The Joy of Life Challenge

The Joy of Life Challenge is a massive 37-generation legacy challenge for The Sims 4, created by @simelune (Tumblr) / @wuluru (Twitch). Unlike traditional legacy challenges, this one is designed as an optional guide rather than a strict rulebook. It encourages players to try different aspects of the game while leaving room for imagination and storytelling. You can skip generations, ignore certain requirements, or change the story however you like. The challenge uses mods to create a unique experience, but you can play without them if you prefer.

General Rules

• No strict rules — play how you want. Avoiding cheats is recommended, but not required.
• Feel free to skip any generations or requirements you don't like or can't complete due to missing packs.
• If you have the Growing Together expansion, keep a "token" of each generation in the keepsake box to pass down between generations. This comes in handy in a few generations.
• Only one generation requires collectibles, but you can complete collections related to each generation if you wish.
• A checklist for each generation is available in the original document (up to Gen 20).

Mod Suggestions

• All Worlds Residential + Venue Changes
• Relationship and Pregnancy Overhaul
• Growing Pains

Generation 1 – The Baking Extraordinaire

There was a warmth and coziness in rolling out dough, mixing up frosting, creating masterpieces with a piping bag. Most of your days are spent whipping up new creations in the kitchen, enjoying the smell of a delicious apple pie baking in the oven. You dream of having everyone know your name and saying "Their cupcakes are the best I've ever had!".

Aspiration: Any. Optional: Market Magnate.

Traits: Foodie, roll/pick the rest. Buy the Marketable reward trait.

Skills: Baking.

Goals:

• Sell your baked goods! Whether that be through "bake sales" in your front yard (a mod for a bake sale event here) or creating your very own bakery! You can buy a bakery building, sell from home (mod), it's up to you!
• Optional: Reach level 10 in the Baker career (mod).
• Go on blind dates (RPO mod or Simda) or use Cupid's Corner. You MUST have a child with someone you go on a blind date with (accidental pregnancy or perhaps your sim got lucky in the romance department!). You can marry said sim if you wish, but it is not required that you get married. 
• Bake something holiday-themed for each major holiday. The author recommends littlebowbub's Grannies cookbook or Oni's Food Mod for more options.
• Throw the best parties for your child(ren), full of yummy cakes and treats.

Mod Recommendation: A-Dough-Able Cupcake Maker by RVSN.

Generation 2 – Chef It Up!

Growing up eating delicious baked goods sparked your interest in cooking, and your parent(s) always encouraged you! Your cooking skills flourished by the time you were a teen and you had only one goal in mind: becoming a celebrity chef. You work hard to achieve that dream.

Aspiration: Master Chef

Traits: Ambitious, roll/pick the rest. Buy the Stoves and Grills Master reward trait.

Skills: Cooking and Gourmet Cooking. At least level 4 in Mixology. Any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Culinary career (Chef branch), OR open a 3-star restaurant, OR become a freelance chef (mod).
• Achieve at least a 3-star celebrity level.
• Have a "controversial" relationship. Either date/marry a fellow celebrity (maybe they have a bad rep?), get into a relationship with someone who works for you at your restaurant, you decide! Be creative with it.
• Throw at least 5 dinner parties throughout your life. No need to go for gold, but hey, why not?
• Create your chef's dream kitchen in your home. Your sim needs a beautiful place to cook!

Generation 3 – Get Me Out of the Spotlight!

No matter what you did, you were always known as "The Chef's Kid". So when you were old enough, you ran away from home to escape the spotlight. Little did you know, you were running straight into the jaws of a predator.

Aspiration: Any of the Vampire aspirations (Vampire Family, Master Vampire, Good Vampire)

Traits: Gloomy. When you reach young adulthood, paranoid. Roll/pick your free trait. Buy the Night Owl reward trait.

Skills: Vampire lore, Pipe organ.

Goals:

• As a teen or young adult, move to Forgotten Hollow.
• Get turned into a vampire. You can pretend that your sim got bit if you have to ask to be turned. The author recommends this mod for after you become a vampire so you don't have to deal with the annoying burning in the sun in a vampire world (like hello?)
• Fall in love with the vampire that turned you and start your own little vampy family. Have only two kids.
• In your home, have a basement/attic/secret bookshelf room where you keep your coffins and other vampire artifacts. You must also have a library where your kids can read and learn.
• Optional: Have a gothic or Victorian-inspired home, it adds to the ambience.

