This is a rewrite of the TS3 Zombie Apocalypse Challenge, a four stage challenge involving survival and struggle. Given that TS4 doesn’t have zombies I decided to rewrite it as Vampires, and have tried to make it work as much as possible for this game while staying true to the original.
This has been rewritten by crvptydgaming
Preparing for the Challenge
Empty out the worlds. Remove houses and sims. You can download pre-emptied worlds here:
https://www.srslysims.net/2018/03/srslys-blank-save.html
Set lifespan to normal.
Purchase any seeds you need to start a garden, use bb.showhiddenobjects to spawn in a fishing hole.
Add Eternal Night mod to your game
Your Lot
Buy an empty lot. If you want to play a hard game, choose a large lot.
Create a small house on it. The size of the house does not matter, but be sure to leave yourself a little bit of money.
Lot is Off-The Grid, as the power grid has been turned off due to the deterioration of society.
You MAY have an outdoor grill, a fireplace, and “emergency lighting”, as well as anything non electric. Anything that you can justify as 'battery operated' you can own, such as a radio, but once it is broken you may not fix it. (no more batteries) and must delete it.
You must create a full size fence surrounding your property to protect your sims from Vampire attacks. It can be as small or big as you want, but after you begin the challenge your sims may not go outside the fence unless otherwise specified. I suggest deleting the gate when appropriate.
You also need to move the mailbox inside the fence. All mailmen and NPCs that show up are Vampires.
Create your founders
Create a married couple. Each of them (and their children for the duration of the challenge) needs to have at least one of the following "survival" traits:
Active
Bookworm
Genius
Family Orientated (female founder must have this)
Loves Outdoors
Self Assured
Adventurous
Any Reward Trait
No one in your family can have ANY of the following “non-survival” traits for the duration of the challenge. These are the traits I thought would probably get you killed when trying to evade packs of hungry Vampires:
Gloomy
Clumsy
Hot-Headed
Erratic
Lazy
Slob
If your sims leave the secured fenced area when they are not allowed, assume they have been bitten by a Vampire and kill them. You may cheat to do so.
You may not use cheats to give yourself extra money or take care of your sim’s needs. You may only cheat to delete the things that need to be deleted or kill any sim that is bitten by a vampire throughout the game.
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(begins with your founding couple)
It began several months ago; when the vampires announced their presence to the world through popular media. People were wary, careful at night, they didn't know who could be trusted.
And then the attacks started: a human killed a vampire using the excuse that they thought it was attacking them. Law enforcement allowed it to slide. It happened again and again. The vampires got mad. The vampires decided that their food source had to be made compliant or die.
So they began picking people off, shipping them to contained towns out of the cities, away from the population. You and your partner got away, ran as far as you could. You've sequestered yourselves behind an electric fence in a safe house you'd heard about.
Somehow they've done something to the sun. It is always night time now. You're lucky the greenhouse has UV lights, but with those and the fence you can't use anything else.
Everyone around you is a Vampire. Literally. You managed to survive due to the traits you picked up along the way. Now you have to keep surviving.
This generation:
Must Grow their own food
Each child they have must have at least one survival trait.
Anyone that develops a non-surviving trait must be killed by the time they are young adults.
All sims that plan to have babies must have the family oriented trait. If your sim does not have this trait when she gets pregnant, she does not survive the birth due to complications and no medical help. The child, however, will survive.
This Generation May NOT:
Interact with ANYONE besides housemates (they are all Vampires)
Use electricity of any kind
Use the phone
Use running water
Leave the fenced lot
Give birth at the hospital
Move anyone out of the house
(begins when the last child from generation one grows into young adulthood)
Your family toiled away, made their own food and managed to raise kids while avoiding the vampires constantly prowling outside the fence. Now what military that survived is moving into town, taking up shop and killing Vampires.
This generation:
May join the Military or Law Enforcement career. Only those old enough to have a job can leave the secured area however, and only to go to work.
May only marry coworkers (everyone else is a Vampire)
May not leave to visit their romantic interest until they are at the 5th level of their profession or until they have 10 athletic points. Their romantic interest may visit them.
Must have at least one child with one survival trait. If the child develops a non-survival trait, they got themselves killed by Vampires.
If no one is available to marry in these careers, your sim may adopt a child. (save an orphaned child from attacking Vampires) However, you must kill off your adopted child if they has (or develops) no surviving traits, or any of the non-surviving traits.
The military has been kind enough to give your family a backup generator and water collector. The military also has given you a cell phone. You may only use it to call other non-Vampire sims.
