Take your Sims back to square one — empty worlds, limited jobs, and only the resources are the ones they can find or earn. Can your founding families shape a thriving town from scratch? This is more than a legacy. It’s the story of how an empty save becomes a living, breathing world — built lot by lot, sim by sim.

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🔗 Useful links before getting started

General

• Empty save file download
• Notion tracker
• Random number generator for dice rolls

Recommended Mods

• UI Cheats
• MC Command Center </aside>

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📺 Watch my explanation video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmlGTMyRJ1E

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💜 Credits

• Challenge written by: Rosannatxt
• Artwork: Made by Rosannatxt in Canva
• Notion Tracker: Made by Rosannatxt </aside>

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➡️ Starting Rules

• Start with a completely empty save file
• This challenge is can be done without any or with all the packs. The more packs you have the longer it will take (due to having more worlds) but you can play with just the base game!
• Place four families in starter homes (max 20k simoleons per household) in Willow Creek
  • These families can be as big as you like, but even if you add more sims, you cannot have more than 20k and free real estate is not allowed
• If you want to make things extra challenging you are allowed to even start fully rags to riches - keep in mind there are no community lots in your world so this is even more challenging than a regular rags to riches
• You are allowed to pick one main household to play with or play rotationally, that is a personal preference
  • If you plan on picking just 1 family to play with, I can recommend making sure the other households have kids or single sims for your sim to date. Otherwise, you’ll get stuck in the challenge.
• You are allowed to play on any life span or even have aging off completely. For the richness of your save file, I can recommend playing with aging on. Just keep an eye on new sims and townies being generated so you can give them make-overs and move them out into other lots if needed. The longer you play the more complex this can get. By turning aging off you might be able to keep worlds in a more “frozen” state as you move through the gameplay. </aside>

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🔔 Notification about the future of the challenge

I will no longer update the Origins legacy challenge with new generations (or add the newest pack to the template) due to the EA buyout. However, I have added an empty world to the challenge tracker so you can technically add your own or even add a modded world.

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🎮 Gameplay Rules

• Cheats

  Cheats are allowed only for two purposes:

  1. To simulate the outcome of a dice roll or challenge event.

  2. To adjust household funds when families invest in community builds.

     Cheats that give extra money, skills, or advantages are not allowed — the goal is realism, not shortcuts.

• Population Growth

  The world grows naturally through marriages, alliances, and children born in-game.

• New Settlers

  At the end of every calendar year, you may move two new families into the current world.

• Paying for Builds

  Every new lot — whether a home, park, or community space — must be fully paid for by sims living in the world.

  • You can fund builds with a single household or as a collaboration between multiple families.
  • For example: one family might fund the library, another the town hall, while the community farm could be a shared project that every household contributes to.
  • Destination worlds are optional but you are allowed to build those as well while you’re playing in another world. For example the people living in Copperdale could be paying for the builds in Granite Falls
  • You are allowed to use For Rent to have sims be landlords of builds in their own or other worlds

• Build Attribution

  When a new lot is built, include in the lot name or description which families helped fund it.

• Dice of Chance

  Every 7 days you need to roll a dice for a random event. The event will last for the next 7 days (or shorter if specified) - See all the dice roll options lower on this page

• Generational rules

  This challenge does not have goals per generation but I can recommend implementing events and holidays to keep a sense of time passing. See the Generational Rules section of the page for more info

• Locked careers

  To keep things interesting, not all careers are available from the first moment you start playing. Some careers unlock when specific types of buildings are placed, others when you have reached a specific amount of sims in a world. Please refer to the table below to see when careers unlock. If a career unlocks through a specific build it’s up to you to decide if you want to only unlock it once or start over for every world.

• Mods & Custom Content

  Mods and CC are allowed, but money-generating mods or cheats are not.

  • Recommended tools: MC Command Center and UI Cheats for managing story events and dice rolls.

• Gallery Lots

  You may use lots from the Gallery, but they must still be purchased with sim-earned funds according to the payment rules above.

• Cemetery Requirement

  Each world must include a cemetery or memorial lot.

  • Every sim who dies in that world should be buried there.
  • If you play with aging on, make sure to collect and place each family member’s grave in the cemetery.

• Family Backstories

  Every family — whether founding or newly settled — must have a written backstory. This builds a sense of history and depth across the generations.

• Neighborhood Stories

  Neighborhood Stories can be enabled, but they are not recommended if your goal is to create a stable, curated save file. They add extra randomness that can disrupt long-term storytelling.

• Pack Features

  You can freely use pack features (clubs, small businesses, etc.)

• Progressing to New Worlds

  Once a world is completely filled and developed, you can move on to the next world of your choice — there’s no required order.

• Starting a New World </aside>

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