In this The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits cross-pack ideas guide we will be going over cross-pack ideas, because we all love well thought out playability between all the packs we now have and the latest one being released.

A new big part of this pack is the formative moments and their cross-pack features which is something we will be skipping over in this article as that is all covered in the guide here.

The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits is mainly focused on getaways and outdoor activities, and it introduces new activities like papercrafts, archery, and diving. That being said, although part of the focus is on those aspects of the game, with a little thought, imagination and some gallery hunting, you can make good use of the cross-pack ideas that EA have put out there, plus what we have in store for you and you could have a whole host of adventures in your Sims future.

With all that out of the way lets dive into The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits Cross-Pack ideas and the fun things EA had to share as well as what we have seen from the community.

What we know already – The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits Cross-pack ideas from EA

When The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits launched, EA pointed out some of the great cross-pack ideas that would be coming with the new pack (see the image below). Mainly focused on getaways and camps they also offered ideas such as corporate retreats and a much anticipated idea for child care. Though, through some testing, the community and ourselves found that the dog training cross pack feature doesn’t work as well as one would hope… much like not being able to ride the horses as part of a getaway schedule. The cross-pack ideas mentioned below are a great starting point to get those creative minds going but we have a few more ideas and possibilities hiding up our sleeves.

Cross-Pack Ideas – Gameplay with Multi-Packs

With the amount of packs we now have, we would hope for great cross-pack compatibility and in my opinion this is a good one. From competitions to getaways, camps and retreats, custom venues have us covered when it comes to letting our imaginations run wild.

One such idea that we have seen floating around is the idea of a petting zoo or animal farm. Moving away from the very popular idea of a horse camp, we look at bringing both The Sims 4: Horse Ranch and The Sims 4: Cottage Living together to host a day or a full getaway that revolves around caring for animals and live stock. Cottage Living brings with it chickens, cows, llamas, wild rabbits and wild birds where Horse Ranch brings not only horses but mini goats and sheep, all of which our Sims can interact with and care for.

A petting zoo/animal farm is a great idea for an outing with the family to get your young ones involved in caring for animals, plus who doesn’t love a cute green sheep to interact with on a sunny day. Nothing like building our child Sims up from a young age with a skill and trait they will love and nurture into their young adult lives, maybe one day owning a petting zoo just like this of their own.

Club gatherings from The Sims 4: Get Together can be started while at a custom venue (keep in mind they cannot be started on a getaway), but what a fun way to have your book club meet up at a specific venue for some quiet reading, catch ups and a warm drink.

How about somewhere for your cheerleading squad to gather after school and practice your latest routine, or somewhere to throw a football with the team using The Sims 4: High School Years. Even a specific spot to dream big on a basketball court with The Sims 4: City Living… how about all of the above in one space? Clubs and Small Businesses can also have the new activities and skills added to them such as free weights, diving and archery.

We have also seen that getaways can be scheduled on the High School Years lot, which makes after school activities even better with chess club or computer club being able to gather right there on the school grounds. There are some great builds on the gallery that incorporate all kinds of skill building and gym equipment in them already to really make this work in your favor.

Plumeria in the Sims Community has built an entire Sports Academy Getaway for the fitness Sims among us. From soccer and football, diving and archery to spin bikes and yoga, this is a very sporty lot perfect to get that fitness skill up.

We have a few packs that have brought with them occult Sims. The Sims 4: Enchanted by Nature, Werewolves, Vampires, Island Living, Get To Work and Realm of Magic. Occult Sims have unique skills, ranks and abilities that they can perform specific to them, like casting spells or drinking plasma. The occults that those packs bring are fairies, werewolves, vampires, mermaids, aliens and spell casters.

With occult Sims in mind you could re-create one of the many popular vampire movies/series that have been around for the past few years, such as Twilight or The Vampire Diaries. Want to mix a bunch together and take some inspiration from Legacies? One big venue with every occult we have trying to get along and not destroy themselves or each other along the way sounds like it could be a lot of fun!

Chaos could ensue or you could have a peaceful lot with multiple occults all co-existing merrily together. Maybe they each have their own wing or floor of the build you create and a common area when they need some joint socializing. Why not create your own custom venues with specific schedules around the particular occult type you have built for, each with their own roles and activities they do in specific time slots. The possibilities seem endless.

Focusing on vampires? A Vampire academy where they can learn all about vampire lore, learn about plasma fruit, growing it (tend and harvest garden), and drinking it (drink plasma), even using vampire powers could be a fun route to take. Your schedule can be solely nocturnal so your vampires sleep all day to avoid the sun.

What about an exclusive witches coven where practicing casting spells, using the cauldron, and improving your magic rank are all in a fun filled scheduled day at a specially built witches abode. These ideas can be applied and adjusted for each occult like a mermaid’s cove, a werewolf den or full moon camp where they can hone their abilities or even a fairy forest. And for those more fun and out there ideas what about an alien spaceship for all your aliens to hangout in. A home away from home!

Keep in mind our dear sweet mermaids seem to have been left off the activities list again so nothing out of the ordinary for them in this pack, no mermaid calls or special abilities have been added so with a mermaids cove you would have to really use your imagination and let your storytelling do the work.

