First - I just wanna say I love the @lilsimsie Not So Berry Challenge, and I’ve been watching Kelsey Dangerous play it, but I wanted to play at writing my own version of a berry challenge that primarily uses base game only. Any DLC content is a “bonus challenge” and is completely optional, even if you own the DLC.
Especially now that the Sims 4 is free to play, so new people who don’t have the DLC (or who just want to play for free without piracy) can try out a challenge of their own.
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Rules:
1. The playable sim of each generation must live on the family’s land. This land can be in whatever city you choose. Try to pick the largest lot in the city so your family has plenty of room.
2. The typical “each heir must represent the legacy color as best as possible” rule - this means hair, clothes, and any additions they make to the house. However, try to keep some pieces of the previous generations around as well, overwriting your family feels wrong.
3. The heir doesn’t necessarily have to be the oldest. As stated at the bottom of each gen, the heir is picked based on which kid earns or needs the land.
4. Avoid using money cheats outside of “Freerealestate” to buy the empty plot at the beginning.
5. Every generation should complete their aspiration and if stated, a career.
6. Spouse colors do not matter.
7. Keep lifespans on normal, it’s more funny that way.
8. If you do this and want to share, use the hashtag #HomegrownBerryLegacy
9. Spouses should take your last name no matter the gender. You have a legacy to uphold.
10. The “heir” is decided when they age up to an adult - parents should either move out if still younger, or retire and stay living on the lot until death. If moved out, attempt to visit after death to collect the family graves.
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Generation 1: Blue
You aren’t from the area, but you moved here anyway. Last month, just as your landlord kicked you out, you received a letter saying that your great uncle twice removed had left you a plot of land. Selling everything but your clothes, you hike across the country, arriving to a nice piece of land with nothing on it but a mailbox. With 20,000 Simoleons to your name, you decide to build yourself a little blue house.
Traits: Self-Assured, Ambitious, Materialistic
Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Career: Business - Investor Branch
Rules:
- Build a small blue house that has plenty of room to expand.
- Buy at least 2 trees or bushes
- Date around the local area and marry a family minded sim to help raise the kids.
Heir: The most academically gifted of your children, who has the most potential to maintain the family name and legacy. This child is a straight A student who worked in high school. If you move out, you take over half the family funds.
(Bonus: If you have High School Years or College Life and one of your children becomes Valedictorian, they become the heir.)
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Generation 2: Purple
Your whole life you were working to please your parents. You maintained good grades and even got a part time job in high school. But you also enjoy putting your nose to the grindstone. You don’t much enjoy talking with others, and you really don’t like being confined to this planet. So you decide to go into space, because in space, there is nothing but the sweet silence of your own breathing.
Traits: Loner, Geek, Neat
Aspiration: Nerd Brain
Career: Barista, Astronaut
Rules:
- Try to maintain as social outcast of a personality as possible.
- Marry someone in your career.
- Become best friends with your heir
- Only build yourself a purple room and a rocket, you don’t need much else. But do feel free to add purple decor in the house where it looks like stuff is needed. (Note that you’ll want to keep the rocket around until gen 9, for the grilled cheese aspiration.)
Heir: You’re mostly surprised you managed to have an heir in the first place, but you did try your best to raise them well. Your heir is the child who became your best friend as time went on - one of the few people to look past your loner, introvert nature and become quiet friends with you.
If you move out, you take exactly 35,000 simoleons to buy a quiet house away from others.
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Generation 3: Green
Much like your parent, you enjoy some quiet and solitude, but you aren’t really a loner. You just like the outdoors, and everything that comes with it - gardening, fishing, hiking, jogging. You take your green side of the legacy VERY seriously. You apply your love of nature to your career as well - you become a painter so you can share how gorgeous nature is with everyone around you.
And in your heart, you are a hopeless romantic - your biggest goal, behind supporting nature and the environment, is to find a soulmate.
Traits: Loves outdoors, Art Lover, Good
Aspiration: Soulmate
Career: Painter - Master of the Real branch
Rules:
- Meet your spouse while doing an outdoor activity like fishing
- Donate to charity every Saturday
- Build a green themed family graveyard with cute flowers.
- Add at least 6 plants to the property outside of the graveyard.
- Have at least 3 children.
Heir: Being in the art world, you decide to make a statement with your heir - they are the youngest child.
You don’t move out because you want to continue caring for your baby, especially after they get cheated on in high school.
