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Thanks to popular creator lilsimsie, a new Very Veggie Legacy Challenge can be the perfect way to occupy time. While unofficial, it is geared towards those who enjoy all things green and are looking to feel accomplished with multiple generations of their Sims.

How To Start The Very Veggie Legacy Challenge

Be Ready To Dedicate Your Sims' Lives To This Challenge

As shared in a stream archived on the moresimsie YouTube channel, lilsimsie's The Very Veggie Legacy Challenge tasks families with going through 10 generations and accomplishing a number of key tasks throughout that time. She is currently still working out the kinks with this challenge, but everyone is welcome to begin the challenge as is. To start, you must have one young adult founder Sim. A founder Sim is the first Sim to begin a legacy challenge with nothing to their name, no money, family, or job.

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When creating the Sim, you will use the assigned traits and aspirations for the first generation. The first generation will kick-start this challenge and be the foundation for generations to come. While there is structure when it comes to creating your Sims, you are allowed to choose your own likes, dislikes, and preferences. After you create your initial founding Sim, move them to an empty lot of your choice. You must turn on the cheats with "testingcheats on" and then use "money 0" so your sim will begin with absolutely nothing.

All Rules For Veggie Legacy Challenge

Follow The Rules To Maximize The Challenge

For the general rules of the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge, you must play through 10 generations and finish all the listed goals for each Sim to complete this challenge. If you are missing a trait or career, you are allowed to substitute it with something similar from a pack you own. Once your Sim can afford to, you are allowed to move to other neighborhoods.

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Other than cheating to remove all money at the very beginning, you must avoid using any money or gameplay cheats. Even getting rich without cheats isn't allowed if you aren't following the specific careers for your specified generation. The ultimate goal of this challenge is to have fun, so you are allowed to adjust the rules to fit your own play style.

When your founder Sim has children, you will choose one child to be the heir to the next vegetable in the challenge. The next generation officially begins when you complete the rules of the previous generation and the heir is a young adult.

Generation Vegetable

Color Theme

Traits

Career

Aspiration

Additional Rules

Required Packs

Pack Substitutions

Base Game Alternative

Generation 1: Broccoli

Dark Green

  • Creative
  • Art Lover
  • High Maintenance

No formal career, runs a small business selling crafted goods

Lord/Lady of the Knits

  • Achieve a 5-star business
  • Max the Wellness skill
  • Max three artistic skills of your choice, such as painting, writing, photography, cooking, etc.
  • Get To Work: Run a retail store selling crafted goods instead of a small business
  • Business & Hobbies: Replacing the Nifty Knitting aspiration with "Esteemed Entrepreneur"
  • Traits: Creative, Art Lover, Erratic
  • Career: Freelance Artist
  • Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire
  • Additional Rules: Decorate your home with paintings, photos, or woodworking you create, max Video Gaming Skill, max three artistic skills

Generation 2: Eggplant

Purple

  • Evil
  • Bro
  • Romantic

Romance Consultant

Villainous Valentine

  • Adult wears eggplant costume for every outfit
  • Grow giant eggplants
  • Become a nectar connoisseur and maintain a nectar cellar
  • Max Romance, Fitness, Nectar Making, and Dancing skills
  • Lovestruck
  • Get Together
  • Cottage Living
  • Horse Ranch
  • City Living: Replaces Dancing with the Singing skill
  • Base Game: Replaces Nectar Making with Mixology
  • Traits: Evil, Romantic, Bro
  • Career: Style Influencer
  • Aspiration: Villainous Valentine
  • Additional Rules: Max Charisma, Mischief, and Mixology Skills. Add home bar setup at house, wear a silly costume for all outfits

Generation 3: Carrot

Orange

  • Horse Lover
  • Unflirty
  • Loner

No formal career, earn money through horse contests

Championship Rider

  • Max Horse Riding skill
  • Have three horses
  • Grow Carrots
  • Marry after aging to Adult
  • Horse Ranch
  • City Living
  • Cottage Living: Replaces horses with cows/chickens, use Country Caretaker aspiration and Animal Enthusiast Trait
  • Cats & Dogs: Become a dog trainer and use the Friend of Animals aspiration and the cat/dog lover trait.
  • Traits: Loves The Outdoors, Loner, Noncommital
  • Career: No formal career, earn money from your fishing and gardening
  • Aspiration: Angling Ace
  • Additional Rules: Max the Fishing, Gardening, and Logic Skills. Complete the Fishing Collection. You can marry, but only as an adult. You can find cowplant berry seeds as additional cowplants, but you must successfully splice plants together to make at least one seed yourself. Have and maintain three cowplants. Grow carrots.

