The Pioneer Trail

📖 The story

A wagon's worth of belongings, a patch of unclaimed wilderness, and a family with nothing but grit. Settle the land, raise the cabin, plant the first crops, and survive the hardships of frontier life the hard, honest way.

💝 The goal

Settle a **frontier family** on unclaimed land and survive the hardships of pioneer life.

🎀 Packs required

Packs recommended

🏡 Setup

🚀 Getting started

• Move a family onto a raw rural lot with the Off-the-Grid and Simple Living lot traits, and almost nothing else.

⌨️ Cheats to type

📋 General rules

• The family lives entirely off the land they settle.
• No modern technology or careers.
• Survive and grow the homestead across generations.

✨ Specific rules

• **Simple Living** means meals must be cooked from home-grown or gathered ingredients.
• Power and water are self-generated (Off-the-Grid).
• Build the homestead up from a cabin to a thriving farm over time.

✅ What you can do

• Use the Off-the-Grid and Simple Living lot traits; grow, forage and raise animals; horses (Horse Ranch) optional.
• Use `bb.moveobjects`.

⛔ What you can't do

• Live entirely off the land — no modern technology or careers.
• Simple Living means meals from home-grown or gathered ingredients; grow the homestead across generations.

🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist

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🎮 If you don't own the packs

Requires Cottage Living for Simple Living. A base-game stand-in is Off-the-Grid rural survival, but without the Simple Living cooking rule.

💡 Strategy tips

• Crops, animals and foraging are your entire economy — establish them in the first season or the family starves.
• Horses (Horse Ranch) add authentic frontier transport and income.
• Plan hard for winter; a pioneer family's first cold season is its deadliest test.

💕 Milestones — track your progress

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🔥 Want it harder?

• Survive a death-roll "hard winter" or "bad harvest" event each year.
• Settle with a single founding couple and §0.

🎭 Variations

A "wagon train" version where several founding families settle the same frontier world together. ---