Inherited Manor Challenge 2023 - a Sims 4 Gameplay and Build challenge for anyone who loves games like Homescapes and Lily's Garden
TW: fire, murder
Lucky Montresim took his name a little too literally on a recent Batuu vacation and found himself in serious gambling debt. In an effort to pay off the debts quickly and avoid being taken by a bounty hunter, he decided to list the family manor. The housing market took a downturn and the house didn’t sell. Driven insane by the stress of looking over his shoulder every minute and now the failed sale of his home, he turned his rage towards his neighbors and invited them over for one last dinner party. Surely their antics had resulted in the property values tanking and left him in this mess! Poor quality Pufferfish Nigiri was only the first course of punishment for the failed home sale: his “friends” found themselves locked in various rooms, lit up by fireworks, electrocuted, and even the subject of voodoo. Lucky burned as much of the evidence as possible, but it seems he either left or was taken before the manor burned completely. Once the news hit the family, they drew straws and decided you were the one who had to deal with the mess. You’ve always been the black sheep of the family, so while you are pretty sure the draw was rigged, you’re not mad about this fresh start. You have $1000, the photos from the real estate listing, and a heck of a lot of ghosts to deal with.
Content order:
Maps
Gameplay
Rooms
Links
I will make a separate post with FAQs because otherwise this will be entirely too long.
MAPS
GAMEPLAY
If you have all of the required packs, I recommend using the save file for the full experience:
Cottage Living
Island Living
Get Together
Laundry Day
Get to Work
Discover University
Tiny Living
Parenthood
City Living
Cats and Dogs
Seasons
If any of these packs are not in your game, it will affect the save file. There is also a gallery download available which has been adjusted accordingly; burned items have been removed, etc.
Start as a single Young Adult sim. Gender, lifespan, aging, neighborhood stories, season length, and weather effects can be set to whatever you want to play with. There is no time limit.
If playing with the save file:
Load the game from the Load Game menu, not Resume
Select the lot and move in a new household
Create or place your Sim in CAS
If playing with the gallery download:
Select the save file you want to play in, whether new or existing
Place the lot ‘Inherited manor 2023’ on a 64x64 lot. I used the mainland lot in Windenberg.
Once the lot is ready:
Create or locate your Sim
Use ‘freerealestate on’ to move onto the lot
Use ‘testingcheats on’ and ‘money 1000’ to set your starting funds.
The main objective is to restore the manor one room at a time by cleaning, fixing, and refurnishing each room to reach the target Simoleon amount. Some rooms contain ghosts, some are more damaged than others, some require specific items (read as at least, not at most), and all those things are listed below and available in the ‘Listing Photos’ your Sim has access to to help with the challenge. These listing photos are below with each room requirement.
The listing photos are merely suggestions: you can redecorate however you like, so long as the requirements are met! And once the challenge is complete of course you can do whatever you like with the lot.
Lot traits and challenges are allowed.
No selling landscaping or furniture from finished rooms to make a quick buck!
You can earn money any way in the game, but no cheats for money! Get a job, kidnap the neighbors, even marry Father Winter, but once the game has started you shouldn’t be opening the cheat bar for money anymore (aside from the ghosts).
Mods are permitted but if you want to keep the bragging rights of completing the challenge, please keep them in the spirit of the challenge: no hundred thousand dollar child support payments, living on multiple lots, etc.
Marriage, kids, etc are all allowed BUT spouses and kids must live on the lot with you until Young Adulthood.
When you reach the Living Room, you will also have to start a graveyard. This is the only time you’re allowed to sell some landscaping; if you need to rearrange or make space for the headstones.
When you finish a room with an urn, place it in the graveyard. You may either release the ghost and receive a gift from the afterlife ($1000 through the rosebud cheat) OR add the ghost to your family to put them to work. You may not simply leave the ghost wandering as you found it. The poor souls have been through enough: give them rest or a family.
If playing with the gallery download, you can add a ghost to your family by doing the following:
Open your cheat bar and type ‘testingcheats on’ and ‘cas.fulleditmode’
Shift-click your Sim and select “modify in CAS”
Use the “add Sim from gallery” option to add the ghost to the family
You can find all of the manor ghosts in the gallery under “[ghost name] IMC2023”. For example, when you complete the laundry room, you can add Eliza Pancakes by finding “Eliza Pancakes IMC2023” on the gallery. They have been calibrated to not affect household funds, but if that bugs out (I know, this game? Have issues?) either work it into your story or use ‘money xxxx’ to set your funds to what they were before adding the ghost.
You may revive and/or marry the ghosts, but not with cheats.
