Hello and welcome to the first The Sims Community Challenge!
We’re really excited to share the first challenge with you all, and we’re going to start off with a building challenge! If you don’t know what The Sims Community Challenge is all about, you can click here to read more.
In honour of the upcoming The Sims 4 Cottage Living Expansion pack, this month’s theme is Cottagecore!
Once you have completed your entry, upload it to The Gallery and include the hashtag #SCCottagecore so that we can find your creations.
Closing date for entries: Sunday 11th July 2021 at 10am PST/6pm BST/ 7PM CET. The Spotlight post will be released a few days after entries have closed.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments below, or head over to our The Sims Community Challenge channel on our Discord server! If you aren’t a member of our Discord Server, you can click here to join.
Good luck, have fun, and we can’t wait to see your creations!
We’re totally still on The Sims 4: Cottage Living hype train and couldn’t wait until July 22nd to start living our best cottage country life! If you’re like us and want to get a head start on all those warm, fuzzy cottagecore vibes, here are five looks to try! Each look is inspired by the popular cottagecore aesthetic.
The best part? These looks use no custom content and only one add-on pack each! So players who don’t have a lot of packs or custom content can play around with these looks themselves!
Those feisty hens can be a hassle to get back in the coop but it’ll be no problem for your Sim in these sturdy boots and comfortable yet fashionable country clothes. A wide brimmed hat completes this rustic chic look and allows your Sim to be out in the chicken pen all day long without feeling the heat.
Hair: Spiral Waves (Base Game)
Outfit: Long-Sleeve Crop Top with Suspender Skirt (StrangerVille)
Shoes: Leather Work Boots (Base Game)
Accessories: Wide Brimmed Hat (Base Game) / Gloves (Base Game) / Leggings (Base Game) / Necklace (StrangerVille)
Makeup: Eyeliner / Blush / Lipstick (Base Game)
Rural life just wouldn’t be the same without its fair share of local gossip and the handsome village newsboy is there to spill all the tea! He knows everything about everything that goes on in town. His rugged boots and worn-out jeans are a sign of his active occupation and who can resist that classic pageboy cap?
Hair: Side Part with Fade (Base Game) / Goatee (Base Game)
Top: Woven Sweater (Eco Lifestyle)
Bottom: Worn Out Jeans (Base Game)
Shoes: Lace Up Work Boots (Base Game)
Accessories: Pageboy Cap (Eco Lifestyle)
Everyone knows her. Everyone loves her. The humble girl next door sports a comfy, classic country look, pairing comfy boots and a loose-fitting dress layered with a tasseled vest. Everyone wants to be her friend in this cute everyday rustic look… or maybe more than friends?
Hair: Shoulder-Length Side Part (Paranormal Stuff)
Outfit: Loose-Fitting Mini Dress with Vest (Paranormal Stuff)
Shoes: Calf-High Buckle Boots (Base Game)
Accessories: Newsgirl Cap (Base Game) / Leggings (Base Game) / Layered Necklaces (Paranormal Stuff)
Makeup: Eyeshadow / Eyeliner / Blush / Lipstick (Base Game)
Got a broken fence that needs fixin’? Saddles that need polishin’? Hay bales that need haulin’? Look no further than the local farmhand! He’s always ready for any manual labour your farm might require and he’ll do it with a cheerful smile, a “How do you do?” and a tip of his wide-brimmed hat.
Hair: Short & Layered (Base Game) / Stubble (Base Game)
Top: Long-Sleeve Shirt with Vest (Jungle Adventure)
Bottom: Rolled Up Jeans (Base Game)
Shoes: Worn Out Lace Up Boots (Jungle Adventure)
Accessories: Explorer Hat (Jungle Adventure) / Gloves (Base Game)
When she’s not playing with chickens on her grandparents’ farm, the Little Socialite is skipping through the village streets, stopping to chat with anyone and everyone she meets. The elderly adore her, the young want to play with her, and who can blame them with her cute rubber rain boots and comfy layered attire that says “I love the country life!”
Hair: Braided Pigtails (Seasons)
Outfit: Jacket over Mini Dress with Leggings and Scarf (Seasons)
Shoes: Knee High Rubber Boots (Seasons)
Accessories: Newsgirl Cap (Base Game)
Which look is your favourite? Let us know in the comments or come chat with us on social media!