Generation 4 – In Life and In Death

You grew up well off and had everything you could ask for and more. However, you were sheltered and hidden away from the world for most of your life. The only knowledge you had of the world was through the books in your family library, but they didn't tell you much. Both of your parents refused to speak of the "real world" and told you it was too dangerous, but that if you truly wished, you were free to see it for yourself when you grew to a young adult. The one thing that kept you busy and hopeful was art and you would share your art with the world, eventually.

Aspiration: Painter Extraordinaire

Traits: Creative, Jealous, roll/pick for last one (suggest Art Lover). Buy the Creative Visionary reward trait.

Skills: Max Creativity as a child. Then Painting and Logic.

Goals:

• Be homeschooled your whole life (Education Overhaul or Better Schools), or just pretend, up to you.
• As a child, create crafts on the creativity table as much as possible. You want to bring color to your gothic/victorian childhood home (if you decided to have that sort of aesthetic). Feel free to create ALL of the craftables through the creativity table!
• When you reach young adulthood, immediately move out of Forgotten Hollow into any world of your choice. You can choose to keep in contact with your vampiric family or cut them out of your life. Whatever story you want to tell.
• Join the Painter career or just sell your paintings.
• As a young adult, you fall in love with the first Sim who shows you any sort of kindness, and for them, you cure your Vampirism in any way you can. The thought of living without them makes your insides turn.
• Have a gallery wall in your final home of paintings you've made.

Generation 5 – Reality Check

Hearing the story of how your parents fell in love makes you feel sick, they obviously didn't understand anything about how people truly are, but you did. You weren't hidden away from people's true nature. Romance grossed you out and you wanted an escape from the romanticization of life your parents had. So when you're a young adult, you join the Military and leave your childhood home forever.

Aspiration: Any.

Traits: Unflirty, Active, roll/pick for the last. Buy both the Gym Rat and Seldom Sleepy reward traits.

Skills: Fitness, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• As soon as you become a young adult, join the Military career and move out of your family home.
• Reach level 10 in the Military career (either branch).
• Your first kid is born through an accidental pregnancy. You had no intentions of having any kids, but things happen. You decide to settle down with the other parent of the child, and eventually, you have some feelings for them (even though it's incredibly hard to feel that way).
• Have 3 kids total and a Distant Dynamic or Strict Dynamic with all of them (Growing Together required for that, however, you can play a bit of pretend if you do not have the pack).

Generation 6 – The Burnt Out Overachiever

You and your siblings wanted nothing more than your Military parents' approval so you went above and beyond to try to impress them. You took on way more than any kid should have to deal with and you tried too many things at once. Eventually, you got so burnt out from trying to get the approval of a hard-ass parent that you gave up… you didn't really have any "big dreams", and you got a 9 to 5 job as an adult.

Aspiration: Renaissance Sim

Traits: Overachiever, roll/pick for the rest. Buy the Savant reward trait.

Skills: Logic, Research and Debate, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Achieve the best possible grades as a child and teen. Try to have your sim become Valedictorian.
• Join an after school activity as a child and as a teen (more activities here).
• Have your sim attend University for any degree - but keep in mind your sim will end up in the Business or Salaryperson career.
• Reach level 10 in the Business career (either branch) or Salaryperson career (either branch).
• Date/Marry someone you meet in University.
• Have as many kids as you'd like.
• You have a poor relationship with your kids and significant other since all you care about now as an Adult is work.

Generation 7 – Attention, please!

Growing up with a parent who didn't pay much attention to you really did damage to your confidence and self-esteem, and gave you a warped perspective of what family truly means. You would do anything for their attention and you just chose the wrong way to get it. Stealing whenever you can and just causing trouble for everyone are your specialties.

Aspiration: Public Enemy or Chief of Mischief

Traits: Kleptomaniac, Mean, roll/pick your last one.

Skills: Mischief, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 of either the Criminal career OR the Secret Agent career (Villain branch).
• You like being a menace, so get into at least 3 fights a week.
• Bind a voodoo doll to a sim and just mess with their life!
• Have 5 enemies, but fall in love with one of them (that's right, enemies to lovers!). Start a family with this sim, but it turns out, romance isn't for you! So break up/divorce them after having an affair.
• Allow your kids to visit/stay with the other parent (mod), since you're trying to be civil.

