All rules from 1890s still stand with the following changes:
- Home/Building
- You can remove the Off-the-Grid lot challenge (but you don’t have to).
- Electricity is allowed, but only in the form of lamps.
- Indoor plumbing is allowed. However, still only bathtubs, no showers.
- Upholstery is allowed.
- Wallpaper is allowed.
- You may use a phonograph for music (does not require electricity). Allowed music styles are Lullabies, Classical, and Baroque.
- Career
- Male Sims are permitted the following careers: Business (Management), 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).
- Married female Sims are not permitted to work.
- Widowed or divorced female sims are permitted to make money through freelancing (writing), gardening, painting, or woodworking. The only careers they may join are Education (either branch) or Entertainer (Musician).
- 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 can go on vacation.
- By the end of this decade you will need a fully grown Cow Plant.