you should have the store sell pies, jam, animal treats, hazels paintings, and other craftables, then just sell the produce to kim! then you can still run a store thats more like a town giftshop which would be super fitting in that location anyways
Also, there Is a mod by Brazin Lotus that works like the commercial fridge from GTW but looks like a farmer's stand and works only in retail lots. Sims purchase produce directly from it.
@@Silkenray If you watch lilsimsie and this had been in her Nightmare legacy challenge back when the pack first came out, I think we both know what she'd do if this happened to her Cottage Living sim. I heard the _pond_ is really _nice_ to _swim in_
Same!! He still does what he likes and it doesn't feel like he's getting "backseat gamed" but it's very nice to see how he really takes the comments in to account and gets ideas and inspiration and tips from it.
I had the same issue. I built a small little farmers’ market stand for my retail store and all of my oversized crops were selling for about $30 instead of the $500 they were worth! So instead of selling the crops, I started canning and those sell for the right price. Also the wool, eggs, and milk are priced correctly! It just seems to be an issue with the oversized crops.
Remember the Banana Stand? Didn't PlahneTayne use the Lice Cold Freezer from GTW, so she wouldn't have to chat up all the customers? Maybe you did that, too. And I could swear you can markup your prices in retail as well as with the selling table. If an item is only selling for 7 simoleons, tho, that might not help that much. It would have to be several hundred percent markups. I have used the retail mod by edit: LittleMsSam, and it's quite good.
I really wish they would take the time to make packs compatible with each other before they released them. Like why can't you sell crops on the selling table. There's so many little things like you can't watch holiday related things on the tv from tiny living. It's so frustrating.
I don't know if anyone said it already, but Trenton had an aspiration working on handiness skill and once you finish it you can "Instant upgrade" stuff and it works for sheds and coops! You don't need upgrade parts when you do the instant upgrades either so that's extremely helpful for coops/sheds!
Chaz: Its not so bad losing a competition Trenton, I've lost a ton and I turned out fine. Trenton: Chaz I came in 3rd place and there were only 2 entrants total. Chaz: Oh my god that hilarious- I mean yeah its hard.
Short info about the Error: It only happens when you live in Henford-on-Bagley and travel with the household living there. Though the error itself doesn't cause the game to crash, I recommend that you check out your homeless households in the household manager, cause the error is a sign of the not-so-awesome glitch which makes a shitload (and I mean SHITLOAD, like, ~hundreds~ of them) of empty households spawn and bloat your save-game until it's literally unplayable. Fun fact: The empty households are believed to be foxes which failed to spawn. Literally cannot live in the new world at all because this happens every single time I travel. Keep an eye on the size of your savegame and use MCCC to delete all culled households after every travel. :)
Luckily it doesn't seem to be a very common problem so I wouldn't worry too much about it, but it's good to keep a backup save at all times ~in case~ you get it.
@@SliferSlackerFTW Will do! I hope James sees your comment, I noticed all his episodes in this and the Dream Home Deco LP have had reallyyyy bad bugs lately that's likely cause by that. Fingers crossed his save file's doing okay!
Wow Thanks for the INFO!!! Mine travel a lot outside Henford-on-Bagley Vaca & Sulani mostly I love my sims going camping and to Sulani I will back mine up I haven't in a while! ty
LittleMsSam has a live in retail lot trait mod. Makes things easier. A grocery store is gonna be annoying but a farm shop makes sense. You can sell fizzy juices, honey, candles, milk, eggs, a little produce, pies.. All stuff you made on the farm. And it would be a good enterprise for Hazel
I feel like Hazel is really gonna be the capitalist in all this. Chaz and Trenton were just trying to have a comfortable life and provide food for themselves, while Hazel wants a BIG house that’s fully decorated and wants nothing to do with dirt and farm animals
This is just a suggestion, but since its so hard to get regular eggs, because of all the speciel hens. James could buy a third coop, wirh just regular hens. So there is a golden, midnight and regular coop.
Taking pictures of animals works to up your friendship level too! You can't select them specifically but if you just choose the take photo option but take it of them it works!
Omg thank you so much for sharing this! I like all the sims of the household to have a good relationship with the animals but it's so time consuming. Does it only work for the wild animals or the chickens, cows and llamas are included too?
@@anthologyofwhat That's so cute, I never thought of it like that. I make them all friends because all the sims have other jobs, so if one is busy the others can take care of the animals. But if the farm is the only source of income it makes sense that all sims would have different responsibilities and favorites.
i think he needs to get a third coop of just normal chickens, so he can get normal eggs to cook with Edit: I say a third coop because then he wouldn’t forget to keep the normal chickens stocked, instead of just hatching golden eggs
Hazel: I really wish you could spend some time with me. Trenton: I'm sorry Hazel but I really busy with the farm. And Chaz. Mostly Chaz. Chaz: Trenton help! The cowplant's eating me!
There Is a mod by Brazin Lotus that works like that fridge but looks like a farmer's stand and works only in retail lots. Sims purchase produce directly from it.
I think in the last episode of Dream Home Decorator, Hazel should sneak move in! She picks a gig at the Ricks farm and uses her own items and designs to her own taste.
Is that not how you move into your significant others’ house? It starts with a toothbrush and then suddenly your couch is in their living room and their couch is at goodwill 😂
@@marieduran6286 Yess I always thought it was a shame that her dream to to be the best painter and her paintings never really got to be shown/sold in a rewarding way! It also gives more incentive for her to paint more often
Yes please. Please please please please please that would be really nice no offence James she’s just got better style. You and Allie are so cute together on screen.
