i attempted EA's *official* sims build challenge 

EA needs to take into account the amount of hype this kit got and make a medieval inspired expansion pack or something

Maybe it’s a lot to ask, but I’d like to see Kayla build this again with packs. The Vampire pack and Get Famous have some amazing items to truly bring this building to life.

“it’s like blue, that’s not really what i want” - lilsimsie for the first time in her life

I really wish builds like this you would use all packs and just have fun instead of holding yourself back! But I love how this turned out

You know what would look really cool? A remake of the Realm of Magic school using this kit.

It makes me think of a historical castle that has been remodeled as a museum/destination wedding venue/air b&b. You stay there, wedding party to either side on that 2nd floor, maybe family. Then after the wedding you sleep in the fancy top bedroom!

You should do this again but use all the packs you want to. I am really loving these castle builds and would love to see more

Please make a video where Stanley wishes for children and romance from the wishing well

EA should do an update to just make one railing on the stairs. It would solve my life lmao

I'd love to see you renovate this with packs this time!

THE CUTE SHIRT IS BACK! (simsie has a lot of cute shirts but I just love this one in particular)

Edited: I love Simsie's videos, and this was a ton of fun to watch. The following is my frustration with EA and the Sims team, not Lilsimsie. Its incredible to me that even after all these years, the Sims team STILL hasn't fixed the stairs clipping. Why can't we choose to only add railing to one side of the stairs? Why is it no smart enough to change railings to be just wall handles when stairs are touching a wall? And the friezes still being buggy? I don't want 10 new expansions, packs, and kits every year, I want the game to function. Currently, to own all Sims 4 expansions (without sales/bundling), packs, and kits, it takes ~$1000. One thousand dollars y'all. And we still have this buggy mess. I'm about ready to give up, its just a money suck. Sims is the fast fashion of the gaming world. All fast churn and FOMO marketing tactics to get you to spend more money on things that should have been included from the beginning.

I would love to see the same video again but with all the packs I feel like if you are going to buy a kit chances are you already have some expansion game packes etc too not just the base game. I loved the idea of a castle wedding venue but I am so bored of using the same base game super fancy furnitures all the time.

You mentioned the tip for adding wall trim to 1 wall at a time by pressing shift while you click. But did you know the same works when removing it so you wouldn't have to go back and put it back on the exterior walls. Just press shift while removing the trim.

I think it'd be really cool to use this kit to build an old castle that is now a museum / event space, like the bedrooms were kept how they would have been when the castle was originally built, but there's modern kitchens because it's used for parties, i think that's a good way to meld the modern and the historical and still have it make sense (and you could put little velvet ropes in front of doors like museums do)

I can't help but think that a return to spiral staircases would have been a great addition to this pack!

i felt overwhelmed by this building too so i after i added it to my game, i quickly abandoned it. maybe it would be a cool community center? or make apartments out of it... okay now i have too many ideas.

U should do what you were saying in the other video where you use a rlly big lot and make a little castle on it and a bunch of little village houses it would be so cute and we aren't bored of the castle builds

ooh, okay but this challenge seems actually fun!! 'cause like Kayla said, most ppl don't know how to make an actual castle that looks good (at least I can't)- so it's rly smart to do with furnishing that said, however, it's kinda dodgy since the kit doesn't come with furniture; idk, I think they shot themselves in the foot a little bit

This kit was such a missed opportunity for like ballroom spaces or extravagant ballroom dances at your castle or lavish masquerade parties...that would've been amazing :(

See how popular this kit is? Means we want some more medieval/fantasy/ancient stuff… hmm sounds like a good opportunity for FAIRIES am I right??

I downloaded this lot too. I don't have the Castle Kit, but found I could still keep it pretty castle-y with some of the Jungle Adventure exterior details and Jungle Adventure + base game furniture. And then I used the free Romantic Garden items to add detail to the gardens.

