Tiny Homes in Tiny Living - Sims 4

Building Up Newcrest with Tiny Homes

I purchased the Tiny Living Stuff Pack and am having fun using it to build Newcrest World with only little homes plus business buildings from the gallery.

If you have used the build mode at all, you know that you can designate the lots for a variety of things, like parks, residential, etc.

If you have not Built yet, click on a lot in "Manage Worlds" and go into that lot's Build Mode and have access to the Lot Info Panel. First, you need to be playing a Sim household. If you don't have one, create one and then select your lot to start.

Once your Sims character/household is at the selected lot, select the Manage Worlds Icon or the Build Mode Icon in the upper right hand corner of the window. (The Build Mode is the hammer and Wrench, and the Manage Worlds icon is a grid with a map-pin in the center.)

Sims Toolbar w/ManageWorlds Icon

From there, if you chose Manage Worlds you need to either "Save and Go" or "Just Go."

Save Game?

Once you have the lot open in Build Mode, there are tools across the top of the window. In the upper left hand corner of the window, it will have a building icon with an i in the middle. That is called the "Lot Info Panel." It will also tell you the name of the lot. Click on the Building i Icon and a drop down will let you decide whether it will be residential, or something else, like a park, beach, or business.  If you fill in the bedroom and bathroom numbers, it will become residential automatically.

You can also select traits for the lot that enhance certain skills.

Lot Type Info

Lot Type

While you could always build a small house on any lot, there were few incentives to except that it cost less to create a Tiny Starter Home.

Now, with Tiny Living, you can choose between three types of Tiny Home Residential options; Micro Home up to 32 floor tiles, Tiny Home up to 64 tiles, and Small Home up to 100 tiles. When you choose one of the Tiny Home residential options, you will get some extra rewards that will appear as an icon to the right of the Building i Icon. These are the Tiny Residential Venue Lot Rewards (by tier). The smaller the home, the more rewards the residents of the lot will receive.

Tiny Home Residential Requirements

So it is not simply a matter of receiving exceptionally small weekly bills, there are other perks to Living Tiny!

Tiny Home Lot Perks

The Tiny Home Starter that comes with the stuff pack is geared for the desert and is very hilly, making it difficult to plant a garden if you have the inclination. The Starter House is 30 tiles with quirks. There is no stove and the microwave is on the only counter if you want to "cook" a Garden Salad. The Murphy Bed breaks down almost every night from day one, and until your Sims had enough Handiness Skills repairing it, the repair takes time to fix each day. On occasion, the Murphy Bed won't finish dropping down, and when your Sims attempts to pull it down, gets briefly trapped under it, causing a lot of discomfort just before going to sleep.

Tiny Home Starter Gallery View

On the plus side, the Tiny Living toilet does not break as often as some of the other low-end toilets. Plus, fixing the bed everyday does allow the Sims to scavenge for upgrade parts every day. There are some nice affordable compact furniture features in the Tiny Living Stuff Pack.

On the negative side, Tiny Living TVs do not work with Seasons' calendar events like the New Year's Countdown or the Season's TV Premier day.

Enjoy!