The Sims will be teaming up with the legendary drag icon, Trixie Mattel, for a Summer of Sims Pride celebration! You can join Trixie Mattel on Twitch for the Summer of Sims block party stream on June 21st, 5pm PST.
Simmers can also participate in the celebration by uploading their best LGBTQIA+ Sims to the Gallery with the hashtag #SoSBlockParty!
https://twitter.com/TheSims/status/1405949334093549569
Be sure to tune into the stream! We can’t wait to see all your fabulous #SoSBlockParty Sims in the Gallery!
Happy Pride, everyone!
Last week on Twitter, I asked for your unpopular opinions that went against the grain. Many were refreshing to read and some made me chuckle. Some were downright scandalous!
I took some of the best of the bunch and here they are! The community’s most unpopular opinions!
I love occult gameplay and enjoy the lack of realism in the Sims. If I wanted realism I'd play a Building Sim, a Driving Sim, a Business Sim, Second Life, etc. I love that vampires randomly show up. I love that spell casters are flying around. I love that aliens are everywhere.
— SimmerElise 🤎 (@SimmerElise) June 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/polyesterdinos/status/1402091199889088514
https://twitter.com/StrangeIsa2126/status/1402196738488868867
https://twitter.com/robcatdashian/status/1402060509793292324
I really like this game & most of the new content adds lots of fun! pic.twitter.com/EHYj2Hv0I6
— LilMami (@swatchmelilmami) June 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/ShayRue/status/1402227097825857538
https://twitter.com/codenamewallaby/status/1402225458092126208
https://twitter.com/gigamug/status/1402010707370123267
https://twitter.com/Latin_Simmer/status/1402067185229512704
https://twitter.com/CowboyYeehaww/status/1401943419560341509
And finally, last but certainly not least, a word from Mrs. Crumplebottom herself.
https://twitter.com/Crumplebitch/status/1401938722287915012
What’s your unpopular opinion about The Sims? Share them in the comments but remember to keep it friendly!
Sul-Sul!
We recently shared five cottage builds that you can download from The Gallery, but knew that we couldn’t just talk about cottages. Many Simmers are excited about being able to have their own small farms with chickens, cows, llamas and more as well as creating their own farm themed builds. While we wait for The Sims 4 Cottage Living to be released, here are five farm builds that you can download from The Gallery now!
Lot Size: 40×30
With The Sims 4 Cottage Living right around the corner, why not get into the mood by checking out one of the builds featured in this post or over on The Gallery. There are so many fantastic builds to discover!
Don’t forget to share your Cottage Living inspired builds with us by sharing your Gallery ID’s/Build names in the comments below or over on social media.
We’ve showcased some amazing cottagecore-inspired builds lately. Now it’s time to shine a light on some talented Sim and pet creators in the community! Let’s fill all those cute cozy cottages with families!
None of the households featured in this article use any CC so anyone who owns the required packs can download and enjoy them!
I immediately fell in love with this adorable couple as soon as I saw them in the Gallery! Pam likes to garden and Haley likes to cook which seems like a winning combination right there! Plus their cat and dog are just as adorable as their owners.
Spellcasters and cottages just go together, amirite? Here’s a beautiful cottagecore spellcaster named Dayana and her trusty feline familiar. I wonder what kind of potions she’ll brew with the ingredients from her garden.
This fantastic little family looks like they came straight out of a fairytale storybook, which is exactly what the cottagecore aesthetic aims to achieve. I can just picture them enjoying life on their little farm where they grow and raise everything they put on their table! Amazing job!
I thought this Sim was absolutely stunning when I came across her in the Gallery! Her beautiful warm skin tone and kind facial features make for a heartwarming addition to any rural countryside town. Since she is a single-Sim household, there’s a lot of versatility for the player to create her own story.
This granny and toddler duo made me smile right away when I found them! What could be more cottagecore than a grandparent watching their young grandchild frolic and play on the farm that’s been in their family for generations? Their names suggest they might have some magical fae-like qualities about them as well! Just storytelling, of course, since we don’t actually have faeries in The Sims 4, but I love the thought and creativity that went into this household.