All sims that plan to have babies must have the family oriented trait. If your sim does not have this trait when she gets pregnant, she does not survive the birth due to complications and no medical help. The child, however, will survive.
This Generation May NOT:
Interact with anyone outside of work
Use contraception. They ran out and there's no one left to make it. (must ‘try for baby’ every time they woohoo)
Move anyone out of the house.
Leave the fenced lot (outside of work or visiting romantic interests)
(begins when the last child from generation two grows into young adulthood)
The military has been overworked lately with killing mass numbers of Vampires. They’re thinking about just nuking the whole town. To make matters worse, scavengers have come into town to loot. Everyone that doesn’t join their gang will be robbed.
This generation:
Must have at least one person in level 5 of the criminal career or level 10 in athletic. Otherwise once everyday you must delete something of value.
If your sim goes to jail for any reason, they must be killed. Laws don’t apply any more.
Your sims may only get jobs and marry within the Criminal career. Sims that are already in other jobs at the beginning of this stage may keep them.
Must have at least one child that develops the kleptomaniac or evil trait in addition to survival traits. If the child has any traits not prone to survival, they got themselves killed by Vampires.
If no one is available to marry in this career, your sim may adopt a child. (save an orphaned child from attacking Vampires) However, you must kill off your adopted child if they have (or develops) no surviving traits, or any of the non-surviving traits.
May use the phone to call other, non-Vampire sims.
All sims that plan to have babies must have the family oriented trait. If she does not have this trait and gets pregnant, she does not survive the birth due to complications and no medical help. Her child will survive.
This Generation May NOT:
Use running water.
Join the Military or law enforcement careers.
Move anyone out of the house
(begins when the last child from generation three grows into young adulthood. This stage will last as many generations as it takes to create a vaccine successfully)
The military has done a good job of cleaning up the city. They’ve gotten control of the looting problems. There are still Vampires around, but not nearly as many. With military escort around, the remaining scientists and medical professionals have been called in to create a vaccine for vampirism.
This Generation:
At least one of your sims must go into the medical or science careers now and help create the vaccine…
However, by doing this they are volunteering themselves as guinea pigs. Every Friday you must roll a die or use a random generator to determine if your sim will live or be killed in a vampire attack on their workplace. If you roll an even number they live, an odd number they must be killed. The only exception to this is during pregnancy. After 3 positive rolls, the vaccine is successfully created.
Your household can give birth at the hospital, and use contraception. Sims that are not family oriented may have children.
During this stage, your sims can still enter the military or law enforcement careers.
May use the phone to call other, non-Vampire sims.
Your sims can only marry other sims within the military, law enforcement, criminal, medical or science careers. (Everyone else is a Vampire)
Must have at least one child with one survival trait and not more than one trait not prone to survival.
If no one is available to marry in these careers, your sim may adopt a child. (save an orphaned child from attacking Vampires) However, you must kill off your adopted child if they have (or develops) no surviving traits, or any of the non-surviving traits.
Once the vaccine is created, sims may walk the streets freely.
This Generation May NOT:
Interact with anyone outside of work
Leave the fenced lot (outside of work or visiting romantic interests) until a vaccine is created.
Move anyone out of the house.
(begins when the last child from the generation to successfully make a vaccine grows to young adult)
The cure has been created. The military have loaded it up and begun injecting attacking vampires, but there is still a big problem. The sun is still hidden away, and with it gone the world is slowly dying. You need to find a way to get it back.
People are human again and keeping the wheel spinning - Power plants are back up, water treatment plants are in action again. Things are slowly coming back to normalcy.
This Generation:
At least one of your sims must go into the science career now and find a way to another world.
However, by doing this they are volunteering themselves as guinea pigs on the maiden voyage for space ships, or through portals. Every Friday you must roll a die or use a random generator to determine if your sim will live or be killed in an accident on the voyage. If you roll an even number they live, an odd number they must be killed.
Once getting to another world your sim must befriend THREE aliens in order to get the technology needed to fix the sun and save the earth.
Your household can give birth at the hospital, and use contraception. Sims that are not family oriented may have children.
May use electricity.
May use the phone to call other sims.
This Generation May NOT:
Move anyone out of the house
I would suggest having at least 2 children each generation, that way you have a backup if one of them develops a non-surviving trait.
You may cheat to age up a child and kill them, or you may choose to wait.
X out automatic actions (such as cleaning a toilet when its not allowed) and it won't count against you.
You are allowed to delete (sell) the veggies you grow and fish you catch, write novels, paint and hack after the beginning of stage one.
Sims that leave your lot due to bugs in the game will not count against you.