Generation 8 – Two-Faced Actor

Your parent was too busy being an absolute menace to parent you correctly, but your other parent showered you with love and adoration. 'Right' and 'Wrong' were a foreign concept to you, was what your villainous parent doing really that bad? You couldn't quite understand your own brain or thought processes, so you used acting as an escape from your complicated home life. As it turns out, you're a bit more like your 'bad' parent than you would have liked.

Aspiration: Master Actor/Master Actress

Traits: Choose two – Snob, Materialistic, or Self-Absorbed. Roll/pick the free trait.

Skills: Acting, Charisma, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 of the Actor career.
• As a child, join the Drama Club after-school activity.
• Maintain poor relationships with your co-workers, you're not as friendly off-screen as you look on-screen.
• Have an accidental pregnancy with a co-worker, but keep the child a secret as you don't want them to ruin your career.
• Optional: Your sim goes through a healing process and slowly works to become a "better" person. Whether that be a process they start on their own or because of their child/significant other/fans, the choice is yours. They could, of course, be a not-so-great person forever.

Generation 9 – The Teacher

You didn't have a very stable childhood - you were kept a secret and felt as if your birth was some sort of mistake. There was one thing you knew for certain: you didn't want any other child to feel the way you felt. You would be a better parent than yours was, and one way to help the youth was to become an educator.

Aspiration: Super Parent or Big Happy Family

Traits: Family-oriented, Cheerful, roll/pick the free trait. Buy the Fertile reward trait.

Skills: Parenting, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 of the Education career (either branch).
• Fall in love with a fellow teacher (play a bit of pretend here if needed) and raise a family with them!
• Have at least 3 kids and adopt at least one of them.
• Your child begs you for a pet! Adopt a cat, dog, or small animal.

Generation 10 – Living off the Land!

Life for you was always fulfilling. Your parents loved and nurtured you, let you live your life as freely as you please. When you grew up, you wanted to take care of things as you were taken care of, except maybe people were a bit overwhelming, so animals it is. You move to Henford-on-Bagley to wake up bright and early every morning to take care of your farm and animals.

Aspiration: Country Caretaker. If you complete the main aspiration, you can also complete Lord/Lady of the Knits.

Traits: Animal Enthusiast, roll/pick the rest. Buy Super Green Thumb and Morning Sim reward traits.

Skills: Gardening, Fishing, Knitting.

Goals:

• Move to Henford-on-Bagley as a Young Adult.
• Take the pet you begged your parents for with you to the farm! If they are not alive when you move out, adopt a new pet.
• Have as many farm animals as you'd like, but have at least 2.
• Participate in the Weekly Fairs in Finchwick and hopefully win.
• Marry a Henford-on-Bagley townie.
• Have as many kids as you'd like.
• Optional: Use the 'Simple Living' lot trait, and do your best to live off the land.

Generation 11 – The Greenest Way of Living

Growing up surrounded by animals and growing your own crops was the norm for your family, and you wouldn't have it any other way. You wanted to continue your family's green way of living so you set out for Evergreen Harbor in hopes of improving the way of life there! Time to save the planet.

Aspiration: Eco Innovator

Traits: Freegan, Green Fiend, or Recycle Disciple, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Juice fizzing, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Civil Designer career.
• Move to Evergreen Harbor as a Young Adult.
• Spend at least 5 hours a week total at one of the Community Spaces in Evergreen Harbor.
• Meet your significant other at one of the community spaces, and have as many kids as you'd like.
• Optional: Use the Reduce & Recycle lot trait. Maintain a Green eco footprint.

Generation 12 – To Save the Oceans

Your parents tried to be as eco-friendly as they could and you really saw their impact as you grew up. Evergreen Harbor was now truly evergreen. You wanted to follow in your parent's footsteps and save the world even more! Hearing about the poachers and the contamination in Sulani, you set your sights for the beach life.

Aspiration: Beach Life

Traits: Child of the Islands, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Fitness, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Conservationist career (either branch).

• Move to Sulani as a Young Adult.

• Attend 5 of the festivals in Sulani, check here for a guide.

• Throw at least 3 kava parties.

• Marry a Mermaid (place one down or hope to find one yourself!)

