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1890s – The Eve of the 20th Century

• Relationships/WooHooing
  • Sims may only have a relationship with and marry the opposite gender.
  • Sims may only marry within their own ethnicity/race.
  • Sims must only “Try for Baby” and risky “Woohoo.”
  • Teenage sims cannot “Mess Around”, “Try for Baby” or risky “Woohoo” until after marriage.
  • Sims cannot get a divorce unless one of them commits adultery (in this case, flirting with another sim in front of the spouse).
  • Female children move out only once they are married (and their dowry is ready)
  • Males can move out by themselves on their “move out date” (rolled by the earlier chart) if they roll to be unmarried (and their inheritance is ready).
• Children:
  • No using foods to influence the gender of the babies.
  • When your female sim gives birth, roll two six sided dice for each baby. If you roll doubles, the baby did not survive the birth – this is about a 16.7% chance. Then, roll the two dice again. If you roll two ones, the mother dies in childbirth. (irregardless of whether the child(ren) lived or died) This is about a 2.7% chance.
  • Births must occur at home. 
  • Babies can only be fed through breastfeeding and not by bottle (unless the mother died – in which case, you need to hire a “wet nurse”.) Create a female sim (or move in a female townie and subtract 100 simoleons per day to pay her “wages”. She may be moved out once the babies are children.) On a related note: there must be a female that is at least a teen in the home to care for children until they are at least child age. See above for creating/moving in a caretaker if the mother dies. 
  • Heir: Only male heirs are allowed. If there are no sons, then the eldest daughter’s husband may become heir.
  • Adoption is only allowed in the case of “neglected children” or orphans, and an adopted child can never be heir.
• Health and Aging:
  • If you notice that your sim has become sick, roll a twenty sided die. Rolling a 1 means they didn’t survive the illness. Use MCCC to kill them off using the “exhaustion” death.
  • Only home remedies, no ordering medicine.
  • Once your sim reaches the Elder life stage, on each birthday, roll a six sided die. See “death rolls” for the difficulty chart.
• Home and Building:
  • Use the Off-the-Grid lot trait for this first decade. This WILL mean filling your fridge with ice to keep food cold, and very limited stove usage. – including no birthday cakes.
  • No electricity. Use candles or lanterns to light up the house.
  • Outhouses required – no toilets in the home.
  • Sims can only take baths, no showers.
  • Only one kitchen sink (no bathroom sinks). 
  • (Both the sink and the tub would have been filled with water from an outside well or pump.) 
  • Only wooden furniture is allowed in the house.
  • Wooden floors and walls. No drywall or wallpaper. Rugs are allowed.
  • Buy the cheapest/oldest stoves, fridges, counters, etc. No other kitchen appliances are allowed besides a stove, a grill, and a fridge.
  • Paintings styles allowed are Landscape, Classic, Impressionism, and Realism. Kids’ drawings can only be hung in the kids’ rooms.
  • Not allowed: coffee and tea brewers, DJ equipment, earbuds, kids tablets, thermostats, and anything else that obviously wasn’t around in 1890!
  • No holiday decorations (with the exception of indoor decorations around winter holidays).
  • A small, personal greenhouse for your home is allowed, but large commercial farm greenhouses are not.
• Education:
  • Elementary school is mandatory, but high school is optional.
  • High school has a fee. It costs §1,000 for every Teen going to school (money cheat). If you haven’t paid for that teen to go to school, then they must stay at home.
  • University: Men and women may attend university as a young adult or adult (before or after they move out and get married).
    • All majors are allowed except Culinary Arts, Computer Science, and Psychology. 
    • Student loans are not allowed, but scholarships are.
    • No kegs, no juice pong, no robotics.
• Careers and Money:
  • Men can only have the Criminal (Boss), Entertainer (Musician), Freelancer (Writer), Gardener (either branch), Military (Officer), Politics (Politician), Writing (either branch) career. Men can also choose to stay home and make money through woodworking, painting, or gardening. 
  • Men can additionally have the Doctor, Education (either branch), Engineer (Mechanical), Law (either branch), or Scientist career if they earned the appropriate degree.
  • You can open a retail store or a restaurant only if you have enough money.
  • Women take care of the children, tidy the house, and cook. They can also help tidy the garden (but not do full-scale “farming” – i.e. large gardens), and go jogging or knit for fun.
  • If a woman becomes widowed, then (and only then) she may earn money through freelancing (writing), gardening, painting, or woodworking. If she becomes divorced, then she can also join the Entertainer (Musician) career.
  • Part-time work: Men can be a fisherman or a manual laborer. Women can be a babysitter or a manual laborer. Teens under the age of 14 and Elderly cannot have part-time work.
• Miscellaneous:
  • Your sims cannot go to festivals or city events with the exception of Cottage Living events.
  • Your sims may not throw any events besides weddings.
  • If your family can afford it, then you may hire a butler or maid. However, you cannot hire a Nanny.
  • No fitness or wellness equipment allowed. Sims may work on these skills without equipment. No soccer – it was not popular in the USA at this time.
  • Vacations are not allowed, but camping is.
  • Archeology became more prevalent in the mid 20th century, but did exist in the 1800s, so you can travel to Selvadorada from the beginning (but keep in mind this would be incredibly rare, and definitely not a family vacation opportunity).
  • Veterinarians for house pets were not common – you may have a pet dog or cat, but you cannot take them to the vet if they are sick, and you cannot spay/neuter them. Small pets were not yet kept in the 1890s. Also, no pet clothing is allowed.
  • All laundry must be done with a wash basin and a clothesline.
  • Playground equipment, play dates, and ball pits were not yet invented, and are therefore not allowed.
  • Volunteering is allowed for the women and children.
  • Skiing is allowed, snowboarding and rock climbing are not.
  • Sims may enjoy naturally occurring hot springs, but no making in-home hot springs or tubs.
  • Horses are unlocked from the beginning, as well as Endurance competitions.
  • Miniature Sheep are unlocked from the beginning, but mini goats are not (see main rules for why).
  • Nectar-making is unlocked from the beginning.

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