Naoki eventually moves to the rundown farmhouse he inherited from his grandfather.
There, he'll attempt a modified version of the Stardew Cottage Living challenge created by honeybrewsims.
You can find hemlocksims' original challenge rules
here.
Notes:
*If you've played Stardew Valley before, you'll be familiar with the mechanic of submitting bundles to help the Mayor complete the town's abandoned Community Center.
*I'm considering actually building a Community Center in Finchwick (or not).
Here are the challenge rules Naoki will follow, with any of my modifications indicated in blue.
I have considerably reworded the rules, but editing of that nature will not be in blue.
The challenge itself is entirely honeybrewsims' idea. And what a brilliant idea it is!
However, the inspiration for their challenge is the addictive indie farming game, created by Concerned Ape (Eric Barone): Stardew Valley.
Create-A-SimStart with a single young adult Sim. Optionally, you can create a dog or cat for your Sim.
Naoki has started out as a teen because reasons.Starting Aspiration: The Curator
LifespanLong, with Auto-Aging disabled so we can play with Cottage Living's premade townies.
Moving InIf you’re playing with Seasons, set the Season to Spring!
Purchase the “2 Olde Mill Lane” lot in Henford-on-Bagley.
Lot ChallengesOff-the-Grid, Simple Living, Wild Foxes
The FarmhouseBuild a small one-room house It should be one main room plus a small bathroom.
(Naoki has opted for one main room plus an outhouse)
Starter Farmhouse Furnishings
*Kitchen stuff(Fridge, Stove, Sink, Counters and Cabinets: disallowed until completing House Expansion #1)A small table and one chair
Wastebasket
Pet bowl (if you’re using pets)
*Great room/BedroomA single bed, Bookcase, Cross-stitch box
*OutdoorTrash bin
(2 packs of starter vegetable seeds: unnecessary, due to starting with Tamiyo)3x In-ground garden patches
Outhouse with toilet, shower, and mirror (Tatsuya's starting with a mirror to combat hysteria*OtherWhatever lighting needed
Notes:
* If you have multiple choices for an item category (e.g., off-the-grid toilets), purchase the cheapest available option. This rule only applies for the initial set-up of your house.
*Do not change the lot terrain (no adding ponds yet).
Once you have your cabin set up, cheat your simoleons to 0.
Gameplay Rules
1. Aspirations
Naoki may work on any aspirations he wants, with a focus on:
✔️Required: The Curator, Freelance Botanist, and Country Caretaker
Optional: ✔️Angling Ace, Super Parent.
2. Do not get a job. Only make money from your land (farming, livestock, and items crafted from them; crafting (cross-stitch, knitting, woodworking, candlemaking); and foraging in the world.
3. Live on a lot that has the following three lot challenges active:
Off-the-Grid, Simple Living, Wild Foxes
4. Max out the following skills:
✔️Required: Charisma, Cooking, Cross-Stitch, Fishing, Gardening, and Handiness
Optional: Herbalism, Parenting
✔️5. Complete all the Community Center Bundles listed below to earn the associated rewards.
6. Do not upgrade your house or buy any of the Bundle Reward objects until you earn them.
Do not buy anything not listed as a bundle reward until you complete House Expansion #4.
Then you may freely buy any item, except unlocked Bundle Reward objects.
7. Keep your farming to the garden patches you have unlocked. Do not intentionally plant extra plants directly in the ground (with the exception of planting trees).
8. Max out the friendship bar with the following sims: ABANDONED
✔️The Pub Owner, ✔️Creature Keeper, ✔️Grocery Shop Owner, ✔️Grocery Deliverer, ✔️Agatha Crumplebottom, ✔️Agnes Crumplebottom, ✔️The Mayor,
✔️One other sim who lives in HoB and, lastly, ✔️one rabbit, ✔️one flock of wild birds, and ❌two foxes.
✔️9. Complete three errands for each of the following people:
The Pub Owner, Creature Keeper, Grocery Shop Owner, Grocery Deliverer, Agatha Crumplebottom, the Mayor
✔️10. Do not get married or have anyone join your household until you complete the marriage requirements described below in the “Getting Married" section.
You must also first buy a double bed, unlocked by House Expansion #2 (earned by 1st place in two unique fairs).
The Bundles
The idea behind Bundles (inspired by SDV Community Centre Bundles) is to limit the expansion of your life and farm until you’ve gained some farming experience and earned rewards. There are three rules to Bundles:
1. When required to collect items (crops, frogs, or fish) you must KEEP THEM until the bundle is complete, after which you may use them as you wish (including as fair entries or gifts).
2. You cannot buy any of the items unlocked as Bundle a Reward until you’ve completed the associated bundle.
3. You must buy any unlocked reward object using your household funds. (Don't use money cheats to get such items for free.)
✔️Frog Bundle
Collect nine unique frogs: 4 common, 4 uncommon, and 1 rare frog.
