A Comprehensive Guide On All Cross Pack Features Available In The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy!
As with every Expansion Pack released, The Sims 4 Royalty and & Legacy is chock full of new cross pack features to expand your noble and dynastic gameplay. Before release, The Sims Team confirmed that there would be several notable cross-pack features. That being said, other packs are not required to play Royalty & Legacy. Let’s take a look at the cross pack features available with the latest Expansion Pack!
The Sims 4 Cross Pack Features in Royalty & Legacy
Occult Dynasties & Royalty
The majority of Cross pack features regarding occults comes down to how you choose to play. With each world being able to have its own noble leader, towns such as Forgotten Hollow, Moonwood Mill, Innisgreen, and Glimmerbrook are all eligible for rule. At the same time, no Noble Decrees specifically benefit occult Sims, the way you choose to mould your dynastic occult Sims can!
Cross Pack Dynasty Ideals & Skills
Ideals and Skills are what shape your dynasties. They can dictate how your Sims act autonomously, and how certain actions can increase your clan’s prestige. All skills from every pack can be used as a focal point for your dynasties, such as Pipe Organ from Vampires, or the Medium skill from the Paranormal Stuff Pack.
Ideals are the rules that your dynasty members will live by faithfully, or choose to ignore if they’re feeling rebellious. Here’s a comprehensive list of all the ways Ideals incorporate features from previous packs:
While there are many cross-pack careers, interactions, and hobbies included, the best Ideals for occults are Vicious (For evil occult gameplay) and Mysterious. The latter focuses on all kinds of occult abilities and is compatible with Base Game-only play.
Cross-Pack Scandals
The list of scandals included with The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy isn’t extensive; however, the limited number of triggers for a scandal is just enough to not constantly get in the way of regular gameplay.
There are only three cross-pack exclusive scandals in the latest pack, focusing only on Fairies, Vampires, and Werewolves. Spellcasters have been left in the dust, and using Mischief or Untamed Magic on Sims will not trigger scandals. I don’t even have to mention the lack of Mermaid integration at this point.
Sims can earn the following Occult-specific cross-pack scandals:
- Unfair Fairy – Using Fairy Abilities on unsuspecting Sims (Enchanted by Nature Expansion Pack)
- Bad Dog, No Biscuit – Biting Sims and using Mean Werewolf interactions (Werewolves Game Pack)
- Plasma Thief! – Drinking Plasma from unsuspecting hypnotised Sims (Vampires Game Pack)
Nobility & Fame (Get Famous)
Sims in the new Noble Career in The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy will automatically gain fame as they progress in the career, allowing them to reap the same benefits as other celebrity Sims. Giving Speeches at the new Podium will allow Sims to gain fame quickly, as well as boost the Charisma skill, vital for progression within the career.
At level 5 of Fame, noble Sims will earn a Celebrity Tile that can be placed in a ceremony on Starlight Boulevard in Del Sol Valley. Without many day-to-day duties, Noble Sims may find themselves with spare time to build skills and pursue new hobbies, allowing for ample opportunity to gain fame through skills such as painting or writing.
Sims who have been involved in scandals can also write books that reveal scandals, and when published, they will gain a significant amount of fame. Our noble Sims can write Her True Story – In Her Own Words.
If a famous Sim experiences a scandal and it is revealed or witnessed by another Sim the target of the scandal will lose both Fame and Reputation.
Reputation & Charity Benefit Parties
Speaking of Reputation, good deeds go a long way when you’re in the spotlight.
Actions such as being mean and causing misfortune to others will lower a Sim’s reputation, and performing good deeds and donating to charity or fans will increase it. At the ‘Pristine’ rank of the reputation system, Sims will be able to throw Charity Benefit parties, bringing together nobles and celebrities for a good cause.
Community Market Lots
The new Community Market lot type comes with The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy, and when vistied your Sims may find items only available through crafting and foraging, and this includes items from other parks, including the Upgrade Parts from The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack.
Players who own Eco Lifestyle may be familiar with the concept of Market lots through the Community Space system. This lot works the same, but will not need to be triggered by neighbourhood voting.
When building a lot, 3 selling tables will be required for the lot to be marked as complete, and luckily, any selling table from any pack can be used for this. Examples of selling tables from other packs include City Living, Eco Lifestyle, Businesses & Hobbies, Home Chef Hustle, and Jungle Adventure.
Sword Retail Shops (Get to Work/Businesses & Hobbies)
Since the release of Businesses & Hobbies, I have found myself neglecting the retail store system that shipped with the Get to Work Expansion Pack. While bare bones in comparison to the Small Businesses system, the new swords sparked an idea!
Swords are a new collectable type in Royalty & legacy and can be displayed on walls for all to see, and you can even find them for sale at the new Community Market lot type. If placed on a wall on a lot designated as Retail, these can be set for sale.