Generation 4: Squash

Yellow

  • Ambitious
  • Hates Children
  • Geek

University Student, you decide your major and career post-graduation

Academic, Master Mentor

  • Successfully graduate university with at least a B grade
  • Complete both aspirations
  • Max Logic, Video Gaming, and Research & Debate skills
  • Choose your own career benefited by your degree and max career post-graduation
  • Discover University
  • Businesses & Hobbies
  • High School Years: Swap University with prioritizing your sim as a teen and try to graduate with an "A" grade in school, and high level after school activity.
  • Traits: Ambitious, Hates Children, Geek
  • Career: Choose three careers, achieve at least level three in each
  • Aspiration: Renaissance Sim
  • Additional Rules: Get an "A" grade in Elementary and High School. Max Logic and Video Gaming skills. Max out another three skills of your choice. Achieve level three in your first three careers for the aspiration and then level 10 in your final career.

Generation 5: Potato

Brown

  • Freegan
  • Nosy
  • Slob

No formal career, earn money dumpster diving and as a landlord.

Five-Star Property Owner

  • Become a 5-Star Property Owner and have three units occupied by tenants
  • Befriend a Dust Bunny
  • Max the Fabrication, Baking, and Mischief skills
  • Decorate your home and rental units primarily with furniture obtained from a dumpster.
  • For Rent
  • Eco Lifestyle
  • Bust The Dust
  • Laundry Day: Swap out the dust for laundry and play with laundry on the lot
  • Bust The Dust is broken currently, so you can ignore that rule.
  • Traits: Evil, Lazy, Slob
  • Career: Criminal
  • Aspiration: Public Enemy
  • Additional Rules: Max out Mischief, Logic, Programming, and Fitness skills. Make an enemy, then later repair the relationship and marry them. Use hacking to make money on the side. Refuse to do any cleaning, only allow your home to be cleaned when someone else does it by hiring a service or forcing friends/family to clean for you.

Generation 6: Tomato

Red

  • Socially Awkward
  • Hot-Headed
  • Overachiever

Gardener, Floral Designer branch

  • Freelance Botanist
  • Appliance Whiz
  • Grow tomato plants
  • Max the Flower Arranging and Gardening skills
  • Complete both aspirations
  • Get really into pizza making, maximize the cooking skill and own a dedicated pizza oven.
  • Seasons
  • High School Years
  • Home Chef Hustle
  • Cool Kitchen Stuff: replace the pizza oven with the ice cream maker
  • Businesses & Hobbies/For Rent/Snowy Escape: Consider using other small appliances such as a candy maker, hot pot, kettle, pressure cooker.
  • Traits: Amitious, Foodie, Hot-Headed
  • Career: Culinary, Chef branch
  • Aspiration: Freelance Botanist, Master Chef
  • Additional Rules: Grow tomato plants. Max Gardening, Cooking, and Gourmet Cooking skills. Get really into grilling, own a grill and have a dedicated outdoor kitchen.
  • Complete both aspirations

Generation 7: Cauliflower

White

  • Paranoid
  • Bookworm
  • Skepitcal

Undertaker

Ghost Historian

  • Max the Thanatology, Gemology, Medium, and Writing Skills
  • Complete Soul's Journey
  • Live in a Haunted House
  • Marry a ghost; kill an existing partner pre-marriage or meet a new ghost and choose to have kids first, or adopt with a ghost.
  • Life & Death
  • Crystsal Creations
  • Paranormal
  • StrangerVille

Vampires/Werewolves/Realm of Magic: Swap the ghost obsession for obsession with another occult, focus on skills from those packs

  • Traits: Gloomy, Bookworm, Neat
  • Career: Freelance Writer
  • Aspiration: Best Selling Author
  • Additional Rules: Max the writing and comedy skills. Complete the Crystal Collection. Complete the Postcard Collection. Marry a ghost.

