Very Veggie Legacy Challenge

This is a silly follow-up to the Not So Berry challenge that lilsimsie and her friend alwaysimming wrote back in 2017. Last year, lilsimsie's Twitch community raised over $600,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and during the fundraiser she promised to write a new legacy challenge as a charity incentive. When Lovestruck came out and she saw that eggplant costume… inspiration struck. Now we have a ridiculous vegetable themed legacy challenge. Welcome to the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge.

Much like Not So Berry, this is a color based challenge. Instead of basic color themes, each generation is themed after a different vegetable. It is recommended to theme your Sim, their outfits, and their home around the vegetable they are inspired by.

This is a "rags to riches" style legacy challenge, so you must start on an empty lot with $0. You will grow your home and your family from nothing, much like a seed grows from the dirt.

Note: Some of these generations are technically fruits, but they are vegetables culturally. While botanically tomatoes are fruits, they are often used in savory dishes and are therefore considered vegetables in a culinary context.

General Rules

1. To complete the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge, play through 10 full generations and complete all listed goals for each Sim.
2. All listed careers and aspirations must be completed, alongside all additional listed rules.
3. If you are missing a required trait or career, substitute with a similar feature from another pack you own or swap with the Base Game Version provided.
4. You may move to other neighborhoods and lots once your Sim can afford to do so.
5. Avoid using money cheats and other gameplay cheats.
6. Dress your Sim and decorate their home to match their assigned vegetable.
7. The primary goal of this challenge is to have fun, goofy gameplay. None of these rules are set in stone – feel free to adjust them to fit your own style.

Setting Up

• Start with 1 young adult founder Sim.
• Dress your Sim to match their color theme and assigned vegetable.
• Use the assigned traits and aspiration for Generation 1 (Broccoli) when creating your Sim.
• Choose your own likes/dislikes and other preferences.
• Move to an empty lot of your choice.
• Cheat your household funds to $0 (use cheats: testingcheats on, then money 0).

Selecting Heirs

• Your founder Sim will have children, and you will choose one as your heir for the next generation.
• The next generation officially "begins" once you complete the previous generation's rules and the heir has become a young adult.
• There are no specific rules for who must become the heir – choose based on vibes, birth order, or whatever feels right!

Generation 1: Broccoli

Vegetables spend a lot of time outside staring at the sky. You notice the way sunlight filters through leaves. You hear how the wind sings. You watch the sky paint a picture every night at sunset. Nature is beautiful, and you want to capture it. You become an artist, and dedicate your life to honing your craft and sharing it with others.

Color Theme: Dark Green

Traits: Creative, Art Lover, High Maintenance

Aspiration: Lord/Lady of the Knits

Career: No formal career (run a small business selling your crafted goods)

Additional Rules

• Achieve a 5-star business
• Max the Wellness skill
• Max 3 artistic skills of your choice (choose from: painting, writing, photography, knitting, cross-stitching, pottery, tattooing, cooking/gourmet cooking, mixology, baking, DJ mixing, flower arranging, juice fizzing, fabrication, piano, pipe organ, violin, or guitar)

Required Packs: Nifty Knitting, Spa Day, Businesses & Hobbies

Suggested Pack Substitutions

• Get To Work: Run a retail store selling your crafted goods instead of a small business.
• Businesses & Hobbies: Replace the Nifty Knitting aspiration with the "Esteemed Entrepreneur" aspiration.

Traits: Creative, Art Lover, Erratic

Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire

Career: Freelance Artist

Additional Rules Base Game

• Decorate your home with paintings, photos, or woodworking you create
• Max the Video Gaming skill
• Max 3 artistic skills of your choice (choose from: painting, writing, handiness, photography, piano, violin, or guitar)

Generation 2: Eggplant

Everyone won't shut up about romance. All day every day you have to listen to weird suggestive eggplant jokes, people complaining about their partners, or even worse: them going on and on about their happy little relationships. You're sick of it! Love is dead, and you're going to prove it. You decide your life goal is to ruin as many relationships as possible. Well, at least when you're off the clock. You can't exactly quit your day job. Relationship saver by day, relationship ruiner by night.

