep is unthinkable. And lambs, they are soooo delightful.
Afternoon tea is a must! How could they not have afternoon tea in a UK based pack?
Too much of that delightful open area is not usable in some manner. Same goes for the village, too small, and I mean places where sims can go and do things, not more fake background.
From CL, how about the ability to learn and then make traditional UK recipes?
- afternoon tea as a social activity and a working china tea set. Also option to order afternoon tea in restaurants and pubs.
- sheep, butter, tweed weaving and clothes
- football playing on the festival ground
- a dog show on the festival ground
- an antiques flea market on the festival ground
- a farmers market day, on the festival ground, when sims could go and and buy and sell vegetables and fruits, preserves and honey, cheese and baked breads.
- fairies, why bother adding a vent and a stained glass window with a butterfly/fairy wings and no fairies? Just to give false hope to occult players?
- picnic baskets to be used on the grounds, not just benches
- functional tea set. After all these years a new tea set would be welcome and it would really fit the theme
- more canning recipes
- multiple cows or lama's in one shed, like the chickens and two or three different looking sheds,one of them perhaps even looking a bit more modern
- a way to produce flour and sugar ourselves. Wheat to be planted on a garden plot and then grinded to flour or sent off to a rabbit hole mill by post. Similar thing with sugar beets to get sugar.
YES!!! I don't even bother with the picnics because they keep popping off the benches and don't even sit and eat together really. It was poorly executed in my opinion.
The world is also way to small I end up not even using it such a disappointment.
I agree, I think the idea of a Cottage village with foxes and bunnies wandering around is cute enough for its own pack - maybe a fairy themed pack inspired on the UK- but they used it instated for not having to work big on a farm inspired pack, and just give us a few animals-objects with that excuse.
Other things I wish CL had was canning other produce besides just making jams/conserves. I'd love it if our Sims could can veggies/fruits to use in recipes. I know they can use the jams/conserves in recipes, but to me, that's not really 'canning' that's making jams and jellies. I'm talking about canning things such as green beans, tomatoes, peaches, pears, etc. Should've added a few other harvestables too, for instance, what's a farm without sweet corn? Would've loved peach trees and rhubarb too. Ever had a strawberry/rhubarb pie? Delicious!
One last thing that some might find a bit gross, but they missed the boat not adding 'cowpies' in the barnyard for our Sims to step in. Everyone talks about more realism, now that would be very realistic! They already can step in dog poo, so why not eh?
Happy Simming!
What you want is an American style ranch/farm. Choosing to do a different type of Cottage farm not based in the good old USA isn’t being lazy. It’s that diversity simmers also claim they want. We complain about the game being too American in one breath, then complain that it’s not American enough in the other. The easy way out would be to give us yet another FarmVille plant/harvest/wash/rinse/repeat pack. Instead they decided to go with a totally different storybook cottage farm vibe. I personally would not have bought the Old McDonald pack, but I bought Cottage Living precisely because it was a different type of countryside depiction.
Tales From The Myst
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pack, preferably including horses.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason horses weren’t in CoL was to keep them in reserve for an equestrian pack of some kind.
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In addition, I would have liked a scheduled tea time and I also really wanted the ability to create a petting zoo for community lots so Sims could visit with the fam and feed goats and pat llamas and have pony rides for the kids and toddlers.
They've been hinting at an Equestrian Pack since long. I actually think it's already in development, but will take 2 or 3 years from start to finish.
Same here. Yes, llamas are the signature animals of TS4, but they look so out of place in any world that isn't Oasis Springs or Selvadorada, and you can't even live in the latter. I have the royal family from Frozen in my game, with a llama as the reindeer Sven because I really didn't want to make him a cow, and that's also the reason my versions of Anna and Elsa enjoy knitting and stitching, respectively, but other families who want to do that just have to buy the wool instead of producing their own.
Also, it would be nice to have more barn models than just the one we got. Not that I don't like it, but like the llama, it doesn't fit in everywhere. Again with my Frozen family, they live in one of the premade Yukimatsu homes, there's Japanese architecture all around them, but then the barn looks the way it does, and it's weird. Granted, I've never been to a real Japanese farm and don't know what they look like, but I would appreciate matching styles.
Last but not least, I wish there was an easier and more reliable way to get the recipes for golden and midnight treats than participating in every fair there is, taking first place and hoping the reward will be worth it, not just something you already have, like the strawberry milk I won recently.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
Fae would be an amazing addition to the game.