Regarding the 'sad' moodlet: Complete the fishing aspiration, once you do, you can quckly get rid of negative moodlets by fishing. Because fishing is fun 🐟
Hazel getting confused with Saturday being Trenton’s busiest day with Saturday being his least busy day is pretty funny. She probably didn’t even pick up a gig for the day to hang out with him. 😂
When I was around 7 my dance studio took us to a competition where we were the only ones in our bracket and we got second place. Because apparently they decided to score on some sort of point system 😂
I have waited since this pack was released for him to do the golden pulsing with the chickens. Finally! Also if you put the wool on the ground by the golden chickens they will golden pulse it (same with all produce, milk, honey, eggs, etc.)
Each rabbit has their own favorite gift. If you ask them, then you can give them the proper gift. It is two lines above the “gardening help enabled” when you hover over.
James - here is a tip - only name the rabbits AFTER you get them to help you - then you can tell right away if they are instead of waiting for the popup...
James, not sure if anyone has said before or not but I'm pretty sure you don't have to stay at the fair until the end. I've taken my sim off doing things in other neighbourhoods and just gotten the notification that the fair finished and whether I won and everything still popped back into my household inventory. Gotten at least a second place ribbon while doing that....😀😀 Loving this series!
I got a red ribbon doing that but the hen that should have won a red just got a white one AND she wasn’t returned to us. First time that’s happened and she was in really good condition and our favourite 😢
@@thisismyname8621 I did, plants that I should have been able to harvest were in there but not my chicken. I’m hoping 🤞🏼 that tomorrow it might miraculously appear 🤷🏻♀️
@@janesaunders8001 oh no! That's why I said I'm pretty sure...I haven't played much and didn't want anything to happen to any of James's animals. I hope your chicken reappears 🤞
Love the idea of Kim helping Chaz to iron out the kinks of his new grocery store! She could give her expertise and they can build a relationship (even if it's platonic)
Don’t forget about the juice fizzing! Maybe it’s time to start harvesting all the crops in the greenhouse? Also knitting you can sell on plopsy so if the crops aren’t ready, you have other ways to take money! The knitting also uses wool, but not as much wool.
It’s crazy that chaz gained weight with all the gardening he does. I feel like gardening should at least negate the weight gain since it’s physical labor but it would make sense for him to have at least some muscle instead.
Sadly EA haven’t added metabolism to Sims 4. Which sucks. Sims 2 and 3 had it. Way more realistic with it. 😑 I really hope they fix that in an upgrade. 🤔
Watching Clare Siobhan and JT’s Sims LPs back-to-back is like watching two totally different games. CAS, for one, could NOT be more different - makeovers are exciting highlights of Clare’s eps, where characters are carefully and lovingly designed so we can see each character’s inner journey reflected in their looks. James, on the other hand, quickly adds a hat, calls it ugly, and calls the job done. lol. Love both tho!
one thing i love about james is how much he shows that men can play the sims, growing up i got bullied for playing the sims as people said it was a girls game but james is such a rolemodel love the videos my g
I love that he looked in the chest for treats and didn't scroll down and realise he has coloured wool in there already! Also if you have 2 sims they can both put in entries, I know you only have one llama but they could both enter wool.
Maybe Chaz or Trenton can just bring the yardsale table with them to the fair and sell their produce and become a feirce competitor to Kim and Agatha. I wish I would've thought of this earlier in the LP because probably no one will like this idea, but it's worth a shot.
You can actually submit multiple entries in the Fair competitions from a household, one entry per Sim per category…a little friendly competition 😉 I find that my Sims will win more often if more entries are submitted!!!
James your cottage living series has gotten me through some rough weeks of having a chronic illness. If I am suddenly cured I will give you all the credit. Keep up the good work
After the dream home decorator lp is over, Hazel and Trenton should "move" into the rental store and you could keep 2 lps going, one with chaz and the farm, and another one with hazel and trenton building a family and running the grocery store with his brother's produce
It would be a great idea, if not for the fact that Chaz got Trenton to move in because he needed a farmhand...If one of them adopted a child, that child can grow on the farm and end up helping...maybe?
@@Lostinscenes that is fair. Also on mod the sims you can have farm hands. So like a maid or gardener, but they help with all farm related stuff. Chaz has enough money. Just brainstorming.
Hey, I'm hoping that you would also focus on simple living cooking and canning some more after Hazel moves in? I'd really like to see them all making preserves and all, and possibly even selling that in store as well!
when Hazel brought a pile of trash supposedly saying 'this is you' I died😂😂😂 also I absolutely love this game because it teaches you to hold your head up even when you take the 3rd place out of 2
The aspiration reward trait where you can instant-upgrade items also works to instant-upgrade coops and animal sheds, and doesn't require upgrade parts. Just in case you get bored of the tasks from the NPCs.
Chaz: Come here, little rabbit, would you like a prezzie? Rabbit: Hmm, are you that strange man who put dresses on us? Chaz: Why, yes I am, but I have Cowplants. Just plant these magic seeds, and you won't believe your eyes. Rabbit: All right, then.
@@Crucisphinx It's probably because beanies weren't designed to cover your ears. If you suffer from cold ears get a proper large knit cap meant to be pulled down over your ears. ;)
I think your animal needs to be given a special treat and to have a great relationship to win. Maybe you could get hazel to bake pies, cross-stitch and make preserves to sell at the shop? Worth a try. Absolutely my favourite series.❤❤❤🥧
Suggestion: You should name only the rabbits who are helping so when u hover over you can quickly tell if help is enabled (named=enabled, wild=not) Also I think they can both enter the fairs but I’m not positive tbh
I LOVE THAT YOU HAVE PLANS TO KEEEP THIS GOING LONGER!! I am enjoying this let’s play soooo much I seriously don’t want it to end. Can’t wait to see the next generation grow up on the farm and where they will end up. Hopefully you will get the store working. Saw some good comments about it being the produce itself but canning and or pies sell for good money so if you can’t find a mod you could do that. Maybe Hazel could be a baker when she’s not decorating houses?
noooo I want Chaz to have a babbyyyyyyyy, cause if trenton also gets a baby the next let's play can be about two nephews/nieces that grew up together doing whatever strange pack comes out next (apparently building a loft in brooklyn)
Maybe you can try to get more animal shed upgrade parts with Trenton? He hasn't done all the errands yet so maybe it'll be easier for him to get the ones with animal shed upgrade parts Edit: after watching further, I realized this is exactly what James did...
