Mineral Town Challenge 019

It was a little bit of a stressful day at Luna Farm. We knew that the baby calves will be taken away, but it sure has put a bit of a strain on Choco and Oreo.

Sunday, aside from planting new seedlings the lady from the agency arrived to pick up Mateo. He was ready to head to Yodel Farm. They've decided to pick up the girls on a different day, and I guess that worked out. They came in the middle of the night.

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 It's Sunday! I am super stoked that Saibara invited Clair to the Flea Market. Not because she needs to buy something but I found out that there's Filipino food in Sims 4!!!

Why did I not know about this? Probably because all I do in Sims (before this) was play University, become a writer and a teacher, that's it. Every.Single.Save. 😝

I tried playing Legacy and quickly got bored, thank goodness I found Harvest Moon challenges!

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 Oh, boy! Autumn!! I wonder what "Seasons" will actually bring to my game. I am not sure if anything will change colors and things. One thing's for sure -- I AM GLAD BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO MORE THUNDERSTORMS! Riiiiight?

Early morning Autumn looks so nice. It just feels different. 

Mineral Town Challenge 016

It's Monday (in-game) and Clair has been working non-stop because of yesterday heartache. Yes, we all know they're technically not together anyone, and she has to keep telling ignoring his "date" calls because the challenge says, dates are only allowed on "calendar date" days. 

The Moonlight Farm has finally been leveled up enough that there are new animals coming! May was super excited on a phone that I could barely make out what she was saying. Horses! miniatures, ponies, and horses!! What? We had to rush to go to the Yodel Ranch to see.

This little one was a bit worried about me coming around. He finally let me pet him a little bit. 🥺What a sweetheart. 

I cannot believe this beautiful creature warmed up to me pretty quick! 

This was a big softie as well. Awww, my heart is so full! Thank you to these sweet, gorgeous creatures.

Wait, oh no! Before the day ended I got this call:

Don't play with Clair's heart like this. I mean, Popuri... Argh. Okay, I had to click "Of course!" I wasn't really sure if the romance bar was going to suffer if I had clicked "Ghost him", I was not going to risk that. So any day now, he may ask me to go out -- but it's not challenge-allowed. 🤷What do I do?!

The next "date day" is not until 3weeks later. 🙄 ((Re-checking rules and loop-holes)... There are no rules against dates in the MTC.

Here's what's from HMRC:

So... the only rule is to make sure the Romance bar is 50 and above. I have to check that before he asks Clair on a date. 😅

Okay, this is the funniest thing. I left the game unpaused while I was typing and lost half of Tuesday. But look who just popped up at the farm!

Check and double-checked!

Also, NO, I did not cheat. I was just right-clicking the relationship bar to see the numerical values. No game cheats are allowed in this Challenge, aside from moveobjects and the first relationship values set-up for all the townies (which is why Popuri was still flirting with Kai).

At Romance level 54 Clair can now accept date invites from Kai, but she cannot invite him until it's gone up to level 70 and above. So really there's 3 weeks in-game to do that. 

Since part of the Challenge is to make sure that Clair revives the farm and marries one of the marriage candidates, she also has to have a max out friendship level with the the family who Kai is closest to, that would be Zack. 💪 So for Wednesday, after all the farm work, we're going to try and sweet talk Zack for a blessing.

So far, he's not quite sure about what to think of Clair. 😅😅😅

Thursday was spent all day taking care of the farm because I made some changes... First, I installed the Farmland Mod by awesome Arnie. I do want to play his story mode save as well, but I REALLY want to have some of his items for my Mineral Town Save. I tried out several things, but for now here are the changes: 

I kinda like it, it looks more natural (?)

The reason why I had the gates anyway was because I thought the neighbors would just come to my farm, and steal my fruits and things. Well, I learned that if I have NAP disable, it shouldn't happen, so I took the fences down. It is for some reason also now easier on the eyes, I don't know exactly why, it just looks better.  

Ace Attorney

 Every time I feel like I want to play a game that feels familiar but I don't want to play Pokemon or restart a Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons save. I'd pick up Kyle's old NDS (Nintendo DS), he gave it to me -- I used to play NDS games on emulators only, and continue my Ace Attorney save wherever I left off. 

If you're wanting to give anime a try but you want it to be more grown-up and closer to reality, give Ace Attorney a try! 