Color Theme: Purple

Traits: Evil, Romantic, Bro

Aspiration: Villainous Valentine

Career: Romance Consultant

Additional Rules

• As an adult wear the eggplant costume for every outfit
• Grow giant eggplants
• Become a nectar connoisseur and maintain a nectar cellar
• Max the Romance, Fitness, Nectar Making, and Dancing skills

Required Packs: Lovestruck, Get Together, Cottage Living, Horse Ranch

Suggested Pack Substitutions

• City Living: replace Dancing with the Singing skill
• Base Game: replace Nectar Making with Mixology

Traits: Evil, Romantic, Bro

Aspiration: Villainous Valentine

Career: Style Influencer

Additional Rules Base Game

• Max the Charisma, Mischief, and Mixology Skills
• Add a home bar setup to your house
• Wear a silly costume for all of your outfits

Generation 3: Carrot

Your parents weren't exactly great role models for love, and you've always struggled with human connection. You long for someone who will accept you, won't judge you, and will love you for who you are. In your hunt for companionship, you find someone who loves carrots unconditionally: a horse. You devote your life to caring for and raising your horses, and become a championship horse rider.

Color Theme: Orange

Traits: Horse Lover, Unflirty, Loner

Aspiration: Championship Rider

Career: No formal career (earn your money through winning horse competitions)

Additional Rules

• Max the Horse Riding skill
• Have 3 horses
• Grow carrots
• You can marry, but only after aging up to an Adult

Required Packs: Horse Ranch, City Living

Suggested Pack Substitutions

• Cottage Living: replace horses with cows/chickens, and use the Country Caretaker aspiration & Animal Enthusiast trait.
• Cats & Dogs: become a dog trainer and use the Friend of the Animals aspiration & the cat/dog lover trait.

Traits: Loves The Outdoors, Noncommittal, Loner

Aspiration: Angling Ace

Career: No formal career (earn money from your fishing and gardening)

Additional Rules Base Game

• Max the Fishing, Gardening, and Logic skills
• Complete the Fishing Collection
• You can marry, but only after aging up to an Adult
• Have and maintain 3 cowplants
• Grow carrots

Generation 4: Squash

You grew up in a small town on a farm, and you always dreamed of getting away and moving on to bigger and better things. You know you are destined for greatness, and you are determined to never have your dreams squashed. You care deeply about success, and you will do anything in your power to get it.

Color Theme: Yellow

Traits: Ambitious, Hates Children, Geek

Aspiration: Academic AND Master Mentor

Career: University Student (your choice of major + career post graduation)

Additional Rules

• Successfully graduate university with at least a B grade
• Complete both aspirations
• Max the Logic, Video Gaming, and Research & Debate skills
• Choose your own career benefited by your degree, and max the career post graduation

Required Packs: Discover University

Suggested Pack Substitutions

High School Years: swap University with prioritizing your Sim's academics as a teen, and try to graduate with an "A" grade in school and high level after school activity.

Traits: Ambitious, Hates Children, Geek

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Career: Choose 3 careers (achieve at least level 3 in each)

Additional Rules Base Game

• Get an "A" grade in Elementary and High School
• Max the Logic and Video Gaming skills
• Max another 3 skills of your choice
• Achieve Level 3 in your first 3 careers (for the aspiration), then achieve Level 10 in your final career choice

Generation 5: Potato

You never really minded dirt, and you don't see why anyone else would either. It's honestly kind of offensive that people are so dramatic about always wanting a "clean house" with "functional appliances" and "no mold." As a landlord, you don't worry about any of these things! The tenants can just deal with it. You love to dumpster dive, befriend dust bunnies, and live in filth, and you absolutely NEVER clean.