You could move the kitchen of the retail store to upstairs. There you could have a “mini-house” to help with all sims needs while they sell stuff downstairs. Put down the walls downstairs and please finish furnishing the farm’s house!
make some friendly treats and feed them to your animals. they're super fast to make, you can make eight at a time, and it boosts your relationship with the animals a ton. then you're more likely to win the competitions. I just feed my animals friendly treats every day rather than feeding them regular food.
Hi James, I just want to say thank you for your videos. I have been going through a rough time this year and I have returned to watching your Rags to Riches let's plays and have been in tears from laughing so hard at how funny they have been. I look forward to your videos each week. Thank you again for bringing a little bit of laughter into a dark time.
The thing with the beanies not going over the ears gets me everytime I'm in CAS! Like seriously EA...do better! Also, I love this series so much! Can't wait for Hazel to move in!
I started looking into how to make cc mesh with the express purpose of trying to remove the cat ears and make a plain winter hat with the ear flaps... hasn’t worked so far. But I know how to do recolors so I at least removed the face...
What bothers me even more is how short all the men's tee shirts are. I find dressing male Sims so much harder than female Sims. All the shirts either look like they shrunk or they are tucked in and I don't know any guys who wear tee shirts that stop at their waistline or who tuck them in. Can we please get some looser, longer tee's for the males???
I’ve been playing the same way James does and my sim has become as fat as possible. And they only cook with the ingredients they harvest. They need to update the system to match cottage living... Lol!
@@Triaanx28 Continuing to eat the same plate past the hunger meter filling up shouldn't affect anything unless the devs changed how the base game calorie system works. Eating a second plate would make a difference though; the game counts all of the calories per plate whether your Sim is full or not. So having one plate of food would be for example 300 calories and grabbing a second plate, whether the Sim finishes it or is still hungry makes no difference but they'll get another 300 calories, I think. I'm not sure how partially eaten plates count, like if the plate's calories go down if you stop eating and then come back to them or if the Sim doesn't get any calories until they eat at least half of the plate... I don't know how any of that breaks down. (And each dish has its own calorie count so some dishes have more calories than others; the basic garden salad has some of the fewest calories... That said the devs have forgotten about this in certain packs so for example if they never fixed Outdoor Retreat, the recipes from that pack all have 0 calories assigned to them.) Regardless, I agree with everyone else: all of those chores should count as exercise! Maybe Chaz just needs to start taking Fae Fae out for her walkies! Jogging with the dog will definitely help. :)
To avoid having to drag every oversized crop out and then set them for sale in the store, maybe you could just sell the big oversized ones from the “extra” patch? That way you’d only have 12 (ideally) big crops to drag out and set for sale instead of every single one (If the bug gets fixed)
(feeds rabbit a perfectly good item) "Only a thumbs up. I'm wantin' that love heart." Yeeeaahhh. Once you get the love heart, it's hard to settle for less.
Use the frogs to make a frog hotpot via off the grid cooking on your stove or I think it also works on a grill. When I’m off the grid and poor in sims I breed the frogs, sell the expensive ones, and eat the cheapest ones.
I wouldn't normally be sappy on a sims video but I was in a mood all day and kept thinking how bad I wanted another video!!! Thank you gonna end my day with a highnote and bust tomorrow up
The retail store can be Hazel’s pet project. She can redesign each room to showcase her design business and sell her paintings like an art gallery. During the winter Trenton can bake pies to sell as well instead of farming in snow.
Hey James, maybe it would be helpful to give the rabbits who are already helping with gardening some outfits, that way you know upon first glance which ones you still need to befriend! (Also it would be cute)
You know this is the most relaxing part of my morning. After I’ve taken care of the circus that is my household and I finally can drink my lukewarm tea, I love watching James for some me time 😅
*me listening to the audio on this video whilst getting distracted by something else* James "hey can we grind up frogs in the recyclers?" Excuse me... what the what?!
James, I believe they can each win at a single fair, because different sims can submit items to the different categories, so if Chaz submitted the Llama, Trenton could submit wool and they each could win
I think Trenton and Hazel should have a house of their own so that they can raise their family separately from Chaz. Maybe the back left hand side of the farm, near all the wind turbines?
why not just give chaz his own little cabin instead? Seems weird to give the big house to just one sim while a whole family lives shunted off in the corner XD
@@ktmunchkin4248 I mean Chaz is sort of the main character of the series, it’s still a let’s play about him. That’s why I sort of wanted Hazel to end up with Chaz, then Trenton could live in a little cottage with the dog 😂
I am so glad that you're back!!!!!!! I miss you and the gang!!!!! I'm looking forward to the *sniff* last Hazel in her home decorator series, but excited to see her move into the farm with the boys! I love the idea of continuing the home decorator series here on the farm and with kids. I love the tree house idea! sooooo glad you are back.. I had to watch 2 episodes of the BigWallet series for my fix! HAHAHA
You should turn the shop into Hazel's interior design shop with furnitures and decorations she can craft. It would be a good way to integrate her in the town as well.
I'm binging the old Bigwallet series and it's so weird to see James face again after only hearing his voice in the older videos XD I'm excited to see Hazel on the farm! As for the retail lot I think it would be best to do what another comment said and make it like a giftshop type thing. You can sell canned foods, cross stich patterns, pies, and Hazel's painting (haha a homage to the Lady who started it all)
If you're so desperate for animal shed upgrade parts that you're willing to "cheat", I think Carl's Sims Guides discovered that you can shift+click the animal sheds and then you can just buy the upgrade parts.
