The Legacy Challenge

📖 The story

The one that started it all. A single founder steps onto a bare lot with nothing but the clothes they're wearing, and ten generations later their descendants still live on that exact spot — a family tree grown from dirt into a dynasty. It's less a challenge than a way of life, and almost every other challenge in this category is its child.

💝 The goal

Take a single bloodline through **ten unbroken generations**, always living on the founder's original lot.

🎀 Packs required

Packs recommended

🏡 Setup

🚀 Getting started

• Create one young-adult founder with any traits and aspiration. Move them onto a large empty lot (the classic is a 50×50), and play with no money cheats from that point on.

⌨️ Cheats to type

📋 General rules

• No money cheats, ever, after setup.
• The family never moves — every generation lives and dies on the founding lot.
• Each generation has exactly one named heir who inherits the lot and bloodline.

✨ Specific rules

• Heirs are produced according to your chosen succession laws — no swapping laws mid-run to suit you.
• Only the current heir's children can continue the line.
• The line must survive ten full generations; an heir dying with no successor ends the legacy.

✅ What you can do

• Use `bb.moveobjects`, earned aspiration reward traits, and Potions of Youth.
• Continue the line by birth or adoption.
• Choose your succession laws at the start — gender, bloodline, heir and species — and play to them.

⛔ What you can't do

• No money cheats after the §1,800 founding start.
• Never move off the founder's original lot — the whole legacy lives there.
• The heir must be born or adopted in-game, never created in CAS, and no marrying in outside fortunes to skip the early grind.

🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist

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🎮 If you don't own the packs

Fully base-game. Pinstar's optional scoring — points for each generation plus maxed skills, topped careers, completed aspirations and painted portraits — needs no DLC.

💡 Strategy tips

• Always have the *next* heir secured before an heir reaches elder — a sudden death with no successor is the classic legacy-ender.
• Parenthood's character values make raising capable heirs far easier; lean on it.
• Build vertically and in phases — you'll be adding rooms for a growing family for ten generations, so leave space.

💕 Milestones — track your progress

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🔥 Want it harder?

• Pick the strictest succession laws (Strict Traditional bloodline + Strict heir law) and never break them, even when the "correct" heir is your worst Sim.
• Combine with a §0, off-grid founder for a true from-nothing dynasty.

🏆 Scoring

The Legacy Challenge has a long-standing optional points system. Award points across categories as the family achieves them: each **generation** completed, **aspirations** completed, **skills** maxed, **careers** topped, **collections** finished, and special feats (e.g. a member reaching the top of a difficult skill or hosting a perfect event). Tally your dynasty's lifetime score at Generation 10. Treat it as a personal high score to beat on your next run.

🎭 Variations

Theme the dynasty (a family of artists, of villains, of occults), or layer Not So Berry's colour rules on top for a themed legacy. ---