The Very Veggie Legacy Challenge
What Is The Very Veggie Legacy Challenge?
You’ve heard of the Not So Berry Challenge… now get ready for the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge.
This is a silly follow-up to the Not So Berry challenge that my friend alwaysimming and I wrote back in 2017. Last year my Twitch community raised over $600,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and during the fundraiser I promised to write a new legacy challenge as a charity incentive. When starting to write the challenge I knew I wanted it to follow a similar format to Not So Berry, but maybe just a little goofier. Then Lovestruck came out and I saw that eggplant costume… and inspiration struck. Now I have written a ridiculous vegetable themed legacy challenge. Welcome to the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge.
I am often asked about writing extensions to Not So Berry, or about making adjustments to incorporate features from newer packs. I don’t personally have intentions to ever change Not So Berry much from how it was originally written. It is already 10 generations long, and I think it would be impractical to extend it further. I’m also really happy with the existing rules, and I think that they’re a product of their time. Rather than replace existing rules, I would rather keep them as they were originally intended and create something completely new. The Not So Berry challenge has taken on a life of its own in the past few years, and I feel that it belongs to the community now. Other people have already written extended editions and base game versions, and for me to change anything would take away from what Not So Berry has become. Instead, we turn to vegetables.
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. For example, I would have the Carrot generation wear all orange and live in an orange house.
This is a “rags to riches” style legacy challenge, so you must start on an empty lot with $0. Create your Sim and move them to any lot of your choice, and then cheat all of their money away. You must start from scratch. You will grow your home and your family from nothing, much like a seed grows from the dirt.
The primary goal of this challenge is to have fun, goofy gameplay. None of these rules are set in stone, and please feel free to adjust them to fit your own personal style or own personal needs. I won’t be offended if you swap something out, or if you decide to use money cheats. Consider this more of a guideline. I’m simply writing the rules as I intend to play them.
General Rules
Legacy Challenges are generational by design, and the goal is to play through ten full generations in this save while you slowly build up your home and family tree. Your founder Sim will have children, and you will choose one of those children as your heir to become the next vegetable.
Setting Up
Start with 1 young adult founder Sim
Dress your Sim to match their assigned color theme and 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 households funds to $0 (cheats: "testingcheats on" "money 0")
Rules
To complete the Very Veggie Legacy Challenge play through 10 full generations and complete all listed goals for each Sim
All listed careers and aspirations must be completed, alongside all additional listed rules
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 that I’ve written
You may move to other neighborhoods and other lots in the future once your Sim can afford to do so. Typically, I like to build new houses and move lots to mark the transition of each generation. This is not a requirement, and traditional legacy challenges do the opposite and ask you to remain on the same lot for the duration of the challenge. This is up to you!
Avoid using money cheats and other gameplay cheats
Dress your Sim and decorate their home to match their assigned vegetable. I think it’s fun to really lean into the theming, so I tend to go all out with their homes, outfits, and my Sim’s names. It is up to you how far you want to go with this, but I do recommend taking the opportunity to be silly.
The primary goal of this challenge is to have fun, goofy gameplay. None of these rules are set in stone, and please feel free to adjust them to fit your own personal style or own personal needs. I won’t be offended if you swap something out, or if you decide to use money cheats. Consider this more of a guideline. I’m simply writing the rules as I intend to play them.
Selecting Heirs
Your founder Sim will have children, and you will choose one of those children as your heir to become the next vegetable.
The next generation officially “begins” once you complete the rules of the previous generation and the heir has become a young adult
There are no specific rules for who must become the heir. Some people prefer organized methods for selecting the heir (for example: the first born child), but others tend to pick based on vibes. It’s up to you!
Note: I am actively testing this challenge on stream and playing through it for the first time, so I would not consider it “officially” finished. All of the rules are subject to change and be adjusted, and it is not fully play tested yet.
Another Note: Some of these generations are technically fruits, but I would argue that they are vegetables culturally. Please do not attack me for including tomatoes in the vegetable challenge. While botanically tomatoes are fruits, they are often used in savory dishes and are therefore considered vegetables in a culinary context.