What a delightfully British Sim with her feline companion! That sweet cardigan and brimmed hat adorned with flowers takes me right to a European fair on a sunny day. This household would fit right in with the townsfolk of the new world, Henford-on-Bagley, coming with the Cottage Living expansion next month.
I love playing with big families in The Sims 4 and I especially love families with rich stories. This amazing cottagecore-inspired household by Jill4ChrisRed ticks all my favourite gameplay boxes. The story about their teenage son moving away to become a musician, their young daughter dreaming of city life, and their newly-single sister-in-law moving in make me want to dive in and explore them more.
Pet moms rule! Especially this one! I am quite jealous of her cozy oversized sweater and ankle-length floral skirt. It’s giving me major whimsical dreamland vibes. I would love to sit on a countryside porch with her and chat over a cup of tea. She seems like an interesting Sim to be friends with. Her adorable pets are a nice bonus!
This young cottagecore couple and their friendly golden retriever have a lot of potential for many different storylines. They’re an open book with so many possibilities! Will they have a large family to help them work their farm or will you stir up drama? Maybe a little bit of both?
This handsome big brother in charge of taking care of his rambunctious little brother while their parents are away for the weekend just melts my heart! How cute and creative! What’s more fun than a cute little toddler bonding with his big brother in the quaint countryside? Another example of a well-thought-out household with an imaginative back story!
What are you waiting for? Go download some of these amazing households right now! Remember to give the creator a follow, too, and leave a nice comment to say thanks!
Today, we would like to introduce to you The Sims Community Challenges!
This will be a monthly community challenge based around a particular theme. We might challenge you to create your own build following some specifications that we set, or it might be a shell challenge. We might ask you to create a family with a backstory focusing around a theme that is given, or it might be a story telling challenge. There’s a few different options, and we have lots of ideas.
The aim of these challenges is to have fun and get creative in the game! Maybe explore themes you haven’t explored before and to try something different. It can be hard sometimes to know what to do in The Sims and that is something most of us can probably relate to.
For each month, we will have a post with all the details that you need to know for the current challenge. Unless stated, all challenges have been created for The Sims 4 and is open to all players regardless of which platform you play on.
Once the end date has passed, The Sims Community Team will choose a selection of the entries to showcase in a spotlight post here on our site and share across our social media!
We really want to showcase just how many creative, talented and incredible players there are within our community, and we can’t wait for you to take part in these Challenges and see what you create!
Stay tuned for our first The Sims Community Challenge that we will be revealing soon!
If you have any more questions or want to keep up to date with The Sims Community Challenges, head over to our Official Discord server!
Click here to join the Discord server.
The Sims is known for being one of the original sandbox life simulation games but since its inception back in 2000, many other games have followed in The Sims‘ footsteps. Some of those titles have enjoyed almost as long a history of success, such as the beloved Animal Crossing series. Animal Crossing was first released in 2001 in Japan and did quite well but didn’t start making huge waves worldwide until the release of Animal Crossing: Wild World in 2005. Now the latest installment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch has become one of the world’s most adored idyllic sandbox games. Similarly, The Sims 4 is the most financially successful title in The Sims franchise to date!
We decided to take a closer look at these two games to see what they have in common that makes them so special and unique in the gaming world.
The Sims is well-known for being the ultimate sandbox experience (and one of the pioneers of the sandbox simulation genre). While spinoffs and some DLC packs have put more of an emphasis on story-driven gameplay, The Sims remains, at heart, a gamer’s personal sandbox to do whatever they desire. Animal Crossing is no different in this respect. Part of its charm and popularity is due to the amount of freedom players have to develop and explore their little world however they want with no strict deadlines or predetermined path to follow.
Long time fans of both series are familiar with the faces of the Goth family from The Sims and characters like Isabelle from Animal Crossing. The Goth family has been an iconic part of The Sims in just about every version of the game across PC and consoles alike and they have rich and fascinating lore attached to them. Seriously, just search up Bella Goth’s profile on The Sims Wiki and you’ll find yourself falling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and mystery. As for Animal Crossing, it just wouldn’t be Animal Crossing without Tom Nook trapping you into a lifetime of debt and Isabelle’s cheerful daily announcements. Our emotional attachments to these well-known characters are part of what makes both The Sims and Animal Crossing so special.
