Starting the Decades Challenge | The Sims 4: Decades Challenge Part 1 | 1890's

foreign and welcome back to my Channel or welcome if you are brand new and just joining me for the very first time I'm very excited to have you here today we're going to be starting the decades Challenge from the beginning all over again um if you've been um a follower of my channel then you know I've already done this challenge in the past I started it a few years ago and pretty much went all the way with it uh it didn't have an official ending it sort of just fizzled out in like the mid 2000s I think it was um and I mean it was a lot of fun I really enjoyed it we went through every generation every um era and it was so much fun and basically there's a few things that inspired me to start this chat challenge again one of them is the new Horse Ranch pack as soon as I saw the world I thought okay I know what I need to do here I want to start the decades challenge also the addition of horses um a lot of the new items as well made me think that it was definitely time to pick up this challenge again um and what else oh so the last time I did this challenge we did not have uh well a lot of things we now have the Eco Eco living is that what it's called I think that's what the pack is called so we can live um Off the Grid we can do simple living because of the new um I can never remember Pack names I think it's cottage living um that one has a new lot trade as well um like I said simple living we have the addition of livestock so we have chickens cows we can also um do some more gardening like the bigger oversized crops they're just so many aspects that have been added to the game since I started this challenge last time that I think are going to be so beneficial and I'm just really really excited to be doing this and I'm going to be doing it just a little bit different than last time because I did learn a few things along the way on how I would change it for the next time and I'm going to incorporate those changes now so before I start um and introduce my Sims and go over the rules and all that stuff I do want to start by saying uh this one little disclaimer because again I've done this before I kind of know what's coming um so I I'm not a historian I'm not an expert on History by any means I am I interested yes um and I mean I do research along the way I try to make things as historically accurate as I can but um I don't know everything and there will be some things along the way where people are like hey that ain't right and if that's the case uh you can definitely point it out but I mean go easy on me because last time the historians came for me sometimes and it was really intense so I I get why historians want to see this Challenge and I'm here for you guys and I want your help throughout this I want tips and advice and um all you guys to support along the journey but also just please do so kindly because sometimes the comments were pretty harsh and it got a little out of hand so that's my disclaimer I'm not an expert on history I will do my absolute best to be as accurate as possible but I don't have all the answers and at the end of the day this is just for fun it's just a video game let's not get it uh let's not make it too deep uh so that's that now for the other part uh the challenge rules so should we go for that now or should I introduce my Sims first I think we'll introduce the Sims also um and doing things a little bit differently this time so I'm actually going to be doing a register riches challenge um maybe at least for the first generation not sure what's gonna happen by the second generation haven't gotten there yet but um and I'll explain why in just a second so we're starting off with our founder Sims they are a married couple um this is Thomas Wilder and his wife Edith so the story is these two are newlyweds they are actually um young adults and uh when they got married in another world not gonna say which ones I don't really know but they got married elsewhere in a completely different world uh and at the time that they got married there was no land to purchase where they lived and they heard of cheap land for them to purchase here in Chestnut Ridge and decided that they were going to make the trip because of course they have basically nothing both of them were raised on farms and never really grew up with much so they are quite poor right now and they're just starting out and by quite poor I mean like dirt poor they have zero simoleons as you can see uh and they really came here with the clothes on their back and of course their horse fancy came with them um fancy is a okay I thought I was gonna say what breed she is when I hovered but it doesn't say I'm really not sure she's she's very pretty though uh so fancy came with them of course and they brought along a tent which is of course purely decorative they can't actually use that a couple of sleeping bags a light because you know that's helpful and then they've got their little like um this box here which I'm not even sure if we're gonna use that I just thought it really worked for the aesthetic um so they have just arrived in Chestnut Ridge their plan is to build a beautiful life and a beautiful home together they're going to have children um and build a ranch as well my plan is to have like um well to do gardening obviously uh cows chickens horses sheep goats like all the things um we're gonna try and do it all and it's gonna take some time but that's okay I am fully prepared for that like I said I want this to be somewhat