Wealth & Progression
Single Simoleon Start
One Simoleon.
✦ Set your packs to confirm this works for you
Type
Rags to Riches · Restriction
Difficulty
Brutal
Length
Multi-session
Best for
Purists who want a clean, brutal number to start from
Difficulty (1–5 plumbobs): 1 Casual · 2 Moderate · 3 Hard · 4 Brutal · 5 Extreme
📖 The story
One Simoleon. That's the whole inheritance. From that single coin — and never a cheat again — your Sim must build a life worth fifty thousand of them.
💝 The goal
Reach **§50,000** having started with a single Simoleon.
🎀 Packs required
✓ Base game only
Packs recommended
None
🏡 Setup
LotEmpty small lot
Funds§1
AgingOn, normal
SimsOne Sim
🚀 Getting started
- Create one Sim, move onto an empty small lot, and set funds to exactly one:
⌨️ Cheats to type
testingcheats truemoney 1📋 General rules
- No money cheats after the §1 start.
- Earn with your own household only.
- No gifts or transfers.
✨ Specific rules
- Your entire life is built upward from one Simoleon.
- Earn through any honest skill or gig.
- Buy only what you can afford in the moment.
✅ What you can do
- Start with exactly §1 (`money 1`).
- Earn from any self-employment.
- Use `bb.moveobjects`.
⛔ What you can't do
- No money cheats after the §1 start.
- No gifts or transfers.
- No rabbit-hole salaried careers (purist version).
🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist
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🎮 If you don't own the packs
Already base-game. Any skill-friendly pack helps but nothing is required.
💡 Strategy tips
- With §1 you can't buy anything useful — your first earnings must come from *free* actions: foraging, fishing with a found rod opportunity, or social events with free food.
- The jump from §1 to your first easel is the hardest stretch; collecting bridges it fastest.
- Once you can afford one money-skill object, tunnel into it before diversifying.
💕 Milestones — track your progress
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🔥 Want it harder?
- No selling of starter or found items — only money you actively earn through skills counts toward growth.
- Raise the target to §150,000 for a lifetime version.
🏆 Scoring
*Days to escape single digits* (reach §100); a fast escape from the §1 trap is the real flex.
🎭 Variations
Combine with Off-the-Grid for a "one coin, no grid" purist run. ---
Original — Plumbob, in the spirit of extreme-start Rags to Riches runs. · Last tested: Patch 1.108 — Feb 2026