• Optional: Complete the Buried Treasure collection.

Generation 13 – Teenage Runaway

Romance was always your favorite genre when it came to books and movies. You saw the way your parents looked at each other and accepted each other despite their differences… you wanted nothing more than to have your own fairytale ending for yourself. You fall in love and fall in fast with your teenage sweetheart, so much so that the two of you run away from Sulani so that you're alone together. But life isn't as easy when you don't have your parents to rely on.

Aspiration: Soulmate

Traits: Romantic, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Any required from part-time jobs or odd jobs.

Goals:

• You may have a part-time job or complete odd jobs to make money.
• Go to prom with your high school sweetheart.
• Marry them as well. You can decide whether they live happily ever after or not, because life happens after high school.
• As a teen, move out of your family home and into a different world. You may choose to have them save up money (with a piggy bank) or play a bit of pretend and say they've been saving up money, maybe they even stole it from their parents.
• Have only one kid.

Generation 14 – The Musical Prodigy

You didn't have much growing up, your parents didn't make the bills all the time and you felt a sense of responsibility at a young age. As a child, you tried your best to help out around the house to ease their burden. You find a love for piano in music class at school and discover that you have a knack for it - you're a musical prodigy. Your classmates are in awe of your incredible skills. It seems you've found a passion in life.

Aspiration: Musical Genius

Traits: Music lover, roll/pick the rest. You must get the 'Responsible' trait by maxing out the Responsibility character value.

Skills: Piano and another instrument of your choice - Guitar, Violin, or Pipe Organ. Whichever skills you didn't choose, you still must have at least level 5 in them. Have at least level 5 in the Singing skill.

Goals:

• As a teen and young adult, you can only play at a lounge for tips to help your family.
• Have some sort of Celebrity level by the time you reach Adulthood.
• When you reach Adulthood, you can join the Entertainer career (Musician branch).
• Marry someone who frequents the lounge you play in, they must be a fan of your songs.
• You must stay in your childhood home until you're an Elder and raise your kids there. You inherited the house from your parents. You can expand this house as you need.

Generation 15 – The Robotics Master

"The newest in Landgraab Technologies, a Sim's best friend: The Servo!" has stuck with you since you saw it on TV as a child. A robot who could talk to you, cook, clean, and be your best friend? You needed it, but your parent(s) couldn't afford one. You decided then and there that you would make your own Servo and bots, but you needed to learn how to make them first! So University here you come.

Aspiration: Academic

Traits: Genius, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Robotics, Programming, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Engineer career (either branch).
• Attend University for a Computer Science degree.
• Join the Bot Savants Student Organization at University.
• Create at least one Servo and 3 of the Bots.
• Casually date another University student and have at least two kids. You may get married to them or date multiple people. It is up to you.
• Craft toys for your kids!

Generation 16 – The "Outcast"

Your parents placed an expectation on you from a young age, you must go to University like they did. Your sibling followed their footsteps and you should too… the only problem is that you don't want to go to University, high school was hard enough! You quickly felt like the black sheep of your family when your goals obviously didn't align with your parent's. At least the family Servo had your back.

Aspiration: The Curator

Traits: Loner, roll/pick the rest. Suggest Loves Outdoors. Buy the Needs No One reward trait.

Skills: Cross-stitching

Goals:

• Have at least 10 collectibles on display in your room/house.
• Have a poor relationship with any siblings you have and your parents, but a great relationship with your family's Servo.
• Move out of your family home when you're a young adult.
• You may have as many kids as you'd like, but you must adopt at least one child, and never marry.

Generation 17 – The Spa-Fluencer

You had a lot of freedom growing up and your parent never forced you to do anything you didn't want to. The one thing that always bothered you was your parent's strange collection of frogs and you quickly developed a fear of them. You spent a lot of time in your room looking up ways to tame your anxiety and found peace in meditating. You wanted to spread the power of wellness to everyone, so you created a social media account to share your love of yoga!

Aspiration: Zen Guru

Traits: Squeamish, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Wellness, Photography, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Social Media career (Internet Personality branch).
• Attend yoga classes at a spa as a child and teen.
• Host your own yoga/meditation sessions as a young adult to make money!
• Post selfies and pretty scenery shots to your social media account at least 3 times a week. You have to get your numbers up!
• Optional: Open up a spa (you might have to play a bit of pretend here).