Bills will be about $16-18k/wk assuming you don’t have any lot or character traits to modify it (those are allowed). If the repo man takes anything from a room you have already finished, you must replace it before you continue.
If an item breaks in a room you have already completed, you must repair or replace it before continuing.
To check the value of the Room, go into build mode and select the Room. Some Rooms are made of multiple rooms: for example, the carriage house is three rooms on the main floor and one room on the second. Add all the individual rooms together to get the total for the Room by selecting each space, selecting “save room” (no need to actually save it of course), and adding the totals and checking them against the Target Amount listed below. This price will include walls and windows, so it’s less than you think. No need to grab top notch appliances for the Carriage House just to hit the goal!
Gallery players: because you do not have the smoke and fire damage, you must keep the ‘Filthy’ lot trait enabled until the last room is completed (assuming you have City Living). You can also enable and keep Gremlins if you want to replicate the ghostly chaos other players are experiencing, or add some ghosts of your own, or take the advantage.
Optional gameplay if this isn’t enough of a challenge:
Double the Simoleon requirement for each room. As it stands you pretty much just need to replace everything to reach the goal but if you want to be forced to decorate more, double the amount you need to hit before you can move on.
Enable all your lot challenges and remove one at a time at random as you complete rooms. You may choose to NOT remove the randomly selected lot trait (ie, keep Off the Grid if the bills are too much already) BUT you must complete another room before rolling again. One room, one roll, take it or leave it. Gallery players must keep ‘Filthy’ until the end.
Change the lot type to Haunted House.
Revive Paolo Rocca and Jade Rosa and return them to the Partihaus household.
In the end, I want you to enjoy this challenge. If it becomes too frustrating to play, take a deep breath, gift yourself a little cash, and keep redecorating and saving those ghosts!
Huge special thanks to my amazing playtesters:
Alasmina
daleksndemons
Jellyfluff131
katie.dickman
otherlaine
ROOMS
1: Carriage House
Target amount: $10,000
Ghost: none
Must include: full kitchen, bath, and bedroom with dresser/wardrobe
2: Entry Hall (three levels, but the second level doesn’t register as a separate room in build mode because reasons)
Target amount: $25,000
Ghost: none
Must include: one skill or activity item, one art piece $2,000+, two matching art pieces over the door (where the knights are)
3: Living Room
Target amount: $15,000
Ghost: Ulrike Faust
Must include: seating for five, fireplace, one skill or activity item
4: Laundry Room
Target amount: $10,000
Ghost: Eliza Pancakes
Must include: full bath and laundry. If no Laundry Day, plus one skill item
5: Kitchen
Target amount: $17,000
Ghost: Gunther Munch
Must include: full kitchen, plus one skill or activity item
6: Dining Room
Target amount: $15,000
Ghost: Julia Wright
Must include: seating for 8, fireplace, three pieces of art
7: Game Room
Target amount: $20,000
Ghost: none
Must include: three games or activities, one skill item, seating for three aside from any game tables
8: Library (two levels)
Target amount: $23,000
Ghost: Reuben Vu
Must include: desk, four bookshelves, fully stocked fish tank (or three fishbowls if you don’t have cats and dogs)
9: Conservatory (two levels: includes small balconies)
Target amount: $20,000
Ghost: none
Must include: two planters, fountain, seating for five, chess table, eight plants
10: Ballroom (two levels)
Target amount: $46,000
Ghost: Paolo Rocca
Must include: piano, guitar, bar, mic, seating for eight; dance floor and DJ booth or the Landlord Whisperer if you don’t have Get Together.
11: Pink Bedroom
Target amount: $13,000
Ghost: Bob Pancakes
Must include: sleeping space for two, desk/table, dresser, two skill or activity items
12: Blue Bedroom
Target amount: $10,000
Ghost: none
Must include: sleeping space for one, dresser, two skill or activity items
13: Family Bath
Target amount: $7,000
Ghost: Jade Rosa
Must include: full bath, two sinks
14: Main Bedroom
Target amount: $30,000
Ghost: Penny Pizzazz
Must include: full size bed, seating for two, full bath, two dressers, one skill or activity item
15: Gym
Target amount: $15,000
Ghost: Summer Holiday
Must include: treadmill, weight machine, punching bag, stereo, large mirror
16: Orange Apartment
Target amount: $20,000
Ghost: Rosemary Briscoe
Must include: full kitchen, full bath, sleeping space for two sims, dresser, fireplace, seating for five, desk
17: Green Apartment
Target amount: $15,000
Ghost: none
Must include: sleeping space for two, full kitchen and bath, dresser, desk, two pieces of art
18: Yellow Apartment
Target amount: $30,000
Ghost: none
Must include: sleeping space for two, full bath, full kitchen, dining for four, bar, additional seating for two, one additional skill or activity item
19: Back Deck, halls, and small bathroom
Target amount: $30,000
Ghost: Johnny Zest
Must include: half bath, grill, three planters, DJ booth or stereo, bar, seating for 12
LINKS
To place the save file, use this link and download the file.
