Ts4 - Blog Posts
UDC YR. 1311
tbh haven't been motivated to play sims or to post lol posts are hard :/ but we got another year done finally!! hopefully i get back into the groove at some point but just know i do not plan to drop the challenge or stop the posts :)
The quads (yes, one of them is dead, they are still quadruplets smh) are quite literal demons. Love them. But they are demons. Poor Ulla gets no sleep (her bar is constantly yellow or red) and most of time, Ruben is too busy with the farm work to help out. It's hectic guys.
They hug a lot if you can't tell, I think Ben and Lowri hug at least five times a day, I'll just see it out of the corner of my eye. We are going to ignore that Ben is crying in the background of the first photo, Lowri broke the dollhouse again.
Speaking of Lowri breaking the dollhouse, she breaks it like once every day and then cries about it right after... ANYWAYS their winter outfits are so adorable, I love it. Counter note. Playing in winter is hell, they're always on the verge of freezing to death, I swear.
Definitely two different feelings about their first blizzard... Ruben was absolutely not having it, but Philip was loving every second of it. Probably has to do with the fact Ruben actually had to take care of the chickens, cows, and bees, and then also take extra time with the garden and Philip was simply out there to play... Yeah..
UDC YR. 1310 (+1309 recap)
Was outta the loop of playing my udc save for a hot minute that I forgot to take screenshots for 1309 when I got back so recap time! All that happened really was that Ruben remarried early 1309! Thats- that is really it. He does get sad about Lilith every now and then but for challenge purposes I need more heir possibilities... I don't wanna loose before gen 2 L
(You are seeing right, I did change my shaders again) These days, Philip has been pretty scared to say the least. He rarely goes to bed himself anymore cause he's scared of monsters and the dark...
Also! I decided to revoke them of their loft and instead made a bedroom for the parents so the babies don't wake the other children. Baby Lowri has been very destructive and so Ben and her are not at likes at the moment...
Fun little family dinner on the first day of winter! Literally, this was the first time they all sat on the same end of the table and the toddlers were both around the table. Perfectly sat down at different sides of the table too! I dunno, it was very satisfying for me lol
And on the last day of 1310... Ulla gave birth... And I swear I am not cheating these, nor do I have any traits to make them more fertile for mulitples... But Ulla had quads! (I am dying) She had Ebba (F), Erilyn (F), Eino (M), and Eyra (M)! I tried to give them more Scandinavian names to match their mother's nationality. Sadly, Ebba was a stillborn but the other three came out healthy!
And since we have passed ten years, heres a look on the family tree! (because its so big, I am no longer having any more kids with gen 0 parents lol I was planning to only have two or one with Ulla-) Ignore the spoilers of the quads surviving infanthood and Ben getting to a child lol, that happens first day of 1311.
UDC YR. 1308
As stated in last post, I played with the Royals except for the last day of 1308, so this is a pretty short update for the Frost Family.
Ruben finally got his kids and brought them all to Saint Grace Church for Lilith's burial. A nun had come over and blessed her grave before they left, ensuring Ruben that she would be in heaven. (lol as an atheist, that is so funny and weird for playing a family that are heavily religious but we rolling along.)
Honestly, the kiddos have been getting along nicely. Lowri has become quite a troublemaker, loving to take things apart and leaving them in a destructed state. And surprise surprise, Ben is loving the action and chaos that it brings. Poor Philip is usually the one who is told to clean it up.
Ruben is slowly coming to terms with the fact he will need to rewed, slowly being okay with it too. (When his new wife has children, does it make his first wife's children no longer allowed to inherit the farm?) The only problem? Actually finding a new wife.
UDC YR. 1308 (ROYAL EDITION)
I mostly played with the royals this year! It won't be very common that I do, but their children aged up and I thought I would check up on them.
Joan: Bea, I just don't know what to do. The entire town seems to hate me, haven't you noticed? Back home in Tartosa, I was well loved, it does not make any sense.
Beatrice: The people are different here, your grace. You know that King Edward is... Well, I mustn't say this if I want to live, if you understand what I am saying.
Joan: No, no, I understand. I just wish that they did not take it out on me. It's tireless behavior.
