Poll Results Are In + My Vision for a Medieval Henford-on-Bagley 🌳

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Happy Friday, my loves! How are you? I'm excited to be here today–this is the start of my weekly series that I'm going to call Field Notes, a peek into my save file development, creative process, & what I've been up to in game this week.

Let's get right into it! 👇

📋 The poll results are in–looks like we're diving into my medieval fantasy world next!

If that wasn't your pick, don't worry. I won't be excluding my other content, but this gives me a temperature check on what you guys are into. If you took a second to vote in the poll, thank you–I appreciate your input! 💗

While the poll has been running, I've been getting organized in and out of game, updating mods for the patch, configuring my recording software, and downloading a bunch of medieval/fantasy CC in preparation for upcoming content.

And, of course, I couldn't miss the trailer release for the Royalty & Legacy EP 👑 It looks so promising for my worlds. I'm hoping it integrates well with llazyneiph's Royalty Mod, but the new scandal system seems perfect for playing out drama inside of my modern day save–Twinbrook runs on secrets!

🧰 Patch day, play-testing, and restarting my CAS folders

• 🛠️ Patch day this week: The only problem I've experienced so far is a UI-issue on pop-ups (after saving a sim to the gallery), which I suspect is related to the Color Sliders mod. I'm loving the Coach bags that came out with this update though–Should I build a Coach store in Magnolia Promenade? I'm kinda feeling it.

• 🐎 I've been play-testing the Horse Jump Parkour mod by LittleMsSam, which lets Ryan train horses across a course instead of being restricted to a single jump. I LOVE this mod, but unfortunately it only worked once for me, then quit working altogether. I'm on LMS's Discord and we're troubleshooting, but hopefully we can get it to work and then I can build some functional-ish courses in the future!

• 🤬 I ran into a very frustrating bug where Ryan's son (Austin) would not stay asleep in his assigned bunk bed. I removed the TV (even though it was off), I took away his fear of the dark, exited the game. I tried every solution I could find online. The only thing I could get to work was resetting both Austin and the bed, but the results were inconsistent. Have you run into this bug at all?

• 👗 There comes a time when you just need a fresh start in CAS: broken files, missing meshes, clothes your sims will NEVER wear. Plus, with my new rig, if something has LQ textures, it shows. So I decided to clear out the old and bring in the new, and this–of course–led to me having a crisis between choosing Alpha CC or MM, with hairs especially. Eventually, I decided to let go of the labels. As a creative, I want things to fit together perfectly, but you know what? Originality isn't born from perfection–and there are no rules here except for the ones we set for ourselves. So I say: download what you want and quit trying to make it make sense. Let the style simply be, "you." 🤗

👾 Testing 1...2...3

I ran my first stream test this week! Ahhh!

Guys, I was sweating even though no one was watching 😂 But I streamed for about 20 minutes to get a feel for how it all works. I need to add Twitch alerts and set up a playlist, but otherwise, everything's working! I'm going to do a soft launch next week with friends, then I will share my streaming schedule here so you guys can come hang out and play Sims with me. We'll be building and making sims for my medieval fantasy save.

📍Up next: building a medieval Henford-on-Bagley

Notion board: ✅
Pinterest boards: ✅

Everything's in place to start bringing this medieval world of mine to life. I can't wait to bring you into the process with me–and get to show you Riverrun again with my new PC's abilities (you'll actually be able to see the details now! 🥹).

I've already shared some of my ideas for the world maps and a few character sketches, but for now we're going to focus on Henford-on-Bagley. The plan is to finish this map before moving onto any of the others.

Above 👆 you can see the vibe I want to create for a medieval Henford–it's all farmland, forests, wide open spaces, and quiet villagers trying (and failing) to mind their own business. Riverrun is the biggest village there, but we will also have a castle for the lord who oversees the lands.

Henford-on-Bagley – Human Kingdom
Region: Forests & Riverlands
Vibe: Small villages, shepherds, farmers, river traders, quiet folk magic
Symbol: Ancient oak, trees

Next week, I'll be diving into content creation and taking you BTS as I continue to work on Riverrun 🌳 We're going to do some decorating–the bakery, mayhap?–and character creation/planning in CAS. I'm super excited to take you on this journey with me!

Until then, thanks so much for reading!
💛 –Christina

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