Generation 18 – The Little Mermaid

One day you find your family's keepsake box lying around the house and decide to go through it to find all the old mementos from generations past. It turns out one of your ancestors was a fish!? No way, that can't be possible… Oh, they were a mermaid! You decide to research mermaids and discover there's a way to become a mermaid yourself… time to find mermadic kelp.

Aspiration: Any.

Traits: Child of the Ocean, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Any.

Goals:

• As a young adult, find or buy Mermadic Kelp to become a mermaid.
• Have a vacation to Sulani for at least 4 days to "find out about your past".
• Befriend a dolphin while in Sulani.
• You must marry a human, you aren't sure you want to pass your mermaid genes down to the next generation.
• Live in any world that has a large body of water - Windenburg, Brindleton Bay, Sulani, Tartosa, Copperdale, San Sequoia, Tomarang, Nordhaven, Innisgreen, or Gibbi Point.

Consider checking out the Expanded Mermaids mod by SpinningPlumbobs for better mermaid gameplay!

Generation 19 – The Fashion Influencer

Life was great - your parents taught you to be yourself and be truly who you are. You had no fear and were raised to chase your dreams, whatever they may be. On your 10th birthday, you got a gift card to a clothing store you had been dreaming of getting something from. In elementary school, everyone came to you for fashion advice. In high school, you started selling fits on Trendi and became known as a fashion icon. Now, you just want to be the best Style Influencer the world has seen. Watch out San Myshuno, your new icon is coming through.

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy

Traits: High Maintenance or Self-Assured, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Any required skills from career.

Goals:

• As a teen, start selling looks on Trendi to save up money for an apartment in San Myshuno.
• Reach level 10 in the Style Influencer career (either branch).
• Date around for a bit before settling down with the love of your life - whom you give an "Extreme Makeover" to (though nothing was wrong with them in the first place, they were a client!)
• Have as many kids as you want.
• Optional: Run a boutique!

Generation 20 – The Shady Politician

All you wanted was to live up to your parent's name, and one way or another, you were going to. No matter what it took, the world would know you just as well as they did your parent. Let's just say the path you chose, many would shake their head in disbelief at the things you did to get where you are. Being a Politician is a shady business, but at least you have your Detective significant other to protect you.

Aspiration: World Famous Celebrity

Traits: Hot-headed, Evil, roll/pick the free trait.

Skills: Charisma.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Politician career (Politician branch).
• Date/Marry a Detective that hides the shady business you conduct.
• Have only one child who lives with the Grandparents, you have a Negative relationship with this child.
• The paparazzi must never catch you interacting with your child, lest the world find out you're a parent.

Generation 21 – The Streamer

Being the child of a politician and a detective was something you quickly learned to hate. Your politician parent acts like you don't exist and your detective parent reaches out whenever they're not saving your shitty parent's ass. At least you have your amazing grandparents who never make you feel ashamed or embarrassed. They take care of you as if you were their own child, but you still need to escape… you become a streamer and decide that making other people smile is something worthwhile.

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Traits: Goofball, roll/pick the rest. Buy the Incredibly Friendly reward trait.

Skills: Video gaming, Media production, any required skills from career.

Goals:

• As a teen, get a part-time job being a Video Game Streamer. You just want to connect with others and make others laugh.
• When you're a young adult, start making videos on the "More Choices Video Station" or "More Views Video Station". You're trying to reach a wider audience!
• Make and upload at least 2 videos a week.
• Date/Marry someone you meet in high school and start a family with them. You don't have to stay with them for the whole generation.

Generation 22 – The Astronaut

From a young age, you had a special interest in the stars and all things space-related. Something about being out in the galaxy made you feel all giddy inside and you wanted, no, NEEDED to go visit the planet Sixam. Apparently, there's REAL aliens that live there and if you don't get to befriend an alien in your lifetime, you might actually cry.

Aspiration: Nerd Brain

Traits: Geek, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Rocket Science, Logic, Handiness, any skills required from your career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Astronaut career. You could also do the Scientist career instead.
• Live in Oasis Springs.
• Visit Sixam at least 2 times.
• Make 5 Alien friends and marry one of them! Your inner child is screaming!
• Have at least 1 alien child, this is your heir.

