Timeline Legacy
pdf can be found here

The purpose of this Legacy is to play through the lifespan of The Sims 4 as the DLC’s were released. Each generation is a combination of enough packs to make up a generation, but some of them may be a bit unbalanced because of when the packs were released.
This is Part 1, it is a 10 Generation Legacy from Outdoor Retreat to University Stuff.

Rule Information:
What world to Live in: If a generation does not mention a specific world to live in, you may live anywhere.
Careers: If a generation says to “Max a Career”, you have to reach level 10 of either branch . Though if it says to “Join a Career”, then you do not need to complete the career, as it is not that generation’s focus.
Since many packs include multiple careers, it is your choice for which of the careers listed your sim completes.
Suggested: Anything listed below the Suggested, is optional and is some small things from the packs that might be fun to do. They are not a part of the required things, because they are sometimes kinda weird, things I’ve never done before, or maybe involves unaliving a sim.
Each Generation: The Heir must have the required traits, though a couple times, you are able to pick and choose between 2 specific traits. They also must complete the aspirations, max the skills, and complete the collectibles

Generation 5 is broken up into 3 parts, because your sim gets turned into a Vampire and they live a long life, if you don’t want to play it like this you may play each part as a separate generation, totaling the generation count to 12.

Recognizing that The Sims 4 is expensive and not everyone buys every Sims pack, hopefully this legacy can still be played with the packs that you do own. The DLC in the generation title is the main pack required, and the first bullets of each generation show which packs are included in the generation. You can decide if the packs you own are enough to play with the specific generation, the Expansion Packs are going to be the most important, followed by the Game Packs. The Stuff Packs are the lowest priority, so they are not necessary for the generation

Written by PlumbobsiesCC


Gen 1: Outdoor Retreat:
This sim enjoys being out in nature, they travel to Granite Falls often enough that they practically live there. They love collecting insects and herbs and making them into herbalism recipes, unlike their spouse, who despises anything bug related. They’ve become a great storyteller and a grill master, befriended the local hermit, and occasionally likes to dress as a bear to scare new travelers.

Packs:

• Outdoor Retreat

Required:

Traits:

• Loves the Outdoors
• Loner
• Cheerful

Complete Aspiration:

• Outdoor Enthusiast

Join the Freelance Writing career
Max Skills:

• Herbalism
• Handiness

Complete Collectibles:

• Insects

Marry a Squeamish sim
Get a Gold Level Weenie Roast
Befriend the Hermit
Frequently go on vacation to Granite Falls

Suggested:

• Have Bear Costume for one outfit (you can Roar at sims while wearing it)
• Tell a Ghost Story after 7pm to summon the Campsite Ghose

Gen 2: Get to Work:
This sim could be many things, they’ve got a few hobbies that don’t really seem to connect. They love baking, photography, collecting, and have a particular obsession with aliens. Through their life they’ve never been able to decide which career fits them best, should they follow their alien obsession and become a scientist, follow their good-naturedness and become a doctor. Maybe they should become a detective or perhaps see if they can run a bakery/retail store. That's for you to decide.

Packs:

• Get to Work
• Luxury Party
• Perfect Patio

Required:

Traits:

• Goofball
• Good
• Materialistic

Complete Aspiration:

• The Curator

Max one of these careers:

• Scientist
• Doctor
• Detective
• Or Own a Retail Store

Max Skills:

• Baking
• Photography

Complete Collectibles:

• Geodes

Have a Patio decorated with Perfect Patio Stuff
Wear Luxury Party Stuff for Party Outfit

Suggested:

• Get abducted by aliens and get pregnant, or marry an alien
• Visit Sixam

Gen 3: Get Together:
This sim wanted to focus on a zen life, so they packed up everything and moved out to Windenburg. They were feeling a bit lonely in this new town, so they decided to join some of the local clubs to make new friends. Feeling inspired, they also decide to make their own club focusing on their interests. They like to do yoga and meditate in their free time. They LOVE ice cream, and have a love for spooky stuff, not scary stuff, just spooky stuff.

