Legacy Challenge: the rules

At a glance

Creator

Pinstar

Length

10 generations

Packs

Base game

Rules

The creator's page, read on October 28, 2026

How to start

• Start a new game and make one founder Sim in Create a Sim.
• The founder must be a young adult and must live alone.
• Looks, traits, aspiration and custom content for the founder are your choice.
• Move the founder onto an empty lot. Any lot size is now allowed, though small lots leave less room for ten generations.
• After moving in, use the money cheat to set household funds to 1,800 simoleons (regular start) or 0 (Extreme Start).
• Before you begin, pick three succession laws: a gender law, a bloodline law and an heir law. Owners of Get to Work may also pick a species law.
• Optional Extreme Start: an empty 64x64 Windenburg lot with funds set to 0, begun in winter if you own Seasons. It is worth 1 bonus point.
• Optional Ultra Extreme Start: the Chateau Peak lot in Del Sol Valley (Get Famous) with the Celebrity Home lot trait and a 35,000 simoleon 'loan' that must be repaid by buying set items before the founder dies. It is worth 2 bonus points.

The rules

• Play one family for ten generations. Only the legacy household may be played in the save.
• No cheats, mods or hacks that give an edge over a player without them. MC Command Center is allowed to raise the household size limit.
• No reloading to undo bad outcomes. Reloading after a crash or bug is fine.
• The family must stay on its starting lot for the whole challenge (vacations are fine). You may rebuild and expand the house.
• Lifespan must be set to Normal. Each Sim may use one anti-aging item (such as a youth potion or cow plant milk) once in their life.
• A Sim's aspiration can only be changed after they complete it, and not to one they already finished.
• Dead Sims cannot be resurrected. Pleading with the Grim Reaper is allowed.
• The current heir may never move or marry out. Spares may leave but cannot come back.
• Only spouses may join the family, and they must bring no money. You may add several spouses, but only one primary spouse per generation.
• Children come from pregnancy, science babies, alien abduction or adoption. Adopted children must be babies, and not while another baby lives in the house.
• Children's traits and aspirations are rolled with the creator's random trait generator at each age-up. No rerolling.
• The heir is set by your succession laws and is locked in when the previous heir dies or the current heir has an eligible child.
• The Lottery holiday, the Money Tree reward and the Potion of Immortality are banned. The Wishing Well can be used once per Sim.

How you win

The challenge ends the moment a generation 10 child is born into the family. You then add up your score.

Scoring

• Maximum is 100 points across ten categories of 10 points each, plus optional pack points and handicaps (up to 108 listed by the creator).
• Family: 1 point each time an heir reaches young adult. The tenth point needs 10 children in one generation.
• Creative: 1 point per generation for memorializing the heir and primary spouse (song, comedy routine, portrait, biography, video game or photo, each needing a set skill level). The tenth point needs one Sim to finish two of the three creative aspirations.
• Fortune: points at household wealth steps from 75,000 (1 point) up to 5,700,000 simoleons (10 points). Family business funds count.
• Love: 1 point for every 3 new traits brought in by primary spouses (up to 9). The tenth point comes from finishing the challenge.
• Knowledge: 1 point per 3 skills maxed (up to 9). The tenth point needs every skill maxed at some point by someone in the family.
• Athletic: 1 point per 4 aspirations completed (up to 9). The tenth point needs every aspiration in the game completed by the family.
• Nature: up to 5 points for completing 13 collections, plus single points for 10 kinds of death on the lot, topping every career, topping both branches of every career, all emotional painting types and storing every consumable aspiration reward.
• Food: ten single-point food tasks, such as a top-quality Baked Alaska, upgraded best fridge and stove, and six Sims eating at one table.
• Popularity: medals from parties and dates (gold 3, silver 2, bronze 1); 1 point per 9 medal points. The tenth point needs one Sim to gold every party type and a date.
• Deviance: 1 point per 2 unused Potions of Youth stored in the house, up to 10 points for 20 potions.
• Optional: 2 Parenthood points, 3 Seasons family-holiday points, 1 Discover University 'legacy college' point, 1 point for an Extreme Start or 2 for the Ultra Extreme Start.
• Penalties: minus 1 point each time power or water is cut for unpaid bills, and each time social services takes a child.

Tips

• Your first money will come from collecting, gardening and selling paintings or books, not from a big salary. Put down a cheap bed, toilet and fridge first and plant a garden early.
• Write down your succession laws and keep a scoresheet from day one. Categories like Deviance and Love are easy to forget until it is too late to catch up.
• Save Potions of Youth from aspiration points and lock them in a room no Sim can reach so nobody drinks them by accident.

Free tools for the challenge

• Sims family tree maker
• Sims 4 legacy challenge generator
• Sims 4 random trait generator
• Sims 4 name generator

More legacy challenges

• Not So Berry Challenge
• Decades Challenge
• Ultimate Decades Challenge
• 100 Baby Challenge
• Disney Princess Challenge
• Apocalypse Challenge
• Random Legacy Challenge
• Breed Out the Ugly Challenge

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