Mineral Town Challenge 001

I will be using both Briar Rosethorn's Mineral Town Challenge and FerralNightingal's Harvest Moon Rivals Challenge for my game-play. The reason for this is because I do not have all the packs that would let me do the MTC, and the HMRC which is an older challenge lets me tweak it so that I won't need to do certain things. It also has stricter objectives (just like in the original GBA HM MMoMT).

I just don't think I would ever get the Cats and Dogs Expansion, so I am opting for CowPlants and the chicken coop mod by icemunmun instead. While I am thinking of getting Eco Living to get the meat vertical plant (and I am genuinely interested in this pack more than others); I will have to wait for a sale.

The first rule in MTC is that you start on a Sunday (just like the gba game), so since I was not able to download her wonderful save file I had to head on to the EA gallery to grab all the houses and townies and edit them with all the CCs in the world I could get my hands on to make it look like the authentic version of the game. She was gracious enough to help me set-up all the relationships of the townies with each other. I made a spreadsheet for this. I learned a couple of things that my mind as a child did not quite notice when we were talking about the families. 

With LittleMissSam's Live in Business mod, I was able to set up the Aja Winery, Zack's Snack Shack, and Doug's restaurant as retail (and a house). Although, I did not know that right away so I actually had to evict the Doctor and Jeff's families and make their houses as retail (and then have them buy it as a store). I'm telling you, it took forever to get Elli in that hiring list (I even put retail skill cheats in); it took 2 hours of refreshing!! Thank goodness for LittleMissSam's Retail Overhaul I got Sasha to be the store manager pretty easy. 

The other townies look like this:

Here are the Mineral Town People 💚🌻 Let's Play!
Posted by Spica Walker on Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Since I had to do all the set up, my game was already on Wednesday evening when I got done -- so I just sort of play tested a few families (Popuri's, Ann's, and Karen's) to keep time moving.

Let's Play: Sims 4 Harvest Moon Mineral Town Challenge

My 2 favorite games mashed together -- what else could beat that? (I guess if there were Pokemon in it). I found this post around late June in one of the groups I follow in Facebook. Briar Rosethorn in Sims Community (also Snarky Witch on EA Gallery) has made a replica of Harvest Moon's Mineral Town and all it's townies!

Here's a little preview of the town that she has spent a lot of time remaking! Click here to see more pictures. She used no CC but she has all the packs.

She has also made all the townies including the bachelors and bachelorettes of the town modeled after their Harvest Moon GBA counterparts. Since I only have the Base Game, University, and Get to Work expansions - - I actually downloaded a bunch of CC to make mine compare to my beloved GBA game and to what Briar has made.

Karen

Popuri

Ann

Elli

Mary

Doctor Trent

Rick

Kai

Gray

Cliff

I'm excited to play! I have worked on editing the town and townies, because of my lack of packs for about a week XD (a few hours at a time -- because I play with my kids too, lol).

Summer = Play

A lot of kids from 0-99 play when it's summertime. It could be any form of play. Some prefer to play actively whether it's inside or outside. My 5-year-old and 3-year-old are so different when it comes to playing.

My husband and I love video games, it was very easy to assume our children would too. My older one took to gaming a lot faster than we intended. ^^" Kyle and I planned that his first game will be Pokemon Fire Red (or a remake for whatever console is available) when he's 10. We didn't take into account that he would be independently reading by 4! So, last year, he started playing Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Pokemon Blue (yes, on the old Gameboyboy). Granted, he hasn't finished both games -- I mean he was just 4 then. Since then he has defeated Super Mario Odyssey 6 times, and Cuphead twice.

My 3-year-old like any other younger sibling is interested in everything his big brother is playing. Everything. If you don't pay attention to him, he will take your phone and throw it, cover it, or turn the computer off (ask Kyle). XD He will sit and watch, or play (when bubby lets him) but he will fidget. He bounces, runs around, and everything. His favorite past time right now is to hand you a weapon (toy), so he can hit you. We have a rule in the house that you cannot hit anyone who does not have a weapon -- so he found a loophole. His favorite weapon -- a shovel.

Daddy has been busy with mobile games unless it's the weekend when he tries to play PC games with his brother. (I am not saying he doesn't do anything else, but we're talking about games, so yes.)

This mommy on the other hand is playing Sims 4 while waiting for the Pokemon Isle of Armor update. I play some DS games and Love Nikki on the side. My type of game is story-driven games.

Every day, we play together actively. We've played the floor is lava, hide and seek, some roughhousing (that's a Kyle and the boys' thing), and story-tell with some open-ended toys.

How's your summer play?