Items to Unlock
Unlocking the following items will not only make things a bit easier for the surviving Sims but it’s also necessary to get to the end of the challenge, which ultimately gets the Sims off the island. The items you can unlock are the Carbonette Charcoal Grill, bathtub and toilet, Icebox Vintage Refrigerator, walls, roofs and doors. Here’s how to unlock each one.
- Carbonette Charcoal Grill: Have a Sim get a cooking skill of 5 or better
- Icebox Vintage Refrigerator: Have a Sim max out the cooking skill
- Bathtub and toilet: You can only craft these by reaching level 9 and 10 on the woodworking table
- Walls, roofs and doors: A Sim has maxed out the handiness skill
After unlocking all of these, you will want to build a small bathroom and surround at least one of the beds with walls to create a small bedroom. After building these two rooms one of your Sims will stumble across an old spyglass in the sand. You can use a cheat to give yourself the money to purchase one and then place an observatory on the island. This unlocks a new daily task for your Survival Island Challenge Sims—observing the horizon in search of land.
Your Sims will have to continue doing what they can to survive and all the previous rules about not controlling your Sims should still be in play. As your Sims use the spyglass keep in mind you are not allowed to sell the space prints to get more resources for the island. Once a Sim gets the “anime planet” prince, however, this means they have spotted land. The Survival Island Challenge is coming to an end and your Sims will soon be reunited with the rest of civilization. So here’s what you have to do after your Sim has spotted land.
Find the Sim with the highest athletic skill and send them out to the mainland in search for help. This Sim must leave the island and befriend a wandering towny before coming back to the island. Once that Sim has brought the new friend to the island’s mailbox, you are allowed to cheat yourself the money for a bridge that can be built to allow Sims to cross over to the mainland. The surviving Sims have made it to safety!!
This challenge also offers a point system you can use to see just how well you did at the end of the challenge.
You earn:
- 1000 points for every Sim that survived
- 500 points for every skill that the highest Sim has maxed
- 200 points for each skill that the highest Sim has at levels 6-9
- 100 points for each skill that the highest Sim has at levels 1-5
- 500 points per friendship between two of the original six surviving Sims