Jack: Mother, you will never believe it. I think I have fallen in love.
Joan: Jack... This is the third girl this week. It's Tuesday.
Jack: Well, yes, but this is the one this time. And she is actually a royal, so father would approve.
Joan: Your wife is already picked out, Jack...
Jack: Oh. Well then, I think I will fall in love with her when I meet her!
Joan: You've- You've already met her.
Edward: I've been at this for hours, good grief. Is this all of it then?
Luis: That's your first response of action, Your Majesty. There are dozens of others and there are letters from the other kingdoms wondering about which daughter the young prince is getting married to.
Edward: I still haven't done that. I already told Joan that the girl was picked out, has it not been yet?
Luis: No, Your Majesty, you never looked at the letters or the lineup of princesses yet.
Edward: I swear I will have died by the time I finished all of this. I am done for the day, Luis, tell everyone I am not here.
UDC YR. 1307
Content Warning; Death
(ignore the random shader change, i found one that i liked a lot better and even made my game run a lot smoother)
Lowri and Llywelyn Frost are born. Luckily, both are born healthy... unfortunately, Lilith died from the birth. It was sudden, and Lilith was alone when it happened, death seemed to have no remorse for her.
For a few nights, Philip didn't want to sleep alone at all, so he had been sleeping with Ruben and Ben instead of up in the loft. Eventually, he got brave enough to go sleep on his own, but Ruben would be lying if he said he didn't find it just as comforting to have his two sons close by.
With having to pick up on chores around the house quickly, Philip ended up catching an illness from the hay after dealing with the cow. After some nurturing and lots of warm honey milk, one of Lilith's recipe's, Philip quickly overcame his illness much to Ruben's relief. Philip had ended up even dreaming of his mother the first night where she had come to comfort him of his fears.
Lowri and Llywelyn were growing bigger, and Ben has been watching their every move, asking why they did certain things and why they wouldn't answer him when they talked to him. ...He didn't cry when he found out they couldn't talk yet... just trust me bro.
Ruben met with the neighbors to hopefully set up a future arranged marriage between their daughter and Philip. ...Philip got a little distracted instead. He got extremely attracted to both Ithica's... who are married to each other already...
Philip has started to pick up archery when he isn't doing his chores! He isn't the best... Ruben doesn't know the first thing about archery, so he just lets Philip go at it and hope he doesn't get an arrow to the head while gardening.
UDC YR. 1306
Content Warning: Pet and (mentioned) Child Death
The kids have been growing pretty fast now, the twins reaching five this year while Ben turned five months old. Izabella has been taking a bigger liking to the animals then Philip, but they both are frequently outside with their father while he is doing the farm work.
Sadly, another death had struck the family, and their dog, Wolfie had passed from old age. The kids were devastated, and Ruben is stuck grieving his two kids and dog now, trying to keep a calmer demeanor for his kids. Lilith seems to be in flat out denial about talking about any of it.
Instead, Lilith has been doubling down on teaching her kids the basic needs and manners to help them mature. ...Somehow Ruben managed to get struck with lightening twice... Let's just say he was pretty delirious, and Lilith had to strangle him into bed that night.
For the majority of the days, Ruben and Lilith have really just been trying to keep the kids busy now. Lilith has been slowly teaching Izabella to cook while Ruben is itching to take Philip fishing. Lilith is not letting him of course.
Quickly, Ben reached 2 and has taken to the mud and rain by full force. (it is so weird to look at a toddler standing and jumping and call it two- my brother was doing this at two but its still weird lol 😭) He is very curious about everything, and is in his "what's that?" phase much to Lilith's dismay.
UDC YR. 1304-1305
CONTENT WARNING: Infant Death
1304;
Gonna be real, not a lot happened in 1304, it was pretty uneventful. Lilith got to work on the first-Generation Portrait, (which I hope doesn't break down the line... I'll keep the pictures via hardrive and integrate into my game with CC version if it does.) She is still working through her pregnancy, and the baby seems to be doing just fine. Her illnesses went away fairly quickly, so they are hoping that the babies end up birthing just fine.
