Movement Skill tip: Clicking "What's That?" on things throughout the house builds thinking AND movement. If you really want to push it, you can queue up things on opposite sides of the home one after the other and the toddler will go to the thing, think about it, and then go to the next - building movement as they go from one side of the house to the other over and over.
This video was great to watch and definitely will using these tips! I haven't played Sims 4 in ages and suddenly had the urge to play again. I've always wanted to do this challenge and hopefully I can complete it. Keep up the great videos!
I'm glad this video was helpful for you! Haha I am the same, I can go in and out of phases with the sims 4 for sure. Good luck if you do give this challenge a go!
Great video! One thing I would add is that with the key line lot trait you have twins a lot more often which can prematurely age your mother sim but it's totally up to you if you are ok with that!
I have been working on a 100 baby challenge myself recently. You had some good info I didn't know about 😊 If you have the university pack, the stalls come in handy for the bathrooms. If you place 2-3 of them in a room, the Sims can all use them without becoming embarrassed like they would with a normal bathroom. In the luxury party stuff there is a buffet table you can fill for $150( I could be wrong). You can drag the food to your fridge from there to help keep food stocked without actually cooking 😊
Regarding stacking traits/massages/elixers etc tor fertility. They don't stack beyond triplets, so if the matriarch is already having alot of/mostly triplets, it just becomes a waste of resources because she can't be more fertile than that without mods and your perks/points are better used for other things. I get bored if all the kids do the same thing, and like painting I never do it because it is too easy. Regarding aging up teens. If mom is already pregnant and not in third trimester there isn't really a need to rush them out of the house. Them not being there will not shorten moms pregnancy at all. I always have them make a few meals, a cake if necessary, clean the house, repair anything that needs to be and so on, anything so mom doesn't have to do it and can take care of her needs. And then if there is still time left, they help younger siblings skill build. I personally do keep a spreadsheet, because after about 20-25 sims you start getting grandkids, and halfway through it just gets worse and worse. We are talking hundreds of descendants. It gets to the point where half siblings are marrying because the limit for Sims in the game is 150 I think (without mods) and there is literally no one else for them to marry. If you don't track that, your matriarch could have kids with her grandkids and great grandkids etc and not know it. I repopulate the world when I need to with Sims from my library. That is, if there is an empty house, I get 4-5 donor sims and put them there, tracking names so I know exactly who isn't related to my matriarch. I hate CAS so when my kids age up I save them (both genders) to my library for later use. My current matriarch is Jonquil Forrester, she was a kid from a game a few years ago. Jonquil is a flower, like a daffodil. I literally have thousands of sims in my library. So when I repopulate, I have thousands from previous games I can use. Once I have used most of the sims I repopulated last time, I go through all the maps and fill all the empty houses again. All the sims in my library have unique names as well. I keep a spreadsheet with all of them so I never use the same first name twice. I don't care about surnames, they are easily randomized when I reuse them. I have over 40 catagories of names that I rotate through each pregnancy, like plants, dinosaurs, junk food, infamous people, and diseases so my Sims never have the same name. I also have wacky names and ones from my own family tree (genealogy is one of my hobbies) So some sims are named stuff like Flipemoff, Snotrocket, Agnola, Ebola, Oceola, Gladiola, Sauropelta, Donette, BigHunk, Rasputin, TyphoidMary, Anorexia, Excema, MadDog and Upjohn. Even if you only save your favorite sims, and don't track them, it can help the repopulation issue in future games. Keeping houses full also keeps the number of townie sims that the game generates to a minimum. I keep 100 baby in one save so I don't mess up other games by having 90% of the population related to one matriarch.
I don't know if you wre still doing your challenge, but if you keep your family in a 1 story house no one has to go up and down the stairs. That is time the kids can use to skill build, and is just wasted. Items in the house that you never use need to be gotten rid of, like fireplaces and clutter etc. Sims just have to route around that stuff, and the game already has wierd routing issues as it is. Plus, all that junk just increases bills. The Frugal perk helps reduce bills also. Holidays, if you click off (top right corner) the day off option, they will still go to school. I get rid of holidays completely because I don't even celebrate any in real life. You can also move them to weekends.
Ah good I’m glad!! Sadly I’m not streaming or making videos on it at the moment, but perhaps one day I’ll make a video or short to document my progress! Good luck with your own challenge!🥰
I have done dozens of 100 baby challenges over the years. I love them and can do them with 1 matriarch. (Before infants update, now I will have to figure out how to manage that again. I never start with painting. I like a challenge, and painting is way too easy.
I don't know if it's cheating or not, But I use the Tiny Home bugs for the skill gaining benefit. So the bugs is, you can make a big house by attaching each wall like a puzzle individually. My toddlers and kids are gaining skill much much faster.
Yes it is sooo helpful!! It’s the lot at the very back of Henford on Bagley. By default there is a house pre-built there but for my challenge I destroyed it 🥰
