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"Stardew Valley" Inspired Harvest Moon Challenge!
caralina1324
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Harvest Moon Challenge
Hello, Farmer! Inspired by the Harvest Moon series and Stardew Valley, I have created a challenge for you. The point of this challenge is to start off with nothing other than a little bit of dirt and a few seeds, and then build up your farm and lifestyle from the ground up along with improving your neighborhood and making connections. I thought about this challenge myself since I really like working for what I have in the game.Rules
- You cannot use cheats unless you need to move objects, reset your sim, or take away funds.
- You cannot build a kitchen, decorate, start a business or get married until you pay back your loan of 4500, and an additional 500 for taxes for a total of 5000 in fines (which you must delete to simulate paying the fine).
- Traits don’t matter, you can randomize to make things more difficult.
- Your lifetime wish must be under the Nature or Cooking, or Pet related category.
- You can only build a garden if you have at least 10 plants on your lot.
- Each time you travel to any other lot, you must subtract five or ten simoleons. (optional)
- You CANNOT get a job. You must work all on your own.
- You are allowed to use custom content as long as there's no cheating involved.
Main Goals (Non-Optional)
- You must own at least one successful shop, vet center or restaurant. You can use items you made, found, scavenged, or grew, as long as you worked to get it.
- You must get married and have at least one child to take on the legacy before you pass.
- You must fulfill at least one-lifetime wish under the Nature category during the sims lifetime.
- Earn at least 25,000 or 50,000 on your own. Your choice.
Additional Challenges (Optional) - You must volunteer at least once every three days
- You must write at least one book
- You must befriend everyone in the neighborhood.
- Improve your entire town to make everyone happier.
- Be an amazing parent.
Mandatory Steps:
- Create a YA sim. It doesn’t matter what gender.
- Create townies and at least 3 bachelors and 3 bachelorettes. Make sure they have homes to live in.
- Move to Newcrest and pick any lot you desire. The biggest lot would be the most appropriate.
- Whatever money you have left after picking a lot, delete it and reset it so that you have 4500 simoleons. These simoleons will be used to build the shell of your home (which must be either 5x5 or 6x6) and paint along with a single bed, a bathtub/shower, and a toilet. If you have extra you can only purchase either a nightstand, bookcase or bonfire but ONLY ONE of those things.
- After that, reset funds so that you have 300 simoleons these simoleons will go towards to your starter crops. You can use this to buy seeds or planter boxes.
- In Harvest Moon games you must introduce yourself to everyone that lives there, but you don't need to be their friend if you don't want to.
Business - You cannot build a business/vet center and purchase the land until you have a kitchen on your home lot and enough money for it.
- You must only sell items you found, scavenged, or grew for retail.
- If you’re making a restaurant, you must have at least a level three in cooking skill before opening along with the things required to be considered a restaurant.
Marriage
- You need to pay back your loan and taxes before you marry someone.
- You must marry someone in Newcrest.
- The person you like must have their own starter home.
- You must have talked to them at least once a day for at least five days before asking them out. If they accept them you must be dating them for at least ten in game days before you can ask them to marry you.
- You need to have at least one double bed, a kitchen, and a starter business along with at least 2500 in extra funds.
- You must have a wedding to celebrate.
Children
- You cannot have a child until you have a nursery and space for them.
Tips
- You can remove/set funds by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C to gain access to the cheat bar, type in testingcheats on and then hit enter. Open the cheat bar again and enter money 0 or whatever you need to set the funds to and hit enter again, this will take away/set your funds.
- At the beginning when you don’t have a kitchen, you can still survive by eating your own goods, scavenging, and cooking with a bonfire if you have one.
- You can volunteer to feel more in tune with the neighborhood.Alright, I don't know if this is fleshed out enough but that’s all I can think of right now for this challenge. I play tested it a bit so you have anymore ideas let me know. I feel like a similar idea has been done, but this is my own little twist so I hope you enjoy it.
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Comments
Also, can we build whatever we want for the bachelor and bachelorette homes? Or just what they have in starter funds? Also, can we build up Newcrest, so it looks like a town or do we do like the Build Newcrest challenge and have to unlock things as we go?
One question I had was how do we go about repaying the loan???
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
You can build whatever you want for the Newcrest bachelors and bachelorettes, as it is your town and your backstory, the characters you make and the places you build are up to you. Usually, in an HM game, everything is all broken down and they expect you to fix it, so if you want to play that way I would recommend every house they live in to be built with starter funds and you can slowly build onto it for the story.
I didn't really think too much about where the money would go since don't have banks or anything. Once you make five thousand dollars I just figured you could delete the funds once you reach the amount to simulate paying the loan. I forgot to mention paying bills could also go towards that fund so it's not like a side fine your getting from the game
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
Likely yes, since pets and animals play a large role in harvest moon games. The pets they will be adding will determine how much the rules change though. If it's just cats and dogs then it shouldn't change much, but if horses and other animals are added then the rules will definitely change a little more.
I haven't looked at them in forever, so I don't know how much left I have to do, but hopefully I'll get it uploaded tonight.
I'm definitely putting this on my to do list (maybe wait till cats and dogs come out. It just feels "right" with a pet.)
I'm going to hopefully write a sim-lit on it too! Once I get everything set up eventually lol
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
That's so cool, I'd love to see it when you do! I haven't started the challenge yet myself other than creating a backstory but I'm going to create a tag and track it on tumblr to see everyone post! I'm definitely going to add sim-lit myself since I'm a story driven player.
Stardew Valley was amazing and there's so much content that I haven't even finished it all yet.
I'd like to see that when you do upload it! Harvest moon games were so amazing it sucks that not many of the people I know really know or care for it. It's just relaxing
Yeah, I'm excited for Pets to come out. With that pack, I can add an animal element to the challenge. It's only cats and dogs though so I;m a little sad about it, but the rules will be updated. When you start the challenge let me know! I definitely want to see it
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
That's neat, I always do females so it's interesting to see someone have a different approach. I can't wait to start it. The main focus I'm putting into my world is unity and loyalty between everyone in the town, and Celia Rose, the lovely sim I have created specifically for this challenge, I am excited to share her soon. I have some idea of what I want to do with her but I also want her to surprise me in game.
I finally finished building up the town and Celia's house. It actually looks better than expected, but it's so small compared to the giant landmass it's on.
Oh geez, I'm sorry! I had my hands full packing for my vacation, and then it slipped my mind until now! I have some other Sims business to attend to (namely, my woefully neglected lit