Generation 23 – The StrangerVille Mystery

Your parents never called you it, but oftentimes other people made you feel… Strange. There were times you wondered why you were different from everyone and why some people stared at you with awe? Fear? Something in between? You weren’t sure, but if people were going to make you out to be some sort of abnormality, you were going to lean into that. You pack up your bags and make your way to StrangerVille… but you may have bit off more than you can chew.

Aspiration: StrangerVille Mystery

Traits: Socially Awkward, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Any.

Goals:

• When you're a young adult, move to StrangerVille.
• Solve the StrangerVille Mystery!
• You never quite outgrow your paranoia from dealing with possessed Sims, so you keep putting listening devices on people.
• Have a Science Baby with someone you meet in StrangerVille, but never date or marry the Sim you have the baby with.

Generation 24 – Chill Out

One thing was for sure, you absolutely HATED the desert. It was hot, dry, stuffy, and the way your parent talked about the Mother (whatever that was) made it all ten times worse. You needed to get out of there any way you could, so when you heard about Mt. Komorebi’s exchange student program, you were begging to go. Finally, somewhere with normal weather and SNOW! Skiing and snowboarding seem kind of fun.

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast

Traits: Adventurous, roll/pick the rest. Buy Heatproof and Iceproof reward traits.

Skills: Skiing, Snowboarding, Rock Climbing.

Goals:

• As a teen, move out of your current household into a communal living space. You will have to most likely create a sim beforehand and pop other teens into this household. (Recommended: Control Any Sim mod, lets you have roommates).

• You must only have a part-time job this whole generation.

• Collect 10 Simmis.

• Visit your parent on Weekends only, you’re a busy student after all.

• Date 2 Sims while you’re in high school - this can be at the same time (if you want drama) or 2 separate occasions. You will end up marrying one of them later as a young adult!

• Have only 1 child - biological or adopted.

Generation 25 – I Demand More!

Snowboarding and skiing were not your speed, you much preferred hanging out in the living room watching the Dream Home Decorator Network. You loved seeing the transformations from drab to fab and seeing the big happy faces of the clients. You were obsessed with moving the furniture in your room around and showing your parents the “big reveal”! When you can, you decide to become an interior decorator and have your own big home that you can decorate however you’d like.

Aspiration: Mansion Baron

Traits: Creative, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: N/A.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Interior Decorator career.
• Each room in your home must be a different decor type! You’re not sure what style you like so why not have them all?
• You must attend at least 5 of the festivals in San Myshuno, inspiration always strikes when you’re at them. This is where you meet your future spouse.
• You must spend at least 500 Simoleons a week on Build/Buy items. Your house HAS to be extravagant!

Generation 26 – The Party Animal

A big house was the perfect place to play as a child and the perfect place to throw the best parties at as a teenager. Your parent(s) didn’t seem to mind you throwing the noisiest parties and making a mess of the place, so you were never told to stop. This became a lifestyle as you got older, you constantly needed social interaction. You want to be the life of the party.

Aspiration: Live Fast as a Teen, Party Animal as a Young Adult+

Traits: Outgoing, Party Animal, Dance Machine.

Skills: Dancing, DJ Mixing.

Goals:

• You stay with your parents this whole generation, where else are you going to have your parties?
• Have a club of your closest friends and gather at least 2 times a week.
• Go to a Nightclub venue at least 3 times a week.
• Date, but never marry someone you meet at a Nightclub. Have as many kids as you’d like with them.

Generation 27 – The Romance Connoisseur

You didn’t grow up in a very conventional home. Your parent was too busy throwing parties every week to pay attention to you which led to lots of nights of loneliness. You hated being alone, so dating and meeting people were two ways to make sure you were always surrounded by warmth and love.

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Traits: Noncommittal, roll/pick the rest. Buy Beguiling and Great Kisser reward traits.

Skills: Charisma, any.

Goals:

• Make money through part-time or odd jobs.
• Have at least 3 kids with 3 different partners. One of your partners has to be a Spellcaster, you didn’t know at the time!
• Name all your kids after alcoholic beverages.
• Have a poor relationship with your partners after having a kid with them.

Generation 28 – What Do You Mean I Have Special Powers?!?

Dreams of cauldrons, brooms, and spells plagued your slumber when you were a child, you didn’t quite understand what any of it meant. As a teenager, you have a mishap at school. You didn’t mean for it to happen, it just did… That was the day you learned about your aptitude for magic. Without ever knowing your magically inclined parent, you had no one to teach you how to control your magic.