If your Sim owns a retail lot, click the sword and select ‘Set for Sale’. These swords can only be purchased at the blacksmith shop in Verdemar, at the Market lot, and through a few other means for the rarer types. These can then be sold at a markup for profit!
Small Business Residential Palaces & Small Business Activities (Businesses & Hobbies)
Similar to Retail lots, Small Business lots from The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies prove profitable for Sims in the Noble career. Your noble Sim is most likely the owner of a resplendent palace, full of valuables, paintings, and sculptures. If so, this is the perfect opportunity to charge the public an entry fee to enter and explore.
If you don’t want members of the public roaming your private chambers, simply designate the areas you wish to be private as ‘Residential’ by using the outline system found in the top bar in Build/Buy (Can also be accessed by pressing ‘O’ on PC and Mac).
With new hobbies and skills introduced with Royalty & Legacy, they would have missed a trick not adding those activities to the Small Businesses activities list! Thankfully there are two new activities perfect for any Sim who wants to be the owner of a grand Ballroom or a Sword-fighting Academy. The two new Small Business Activities:
- Dual and Practice with Swords
- Waltz
If you want to attract the cream of the crop to your venue, you can set the Noble Career as a target customer type in the Target Customers section when editing your Small Business venue.
Cats Exploring Secret Passageways (Cats & Dogs)
The new secret passageway item allows your Sims to travel from one place to another via a hidden tunnel system, or arm it as a trap to keep curious Sims away. The secret tunnels can also be used as a new woohoo location.
One of the hidden benefits of the secret passageway is that it can be used as a new exploration opportunity for Cats to go foraging and pick up (potentially rare) items for your Sims. As Pets arent able to be directly controlled by players, this will happen autonomously, and is more likely to happen if your Cat has the Curious, Free Spirit, or Playful traits.
New Cat CAS Crown
Cats also get an exclusive cross-pack CAS item! If you own both Royalty & Legacy and Cats & Dogs, make sure to check out Create-a-Sim (Or I guess Create-a-Pet), go to the clothing section, and under the hat,s you will find a crown that comes in 7 swatches.
Swordsmanship & Waltzing Custom Getaway Activities (Adventure Awaits)
Similar to the new Small Business Activities, the list of available Getaway activities has also been expanded! Both swordsmanship and waltzing can be assigned as a getaway activity, meaning any Sim on the getaway will focus on battling it out with one another or build their skill with the training dummy. The two new Getaway/Custom Venue activities:
- Dual and Practice with Swords
- Waltz
Creator Cinderellimouse had the right idea for their video, showcasing the new possibilities given to us by creating a Finishing School for Noble children to learn all the skills they need when they are next in line to the throne.
New Club Activities (Get Together)
As with the Getaway/Custom Venue, and Small business systems, the club system from Get Together has had both waltzing and duelling added to the activity roster, as well as the ability to set the club requirements to just Sims in the Noble Career if you so wish. This is the perfect way to get royal connections without having to scope every noble out in Ondarion one-by-one.
New Bucket List Activities (Life & Death)
As cross pack features go, this feels like an oft-forgotten one. There is one new bucket list item for players who also own the Life & Death Expansion Pack. If your Sim is seeking new thrills, they may gain the goal “I’d like to WooHoo in a Secret Passageway”.
To complete this, the Sim must have knowledge of at least one secret passageway, and you can choose either ‘WooHoo’ or ‘Try for baby’.
Noble Decree Benefits
There are 8 Noble Decrees your Noble Sims can issues once they reach level 7 of the Noble Career. 6 of these have cross-pack compatibility and will affect different skills, careers, and interactions. The following Noble Decrees have pack-specific benefits:
The Doctrine of Vitality
- Career Performance gain Doctor. (Get to Work)
The Artisan’s Proclamation
- Skill gain for Singing & Career Performance gain Art Critic. (City Living)
- Career Performance gain Actor. (Get Famous)
- Skill gain Cross-stitch. (Cottage Living)
- Skill gain Pottery & Tattooing. (Businesses & Hobbies)
- Skill gain Pipe Organ. (Vampires)
- Skill gain Knitting. (Nifty Knitting)
The Edict of Enlightenment
- Sims will complete Presentations & Papers faster. It will also be easier to achieve good grades at University. (Discover University)
The Technocrat’s Mandate
- Career Performance gain Scientist. (Get to Work)
- Skill gain for Robotics & Career Performance gain Engineer. (Discover University)
The Culinary Edict
- Career Performance gain Food Critic. (City Living)
That’s all for our list of Cross-Pack features for the latest pack. Have you discovered any yourself? Let us know in the comments below, and stay tuned to Sims Community for all the latest on The Sims 4 Royalty & Legacy.