of a regs to riches challenge uh so to start off I don't think we can actually fish here oh we can Okay the reason we can fish here is uh because I did stock this pond so that we can fish from our our home lot um there's only a certain amount of fish species in this pond so we'll have to keep adding to it as we go but I did before I started playing I did add some fish into this pond so there's some available for us to catch um because we are going to need that for food and I'll explain why in just a second okay so Thomas is here he's doing some fishing Edith is quite hungry so I'm gonna have her roast a marshmallow for now because I don't know what else to do uh we don't have any other food or means of cooking food right now so marshmallows it is okay they're also burning to death because it's summertime they need their hot weather outfits so let's change them both you can roast a marshmallow after that because I mean first you're gonna roast if you don't change your outfit okay and then try going and fishing again I'm gonna get these two kind of set up with what they're doing and then we can talk about them a little bit more okay so she's in her hot weather outfit it's not much better but it is what it is we can also go through their outfits as well because I think that might be sort of beneficial and then we can go through their traits um you guys already know sort of their back story and I do have this um the lifespan set to Long instead of normal and I will explain why in just a second so this is Edith Wilder she has the big top big happy family aspiration she's proper she is a Rancher and she's family oriented so the Rancher basically just comes from her Roots I think um because both her and Thomas were raised on ranches uh and proper just because I thought it's the 1890s that seems like it would probably suit her um so these are Edith's outfits I use a lot of the custom content that I use the last time I did the decades challenge it really came in handy and then we also got a lot of new outfits that just worked uh for this as well so this is her second outfit I think actually they're probably all custom content just because I had so many good things that I couldn't not use um this one's custom as well I I'm I'm just gonna preface this by saying I'm pretty sure they're all custom oh that's weird these two outfits are the same this one has a hat okay maybe let's change this one make it a little bit different there we go matches the Hat okay and then the fifth outfit is this one here we had to go for the big big hat this is sort of her um going into town outfit when they get kind of fancied up um she's got the gloves so that's that her formal outfit is this one here this sort of Victorian dress this one is I think it came with get together um athletic wear we'll probably never see it but that's that's her athletic uh sleepwear is just like a nightgown her party wear with the little um hat I believe they call that a fascinator I could be wrong but I think that's what it is uh this is her swimwear which again will probably never see her wear because I mean I don't even think this would have been appropriate for a woman in the 1890s this is her hot weather outfit again it's not super appropriate for hot weather but back then they didn't wear shorts this is pretty much it with the addition of a hat for sun protection and then this is her cold weather outfit again not that different so that is Edith her dream is to just live on a ranch and and raise her kids and that's that's pretty much it to do all that with Thomas uh Thomas Wilder he has the successful lineage aspiration his traits are good Rancher and music lover I wanted to add that as like a little bonus I could see him maybe playing like the guitar or the piano or something um so I added that in there so these are Thomas's outfits um of course had to have the hat for him I think it just suits him so well um this outfit I don't even think I don't think that's custom content I can't remember uh oh no it came with cottage living I think so um this outfit which I believe that came with the same pack um this one here a lot of them are very basic and then this one which uh both of their fifth outfits are their going to town outfits as I like to call them where they're a little bit fancier he's got the Hat um a skipped formal by accident this is his athletic wear uh Formal Wear also came with get together his sleepwear party wear pretty much the same as the going to town outfit swimwear hot weather outfit again they're not that different and then the cold weather outfit which I'm not super sold on it's a little too Cowboy for me but I'll keep it for now um and then fancy will it say what her breed is I don't think it will oh Morgan that's it okay uh and then fancy is brave independent and intelligent so that is our household for now they will eventually have kids I'm not in any sort of hurry to do that because we don't even have walls and a roof first we need to get to that point um so my plan with the Wilders by the way yes that is based um or I guess inspired from The Little House on the Prairie books last summer I got into those books again I think it had been like 20 years since I'd read them um and I went to the library I got like all seven maybe books I think there's seven maybe more maybe less around around seven books and I just I read them all they were so good and I really recommend getting back into those books if you read them when you were a kid because they're just so wholesome and that really inspired me to do