Think of all the possible skills and skill items we have available to us in the game… now think of a camp or retreat that is solely focused on that skill. Archery camp, knitting retreat, even your own take on a chess tournament with elimination rounds using the new The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits system, just like The Queen’s Gambit.

On the note of existing competitions out there what about following a similar idea to The Voice, or America’s Got Talent. With a competition setup you can have your sims compete in dancing with The Sims 4: Get Together, acting with Get Famous, and singing with City Living. Along the way you can setup the elimination element of Adventure Awaits and see who the last Sim standing is!

Another fun idea would be getting your creativity skill up at an art retreat, there are so many different ways to gain creativity that your lot can be buzzing with life, cluttered with all the creative and artsy things plus a full schedule jumping from one activity to the next, but remember to include some free time or down time – we all need a break now and then.

With skills based custom venues/getaways you can bring your club along or send your Sim alone on a skill specific adventure. See the vision yet? The possibilities are almost endless when you pair a skill with a getaway/custom venue and when you pair more than one skill/activity with all of that you can get a magical combination limited only by your imagination.

Thought about playing some of the community challenges? James Turner recently did a short prison challenge during The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits early access based off his original challenge from 2014. He has also just started a new one that looks to be an ongoing series around the prison challenge using custom venues and a scheduling system (October 2025).

The Sims 4 Asylum challenge could work now with schedules and roles as well as other Sims spawning in to take up the other patients slots – just remember to lock all the doors! With the Not So Berry Challenge you could make an athletics camp, science camp, and so much more because each generation has skills needed that could be turned into a camp/getaway or custom venue. Remember the Evil Villain’s Social Hideaway from the gameplay trailer? Orange gen could use something like that! The ideas really are almost endless.

You could make your own geek con filled with games and set specific outfits for sims to wear like costumes from different packs. You could build a space camp with chemistry tables, chess tables, and telescopes – even the giant observatory and rocket would fit well at a venue rather than your Sims house. And if you are more game focused there is always making a military style bootcamp for your Sim to attend before joining the military career that came with The Sims 4: Strangerville.

Before we flood you with too many ideas and inspiration we wanted to end off this section with the idea of a festival, and not just a food festival but a full blown all day, all weekend long festival. This would include food stalls from various packs like The Sims 4: City Living, and live performances on a stage where performing sims can sing or play instruments.

Sims can then dance and drink and enjoy all the entertainment on offer. You could even have different stages with different acts – one performing comedy, one doing a musical set and even a DJ booth. The options with this one can get as wild as you like and as fun as you like, using as many packs as you like!

Cross-Pack Ideas – Gameplay with Single Packs

As seen so far the options are as endless as your imagination could allow, and although some ideas require more imagination and playing pretend than others, there are still plenty of options when it comes to The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits cross-pack ideas out there. Whether you are performing a séance on a witchy getaway with The Sims 4: Paranormal and reading tarot cards with Life and Death, or hosting a competition of fitness, cooking or survival, there is sure to be something fun that you can come up with.

With a bit of pretend, or if your Sims really are having a tough time, you could send your Sims on a couples retreat. Using The Sims 4: LoveStruck feature of cupids counseling so that your Sims can work through any problems the relationship might be facing and then spend the rest of the time bonding, lounging and relaxing in the new in-ground hot tub!

You could host a family reunion, have a street food feast using The Sims 4: City Living and the variety of food stalls that come with that pack (and others), using The Sims 4: Get Famous for a singing or acting camp or The Sims 4: Island Living for a beachy themed conservation camp. Gotta get those conservationists started early! Comb the beach, go diving/snorkeling in your off time, but most of all have fun!

Speaking of combing the beach and snorkeling, what about a destination wedding? You cannot set “get married” as an activity but what if you brought your friends and family on a week long vacation and control your Sims to get married at some point on the trip. If you don’t want to get married on the trip, you could do it before or after and switch it to a bachelor/bachelorette getaway for before or a family-moon or honeymoon for after. And you don’t have to go to a beach, you can have your wedding getaway wherever you fancy!

The Sims 4: Cottage Living brings with it the opportunity to either create a competition or host a getaway where you have to use what you grow – think of a farm to table style idea with crops and farm animals to help bring your meals together.

Another popular idea that has been floating around for a while is a laundromat using The Sims 4 Laundry Day pack to create a space where Sims can come do laundry and grab a coffee or bite to eat while they are waiting. Most laundromat lots on the gallery have a second purpose or function like a coffee shop/library or a yoga studio attached.

While you cannot host a getaway at a rental lot, you can create custom venues or host getaways at existing lots, which means trips to Granite Falls from The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat, Selvadorada from The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure and Mt. Komorebi from The Sims 4: Snowy Escape, don’t have to be stay overs but rather day trips. You could host a whole scheduled day in Mt. Komorebi with skiing, snowboarding and rock climbing.

Not only can you expand your entomology skill in Granite Falls and now catch insects with nets, but you can also add to the skill with the bees from The Sims 4: Seasons, and the insect farm from Eco Lifestyle. In Jungle Adventure your Sims could visit for one day of the weekend at a time, learning about the culture, exploring the jungle and gaining the archeology skill.

