I tried the Every Occult Challenge - Part 1 

I'm 100% here for James renovating that shipwreck build. It's such a cool idea, but the build needs a lot more stuff to make it interesting.

19:34 "is anyone here a mermaid?" James asks plaintively, whilst standing next to the mermaid from the trailer for Island Living 😂

It would be cool to add bedrooms for each occult member and have it be a themed room based on their occult.

okay but I can see both Judith and Nancy picking up trash as a PR stunt. like someone called them out for their private jet overuse and they're trying to clean up their image.

Love the moment he called it similar to "the burrow" and somehow the Landgrabs stayed with him. Its like having the Malfoys stay with the Weasleys. 😂

James having an archeology table and a robotics table but not a kitchen sink is hilarious to me

That collection of sims in the fishing group was like they were sentenced to community service

For the ghost you should go to the castle place in Windenburg and befriend Mimsy- our underrated ghost queen deserves recognition

if you blow the conch, all the mermaids nearby will come up and squeal at you. then, once you ask them about their strange reaction, they’ll come clean. nalani is so secretive for no reason 😭😭 like girl you’re in the TRAILER, we know you’re a mermaid.

I like the idea that Judith Ward and Nancy Landgraab just joining thinking they could fund the project to look good without doing work

James: why are you being mean Judith: *has the mean trait* James: why are you evil laughing? Malcolm : *has evil trait*

I know he doesn't want to get out of tiny home just yet, but I feel like it would be cool if the money he gains from putting the occults into the household is spent on creating rooms designed for each occult. Like the mermaid would get a beach theme room, spellcasters get a magic room etc..

Isn't the eating animation also for gluttons? Maybe that's why he's eating like that 😄

Nancy getting a redemption arc with her "fishing for a cause"😂

The money you get from each occult should fund their addition onto the house, in true Weasley style - just add on random rooms hanging off the sides of the original structure! And they can be super themed for each new member of the family to spend all the free money.

Shouldn't you use some of the money to start on the rocketship? It's gonna take some time to get to sixam. Although, to be honest, I would personally like to see the alien being added by pregnancy after alien abduction. Since you have a male sim, it just seems like an obvious move 😄. Plus, since you used the rocketship to get to sixam in the previous challenge, it might be for a change. Maybe you could increase your chance for an abduction doing the scientist career (while working on the other challenges) and if you somehow don't get abducted and impregnated (man, talking about the sims makes you say weird stuff 🤣) before getting the portal to sixam thing, you can use that to complete the challenge.

Also James, sorry if I'm telling you something you already know, but apparently the merge households bug is only on sims that don't otherwise exist in the world. So if they're in a household somewhere, you should be able to marry them just fine

I think Nalani should have the swimming pool as her room. Add a cute roof and some nice decorations, rocks and plants around the pool. Then she has her own ''room'' without adding to the floortiles :)

Having the sims go with you everywhere is probably gonna end up being a chaos and I'm so here for that. Love this challenge!

Definitely think each occult needs their own themed bedroom tacked onto the house. Also, don't forget to have an umbrella stand for your future Vampire sim to make sure they don't burn up in the sun 😂

"Malcolm took my bed!" was like a "Charlie bit my finger!" moment. 😅

NANCY CREEPING IN THE BUNKER HOLES had me DYING😂

As Uka and Nalani are totally both Mermaids. 😂😂 As I love and am obsessed with Sulani it was funny watching James question it but so much better that he didn't rememeber and wasn't 100% sure.

I think James should build a room designed specifically for each occult as they move in. For example a smaller version of Sulani for his mermaid. A vampire nexus for his vampire. A sixum themed room for his alien. Yeah it will cancel out the tiny home but that is ok by me. It would look super cool. Like those theme hotels in Vegas! lol

Omg I am so excited for the vampire, werewolf, and spell caster to have issues with each other 😂 the DRAMA

I feel like each new occult should get their own themed room

Ohhhh similar to the fishing club, it may make sense to have your occult household also be a club so you can more easily roll up to lots together/always have the squad be together and get some benefits along the way.