Generation 8: Radish

Pink

  • Adventurous
  • Chased By Death
  • Active

Freelance Artist

  • Extreme Sports Enthusiast
  • Jungle Explorer
  • Complete both aspirations
  • Visit space, build your own rocket or use one at GeekCon
  • Max the Selvadoradian Culture and Archaeology skills
  • Max Skiing, Snowboarding, and Rock Climbing skills
  • Snowy Escape
  • Life & Death
  • Jungle Adventure
  • Island Living: Consider using diving feature as replacement for active skills, attempt to get underwater photos
  • Fitness Stuff: use rock climbing wall
  • Get To Work: Visit Sixam and attempt to complete alien collection
  • Trait: Self Assured, Genius, Active
  • Career: Astronaut
  • Aspiration: Nerd Brain
  • Additional Rules: Build fully upgraded Rocket Ship. Visit space. Visit the secret lot in Willow Creek. Max the Rocket Science, Logic, and Charisma Skills. Complete the Space Prints Collection.

Generation 9: Mushroom

Beige

  • Vegetarian
  • Loves The Outdoors
  • Dog/Cat Lover, your choice

Conservationist, Environmental Manager branch

Outdoor Enthusiast

  • Max Fishing, Herbalism, Logic, and Handiness skills
  • Adopt a stray pet
  • Grow every mushroom variant from Cottage Living; Verdant, Charming, Lovely, Spicy, Nightly, Mysterious mushrooms.
  • Cottage Living
  • Cats & Dogs
  • Island Living
  • Outdoor Retreat
  • Eco Lifestyle: swap Island Living "Conservationist" career for the Eco Lifestyle "Civil Engineer" career. Consider using Eco Gameplay as replacement for Outdoor Retreat
  • Base Game: "Adopt" a fish/frog/cowplant as your "pet" or other small pets like My First Pet Stuff rodents or Crow from Life & Death. Can also use Axolotl from Lovestruck
  • Horse Ranch: adopt a mini goat or mini sheep
  • Cottage Living: adopt a chicken, llama, or cow
  • Traits: Vegetarian, Loves The Outdoors, Clumsy
  • Career: Athlete
  • Aspiration: The Curator
  • Additional Rules: Max the Fitness, Logic, and Handiness skills. Complete the Frog Collection. Complete three other collections of your choice. Visit the secret lot in Oasis Springs. Grow mushrooms.

Generation 10: Pea

Light Green

  • Self Absorbed
  • Materialistic
  • Music Lover

Actor

World Famous Celebrity

  • Become a 5-star celebrity
  • Have a house worht at least $250,000
  • Max the Piano, Violin, and Guitar skills
  • Refuse to ever cook, and only eat food prepared by other people. Only eat "peas" quick meals from fridge when another Sim hasn't cooked a real meal for you.

Get Famous

Vampires/Werewolves/Realm of Magic/Life & Death: Swap celebrity status for occult status, try to reach max level of your occult type

  • Traits: Snob, Materialistic, Music Lover
  • Career: Business
  • Aspiration: Friend Of The World
  • Additional Rules: Have a house worth at least $250,000. Max Piano, Violin, and Guitar Skills. Refuse to ever cook, only eat foods prepared by others and only eat "peas" if a meal isn't cooked for you.

At the bottom of the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge Spreadsheet posted by lilsimsie, she clarifies that these rules are subject to change and advises other simmers to just have fun with the challenge. She considers her rules more of a guideline than anything else, but does mention that these are the rules that she is playing by. She also defends that while she realizes some of the generations listed in the rules are technically fruits, she would argue that they are culturally vegetables.

Packs Needed For Challenge

All Packs To Get Full Experience

Sims 4 characters wearing knitted sweaters.

If you want to gain the full experience of this unofficial challenge, you can utilize all the packs used in the official rules. However, in the rules, it does provide a way to complete the entire challenge using solely the base game, so you don't technically need to have any of these packs to participate.

  • Base Game
  • Businesses & Hobbies
  • Spa Day
  • Nifty Knitting
  • Lovestruck
  • Get Together
  • Cottage Living
  • Horse Ranch
  • City Living
  • Discover University
  • For Rent
  • Eco Lifestyle
  • Bust The Dust
  • Seasons
  • High School Years
  • Home Chef Hustle
  • Life & Death
  • Crystal Creations
  • Paranormal
  • StranverVille
  • Snowy Escape
  • Cats and Dogs
  • Get Famous
  • Jungle Adventure
  • World Famous Celebrity
  • Outdoor Enthusiast

It's also possible to mix and match rules depending on which packs you do have, but owning the full suite will allow you to play the primary challenge rules as written. Ideally, each generation in The Sims 4 will use various packs to help complete the challenge and aspirations associated with each vegetable, and some packs will be required for multiple generations.

Source: moresimsie/YouTube, lilsimsie/Google Docs

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