Reward: Unlocks wind turbines
✔️Fishing Bundle
Catch a trout, bass, tilapia, catfish, and a rainbow fish
Reward: Unlocks the dew collector
✔️Canning Bundle
Create the following canned goods from ingredients you grew or collected yourself.
No Grocery Shop items, except sugar. Requires a kitchen, added by House Expansion #1.
Conserves (4): Aubergine, Mushroom, Pumpkin, Watermelon
Jams (4): Blackberry, Blueberry, Raspberry, Strawberry
Other (3): Chocolate Syrup, Custard, Mayonnaise
Reward: Unlocks solar panels and the woodworking table.
✔️Spring Crops
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 20 mushrooms, 20 strawberries, 20 green peas
Reward: Unlocks one chicken coop (you may buy fencing for it)
✔️Spring Herbs
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 40 parsley
Reward: Unlocks 3 more garden patches
✔️Summer Crops
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 20 black beans, 20 tomato, 20 bell peppers
Reward: Unlocks 1 animal pen (you may buy fencing for it)
✔️Summer Herbs
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 40 basil
Reward: Unlocks 3 more garden patches
✔️Fall Crops
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 20 carrots, 20 grapes, 20 green beans
Reward: Unlocks unlimited chicken coops
✔️Fall Herbs
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 40 sage
Reward: Unlocks 3 more patches and you may now add 3 patches to your farm every season for the rest of your life.
If you need planter boxes for growing crops in the winter, you may now buy them.
✔️Winter Crops
Harvest and collect from your own garden: 30 spinach, 30 potato, and 30 onion
Reward: Unlocks unlimited animal pens
✔️Giant Crops
Harvest and collect a Large sized pumpkin, aubergine, watermelon, and lettuce head.
Reward: Unlocks an outdoor BBQ and you may build a pond on your property with a fishing sign.
Unlocks a greenhouse upon completing this and 6 other bundles: Spring Crops/Herbs, Summer Crops/Herbs, and Fall Crops/Herbs.
Fair Bundle
Win first place at all four of the weekly fairs (Chicken, Garden, Cow, Oversized Crop):
Reward: Every first-place win unlocks one of the four house expansions below.
✔️Week 4: 1st place in the Oversized Crop Fair (Perfect Lettuce, $580)
✔️Week 6: 1st place in the Chicken Fair (Onyx: Black Hen)
✔️Week 7: 1st place in the Garden Fair (Perfect Dragonfruit)
✔️Week 10: 1st place in Llama Fair (Latifah: Beige llama with rainbow wool)
✔️Week 11: 1st place in Chicken Fair (Excellent-quality Golden Egg)
The Vault
Make four cash donations of $42,500 total: $2.5k, $5k, $10k, and $25k.
Reward: Unlocks a direct bus service to Desert Bloom Park in Oasis Springs.
(Inspired by Stardew Valley's Vault bundle that unlocks bus service to The Desert)
✔️Week 4: Donated $7,500 ($2.5k and $5k).
✔️Week 6: Donated $10,000.
✔️Week 7: Donated $25,000.
House Expansions
While completing the Fair Bundle, you unlock a house expansion with each first-place win in a unique category.
You must still be able to pay for the house expansion from your household funds.
✔️House Expansion #1
Add a kitchen to the great room.If you choose, add furnishings to the great room.
You may buy decorative plants and fireplaces for the house.
✔️House Expansion #2
Add a separate bedroom with, if you wish, a double bed.
Also, if you can afford it, you may add more dining chairs and both add and upgrade kitchen items.
Buy whatever bedroom furniture you want. You may now buy rugs (moved "mirrors" to the starter farmhouse).
✔️House Expansion #3
Build a room that can serve as a nursery/child's bedroom with suitable furnishings.
Buy anything you need to raise a child (like toddler stuff).
You may now buy any item that counts as a decoration.
You may buy better-quality bathroom items and a bathtub.
✔️House Expansion #4
Buy whatever you want that isn’t locked as a Bundle Reward!
Expand your house as big as you want.
If you choose, you may now remove the Off-the-Grid lot challenge.
Getting Married
Before proposing to another sim, you must gift to your prospective spouse the following items that you personally grew, crafted, or collected from the world:
1 perfect quality crop (grown by you)
1 perfect quality Large crop (grown by you)
1 perfect quality flower (grown by you)
1 canned Mayonnaise from your own eggs
1 pie cooked by you
1 uncommon collectible
1 rare collectible
1 excellent cross stitch
Travel
Naoki will do his best to complete as many of his objectives within the HoB as possible.
However, he is allowed to travel in response to social invites and festival notifications.
He may also take vacations, provided he has the vacation days available, to Granite Falls, Selvadorada, and rentals in other towns.
Upon completing the Vault bundle, he may travel to The Desert (aka Desert Bloom Park).