"when we add an occult to the household they have to come with us and do everything we do"... my dude I am so glad that you got the woohoo an occult mini-challenge out of the way first in that case 😂

James, since I feel like you're often looking for fast ways to befriend Sims, mentoring is one of the best ways to do it. It gets their relationship up really quick. You can ask Vlad to mentor you in pipe organ at his house, and you can ask Lily Zhu to mentor you in fishing. This could be a good way to befriend more occults this series!!

i’ve not even watched that much but i can already tell this will be such a fun and slightly chaotic series, love your videos, james

when you thanked us for being patient at the end for videos being fewer and farther between, and said you were exhausted and run down i almost wanted to shake you - don't push yourself when you're in new puppy days! of course you're exhausted, and you've got so much on your plate being such a big creator. Look after yourself first and foremost and keep making things that make you happy and excited and it will shine through. Your audience loves what you produce but also ofc doesn't want you to burn out, your humanity is respected by this community you've built. the time and effort you put into your videos makes them so easy to return to and re-watch, we can all survive if you went to a less frequent publishing schedule and took whatever steps needed to stave off burnout. That being said, i'm really looking forward to this series. i love the extra challenges you set for yourself to make gameplay more interesting, it's really improved the way i play the game myself which used to be way too conservative and needed a bit of chaos and a bit of challenge. the challenge graphics and the interactive aspects on your websites look class too! always a perfectionist.

YASSSS I was having withdrawals from the every lot challenge 😭❤️ it was so funny

making nalani go swimming to see if shes a mermaid reminds me of men saying to take women swimming as a first date 💀

THANK YOU! for not forgetting plant sim, everyone always does.

The laugh I laughed when Nancy came over with that graduation cap 😭

I would like to see every occult getting their own little themed room as they move in ❤

Poor semaj can never catch a break lmao

Slight issue with the Perch being an invasive species. They're freshwater fish, not saltwater, and would kinda die. lol But, as always, Sims. . .

Yes renovate the shipwreck! Make it a cool hang out spot! Oo! Two renos. One a cool community place and one a house.

3:38 I think going to Batuu and convincing a Batuu alien to move on with you should be an option for the alien sim.

I did in fact miss “spin that wheeeeeeeel”. I’m glad you know us so well.

Oh hell yeah, I am so here for this era of challenges. I love the long-term, legacy-esque pack based rags to riches challenges, but I am glad there is SOME positive outcome to the game being too buggy for that, lol! I wonder if/when James will do Deli's (delightful!) new tiny town challenge, though- it seems right up his alley!

James creating better challenges than the Sims themselves lmao, let's go king.

i LOVE the way james avoids rags to riches for rent 😂❤

Laughed out loud at Malcolm claiming the bed, then Nancy's attire, then Geoffrey's attire...😂

James is the king of coming up with cool new challenges 👑 LET'S GOOOO

This is the type of chaos I need in my Sims 4 content binge-ing life! Reminds me of the good ol' days of the asylum challenge!

Yay you're back! I think it would be cool if each occult would get their own space & something for them like the pool for the mermaid (maybe Nalani could sleep in a double bed with semaj tho because they're romantic). Also I think starting with the robotics skill and building the countless parts you need soon would be a good idea as it takes so long.

I think it'd be super cute to make Nalani join the Island Conversationist career so she has a link back to her home. And for you to build a themed room for her. Like using Island Living decor, myb an indoor pool for when it's cold outside (and/or put heater vents in the pool outside). You could make it like a mix between a secret mermaid grotto and an island getaway. So even if she's in Moonwood Mill she's got home bits of home. I think it'd be interesting if the house grew that way with every occult having a space that reflected them even if it doesn't match the OG house, or the rest of their rooms. It'd also be cool for if you were to switch it to a residential rental later. Esp if things between Simaj and Nalani end up with kids or something.