this challenge again as well um so yeah with the last name Wilder is definitely inspired by that um this poor woman she why are you not fishing like continuously I'm not sure what his plan is uh did he get any fish no he did not um so we need to make some money that's for sure I'm a little bit concerned about that another thing I'm concerned about is bathing because we have no way of bathing right now we do have the bush over here where they can um pee so there's that that'll be taken care of um but yeah like for hygiene it's not looking good so hopefully Thomas can um can at least attempt to fish and she's just gonna eat a bunch of marshmallows in a row all right um So the plan for making money okay right so the rags to rich is part of this uh I really wanted to do this Challenge from the ground up and that's also why I set their lifespan too long instead of normal just so we have more time to accomplish those things I really want to enjoy this first generation um oh we caught his first fish looks like a bass it was a basket uh we can eat that I really want to enjoy this first generation just take my time and really build a life for these two um and we're we have such a long ways to go I know I know that I can't do that in a normal lifespan I really do need the extra time so uh especially when we have so many limitations um yeah time is going to be really important so that's the regs to riches aspect of this my plan is to um like I said build a house build the ranch side of things and we'll just see this slowly grow but it's not going to be a race I'm just going to kind of take my time and I may uh set the lifespan back to normal after this generation I'm not really sure I don't want to be too much of a stickler for certain rules like that because those could be things that prevent me from enjoying this challenge my issue with the last time I did this challenge was that I was trying so hard to stick to the rules that I sometimes wasn't enjoying playing and and to me I think that's the whole point so yes it's a challenge but if I have to adjust things to make it more enjoyable then I'm just gonna do that and not be too concerned about the rules this time around it's going to be more about the story I think um oh there's some horse manure here which is good because we can keep that um all right let's go and um we need to make some money and the best way to do that I think is to hack up some prairie grass because when you do that you can find fun little things um also like dig piles that kind of stuff my plan is to um sell some stuff that way so there's a dig pile here not as many as I was expecting to be honest I thought that I would have an easier time with this I don't want frogs I was I was really hoping to find like I said dig piles but also the Prairie Grass because that is really worth it here's some we'll Harvest that and I don't see any other Prairie Grass oh boy this could be harder than I thought um here's some right here also I guess I should be using the horse for transportation that is kind of the whole point and there's some over here Harvest all and is that it I've got her like all over the place she's going all over the map I feel like she's gonna be gone for a really long time but that's okay I I just this is important we need to we need to start making some money and that's probably the best way to do it so I'm gonna have her do that she's gonna go around um collecting whatever we can and then my plan this is the first thing that may or may not be historically accurate probably not because I don't think yard sales were a thing back then in the 1890s but my plan is to get the yard sale table and then sell what we find for a 300 markup because um if we were just to make money from collecting things and not sell at the yard sale table it would take a very very very long time to build our house and our Ranch so um yeah we wanted a little bit like uh expedited I guess so we're gonna use the yard sale table to sell certain things um okay Thomas he's got three different types of fish now so that's good what I would like for them to buy first is probably a stove because as you can see they are hungry fancy is just running around we're gonna have to um she has nothing to this poor horse she's got uh no place to sleep what kind of fish is that is that the trout it is a trout okay good um so I think what we'll do is go over here and eat more marshmallows because I don't know what else to do I don't know what else for them uh there is for them to eat also she's on her phone if um yeah it's 18.90 so those don't exist um I also took the time to clear out pretty much every single lot in Chestnut Ridge um just to make it look more like Barren and empty uh and I didn't want any non-historically accurate homes to be in the picture so I got rid of all of those uh and then I did add a bunch of historically accurate Sims from the gallery so hopefully we come across some of those but we still will have regular townies there's really nothing we can do about that they're gonna pop up now and then or most the time I love this I really do just hacks at the prairie grass and like I said we'll sell some of it and then the rust we can um give to Fancy see like we found a bottle of nectar here in the prairie grass foreign turquoise we're doing pretty good oh Thomas did you go to sleep he did that's kind of rude it's a little rude um okay we I this is sad that we can only eat marshmallows oh the other thing I want to talk about um let me just go into build mode here so we have two lot