I don’t know about you but I have definitely put many hours of my life into customizing both my Animal Crossing home and my Sims’ homes. Both games offer an immersive and downright delightful building and decorating experience that’s easy to get lost in. From raiding Nook’s Cranny for the perfect accent piece to display in your kitchen to clicking through every swatch in Build Mode looking for the exact right colour curtains to match the rest of the room, both games understand the appeal of being able to truly make your virtual space your own.
People are social creatures and fostering relationships comes with benefits in both The Sims and Animal Crossing. It pays to make a point of gifting all the villagers on your island every day in Animal Crossing because these generous souls will always have a little something on-hand to give you in return as thanks. Sometimes they can give you some really cool stuff… or at least something you can sell for a few extra bells. In The Sims, getting to know others can lead to all kinds of opportunities, from invites to exclusive parties to surprise confessions of love! You never know what might happen if you just stop to say hello to people every once in a while.
The subtle art of flower breeding is something Animal Crossing fans take quite seriously. It can take years to breed every colour of every type of flower and the daily task of watering your colourful fields is an almost meditative experience. The calm and simple joy of finding a new colour of flower pop up in your garden after weeks of careful planting and watering is something only The Sims can compete with. With its wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and flowers to cultivate and a detailed and immersive gardening system with fertilizers and plant quality, an agricultural Sims life can be just as rewarding an experience as raising flowers in Animal Crossing.
In a world where everyone is bound by deadlines and stressful schedules, the freedom to be able to sit down and do whatever you want for a few hours each day is something you can’t put a price on. You can let go of all the baggage of the day and just sink into an idyllic experience where you’re in charge of how you spend your days. That big city office job getting too demanding for your Sim? No problem. Quit and become a dragon fruit farmer, instead. Tired of scraping up bells to pay off your insurmountable loan from Tom Nook? That’s okay! Take a break and go on a museum tour. No one tells you what to do in your virtual world and for many, that’s a therapeutic release of daily stress.
Your virtual world is your oyster. There are no limits. No rules. No quests or goals or predetermined story to follow. Just you and a big wide world of fun and relaxation. Six hours of doing nothing but watching your character lounge by the poolside can feel just as fulfilling as six hours of grinding for bells and simoleons. Do everything! Or nothing! No one’s going to judge you either way and there’s no such thing as failure or falling behind. The popularity in both these games lies in the freedom and escapist relaxation it offers players in a less-than-ideal real world full of strife and struggles.
For many of us, vacations are a luxury we seldom get to experience for ourselves. I haven’t been on a vacation in fifteen years and a global pandemic has made travelling more complicated than ever. That’s why being able to travel to exciting new destinations in video games like The Sims and Animal Crossing feels like such a treat for most of us. We may never see the wild jungles of South America for ourselves or fly to exotic, uncharted islands full of mystery with a talking dodo but these things and more are always possible for us. All we need to do is boot up our consoles or computers and we can travel the world from the comfort of our living rooms.
Collecting is a huge part of both The Sims and Animal Crossing. In The Sims 4, players have a wide variety of collections they can complete and display in their own private museum. Some collections are more challenging to complete than others but it’s always an accomplishment to have a completed collection on display. Blathers the owl manages the museum in Animal Crossing and although there aren’t as many types of collections to complete as The Sims, it’s always worth a trip to the museum to admire all of your fossils, bugs, fish, and artwork in a truly beautiful, atmospheric setting. I could stay there for hours taking pictures and enjoying the sights.
Don’t you wish getting rich was as easy as just walking around catching bugs all day long? Me too. It may seem like a silly way to earn a living but being able to spend your days catching bugs, fishing, and picking up seashells along the beach (and completing some of those collections, too, while you’re at it) offers players a more relaxing alternative to financial success than a traditional career. In fact, neither you nor any of the regular villagers on your island in Animal Crossing have jobs! Why would you need one in a place with such abundant resources that haven’t been taken over by corporate greed? Pure paradise in your pocket.
