On your first cruise to celebrate your birthday, you encounter a cyclone that sends you off your course and exiles you on a remote island. Being the only known survivor and after recovering from the shock of your misfortune, you look around for any survivors but cannot find anyone at this stage so you set about trying to scrounge what you can from the shipwreck. You are fortunate enough to find a freshwater creek that provides you with fresh water. The survival kits that are packed and provided for each guest on the cruise in the case of an emergency are sealed in a waterproof cooler. This is found floating in the shallows. You grab it and hastily open the kit to see what is provided. Your mobile phone is still working but has limited range on such an out-of-the-way island so far from any civilisation.
OBJECTIVE: To survive until such a time where you can build up all lots on your island and populate them. On your island you must fill all spaces with lots and the largest one with a community lot of your choice. There are five lots four of which need to be filled with residential houses and the largest with a community lot of your choice. Leave The Bluffs in tact as you can go there and find things. Your Survival Kit contains the following: $1000 cash A small esky (the cooler). A one-man fold up tent. An old tub and washing board with detergent. One packet of vegetable and fruit seeds. One small bin for rubbish. One ‘waterfall in a bottle’ (get this through showhiddenobjects) A clothesline (made with wood and vines per se) To begin this challenge, please make a YA female or male sim. Ensure they have one everyday outfit, one summer outfit and one winter outfit. The other outfits won’t be used at the beginning, (except for the sportswear if you go jogging), but you are welcome to choose your outfits for each category for later. Remember you have been shipwrecked so have been left with only a few clothes on your back to begin with. You can use CC for your Sim’s look but not for any other things such as household furniture and things as they tend to be at a high level of comfort, yet cheap. Begin your adventure in Spring so the harshest weather won’t come until you are further into the challenge. Buy the Mid-nowhere lot in Windenburg. The island on the bottom left. Evict all Sims and demolish all lots until there are none remaining. Your mail won’t cost you much, so that can stay unless there is a way to stop it altogether. You are to be left with only $1,000 so first spend what you need to purchase the following things. Use the bb.showhiddenobjects cheat if need be to purchase things below, that are unavailable normally.
Cheapest tent
Ole’ Timmy’s wash tub
Detergent
Clothesline
Cheapest bin
The cheapest esky/cooler
One packet vegetable seeds one packet fruit seeds
One youth potion – to be purchased via the ‘showhiddenobjects’ cheat.
One waterfall-in-a-bottle
Once you have purchased the above things, adjust your money to $1000 Simoleons by using the ‘testingcheats true’ then ‘money 1000’. Use this wisely. Out of this money, you may purchase a cheap shower. RULES & GOALS
Only use cheats mentioned above and MOO if your sim becomes stuck or you want to fit things in.
Aging must to be set to normal.
Any perks from skill building can be used.
You can build money by collecting things and selling plants, fishing and any items found on the island.
You may stay in contact with the first 2 people that cross your path by your phone or invite them over, to fulfil your Sim’s social need or speak with your plants once reaching that level. You must ignore anyone else that comes into contact. Your choice of partner may be any one of these two Sims but moving them in may not be done until you have your basics in your house. (see below). You can either have you own children or adopt.
She or he are the only other survivors you have found until you build up the population with either your own off spring, adopted children and any children your surviving 2 friends may have.
Once you have had your first two children, and one has reached childhood, you can contact other sims in the rest of Windenburg to populate the rest of the island, to educate your children. etc.
You can use the youth potion once only.
You can choose to use the ‘waterfall in a bottle’ whenever. Save it or use it.
The ‘Anything Goes Party bush’ nearby your lot or anywhere else it is found, must be used until you can afford a toilet.
Once you have enough money you can build your first home even if it is tiny and sell your tent.
You must stay unemployed from normal careers, but you may use flower arrangement or woodworking tables, once you can afford them, or anything else in the game that you could do in an isolated island to make money, once you have a roof over your head.
Once you have made enough money, build a reasonable home for yourself with the basics; beds, toilet, shower, stove, fridge and laundry, plus anything else you want to add. You may get a normal career after making contact with the rest of Windenburg population. Be frugal because you must begin building up other lots and populate them.
Once you have built up all lots and moved Sims in, (your off spring or others) then you have completed the challenge. There is no restrictions to build the residential lots up, they can be as expensive or cheap depending on your financial status at the time, just as long as they have a house on them.
Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions or give feedback, suggestions or ideas related to this challenge. I haven’t played a lot in-game for quite a while, so I am sure there are things I may have missed. I will make up a badge award for those that reach the objective if there is photographic evidence of your adventure in a story form. Once you have completed the challenge, I will make you a certificate indicating you have completed the Shipwrecked! Challenge like the one below with the Sim you chose to use.