22 Cottage Living Gameplay Ideas To Try | The Sims 4 Guide

If you play long enough with the Simple Living Lot Challenge activated and cook enough meals with it, you gain the ability to write a special cookbook which, when sold, can net you $2500 or, if read, boosts the cooking skill dramatically. The first time I played with the pack in a legacy save, I kept passing the book down through the generations. Now, because of Growing Together, it's the kind of thing I would put in the family keepsake box.

I did not know evil chickens could fight off the Grim Reaper. That's a nice touch, not to mention hilarious! 😂

A couple of in depth tips I'll add that relate:
- Canning is a great way to make more money from your garden. You can turn a 1 simoleon mushroom into three jars of 22 simoleon conserve. It's a great way to make money if you want to just live a country life.
- Wild foxes are super fun if you have the realm of magic pack. Put the wild foxes challenge on your magic house, and then you can befriend them and have a magic user with a wild fox for a pet. I think it's fun.
- Kids can cross stitch, and that's just my favorite. I don't know about you all, but I love child inclusive hobbies. Giving them something to do besides their homework and making a mess is always a plus in my book. Also, little kids with grandma hobbies is just the best, always.
- Rabbit raising challenge is fun, super cute. You should try it, I loved it.

An alternate store idea for those with Get To Work and Cottage Living -- make your own grocery store and sell your own produce and canned goods! That's what my cottagecore occult trio is doing in my current main save -- they have a farm in Henford-On-Bagley, and their store is in San Myshuno because I felt the city folk would appreciate fresh produce the most. :) They sell various raw produce, ready-made meals and baked goods, canned items (including some mod-added stuff from Simsonian Library's Simsco Canning Factory mod), flower arrangements, and meat that the werewolf Sim has hunted. I also plan to add toy robots (as the vampire is a robotics expert) and potions (from my spellcaster -- also, let me tell you, Copypasto is a super-useful spell for filling those shelves!).

I had a sim couple with pregnancy difficulty. I’ve never had that much trouble with my Sims getting pregnant, but this couple probably had 5 failures.
Then lo and behold, I thought I would spice things up in the animal shed, and they got pregnant.
Twin baby girls who I couldn’t help but name Bessie and Daisy, after the many many cows who seem to don those names 😂

Patchy in combinations with rabbits, birds and chickens has made my farm self maintaining, highly recommend. some dog traits will make them chase away foxes

Cottage Living is STILL my favorite pack and world, even after all this time. It's the place I go when I'm feeling down and I need to get away from the world for a while. I wish I could live in Henford on Bagley!

Something I've found, if you are selling items on a stall, you get a lot more interest and sales if you sell at the Finchwick Fair than anywhere else. Also the best canned products to do are the chocolate syrup, custard and mayo because they're a lot quicker than the ones that require cooking.

LMAO not the cheerful "the 18th idea is to die~ 😊"
I love your barn wedding setup!

I like to play with simple living and off the grid in the house next to the waterfall. You can collect water and fish without going too far from your house! Although, I do forget to pay my bills lol

I had really fun building (and using) a grocery store in henford on bagley, highly recommend it! especially for simple living when you need sugar or flour that you can neither grow in your garden nor create in the kitchen

Ohhh I love the first idea and now I want to play as a Wandering painter. There's a great mod to set filters on reference paintings to make them look better or make them black and white, sepia, etc. Definitely a recommend because for some reason the paintings from reference always look blotchy, which is fine. But I prefer clear paintings like the normal ones.

I actually just started a new Cottage Living legacy save last week! This is by far my favorite expansion pack in the game, it feels like a stand-alone game in itself! It's a shame though that the Finchwick Fair minor contests are bugged where you don't win anything from them. I loved making pies especially :(

You can make friends with the Scarecrow and he will help you garden and stuff as well. Love your videos!

Thanks for all the videos you make, Petey! You've become my favorite sims KRplusr because of the effort and character you put into your work. I really appreciate you and the joy you bring to our community ❤

I love all your gameplay idea videos. I learn so much from them :)

I absolutely love these gameplay idea videos

I love playing with cottage living so I’m so glad you’ve made this

Inspired! I'm gonna make a save of two rival farms: one with evil chickens and one with golden chickens!