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Generation 4: Red
You grew up surrounded by luxury. Your parent is an artist, you are the baby of the family. Despite being a bit spoiled, even your siblings like you because you are just that charismatic and friendly. You have a popular simstagram page. You have a lot of friends. You are always the center of any crowd. Everyone wants to either be you or date you, often both. But despite this your first partner cheated on you in high school, and your best childhood friend stopped talking to you, so you hide deep jealousy behind your charismatic exterior. You also throw bomb ass parties, because who has time to be jealous when they are partying all the time?
Traits: Jealous, Perfectionist, Outgoing
Aspiration: Party Animal
Career: Style Influencer - Trendsetter branch
Rules:
- Catch teenage boyfriend/girlfriend cheating on you (may require playing as the partner temporarily)
- Build yourself a fancy master bedroom with a walk in closet and a full bathroom with the fanciest of bathroom items.
- Make a best friend as a child, stop talking to each other.
- Accept every party invitation you receive.
- Post Simstigrams and vlogs of all your children.
- Bonus: If you have pets DLC, get a pet and post simstigrams of them as well.
Heir: The child with the most social media followers by adulthood. They make you proud, and by being internet famous, they bring more hype to you and your career. After all, you raised this internet famous kid yourself.
If you move out, you take most of the money, leaving your heir with just 5k and the house.
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Generation 5: Orange
Your childhood was like walking on glass as you carefully kept yourself on your parent’s good side. Ever since you were a kid, your parent was taking pictures of you and your siblings and making family vlogs. Kids in school knew you from these videos, and you don’t really have privacy. You use your own internet popularity to post pictures of your cooking creations, and you promise to be a better parent than Red. You promise yourself you also cannot hurt anyone the way your parent’s ex hurt them, as that is some WILD generational trauma. Luckily food is your passion, and you are GOOD at your passion.
Traits: Foodie, Loyal, Cheerful
Aspiration: Master Chef
Career: Culinary - chef branch
Rules:
- Build a nice orange kitchen add-on to the house.
- Become chubby, like a good chef.
- On top of your other culinary success, master both baking and mixology skills.
- Marry a sim with the goofball trait.
Heir: Well, you were going to pick an heir, but when White came of age, you find yourself being shuffled out of the house with your spouse and other children as White takes charge. Barely into adulthood, they’ve already forged your signature on some documents stating that they own the house now.
Luckily they didn’t have full access to the bank accounts, and you leave with ¾ of the family money.
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Generation 6: White
You always wanted to own the house, thinking it’s about time to add a branch in YOUR style. So you forged Orange’s signature and you kicked them out of their own home, making an enemy of your parent. Unfortunately for you, your tendency to make enemies works against you, and you wind up having to raise your child without a spouse. In this area, you shine - you are the best parent in the world, because after everything, you have immense guilt about how you treated your own parent, and don’t want the same thing to happen to you.
Traits: Kleptomaniac, Evil, Mean
Aspiration: Public Enemy
Career: Criminal career - Boss path
Rules:
-Only one child allowed. You are a crime boss, and cannot afford to have too many weaknesses. (Cheats may be needed to prevent twins.)
- Become friends with your child
- Your addition to the home is a stark white basement. While no one would say you commit crime down here (to your face), it is very obviously a crime basement.
- Master the comedy skill
- Help your child with homework whenever possible
Heir: Since you only had the one child, the heir is an easy choice. You’ve carefully raised your child to be the perfect legacy to the family name, because despite your life of crime, the family name is important, especially to you, a crime lord.
Doesn’t move out - retires and stays in the home to watch over Black gen.
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Generation 7: Black
The nerdiest member of the family in generations, you led a sheltered life. All your friends have to meet your parent at some point, and you are a good kid without an ounce of rebellion in your bones. You dutifully introduce your friends to your parent, you don’t date anyone your parent deems unacceptable, your parent has connections aplenty, and you trust their background checks over even the police. And your first jobs are kind of for your parent as well, as you delve into tech and hacking, you are the tech support side of the mob relations. Of course, most of that involves unlocking illegal phones and reminding your parent’s “employees” to not post their crimes on Simstagram. You also enjoy some private singing, though you’d never admit that to anyone.
And of course, when you get married it’s to a Sim with connections - an old family, like a Landgrab or Goth. However, they take your name because after 7 generations, your family is just as important to the community. Also your parent is scary.
Traits: Bookworm, Genius, Erratic
Aspiration: Computer whiz
Career: Tech Guru - Either Branch
Rules:
- If possible, marry a Landgrab or Goth, and make them take your last name. (If not possible, design or download your own Goth or Landgrab.)
- Build a stylish black computer room. Get the nicest PC possible and upgrade it as much as you can.