Note: If your heir isn’t a Spellcaster, play a bit of pretend until you can turn them into a Spellcaster manually.

Aspiration: Any of the Spellcaster Aspirations (Spellcraft & Sorcery or Purveyor of Potions)

Traits: Erratic, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: N/A.

Goals:

• Reach at least Adept in the Spellcaster rank.
• Make money selling your potions or collectibles.
• Collect at least 3 Familiars.
• Have a garden of Magical plants.

Generation 29 – Flower Power

You always enjoyed spending time out in the garden full of magical plants, it eased your mind and filled you with a sense of peace. You had an epiphany one day - if you live in a tiny home, you could surround yourself with nature! So that was your goal: a Tiny Home and a garden to grow your own flowers.

Aspiration: Any.

Traits: Clumsy, Vegetarian, roll/pick the free trait.

Skills: Flower Arranging, Cross-Stitching.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Gardener career (Floral Designer branch) OR sell your flower arrangements and cross-stitching creations on Plopsy.

• Have a small garden where you grow your flowers.

• Use the Tiny Home Residential lot type and live in a tiny home! As your family expands, so does your house, up to a Small Home only.

• Gift Floral Arrangements to your spouse every week and hang up your cross-stitching creations in your kids' rooms!

Generation 30 – Ghosts are Friends

As much as you loved growing up in a "cozy" home, you desperately wanted to live somewhere else… and somewhere with a bit more excitement. Horror movies always kept you on your toes and made you want to meet ghosts - whether that be hunting them, befriending them, and/or romancing them, you needed to be surrounded by the paranormal.

Aspiration: Any.

Traits: Good, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Medium.

Goals:

• Be a Paranormal Investigator (Freelancer career).
• Live in a Haunted House, how else are you supposed to befriend the specters?
• Summon Bonehilda!
• Befriend a ghost and become best friends, and romance another ghost and have a high romance bar!
• Bring the ghost you romanced back to life (a few ways here), and start a family with them.

Generation 31 – Just Me, Myself, and I

No, nah, nope, absolutely not. There was no way you were going to stay in a haunted house for the rest of your life. It didn't matter how, you were getting out of this ghostly paradise one way or another. You couldn't ask your parent(s) for money and say "Hey, I hate it here, I'm leaving!" so you just leave with a small backpack of clothes and run away in the middle of the night.

Aspiration: Master Maker

Traits: Maker, roll/pick the rest. Buy the Frugal reward trait.

Skills: Handiness, Fabrication.

Goals:

• As a teen, move into an empty lot in any world - you're running away.
• You may only have 50 Simoleons.
• Dumpster dive for money, resources, furniture… this is the only way you can make money right now.
• Your first child must be conceived through a dumpster woohoo. After this, you may have as many children as you'd like, any way you like!
• Your home must be filled with items you've crafted/fabricated.

Generation 32 – Tigers and Bears and… Werewolves?

The respect you had for your parent for creating a life of their own with nothing but the clothes on their back was immense. You were grateful for the life they gave you. They taught you the importance of relying on yourself and being able to survive even the most dangerous situations. Sadly, that didn't come in handy when you had the unfortunate (or maybe fortunate?) chance of moving to the one place that was crawling with Werewolves.

Aspiration: Werewolf Initiate → Pick one of the four aspirations unlocked after completing.

Traits: Loves Outdoors, roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Fitness or Herbalism, Fishing.

Goals:

• Move to Moonwood Mill when you become a Young Adult.
• Become a Werewolf and reach the Apex Rank.
• Your heir for the next generation cannot be a Werewolf.
• Optional: Complete the Moonwood Relics collection.

Generation 33 – The Veterinarian

Maybe it was the fact that you were raised by a Werewolf or maybe the fact that you just happened to have a calling in life… who knows really, but all you knew was that you wanted to save the lives of pets.

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

Traits: Dog Lover or Cat Lover (or both!), roll/pick the rest.

Skills: Veterinarian, Pet Training.

Goals:

• Run a Vet Clinic.
• You must always have at least two pets in your household at all times.
• Have a pet learn all the tricks they can.
• Meet your future spouse at your vet clinic! Perhaps an employee or a pet owner coming in, up to you!