Go to Documents > Electronic Arts > Sims 4 > Saves. BEFORE SAVING MAKE SURE THE FILE NAME DOES NOT MATCH ANY EXISTING FILES. You can now load this save when you open your game just like any other saved game you have created. This is not available for console players and I am also very sad about it.
To download from the gallery:
Lot title: Inherited Manor 2023
Ghosts: [ghost name] IMC2023
Gallery ID: sahmandbean
Gallery hashtag: IMC2023
This is a link to the FAQs post here on Tumblr
This is a link to the Reddit post
This is a link to a video guide to help you get started, if you're interested
This is a link to the official Inherited Manor Challenge Discord Server
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BETTER IN-GAME LIGHTING MOD
✩ Do not: re-upload my CC, claim my CC as your own, use as a base/part for your CC!
I have always been very upset because the lighting of the game spoils the appearance of my characters, which I create for hours in CAS. With these thoughts in mind I started working on this mod. And now my characters can look the same in the game and in CAS with this mod.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
default in-game lighting mod for The Sims 4;
base game compatible;
completely redesigned outdoor and indoor lighting;
brighter and cleaner lighting everywhere at any time of the day and weather;
the brightness of the lighting varies depending on the time of day and weather, but it’s always “clean”;
conflicts with mods that affect in-game lighting, you can only install one such mod in your game!
FILE TYPES (install only one version!)
BRIGHT PALE - bright pale lighting;
BRIGHT BASE - bright base lighting;
BRIGHT SATURATED - bright saturated lighting;
AVERAGE PALE - average pale lighting;
AVERAGE BASE - average base lighting;
AVERAGE SATURATED - average saturated lighting;
DARK PALE - dark pale lighting;
DARK BASE - dark base lighting;
DARK SATURATED - dark saturated lighting;
I advise you to install the AVERAGE BASE version first and try others based on your impressions of it.
For example, if the light seemed too bright to you, then you should download the DARK version. Or if the light didn’t seem bright enough to you, then you should download the BRIGHT version. And also with saturation gradation: if the BASE version seemed too dim to you, you should download the SATURATED version and vice versa.
MORE INFO AND DOWNLOAD (EA)
Thank you a lot for all your support 💘!
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fatfruitychic 🌈
a colorful lookbook stylized for fat sims 😇
tysm to all the cc creators <3 i was heavily inspired @mycatzfave, b3v.ie on insta, and la’shaunae’s clothing collab with tunnel vision! not gonna sugarcoat this but unfortunately there will be some clipping and weight limits because ya know…art imitates life. hopefully, fat fashion gets wayyyy better both irl and in the sims SOON. cc links below ⬇️ tsr, mega, simsdom warnings **
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🍒 sweet cherry cola (naomi) ~ a) cherry earrings** b) bella top c) low waist skirt d) maverick platforms
extras: kim hair, butterfly necklace, dragon claws, butterfly chain belt, whale tail, butterfly anklet
🍊 tangerine dreams (khadijah) ~ a) goldfish earrings b) keek top c) jada tote bag d) bitter end bottoms
extras: sandals, honey locs
🍯 metallic honey (monét) ~ a) nihilist blue top and gloves b) layla skirt c) mynx tights d) mei buckle boots
extras: alannah hair, choker, leg garter spikes
🥝 neon kiwi kisses (zahara) ~ a) chaewon fishnet gloves b) funhouse halter top c) juice jeans
extras: daija dreads
🌠 baby blue estrellita (yeonji) ~ a) headphones b) just dance top c) star maxi d) lara slides
extras: hystrix hair, ebano eyeliner
💟 amethyst passion (xolani) ~ a) jules gloves b) converse top c) baggy sweats d) platform shoes
extras: amaya hair, flashback eyeliner
💕 bubblegum heaven (nylah)~ a) alex earrings b) tye dye butterfly top c) material girl thong d) soho maxi skirt e) sun & moon accessory top
extras: vintage headphones, chunky sandals**, glumbut braids, 90s resin rings
🖤 midnight rose (mimi) ~ a) sunglasses b) fishnet top** c) long low waist skirt d) platform sandals
extras: sasha hair**, waist beads, tramp stamp, 90s nails
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