I like how the Sims story plays out. Chaz seems like the type who would be on his own taking care of his farm. Trenton gets thrown into the farm life to help out, but it never seemed like it was his passion in life. And since Hazel couldn’t be with Candle… Trenton seems like the next best thing.
James at 10:48 “Fertilize them with another cow plant? That seems barbaric.” Also James 4:13 “Ugh, we get so many frogs. Hey, can we grind up frogs in the recycler?”
I wish they would let the retail lots sell however and whatever they wanted. It would be cool to be able to create a Cracker Barrel type lot with a cute rustic/country/rural type restaurant that has an adorable gift shop also.
You could try selling things made from the crops in the store, like jam or pies. Also, there‘s a retail fridge from which sims can buy without help from a shop assistant. You could put your ordinary harvestables into it and sims will buy from it. It‘s next to the cake warming rack in the catalogue and really useful if you have a lot of small produce.
you should have the store sell pies, jam, animal treats, hazels paintings, and other craftables, then just sell the produce to kim! then you can still run a store thats more like a town giftshop which would be super fitting in that location anyways
This is such a good idea!
this is a good idea
I was thinking hazels paintings too! And chaz’ cross stitch!!!
Also, there Is a mod by Brazin Lotus that works like the commercial fridge from GTW but looks like a farmer's stand and works only in retail lots. Sims purchase produce directly from it.
Great idea! They could also sell juice!
Mayor: You placed third, congratulations!
Trenton: Uh, weren't there only two entries?
Mayor: ........ Third place! Congratulations!
Don't life feel like that sometimes though 😅
She got bribed so hard she forgot how many people were in the competition lol
I was the only competitor once, and I only got the participation ribbon. Lavina is brutal af
I laughed out loud at work when he said that 🤣
@@Silkenray If you watch lilsimsie and this had been in her Nightmare legacy challenge back when the pack first came out, I think we both know what she'd do if this happened to her Cottage Living sim. I heard the _pond_ is really _nice_ to _swim in_
Frog Emporium! Forget selling produce, Chaz is an animal lover and should have a frog store so all the frogs he finds can have loving homes!
Awww... this is adorable! I can't believe how much I want to see this now. :D
That's a great idea!
Aww, the froggies deserve loving forever homes! 🥰
Wild Frog Rescue!! I am here for it!
Ahaha yesss finally, a place to show and sell his frog collection!!
I really appreciate how James is clearly reading comments and doing things in game with the feedback! I love how included it makes us feel
Same!! He still does what he likes and it doesn't feel like he's getting "backseat gamed" but it's very nice to see how he really takes the comments in to account and gets ideas and inspiration and tips from it.
He's always been like that 💕
I had the same issue. I built a small little farmers’ market stand for my retail store and all of my oversized crops were selling for about $30 instead of the $500 they were worth! So instead of selling the crops, I started canning and those sell for the right price. Also the wool, eggs, and milk are priced correctly! It just seems to be an issue with the oversized crops.
Same here. I sold pies and made a decent amount of $$.
Same, I made two shops because I thought it was a glitch... and then I gave up.. gonna make a new game lol 😆
Remember the Banana Stand? Didn't PlahneTayne use the Lice Cold Freezer from GTW, so she wouldn't have to chat up all the customers? Maybe you did that, too. And I could swear you can markup your prices in retail as well as with the selling table. If an item is only selling for 7 simoleons, tho, that might not help that much. It would have to be several hundred percent markups. I have used the retail mod by edit: LittleMsSam, and it's quite good.
I really wish they would take the time to make packs compatible with each other before they released them. Like why can't you sell crops on the selling table. There's so many little things like you can't watch holiday related things on the tv from tiny living. It's so frustrating.
Good to know thanks!
I don't know if anyone said it already, but Trenton had an aspiration working on handiness skill and once you finish it you can "Instant upgrade" stuff and it works for sheds and coops!
You don't need upgrade parts when you do the instant upgrades either so that's extremely helpful for coops/sheds!
This comment needs to get to the top! Great tip btw
Oh man thank you 🙏🏼 I was so done with the errands grind
@@pjnkblue me too this is such a life saver
I really think the house will need an expansion when Hazel moves in. A sunroom would be nice, you might need a TV room plus room for both dogs.
The dogs should have outside kennels because farm dogs usually sleep outside.
A living room expansion
@@starlah8299 my dogs live on a farm but they sleep in the house. They have their own room 😊
@@melissaparsons6575 Maybe the sunroom can be the dogs’ room, just a couch and a dog bed and toys
He should extend the boot/mud room and have that as the dogs room. Country/farms tend to have their dogs eat and sleep there
Chaz: Its not so bad losing a competition Trenton, I've lost a ton and I turned out fine.
Trenton: Chaz I came in 3rd place and there were only 2 entrants total.
Chaz: Oh my god that hilarious- I mean yeah its hard.
I mean...I don't know if it's a good or bad thing, but he DID win Hazel. :^)
Happened with my lama too. Super weird Bug 😅😅😅
Happens to me all the time too though, I swear it's rigged. I also lost with a giant perfect pumpkin when the only competition was a small normal one.
🤣 I laughed so hard at that!
I feel like it’s not a bug. I feel like they added it on purpose so you know how much you lost 😂
“We’re going to do a makeover”
*only adds a hat*
That’s my husbands version of updating his wardrobe
lmao he also changed the hair
We need Deli
Hes got a point though, the boys live and work on a farm, their outfits are perfect
Me lol
Short info about the Error: It only happens when you live in Henford-on-Bagley and travel with the household living there. Though the error itself doesn't cause the game to crash, I recommend that you check out your homeless households in the household manager, cause the error is a sign of the not-so-awesome glitch which makes a shitload (and I mean SHITLOAD, like, ~hundreds~ of them) of empty households spawn and bloat your save-game until it's literally unplayable. Fun fact: The empty households are believed to be foxes which failed to spawn. Literally cannot live in the new world at all because this happens every single time I travel. Keep an eye on the size of your savegame and use MCCC to delete all culled households after every travel. :)
Oh woww that's crazy! Thanks for the heads up, I've not gotten Cottage Living yet (waiting for an origin sale) but it's good to know early!
