Themed & Narrative
The Pioneer Trail
A wagon's worth of belongings, a patch of unclaimed wilderness, and a family with nothing but grit.
Difficulty (1–5 plumbobs): 1 Casual · 2 Moderate · 3 Hard · 4 Brutal · 5 Extreme
📖 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
testingcheats truefreerealestate onfreerealestate offmoney 800📋 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. ---
Original — Plumbob, a frontier-homestead format (pairs with Cottage Living's Simple Living). · Last tested: Patch 1.108 — Feb 2026
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