-Introduce all your friends to White generation.
-Master the handiness skill and upgrade at least 10 items in the house.
- Bonus: If you have City Living, master the Singing Skill and replace Erratic with Unflirty for a challenge.
Heir: In contrast to most of your family, you pick a child that is nothing like you. Your heir is the most athletic of your children, an average C/B student. You couldn’t relate to them much growing up though you tried. You made them your heir because of how different they were.
If you move out, you take exactly half of the family funds.
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Generation 8: Brown
You were nothing like your bookish parent growing up, though that didn’t stop you from being friends. You didn’t even manage to grow up slightly greedy from your family’s old house with all it’s old ghosts. You connect with your grandparent - White, even if they are dead now, and become friends. Since your bookish parent can’t work out with you due to being unfit, you find most of your workout companions as a teen to be ghosts. After your parent has a health scare, you decide to become a bodybuilder so you can punch death and illness when they come sniffing around your family.
Traits: Bro, Active, Goofball
Aspiration: Bodybuilder
Career: Athlete - Bodybuilder
Rules:
- Have exactly 2 kids. (Once again, may require some cheating)
-Add a family gym to the house.
-Become close friends with White gen, even if they are dead - befriend the ghost.
-Master the Mischief and Comedy skills
-Win at least 1 fight with death.
Heir: Of your two children, your heir is the least likely to succeed. Honestly, if you don’t leave them the house, they’d probably die. One child got straight As - the other flunked out. And the heir is your child that flunked out. Despite you trying your best, you just can’t realistically throw Yellow to the street with a clean conscience, so you make them the heir.
You do not move out.
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Generation 9: Yellow
The dimmest bulb in the box, and the most obsessed with grilled cheese. With all the failures in your life, grilled cheese is the only thing that makes you happy. You spent your childhood and teenage years dreaming of grilled cheese. You finally achieve grilled cheese perfection and throw a grilled cheese party, inviting your best friend (your sibling) and your other friends as well. At the party, one thing leads to another, and you get into a fight with your hardworking sibling who mocks your achievement. Later, you don’t even remember what either of you said, just that you hurt your sibling. You spend the rest of your life obsessed with family, trying to repair your relationship with your sibling and raise perfect kids.
Traits: Glutton, Slob, Lazy
Aspiration: Grilled Cheese, Then Big Happy Family
Career: None
Rules:
- As a child & teen: be best friends with your sibling
- As a young adult: Achieve grilled cheese aspiration, throw a party. Become enemies with sibling.
- As adult to elder: try to patch up relationship with sibling.
- Get married to a sim that enjoys your grilled cheese enthusiasm.
-Add a grilled cheese shrine to your home.
-Never work a job
-Adopt most of your children
-Make Saturday night a “Grilled Cheese and Gaming” night
Heir: Either a late in life baby or a complete surprise baby - this is your rainbow baby! A surprise to you entirely, you are overcome with such joy when they are born that you declare the still wailing infant your heir. (May be an alien child.)
You also do not move out. You have never worked and don’t think you should start now.
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Generation 10: Rainbow Generation
You are a rainbow baby. You love every one of the colors scattered throughout your home, every piece of legacy. You spend much of your childhood putting treasures from the other branches of the house in your own room, from blue generation items to a grilled cheese painting by your lovely parent. You were born after the rift, and you become friends with both your parent and their sibling, and eventually help Yellow regain their family. You grew up on a diet of grilled cheese and no meat, so becoming a vegetarian is second nature to you. You love animals, you love the outdoors, and you don’t like sitting still. You are constantly popping out to hang with friends and you love to enjoy life. Your family is so entrenched in the community you can do whatever you want, so you decide to do a lot of things!
Traits: Vegetarian, Creative, Noncommittal
Aspiration: The Curator
Careers: Fast-food employee, Painter, Writer, Entertainer, whatever you want
Rules:
-Make sure the outside of the house is bright and full of rainbows
-Put at least 1 item from each generation in your bedroom (ex: a blue doll from gen 1, a white dresser from gen 6).
-You don’t have to complete any career.
-Write and sell at least 3 books, Paint and sell at least 3 paintings.
-Get married to the most colorful sim you can find.
-Become besties with your spouse
-Be friends with all living members of your family (siblings, parents, niblings, cousins).
-Bonus Content: If you have pets dlc, own both a cat and a dog at the same time.
Heir: None, you’re done! If you want to keep going with other legacy challenges, go ahead!
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And we’re done! This took me 7 hours to write and double check almost everything listed was base game, but if I made any mistakes let me know!
Happy Simming!