Packs:

• Spa Day
• Cool Kitchen
• Spooky
• Get Together

Required:

Live in Windenburg:
Traits:

• High Maintenance
• Dance Machine
• Insider

Complete both Aspirations:

• Leader of the Pack
• Inner Peace or Zen Guru or Self-Care Specialist

Join the Style Influence Career
Max Skills:

• Wellness
• Dance
• DJ Mixing

Visit each of the bar nights
Clubs:

• Join and overthrow leader of one of the pre made clubs:
• Create your own club
• Have a special hangout lot with club door

Own the Sweet Tooth Ice Cream Machine
Build a home spa
Have Spooky Decor up all year or a designated spooky room

Suggested:

• Unalive a sim in the sauna and have the ghost wear a pumpkin in their head
• Celebrate “Spooky Day” each season (if you have seasons)

Gen 4: Dine Out:
This sim had many interests as a child including battling Voidcritters, sliding on waterslides, watching movies, and most importantly wishing on wishing wells. As an adult they try to chase the nostalgia of their childhood by reigniting their interest. They wish for everything on the wishing well, but the one thing they cannot wish for is food, though it would be amazing to summon food at will. Their dream is to own a 5 star restaurant and provide food for others. They continue collecting Voidcritters and have a movie night once a week. They love romance movies the most, which might be why they keep wishing, waiting for someone to come crawling out of that well.

Packs:

• Movie Hangout
• Romantic Garden
• Dine Out
• Kids Room Stuff
• Backyard Stuff

Required:

Traits:

• Foodie
• Romantic
• Childish

Complete Aspiration:

• Grilled Cheese

Own a Restaurant
Max skill:

• Gourmet Cooking
• Charisma

Complete Collectibles:

• Experimental Food Photo Collection
• Voidcritters

Have a weekly Movie Night
Wish on the Wishing Well for:

• Spouse
• Children

Have a Voidcritter with Max Power Level
Own a waterslide

Suggested:

• Sim should wish for romance until the Well creates a sim
• Watch every movie

Gen 5, Part 1: City Living:
*This Generation is meant to be a part of a multi-parted generation. If you do not want to play with the same sim for the next 3 Parts, you can still play them as if they were their own generations*

This Sim has always wanted to live in the big city and experience everything the city has to offer. They want to go to every festival, live in every neighborhood, and most importantly eat all the food, wanting to master spicy food and the art of using chopsticks. They love singing karaoke and competing with their friends. This sim is often very busy so they hire a live-in butler to help take care of the apartment, making their life much easier. There’s a few careers that the city has to offer and they are having some trouble deciding which one is a good fit!

Packs:

• City Living
• Vintage Glamour

Required:

Live in San Myshuno
Traits:

• Art Lover
• Clumsy
• Unflirty

Complete Aspiration:

• City Native

Max one of these Careers:

• Politics
• Social Media
• Critic

Max Skills:

• Singing
• Charisma (Politics and Social Media Career)
• Writing (Critic Career)

Complete Collectibles:

• Snow Globe
• City Posters
• Food Stall Recipes

Complete each of the Festivals
Have a Butler once you can afford it
Have the Globe Bar and Vanity
Children have fun interactions on both of these items
Befriend a Talking Toilet
Once you complete all the tasks for this part, get this sim turned into a Vampire, to begin the next generation.

Suggested:

• Unalive a sim with Pufferfish Nigiri
• Always have a Butler even when you cannot afford it

Gen 5, Part 2: Vampires:
So this sims has been turned into a vampire. Well this sims gotta get used to their new life now. They decide to drop everything and move to Forgotten Hollow to start their new life, they need to find a new job, new friends, and new ways to occupy their time. They decide to start a new club with sims in a similar situation, almost like a support group. They're gonna need a normal, regular person activity to do during their club meetings, and what's more normal than Bowling, so they and their fellow vampires gather to bowl together. Since they’re in this life, they want to study everything there is to know about vampires, maybe then they can find a cure.