Are you a fan of both these timeless games? What else do you think Animal Crossing draws from The Sims or vice versa? We’d love to read about your favourite The Sims and Animal Crossing experiences in the comments!
The Sims Team has published the latest Laundry List for The Sims 4. The laundry list addresses some of the most important bugs and issues in the game that the community have reported and that the team has prioritized to fix in time for the next game update.
Hi Simmers!
Welcome to the Laundry List where we’ll share a list of the top community concerns that we’re currently investigating and hope to have resolved in the upcoming patch.
These concerns were reported by players who help us continue our work of improving the user experience on a regular basis.
Please note that some topics can be tricky and require an extended investigation on our end, so even though we are actively investigating it’s not a guarantee that we’ll have an immediate fix for it in the upcoming patch.
Also note that this is just a list of the “top” concerns. There are more topics that we saw reported by players that are not listed and being worked on.
So, without further ado, here is a list of the top community concerns we’re currently investigating:
- Open staircase cause routing failures
- In-Season Plants revert to dirt piles
- CAS no longer shows what Sim is wearing in its columns
- Sim Profile not opening after Learning (Dis)Likes/LUIE occurring
- New (darker) hair swatches make Sims’ teeth look black
- Several Hair Make Teeth Grey/Black
- Random Sim in apartment/house / Guest not leaving
- Eyelashes change color to match hair color
- Teens age up/get generated with crow’s feet
- Fabulously Filthy: Floor being dirty doesn’t fulfill
Thanks for all your patience and valuable help! Please continue telling us about any issues you’re experiencing on Answers HQ, we’ll continue to work on improving our transparency, and together we can make this game the best that it can be. Happy Simming!
We’ve all debated the topic for years but now we will finally get a definitive answer! It’s time to decide who is the best The Sims 4 townie from the game packs! Will long time favourite vampire hunk Caleb Vatore be the King of Darkness or will Vlad creep up from behind for a sneak attack? Maybe a completely unexpected underdog like George Cahill will surprise everyone and snatch the win. The only way to find out is to cast your vote!
Think carefully because you are limited to 4 votes for 4 Sims! One vote per pack represented; however, you can vote for multiple Sims from the same pack if you like. Voting will be open all week. Stay tuned for more polls until we have a winner from each Sims 4 poll. Those winners will face off against each other in the ultimate showdown!
Since The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff is the only stuff pack to ship with premade Sims, we’ve included it in this poll even though we are aware that it is not a game pack.
Remember to click the text and not the image when casting your vote!
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Even though The Sims 4 has been out for nearly seven years now, the thought of building can sometimes feel overwhelming. I guess you could say that it really comes down to what kind of build you are wanting to create.
I’ve never been the best builder, in fact I hated building in earlier The Sims games and would just add random shapes to already built houses until something would work. I have memories of some very abstract looking builds from The Sims and The Sims 2 era. Thinking about them now makes me laugh, but also feel a little embarrassed if I’m truly honest. I do wish I had some pictures that I could share with you, but you can probably imagine or relate to this yourself.
When I first started building in The Sims 4, I followed a similar kind of pattern. I would just add more square rooms to the pre-made lots in game in the hope that something would work together. Eventually I got fed up with my own builds looking boring and mismatched and decided to take to YouTube to watch a number of tutorials and speed builds to help me.
The build below is one of my earliest builds that I have saved in my Library from when I first started trying to learn how to use the Build Mode in game properly. My aim was to create a very simple starter home to a budget of $20,000.
It’s still very blocky and also had minimal furniture, but it was a start. The terrain painting, well let’s not talk about that. This was around the same time that I also started to use the MoveObjects cheat for the first time. It wasn’t much, but it was a start.
A couple of months later and after some more practice I made a little woodland themed cottage, and I was starting to feel a bit more confident with how my building skills had developed. I wasn’t just thinking about the shape of the build or the interior and the different rooms, but also the landscaping. I even ventured into creating some custom fountains to double as a pond. There wasn’t these big vacant spaces or mismatched rooms, but instead everything seemed to flow together more than before.
Looking back at the build now, there are definitely things I would change, but I can see the progress that I made.
