Welcome! Cottage Hills is a now discontinued story series from my Sims 2 game. Below are links to background information of the town and all the stories so far in chronological order, divided into different books. Enjoy!
The Mystery Plague
The Island of Shadows
The Golden Flower
The Island of Sun
The Red Chamber
Redemption
A Winter Tale
The Vanishing of Basil Reed
There's definitely potential for a story here. This town is filled with kooky and shifty cluedo-esque characters and NPCs, from monks to courtesans, poets, scholars, and aristocrats. Every time they interact, it always seems to me like they're up to something.
Up to my tits in mods with this world.
Gotta say, Misty Valley looks great in autumn. Right now this world exists on its own, and don't hold me to it, but I do feel like expanding this world to include other cities in the same file. Like maybe a Tibetan one where an empty Komorebi is and an Imperial Capital city in Newcrest, thanks of course to Blowtorch and The latest Mud Roads mod.
Here you can see one townie walking around, along Da Suan Lu (Garlic Street), where the shops in town are located. I mean there's only 5 lots are we really calling this a street lol.
Anyway if anyone is interested, with TOOL mod, I thought the big hole in the rock where the town's only water source comes out could use a little bit more whimsy, so I stuck a scaled up statue's face in it and called it a day.
Still loving how Forgotten Hollow looks in my game! The Poet's House, in Misty Valley, is where Gong Lu Ru, noted poet lives with his wife, Ru Yin, in their old courtyard house. The story is that he's hit a depressive slump of late, and has not been writing any new poems and ballads for some time now, and living solely off royalties. This is rumoured to be due to some unknown tragedy (spoiler, its vampires), and the estate is slowly falling apart.
They are served by the one maid, Yi Rong, the only one who stayed behind while the rest of the staff left when the money started drying up. The work of a maid in pre-industrial Misty Valley is never done, and Yi Rong is in charge of cooking, cleaning, maintaining the house as well as the upkeep of the small farmyard at the back.
Also, I don't know who needs to see this but I discovered that you can hide the mixer that comes with Home Chef Hustle in the mortar and pestle from For Rent. Scaled up the mortar twice, and shrunk down the mixer, and voila, when the food is being mixed, it sits spinning nicely inside the bowl, as if by design!
Trying out the new Expanded Plantsim mod by Spinning Plumbob, the same creator behind the fairies and expanded mermaid mods. The mod is truly incredible, and even comes with Satyrs, and feels very much like it is just part of the game. Anyway some followers of Cottage Hills might remember the Four Sprites and here they are again albeit in TS4 form. Each of them represents a season and they live under a big ol' tree in a series of underground chambers.
Loving these Makin' Magic townies. Yes, that is Mara the Fae Queen (iykyk)
Well, I guess we all knew this was coming. Project redecorate Tomarang. I really am building this world around the Blue Mansion just so it has a world to fit in. TOOL Mod rocks but Sims 4, for some of its merits, is clearly so not designed for world building.
Anyway, even with the wonderful Blowtorch mod, Tomarang is still a little hard to work with as the roads are still there and are pretty silly and circuitous, with walkable paths cutting through the city blocks randomly, so it took a while to shape up but I'm happy with the progress so far.
Port Empress is more based on Penang and Singapore, in the early to mid 20th century period, so its squarely in the colonial era of the Straits settlements. Sadly there's only a few lots to work with but I guess that keeps things simple.
Hello! Just got back from a visit to Georgetown, Penang, one of my favourite places, and felt inspired to build a version of the Cheong Fatt Tze House in the Sims 4. The house is also known as The Blue Mansion, for obvious reasons, and is popular for having featured in Crazy Rich Asians.
As is my custom, I aim for accuracy and fidelity to original architecture within game limitations, and this is no different. I'm loving how it looks so far, and this is a fun little project for now. Perhaps I might put this up on the gallery, as I am using mostly in game things, although it does contain CC, but not a whole lot, most important is just Felixandre's Fayun Sets.
Just about every Sims game I play will have this build somewhere.
Play-testing my current save file from the Lotus Pavillion, a rental residential that functions as an inn, with a bar on the ground floor, run by Madame Li and her manservant.
Because I have all kinds of premade townies, from every world and fantasy race, the patrons of the bar are a hilarious mix of Chinese vampires, trolls, monks, wizards and fairies. I'm not even upset, this is really what I intended for the save file, and in fact I wish more of them would show up, I love it, finally no more random townies! The inhabitants of the worlds travel to and fro, and intermingle freely, so as I play the file, they'll add to the colourful backdrop that makes the world feel more alive. Perhaps a townie photo dump is in order!
