Ethiopia

1348 The Black Plague 

1510 Influenza Pandemic

An acute respiratory disease emerged in Asia before spreading through North Africa and Europe during the first chronicles, an inter-regional flu pandemic generally recognized by medical historians and epidemiologists. Roll extra for EVERY sim in your family (including the side households).

1535 Famine in Ethiopia

Flip a coin to see if your family is directly affected!

Heads mean all crops die and cannot plant unless you get tails on a flip. Must live off whatever crops you have stocked up.


Roll a D4 for all sims (including side households), 3 means they die of famine.

Influenza Pandemic–1557-1559

Roll extra for EVERY sim in your family (including the side households).

These are your odds: Using a D20 roller, roll for every single sim for each year. If a sim rolls a 20 then your sim dies, otherwise, they’re perfectly fine and survived.

1567–1570 Famine in Harar, combined with plague-Ethiopia

“The Amir Nur exerted every effort to help his people to recover, but after every respite the Oromo would again descend like locusts and scourge the country, and Nur himself died of the pestilence which spread during the famine.”


Flip a coin to see if your family is directly affected!

Heads mean all crops die and cannot plant unless you get tails on a flip. Must live off whatever crops you have stocked up.


Roll a D6 for all sims (including side households), 3 means they die of famine and 5 means they die of pestilence.

1710 Rocking Chair Invention

The rocking chair has been invented.

You can now place and use the rocking chair (Nifty Knitting DLC).

1750– Can Now have Quadruplets

Time to enable Quadruplets! (requires MCCC)
 Click on a computer

Go to Mc Command Center

Go to Mc Pregnancy

Go to Offspring
 Go to Maximum Offspring
 Set to 4

1789 Famine in Ethiopia

Flip a coin to see if your family is directly affected!

Heads mean all crops die and cannot plant unless you get tails on a flip. Must live off whatever crops you have stocked up.


Roll a D4 for all sims (including side households), 3 means they die of famine.

1816-1817 Year Without a Summer

Major food shortages across northern hemisphere


Flip a coin to see if your family is directly affected!

Heads mean all crops die and cannot plant unless you get tails on a flip. Must live off whatever crops you have stocked up.


Roll a D12 for all sims (including side households), 3 means they die of famine.

Roll a D10 for all sims (including side households), 4 means they freeze to death

1839-1856 Third cholera pandemic

Roll a D4 for all sims

3 means they contract Cholera

Roll a D4 for all infected sims

2 means they die of Cholera 

1855-1960 Third plague pandemic 

Occurred globally.


Every 10 years, roll a D100 for all sims

If the roll is between 1 and 2, they are infected by the plague.

Roll a D10 for all infected sims.

If the roll is 1, they succumb to the plague.

If the roll is 2 or 3, they recover from the plague.

If the roll is between 4 and 10, they survive but might face lasting health effects. Add an extra roll for all illness events for this sim going forward.

1863-1875 Fourth cholera pandemic

Roll a D4 for all sims

3 means they contract Cholera

Roll a D4 for all infected sims

2 means they die of Cholera 

1866 Can now have Sextuplets (but not quintuplets yet)

Time to enable Sextuplets! (requires MCCC)
 Click on a computer

Go to Mc Command Center

Go to Mc Pregnancy

Go to Offspring

Go to Maximum Offspring

Set to 6


***Check every pregnancy to ensure that your sims are not pregnant with quintuplets until said otherwise. Randomize offspring until it isn't quintuplets by pressing “Offspring” and leaving both spaces blank

1881-1886 Fifth cholera pandemic

Roll a D4 for all sims

3 means they contract Cholera

Roll a D4 for all infected sims

2 means they die of Cholera 

1888-1892 Ethiopian Great famine

Flip a coin to see if your family is directly affected!

Heads mean all crops die and cannot plant unless you get tails on a flip. Must live off whatever crops you have stocked up.


Roll a D6 for all sims (including side households), 3 and 5 means they die of famine.


Roll a D20 for all remaining sims

1 means they die of Cholera

2 means they die of Typhus

3 and 4 means they die of Smallpox 

1889-1890 flu pandemic

Roll a d20 for all sims, everywhere. 10 means they die from the Flu

1896-Can now have Quintuplets

No longer need to avoid quintuplets. If you started after 1866, and didnt have sextuplets enabled, now is the time to do so


Click on a computer

Go to Mc Command Center

Go to Mc Pregnancy

Go to Offspring

Go to Maximum Offspring

Set to 6 

1899-1923 Sixth cholera pandemic

Roll a D4 for all sims

3 means they contract Cholera

Roll a D4 for all infected sims

2 means they die of Cholera