I found myself pushing myself more and more out of my comfort zone, but still gaining more confidence in what I could do using the Building Tools in The Sims 4. I tried to create more than just residential builds and tried to create café’s, parks, schools and libraries a real mixture of different builds. I can’t even begin to think about how many hours I spent just experimenting with different ideas.
I actually dug through some files on my old external hard drive in search of some screenshots from earlier on in The Sims 4’s lifetime. I found a variety of different gameplay screenshots, but not so many builds. The ones I did find brought back memories, and it was kind of strange seeing them again after all this time, but also seeing the progress I made as a Builder.
It was around the time that The Sims 4 Get Famous was released that I finally felt happy with where my skills in building were. I started developing my own little style and found myself creating more modern builds and more recently tiny homes thanks to The Sims 4 Tiny Living Stuff Pack. Even now, I still surprise myself with some of the things that I do, and I’m always learning from other creators and players.
Throughout all the years of building in The Sims 4 I always reminded myself that when I was building that I wanted to have fun. There will always be challenges along the way, things won’t work or go together as expected and that is completely okay you’ll figure them out!
Looking back over my older builds and thinking about the progress I’ve made has been fascinating and has actually got me excited about jumping back in and building with more recent packs as well as the upcoming The Sims 4 Cottage Living.
Before I round off this post, firstly thank you for reading this post. It’s been fun exploring and writing about something a little different. Secondly, I want to leave you with a few Tutorials that I found helpful when I wanted to improve my building skills. Some links will be for individual videos, whereas some will be a part of a bigger playlist that you can follow. This is not a definitive list, as there are so many videos out there that will provide you with a variety of tips and techniques for building.
Building is about having fun and creating a variety of different builds from Tiny Homes to Spectacular Fantasy Castles and everything in between. There is so much you can do when it comes to building that the possibilities are endless!
Don’t forget to share your latest builds, tips, tricks and tutorials with us over on social media or in the comments below!
Even though The Sims 4 Cottage Living looks like it’s going to bring a lot of fun and idyllic charm to the game when it launches for PC and consoles on July 22nd, many players had their hopes and dreams crushed when it was revealed that horses would not be included in Cottage Living. SimGuruRomeo took to social media to explain that horses would have required a lot more resources to do them justice and would have come at the cost of cutting out the other animals. Since horses are not essential to the farm-to-table lifestyle, they opted to focus on byproduct-producing animals instead, like llamas, cows, and chickens.
While this explanation does make a lot of sense, it doesn’t make us miss horses any less. Thankfully, the talented modding community has come up with ways to have an equestrian experience in the game. There are even solutions for console players thanks to talented creators who can turn a regular cat or dog into almost any animal!
Severinka is a very talented CC creator in the community and has been sharing her amazing work on The Sims Resource and her own blog for many years now. She has made some beautiful, realistic-looking horses for The Sims 4. The horses are just decorative statues but they make for great pose props and set dressing for storytellers! The full set comes with seven different horses in various positions and each one comes in white, piebald, chestnut, and buckskin coat patterns.
I was so impressed and inspired by Severinka’s amazing horses that I just had to make my own pose pack with them. The My First Pony Pose Pack comes with 9 different poses for all ages and features a family enjoying a day of bonding with their new horse. While poses are not the same as real equestrian gameplay, I still have a lot of fun telling my stories with these poses and I think other storytellers will, too. They are available on my Patreon for free!
SrslySims makes some of the best content out there for The Sims 4 and she was kind enough to convert the riding helmets from The Sims 3 for my pose pack! No horseback riding scene is complete without a good riding helmet and any horse person will tell you how important it is to protect your head when out riding because you just never know when an accident might happen. Horses are animals that act on instinct, after all. You can grab these helmets on her Patreon for free.
We’ve featured this amazing mod on our website before but it’s worth another mention here because the extremely talented modder, Arnie, has an amazing farm-themed mod coming out soon and it will have horses! Real, actual horses you can interact with and ride! We are pretty impressed with this level of skill and dedication and horse lovers everywhere are rejoicing! Watch the heartwarming trailer above to get a glimpse of the horses coming with this mod pack. The Farmland mod pack will be released for early access on June 24th.
