The One-Crop Empire

📖 The story

Everything you will ever own grows from a single seed. One plant, chosen at the start, becomes the root of an entire fortune — every grafted branch, every bottle of nectar, every Simoleon traceable back to that first humble sprout.

💝 The goal

Reach **§75,000** with every income stream rooted in one original plant and its descendants.

🎀 Packs required

Packs recommended

🏡 Setup

🚀 Getting started

• Create one Sim with the *Freelance Botanist* aspiration or *Loves Outdoors* trait. Move onto an empty rural lot and set a small start:

⌨️ Cheats to type

📋 General rules

• No money cheats after the §500 start.
• All income is earned by your own household.
• No transfers or gifts.

✨ Specific rules

• Buy or forage exactly **one** plant or seed to begin. Everything you grow must descend from it via harvest or graft.
• Income comes only from that plant's produce, its grafts, or goods you craft from it (nectar, arrangements, preserves).
• No careers, gigs, or unrelated collectibles for money.
• Reinvest only into gardening and processing equipment.

✅ What you can do

• Graft, splice, fertilise and propagate freely from your single origin plant.
• Sell produce, flower arrangements, and (with Horse Ranch) nectar made from your crop.
• Use `bb.moveobjects`.

⛔ What you can't do

• No income from any plant not descended from the origin plant.
• No money cheats after setup; no rabbit-hole careers.
• You may eat foraged plants but never sell them — only your lineage earns money.

🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist

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🎮 If you don't own the packs

Already base-game. Without Seasons, plant year-round; nectar needs Horse Ranch, so base-game players lean on flower arranging plus grafted produce to reach the target.

💡 Strategy tips

• Choose your founding plant carefully: a plant that *grafts well* lets you branch into new produce while staying within the rules.
• Push quality up — Excellent-quality produce sells for many times the base price, and quality climbs as your gardening skill does.
• Nectar and flower arranging multiply the value of raw produce; treat them as your "processing industry."

💕 Milestones — track your progress

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🔥 Want it harder?

• Pick the lowest-value common plant available as your founder and still reach the target.
• Forbid grafting — the empire must run on one unmodified crop.

🏆 Scoring

Track *fewest distinct purchases of outside seeds* (ideally exactly one). A true single-plant empire scores highest.

🎭 Variations

Make it generational: the founding plant is an heirloom passed down, and each generation must add one new grafted branch. ---