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Farming expansion pack Ideas
FreezerBunnyCowplant
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Raise farm animals
you can raise, breed and care for various types of livestock. Buy a barn or coop in buy mode and purchase livestock.
These farm animals create produce (like milk) that can be stored in your inventory and used in food or simply sold.
Cows
Chickens
Sheep
Pigs
Butter churn
Use cow milk or cowplant milk to make various dairy products using the dairy churn! From butter to yoghurt to cheese!
Canning
Craft jam/marmelade, pickles and other canned delicacies like canned eggs! Use various resources from your farm to craft them, like fruits, vegetables and eggs.
Perfume distillery
Use flowers, herbs and fruits grown on your farm to craft various bottles of perfume. Perfume can be sprayed on yourself or other Sims and give certain buffs to them, like making them irresitable for romance interactions.
Treehouses
Bring back interactable treehouses from Sims 3! An object for the whole family! Children can play in it and have sleepovers. For adult and teen Sims, treehouses are a new WooHoo spot!
Haystacks
A new WooHoo spot from Sims 3 Pets! You can WooHoo in piles of hay and afterwards your Sims leave a trail of hay when walking around, like the scarecrow from Sims 4 Seasons does. Horses can eat from them.
https://youtu.be/nCogCaG7EF0
Tractor
Ride around the countryside on a tractor! You could also fix up the old broken tractor in your uncles‘ barn if you have high enough Handiness skill. Children can take a hayride around town.
Horses
you can raise, breed and care for various types of livestock. Buy a barn or coop in buy mode and purchase livestock.
These farm animals create produce (like milk) that can be stored in your inventory and used in food or simply sold.
Cows
Chickens
Sheep
Pigs
Butter churn
Use cow milk or cowplant milk to make various dairy products using the dairy churn! From butter to yoghurt to cheese!
Canning
Craft jam/marmelade, pickles and other canned delicacies like canned eggs! Use various resources from your farm to craft them, like fruits, vegetables and eggs.
Perfume distillery
Use flowers, herbs and fruits grown on your farm to craft various bottles of perfume. Perfume can be sprayed on yourself or other Sims and give certain buffs to them, like making them irresitable for romance interactions.
Treehouses
Bring back interactable treehouses from Sims 3! An object for the whole family! Children can play in it and have sleepovers. For adult and teen Sims, treehouses are a new WooHoo spot!
Haystacks
A new WooHoo spot from Sims 3 Pets! You can WooHoo in piles of hay and afterwards your Sims leave a trail of hay when walking around, like the scarecrow from Sims 4 Seasons does. Horses can eat from them.
https://youtu.be/nCogCaG7EF0Tractor
Ride around the countryside on a tractor! You could also fix up the old broken tractor in your uncles‘ barn if you have high enough Handiness skill. Children can take a hayride around town.
Horses
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Nectar making should have two options. Good ol' stomping method(make sure you wash your feet first) or a decent sized berry squeezing nectar machine.
A new wood working table so you can make creates and barrels to put your vegs, fruits and nectar in.
I have no idea what you mean. My gardening works just fine.
Raising farm animals is not so appealing to me but it sounds okay. Maybe pairing it with a town fair where you have animals compete over best bredding could be cool.
Petting zoos, or family farming vacations. Visit the farm, pet and feed the animals, then leave. But still having the option to run a farm if thats what you are in to.
Hay rides, barrel trains, corn mazes
Expanding fruit picking to make it a family event like going to an apple orchard to pick apples. Expanded recipes using harvestables.
I love the idea of making butters, jellies, etc.
Can we add beer? Like making craft brews.
Horseback riding!!!!! I love this idea.
Having a town square with various weekly pop ups such as pop up fruit stands, crafting classes, community events, and a weekly farmers market.
The canning object from the Store could be expanded upon; to make it worth while the labour and use of ingredients there should be some unique loot from it, like maybe being a preferred food intake for sims with a farmer lifestyle.
Traits like loves outdoors would suit the world, and the outdoorsy lifestyle.
Teens should definitely be allowed to woohoo in a haystack - call it a bug and never fix it!
I think the animals should be limited to the lot they are actively placed on by the player; no more TS3 horse horror, world completely overrun.
Such a great thread!
Well, they aren’t going to make teen woohoo, but maybe they could fool around in the haystack.
#1. Horses should come in their own pack to be fully fleshed out, not shoved into another pack where they will have fewer features.
#2. I'm not sure how perfume fits into farming so I'd rather replace that with something like making moonshine.
#3. I'd also like to add goats, geese and rabbits to the farm animal list.
That fizzy thing, which I hope is not supposed to replace any future wine making equipment, is not what I want for moonshine either. I want it to be stuff that your sim has to collect and build. Then, if found by Johnny Law, your sim could be arrested. I also want it to have the proper affect on my sims from drinking too much shine. Dizziness and maybe passing out or even gettin' necked and running around like a crazy person.
World: Tuscany, Italy
One 64x64 (or Bigger if possible) Hilltop Lot
Two 50x50 & Two 40x40 Lots Surrounding the 64x64 Lot
Life States: Pigs, Cows, Chickens Horses
New Profitable Hobbies
Wine & Beer Crafting, from building your own Vineyard and/or Orchard, to mass harvesting, Grapes and Grain, experiment with other fruits to make great nectar. Name, your craft, Chose the bottle, Store it in Barrels, in your Cellar! or sell it to/serve it in your restaurants
Objects:
Grape/Wine Press - requires at least 40 Grapes to Make 1 Bottle
Distillery
Storage Barrels/Kegs
New Seeds:
Wheat (I just want to grow and design a wheat/corn maze!)
Corn
Cocoa
Sugar
Pumpkin
New Holiday Traditions/Interactions/Challenges
Challenge Sim to a (Pie) Eating Contest
Challenge Sim to a Chugging Contest
Wine Tasting
Baking Contests
And Who do I need to talk to about New Spells for SpellCasters to be able to create a Spell to Turn other sims In to Animals. Cats, Dogs, Rodents, Pigs, Cows. I have a Mystery chapter in my story where my Youngest sim turns his whole family into Farm Animals, so he can inherit the Chateau, and the Farm.
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I want the wheat field as well, I think it would look very beautiful.
Im getting really bored of the same old stuff.. feels like recently its all lacked a bit of depth. Sims needs something like this that's completely fresh and new!
The Sims 4 has never had any depth from the very start. That's why they're trying out adding Sentiments and Lifestyles. There's plenty of things to do, but none of it means anything to our sims or makes any real difference in their lives when it's all said and done. This isn't a Life Simulation game, it's a cartoon puppet show. Go here, do that, react this way, feel this for two minutes then go back to neutral. We're just pulling strings on lifeless characters.
Loved that analogy! But it is soooo true for this itereation!
Holy wow! This mod would be almost perfect for what I'm wanting in TS4 (besides the ability to ride and train horses).
They move around the lot much like in our original TS1 Mabel the Chicken version, but these TS2 versions have many more features that we're sure you'll really enjoy!
To start, just buy some animals and food.
In addition, a large amount of statistical information is available right at your fingertips to help better manage your farm, stable, etc.
Stats such as:
Animals Available to Download
I'm so tempted to download this and fire up TS2 to get my farming needs met!
For anybody who concurrently plays TS2 along with TS4 and are interested in this mod, you can find it here:
http://www.simslice.com/thesims2/ts2objects-pg7.htm
I'd imagine it would work Like a Retail/Restaurant/Vet Clinic with some modifications where Sims can purchase Lots and convert them into a "Farm" type venue. Then, you can Move Sims, Pets/farm animals to their respective enclosures.
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