I think it would be a good use of the money each sim brings in to build them their own room, themed to their occult and needs

Ive been playing sims 4 for years. Ive never heard of the tragic clown! Im here for this

The haunted house one will get Temperance and Guidry at the same time easily! However, the haunted house trait is a CHORE so I would do that later in the series near the end maybe, so your house isn't so cluttered with haunted items. Same with Bonehilda, maybe start working on her later on, as you have more sims and need someone to help clean up (and remember - you need to buy a coffin for her to sleep in...she DOES get tired! ...and can't use beds.) And yes! Move into the shipwwreck on one of your Bigwallets and renovate it!!

What you should do with the money that you will inevitably get with each sim is to build and decorate a room that matches that sims occult. Like the mermaid would have an indoor pool and lots of greenery. Inside and out to make the house look that much more just tacked on to each other.

I feel like the 20K from each occult moving in should go to building them their own room, added haphazardly on to the house. Each room should reflect the occult / pack they come from. After building the room, any funds left over can be used however you like.

I think it would be cool if when you add the new occult to the household, you have to add on a room for them themed for that occult using the money you gained from them 🤷🏻‍♀️ but still somehow fitting with the style of house

The Landgraabs are the most invasive species.

Mr Turner you are spoiling us. This challenge looks awsome!!! Cant wait😊❤

Swimming around with people who you suspect is a mermaid would be the quickest way if it’s been a while and you forgot.😂

A year or two ago I made a sims household to play while streaming with friends. I called it the Chaos Household and had one of each occult and they lived in a haunted house. It was both chaotic and fun! This reminded me of that! But I’m looking forward to more of this challenge!

Just want to send my appreciation and respect for the extra attention you put on editing and amount of time this single video must have taken. I'm genuinely curious how long it took to make. The challenge graphics/check lists and the mask around the wheel looks REALLY nice. I’m only an amateur self-taught editor so designing the graphics and creating the wheel mask (even if I just found the mask online) and then adding them to the video would take a good chunk of time. I know it wouldn’t take as long for someone experienced but it’s still a lot of extra effort “just” to make a nice looking visual aid to help viewers understand and follow along easier. It didn’t have to be so pretty and professional but it is. And then, you added it to your website. With so many individual graphics. Like, did you create each custom octagon icon? Just creating the folder in your computer with each individual octagon icon, versions of each one labled, versions of them grouped together and then versions grouped with labels, in addition to the actual completed graphics would take time. The small details on your website like hovering over the logos of the packs used so it says the name of each pack even takes extra time. This doesn't even include your build, testing some challenge gameplay, and then actually filming and regular video/audio edits. I just have a lot of respect and appreciation. I'm really excited for this series!! I'm writing this section for me out of my own curiosity. It would take amature me (and lets pretend I can build as fast as James does) possibly ~23-24 hours for this 1 video. Maybe more, maybe less. Some of my estimates are no doubt too high and too low but still.

I think You should add a room for each occult that joins the household and made it themed accordingly to them, so if we have a mermaid now, she should have an island-mermaid themed room :) Love the idea of this new challenge!

Fun fact about where baby fish come from that may or may not apply to mermaids: the majority of fish species do not woohoo. The females lay unfertilized eggs, and the male then fertilizes them externally by 'releasing' over the clutch. There's a fun magic school bus episode about salmon spawning where Mrs Frizzle makes the kids be the eggs while a daddy salmon does his business on them.

Is anone here a mermaid? Literal mermaid from the trailer: 👁👄👁

Nalani is a mermaid. Mermaids always deny it even if you catch them swimming in mer form. 😂 Edit: Huh. Never had a mermaid bestie before. So I thought they always denied it.

The Landgrabs may have been wanting to try living among the poor, lol

You and Deli really run the Sims community at this point with your challenges and contributions

Ooooh yes, super excited for this! Semaj is gonna struggle so much with a vampire in the mix 😂

Me: *has over 600 hours in The Sims just on my most recent computer* Also Me: ...Since when have skeletons been a thing??

OH YA GIRL IS EARLY EARLY

Maybe Semaj could attend university in order to build his Robotics skill, then apply the knowledge towards working on the Servo?