Packs:

• Vampires
• Bowling Stuff

Required:

Become a Vampire
Live in Forgotten Hollow
Traits: (Use a Re-Traiting Potion)

• Bookworm
• Kleptomaniac
• Erratic

Complete one of these Aspirations:

• Vampire Family
• Good Vampire
• Master Vampire

Join one of the freelance careers:

• Programmer
• Artist
• Writer

Max Skills:

• Vampire Lore
• Pipe Organ
• Bowling

Achieve a Perfect Llama
Frequently go bowling
Make all the vampire bar drinks
Once you complete all the tasks for this part, move to Brindleton Bay to begin the next generation, you can cure your sim of vampirism if you want.

Suggested:

• Have a vampire Bowling Club with Get to Work
• Have a bowling alley in your house

Gen 5, Part 3: Cats and Dogs:
This sim has lived a long life, they are finally ready to settle down and start a family, so they move to a little seaside town to start their new life. Prior to starting their new family, they want to open a Veterinary clinic, and to ease their way into their new life with some pets. They want to be a very hands-on parent, and super involved in their families’ lives. One of the hobbies they enjoy is working out, they can jog with their infants or their dogs, or they can enjoy a solo climb on the rock climbing wall.

Packs:

• Parenthood:
• Fitness Stuff:
• Toddler Stuff:
• Cats and Dogs:

Required:

Live in Brindleton Bay
Traits: (Use a Re-Traiting Potion)

• Dog Lover or Cat Lover
• Active
• Family-Oriented

Complete both Aspirations:

• Super Parent Aspiration
• Friend of the Animals

Own a Vet Clinic
Max Skills:

• Parenting
• Veterinarian
• Pet Training

Complete Collectibles:

• Feathers
• Assemble the feathers into a sculpture

Have at least 1 cat and 1 dog

• Simstagram your pets

Have at least 2 children
Complete the Fire Challenge on the Rock Climbing Wall

• Have a home gym with a sprinkler system to avoid burning to death

Gold Level Toddler Play Date

Suggested:

• If your sim was cured of their vampirism, they are paranoid of their past coming back to bite them so they fill their house with garlic
• Have a full house with pets and children

Gen 6: Seasons:
This sim loves to travel whenever they can, they take off work and love to stay in the remote jungle. They grew up surrounded by pets, but since they are gone so often, they decided to own a rodent because those are easy to take care of, right? They love to dance and sometimes dabble with the
guitar. They are obsessed with holidays, they go all out, decorating for every season and holiday. They have a flower garden and enjoy creating flower arrangements.

Packs:

• Laundry Day
• Jungle Adventure
• My First Pet Stuff
• Seasons

Required:

Traits:

• Loves the Outdoors
• Music Lover
• Self-Assured

Complete one of these Aspiration:

• Jungle Explorer
• Archaeology Scholar

Max the Gardening Career
Max the Scout Afterschool activity as a child (or have your child join the activity)
Max Skills:

• Selvadoradian Culture
• Archaeology
• Flower Arranging

Complete Collectibles:

• Ancient Omiscan Artifacts
• Omiscan Treasures
• Decorative Egg Collection

Travel frequently to Selvadorada
Participate in every Holiday
Always have a Rodent
Use the Laundry system

• Can use flowers to make the clothes smell good

Assemble 2 different Mystic Relics
Get a money tree
Collect a swarm of bees
Befriend Patchy

Suggested:

• Kill a sim with Rabid Rodent Fever
• Have a baby with Father Winter
• Gift a sim a Flower arrangement that is scented with a death flower (someone you don’t like)
• Maybe an Elder????

