Hi everyone,

I've been working on this challenge for a while now, and it's finally done! It is a huge challenge, meant to last for months or even years. You start with a completely empty save file, and by the end your world is completely full with sims you've made and played with, their houses, and community lots you've built or picked from the gallery.

It can be played with the base game alone, but has rules for all the packs.

The idea is that you use your households to unlock the community lots, which then let you add more households and unlock even more community lots. I've laid out all the rules in detail on this blog: https://buildaworldchallenge.blogspot.com/

I also created a spreadsheet that you can use to keep track of everything and automatically shows what you've unlocked, which can be found on the blog as well. I started playing through the challenge myself, and have made a few blog posts about my starting households.

I would love any feedback from folks on the challenge and the rules, and whether anything needs to be clarified or could be improved.

Thank you!

Wow, this is very thought through, and if I weren't already deep into my own world building for rotating household purposes, this would be the challenge for me! The rules looks easy to comprehend I think, and I really like that you've centered it around the community lots, I find those much more interesting than residentials. The sim Denise looks very handsome in her outfit too.

A tip for lot assignments:
What I've done in my save is make use of the Residential lot to create all sorts of real life public venues, that the game, yet, have no distinct assignment for. So a 'hospital' is a Residential, with a live in doctor and nurse, in a house built as a medical clinic; a 'graveyard' is a Residential (Haunted House) with a live in grave keeper (and ghost roommates), built like a park like grave yard with a crypt; a 'prison' is a residential with a live in guard, and some inmates as roommates, and the build appropriately structured; a 'daycare' a residential with the day care personnel living there etc. The game allows for a lot of flexibility, and small features can be used to make it seem and act realistic.

The EL lot Community Space, designated a Community Garden, can be used as a place for all sims to access harvestables (a functioning community garden); the lot Museum I've used for cinema, and I'll build a church for congregations with this as well. Etc.

This looks really interesting. I just started a blank save file, planning to do something similar. This is far more thorough! I want to change to your challenge rules. Unfortunately, I cannot open the spreadsheet. (I do not use that program). Can you post a screenshot on your blog so that I can create my own in Sheets?

This challenge looks awesome! I'll have to give it a try when I have finished my Legacy.

Hands down the best challenge I've ever done. I'm almost finished with Willow Creek and can't stop playing. Thanks!

This challenge is so in depth! I've spent my whole day off work playing my founding family. The only think i'm unsure of is how to unlock other residential locks. Couldn't figure it out from the rules/spreadsheet. It may just be me being a bit dim. If you could clarify that would be great.
Thanks for sharing though!

Will you be updating this for the Wedding Stories pack?

Hi, I'm trying to start this challenge but your blogspot blog seems to be missing! I downloaded the excel sheet when I first saw this, but I don't seem to have the rules PDF, do you still have a copy? Thank you!

Hey @arrowsforpens The site is still available via the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/2022042...e.blogspot.com/
The challenge rules PDF is still available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8kpqnlydz...les_2021.11.pdf
Spreadsheet is still available here for those who need it:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfrifssaf...ge_2021.11.xlsx

Get it now in case those links expire!

@simsample thank you so much!

I have been contacted about possibly adopting this challenge and updating it for current and future packs. I'm thinking about it, if there's enough (or any) interest in it... or if my obsessive brain doesn't decide I need to do it just because I like the idea of this challenge.

(Yes, my screen name here is wyldhawke, however it's a very old account.. I go by IllusoryThrall now, and have a wordpress full of fun challenges and stories at https://illusorythrall.wordpress.com/ - as well as being a sims 4/variety Twitch streamer. I do have experience with long, complicated challenges, so I wasn't contacted in error.) Please, let me know if you're interested in seeing this challenge updated!

I'd love to see this updated too.

Yes please!! You would be my absolute hero!

I also would love to see this challenge continued! Especially updated for new(er) packs!

Especially because I struggle to find how to unlock the athlete career... :/

I'd also be interested in seeing updated rules for this challenge if you've ever got time! o/

I'd be interested in this too if you have the time! Thanks so much

Ok guys, I missed this save so much that I bit the bullet and FINALLY UPDATED it!!

It's now completely updated up to Lovestruck (minus Batuu), including both the PDF and the spreadsheet, which you can get here: https://www.tumblr.com/summersash/7...ge?source=share

I spent a ton of time on this but it was way more fun than I thought it would be, so I definitely plan on keeping it updated. All feedback is appreciated, especially if I missed anything!

P.S. I also added the Athletic career to the spreadsheet and fixed some other minor things. Enjoy!