Color Theme: Brown

Traits: Freegan, Nosy, Slob

Aspiration: Five-Star Property Owner

Career: No formal career (earn money dumpster diving + as a landlord)

Additional Rules

• Become a 5-Star Property Owner & have 3 units occupied by tenants
• Befriend a Dust Bunny
• Max the Fabrication, Baking, and Mischief skills
• Decorate your home AND your rental units primarily with furniture obtained from a dumpster

Required Packs: For Rent, Eco Lifestyle, Get To Work, Bust The Dust

Suggested Pack Substitutions

Laundry Day: swap out dust for laundry, and play with laundry on your lot.

NOTE: Bust The Dust is pretty broken, but it's included for the vibe. Feel free to ignore that rule completely.

Traits: Evil, Lazy, Slob

Aspiration: Public Enemy

Career: Criminal

Additional Rules Base Game

• Max the Mischief, Logic, Programming, and Fitness skills
• Make an enemy, and then later repair the relationship and marry them
• Make money on the side by hacking
• Refuse to do any cleaning

Generation 6: Tomato

It's hard growing up as a tomato in a world of veggies. You're different from your family. Nobody takes you seriously. People keep pointing out that you contain seeds, and that you grow from the flower of the tomato plant so you can't possibly be a vegetable like the rest of them. Well, whatever! You'll show them growing flowers! You decide to become a florist, and you will spend your life trying to prove yourself to everyone around you.

Color Theme: Red

Traits: Socially Awkward, Hot-Headed, Overachiever

Aspiration: Freelance Botanist AND Appliance Whiz

Career: Gardener (Floral Designer Branch)

Additional Rules

• Grow tomato plants
• Max the Gardening, Cooking, and Gourmet Cooking skills
• Get really into grilling (own a grill and have a dedicated outdoor kitchen)
• Complete both aspirations

Required Packs: High School Years, Seasons, Home Chef Hustle

Suggested Pack Substitutions

Cool Kitchen Stuff: replace the pizza oven with the ice cream maker

Businesses & Hobbies/For Rent/Snowy Escape: consider using any other small appliances from other packs you own

Traits: Ambitious, Foodie, Hot-Headed

Aspiration: Freelance Botanist AND Master Chef

Career: Culinary (Chef Branch)

Additional Rules Base Game

• Grow tomato plants
• Max the Gardening, Cooking, and Gourmet Cooking skills
• Get really into grilling
• Complete both aspirations

Generation 7: Cauliflower

You come from a long line of vegetables, and you are fascinated by your family's history. So fascinated that you think you start seeing… ghosts? But that can't be true! Ghosts aren't real? …right? Your fascination turns into an obsession, and you devote your life to the macabre all while not being fully sure if you even believe in any of it.

Color Theme: White

Traits: Paranoid, Bookworm, Skeptical

Aspiration: Ghost Historian

Career: Undertaker

Additional Rules

• Max the Thanatology, Gemology, Medium, and Writing skills
• Complete your Soul's Journey
• Live in a Haunted House
• Marry a ghost

Required Packs: Life & Death, StrangerVille, Paranormal Stuff, Crystal Creations

Suggested Pack Substitutions

Vampires/Werewolves/Realm of Magic: Swap the ghost obsession for an obsession with another occult type.

Traits: Gloomy, Bookworm, Neat

Aspiration: Best Selling Author

Career: Freelance Writer

Additional Rules Base Game

• Max the Writing and Comedy skills
• Complete the Crystal Collection
• Complete the Postcard Collection
• Marry a ghost

Generation 8: Radish

You grew up in a house full of death, and now you can't help but feel chased by it. It doesn't help that all your hobbies are a little bit dangerous. Just stay away from poison and try not to fall off a mountain. You'll be fine! Constantly being surrounded by death taught you to live life to the fullest, and instilled within you a deep desire for adventure. The sky's the limit… literally!