I did have the family go to the local tavern for May Day, and they ended up being able to see a family of ducks, so that was pretty nice. Ruben's garden is also coming along nicely even though the soil seems to be pretty dry this season.
1305;
The toddlers don't seem to be taking the idea of having more siblings very well... but they're gonna have to get over it since I kinda need a big family to keep at least a hope that all of them don't die. 😭
Baby Ben and Thomas are born early morning. Of course, neither toddler seems to be happy about even still. While Izabella is mostly sad about it, more so about her mother not having time to spend more time with now because of another set of twins (i think she's actually cursed), Philip is outright mad about having more brothers lol.
As if to prove that is not the case to her elder children, she has been reading them bedtime stories every night... It doesn't help that the younger two are constantly waking Philip and Izabella in the middle of the night.
When aging Ben & Thomas, Thomas sadly passed from Sepsis. (I totally forgot to add this…) and I forgot to take a picture of Ben as an infant- So that will be in the next upload lol.
UDC YR. 1303
So. Eventful year. Little happened, but uh. A lot happened. Major trigger warning; there is child death in this.
Poor Wolfie is growing older quickly, the family isn't sure how long he has left but are unsure how to bring it up with the kids because of how attached they are to him despite not having him for long. (Especially Philip with how he seems to never be in a room without Woflie.) Baby boy even made sure Wolfie was alright while Ruben bathed him.
Lilith, Izabella, and their close neighbor Constance got to hang out for a bit while Lilith knitted, mostly just catching up on what they have been up to while Izabella chimed in every now and then about whatever was on her mind of course.
Because of the growing household, and with plans for more children in the future, Ruben finally got enough wood to upgrade their house. Let's just say he was pretty proud of how it turned out.
Lilith found she is pregnant once more, now more than glad that Ruben upgraded the house when he had, their space was getting fairly small to house four at this point anyways. The extra loft was much needed.
Just when the family thought nothing bad could happen, Stuart sadly passed away overnight, just shy of turning two. His lungs had given out and there was no way to stop it. The twins don't really understand death, but they have come to realized that their little brother is not coming back.
It was not a fun way to finish off the year in any way, and Lilith has grown into a state of depression, growing sick with her pregnancy again. Of course, this leaves Ruben stressed out and worried about his wife and children. Even the dog refuses to leave the crib Stuart slept in, not having the energy to get up with his age.
UDC YR. 1302
The year had started wonderful for Lilith in particular, their first baby chick had hatched! They had been struggling to properly incubate the last three eggs but finally had a baby rooster born overnight. Luckily in time too, because the older roost (Kentucky (I DIDNT CHOOSE THE NAME IT WAS SIMS)) is close to growing old.
When Lilith's water had broken, it couldn't have been a worser timing. At first, Ruben was out hunting, but luckily made it home a couple hours into her labor. The twins were both screaming and crying because of the chaos through the entire thing, not really understanding what was going on other than hearing their mother in pain.
Lilith ended up in labor for fifteen hours, far longer than when she had given birth to the twins. But alas, baby Stuart was born, luckily very healthy despite Lilith being a tad on the sicker side during the pregnancy.
A couple months passed, and the kids were quickly growing older. Lately, Izabella has been taking a liking to sounds and is often singing her little heart out while doing just about anything. Philip is a bit of a sensitive one, seeming to cry at every inconvenience. He especially gets upset when Ruben leaves to hunt or fish without him. Little Stuart is a little harder to pinpoint just yet, but he certainly is a handful with hating when being picked up and even refuses to go to sleep half of the time.
(kudos to llazyneiph's drama rolls) While Ruben was out hunting, he ended up finding a dog and even though he had not intended on bringing him home, the dog had ended up following him regardless, and Ruben couldn't seem to rid of it. Of course, the second the twins saw the dog--that they quickly named it Wolfie--they became overly attached so Ruben finally decided to keep the old dog.
UDC YR. 1301
Babies Philip and Izabella were born early into the year, completely healthy! Luckily, there were no complications for either the babies or Lilith.
