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Themed & Narrative

History Reborn

Pick an era and live it completely.

โœฆ Set your packs to confirm this works for you
Type
Themed ยท Roleplay
Difficulty
Hard
Length
Multi-session
Best for
Players who love deep immersion in one period

Difficulty (1โ€“5 plumbobs): 1 Casual ยท 2 Moderate ยท 3 Hard ยท 4 Brutal ยท 5 Extreme

๐Ÿ“– The story

Pick an era and live it completely. No phones, no modern careers, no electric anything that wouldn't exist โ€” just your Sim immersed in a single slice of the past, where the magic is in the details you choose to honour.

๐Ÿ’ The goal

Play a single chosen historical era with **no modern objects, careers or technology** โ€” total immersion.

๐ŸŽ€ Packs required

โœ“ Base game only

Packs recommended

Cottage LivingHorse Ranch

๐Ÿก Setup

LotAn era-accurate home (Off-the-Grid suits older eras)
FundsPeriod-appropriate
AgingOn, normal
SimsA Sim or family of the era

๐Ÿš€ Getting started

  • Choose your era, build an era-accurate home, and strip out anything anachronistic.

โŒจ๏ธ Cheats to type

testingcheats truebb.moveobjects on

๐Ÿ“‹ General rules

  • Only objects, clothing and activities that fit the chosen era are used.
  • No modern technology, careers or conveniences.
  • Income and daily life suit the period.

โœจ Specific rules

  • Define the era and its hard limits before you start.
  • No phones, computers, modern appliances or jobs that wouldn't exist.
  • Stay immersed โ€” no breaking character for convenience.

โœ… What you can do

  • Use the Off-the-Grid trait for pre-electric eras; set up a period craft, trade or farm for income.
  • Use `bb.moveobjects`.

โ›” What you can't do

  • No modern objects, careers or technology of any kind.
  • No breaking character for convenience โ€” define the era's hard limits before you start.

๐ŸŽฏ Objectives โ€” complete the checklist

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๐ŸŽฎ If you don't own the packs

Fully base-game; rural packs add authenticity but aren't required.

๐Ÿ’ก Strategy tips

  • The Off-the-Grid lot trait does a lot of the enforcement for pre-electric eras โ€” power and plumbing simply vanish.
  • Period income usually means a craft, a farm or a trade โ€” set one up that fits.
  • Lean on Cottage Living and Horse Ranch for authentic rural, pre-modern living.

๐Ÿ’• Milestones โ€” track your progress

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๐Ÿ”ฅ Want it harder?

  • Choose a genuinely tough era (medieval, frontier) and survive a full family generation in it.
  • Allow zero anachronisms even in CAS โ€” every swatch period-correct.

๐ŸŽญ Variations

A single-era "village" of several households all living the same period together. ---

Original โ€” Plumbob, a single-era immersion format (a cousin of the Decades Challenge). ยท Last tested: Patch 1.108 โ€” Feb 2026