Luckily it doesn't seem to be a very common problem so I wouldn't worry too much about it, but it's good to keep a backup save at all times ~in case~ you get it.
I'll try to keep that in mind if I ever decide to get Cottage Living. Thanks!
@@SliferSlackerFTW Will do! I hope James sees your comment, I noticed all his episodes in this and the Dream Home Deco LP have had reallyyyy bad bugs lately that's likely cause by that. Fingers crossed his save file's doing okay!
Wow Thanks for the INFO!!! Mine travel a lot outside Henford-on-Bagley Vaca & Sulani mostly I love my sims going camping and to Sulani I will back mine up I haven't in a while! ty
LittleMsSam has a live in retail lot trait mod. Makes things easier. A grocery store is gonna be annoying but a farm shop makes sense. You can sell fizzy juices, honey, candles, milk, eggs, a little produce, pies.. All stuff you made on the farm. And it would be a good enterprise for Hazel
Oh I love that!
I feel like Hazel is really gonna be the capitalist in all this. Chaz and Trenton were just trying to have a comfortable life and provide food for themselves, while Hazel wants a BIG house that’s fully decorated and wants nothing to do with dirt and farm animals
Brazin lotus had a great mod for selling produce too! i use it its great for large harvest
Yeah it could be her retirement plan from her job
Love all her mods!
James has really been stepping up his hoodie game 😂😂
this hoodie was epic
Its Teddy Fresh, that's Hila's Klein company who is the wife of Ethan Klein. He is H3H3 on TH-cam and James loves Teddy Fresh 🥰
man that hoodie is so cool!!! i love teddy fresh
@@ingakaren2208 love h3h3
its really hecking cute and i'm really mad it isn't on their website, and the only place i'm finding it is for FIVE HUNDRED dollars on ebay :(
This is just a suggestion, but since its so hard to get regular eggs, because of all the speciel hens. James could buy a third coop, wirh just regular hens. So there is a golden, midnight and regular coop.
Great idea!
and he should recolor them accordingly!
@@sanalulu2172 yeeeees thats perfect
I *might* have done this in my game, lmao.
@@lunabelletheinsane I love that xD
Won’t trade chickens for meat but will grind up frogs 😂
I immediately decided he meant that the frogs were let free to live comfortable lives on the farm whilst the cages they were in were recycled😀
I was hoping someone else made this comment 😂😂
Taking pictures of animals works to up your friendship level too! You can't select them specifically but if you just choose the take photo option but take it of them it works!
Omg thank you so much for sharing this! I like all the sims of the household to have a good relationship with the animals but it's so time consuming. Does it only work for the wild animals or the chickens, cows and llamas are included too?
Wow, really? Cool, thanks for sharing that!!
@@carolyingfa Really? I like each animal to have a different favorite, like they have a best friend in the family.
@@carolyingfa it works for all of them. I was in a rush to get to a llama fair and tried it on a whim
@@anthologyofwhat That's so cute, I never thought of it like that. I make them all friends because all the sims have other jobs, so if one is busy the others can take care of the animals. But if the farm is the only source of income it makes sense that all sims would have different responsibilities and favorites.
i think he needs to get a third coop of just normal chickens, so he can get normal eggs to cook with
Edit: I say a third coop because then he wouldn’t forget to keep the normal chickens stocked, instead of just hatching golden eggs
SAME!!
I was thinking exactly this!
I was thinking just put one normal chicken in with the goldens but this works too!
Or keep 2 or 3 regular chickens as his golden ones die
That's what I wanted to suggest! :)
Hazel: I really wish you could spend some time with me.
Trenton: I'm sorry Hazel but I really busy with the farm. And Chaz. Mostly Chaz.
Chaz: Trenton help! The cowplant's eating me!
Nothing to see here just normal daily political corruption happening in broad daylight.
I think it will be pretty cool if Hazel would pursuit her painter aspiration on the farm, so some of her painting could be sold in that shop.
There’s a commercial fridge from get to work and if you stock it with juices or milks, sims will be able to purchase from the fridge.
There Is a mod by Brazin Lotus that works like that fridge but looks like a farmer's stand and works only in retail lots. Sims purchase produce directly from it.
@@kikasinclaire1559 no way, I did not know that thank you!
I think in the last episode of Dream Home Decorator, Hazel should sneak move in! She picks a gig at the Ricks farm and uses her own items and designs to her own taste.
Bahaha - stealth mode, activated!
Is that not how you move into your significant others’ house? It starts with a toothbrush and then suddenly your couch is in their living room and their couch is at goodwill 😂
@@Crucisphinx i’ve been married for 7 years, but 12 years ago this is 100% how i stealth moved in with my partner.
I’d love to see Hazel focusing more on baking pies and canning and selling those items at the store!
Yeah, she can also sell some of her paintings. Have a special place for a gallery.
@@marieduran6286 Yess I always thought it was a shame that her dream to to be the best painter and her paintings never really got to be shown/sold in a rewarding way! It also gives more incentive for her to paint more often
@@seatheparade she could make paintings of places in henford-on-bagley so that it would be like a souvenir shop kinda thing
and cross stitching!!!
Aw, I love the idea that Trenton with all his handiness skill and Hazel with her eye for design could make a really cute treehouse for their kids!
I would love to see Deli makeover all three Sims once Hazel moves in. We all know Hazel is going to need a farm wardrobe ❤️
Yes please. Please please please please please that would be really nice no offence James she’s just got better style. You and Allie are so cute together on screen.
You can tell James is back at full power by the volume and shininess of his hair.