Both Lilith and Ruben are ecstatic to welcome they're children but find it almost bittersweet with how fast they are growing up. The twins quickly grown accustomed to the chickens, even mimicking them when they would crow or cluck, to which would always confuse the chickens and usually scare them off...
It wasn't too long after, maybe a third into the year, when Lilith found out she was pregnant again. Although ready to welcome the new child with open arms just as she did with the twins, she almost feels conflicted about moving a tad too fast. Money was short, and their house was small.
And,,, Ruben had made an almost fatal mistake when trying to repair the fridge. His candle he was using for light ended up getting bumped too close to the wood and caught the whole thing on fire. Luckily, Ruben was able to put it out fairly quickly, though Lilith is still worried about another fire breaking out, moving every candle at least two feet away from the walls.
Although Lilith was none the wiser, (like many other villagers in town,) she met the infamous witch who lives down the street. She had whispered nonsense and somehow repaired the fridge almost instantly right in front of Lilith's eyes. Maybe she was just tired from all the farm work, the twins, and working through another pregnancy, so Lilith simply brushes it off. (as you can tell, i had too much fun giving the townies intense lore. TW: implied death (like the priest having three daughters before having a son, which he was then relieved only to find his son is fatally sick with only so many years to live.))
UDC YR. 1300
Starter Heir:
Starter Heir's Wife:
To start off,,, Ruben and Lilith settled into a farm together shortly after marrying. With the little money from Lilith's father, they were able to buy a cow and two chickens. Their farm (gardening patch) is by no means fully used, but they have a few crops growing already.
(pretending the pregnancy test is grain seeds...)(I ALSO FORGOT TO TAKE OFF HER NAIL POLISH FOR A HOT MINUTE IM SORRYYYY) Within a couple months of living on the farm, Lilith was overjoyed (even though she looks in tears in the photo- I swear she was happy) to find out that she was pregnant!
The move was surprisingly a lot easier than Lilith was fearing it to be (she had a really close relationship with her father, and he ended up passing a month after she moved away-) and she found to enjoy the farm life with Ruben fairly quickly. (Given she grew up a baker's daughter, though they were by no means wealthy.)
Oh. And Vlad decided to show up and feast on Ruben... Erm. It was not planned. (I swear, I tried stopping it T-T he would not leave) So he might be a tad... under the weather? (I have a mod that makes being bitten have a chance of being turned... I don't know what to do if he does turn... sigh.)
It took literally almost until the last three months for Lilith and Ruben to be able to make anything other than gruel... Lilith was pretty proud of herself (and relieved to eat something other than gruel) when they finally had the ingredients to make porridge. Of course,,, not a first choice either,,, but it was better than gruel!
UDC Royal Sim Panels
Meet the Royal Family!
The King:
The Queen:
The Prince:
The Princess:
The Lady In Waiting (Queen's Right Hand):
The Grand Master:
von Dough 1.6
I fear that Nicolas is becoming a mortal enemy of mine right now... Fussy, AND doesn't like being held? AND A LIGHT SLEEPER? Both him and Thalia are light sleepers and both wake up at different times of the night, poor Charity and Leviathon don't get much sleep these days.
WHICH IS WHY I WAS SHOCKED WHEN CHARITY CAME UP AND ASKED THIS WHEN LEVI WAS TRYING TO PUT THE KIDS TO BED. Obviously I said yes because I love the drama, and if she wants kids and is asking, why not. Levi has already been autonomously thinking about baby bottles and everything.
This pandasama drawing toy is really cute, and both Thalia and Nicolas have been taking turns drawing, filling their walls with just pure chaos of crayon and paper. Thalia is also the only one who wears shoes in the house and is constantly playful because of it, and the fact she wears mismatched shoes seems so perfect about the whole dynamic.
And lastly, both Thalia and Nicolas had their first naps since aging into toddlers since they've never really been tired during the days before, but they both went and napped on the sofa, and I thought that was adorable.
von Dough 1.5
My Gshade broke and I don't know how to fix it, it just keeps crashing my game when I open it so sadly I had to get rid of it... Reshade has always does the same thing gshade is doing now so rip. Along with losing my gshade, I lost all my game files... (never letting a sibling on my pc again smh) So the von Haunts are in a new house again. I also did have to make the twins from scratch in CAS so they might look a bit different, sorry.