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 I've decided to change my Simstagram Preset. I was using "It's time to rest", and I have moved on to a softer preset called "Coffee and donuts" (Lightroom). When I post on this blog, you usually see the RAW images from Sims Screenshots folder, but in my Simstagram they're a bit more on the roleplay/storytelling mode. 

The top two pictures on the right has a neat scroll that I copied from my sister. Woots, Faye!

We spent Sunday really working on the farm itself, planting and moving certain crops. Again, I have no good eye on landscaping or farm layout talents on any game, at all. I just plant whatever I have on whatever plot of land is there. HELP!

I literally just used the tool to color the fenced areas. 😂

I am not allowed to move the building around but if you have ideas about the "farm" area, let me know! 

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So we now start our weeks on Sundays. Have I mentioned that I hate Seasons? (I told my husband this and he thought I was talking about real life, so yeah. I hate it in real life too. I only like cloudy days and Autumn.)

After the morning farming, I was invited to a flea market, so why not. I have to do the house 3rd (and final) upgrade anyway. I knew I needed a couch, and a new chair. So here's the chair I bought! Luckily, the couch (no longed pictured) was the same type!! 

Then later in the afternoon, Kai just showed up at my lot, and of course I let him in. It's not against the challenge rules. 😁 He presented himself in like this. 😆 I had to snap a photo!

Mineral Town Challenge 013

So Clair woke up at 12:48AM and started tending to the farm, I guess she just couldn't sleep anymore. She went to the Oreo and Choco and there were no "harvest dairy" options -- weird. I've updated KS's My first farm animals mod already, so I went in the re-updated, and went into CAS fulleditmode -- well, there's the problem! My farmer trait and the calves' dairy traits were missing. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Clair's going to just have cake for breakfast. Where did she get this cake?!

Also, I am trying to re-learn all my settings from last year, and was not able to use "headlineeffects off" right before this picture. 

I'm re-linking the rules of this Challenge. Whew. (Can't we just start playing? No.) I tweaked some General Rules from when I started because there were packs I didn't own. Now that I have both Seasons and Cats and Dogs, I have to play by those Seasonal Harvest Moon Rivals Challenge Rules as well as the Seasonal Mineral Town Challenge Rules. Maybe I should just restart? 😵 Nah. 

Mineral Town Challenge 012

Continuing on this "Mineral Town Challenge" pretending I never took a WHOLE YEAR's break from it. 💀💀💀 First and foremost, I have spent 3-4 days now updating my Sims 4 and Mods, and trying to find these broken CC that keeps giving me error 132, and 140. 😠 I was super close to deleting ALL of my CCs and starting over -- but hey! I could definitely have started from scratch like trashing all the other saves would be fine but I could not let go of my Mineral Town. 😭😭😭 I spent too much work on that (just tweaking, because if you remember, Briar Rosethorn in Sims Community on FB (also Snarky Witch on EA Gallery) is the one who re-created this entire Harvest Moon: Mineral Town including the townies in Sims 4. It was not me. I just happen to stumble upon it, and got obsessed. 

After the working on the updates, going through Sims Mod Conflict Detector, and the manual CC transfer in and out of the Sims 4 Mods folder -- finally, I can continue!! It looks like error 140 got fixed somehow as well. I'm not going to ask questions, I'm just going to say THANK YOU.

The last blog post was up until Monday (end of Week 4), but it so happens that while I was trying to fix my save, Choco Brown got sick. 

I had to rush and build a quick vet clinic (because some update from Aug 2020 - May 2021 put a vet career in Sims 4), so I quickly had to that instead of the "Live in Business VET" from LittleMissSam.

Anyway, I did lose a day and a half, so we're not starting on a Wednesday (in-game) at 3:30pm. But my "cows" are both healthy again!

Here's Oreo Cow just to make an appearance.

For a more valuable Sms 4 game news! We are getting an ACTUAL FARMING Expansion Pack!!! This is really why I restarted my Mineral Town Challenge (aside from the fact that I just wanted to play Sims because it's Summer Break, woot!).

CLICK HERE to view the details.

Also, if you're interested in a "free" Modder-made Expansion Pack here's another Farming one!
Check out Arnie's Patreon.

To be completely honest with you, this one probably will have more features than the EA one, but it may crash when the EA updates come in for Cottage Living. I don't know. Arnie has done a wonderful job with this Mod Expansion! It will be out June 25 for patreon's and free after 2 weeks. 

Then Cottage Living will be out July 22nd! Try Sis 4 Farmland anyway?

I will play a full week on Mineral Town Challenge and then post 013 update. XD