Although you can’t “Get Married” as part of the activities available to you within the custom lot schedule, you can still control your sim on a custom venue and that means there is a work around for getting married. Why not make a Town Hall where you can have a wedding arch set up for Sims to come and get hitched who don’t want a big, extravagant wedding. Even your political Sims can come to an office somedays, give speeches and gather votes. Co-working office spaces for those active work careers or freelancers could also be created with a coffee shop in the lobby for those hard earned breaks, even a gym for employees to sweat out the stress.

We know how unreliable The Sims 4: Dine Out can be but what if you used the basics and ideas behind Dine Out for a pop up restaurant that your Sims can go to for a special occasion. Backyard Stuff brings in waterslides for those extravagant waterparks, Bowling Night brings the bowling alley and skill so you could go on a retreat together as a team.

Even Movie Hangout can be fun to play with if you create an indoor or outdoor cinema with set times for Sims to watch movies and eat popcorn. We know there is a rabbit hole cinema your Sims can go to but it would be way more fun to send them to a cinema with scheduled times and big couches for your Sims to enjoy a good movie.

As was mentioned before, the ideas and options are only limited by your imagination, your creativity and how far you can stretch your building and gaming skills.

Create A Sim – The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits Cross-Pack Ideas

Since getaways and custom venues are so unique and can be altered in almost anyway you can think of, almost every CAS item from every pack could work with The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits. Looking for cozy country clothes for a comfy getaway look no further than Cottage Living, and Outdoor Retreat will help you out for all your camp and outdoor activity needs.

If you are leaning more into the wellness retreat and fitness side of things not only are the Spa Day and Fitness stuff packs a good fit for build buy but they are excellent for CAS. Perfect for lounging by a pool in a robe, sweating it out on a spin bike, doing some free weights in the gym or out on a deck with the cool breeze – these three packs together make a very aesthetically pleasing look.

Seen any great The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits cross-pack ideas look books out there? Let us know in the comments down below!

Build/Buy – The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits Cross-Pack Ideas

The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits gives off a rustic, outdoorsy, and cabin-chic aesthetic with a strong focus on adventure and outdoor activities. Ring any bells? The quick link is to The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat being an outdoorsy, wood cabin vibe as well as the focus on outdoors and camping. Though that isn’t the only pack that meshes well with Adventure Awaits.

The Sims 4: Cottage Living has a focus on cozy and comfortable style, primarily cottage core, and a romanticized version of rustic, countryside life. There are very similar looking fireplaces, woods and brick/stone textures that go well together with these two packs. Although some of the other furniture like beds and chairs don’t have too much in common there are pieces that blend well.

The Sims 4: Horse Ranch has a western and rustic ranch life style, with a general focus on rural and equestrian themes. These packs intertwine well because of the tones and swatches that have been included in them as well as the similarities in some of the furniture. The build and buy blend well together.

Looking at The Sims 4: Fitness Stuff Pack and The Sims 4: Spa Day they both come with a host of outfits and and a few pieces of equipment and furniture to add to your build to give it that extra sense of wow.

Extras – Because why not

A few mentions before we go include a “Mini and Me” themed venue where your adult sims and their child sims, toddlers, or infants can bond and get some alone time away from home. “Child care and mentoring” is one of the activity options available to you in the custom venue schedule so why not bring your little one and learn a new skill around other moms and dads. Retirement centers have been popping up quite a bit, a place for your elders to go on a week long getaway which I guess you would just keep repeating or extending if that is the idea behind it – for your Sim to be at a retirement home.

JessicapieYT from the Sims Community has made a stunningly beautiful retirement home for all your elder Sims needs from outdoor activities to indoor activities, your elder Sims are sure to never be bored!

Apart from a retirement center where you can send your elder sims what about a elders day center that caters for elder sims on a day to day basis. Elder sims can come through for the day and play all kinds of games, you could set up a bowling alley or have some dance floors laid out for them to dance and socialize the day away. What better way to meet other elders than a center catered specifically for them.

On that note you could create an entire community center that caters to all ages depending on the time of day. Start with toddler care in the morning and elders gaming and socializing midday. In the afternoon after school care could begin for your child and teenage sims who can work on skill based learning and homework with a mentor to help them along.

In the evenings a singles and mingles vibe could take place on a rooftop bar or a cozy café where your single Sims can get to know other single Sims around town. What if you are more into family gameplay? Swap the singles and mingles night activity for a full family BBQ instead, where the whole neighborhood can come together, kids and all, once a week for some good food and a good bonding session.

An exciting thing to note in this cross-pack ideas guide is that there is weather in Gibbi Point with The Sims 4: Seasons, it snows! But be careful… papercrafts can get wet and soggy in the rain if you play with them or leave them out, like the paper airplane. Also during heatwaves the slides can become super hot and if you choose to brave going down one you could catch on fire! You have been warned…

And just like that we have come to the end of our The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits Cross-Pack Ideas Guide. Have you come across any other ideas that would fit well into our cross-pack ideas guide that you think are worth mentioning? Tell us all about them in the comments below!