PSA, Nicolas does not like the jack in the box. It was a pretty cute animation though. I'm thinking of taking the kiddos to the water park before winter hits, it's early stages of fall so it is still warm out.
And little Thalia is an actual menace. She tears up the kitchen at least once a day, much to her father's dismay. She refuses to wear her clothes sometimes, running around the house like a madman. She's definitely a handful. (Not that Nico isn't as well...)
That's it for this update. :) I might not play for a bit; I'm getting bored of like everything at the moment. So. We shall see.
von Dough Family 1.4
Thalia von Dough
Nicolas von Dough
I would have kept them infants longer, but having twins is so indescribably stressful especially when their father is FAILING HIS COLLEGE COURSES CAUSE HE'S ALWAYS WATCHING THE KIDS. sigh. I'd rather him fail college than be a neglectful father though.
Sock is the kitty, I don't take enough photos of him, but Levi and Charity got him when they first started dating. He's a grumpy man. Shae is also in this photo; I might start making posts about her and her own daughter as well. 👀 anyways not much happened between this update and the last, I was busy setting up my rainbow legacy house asldnfldsaknff
von Dough Family 1.3
A little updateeeeeeee (look at these two cuties T-T (i'm lonely so my sims are usually not))
ANYWAYS. Thalia and Nicolas are getting so big now, they both can eat harder foods rather than only soft foods and are starting to pull themselves up on the sofa's and armchairs.
The house was getting too small, and it was stressful trying to get the kiddos to bed and then not wake them in the morning, so we are saying goodbye to the trailer Charity and Levi bought together in the beginning of Levi's college courses. :(
I will say though, the new nursery (as if they even had one before-) is a lot cuter. I'm really glad they had the money in the first place to be able to afford this starter family home.
von Dough Family 1.1
its been CRAZY y’all I cannot. Charity is barely home because shes working all the time and they still have NO MONEY 😭😭 Levi just finished his 8/12 classes, and Charity had to completely rearrange her garden during her day off.
this has to be my favorite picture of Charity and Thalia though, like that is so sweetttt. Charity watching Thalia while Levi is bathing Nicolas and they both passed out.
The house has been getting pretty messy, but they’re doing surprisingly well! The kiddos age up in four days and they’ve already got a birthday party planned with three close friends attending.
their first every day outfits shown above. (i made multiple cause there were so many cute ones)
von Dough Family 1.0
So... I got surprised with a pregnancy AND double of it...
They live in a one bedroom trailer... HOW ARE THEY GONNA AFFORD THIS? ONE IS IN COLLEGE, AND THE OTHER IS A GARDENER?
though it was a really sweet journey. Neither were ready, but eventually got really excited about the whole thing.
So we have a little set up of Charity starting to sell things from her garden and watch the babies while Levi goes to university, and Levi watching the babies while Charity works.
Anyhow, meet babies Thalia and Nicolas!! <3 (I was really rooting for Levi's suggestion of Thalia and Toren, but Charity was not having it LOL (part of lumpinou's RPO mod))
Working on a save file for Willow Creek for the Ultimate Decades Challenge (1300s edition) by MorbidGamer!!
Serfs: serf was a peasant who was bound to a lord's land and was required to perform labor for the lord. Serfs were at the bottom of the social order and were treated similarly to slaves, but they could not be bought or sold. Serfs were given land for their family's needs, but they also worked on the lord's land, especially during busy times like harvest.
Fief: A fief was a piece of land granted to a lord's vassal in exchange for their service to the lord. The vassal would promise to fight for the lord and the lord would promise to protect the vassal. The vassal would oversee the serfs who worked the land.
I will update as I go along since I will be building everything myself for this challenge (i hate myself and am taking the hard route) and making original townies to give the full immersion of the challenge!
The willow creek map replacement shown in the screenshot is by MissChipsa and is completely free!!
(i gave up on finishing it for my udc playthrough, but im slowly working on it still since im probably gonna run the challenge again (i already love it im a history nerd in this sense))
Thank you for all the love from my last CAS post <3