Does the evil chickens stick their wing out and point like Evil Monkey from Family Guy? LOL!😀

A really fun idea i do sometimes when i have the simple living challenge activated, i use the get to work expansion pack and make a grocery store to fill with produce and ingredients so every couple weeks i make it a trip to go to the grocery store with my sims and we hang out around town 🥰

You always inspire me to play! Been watching you since 2021. Keep it up Petey!

Omg evil chicken ( so cute!!) And it can save you from the grim reaper ?! Thats awesome 😂😂 I didnt even know about any of these! You make the best sims content! ✨

Rags to riches with cottage living is a super fun time.

Just started the video and already addicted to it! ❤❤

This was so good. I love the Cottage Living pack. All great ideas, thank you !

your ideas videos are my favourite ❤

Finally! I have been waiting for this!

Thanka for the video!! I was in need of some inspiration for my Cottage Living family.

Love this so much! Thank you 🤗

I am so glad i found this channel you give me so mich i never knew.

Great video, petey! Thanks so much for the cottage living inspiration. I hope you know how much your videos contribute to the sims community ❤

Awesome ideas!

I just got this expansioni finally and I love it, especially the Simple Living challenge, I have that on all my household lots. I love the realism of it!

Honestly I’m kind of excited whenever you do cross compatibly with the horse pack and your ideas for that!

13:41 THE CLUB DESCRIPTION!! GENIIS 😂

I absolutely love your videos! Can you make one of these for San sequoia and an update on which lots are interesting

My farmer sim kept loosing the fairs and turned into a jealous kleptomaniac

Evil chickens?! I did not know I could have an evil chicken. Count me in!

Rainbow cow looks scarred from the evil chicken fighting the Grim Reaper

I cant wait for the new pack!!! Ill have chickens, goats and sheep ffs 😭❤️

He wow, never heard about this before...it seems Sims 4 is also a cozy farming game now...I really like that. :-) Maybe in the future i should buy this expansion pack.

❤These ideas are splendid, Petey. Thanks so much.❤

Well, how about your knitting people having a couple of Llamas to get wool from. Along with the garden, bunnies and birdies just so you can get all sorts of color of wool to knit with. Oh and chickens because some treats need eggs. Or, do the Grilled Cheese aspiration with Simple Living. Along with a cow for milk to make the cheese and then you just need to buy flour for the bread.

Ohhh I’ve only used the Golden pulse on plants. I always learn new things watching your videos. I love your fun and creative ideas. Gooooo Heckings! Have an amazing day too!

wow i never noticed waterfall!

Love that your female sim is as skinny as mine😂😂😂

😂😂No matter how mad we as the community get at how packs turn out or over the bugs, we have to admit that the sims team really tries to add the oddest humorous situations. I honestly didn't know the evil chicken can beat grim up too 😂😂😂😂

Mate lmao "my spice rack is better than yours". Description "It is." Got to say bruv, you got me subscribed. Never heard of you and got to say, no idea how. I watched fakegamergirl but other than her and Lilsim (I think) you have got to be pretty damn high for me. Been laughing at everything from the vibes to the personal opinion comments (fabulous). Keep it mate. Maybe give us a runway model or fashion show next with base game fashion or something. I need some ideas because as a guy for me, dressing my female sims feels off to me. I cannot make a guy cause I will permanently have them with one look lol.

Can you have beehives with the cottage?

How are you able to go swimming in the stream?

How do you get the digital sketch pad?

It would be amazing if you did Sims 3 videos too! Love your content

Wait um how do you get a midnight treat

Hey guys, little off-topic: is the glitch where cows, chicken, etc die even with animal aging turned off, still happening? I'm thinking of buying the pack but I read about the glitch and didn't see that it was solved anywhere. I would never cope with my animals dying so it's a critical part in my decision. Thanks if anyone can inform me about this!

I love the canning...buuuuuut you can only use one at a time......ARGH..have you no idea in real life how much one pot can create? Wish we could make multiple canning at a time to use all the produce in inventory/fridge.

Wtf evil chickens exist??

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this might make the pack seem worth even the 50% price tag. i think the animals they added are so boring and lame that it ruins the entire pack for me, even tho i’d like the world and the new gameplay aspects.

Hi can i ask what to do if my "wohoo" button not appearing.. in the phsical intimacy it only appears "offer massage " or "Gaze lovingly at new spouse"