I can’t believe farm work doesn’t count as exercise - If they were actually doing all this work irl they would be 💪🏻
Regarding the 'sad' moodlet:
Complete the fishing aspiration, once you do, you can quckly get rid of negative moodlets by fishing.
Because fishing is fun 🐟
Hazel getting confused with Saturday being Trenton’s busiest day with Saturday being his least busy day is pretty funny. She probably didn’t even pick up a gig for the day to hang out with him. 😂
Trenton coming third on the competition when there’s only two entries is somehow so relatable 😭😭😭
When I was around 7 my dance studio took us to a competition where we were the only ones in our bracket and we got second place. Because apparently they decided to score on some sort of point system 😂
I have waited since this pack was released for him to do the golden pulsing with the chickens. Finally! Also if you put the wool on the ground by the golden chickens they will golden pulse it (same with all produce, milk, honey, eggs, etc.)
Each rabbit has their own favorite gift. If you ask them, then you can give them the proper gift. It is two lines above the “gardening help enabled” when you hover over.
James - here is a tip - only name the rabbits AFTER you get them to help you - then you can tell right away if they are instead of waiting for the popup...
I do the same plus I dress them in clothes crafted by the creature keeper so I know if a naked one shows up they're new
doesn't the name pop up at the same time as all the other info
James, not sure if anyone has said before or not but I'm pretty sure you don't have to stay at the fair until the end. I've taken my sim off doing things in other neighbourhoods and just gotten the notification that the fair finished and whether I won and everything still popped back into my household inventory. Gotten at least a second place ribbon while doing that....😀😀 Loving this series!
I got a red ribbon doing that but the hen that should have won a red just got a white one AND she wasn’t returned to us. First time that’s happened and she was in really good condition and our favourite 😢
@@janesaunders8001 check the household inventory?
@@thisismyname8621 I did, plants that I should have been able to harvest were in there but not my chicken. I’m hoping 🤞🏼 that tomorrow it might miraculously appear 🤷🏻♀️
@@janesaunders8001 oh no! That's why I said I'm pretty sure...I haven't played much and didn't want anything to happen to any of James's animals. I hope your chicken reappears 🤞
I'd be careful with that. I lost a golden hen from not being at the fair when it ended. I've played many days and it never returned
You should also name the rabbits “helper” then number them so you know which ones help.
Yes!!!!
When you get a new rooster, please call him Chris Hensworth 🥺🙏🏽
Or Liam Hensworth
Needs to be a golden one for Chris with his beautiful blonde locks and a brown or black for Liam 😀
Love the idea of Kim helping Chaz to iron out the kinks of his new grocery store! She could give her expertise and they can build a relationship (even if it's platonic)
Don’t forget about the juice fizzing! Maybe it’s time to start harvesting all the crops in the greenhouse? Also knitting you can sell on plopsy so if the crops aren’t ready, you have other ways to take money! The knitting also uses wool, but not as much wool.
It’s crazy that chaz gained weight with all the gardening he does. I feel like gardening should at least negate the weight gain since it’s physical labor but it would make sense for him to have at least some muscle instead.
Sadly EA haven’t added metabolism to Sims 4. Which sucks. Sims 2 and 3 had it.
Way more realistic with it. 😑
I really hope they fix that in an upgrade. 🤔
If you feed sims anything other than salads, they gain weight like crazy. That’s the kind of realism I don’t want in my game 😅
I love how Chaz is becoming the fun uncle who has heaps of pets and gives questionable gifts to Trenton's chilldren.
Watching Clare Siobhan and JT’s Sims LPs back-to-back is like watching two totally different games. CAS, for one, could NOT be more different - makeovers are exciting highlights of Clare’s eps, where characters are carefully and lovingly designed so we can see each character’s inner journey reflected in their looks. James, on the other hand, quickly adds a hat, calls it ugly, and calls the job done. lol. Love both tho!
one thing i love about james is how much he shows that men can play the sims, growing up i got bullied for playing the sims as people said it was a girls game but james is such a rolemodel love the videos my g
I love that he looked in the chest for treats and didn't scroll down and realise he has coloured wool in there already!
Also if you have 2 sims they can both put in entries, I know you only have one llama but they could both enter wool.
James: Does a makeover for his sims.
Also James: Does not in fact makeover his sims.
I love how James has the exact same response whenever he sees anything batuu and it makes me so happy.
Maybe Chaz or Trenton can just bring the yardsale table with them to the fair and sell their produce and become a feirce competitor to Kim and Agatha.
I wish I would've thought of this earlier in the LP because probably no one will like this idea, but it's worth a shot.
I see a lot of purse beatings in their future LOL
@@berkeleyjane I'm here for it 😈
For the retail lot, I think it’ll make sense to move the kitchen to the back and remove all the walls from the bottom floor.
Yes! I was hoping he would do this when he renovates
You can actually submit multiple entries in the Fair competitions from a household, one entry per Sim per category…a little friendly competition 😉 I find that my Sims will win more often if more entries are submitted!!!
25:34 Hazel's power move of bringing trash to hangout really got me 😂😂😂
James your cottage living series has gotten me through some rough weeks of having a chronic illness. If I am suddenly cured I will give you all the credit. Keep up the good work
((Hugs)) Hope you have some better days soon! I can completely relate ❤️🩹
When Hazel joins the household she can start stealing really nice things from her houses to give to the rabbits
A cottagecore thief. A sketchy Snow White. I love it.
After the dream home decorator lp is over, Hazel and Trenton should "move" into the rental store and you could keep 2 lps going, one with chaz and the farm, and another one with hazel and trenton building a family and running the grocery store with his brother's produce
I Love this idea!!!!!
It would be a great idea, if not for the fact that Chaz got Trenton to move in because he needed a farmhand...If one of them adopted a child, that child can grow on the farm and end up helping...maybe?
@@Lostinscenes they'll still belong to the same household, so when james is playing with the farm lp Trenton and even hazel can help out!