I’m 110% here for a rags to riches where you start on the island and renovate the ship into your forever home an it would be cool if u did it as a mermaid/merman

James uploading is always the one thing I look forward to

I love it! Every occult sim should have a themed room, very distinct from one another. Perhaps going for the spellcaster next will be a great addition to the household

I think the money you get when you move a new occult in should go to an addition to the house. Like she gets an island living themed room bc she’s a mermaid. The vampire gets a vampire room etc

Ah, yes, Legally Distinct "The Retreat"

Im so excited for this series! I think Semaj should work on building a servo asap and just work on it throughout the lp since they take so long to make. Also I love the bedroom idea that was suggested.

James she is literally THE mermaid omg.

I like the idea of an underground grotto and then you can change the lot type to haunted house to get Guidry.

I really, really, really like watching James play cause you can always tell he actually plays the way he wants, with what he wants, and not just what he thinks we want to see. His enjoyment is contagious. Thank you James!

I knew Nalani is a mermaid but I was honestly starting to doubt myself with how secretive she was being

Epic intro

I generally find the whole "take her swimming on the first date" thing distasteful, but if you're trying to figure out if they're a mermaid...

This challenge is a cool idea! I've been trying to make up an occult legacy challenge for myself, but I keep losing interest. I think I'll need to try this and see if it works out better for me.

You could use the money every new occult gives you to make a themed section/room in the house for them

Please put this build on the gallery. It’s so cool!

As soon as the house was shown off, I thought an "underground spring" pool for the mermaid would be super cool! Also, please please please save super often!! Mermaids are VERY glitchy, and have a lot of problems that require rolling back the save to fix! I really hope that this series doesn't run into that, but I get at least one every time I play longer stories/challenges with a mermaid in the household! (Not a mod/cc issue, I've had it on a never modded PC.)

Nalani can swim in Crescent Lake, right there in Moonwood Mill!

Befriending Vlad is part of the to-do list, so having a nocturnal schedule could help.

"I spent the day getting my needs up and it's 8 PM" is relatable irl too 😂

I haven’t laughed this hard watching RU-vid in actual ages. Your comedic timing and jokes are always on point!!! New fan!

I think starting a garden with patchy because then he will be around a lot for when the other NPC visitors come around. Also it helps with the plant sim thing I would assume. And I vote to have a Ghost move in as the next person to join the house. I do agree with the idea of having bump outs for each occult that moves in. I don't care about it being a tiny home so much.

I think when you add an occult you have to build them a room with their occult theme! Then the house will end up this chaotic mix of different esthetics

The build is one of my favorites! The dirt floor room is great for displaying a shell collection.

Idea: For each occult you should add a room to the house!

Hi James! Each occult should get their own room themed to them

with the money from the occults you should build individual rooms for each occult and maybe something in the shared area that affects them (like the mermaid build a pool/pond and a bathtub, maybe the spellcaster will buy a cauldron for the whole occult family to eat out of, etc.)

Absolutely loved watching James desperately try to befriend someone in hopes they’re a mermaid directly next to a person who is a mermaid

I definitely agree with you having to bring all your Sims to work on getting more Occult types. If you do that, it'd probably be easier to leave the Vampire for later, so you don't have to worry about Sunlight.

I look forward to seeing James create a large occult Weasley family that lives in the occult burrow with their own themed room 😂

I loooove this challenge idea ! I clicked so quick when I got the notification XD I don't have the ask to join household problem i tried several time to check (saving before hand XD). I can do it normally, so are we sure it's a bug and not due to a mod ? Also technically Nalani (who's the mermaid in the island living trailer) didn't lie to James ! She says "A mermaid, what give you this idea ?" That could mean how do you came to that conclusion ? That doesn't necessarily mean she's not a mermaid XD And also, being a mermaid... you would not tell everyone that you are one. You have to be best friend with that person. So you can trust hem, I would think ^^ So... she waited until she became best friend with James. That checks out ! ;)