How to play legacy style gameplay in The Sims Medieval.

Preface:

I’m going to start now with a warning. Please don’t expect the same level of legacy style gameplay as one of the mainline sims games. The Sims medieval is an RPG and so the gameplay won’t work the same. That being said, with mods and some tweaking, you can get a level of legacy gameplay. But PLEASE DONT EXPECT MIRACLES

This guide is going to be split into sections. These sections will touch upon different aspects of a legacy such as aging, the mods needed, starting the legacy and having different playable sims. Also, please note that I am unsure of how the game will act as generations pass. It could get game breaking at some point, I haven’t made it past 6 generations yet so I am unsure how the game will act at 10+ gens. 

Things you’ll need:

Couple of things needed for this to work, this includes a mod and a lot of patience. Guide for adding mods can be found here: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=438344

Grims Core Mod: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=449550

This mod is similar to nraas or mccc for sims 3 and 4. Secondly, you have to enable testingcheats. This can be done by doing the following;

1. locating the commands.ini file in the games installation folder (OS/program filesx86/origin games/the sims medieval/game/bin)

2. Opening the file and changing the zero in ‘testingcheatsenabled = 0’ to a 1

3. Saving the file

The game should NOT be open when doing this. I’d also recommend setting up a plumtree account so you can keep track of a family tree since the game does not have one. This website can be found here: https://www.theplumtreeapp.com/ . So now that’s sorted, let’s jump into the guide! 

Getting started:

This now depends on preference. You can either play through the quests and begin your legacy that way or cheat to unlock the free play and the other professions immediately. The cheat to unlock free play immediately is ‘ShowAllQuests’. Personally, I would play through the quests. 

So now make your legacy founder! If you want to make your founder a monarch then it’s the same usual process. 

However, If you want to start with a different profession such as a merchant here’s how you can do that! Firstly, you have to make a monarch (if you don’t want to then just use a premade one). A monarch is needed for the game to be playable. Next, you’ll want to use the cheat ‘setKingdomPoints 30’ to give yourself enough resource points to add another building. Then you can add the building and make your founder!

After making your founder, you can start playing as you would!

Playable Sims:

If you want to be able to play the entire family as you would in the mainline sims games, using the grims core mod DEBUG sim options you are able to unlock an option “make hero sim selectable.” This will make them selectable at the side for you to control them.

Aging: 

Aging isn’t a thing in the sims medieval so we have to simulate it ourselves. Using the grims core mod, you’re able to take your sim into cas. From here you can manually age your sims using the age detail slider and the highlights to add greys in. I keep track of ages using the week counter when you hover over the time and counting the ages in weeks (eg a sim is a YA for 10 sim weeks) you can keep track anyway you want though. 

There is no way for toddlers to exist in this game, I’ve looked into modding them in. The game just doesn’t support it. So babies will age immediately into children. You can take children into cas using the grim core mod DEBUG sim options. 

Teens: Aging children can be simply done once again using the grim core mod to age them into an teen/adult. Teens don’t exist in the sims medieval so I instead do a small bit of modding and simply pretend. Using a height slider (The cmar height slider for sims 3 works fine, you can find it here: https://modthesims.info/d/508972/sim-height-slider.html ), I make the adults the children age into shorter. I then simply make their clothes something dirtier and make their faces younger looking (making the eyes slightly bigger and pulling the jaw up are the main things.)

Now! It’s time for your heir to become the next main sim. The handover can be tricky. So, your now teen/adult heir is ready. What you want to do is click on your current main sim and select “Retire from Profession.” This will cause no one to be in the role of the current profession.

Next you want to go to the heir you’ve chosen and choose Set Profession on Sim, then choose the profession they are going to be taking. (If they’re a child you can just click age and set profession) 

Now, what you want to do is back out of the current quest (going into kingdom mode and quitting it, this is the same for freeplay.) This is to make sure the transfer has gone smoothly. If your profession is left empty, THIS IS OKAY! Simply save AS under a new save and exit to the main menu, then reopen the save. If the profession is filled by your heir then you’re good to keep playing! I recommend doing the transfer during freeplay so there isn’t any quest you’d accidently not complete.

And that should be the transfer done! Then the process simply repeats each generation. This process also works if you want the children to take up a different profession to one of their parents. Just don’t have the parent retire and make sure the role you want them to fulfil is empty and select that instead.

Death:

Death is something that unfortunately won’t happen naturally. When you feel it is your sims time to pass on you can go about it in a pretty simple way. Enable the sim DEBUG options as your familiar with. Click on the sim you wish to pass on and select “DEBUG: Die by.” You can then select one of the 5 options (For old age, I pick rabbithole.) The sim will then pass on. 

There aren’t any gravestones in the game which sucks but you can improvise with some small memorial flowers in remembrance if you wish. 

Build mode:

I thought I would touch on this. There is no build mode in The Sims Medieval. Only a buy mode. SO, I would suggest planning on how you’re going to use the space for your family early on because it can become very overwhelming very quickly, especially with 6+ kids.

Wrap Up:

I hope this guide helped! And I hope simmers everywhere are able to take this guide and run with it and turn it into something better. This was just me sharing how I play the game.