Generation 34 – The Traveler

Something about traveling excited you - even just going to the park as a child made you smile from ear to ear. You would always tell everyone you would travel the world when you got older, but where will you begin?

Choose one path (or complete all for Challenge Mode):

Selvadorada Path

• Aspiration: Jungle Explorer
• Traits: Roll/pick all.
• Skills: Archaeology, Selvadoradian Culture.
• Bring a pet companion with you, after all, you grew up in a house full of them!
• Collect 10 Omiscan treasures.

Granite Falls Path

• Aspiration: Outdoor Explorer
• Traits: Roll/pick all.
• Skills: Herbalism, Fishing.
• Bring a pet companion with you, after all, you grew up in a house full of them!
• Collect 10 insects.
• Explore the secret lot (the Hermit's House).

Batuu Path

• Aspiration: Hope Vs Order (either of the unlockable aspirations (Paragon of Hope/Enforcer of Order) after progressing through) or Galactic Privateer.
• Traits: Roll/pick all of them.
• Skills: Archaeology, Selvadoradian Culture.
• Bring a pet companion with you, after all, you grew up in a house full of them!
• Get your very own Droid and keep them around for the rest of the generation.
• Collect 3 lightsabers.

Generation 35 – Dear Family

Writing has always been your passion. Your teachers in school always told you that you had a talent and that you should nurture it. You enjoyed writing silly short stories and creating worlds that you could escape to. Your one goal was to write the best book to ever exist, but writer's block strikes you and strikes you hard. You receive the keepsake box that has been with your family since the very beginning… it turns out your family has lived very interesting lives. Maybe this was the inspiration that you needed.

Aspiration: Bestselling Author

Traits: Bookworm, roll/pick the rest. Buy the Creative Visionary reward trait.

Skills: Writing, any skills required from career.

Goals:

• Reach level 10 in the Writer Career (Author branch).
• Write a Bestseller Biography book - it's about your family so it has to be perfect.
• Have a ghost family member living in your house for the whole generation, they can tell you stories and "communicate" with your ancestors.

Generation 36 – Warmth and Love

Your parent gifted you the book they wrote, the original copy, for you to keep forever. Being able to read the entire history of your very long family line was so incredible, so many lives lived and so many more to come. You want to have your own big family, one that would be close-knit and go through all the joys of life together.

Aspiration: As a child, complete Creative Genius, Mind and Body, Playtime Captain, or Slumber Party Animal. As a teen+, Big Happy Family.

Traits: Family-Oriented or Generous, pick/roll the rest.

Skills: Parenting, Charisma.

Goals:

• Move to San Seqouia as a Young Adult and live there for the rest of the generation.
• Fall in love and marry someone you meet at either the Library or Recreation Center. Have a full house (your spouse, kids, and pets if you so wish).
• Keep photos of your children from each life stage (infant to young adult). Have  a wall in your home dedicated to your family.
• Complete at least 3 stay overs (family, friends, whoever).
• Build the treehouse from Growing Together! Your kids pleaded to have one and you want to give them everything.

Generation 37 – Horsing Around

You grew up in a full house, it was always loud and a bit messy, but it was full of love nonetheless. A part of you desired a quiet life or at least somewhere you would have your own space. A ranch sounded perfect – horses, goats, sheep, and let's not forget about the serenity that would surround you.

Aspiration: Championship Rider

Traits: Rancher or Horse Lover (or both!), pick/roll the rest.

Skills: Riding

Goals:

• Live in Chestnut Ridge, moving there whenever you can.
• Keep a good relationship with your family members, afterall, you still love them.
• Have at least one horse and two sheep/goats.
• Hire a Ranch Hand to help you take care of your ranch! You end up falling in love with them and end up raising a family together.
• Your horse(s) must reach the max level in one of the skills: Temperament, Jumping, Agility, or Endurance.
• Hang up some of the rewards you and your horse earn through Horse Competitions.

The Joy of Life Challenge is a massive, flexible, and deeply story-driven legacy that spans 37 generations. It encourages you to explore every corner of The Sims 4 at your own pace, with mods or without. Whether you follow every rule or just use it as a loose guide, this challenge is all about having fun and telling your own unique family story.

For the full original rules, checklist, and mod links, you can find the challenge on @simelune's Tumblr or the original Google Doc. Happy simming!