Gen 7: Get Famous:
This sim has dreamed of being famous their whole life. As a child they were in the drama club, and dreamed of the best actor ever. They didn’t want to wait for their acting career to take off for them to become famous, so they start producing media in the hopes that it’ll speed up their road to fame. There are many routes to fame, but this sim is unsure whether it would be better to be adored, or feared, but they would do anything to achieve this goal.

Packs:

• Get Famous

Required:

Live in Del Sol Valley
Traits:

• Self Absorbed
• Ambitious
• Mean or Good

Complete one of these Aspirations:

• Master Actor
• World-Famous Celebrity

Max the Acting Career
Max the Drama Club as a child (or have your child join the club)
Max Skills:

• Acting
• Media Production

Achieve either an Atrocious or Pristine Reputation

• Have Gold Level Lampoon Party or Charity Benefit Party

Become a 5 Star Celebrity
Use the Celestial Crystal Crown
Sleep in the Sleep Pod

Suggested:

• Woohoo in a Money Vault
• Kill a sim in the Luminary’s Exotic Water Garden

Gen 8: Island Living:
This sim has been scared for most of their life, always afraid of what lurks around the corner, but when they are convinced that the Military is their purpose in life, they move to a place that is more fearful than any other. They are forced to investigate the strange phenomena within StrangerVille, they don’t think that they can do this alone, but who can they trust. Once they solve the mystery, this sim decides to leave their life in StrangerVille behind, they’ve always felt drawn to the ocean, so maybe there they can relax. Once they move there, they start off in a little part time job while doing some odd jobs, then they discover their calling as a Conservationist.

Packs:

• StrangerVille
• Island Living

Required:

Become a Mermaid eventually
Live in StrangerVille, then Sulani
Traits:

• Paranoid
• Child of the Islands or Child of the Ocean
• Noncommittal

Complete Aspiration:

• StrangerVille Mystery
• Beach Life

Join Careers:

• Military
• Part Time: Diver, Lifeguard, or Fisherman
• Conservationist

Max Skills:

• Logic
• Fishing

Complete Collectibles:

• Seashells
• Buried Treasure
• Underwater Photos

Solve the StrangerVille Mystery
3 Star Odd Job Reputation
Clean up the Island until the Mua Pel’am is thriving
Commune with Sulani Elementals

Suggested:

• Woohoo in the waterfall
• Prank Sunbather
• Use Fish Traps

Gen 9: Realm of Magic:
This sim decided to move out to Glimmerbrook to pursue their fashion photography career, I don’t know why they thought living in a secluded area was the best place to do this. When out exploring the woods one day, they came upon an otherworldly arch, that when they stepped though they were transported to another realm, where magic exists. They want to learn everything they can about all this magic that they discovered, because imagine how much easier life would be if you could just magic everything. And because everyone needs a hobby, they like to play the violin.

Packs:

• Realm of Magic
• Moschino Stuff

Required:

Become a Spellcaster
Live in Glimmerbrook
Traits:

• Perfectionist
• Hot-Headed
• Lazy

Complete one of these Aspirations:

• Spellcraft & Sorcery
• Purveyor of Potions

Join the Freelance Photographer Career
Max Skills:

• Photography
• Violin

Complete Collectibles:

• Magical Artifacts

Suggested:

• Achieve an Ancient Bloodline in this challenge (doesn’t have to be this generation)
• Discover every spell and potion

Gen 10: Discover University:
This sim is all about college life, they want to keep learning new things for the rest of their days. They want to experience everything that college has to offer, from classes and tests, to (e)sports and secret societies. They know the purpose of college is to get a job, but what if they just stayed in school forever.

Packs:

• Discover University
• Tiny Living

Required:

Live in Britechester
Traits:

• Genius
• Geek
• Bro

Complete Aspiration:

• Academic

Graduate with a degree
Join one of the careers eventually :

• Law
• Education
• Engineer

Max Skills:

• Robotics
• Research & Debate

Join the Secret Society
Build a Servo

Suggested:

• Join all the school organizations that you can
• Earn more than one degree