traits that are gonna make sorry not law trades lot challenges no three I don't remember what the third one was okay um we have three lot challenges here that are going to make things more realistic but also more challenging so we've got off the grid this lot is not connected to the utility grid and most objects that use power or water will not function as expected can your Sims survive without the Comforts of plumbing and electricity natural living does have its advantages such as no utility bills okay so there's that um so I mean yeah no utility bills that's great but also this is a very realistic uh lot trait um then we've also got simple living I hate this one I've tried it before it's difficult uh this lot requires ingredients to cook all recipes cooking with ingredients just makes food taste better so that one again realistic but also very complicated uh this is harder than it seems because you need sometimes multiple ingredients to make one thing and it's um it really limits you but once we have our crops and our Gardens going that will be easier the main focus we're just gonna eat fish mostly as soon as we get something to cook it with that's pretty much our goal um also we don't have a fridge at the moment so that's going to be difficult because we're gonna have to cook every single time they're hungry we can't use leftovers um but anyway so simple living is another one and then also Wild Prairie Grass day after day Wild Prairie Grass will pop up and spread are the seeds of this hay yielding plant carry by the wind gnomes both nobody knows that one I've never played with before I may get rid of it if I hate it but I thought it would be beneficial because we can use it to make money and to feed our horse so that's why I've got that um Thomas just became friends with fancy just by sitting here having a fire uh and yeah I want to get the yard sale table too but the problem is that's going to cost money so Edith is off on her Adventure it's almost midnight we've got this turquoise we've got two of these time capsules uh potato nectar Prairie Grass nectar um we're doing okay outstanding horse manure we've got a pear which we could plant this poor woman it's so late Into the Night life was rough in the 1890s but here we are okay we found a Blackberry also something that we can um plant so that's good uh also quite a while she's doing this I'll go over the rules a little bit I will be following quite closely there are a few things that I will be changing and or just omitting entirely and I will go over those things once we kind of come to it so um first rule is the first rule that I'm breaking uh for the air only male errors are allowed that there are no sons and a daughter's husband may become Heir I don't think I'm gonna play with that I I don't really know um I'm open to feedback on that one should we play with errors or not I was even thinking of making this more like a matriarchy where we play with female heirs and just flip that entirely but yeah I don't really have a plan yet I or we could just go with the first generation born um oh my God even she's so exhausted just have her going all over the place I feel like this is kind of cruel and yeah let's just go home this is cruel and unusual punishment also she really has to pee so there's that um okay so what have her head home go to the washroom if you can make it is the horse dirty yeah okay uh fancy needs to be brushed um I'm gonna never go to sleep oh this is rough or should we ever eat the Blackberry you know what have her eat the Blackberry and the pear we can get those things later this woman is starving to death it's also 3am I'm sorry I did you dirty I should have made her do that okay so eat those two things and then go to sleep uh what was it the nectar we got Prairie Grass nectar that sounds really gross okay um she's exhausted so I'm gonna send her to bed um continuing with the rules uh traits daughters must have creative as their first treat trait no that is super lame that's like one of my least favorite rules I'm just gonna randomize trades I don't want them all to have the same traits or and I don't want to be in control of them so also won't play with that one um relationship slash woohoo Sims they only have a relationship with and marry the opposite gender um we will be playing with that rule is just for the first few Generations because it would have been realistic for that time um Sims may only marry within their own ethnicity and race again that is just historically accurate but um after a few Generations that rule will change Sims must only try for baby and never woohoo uh the reason I'm not doing that rule is because I have MC Command Center where set to um woohoo being risky so Sims still have a chance of getting pregnant from regular woohoo and I believe it's at like 15 so I'm still gonna just do regular woohoo because they can still get pregnant from that and basically the reason behind that is that birth control would not have been available back then so that does make perfect sense uh okay let's take care of fancy this morning it is like 6 A.M and she's gonna need some help let's get that Prairie Grass into Thomas's inventory okay um talk to brush coat sorry fancy I'm not meaning to completely ignore you so we're gonna take care of fancy I'm gonna keep reading here teenage Sims cannot mess around Sims cannot get a divorce unless one of them commits adultery female children move out once they are married and adoption is not allowed so that all makes sense um so for home and building it