@@Lostinscenes that is fair. Also on mod the sims you can have farm hands. So like a maid or gardener, but they help with all farm related stuff. Chaz has enough money. Just brainstorming.
Nothing brings me more joy than James saying "aw yeah!! Batuu!!”
Hey, I'm hoping that you would also focus on simple living cooking and canning some more after Hazel moves in?
I'd really like to see them all making preserves and all, and possibly even selling that in store as well!
Yaaaaaaas another video! I just keep checking every day 😁
same..! they’re so addicting
when Hazel brought a pile of trash supposedly saying 'this is you' I died😂😂😂
also I absolutely love this game because it teaches you to hold your head up even when you take the 3rd place out of 2
The aspiration reward trait where you can instant-upgrade items also works to instant-upgrade coops and animal sheds, and doesn't require upgrade parts. Just in case you get bored of the tasks from the NPCs.
Maybe you can make canned stuff and sell that at the store instead of just produce? And cheese and stuff. That might work?
Chaz: Come here, little rabbit, would you like a prezzie?
Rabbit: Hmm, are you that strange man who put dresses on us?
Chaz: Why, yes I am, but I have Cowplants. Just plant these magic seeds, and you won't believe your eyes.
Rabbit: All right, then.
I loved James laugh when he get excited over the most silliest things! 🤣🤣❣
My daily entertainment has finally arrived. Thank you for saving me from boredom! 🙏🏻
“who wears their beanie above their ears ???” oh james, youd be surprised
Meanwhile, here I am buying beanies based solely on how much of my head it covers because beanies never like to stay on my ears
@@Crucisphinx It's probably because beanies weren't designed to cover your ears. If you suffer from cold ears get a proper large knit cap meant to be pulled down over your ears. ;)
"Can we grind up frogs in the recycler?"
This episode got dark real fast 👀
I think your animal needs to be given a special treat and to have a great relationship to win. Maybe you could get hazel to bake pies, cross-stitch and make preserves to sell at the shop? Worth a try. Absolutely my favourite series.❤❤❤🥧
Suggestion: You should name only the rabbits who are helping so when u hover over you can quickly tell if help is enabled (named=enabled, wild=not)
Also I think they can both enter the fairs but I’m not positive tbh
Chaz: And here's our nepotism hire
Trenton: How are we related to her?
Chaz: I dont know.
Richard: _Soon_
If you have valuable frogs, you can go "fish with baits" and catch pretty expensive fish! Like in the 200-500$.
I LOVE THAT YOU HAVE PLANS TO KEEEP THIS GOING LONGER!! I am enjoying this let’s play soooo much I seriously don’t want it to end. Can’t wait to see the next generation grow up on the farm and where they will end up. Hopefully you will get the store working. Saw some good comments about it being the produce itself but canning and or pies sell for good money so if you can’t find a mod you could do that. Maybe Hazel could be a baker when she’s not decorating houses?
noooo I want Chaz to have a babbyyyyyyyy, cause if trenton also gets a baby the next let's play can be about two nephews/nieces that grew up together doing whatever strange pack comes out next (apparently building a loft in brooklyn)
Maybe you can try to get more animal shed upgrade parts with Trenton? He hasn't done all the errands yet so maybe it'll be easier for him to get the ones with animal shed upgrade parts
Edit: after watching further, I realized this is exactly what James did...
So glad that Chaz finally got the haircut he so richly deserved.
You could move the kitchen of the retail store to upstairs. There you could have a “mini-house” to help with all sims needs while they sell stuff downstairs. Put down the walls downstairs and please finish furnishing the farm’s house!
make some friendly treats and feed them to your animals. they're super fast to make, you can make eight at a time, and it boosts your relationship with the animals a ton. then you're more likely to win the competitions. I just feed my animals friendly treats every day rather than feeding them regular food.
Hi James,
I just want to say thank you for your videos.
I have been going through a rough time this year and I have returned to watching your Rags to Riches let's plays and have been in tears from laughing so hard at how funny they have been. I look forward to your videos each week.
Thank you again for bringing a little bit of laughter into a dark time.
The thing with the beanies not going over the ears gets me everytime I'm in CAS! Like seriously EA...do better! Also, I love this series so much! Can't wait for Hazel to move in!
Guys do that in real life too, and it annoys me so much 👀👀👀
I started looking into how to make cc mesh with the express purpose of trying to remove the cat ears and make a plain winter hat with the ear flaps... hasn’t worked so far. But I know how to do recolors so I at least removed the face...
What bothers me even more is how short all the men's tee shirts are. I find dressing male Sims so much harder than female Sims. All the shirts either look like they shrunk or they are tucked in and I don't know any guys who wear tee shirts that stop at their waistline or who tuck them in. Can we please get some looser, longer tee's for the males???
Thanks for making my morning before work a bit more enjoyable, James!
Any farmer doing that much weed chipping would not be overweight and would be a lot stronger. Weed chipping is hard work!
My thoughts as well. The garden weeding plus the cleaning / feeding of the large animals and their sheds should be counted as exercise.
I’ve been playing the same way James does and my sim has become as fat as possible. And they only cook with the ingredients they harvest. They need to update the system to match cottage living... Lol!
@@aurelie8220 I think it’s when sims continue to eat once their hunger bar is full that they gain weight more haha
It’s also the type of meal your sims eat. If you eat cake for every meal and you don’t run every day your sim will get fat
@@Triaanx28 Continuing to eat the same plate past the hunger meter filling up shouldn't affect anything unless the devs changed how the base game calorie system works. Eating a second plate would make a difference though; the game counts all of the calories per plate whether your Sim is full or not. So having one plate of food would be for example 300 calories and grabbing a second plate, whether the Sim finishes it or is still hungry makes no difference but they'll get another 300 calories, I think. I'm not sure how partially eaten plates count, like if the plate's calories go down if you stop eating and then come back to them or if the Sim doesn't get any calories until they eat at least half of the plate... I don't know how any of that breaks down. (And each dish has its own calorie count so some dishes have more calories than others; the basic garden salad has some of the fewest calories... That said the devs have forgotten about this in certain packs so for example if they never fixed Outdoor Retreat, the recipes from that pack all have 0 calories assigned to them.)
