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This property has it all: creaky floorboards, pesky ghosts, a dilapidated graveyard, and more! This charming four-story fixer-upper is just the thing you need to spice up yourThe Sims 4gameplay.
By taking on the Inherited Manor Challenge, you’ll embark on a wacky adventure as you attempt to restore your family’s mansion to its former glory. At first, the inheritance from your distant uncle, Lucky, seemed like a sweet deal. Then the bills started rolling in. Turns out, this manor may not be as glamorous as you thought. Keep an eye out for the repo man, and don’t let your pride keep you from dumpster diving!
What Is The Inherited Manor Challenge?
Inspired by popular mystery mobile games,challenge creator sahmandbeanset out to recreate the intrigue and wonder of Homescapes, Lily’s Garden, and Merge Mansion within the world of The Sims 4.
According to sahmandbean, the manor was charred by a tragic fire, leaving unusable furniture and filthy soot all around the estate. The challenge invites players torestore the mansion, room by room, into their Sim’s dream home!But, it won’t be easy.
With bills through the roof and costly repairs to be made, your Sim will need to be financially savvy to make things work. This challenge isall about accruing money and making smart revisions to your lot, all while navigating around the quirks of the mansion.
How To Play The Inherited Manor Challenge
There are19 rooms in the manor. You’ll have to restore each room, one by one, byraising the room’s value and placing specific furniture. Each room can be thought of as a level; you can’t move on to the next room of the manor without finishing the previous one.
Keep this guide and sahmandbean’supdated challenge ruleson hand as you take on the Inherited Manor Challenge.
You can start the challenge yourself bydownloading the save filecontaining the manor, appropriate furnishings, and ghostly inhabitants. This save file can only be used if you haveall of the expansion packsthat sahmandbean usedto create the manor:
If you don’t have all of them, don’t worry — you’re able to still join in on the fun. Sahmandbean created a version of the manor that you can download from the Sims gallery. Alternatively, base game players can opt for sahmandbean’sGrandma’s Mediterranean Challenge, which is a base game sequelto the Inherited Manor Challenge.
Check out other players' inherited manors or share your own by using the hashtag#IMC2023.
Once you have your mansion on a lot, you’re able to create an adult Sim, use a money cheat to give them §1000, and start getting to work on the manor.
How To Make The Inherited Mansion Challenge Easier
Fixing up a sprawling manor and keeping your head above water simultaneously is no easy feat. Luckily, you can do a few simple things to take some weight off your Sim’s shoulders.
Start A Family To Lighten The Load
Marrying another Sim and having them move into the manoris a great way to rake in some extra cash and stay on top of the house duties.Even better, marry rich!Romancing Father Winter or Geoffrey Landgraab could be good choices for raking in some cash.
If you have children, they’ll be able to pick up some housework, but you’ll also have to pay for their needs.
Add Doors To The Manor To Prevent Wandering
The mansion is big, to say the least, andyour Sim will probably becompelled to wander the hallsof the sweeping property. This can get irritating, though, especially when you want your Sim to just work on a few things in a single room.
Installing doors and locking themfor your Sim is a great way to keep them from getting distracted in the other rooms that you shouldn’t have access to yet.
Use Satisfaction Points To Purchase Reward Traits
Many players underestimate the power of reward traits. Purchasing reward traits from the Rewards Store isan excellent way to manipulate the game without using cheats. If you’re able to rack up some satisfaction points, consider these traits:
Satisfaction Points
Frugal
Reduces all bills by 25%, making it much cheaper to live in the manor.
2,000
500
Morning Sim/Night Owl
Each of these traits gives your Sima skill building buff of 25%during the morning or night, making it easier to gain skills and earn more money.
1,000
Free Services
Grants your Simfree services, like food delivery and maid services, thus eliminating both food costs and the need to clean the entire mansion.
1,500
Carefree
Prevents your Sim from ever becoming Tense, allowing them to gain promotions faster.
3,000
Connections
Allows your Sim tostart careers at level 4, granting all Reward Objects from 1-3.
Hardly Hungry
Slows your Sim’s Hunger need decay by 50%, allowing you to spend less time and money on cooking and eating.
4,000
Super Green Thumb
Plants stay watered longer, are eaten by fewer bugs, and grow faster, allowing your Sim to make more money off of plants with less effort.
Money Tree
Gives your Sima Money Tree seed!The seed can be planted in your yard, after which it will produce thousands of dollars.
5,000
Choose Favorable Lot Traits
Much like reward traits,lot traits can ease (or complicate) gameplay. While base game players will need to apply the Filthy lot trait to their mansion due to the lack of char on the gallery lot, save file players have their pick of the litter for all three lot traits. Check out our suggested lot traits below!
Properties
Penny Pixies
Sims willfind loose change around the lot,offering them a bit of cash as well as an occasional Happy moodlet.
Homey
50% boostto cooking, gourmet cooking, baking, mixology, handiness, and gardening skill gains, making it easier to make money.
Reducesyour Sim’swater bill.
Great Soil
Increases the rate of plant growth by 10%from during the day, offering more plants for your Sim to sell.
Home Studio
10% boost to Painting and Writing skill building. Objects crafted by your Sim will be of significantly higher quality, selling for more.
Best Ways To Make Money In The Inherited Manor Challenge
For this challenge, you probably won’t want to send your Sim on a typical career path. Building a career takes time, and the bills for your manor are likely to surpass §15,000 a week. If they aren’t paid, you could have your precious items taken by the repo man.
Crafting, freelancing, and selling collectiblesare the best ways to quickly rake in money.
you’re able to alsocheck out our guidefor even more tips and explanations.
Freelance Painting
Freelance painting becomes quickly lucrative in The Sims 4, and you canbuild the Painting skill even fasterif you take advantage of lot traits, reward traits, and Creative moodlets. This is a good thing to remember when building your Sim; consider which traits will help them make money in their field.
Once your Sim reacheslevel eight of the Painting skill, they canupgrade to a drawing tablet. Using the drawing tablet makes completing commissions much faster, allowing your Sim to churn out four or more commissions a day (sometimes resulting in over §20,000!).
Gardening
Clearing some space on the property of the manor can make way for a beautiful garden, where your Sim can turn that greenery into green. Get your Sim out of that dusty mansion and into the daylight.
Like freelance painting, your Sim canmaximize gardening profitsby choosing complementary reward traits and lot traits.Head to the Spice Festival in San Myshunoto collect some exotic and valuable seeds, or find a patch of pricey roses to propagate.
Dumpster Diving
Okay, hear us out… dumpster diving is one of the best ways to make money in a time crunch. You cansell items found in the dumpster for full priceif you sell them from your inventory!
Collect dirty plates that your Sim has used and toss them in the dumpster to keep refilling them, spawning more sellable stuff each time.
Sell Collectible Items
Selling collectibles is also a great way to make some extra cash.Frogs, seashells, fish, fossils, crystals, and metalsare all lucrative items that your Sim can find and sell.