Color Theme: Pink

Traits: Adventurous, Chased By Death, Active

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast AND Jungle Explorer

Career: Freelance Artist

Additional Rules

• Complete both aspirations
• Visit space (build your own rocket ship OR use one at GeekCon)
• Max the Selvadoradian Culture and Archaeology skills
• Max the Skiing, Snowboarding, and Rock Climbing skills

Required Packs: Snowy Escape, Jungle Adventure

Suggested Pack Substitutions

• Island Living: consider using the diving feature as a replacement for some of the active skills
• Fitness Stuff: use the rock climbing wall
• Get To Work: visit Sixam and attempt to complete an alien collection

Traits: Self Assured, Genius, Active

Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Career: Astronaut

Additional Rules Base Game

• Build a fully upgraded Rocket Ship
• Visit space
• Visit the secret lot in Willow Creek
• Max the Rocket Science, Logic, and Charisma skills
• Complete the Space Prints collection

Generation 9: Mushroom

Considering how your entire family is literally full of vegetables it's kind of shocking how little any of your ancestors seemed to care about the environment. Your parents traveled the world and took you with them, and now you care deeply about protecting the planet for future generations.

Color Theme: Beige

Traits: Vegetarian, Loves The Outdoors, Dog/Cat Lover (you choose!)

Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast

Career: Conservationist (Environmental Manager branch)

Additional Rules

• Max the Fishing, Herbalism, Logic, and Handiness skills
• Adopt a stray pet
• Grow every mushroom variant from Cottage Living (Verdant, Charming, Mysterious, Lovely, Spicy, and Nightly mushrooms)

Required Packs: Cottage Living, Cats & Dogs, Island Living, Outdoor Retreat

Suggested Pack Substitutions

• Eco Lifestyle: swap the Island Living "Conservationist" career for the Eco Lifestyle "Civil Engineer" career
• Base Game: "adopt" a fish/frog/cowplant as your "pet"
• Horse Ranch: adopt a mini goat or mini sheep
• Cottage Living: adopt a chicken, llama, or cow

Traits: Vegetarian, Loves The Outdoors, Clumsy

Aspiration: The Curator

Career: Athlete

Additional Rules Base Game

• Max the Fitness, Logic, and Handiness skills
• Complete the Frog Collection
• Complete 3 other collections of your choice
• Visit the secret lot in Oasis Springs
• Grow mushrooms

Generation 10: Pea

Most peas are destined to spend their lives stuffed in the back corner of a freezer, forgotten about. That life was never meant for you. You crave the spotlight. You are a pea of many talents, and you will make yourself unforgettable.

Color Theme: Light Green

Traits: Self-Absorbed, Materialistic, Music Lover

Aspiration: World Famous Celebrity

Career: Actor

Additional Rules

• Become a 5-star celebrity
• Have a house worth at least $250,000
• Max the Piano, Violin, and Guitar Skills
• Refuse to ever cook, and only eat food prepared by other people

Required Packs: Get Famous

Suggested Pack Substitutions

Vampires/Werewolves/Realm of Magic/Life & Death: Swap the celebrity status for occult status, and try to reach max level of your occult type.

NOTE: Green is used twice in this challenge. As you can imagine, it's very difficult to come up with 10 unique vegetable colors that are also attainable with the swatches in The Sims 4. Dark green and light green are used to distinguish them.

Traits: Snob, Materialistic, Music Lover

Aspiration: Friend Of The World

Career: Business

Additional Rules Base Game

• Have a house worth at least $250,000
• Max the Piano, Violin, and Guitar Skills
• Refuse to ever cook, and only eat food prepared by other people

Credits

The Very Veggie Legacy Challenge was written by lilsimsie, inspired by the original Not So Berry challenge written back in 2017 with her friend alwaysimming.

The artwork for this challenge was created by Risshella. If you use the artwork, please be sure to credit her appropriately.

Please use #VeryVeggie or #VeryVeggieLegacy on the Gallery when sharing your creations!

Note: This challenge is currently being tested live on stream and is in a "beta testing" state. All rules are subject to change and may be adjusted. Feel free to play the challenge on your own channels – if you do, please link to this document so your audience can find the rules. You can follow lilsimsie on Twitch to watch the playthrough live, or watch the streams reuploaded to YouTube on moresimsie.