It would be really fun to see a RU-vid shell challenge again! Maybe around Valentine’s Day? And this build turned out so interesting!

i feel like the castle kit would be good for another 3 versions build project. like maybe it's a smaller size castle and the first version is medieval/ traditional, second version is abandoned (possibly inhabited by mystical creatures?) and third version is someone renovated an old castle to make it a house in modern day

I'm EATING UP all the castle kit videos that are on youtube DON'T STOP

@lilsimsie I want you to redo this WITHOUT limiting packs, omg! THIS WAS PAINFUL. :D

I like when you use multiple packs. Stop limiting yourself Kayla 😂😂

i didn’t get the hype of this pack in the beginning but now i absolutely love it. it reminds me of my favourite shows merlin and reign. i’d love to see a medieval expansion pack with actual king and queen and servants! too bad i don’t think we’re getting it like ever

Ok, but now I really wanna know what this same build would look like if you used all the packs you wanted compared to just the base game 😳

I would love to see you repeat this but go wild with all the packs.

i think it would be cool if you built a house or some other type of lot backwards (for example.. furniture first and walls last) but with a twist that you can’t move anything after you placed walls

I think it would be so phenomenal if you started going crazy with bathrooms for 2024, I think the stinky bathrooms you did were so fun, but even just getting out of the all white bathroom and just putting random decor in there so they’re not so cookie cutter would be such a great way to channel some of the simsie chaos in a fun way!

Need to go back to this and redo it using other packs

I have Covid so thank you for the longer videos

Kayla, idk if you know this but you can change the lighting without a sim inside the lot. Hold shift while clicking on an already placed light and the lighting color wheel should pop up

I always love seeing the shell challenges and results! Also, the cupcake machine weirdly fits the medieval castle vibes.

I watch speed builds to relax

I wish she used packs in this build

Your shell challenges are my favorite - both your speed builds and the review you do of the ones others build. I’m always down for more shell challenges!!!

I’m so glad this is not a speed build, I LOVE watching real time builds

It is never too much of the castle building videos !

Kayla saying she doesn’t like red BROKE my heart😭

Have you thought about doing a categories challenge where you build a house based off of the category images? Like a house that looks like the house for the housing category image, a kitchen that looks like the kitchen category image etc. I think you'd do really good with it and it would be fun.

lol EA taking notes from sim-ers

I really like watching your shell challenges, Kayla! Both your voiceover recordings and your community spotlight ones. If you have fun making them, I'd love to see more of them.

Medieval expansion pack… Imagine if you had to go back in time to get there… things start to glitch in your world … houses start to disappear or go fuzzy… and then you get through by going through a rabbit hole and there’s a whole quest you need to fix or solve… to become king or queen and overthrow the ruler?? Plague as the new death…

Why does the gallery say the build was shared May 5th, 2014???

I love the shell challenge tours

You can kind of play in this lot as a “medieval” save, with the For Rent pack, making the royal family the landlord and the servants were the tenants ?

I've been working on this and my only theme is to pick everything with a reference to Princess Cordelia, her pirate boyfriends, the Eppsilon, Bob the Butler, or the Great Sloth Invasion. It's overwhelming and I’m so jealous of how quickly you got the floorplan done. Your floorplan is exactly what I wanted but didn't achieve.

I really wish there were more builds that were JUST exteriors, so I could completely go inside and mess with furniture and layout and everything. Yeah I can gut an unfurnished house, but it's a lot more steps and I tend to accidentally delete things :(

To fix the clipping, just delete the stairs and then hit undo! Fixes it 😊

Unrelated to this video - will you please please play Sims Castaway?? It's a spin off like Sims Medieval, which I know you've played. Please play it, it's so great!

Please build another neighbourhood, except each house is only one pack and the base game. Spinning a wheel for each one. For example a modern lux tiny house, island living beach hut and growing together suburban all on one street :)

keep going with the castle builds, I'm loving it!!

It's not a lilsimsie video if she doesn't say something twice and I love it. So iconic! You're great, Kayla!!

There are never too many videos for any concept KAYLA !!!!!!!! Love your videos and love you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love you. You’re cherished. I have been subscribed & watching you consistently (sometimes you’re the only channel I watch for weeks) since before your 10,000 noodles video. Thank you for everything you do without even knowing. You make me laugh when I need it, and I can’t lie I fall asleep to your videos frequently *in a good way*. Anyways, sorry to be corny. I love you. ❤

I love the livestreams and hearing about all ur storys, highlight of my week

Seeing all this castle content reminds me of the Isla Paradiso Castle from the Sims 3! Lowkey wanna recreate it in the Sims 4 now hehe

Some of my favourite videos were the shell challenge submission walk throughs. So yeah I'm all for your shell challenge posts!