Generations
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: 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:
Decorate your home with paintings, photos, or woodworking you create
Max the Video Gaming skill
Max 3 artistic skills of your choice (choose: 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:
Max the Charisma , Mischief, and Mixology Skills
Add a home bar setup to your house
Wear a silly costume for all of your outfits. (This is a direct replacement for the eggplant costume from Lovestruck, but not a requirement.)
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. It takes your Sim a long time to feel comfortable around new people
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)
Bonus Rules:
Max the Fishing, Gardening, and Logic skills
Complete the Fishing Collection
You can marry, but only after aging up to an Adult. It takes your Sim a long time to feel comfortable around new people
Have and maintain 3 cowplants (splice & grow at least 1 Cowplant Berry yourself)
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:
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 I really love the idea of it and I'm hoping it gets fixed. Feel free to ignore that rule completely, and please do not buy the pack for it.
Traits: Evil, Lazy, Slob
Aspiration: Public Enemy
Career: Criminal
Additional Rules:
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, and only allow your home to be cleaned when someone else does it (hiring a service or forcing friends/family to do it for you)
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 to 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 (candy maker, hot pot, kettle, pressure cooker, etc.)
Traits: Ambitious, Foodie, Hot-Headed
Aspiration: Freelance Botanist AND Master Chef
Career: Culinary (Chef 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
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
Required Packs: Life & Death, StrangerVille, Paranormal Stuff, Crystal Creations
Additional Rules:
Max the Thanatology, Gemology, Medium, and Writing skills
Complete your Soul's Journey
Live in a Haunted House
Marry a ghost (kill your existing partner pre-marriage OR meet a new ghost, and choose to have kids first OR adopt with the ghost)
Suggested Pack Substitutions:
Vampires/Werewolves/Realm of Magic: Swap the ghost obsession for an obsession with another occult type, and focus on skills/features from those packs.
Traits: Gloomy, Bookworm, Neat
Aspiration: Best Selling Author
Career: Freelance Writer
Additional Rules:
Max the Writing and Comedy skills
Complete the Crystal Collection
Complete the Postcard Collection
Marry a ghost (kill your existing partner pre-marriage OR meet a new ghost, and choose to have kids first OR adopt with the 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, and attempt to get the underwater photos
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:
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, and consider using some of the Eco Gameplay as a replacement for Outdoor Retreat.
Base Game: "adopt" a fish/frog/cowplant as your "pet", or consider using some of the other small pets like the My First Pet Stuff rodents or the Crow from Life & Death. You could also use an Axolotl from Lovestruck.
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:
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. (Only eat "peas" quick meals from the fridge when another Sim hasn't cooked real meals for you.)
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. I have tried to distinguish them between dark/light green to make it more interesting.
Traits: Snob, Materialistic, Music Lover
Aspiration: Friend Of The World
Career: Business
Additional Rules:
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. (Only eat "peas" quick meals from the fridge when another Sim hasn't cooked real meals for you.)
Credits
The Very Veggie Legacy Challenge was written by me, but inspired by the original Not So Berry challenge that I wrote back in 2017 with my friend alwaysimming.
The artwork for this challenge was created by my friend Risshella. I have uploaded it here to a Google Drive for you, and you are welcome to download it and use it in your content or thumbnails. If you do use Risshella’s artwork please be sure to credit her appropriately.
Please use #VeryVeggie or #VeryVeggieLegacy on the Gallery when sharing your creations!
Please feel free to play this challenge on your own channels, but keep in mind that it is in a “beta testing” state, and I may make adjustments to the rules as I play through it myself.
If you do play the challenge, please link this document to your audience so they can find the rules. You can also access a Google Sheets file with the rules written out here. It's the same rules as the ones here on this document, but just in a different format for those that might find it easier.
Rosannatxt also made a notion template that you can use to track your progress, and you can find that here.
You can follow me on Twitch to watch my playthrough of this challenge live, or watch the streams after I have reuploaded them to YouTube on moresimsie.