said to add the Off the Grid lot challenge so we did that no electricity outhouses only um no toilets in the home not an issue because we don't have a toilet at all so oh my God you have to pee again okay come back oh oh no oh that's rough Edith just peed herself and we don't have a bathtub or the means to purchase one all right let's start selling some things because we need to be able to to bathe and I think a bathtub like a really cheap one is around 300 simoleons uh oh that frog was worth a hundred so that's good um and then we'll also sell the horse manure see where that gets us I was hoping we could go another day or two without the bathtub but that's obviously not going to be possible this poor woman uh okay so this tub is oh it's only 150. that's not bad um sadly there is nowhere to take a private bath so the one of the first things I'm gonna build when we can afford it is an outhouse um but for now not an option oh they probably want to eat too let's find out how much that stove is the one I'm thinking of is like an outdoor stove but not quite a barbecue 880 simoleons that's crazy but see that's like the only option because none of these would really be accurate um and just like a regular stove is not gonna work either okay that's rough but maybe we'll be okay are you refusing to use that okay I thought he was refusing to use the the bush that would have been a little ridiculous all right so Edith is finally bathing um and then she do we have any more food we have some spinach and a mushroom and a Choco Berry actually we'll give we'll give Thomas the chocolate berry we can share the love where did it go because yeah they they need to eat and I'm getting sick of the marshmallows already because it doesn't really even fill them um okay so Thomas is gonna be hacking away at the grass here why is there a bowl here what okay put that away um all right so Harvest all Prairie Grass Fancy please get out of the way why can't I harvest this oh fancy thinks she's gonna eat it no no you already ate oh she ate it anyway okay that's that's fine that's fair so we got nothing out of that like I thought that he would have weird okay so I guess that just didn't work all right let's go fishing some more uh and then yeah I want to get the yard sale table again I don't know how much those are gonna be all right so I'm continuing with the rules trying to set things up so I can read the rules while they're living their lives uh only wooden furniture is allowed only wood floors and walls um it tells you which painting styles to use um which kind of appliances not to use that kind of stuff um okay and the rest of this is like not doesn't really apply to us careers saying which careers we can have but we're not going to have a career we're going to be ranchers um births must occur at home babies can only be fed by breastfeeding um your Sims may not throw any events besides weddings and family reunions I'm not doing that because Christmas was very much a thing so we can have holiday parties um vacations are not allowed what a life all laundry must be done with the wash basin and clothesline that is my plan eventually uh but we're not quite there yet only men can vote on neighborhood action plans and that is pretty much it so um yeah those are the basics of the challenge obviously there's a little bit more to it but [Music] I don't want to go into too much detail how much are these worth not that much this woman is like exhausted where are you going she's gonna nap in the P bush no no just go to sleep I need to get their lives together so far this is really rough okay maybe not fishing I don't think this is gonna be like the most lucrative way to make money I really thought that we would find more stuff in the prairie grass I'm a little disappointed again I should be riding the horse over to these locations but the problem is we don't have any of the riding skills so I don't even know if that's an option I'm sending Thomas out he can do some errands and by errands I mean harvesting prairie grass and whatever else we can find I love this little bridge this world is so beautiful and that's this is why I wanted to to play this challenge again like I just started playing in this world and I was like yeah no this it was made for this challenge also it reminds me of my second favorite video game which is Red Dead Redemption and it sounds weird but this landscape is very much red dead and I love that game so this is um it's just I love it I love this entire Vibe uh okay Thomas is doing a few things Edith is asleep I mean I wish that I had had her go to sleep at a reasonable hour because this is a bit ridiculous uh but I'm Gonna Leave This episode here um we're just kind of getting started so I'm sorry if that was like just super confusing and too much informational once but I'm really looking forward to this Challenge and looking forward to having you guys come along with me please leave like your comments suggestions tips feedback all that in the comments again please be kind to me and to others as well when you're leaving feedback because sometimes um well like I said they sometimes people get very worked up about things not being historically accurate which I understand but um I don't have all the answers so feel free to educate me as kindly as possible if you guys enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up comment down below and I will see you guys in the next video thanks for watching [Music] [Music]

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Published: Mon Aug 14 2023