I LOVE you showing the shell challenges that people do with your shells I miss them. I also really wish you wouldn't have pack restricted this. I'm over base game only builds with one other pack.

Marie Antoinette: let them eat cake Queen Simsie: let them clip

yes we do want shell challenges back on youtube!!

I love this event venue and the idea is incredible! Imagine getting married here 😍 And Okay here me out - a castle converted into apartments! I may do this later

Someone should do this in the style of a National Trust property - have some old style rooms with little roped off sections, and then have a gift shop and a cafe with an obnoxious modern kitchen 😂

I wanna see the speedbuild of the shell challenge you made, it looks so pretty

The 4th floor bathroom should have had a huge stone couples sized shower. It wouldve taken up the space much better!

I immediately want to go and open up a large space in the centre of the levels, add a pool and create a "hanging gardens" type castle omg I absolutely would love to see Kayla do this challenge again with the addition of packs because this turned out great but there are so many awesome things in packs that BG lacks!

Kayla, i don’t care if you do 100 castle builds in a row. I need it.

i dont think ill ever get used to the repeating clips. like it actually drives me insane

I really love the tips you give when building! I’m having trouble finding the console equivalents though. On PS5, does anyone know how to “shift” click the frizes? I also think you did an amazing job with this! It’s cool that you actually know a lot about history and put that into it, like with the Kings chambers.

i feel like if the sims allowed walls to have different thickness options, that would fix so much. and it could even have some fun gameplay situations! like having thin walls can let sims hear certain things while thicker ones prevent it, thicker walls hide clipping stair rails, etc.

Ooh, definitely post that Mt. K Family House speed build. It's so cute!!

Kayla, are Windows users able to shift-click lights in build mode to change light colors/intensity without moving in a Sim? I'm on Mac, but it's made it so streamlined to adjust the lighting and atmosphere

MORE CASTLES! I would love to see some gothic and black vampire castle

You did a great job, especially considering the BG constraints!

Perfect timing

Shell challenges were fun to watch and who know may attempt doing one myself if I feel like doing so.

This could have been a great chance to use some dividers given how big the rooms are!

I actually really like these kinds of builds, too. I CAN build exteriors if I go grab reference material, but it's sometimes the longest part of a build, so... I skip that XD My castle playthrough actually used a lot I found on the gallery that was legit dead empty on the inside. It also had no landscaping, but I fixed that myself. I'm VERY slowly decorating it over time, and I adore it. I did also add a barn in the courtyard space. It was a lot easier for me.

I think me and u share the same frustrations with clippings and I get made cuz then it makes me change everything and that's one of the reasons why I take long to build.

Hi! I have loved your videos since a couple hundred thousand subs. Keep up the great work and fun energy.

i think i know why simsie is obsessed with the castle kit, she has a history degree! 😂☺️

I love this build please make a second one with all the packs I would love to see the difference

I would to see more shell builds on the channel!!!

Kayla you could make a million castle videos and my castle loving self would watch every single one

girl I miss your absolutely unhinged shell challenges 😔✋🏼

Would love to see more castle style builds using other packs!

Thanks, Kayla, for mentioning this shell challenge. I haven't paly TS4 in a while. I wasn't coming up with any ideas on gameplay.

OMG I LOVE IT 😻 ITS SO PRETTY ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

gimme that Mt. Komorebi speed build I’m OBSESSED 😍

I'm glad it went to wedding venue! My friend got married in a medieval castle throne room so this is cool to see in the sims!

I found if you want to use the motherlode cheat an easier way instead of constantly typing it in. If you close the cheat bar and reopen it to not hit a different cheat, type it once, hit the up arrow, then hit enter to save time, and only type it once.

please make more shell challenges yesssss

yesss please post a shell challenge another videooo

Omg yk what build i think this would look great with? That one museum that came with get together thats in the top left

This kit was amazing! I wish we had a full expansion with it 😭

I love your sweater❤

Yes! Please post the shell challenge speed build.