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- Heir: Only male heirs are allowed. If there are no sons, then a daughter’s husband may become heir.
- Traits: Daughters must have Creative as their first trait.
- Relationships/WooHooing
- Sims may only have a relationship with and marry the opposite gender.
- Sims may only marry within their own ethnicity/race.
- Sims must only “Try for Baby” and never “Woohoo.”
- Teenage sims cannot “Mess Around”
- Sims cannot get a divorce unless one of them commits adultery (in this case, flirting with another sim in front of the spouse).
- Female children move out once they are married.
- Adoption is not allowed.
- Home/Building
- Add the Off-the-Grid lot challenge.
- No electricity. Use candles or lanterns to light up the house.
- Outhouses required – no toilets in the home.
- Only bathtubs, no showers or shower/tub combos.
- Only wooden furniture is allowed in the house
- Wooden floors and walls. No drywall or wallpaper. Rugs are allowed.
- Buy the cheapest/oldest stoves, fridges, counters, etc. No other kitchen appliances are allowed besides a stove, a grill, and a fridge.
- Paintings styles allowed are Landscape, Classic, Impressionism, and Realism. Kids’ drawings can only be hung in the kids’ rooms.
- Not allowed: coffee and tea brewers, DJ equipment, earbuds, kids tablets, thermostats, and anything else that obviously wasn’t around in 1890!
- No holiday decorations (with the exception of indoor decorations around winter holidays).
- A small, personal greenhouse for your home is allowed, but large commercial farm greenhouses are not.
- Education
- Elementary school is mandatory, but high school is optional.
- If you have High School Years, you cannot go with your Sim to school, they aren’t allowed to join the Computer Team, and they can’t participate in Prom.
- High school has a fee. It costs §1,000 for every Teen going to school (money cheat).
- University: Men and women may attend university.
- All majors are allowed except Culinary Arts, Computer Science, and Psychology.
- Student loans are not allowed, but scholarships are.
- No kegs, no juice pong, no robotics.
- Career
- Men can only have the Criminal (Boss), Doctor, Education (either branch), Engineer (Mechanical), Entertainer (Musician), Freelancer (Writer), Gardener (either branch), Law (either branch), Military (Officer), Politics (Politician), Scientist, Writing (either branch) career. Men can choose to stay home and make money through woodworking, painting, or gardening.
- You can open a retail store or a restaurant, only if you have enough money.
- Women take care of the children, tidy the house, and cook. They can help tidy the garden, and go jogging for fun.
- If a woman becomes widowed, then she may earn money through freelancing (writing), gardening, painting, or woodworking. If she becomes divorced, then she can also join the Entertainer (Musician) career.
- Part-time work: Men can be a fisherman or a manual laborer. Women can be a babysitter or a manual laborer. Teens and Elderly cannot have part-time work.
- Miscellaneous
- Your sims cannot go to festivals or city events with the exception of Cottage Living events.
- If your sims get sick, you can’t give them medicine. You have to cure them through natural remedies.
- Your sims may not throw any events besides weddings and family reunions.
- Births must occur at home. Babies can only be fed through breastfeeding and not by bottle.
- If your family can afford it, then you may hire a butler or maid. However, you cannot hire a Nanny.
- No fitness or wellness equipment allowed. Sims may work on these skills without equipment. No soccer – it was not popular in the USA at this time.
- Vacations are not allowed, but camping is.
- Archeology became more prevalent in the mid 20th century, but did exist in the 1800s, so you can travel to Selvadorada from the beginning (but keep in mind this would be incredibly rare, and definitely not a family vacation opportunity).
- Veterinarians for house pets were not common – you may have a pet dog or cat, but you cannot take them to the vet if they are sick, and you cannot spay/neuter them. Small pets were not yet kept in the 1890s. Also, no pet clothing is allowed.
- All laundry must be done with a wash basin and a clothesline.
- Playground equipment, play dates, and ball pits were not yet invented, and are therefore not allowed.
- Sims may become famous for reasonable reasons given the decade.
- Only men can vote on Neighborhood Action Plans.
- Skiing is allowed, but snowboarding and rock climbing are not.
- While Sims may enjoy naturally occurring hot springs, in-home hot springs are not allowed.
- You may want to start working on a Cow Plant in this decade.
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