The For Rent expansion brings several new social events, one of which is the Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck. This is a really fun but simple and straight-forward event that can not only help your Sims bond with their neighbours but increase your unit rating as well!

Get to know the community by throwing a Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck!

This is a Legacy Article written by SnarkyWitch

We’ll walk you through this entire social event. Learn how to throw a potluck, complete all the goals, and find out what rewards you get for completing this event at bronze, silver, and gold levels! Let’s get started!

Throwing a Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck

To throw a Neighbourhood Potluck social event in The Sims 4 For Rent, use the Social app on your Sim’s cell phone and select Host a Social Event. Then on the social event selection screen, choose to host a Neighbourhood Potluck. Like most other social events, you can choose whether you want to throw a goaled event with rewards or not. Non-goaled events are more open-ended. They have no goals to complete so you can just enjoy being in the moment and do whatever you’d like to do during the event. However, you can’t earn rewards from non-goaled events, so keep that in mind when deciding between a goaled or non-goaled event.

Once you’ve selected the event, you’ll need to select some Sims to attend. For a Neighbourhood Potluck, you’ll need to have at least one host, 3 potluck contributors, and any optional guest. However, you can invite more Sims if you wish. Up to 15 Sims can be invited to participate in a social event. Potluck Contributors are the Sims who will be bringing their own meals to the potluck. Guests are Sims who just showed up for the free food. We know. Total goals, right?

Next, choose the location. You can host the event at home, at another Sim’s home, or at a venue. While a Neighbourhood Potluck works great on Residential Rental lots as a way for the unit residents to come together and be social, you’re not limited to hosting Neighbourhood Potlucks on Residential Rental lots.

Neighbourhood Potluck Goals

When the event starts, the guests will show up on the lot. Everyone involved with the event will change into their party attire. All Potluck Contributors will bring a group meal for the potluck and set it down on the closest available surface when they arrive. If you chose not to have a goaled event, you are free to do whatever you like until the event timer ends. However, if you chose a goaled event, there are some unique goals to complete.

Main Goal: Eat Potluck Food x4

Other Goals:

• Compliment potluck item
• Thank a guest for coming
• Call guests to meal
• Gossip with Sims
• Tell a story
• Clean up

New interactions will be available on Sims during the event. They will help you complete some of the above event goals.

The Thank for Coming interaction is an interaction that is always available during all social events. You can find this social under Friendly > Small Talk in the social pie menu when clicking on an event guest. This will complete the “Thank a guest for coming” goal for the Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck social event.

To compliment a potluck item, click on any Sim who brought something to the potluck. You’ll find the “Compliment Potluck Item” interaction under Friendly > Compliments in the social pie menu. Using this social on a potluck contributor will complete the goal to compliment a potluck item.

The Gossip with Sims, Call Sims to Meal, Tell a Story, and Clean Up goals are all relatively straight-forward. These are normal interactions that can be done outside of social events as well so many Simmers likely know how to find them. In case you don’t, however, here’s a quick breakdown:

• Click on a group meal and use the Call to Meal interaction
• Click on any empty dish and use the Clean Up interaction
• Any social under Friendly > Gossip should satisfy the Gossip with Sims goal
• Any interaction under Friendly > Stories or Funny > Stories should satisfy the Tell Stories goal

Neighbourhood Potluck Rewards

The Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck rewards are a bit more unique than a typical social event. This is because your Sims will be rewarded with a boost in their unit rating if they live in a Residential Rental lot. In fact, there’s only one reward object for The Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck social event and it’s for completing the event at gold level. Completing the event at bronze or silver level only grants a small boost in unit rating.

The gold level reward for a Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck is a new grill object that can hopefully help make future potlucks even better with even tastier food!

Try not to feel too put out if your potluck didn’t go so well. On the bright side, you get to keep all the leftover food!

Loved this Sims 4 Neighbourhood Potluck guide? There’s lots more where that came from! Learn all about the new aspirations in For Rent!