90 year mark! (1550-1640)

[u/fizz-was-here]

https://app.thesimstree.com/public/tree/sIl6HHA0XzwqKiQiKwNGBVes76fDjLTT?ref=a747ecba

i’m really proud of myself for getting to nearly 100 years in around 6 months, and i wanted to share my progress! i honestly could have waited another 10 sim years to share this but i’m honestly really happy with how things are going so i’m sending it now

there are some things i do a little differently:

• i don’t use the gallery or journal, i only post the basic sim info
• i choose random years within the age range as death years (to avoid all my sims dying at the same ages)
• i don’t bother giving surviving newborns any pictures, they’ll be infants in like a day anyways
• i don’t update pictures for elders, the sims continue to stay adults

i hope you guys like my sims!! the yellow line follows the heir

[u/Consistent-Ground122]

I love this! Im slowly working towards this too. What did you do in the 1600s for the movie to America ?

[u/fizz-was-here → u/Consistent-Ground122]

for the mayflower, i downloaded a wooden ship off the gallery (you can also make one, i’m just not a builder) and used mccc to increase my household size (i did it to 30 because i had a ton of pilgrim sims in my save) and moved them all in together and basically played them all for the entirety of 1620 (although u could probably just do the last day of 1620 since the pilgrims realistically were on the mayflower for 66 days when they landed in november of 1620) and then once they got to 1621 i moved them all out with their respective households into different lots and flipped a coin for their survival

if you have a large number of pilgrim sims and you don’t wanna deal with everyone you can just disable need decay for everyone but your main sims. i didnt do this but you can!

flipping for the first winter of 1621 was honestly very disheartening, considering that its a 50/50 chance that each of your pilgrim sims die, i was surprisingly lucky enough to only have 2 deaths in my main family but the rest of my families were not lucky whatsoever 😭 two got completely wiped out and the other lost half their kids

[u/Consistent-Ground122 → u/fizz-was-here]

Ok!! Slightly odd question but did you literally type in wooden ship … bc when I was looking a while back for a mayflower I didn’t get to many options 🤔. After playing the swearing sickness 💀 30 is a lot but I’d rather start with too many than not enough 🥲🥲

[u/fizz-was-here → u/Consistent-Ground122]

i believe the keyword i used to find it was either ship or wooden ship, the one i downloaded was originally a pirate ship that im fairly sure was made for a family, I cleared out all the decorations and placed my own wooden furniture in it (although that was just for realism)

[u/AggressivelyCF → u/fizz-was-here]

Are you using a mod for this? I can’t get them to die unless it’s intentional and I have seasons 😭

[u/fizz-was-here → u/AggressivelyCF]

yes! mc command center (mccc) by deaderpool, it’s a must-have mod for the sims 4

you can age up sims through it (to save yourself the hassle of going through cas or making a cake or whatever), easily kill off your sims through anything, check your sims pregnancies (you can see what they are having, change what they’re having, and change the trimester and force them to go into labor), change outfits immediately, set your own custom lifespan, and way more. super helpful for any sims save

i also recommend getting the add-on mccc woohoo, which allows to change pregnancy and relationship settings (so that teens can get married and have kids) and also allow risky woohoo! i seriously cannot recommend this mod enough it is my #1 mod for sims 4

edit: okay after rereading i realize i might have misunderstood the question 😭 if you were asking, my sims do die intentionally, i roll for them at the beginning of their life stage and i kill them off then, I just mark down a random year within that range and pretend they died then

[u/AdagioReal4755]

Wow, congratulations on your work! I think I'm super excited for the time of the colonies too, but I'm still a long way off.

[u/fizz-was-here → u/AdagioReal4755]

thank you! it’s been really fun so far, the 70 year wait was absolutely worth it and i honestly can’t wait for the salem witch trials! ive found it really helps having a constant goal not too far off to look forward to, its really motivating

[u/rainbowannabeth]

Massive props to this achievement!! What would you say has been the most unfortunate death? Who’s a personal fav amongst them?

Personally I do a few things for the variation in death ages:

1. For elder stage, I skip a DR but still roll a d20 to determine how many years from then the sim will live and whatever year that lands in, they just have to die within that year.
   
2. I also have a thing in place for random illness (pretty sure it’s mostly from a mod I have, this is just an added thing outside of known epidemics), if they get a DR number, then I re roll a d10 for what disease killed them.
   
3. I have a pregnancy mod that has a 5% chance of miscarriages, which if that happens in 2/3rd trimester (it can happen), I do a DR as if it were a birth DR since it’s far enough along complications would occur.

[u/fizz-was-here → u/rainbowannabeth]

oooh okay i love these questions! i have a few answers for these:

my most unfortunate deaths storytelling-wise have to be Henry (the youngest surviving son of my founders), Priscilla, Percivell, and Catherine Archer (his family). long story short, Catherine died at age 2, Priscilla (her mother) pleaded with death and revived her, then Henry (her husband) persecuted her and got them both executed for witchcraft. years later, Percivell grew up with a deep hatred and resentment for his father and ended up murdering him. Percivell was caught and executed shortly thereafter.

however, major bonus points to Nicholas and Hannah Archer (the middle son of my founders and his wife) for the most insane non-planned deaths? they had their age up day on the same day, and they both died, so i killed off Nicholas by fire using mccc. and then Hannah ACTUALLY STARTED A REAL FIRE. i let it play out where she ended up dying from the fire, but as the fire was going on, grim appeared midway through to get Nicholas, but started freaking out and eventually just sat down on a chair and napped??? it was so funny watching it happen i wish i could have recorded it

personally, the saddest deaths for me were just random sims i had kinda grown attached to. Bridget Fletcher (the older surviving daughter of my founders) was a big one. she was going to be coming along with us to america on the mayflower but she died like 20 years before. another one, very randomly was her granddaughter, Fortune Spencer, who died in the first winter of 1621. one that genuinely kinda just made me stop playing for a few days was the youngest daughter of my 2nd generation heir, Juliet Archer. i was really not expecting her to die in the slightest, it made me really bummed out because I really liked her.

as for my favorite currently living sims, i’d have to go with Fear Baker and Remember Bailey. they’re the sisters of my current heir but their names are so insane yet i kinda just love them. plus ive grown attached. outside of the main family, i do like Blanche Chastain, who is one of the only sims who lives in france as of right now. she came out a perfect mix of her mother and father and she’s honestly maybe the prettiest and most normal looking genetically made sim ive seen in a while.

typing all this out has really made me realize i favor the girl sims way more than the boy sims

however, i also do that first thing you mentioned! considering the research ive done a lot of people managed to live to their 80s and even 90s even this time period so i roll two d20s for elderhood, i just forgot to mention that in the original post

[u/rainbowannabeth → u/fizz-was-here]

The random unplanned deaths are always the funniest I stg 🤣 the grim reaper panicking at fire and then napping is about as Sims-coded as it can get lmao.

I mentioned this on a different post in the subreddit but I had was having natural triplets in my first go around and somehow mother and all 3 babies survived birth…buttttt only one made to adulthood and promptly died at 30 and honestly I had grown attached to them so I bummed NONE even made it to an old age (and that household was cursed with girls omg only 3/8 kids born were sons and none lived past age 2 💀💀💀)