Regardless, I agree with everyone else: all of those chores should count as exercise! Maybe Chaz just needs to start taking Fae Fae out for her walkies! Jogging with the dog will definitely help. :)
To avoid having to drag every oversized crop out and then set them for sale in the store, maybe you could just sell the big oversized ones from the “extra” patch? That way you’d only have 12 (ideally) big crops to drag out and set for sale instead of every single one
(If the bug gets fixed)
(feeds rabbit a perfectly good item)
"Only a thumbs up. I'm wantin' that love heart."
Yeeeaahhh. Once you get the love heart, it's hard to settle for less.
Use the frogs to make a frog hotpot via off the grid cooking on your stove or I think it also works on a grill. When I’m off the grid and poor in sims I breed the frogs, sell the expensive ones, and eat the cheapest ones.
I find that slightly disturbing. And I have eaten frogs before.
making friends with rabbits is so hard, so I like viewing them like 10 times in a row until the option to ask for help comes up
Try taking a bunch of pictures of them, I think that helps as well!
@@stars1941 oh ok I didn't know you could do that, I'll try it next time
I wouldn't normally be sappy on a sims video but I was in a mood all day and kept thinking how bad I wanted another video!!! Thank you gonna end my day with a highnote and bust tomorrow up
I don’t know why James saying, “I got a ding ding?!” was so funny to me…. But it really, really was. (@11:03)
The English Simmer: James Turner is just this omniscient Sim god...
James: I got a ding ding?
The retail store can be Hazel’s pet project. She can redesign each room to showcase her design business and sell her paintings like an art gallery. During the winter Trenton can bake pies to sell as well instead of farming in snow.
Hey James, maybe it would be helpful to give the rabbits who are already helping with gardening some outfits, that way you know upon first glance which ones you still need to befriend! (Also it would be cute)
You know this is the most relaxing part of my morning. After I’ve taken care of the circus that is my household and I finally can drink my lukewarm tea, I love watching James for some me time 😅
*me listening to the audio on this video whilst getting distracted by something else*
James "hey can we grind up frogs in the recyclers?"
Excuse me... what the what?!
James, I believe they can each win at a single fair, because different sims can submit items to the different categories, so if Chaz submitted the Llama, Trenton could submit wool and they each could win
I think Trenton and Hazel should have a house of their own so that they can raise their family separately from Chaz. Maybe the back left hand side of the farm, near all the wind turbines?
why not just give chaz his own little cabin instead? Seems weird to give the big house to just one sim while a whole family lives shunted off in the corner XD
@@ktmunchkin4248 I mean Chaz is sort of the main character of the series, it’s still a let’s play about him. That’s why I sort of wanted Hazel to end up with Chaz, then Trenton could live in a little cottage with the dog 😂
I feel like Chaz should be the weird hermit uncle who never marries and lives in a small cabin/shed in the back of the lot LOL
@@berkeleyjane or chaz has an on again off again relationship with Kim where everytime she doesn't give him a discount they take a break 🤣
I am so glad that you're back!!!!!!! I miss you and the gang!!!!! I'm looking forward to the *sniff* last Hazel in her home decorator series, but excited to see her move into the farm with the boys! I love the idea of continuing the home decorator series here on the farm and with kids. I love the tree house idea! sooooo glad you are back.. I had to watch 2 episodes of the BigWallet series for my fix! HAHAHA
You should turn the shop into Hazel's interior design shop with furnitures and decorations she can craft. It would be a good way to integrate her in the town as well.
I'm binging the old Bigwallet series and it's so weird to see James face again after only hearing his voice in the older videos XD
I'm excited to see Hazel on the farm! As for the retail lot I think it would be best to do what another comment said and make it like a giftshop type thing. You can sell canned foods, cross stich patterns, pies, and Hazel's painting (haha a homage to the Lady who started it all)
If you're so desperate for animal shed upgrade parts that you're willing to "cheat", I think Carl's Sims Guides discovered that you can shift+click the animal sheds and then you can just buy the upgrade parts.
Yes, that works. Also, that reward trait you get from completing the Nerd brain Aspiration works on both sheds and chicken coops.
I think at this point we’re all okay with a few cheats now, especially with the two LPs merging lol
I like how the Sims story plays out. Chaz seems like the type who would be on his own taking care of his farm. Trenton gets thrown into the farm life to help out, but it never seemed like it was his passion in life.
And since Hazel couldn’t be with Candle… Trenton seems like the next best thing.
these videos are my favorite part of my morning. Thank you for all the content!!
James at 10:48 “Fertilize them with another cow plant? That seems barbaric.”
Also James 4:13 “Ugh, we get so many frogs. Hey, can we grind up frogs in the recycler?”
Don't forget you have colorful wool in your chest! You can use if for the next llama fair if you want.
I wish they would let the retail lots sell however and whatever they wanted.
It would be cool to be able to create a Cracker Barrel type lot with a cute rustic/country/rural type restaurant that has an adorable gift shop also.
Loving the regular uploads but please don’t overwork urself, take time for u and ur mental health ❤️
You could try selling things made from the crops in the store, like jam or pies. Also, there‘s a retail fridge from which sims can buy without help from a shop assistant. You could put your ordinary harvestables into it and sims will buy from it. It‘s next to the cake warming rack in the catalogue and really useful if you have a lot of small produce.
Can we take a moment to acknowledge James’ Teddy Fresh hoodie? 😍
That hoodie is the best thing I have ever seen James. Thank you for blessing us with it