Console players and people with computers that can’t handle mods or CC are usually left out of all the creativity the community has to offer but not this time! Players who own the Cats & Dogs expansion pack can have their very own living, breathing horses in their games thanks to talented creators like PugOwned who have the ability to turn regular cats and dogs into any animal using just the in-game CAS tools! A quick search for horses in the Gallery using the pet filters will bring up hundreds of horses to choose from! I also have a piebald horse available in my catalogue.
Of course, these Gallery horses will sound and act like large dogs in-game because that’s what they are but I always find myself forgetting that they’re dogs when I’m playing with them. Just build them a cozy barn with a pet bed and food dish in each stall, give them a nice paddock with toys and obstacle course equipment and they really are almost like having real miniature horses!
We can’t wait to see what the community comes up with next! Send us your pictures of your Sims 4 equestrian gameplay on social media or tell us all about your favourite farm-themed playthrough here in the comments!
With all the excitement for the upcoming The Sims 4 Cottage Living expansion pack, we decided to take a look at five cottage builds you can download from The Gallery! Each of the builds showcased in this post are perfect for your Sims who might be looking to leave the busy city behind them and move to something a little more cosy and homey. You might have Sims looking to start a family in the countryside, and a cottage might be the perfect family home for your Sims.
Each of the builds featured in this post are available to download from The Gallery right now!
As I was searching through the gallery I came across this next build and I couldn’t miss including it in this post. If you have a Spellcaster Sim or live in the world of Glimmerbrook, this would be a perfect little cottage inspired by Sylvan Glade to have your Sim live in.
With The Sims 4 Cottage Living right around the corner, why not get into the mood by checking out one of the builds featured in this post or over on The Gallery. There are so many fantastic builds to discover!
Don’t forget to share your Cottage Living inspired builds with us by sharing your Gallery ID’s/Build names in the comments below or over on social media.
If you’re a fan of The Sims 2 then you might want to take a moment to check out this brand-new custom content Stuff Pack from Simsi45. However, before you scroll down to the trailer, I want you to cast your memories back to November 2007. Yes, you read that right, 2007!
With fifty new items across a mixture of Gothic, Thrasher and Socialite inspired themes, your Teen Sims had new ways to express who they were and create their dream rooms!
Take a look at the original trailer for The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff below!
Feeling a little nostalgic now? I know I am!
Simsi45 has been creating a variety of custom content packs over the last couple of years including The Sims 2 inspired IKEA Home Stuff, Family Fun Stuff, Happy Holiday Stuff and more!
Below you can find the trailer that Simsi45 has recreated and includes the song Adolescence which you can listen to here.
When I first saw the trailer for Simsi45’s new pack, I was super excited. The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff was one of the first Stuff Packs I picked up for The Sims 2 and spent countless hours creating my Sims ultimate dream bedroom. Mixing and matching the different styles and making other Sims envious of the amazing rooms my Teen Sims had.
Once I had the pack installed in my Mods folder, I jumped into the game to start building a few new rooms, and there was a distinct feeling of nostalgia as I was playing. I could vaguely recall a few rooms I designed back in The Sims 2 but not every little detail. It was good fun taking the time to essentially re-explore the Teen Style Stuff pack again but in The Sims 4.
I had great fun coming up with these three different rooms. It was interesting incorporating items from the various The Sims 4 packs that fitted with each of the different themes. For example, with the Goth themed room I used a handful of items from the Vampires Game Pack as well as the Paranormal Stuff Pack. They just fitted perfectly together. I used a few items from the Parenthood Game Pack in the rooms for smaller details but if I was being honest there is something from every pack and even base game that you could use with The Sims 4 Teen Style Stuff to create the perfect room for your Sims.
So, if you are looking for a little trip down memory lane or just more choice and variety when it comes to creating the perfect room for your Teen Sims then take a look at Simsi45’s The Sims 4 Teen Style Stuff Custom Content Pack!
Note: The Sims 4 Teen Style Stuff Pack is Base Game compatible however, to use the vanity table you will need The Sims 4 Vintage Glamour Stuff Pack. Full details can be found in the Tumblr/Patreon posts linked below.
You can find out more about Simsi45 and how to download the pack by visiting the links below.
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